Remembrances

Norma Bauerschmidt with son, Tim, and daughter-in-law, Ramie Liddle, in Friday Harbor, Wash. Bauerschmidt embarked on a year-long road trip after receiving a cancer diagnosis last year.

National

Driving Miss Norma: 91-Year-Old Who Hit The Road After Cancer Diagnosis Dies

7:10pm October 07, 2016

by NPR Staff

Instead of seeking treatment for cancer, Norma Bauerschmidt embarked on a cross-country trip in an RV with her son and daughter-in-law. The trip lasted more than a year. She died last week.

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Trinh Thi Ngo, known to GIs as "Hanoi Hannah" during the Vietnam War, in 2015.

'Hanoi Hannah,' Whose Broadcasts Taunted And Entertained American GIs, Dies

1:13pm October 06, 2016

by Anthony Kuhn

Trinh Thi Ngo was one of North Vietnam's most recognizable radio voices, broadcasting propaganda in English to U.S. service members during the Vietnam War.

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Rod Temperton at an event in Italy in 2004. The songwriter penned several megahits of the 1970s and '80s, most notably for Michael Jackson.

'Thriller' Songwriter Rod Temperton Dies At 66

9:52am October 06, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

Temperton wrote some of the most iconic pop songs of the 1970s and '80s, including Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Rock With You."

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Oscar Brand, Host Of WNYC's 'Folksong Festival,' Dies At 96

4:32pm October 04, 2016

Oscar Brand, host of WNYC's "Folksong Festival," died Friday at age 96. He hosted the program for 70 years, and he was also host of NPR's "Voices in the Wind." His show featured interviews with and songs by many of the greats of folk music.

Gloria Naylor, 'The Women Of Brewster Place' Author, Dies At 66

4:32pm October 04, 2016

by Lynn Neary

Gloria Naylor's debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won a National Book Award and became a TV mini-series starring Oprah Winfrey. Naylor has died at age 66.

Music & Culture

Prolific Conductor Neville Marriner Has Died

5:07pm October 02, 2016

by Jeff Lunden

Neville Marriner died overnight at age 92. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conductor was famous for his score to the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus.

Richard Trentlage, Oscar Mayer Weiner Song Writer, Dies At 87

8:44am October 01, 2016

In 1962, Richard Trentlage recorded an advertising jingle in his living room that began "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner..." He was no one-slogan wonder.

Thomas Friedman On The Legacy Of Shimon Peres

11:35am September 30, 2016

A funeral was held on Friday for former Israeli president Shimon Peres. Steve Inskeep talks to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who shares memories of Israel's veteran statesman.

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Susan Frawley Eisele holds her 6-week-old son, Albert Jr., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City in 1936. Eisele, of Blue Earth, Minn., won an essay contest with Country Home magazine and was named best American rural correspondent of 1936.

When Mrs. Eisele Took Manhattan: Big City Failed To Awe Minnesota Journalist

11:21pm September 28, 2016

by Kitty Eisele

In 1936, Country Home magazine sent its "rural correspondent of the year" Susan Eisele on a trip to NYC. With a 6-week-old in tow, she soaked up the city and hit it off with hard-bitten newspapermen.

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Agnes Nixon, 'Queen Of Modern Daytime Drama,' Dies at 93

8:47pm September 28, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Soap opera pioneer Agnes Nixon created All My Children and One Life to Live. She was known for exploring challenging and taboo social issues through daytime television.