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Harry Brant Is Dead at 24
The socialite and style setter began making a name for himself as a teenager.
Hospitalizations rise in N.Y.C., but stays are shorter and fewer patients are dying.
Hospitalizations have been slowly but steadily rising in New York City, eliciting painful memories of the surge of infections in the spring that killed more than 20,000 people. But this time is different: Patients with serious cases are spending less time in the hospital on average and are less likely to be put on ventilators. And fewer patients are dying.
Paramedic Who Died in Beirut Explosion Is a Symbol of Lebanon’s Grief
Sahar Fares, 27, was planning her wedding. Instead, her family held her funeral after she died in the blast that tore through the city.
Julián Fuks: ‘A Time of Death, the Death of Time,’ a Short Story
New fiction: “At the exact moment of the death of time, if I remember correctly, I was lying in the hammock staring out over nothing but empty streets.” From the magazine’s Decameron Project.
Sérgio Sant’Anna, Brazilian Master of the Short Story, Dies at 78
Mr. Sant’Anna wrote novels and poetry, but was most famous for stories that used a sardonic humor to skewer the fractures within Brazilian society. He died of the coronavirus.
Jerry Stiller, Comedian With Enduring Appeal, Is Dead at 92
In the 1960s, he and his wife, Anne Meara, found success as a comedy team. In the 1990s, he found it again as Frank Costanza on “Seinfeld.”
As Virus Deaths Jump, Boris Johnson’s Press Relations Turn Testy
A strain of populism, similar to that during the Brexit campaign, is visible in the government’s aggressive rebuttals and critiques of the news media.
Gene Deitch, Prolific Animator, Is Dead at 95
In a six-decade career, he created Tom Terrific, revived Tom and Jerry and won an Academy Award for a cartoon based on a Jules Feiffer story.
City Is Short on Supplies as Death Toll Nears 1,400
The death toll in the city is nearing 1,400, and supplies are still badly needed.
Elinor Ross, Met Soprano With Illness-Shortened Career, Dies at 93
In 1970 she stepped in on short notice at the Metropolitan Opera. Nine years later, Bell’s palsy sidelined her.
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Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
On modest civil servants’ salaries, she and her husband amassed a trove of some 4,000 works by art-world luminaries, storing them in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Terry Martin Hekker, a Happy Housewife Scorned, Dies at 92
She wrote two popular memoirs: the first about the joys of married life, the second about her husband serving her divorce papers on their 40th anniversary.
Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots
Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine.
Mark Mellman, 70, Dies; Helped Democrats Understand Their Voters
A pollster and political strategist, he was a key figure in John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and used his prominence to speak out in defense of Israel.
Ward Landrigan, Jeweler to the Stars, Dies at 84
At Sotheby’s, he provided famous diamonds to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton before reviving Verdura, a venerable jewelry company founded by a Sicilian duke.
Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92
The image immortalized a Vietnam veteran’s joyous homecoming to his beaming family, but it hid the truth about his unraveling marriage.
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