Mr. Indiana’s career as a pop artist was defined, and limited, by his most popular work.
After a pro-football career, he became an orthodontist and chief of dentistry at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
Books such as “Portnoy’s Complaint” and “Goodbye, Columbus” established him as a premier chronicler of sex, desire and Jewish angst. He won the Pulitzer Prize for “American Pastoral.”
He was later part of the ensemble cast of the hit war film “The Dirty Dozen” (1967).
During the savage Korean War battle, he went up the hill with 135 men and returned with 14. Gregory Peck portrayed him in a 1959 film about the military operation.
Dr. Sachar published more than a dozen books, including a two-volume history of Israel.
She helped desegregate interstate bus travel and mentored generations of black lawyers.
He wrote some of LBJ’s most powerful speeches and coined the term “the Great Society.”
In Hollywood, she was promoted as the “Fire and Ice Girl” for her ravishing beauty and cool sophistication.
Known for his a hard-line views toward communism, Dr. Pipes rejected detente with the Soviet Union.
His sometimes controversial scholarship helped shape views of the region for decades.
He directed a memorable production of Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck” at Washington’s Arena Stage in the 1980s.
He pushed for a college football playoff before others embraced it.
He later started two businesses that focused on rapid sorting of mass mail.
He was the commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe from 1988 to 1992.
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Remembering those who have died in 2018.
Former first lady Barbara Bush lived her entire adult life in the world of politics. Her husband was elected president, one of her sons became a governor while the other also went on to sit in the Oval Office.
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, professor, author and world icon, Stephen Hawking died March 14 at his home in Cambridge, England.
