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Reg Murphy, Newspaper Editor Whose Kidnapping Made Headlines, Dies at 90

He made his mark on newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore, but may be best known for having been abducted in Atlanta in 1974.

Bob Love, Chicago Bulls All-Star, Dies at 81

Love was a cornerstone of the franchise’s success in the early 1970s. He struggled with a stutter that he overcame only after his playing days were over.

Arthur Frommer, 95, Dies; His Guidebooks Opened Travel to the Masses

After publishing “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957, he went on to build an empire of guidebooks, package tours, hotels and other services.

Pat Koch Thaler, Sister to a Famed Mayor, Chose to Die on a Saturday

Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N.Y.U., used her last interview to reminisce about her brother, Ed, and to publicize the alternatives to prolonging pain and suffering.

Two Bee Gees Drummers Die Within Four Days

Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87

A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.