Roy Ash, American businessman and public official, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1972–1975), died he was 93.

Roy Lawrence Ash was the co-founder and president of the American company Litton Industries and director of the Office of Management and Budget (February 2, 1973 – February 3, 1975) during the administrations of U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford  died he was 93..

(October 20, 1918 – December 14, 2011)

Early Life and Education

Ash graduated from high school when he was 16, and was employed by the Bank of America as a city cash-collection messenger. Shortly after World War II began, Ash enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a private and, after a succession of promotions, became a captain in the Army Air Corps, serving in the Office of Management Control. After the war, he attended Harvard Business School, graduating with an MBA and as a Baker Scholar in 1947. After briefly working again with the Bank of America, he joined Hughes Aircraft and soon led its finance department.
In 1953 Ash and his partner, Tex Thornton, bought Litton Industries, a small West Coast producer of microwave tubes. By the time Ash became president of the company in 1961, Litton had completed 25 mergers and operated 48 plants in nine countries in an aggressive acquisition plan, with sales of $245 million. By 1965, the company had over $900 million in sales and produced 5,000 different items.

Political Life

After his election as president in 1968, Richard Nixon asked Ash to create and lead the President’s Advisory Council on Executive Organization, which later came to be known as the Ash Commission. In a memo that Ash sent to Nixon in 1969, he reported finding "virtual unanimity that organizational improvement of the Executive Office of the President is needed." Among the Commission's recommendations was that the Bureau of the Budget should be expanded and elevated in authority to become the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), established to encourage and help develop results-oriented leadership throughout the federal government. Ash connected this proposal to "a concept that no matter how awesome its size, government can be made more effective by using management techniques." ^[1]
In November 1969, the President's Domestic Council instructed Ash to study whether all federal environmental activities should be unified in one agency. During meetings in spring 1970, Ash at first expressed a preference for a single department to oversee both environmental and natural resource management; by April he had changed his mind; in a memorandum to the President he advocated a separate regulatory agency devoted solely to anti-pollution programs. The report of the Commission lead to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Following Nixon's re-election in 1972, Ash was named the director of the OMB. After leaving OMB he joined Addressograph-Multigraph (later AM International) in an attempt to rescue the foundering duplicator company at a time when the duplication industry was shifting to photocopiers from Xerox; he resigned in 1981.

Later Life

In 2003 he and his wife donated $15,000,000 to Harvard to endow the Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government.
He served as a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
In January 2007, he sold one of his two massive Virginia "hunt country" properties for $22 million. It was the highest price ever recorded for a property in Loudoun County. Known as "Llangollen," the Middleburg, Virginia 1,100-acre (4.5 km²) equestrian manor was acquired by Ash in 1989 from the estate of Liz Whitney Tippett, first wife of John Hay Whitney. Ash still retained ownership of another Middleburg-area hunt country estate, "Huntlands" at the time of his death, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell in 2005 for $18.8 million. That 550 acres (2.2 km²) property main house was built in 1837 with major additions added in 1911, and has been the weekend retreat for senators, congressmen, diplomats and Presidents; Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson and John F. Kennedy visited Huntland on numerous occasions.
Ash died from Parkinson's disease on December 14, 2011 at the age of 93.^[2][3]

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Erica Wilson, British-born American embroidery designer, died she was 83.

Erica Wilson was an English-born American embroidery designer based in New York, known particularly for needlepoint  died she was 83.. She has also designed wallcoverings and greeting cards. Her designs have been published by Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Wilson earned the nicknames "Julia Child of embroidery" and "America's first lady of stitchery" for her work.^[1][2]

