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David Jones, a Hollywood florist who for 50 years adorned the grand social affairs of a roster of famous clients that included Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor [...]

The Rev. Benedict J. Groeschel, a Franciscan priest and author known in New York City for his efforts on behalf of the poor and familiar to a worldwide television audience [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Joseph D. McNamara, a onetime New York City patrolman who earned a doctorate from Harvard and went on to become a California police chief whose pioneering embrace [...]

Joseph D. McNamara, a onetime New York City patrolman who earned a doctorate from Harvard and went on to become a California police chief whose pioneering embrace of community policing [...]

J. California Cooper, an award-winning writer whose black female characters confront a world of indifference and betrayal, but find kinship there in unexpected places, died on Saturday in Seattle. She [...]

Joseph D. McNamara, a onetime New York City beat cop who earned a doctorate from Harvard and went on to become a California police chief whose pioneering embrace of community [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Yoshiko Yamaguchi, a singer and actress who starred in Japanese propaganda films during Japan's brutal military occupation of China in the 1930s and '40s and who, after [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDYoshiko Yamaguchi, a singer and actress who starred in Japanese propaganda films during Japan's brutal military occupation of China in the 1930s and '40s and who, after narrowly escaping [...]

Flavored ice drinks had been around since the Romans, and machines had been churning them out under various brand names for almost as long, it seems, when Will Radcliff, a [...]

Terrance Paul, an entrepreneur who, with his wife, created computerized teaching programs like Accelerated Reader that were widely adopted in American schools over the last 25 years as educators turned [...]

Jack Wayman, a sales executive who saw the future and said it was consumer electronics, organized the industry's first trade show in the era of black-and-white television and fought Hollywood's [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Jack Wayman, a sales executive who saw the future and said it was consumer electronics, organizing the industry's first trade show in the era of black-and-white television [...]

Jack Wayman, a sales executive who saw the future and said it was consumer electronics, organizing the industry's first trade show in the era of black-and-white television and fighting Hollywood's [...]

Terrance Paul, an entrepreneur who, with his wife, created computerized teaching programs like Accelerated Reader that were widely adopted in American schools over the last 25 years as educators turned [...]

Noel W. Hinners, a geologist and soil chemist who helped NASA launch some of its farthest-reaching scientific probes into space -- to retrieve moon rocks, map the surface of Mars [...]

Col. Bernard F. Fisher, who received the first Medal of Honor awarded to an aviator during the Vietnam War for a daring rescue of another pilot in the face of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPenelope Niven was a high school English teacher, nearing 40, when she began work on a biography of Carl Sandburg. She had never written a book before. She didn't [...]

Joseph E. Persico, a biographer and popular historian and a former chief speechwriter for Nelson A. Rockefeller, died on Saturday in Albany. He was 84. His wife, Sylvia, confirmed his [...]

Michael B. Katz, an influential historian and social theorist who challenged the prevailing view in the 1980s and '90s that poverty stemmed from the bad habits of the poor, marshaling [...]

Col. Bernard F. Fisher, who received the first Medal of Honor awarded to an aviator during the Vietnam War for a daring rescue of another pilot in the face of [...]

Elizabeth M. Fowler, an author and financial reporter for The New York Times who was one of the first women to cover the Wall Street beat for a daily newspaper, [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Capt. Walter F. Mazzone played a pivotal role in two underwater Navy exploits during the 20th century. In World War II, he kept a waterlogged submarine from [...]

Elizabeth M. Fowler, an author and financial reporter for The New York Times who was one of the first women to cover the Wall Street beat for a daily newspaper, [...]

Capt. Walter F. Mazzone played a pivotal role in two underwater Navy exploits during the 20th century. In World War II, he kept a waterlogged submarine from going belly up [...]

Sylvia Hassenfeld, the matriarch of the founding family of Hasbro, the maker of G.I. Joe, Mr. Potato Head and the Transformers, who became a path-making philanthropist and one of the [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Eroni Kumana, who lived his entire life on a tiny Pacific island called Rannoga, about 900 miles east of New Guinea, in a village without electricity, telephone [...]

