After waking up the troops with his signature call, Mr. Cronauer came home to work in broadcasting, advertising and the law.
He won the 1964 Belmont Stakes and helped pave the way for Latin American riders in the United States.
He played the comically deranged theater director Roger De Bris in Mel Brooks’s smash Broadway hit.
She was rejected for a partnership at an accounting firm for not conforming to feminine stereotypes.
Her books — more than 150 of them — were translated into 30 languages and sold millions of copies.
The best-selling volume, warning of Soviet subversion in America, helped catapult arch-conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater to the Republican presidential nomination in 1964.
He also treated World War II veterans and co-founded the country’s first sex-reassignment surgery unit.
He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s treasury secretary and a grandson of the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire under President Woodrow Wilson.
She was the mother of the entertainer’s three children and never remarried after their divorce in 1951.
He helped win one of the largest civil rights settlements in history.
Mr. Reed was instrumental in restoring Florida’s Everglades and, as a federal official, helped write major environmental laws.
He championed young composers and set Maurice Sendak’s children’s story to music.
His two-term congressional career was derailed by a perjury conviction in 1989. He later went to prison.
He was part of the Friendship Nine, a South Carolina group that chose jail over bail.
He staged the parody number “Springtime for Hitler” for Brooks’s film “The Producers.”
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The Emmy-winning television host of “Parts Unknown” was found unresponsive in his France hotel room, CNN said.
David Douglas Duncan, who died June 7, was widely considered one of the finest photojournalists of the 20th century. In Life magazine photo essays, television specials and about two dozen books, he captured the seemingly incongruous subjects of war and art, traveling from the front lines of battle to the treasure troves of the Kremlin in Moscow and the French studio of Pablo Picasso.