^{(8 October 1928 – 13 December 2011)} 

Wilson was born in Tidworth, England on October 8, 1928.^[1] She moved to Bermuda with her parents as a baby, when her father, a British military colonel, was stationed on the island.^[1] She lived in Bermuda for five years, until her parents divorce.^[1] Wilson was raised in England and Scotland after moving from Bermuda, but recalled the move as upsetting, "I was broken-hearted at leaving the only home I'd ever known."^[1] She later graduated from the Royal School of Needlework in London.
Wilson immigrated to the United States in 1954 to work as a needlework instructor. Some of her early students included Mrs. Procter (of Procter & Gamble) and Mrs. Watson (of IBM Watson family). She married furniture designer Vladimir Kagan in 1957, they have three children.
In addition to her design work, Wilson published a syndicated newspaper column, Needleplay, was the host of two Public Television series on embroidery (1970s to 1980s), and wrote 16 books on embroidery. More recently she appeared as a guest on The Carol Duvall Show (HGTV). She also had a shop in New York City (Erica Wilson Needleworks) for 33 years.
Also, there is "Erica Wilson-Heirloom Guild".

Selected publications

• Crewel embroidery. (1962)
• Craft of silk and gold thread embroidery and stump work. (1973)
• Erica Wilson's embroidery book. (1973)
• Erica Wilson's quilts of America. (1979)
• Erica Wilson's needlework to wear. (1982)
• Erica Wilson's Christmas world. (1980)
• Erica Wilson's children's world. (1983)
• Erica Wilson's smocking. (1983)
• Erica Wilson's knitting book. (1987)

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Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer. died he was 69.

Klaus-Dieter Sieloff  was a German football (soccer) player died he was 69.. He spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Mönchengladbach.^[2] He played in two World Cup Qualifying matches in 1966.^[3]

^{(27 February 1942 – 13 December 2011)}

Early life

During his youth in Kiel, Sieloff aimed to become a boxer, having stood in the ring 25 times by the age of 14.^[4] When his family moved to Rottweil near Stuttgart and after visiting football games of VfB Stuttgart at Neckarstadion, Sieloff's interest however shifted from boxing to football. In October 1960, he played his first game for VfB Stuttgart in the Oberliga Süd.^[4] There he soon became a fixture in the stopper position in Stuttgart's team.

Professional career

Physically strong yet technically adept, Sieloff soon got the attention of German national team coach Sepp Herberger, who first called him up for a 1964 friendly against Finland in Helsinki. During the next year, Sieloff became the standard sweeper of Germany. As a player, Sieloff became known for surging forward from the sweeper position, often scoring with long range shots.
Unfortunately for Sieloff, he lost his starting place in the German national team during the 1965–66 season and thus did not feature in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. During the next four years, the sweeper position was usually that of either Willi Schulz or Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and thus Sieloff did not gain anymore caps up to 1970. After the 1970 FIFA World Cup, with Willi Schulz retiring from international play and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger not featuring regularly in the German lineups due to playing abroad, Sieloff revived his international career, which was also fostered by his success at club level with Borussia Mönchengladbach.
In 1969, Sieloff had made the change from VfB Stuttgart to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Their coach Hennes Weisweiler intended to strengthen the defense of his young team, which was already very strong offensively, but lacked the defensive thoroughness to succeed in a long league campaign. For the 1969–70 season, Mönchengladbach added Sieloff as sweeper as well as Ludwig Müller (footballer) as the stopper. With the defense strengthened, Borussia Mönchengladbach won the 1969–70 and the 1970–71 Bundesliga seasons.
With Sieloff being one of the celebrated stars of the team, he made his comeback for Germany in April 1970 in a friendly against Romania. After the 1970 World Cup, with Schulz retired, Sieloff once again became the starting sweeper of Germany. However during 1971 it became apparent that Franz Beckenbauer, who previously played in midfield, was the strongest option at the sweeper position, which meant the end of Sieloff's international career.
For Borussia Mönchengladbach, Sieloff played until 1974 when he moved to Alemannia Aachen, where he remained until 1976. He ended his career in 1977, playing one season for TSG Backnang. After his career, Sieloff became chief of the Mercedes Benz company-facilitated sports activities group.^[4] He died in December 2011.^[1]

Honours

• 1966 FIFA World Cup runner-up
• 1970 FIFA World Cup 3rd place
• UEFA Cup finalist: 1972–73
• Bundesliga champion: 1969–70, 1970–71
• DFB-Pokal winner: 1972–73

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Russell Hoban, American writer, died he 86.

