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Samuel Bookatz, 99

Samuel Bookatz, 99, an artist whose talents took him from a bohemian tour of pre-World War II Europe to the Roosevelt White House and whose work hung in collections of major galleries, died of atherosclerotic heart disease Nov. 16 at his home in Georgetown.


FRED JOSEPH, 72

NEW YORK -- Fred Joseph, 72, who as chief executive officer of investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert helped create the modern junk-bond market in the 1980s before the firm's collapse, died Nov. 27 at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center after a long fight with multiple myeloma. His...


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