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March 26, 2021 at 2:48 pm

Beverly Cleary, beloved author who chronicled schoolyard scrapes and feisty kids, dies at 104

A giant of children's literature, with roots in the Pacific Northwest, has died at 104. Beverly Cleary was a chlidren's librarian in Yakima who became...

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March 10, 2021 at 11:42 pm

Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape and pioneered the CD, dies at 94

Lou Ottens unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963. Billions of cassettes were sold before he spearheaded a...

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February 25, 2021 at 11:50 am

Bruce Meyers, creator of the first fiberglass dune buggy, dies at 94

Bruce Meyers' two-seater inspired thousands of imitators, turned the dune buggy into an emblem of 1960s California cool and helped spur the development of off-road...

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February 6, 2021 at 12:02 pm

Robert A. Altman, who went from bank president to video game CEO, dies at 73

Robert A. Altman, a lawyer who, after the BCCI scandal of the 1990s, reinvented himself as the chief executive of ZeniMax Media, a video game...

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February 4, 2021 at 2:32 pm

Eugenio Martinez, Watergate burglar pardoned by Reagan, dies at 98

Eugenio Martínez was the last surviving Watergate burglar in the 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. The arrest of the burglars led...

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January 7, 2021 at 1:10 pm

Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled ‘Bright Shining Lie’ of Vietnam, dies at 84

Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize...

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November 26, 2020 at 12:16 pm

Bruce Carver Boynton, who helped spark Freedom Rides, dies at 83

Bruce Carver Boynton just wanted a cheeseburger and cup of tea. It was past 10 p.m., one week before Christmas in 1958, and his Trailways...

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November 24, 2020 at 5:58 pm

Paolo Gabriele, Vatican butler whose leaks exposed turmoil under Pope Benedict XVI, dies at 54

As the butler to Pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele lived in a Vatican City apartment just inside the walls of the world's smallest country. He...

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November 13, 2020 at 5:12 pm

Scooby-Doo co-creator Ken Spears, who set the Mystery Machine in motion, dies at 82

Ken Spears fell into the cartoon business and stayed for a long career, with his most lasting success being the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" pop-culture...

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November 8, 2020 at 8:04 am

Seymour Topping, New York Times correspondent and editor, dies at 98

Seymour Topping, a senior New York Times editor and top Pulitzer Prize administrator who bore witness early in his career as a foreign correspondent to...

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