Russell Conwell Hoban  was an American expatriate writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books  died he 86.. He lived in London, England, from 1969 until his death.

(February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011)

Biography

Hoban was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, to Jewish immigrants from Ostrog (now in Ukraine). His father, Abram T. Hoban, was the advertising manager of the Jewish Daily Forward Yiddish-language newspaper and the director of The Drama Guild of the Labor Institute of the Workmen's Circle of Philadelphia.^[4] He died when his son was 11, and Russell was raised by his mother, Jeanette Dimmerman. He was named for Russell Conwell.^[4] After briefly attending Temple University, he enlisted in the Army at age 18 and served in the Philippines and Italy as a radio operator during World War II, earning a bronze star.^[3] During his military service, he married his first wife, Lillian Aberman, who later became a writer and illustrator in her own right. They had four children before divorcing in 1975.
After military service Hoban worked as an illustrator (painting several covers for TIME, Sports Illustrated, and The Saturday Evening Post) and an advertising copywriter—occupations which several of his characters later shared—before writing and illustrating his first children's book, What Does It Do and How Does It Work?: Power shovel, dump truck, and other heavy machines, published by Harper in 1959.^[5]
"About the Artist" in the Macmillan Classics Edition of Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (second printing 1965), which Hoban illustrated, notes that he worked in advertising for Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn and that later he became the art director of J. Walter Thompson: "Heavy machinery later became subjects for his paintings, and this led him into the children's book field with the writing and illustrating of What Does It Do and How Does It Work? and The Atomic Submarine." That section on the artist points out also that at the time the book's illustrations were copyrighted, in 1964, Hoban was teaching drawing at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, collaborating with his first wife on their fifth children's book, and living in Connecticut.
Hoban wrote exclusively for children for the next decade, and came to be known best for the series of seven picture books starring Frances, a temperamental girl.^[3] whose escapades were based partly on the experiences of his four children, Phoebe, Brom, Esmé, Julia, and their friends.
   Frances did not eat her egg.
   She sang a little song to it.
   She sang the song very softly:

   I do not like the way you slide,
   I do not like your soft inside,
   I do not like you lots of ways,
   And I could do for many days
   Without eggs.^[6]
Garth Williams depicted Frances as a badger in the first book, Bedtime for Frances (Harper, 1960), and Lillian Hoban retained that image as the illustrator of six sequels, 1964 to 1972.^[3][5]
The US national library reports holding about three dozen books written by Hoban and published from 1959 to 1972, including about two dozen illustrated by Lillian Hoban. One was illustrated by their son Brom Hoban: The Sea-thing Child (Harper & Row, 1972, ISBN 0060223987).^[5]
A dark philosophical tale for older children, The Mouse and His Child, appeared in 1967 and was Hoban's first full-length novel. It was later made into an animated film in 1977 by the American arm of Japanese company Sanrio.
In 1969, Hoban, his wife, and their children travelled to London, intending to stay only a short time. The marriage dissolved, and while the rest of the family returned to the United States, Hoban remained in London for the rest of his life. All of Hoban's adult novels except Riddley Walker, Pilgermann and Fremder are set wholly or partly in contemporary London.
In 1971, Hoban wrote a book employing concepts borrowed from "The Gift of the Magi" called Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas, which further reached fans through a 1977 special originally created for HBO by the Jim Henson Company. The book was illustrated by Hoban's first wife, Lillian, whose drawn renditions of these characters were faithfully replicated by the Muppet creators. The story tells of a poor mother and son who do what they must to try to provide a special Christmas to one another, taking a route neither of them expected. His novel Turtle Diary (1975) was turned into a film version released in 1985, which has a screenplay by Harold Pinter.

