Remembering Sally Ride, 1951-2012
Not everyone’s life resolves itself so neatly into yes-or-no decisions, taken in an instant and never looked back upon or regretted, but, if Sally Ride’s life proves anything, it is that the very smart are different from you and me.
Newsweek June 13, 1983
Nora Ephron 1941-2012
Best Of Ephron In Newsweek - When Nora Met 60- Nora Ephron as a guest on Newsweek On Air 7/23/06
- Nora Ephron’s Favorite Love Stories- 2/14/12
- Why Won’t Playboy Die?- 9/18/11
- Who Are You? I Remember Nothing- Reflections on aging, Twitter, and her early days as a Newsweek ‘mail girl’- 11/8/10
- 15 Food Questions For Nora Ephron- 8/3/09
"I don’t have to worry about a call at 3 in the morning — someone saying, ‘Meet me at the bar and bring a shovel’."
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HENRY HILL, the character on which the movie “GoodFellas” was based, describing life in a federal witness-protection program.
Henry Hill, Dead at 69
Donna Summer, 1948-2012
Easing her full-throttle delivery down to a shivery whisper, she moaned over and over into the microphone, “Ooooh, aaah, love to love you, bay-bee…” Summer would later boast of simulating 22 orgasms, but whatever she did, it worked…
Newsweek April 2, 1979
Maurice Sendak 1928-2012
Sendak Sat Down With Newsweek in 2009 For One Of His Last Major Interviews. Read It Here, As Well As Some Bonus Material.
Newsweek October 19, 2009
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes Died Ten Years Ago
Newsweek May 6, 2002
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Died On This Date In 1945
The pace of F.D.R’s passing was like that of his life, swift and incisive:
- At 1:40 p.m., April 12, 1945, the 32nd President of the United States signed a series of documents, and relaxed in his Warm Springs vacation home while an artist, Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, sketched him.
- At 4:35 p.m. he was dead of a cerebral hemorrage.
Newsweek April 23, 1945
Howard Hughes Passed Away On This Date In 1976
IT was a morning made for flying. The sky was deep blue and a salt breeze gently riffled the green palms and sundappled bougainvillea on the grounds of the Acapulco Princess Hotel. On just such mornings when he was young, the old man resting in Aztec luxury up on the penthouse floor had taken eagerly to the air - the element that had always sustained him through his blackest moods and quickest getaways. He had been a flier once, a man who had soared faster and farther than Lindbergh himself, and there had been a time when he looked lean, taut and tough as a wing strut. But last week his body was slowly poisoning him: his face was gaunt, his dark eyes sunken, his hair had turned a ghostly gray and his 6-foot 4-inch frame had shrunk 2 inches and wasted to a cadaverous 90 pounds. His doctors studied the signs and summoned help to the Mican resort. Strapped to a stretcher, Howard Robard Hughes, 70, set off on his last secret flight - and died before he reached the ground.
Newsweek April 19, 1976
