Archive: February 2009
Two Chicago Bulls Legends Die
On the day after the Chicago Bulls visited the White House, news comes that two Bulls legends have died. Johnny "Red" Kerr, the first coach of the Chicago Bulls who went on to spend more than 30 years as a broadcaster with the National Basketball Association team, died yesterday. He...
By Patricia Sullivan | February 27, 2009; 12:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
Founder of Spring Break Dies
The man who brought hordes of hormone-crazed college students to Fort Lauderdale -- and then revived the beach after the city raised the drinking age and banned open containers -- has died. Bob Gill also founded the Yankee Clipper Hotel, which was featured in a number of movies....
By Patricia Sullivan | February 27, 2009; 12:19 PM ET | Comments (0)
Was He or Wasn't He a Nazi?
Konrad Dannenberg, 96, a German-born rocket scientist who died Feb. 16 in Huntsville, Ala., worked for the Nazis during World War II and for the Americans during the Cold War. It's widely known that the German brain trust of one war was used by the Americans to fight another. But...
By Adam Bernstein | February 23, 2009; 2:43 PM ET | Comments (1)
Socks the Cat
The most noteworthy celebrity death of the day happens to be of a creature who lived in the most prestigious address in the country and endured the media's glare without ever saying a bad thing about anyone. Socks the Cat, the White House pet of the Clinton family, died Friday...
By Matt Schudel | February 21, 2009; 12:01 PM ET | Comments (0)
Drummer Extraordinaire
Jazz fans, drummers and regular watchers of the old Johnny Carson TV show knew Louie Bellson. When he made one of his many appearances in Washington at the Cellar Door in 1981, our reviewer said "Louie Bellson's hands move faster than the eye as they course the battery of 10...
By Patricia Sullivan | February 17, 2009; 11:15 AM ET | Comments (1)
Please welcome...
Please welcome our longtime colleague Joe Holley to the Murderers' Row photo, above....
By Patricia Sullivan | February 16, 2009; 12:04 PM ET | Comments (2)
Why you don't want to die in Detroit
Don't die in Detroit on a Sunday -- because the newspapers aren't providing home delivery seven days a week there anymore, your friends will never know. Just think of their anger at your failure to return their calls and e-mails!...
By Patricia Sullivan | February 11, 2009; 12:28 PM ET | Comments (0)
Veteran D.C. Journalist Nicholas Blatchford Dies
Nicholas Blatchford, who died Feb. 1 at age 89, spent much of his career as reporter and editor at the old Washington Daily News. I seldom enjoy writing about reporters, as it tends to smack of self-regard. And mostly we talk to people and type for a living. Not the...
By Adam Bernstein | February 6, 2009; 5:09 PM ET | Comments (0)
Habitat for Humanity Co-Founder Dies
Millard Fuller, the millionaire entrepreneur who gave it all away to help found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity, died Tuesday. He was 74. Fuller died about 3 a.m. en route to a hospital in Albany, Ga. The cause of death was not immediately known....
By Patricia Sullivan | February 3, 2009; 11:22 AM ET | Comments (2)