Family

Hoban had four children with his first wife, Lillian Aberman Hoban, one of whom, Phoebe Hoban,^[7] is a writer. The couple divorced in 1975, and in the same year he married Gundula Ahl, who worked in the fashionable London bookshop Truslove and Hanson.^[8] With Ahl he had three children,^[2] one of whom is composer Wieland Hoban,^[8] to whom Riddley Walker is dedicated. Wieland Hoban set one of his father's texts in his piece Night Roads (1998–99).
Hoban's sister, Tana Hoban (1917–2006), was a photographer and children's author;^[9] he also had another sister, Freeda Hoban Ellis, born 1919.

Later life

The last novel published in his lifetime was Angelica Lost and Found (October 2010), in which the hippogriff from Girolamo da Carpi's Ruggiero Saving Angelica breaks free from the 16th-century painting to search for Angelica in 21st-century San Francisco.
Hoban died on 13 December 2011.^[1] He had once ruefully observed that death would be a good career move: “People will say, 'yes, Hoban, he seems an interesting writer, let’s look at him again’.”^[8] He was cremated in Mortlake Crematorium, London on 4 January 2012.
Soonchild, illustrated by Alexis Deacon, was published posthumously by Walker Books in March 2012.^[10] Later in the year Walker Books published one more new book by Hoban: Rosie's Magic Horse, illustrated by Quentin Blake.^[11]

Fan activity

In May 1998, Dave Awl, a writer/performer with experimental Chicago theatre troupe the Neo-Futurists, launched the first comprehensive Russell Hoban reference website,^[12][13][14] The Head of Orpheus, to which Russell Hoban regularly contributed news and information up until his death. In the fall of 1999, Awl founded a Hoban-themed online community called The Kraken (named after one of the characters in Hoban's 1987 novel The Medusa Frequency), which grew into an international network of Russell Hoban fans.
In 2002 an annual fan activity dubbed the Slickman A4 Quotation Event (SA4QE) (named after its founder, Diana Slickman, also a member of the Neo-Futurists) began, in which Hoban enthusiasts celebrate his birthday by writing down favourite quotes from his books (invariably on sheets of yellow A4 paper, a recurring Hoban motif) and leaving them in public places.^[8] By 2004, the event had occurred three times;^[15] as of February 2011 it has since taken place each year, seeing over 350 quotes distributed around 46 towns and cities throughout 14 countries.^[16]
In 2005 fans from across the world celebrated Hoban's work in London at the first international convention for the author, The Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum (a pun on symposium from Riddley Walker).^[17] A booklet was published by the organisers to commemorate the event featuring tributes to Hoban from a variety of contributors including actor and politician Glenda Jackson, novelist David Mitchell, composer Harrison Birtwistle and screenwriter Andrew Davies.

Stage adaptations

In 1984, Hoban collaborated with Impact Theatre Co-operative on a performance entitled The Carrier Frequency. Hoban supplied the text for the piece, which was staged and performed by Impact. In 1999, The Carrier Frequency was restaged by the theater company Stan's Cafe.^[18][19]
In February 1986, a theatrical version of Hoban's novel Riddley Walker (adapted by Hoban himself) premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Its US premiere was at the Chocolate Bayou Theatre, in April 1987, directed by Greg Roach.^[19]
In November 2007, Hoban's adaptation of Riddley Walker was produced (for the third time) by the Red Kettle Theatre Company, in Waterford, Ireland, and was reviewed positively in the Irish Times.^[20][21]
In 2011, Trouble Puppet Theater Company produced an adaptation of Riddley Walker, with permission from and the aid of Russell Hoban. Artistic Director Connor Hopkins created the work of puppet theater, with performances September 29 through October 16, 2011, at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas, U.S.^[22] The production employed tabletop puppetry inspired by the Bunraku tradition and enjoyed popular and critical success.^[23]
In 2012, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced that it would be premiering a new staging of Hoban's novel The Mouse and His Child as part of its winter 2012-13 season.^[24]

