Sylvan Fox, 79, U.S., journalist, dies, Dec. 22

Sylvan Fox, 79, a journalist whose beats ranged from Vietnam, to the Kennedy assassination, to a memorable plane crash, and who won a Pulitzer Prize as a newspaper rewrite man, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, of complications from pneumonia.
Fox won his Pulitzer Prize for being part of a team covering an airplane crash on Long [...]

Donald G. Kurtz, 64, U.S., decorated war veteran, Dec. 1

Donald G. Kurtz, 64, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, a West Point graduate and Bronze Medal winner in the Vietnam War, died of Alzheimer’s disease Dec. 1, 2007.
Kurtz graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1965, participated in 51 combat missions on helicopters relaying information about enemy positions to pilots and won his decoration, according to [...]

Norman Mailer, 84, U.S. author, Nov. 10

The words have not stopped flowing since author Norman Mailer, 84, died November 10, 2007, of renal failure. He has been called a Jewish pugilist, a towering writer with a matching ego, and nothing if not ambitious.
We call him the greatest Jewish-American novelist who never wrote about Jewish subjects. It was Mailer’s ambition to get [...]