Sylvia Hassenfeld, the matriarch of the founding family of Hasbro, the maker of G.I. Joe, Mr. Potato Head and the Transformers, who became a path-making philanthropist and one of the [...]

George V. Hansen, a Republican politician whose open disdain for federal authority made him a popular figure in Idaho, where he was elected to Congress seven times, and who twice [...]

Eroni Kumana, who lived his entire life on a tiny Pacific island called Rannoga, about 900 miles east of New Guinea, in a village without electricity, telephone service, running water [...]

Mary MacCracken, whose memoirs about her intensely individualized approach to teaching children with emotional and cognitive disabilities were made into television movies, died on July 23 in Hanover, N.H. She [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Dotty Lynch, who was the first woman to be chief poll taker for a presidential campaign and one of the first to recognize the potential benefit of [...]

Dotty Lynch, who was the first woman to be chief polltaker for a presidential campaign and one of the first to recognize the potential benefit of developing campaign themes aimed [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Joshu Sasaki, who died on July 27 at the age of 107, was one of the most influential and charismatic Zen masters in America, imparting a mix [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJoshu Sasaki, who died on July 27 at the age of 107, was one of the most influential and charismatic Zen masters in America, imparting a mix of paradox, [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Adm. Charles R. Larson, a former military commander in the Pacific who twice led the United States Naval Academy, the second time to help it recover from [...]

Joshu Sasaki, who died on July 27 at the age of 107, was one of the most influential and charismatic Zen masters in America, imparting a mix of paradox, personality [...]

Adm. Charles R. Larson, a former military commander in the Pacific who twice led the United States Naval Academy, the second time to help it recover from the worst cheating [...]

John W. Mazzola, a former president of Lincoln Center who helped to inaugurate free outdoor events and the ''Live From Lincoln Center'' televised series of musical performances, while fighting for [...]

John W. Mazzola, a former president of Lincoln Center who helped to inaugurate free outdoor events and the ''Live From Lincoln Center'' televised series of musical performances, while fighting for [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO The conventional wisdom among animal scientists in the 1950s was that birds were genetically programmed to sing, that monkeys made noise to vent their emotions, and that [...]

The conventional wisdom among animal scientists in the 1950s was that birds were genetically programmed to sing, that monkeys made noise to vent their emotions, and that animal communication, in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDKenneth B. Noble, a New York Times reporter who covered business and finance in Washington and civil war in Africa, and who headed the newspaper's Los Angeles bureau during [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Dr. Albert J. Stunkard, a pioneer of eating-disorder research who proved that some people are genetically predisposed to getting fat, died on July 12 at his home [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDr. Albert J. Stunkard, a pioneer of eating-disorder research who proved that some people are genetically predisposed to getting fat, died on July 12 at his home in Bryn [...]

Robert Stein, who helped expand the scope of women's magazines as editor in chief of McCall's and Redbook in the early stages of the modern women's movement, publishing articles about [...]

Robert Stein, who helped expand the scope of women's magazines as editor in chief of McCall's and Redbook in the early stages of the modern women's movement, publishing articles about [...]

Byline: PAUL VITELLO Lillian B. Rubin, a sociologist and psychotherapist who wrote a series of popular books about the crippling effects of gender and class norms on human potential, died [...]

Lillian B. Rubin, a sociologist and psychotherapist who wrote a series of popular books about the crippling effects of gender and class norms on human potential, died June 17 at [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who was considered the spiritual father of the Jewish Renewal movement -- an influential camp of religious pioneers who reintroduced to synagogue services ancient Judaic traditions [...]

Diana McLellan, a grande dame of Washington gossip who perforated the pretentious, skewered the powerful and sometimes felt honor-bound to keep fact-checkers from coming between her bons mots and her [...]