Themes

Hoban is often described as a fantasy writer; only two of his novels, Turtle Diary and The Bat Tattoo, are entirely devoid of supernatural elements. However, the fantasy elements are usually presented as only moderately surprising developments in an otherwise realistic contemporary story, which is magic realism. Exceptions include Kleinzeit (a comic fantasy whose characters include Death, Hospital, and Underground^[8]), Riddley Walker (a science-fiction novel whose futuristic setting is primitive and post-apocalyptic), Pilgermann (a historical novel about the Crusades), and Fremder (a more conventional science-fiction novel).^{[citation needed]}
There is frequent repetition of the same images and themes in different contexts: for instance, many of Hoban's works refer to lions, Orpheus, Eurydice, Persephone, Vermeer, severed heads, heart disease, flickering, Odilon Redon, and King Kong.^[2]

Awards

How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen (1974), a picture book written by Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake, and published by Jonathan Cape, shared the annual Whitbread Award for Children's Books.^[8]
Riddley Walker, a novel published by Cape in 1980, won the 1982 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, juried recognition of the year's best SF novel published in English, and the "Best International Novel" prize at the 1983 Australian SF Convention (Ditmar Award).^[25] Pilgermann was one finalist a year later when no best international novels was named.^[25]

Works

Novels for adults

• The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973), ISBN 0-8128-1624-2
• Kleinzeit (1974), ISBN 0-670-41458-1
• Turtle Diary (1975), ISBN 0-394-40199-9
• Riddley Walker (1980), ISBN 0-671-42147-6
• Pilgermann (1983), ISBN 0-671-45968-6
• The Medusa Frequency (1987), ISBN 0-87113-165-X
• Fremder (1996), ISBN 0-224-04370-6
• Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (1998), ISBN 0-224-05121-0
• Angelica's Grotto (1999), ISBN 0-7475-4611-8
• Amaryllis Night and Day (2001), ISBN 0-7475-5285-1
• The Bat Tattoo (2002), ISBN 0-7475-6022-6
• Her Name Was Lola (2003), ISBN 0-7475-7024-8
• Come Dance with Me (2005), ISBN 0-7475-7452-9
• Linger Awhile (2006), ISBN 0-7475-7984-9
• My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (2007), ISBN 0-7475-9028-6
• Angelica Lost and Found (2010), ISBN 978-1-4088-0660-9

Selected books for children and young adults

• "Frances the Badger" series: Bedtime for Frances, Bread and Jam for Frances, etc. (1960–1970), some illustrated by Garth Williams, most illustrated by Lillian Hoban^[5]
• The Mouse and His Child (1968, republished 1990), ISBN 0-06-022378-2 (also a 1977 film)
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1971, republished 1992), ISBN 0-89966-951-4 (also a 1977 TV show)
• Egg Thoughts and Other Frances Songs (1972), ISBN 0-06-022331-6 (poetry)
• How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen (1974), ISBN 0-224-00999-0
• A Near Thing for Captain Najork (1975), ISBN 0-224-01197-9
• The Twenty Elephant Restaurant (1978)
• La Corona and the Tin Frog (1979), ISBN 0-224-01397-1
• The Marzipan Pig (1986), ISBN 0-224-01687-3
• The Trokeville Way (1996), ISBN 0-224-04631-4
• The Last of the Wallendas (1997), ISBN 0-340-66766-4 (poetry)
• Soonchild (2012), ISBN 9781406329919

Other works

• The Carrier Frequency (1984), stage play
• Deadsy and the Sexo-Chanjo (1989) and Door (1990), under the heading "Deadtime Stories for Big Folk", text and narration for animated films by David Anderson
• The Second Mrs Kong (1994), libretto for opera composed by Harrison Birtwistle
• The Moment under The Moment (1992), stories, a libretto, essays and sketches

Film

• Turtle Diary (1985)

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Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi writer, died he was 88.

Kabir Chowdhury  was a well-known academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker, civil society activist and a pioneer in the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh died he was 88..

