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...high school, the Pequannock, N.J. native not only captained both the basketball and the football teams, but was also awarded the Bausch and Laumb Science and Math Award as well as the Renssalaer Science Medal...
...Prizes and shared a fourth. His images, which included one of Jimmy Carter trying unhappily to get a clear picture of himself on TV, could be withering. Block proudly recalled a Post publisher saying his work prompted Nixon to cancel his subscription four times. In 1994 Block received the Medal of Freedom. His last cartoon, at left...
...DIED. HERBERT BLOCK, 91, four-time Pulitzer prizewinning editorial cartoonist; in Washington, D.C. Creating his works under the pen name Herblock, he made a sport of razing leading political figures, and in 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded him the Medal of Freedom?America's highest civilian honor. DIED. EDDIE FUTCH, 90, a boxing Hall of Famer who trained 20 world champions, including Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks and Trevor Berbick; in Las Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin...
...Donovan to assemble the OSS, a large mixed bag of talents that came to include, among others, Julia Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated the secret of the Manhattan Project...
...after the proclamation on that day, Conscious and Verbal, an arrangement he dubs posthumous. Although Murray is well known in Australia, his fame extends far beyond the borders of his beloved nation. His collection Subhuman Redneck Poems received the T.S. Eliot Prize and he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry, presented by Queen Elizabeth. His newest collection shows his scope, depth and maturity as a world-class poet...