George Andrie, Pillar of Cowboys’ Doomsday Defense, Dies at 78
Andrie played right end for Dallas from 1962 to 1972 and scored an unlikely touchdown in the 1967 N.F.L. championship game in frigid Green Bay.
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Andrie played right end for Dallas from 1962 to 1972 and scored an unlikely touchdown in the 1967 N.F.L. championship game in frigid Green Bay.
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
A showman who helped put “The Sound of Music” on television, “Chicago” on movie screens and “How to Succeed in Business” back on Broadway.
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Ms. Lister was the first quadriplegic to cross the English Channel and the first disabled woman to circumnavigate Britain solo.
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
The “Nightingale of Timbuktu” spoke out against Islamist oppression and sang out again female genital cutting, reaching audiences far beyond Africa.
By CLAIR MacDOUGALL
The consummate Truman scholar wrote or edited a dozen books about the 33rd president, including collections of his diaries and letters.
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
South African-born, Mr. Murray went to Broadway by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In a busy career, he was nominated for three Tony Awards.
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Ms. Harris got her start with the Second City and went on to win a Tony Award and to appear in films like “A Thousand Clowns” and “Nashville.”
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
He was a top amateur player and a nightclub headliner in the 1950s and ’60s, scoring a hit record with “Band of Gold.” He was also the voice of Mr. Clean.
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Best known for a revelatory staging of “Morning’s at Seven,” he also directed Noël Coward in his final West End stage performance.
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Her hunger strikes and demonstrations made her one of the most influential women in the history of the Arab world. Yet few Egyptians today know her name.
She was the first African-American woman to headline a concert at Carnegie Hall, but she didn’t care for her stage name, “the Black Patti,” which compared her to a white diva.
A housebound New York woman sought to influence the heart of Chester A. Arthur at a time when no one believed in him.
Shavelson ignited a huge strike by women garment workers that helped galvanize the labor movement. She went on to fight for suffrage and tenants’ rights.
As an artist she transcended constraints, and as a woman of color, she confronted a society that wished to categorize her.