(Bengali: কবীর চৌধুরী; February 9, 1923 – December 13, 2011)

Early life and education

Kabir Chowdhury was born in Brahmanbaria of the then Tipperah district of United Bengal where his father was working as a civil servant. He grew up in an atmosphere of liberal ideas and secular thinking. His family hailed from Chatkhile of Noakhali^[4] district of Bangladesh and his father was a devout Muslim free from any trace of religious fanaticism. Kabir’s many close friends in school belonged to the Hindu community. When he studied English literature at the Dhaka University in the early 1940s he was greatly impressed by the writings of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell, among others. During the second World War he was deeply troubled by the Nazi atrocities carried out in their concentration camps, the mass killing of Jews as a plan of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of all democratic norms. Kabir’s faith in democracy, secularism and liberal thoughts grew stronger by the day and he found himself drawn to socialist ideology.^[5]
Educated at the universities of Dhaka, Minnesota and Southern California, Kabir Chowdhury worked for over half a century in the fields of education, peace and inter-cultural understanding in several national and international organizations like Afro-Asian Writers Union, Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization, International Theatre Institute, UNESCO National Commission and Bangladesh Chapter of the World’s Peace Council.

Career

He has written extensively on world’s famous writers and painters. He has also written extensively on peace and conflict resolution through discussion and has tried to promote these values by his work as a teacher and as an administrator. He taught at the University of Dhaka as a Professor of English for thirty years. He has worked as the Secretary, Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs & Sports, Government of Bangladesh before his voluntary retirement from government service. He was inducted as National Professor of Bangladesh in 1998.^[2]
Kabir was a member of the Presidium of the Bangladesh World Peace Council and headed the Bangladesh-Soviet Friendship Society for over a decade. He was the president of the Bangladesh Vidyasagar Society and chairman of the Advisory Council of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee for Resisting the Killers and Collaborators of 1971). In all the above capacities he has significantly contributed to the dissemination of secular ideas and democratic values. His ideology is materialism. He has written extensively on anti-fundamentalism, religious fanaticism and communalism, and has stressed the need for developing broad human values and for realizing the importance of cultural diversity, and the imperatives for developing a pluralistic society.^[5]
In his long career Chowdhury spoke at many national and international meetings of writers and social activists on literature, socialism, secularism and democracy. He addressed gatherings in Germany, Russia, USA, Bulgaria, Angola, Japan, Pakistan and India. He had the privilege of meeting Nelson Mandela, Yassir Arafat, Agostinho Neto and Kim Il Sung. In a conference of the World Federation of UN Associations held in Barcelona which he attended as the representative of Bangladesh UN Association (he was its chairman for several years), he worked alongside Nobel Peace winner Lord Philip Noel Baker and the distinguished pacifist Sean Mac Bride. Among famous writers, he worked closely with Pakistan’s Faiz Ahmed Faiz, India’s Visam Sahni, Palestine’s Mahmood Dervish and USA’s Edward Albee.^[2]
Professor Chowdhury played a leading role in many movements in Bangladesh, especially in the anti-communal movement, movement to establish democracy, and significantly in the movement to ensure the trial of those who had committed crimes against humanity and war crimes during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.^[4]

Published work

“	Why boast of your caste or religious community? What does it do for you in this world or in the next? Sometimes I feel like shoving into its mouth a burning faggot. For nothing I bore this cross all my life. Turning into an honourable man, I clearly saw all the trickery that lay behind the glosy of high position and noble birth	”

^[6]

Bangla translations

• শেখভের গল্প (Chekov's stories, 1969)
• সমুদ্রের স্বাদ (১৯৭০)
• গ্রেট গ্যাটসবি (The Great Gatsby, 1971),
• দি গ্রেপস অব র‌্যথ (The Grapes of Wrath,1989)
• রূপান্তর (The Metamorphosis,1990)
• বেউলফ (১৯৮৫)
• অল দি কিংস মেন (১৯৯২)
• দি গার্ল উইথ এ পার্ল ইয়ার রিং (২০০৭)
• গল্প উপন্যাসে প্রতিকৃতি চিত্র (২০০৭)

Awards

For his contribution to education, literature and civil society movements, Kabir Chowdhury was nationally and internationally honoured. Among the numerous awards he received are:

• Swadhinata Dibosh Padak (1997)
• National Professor of Bangladesh (1998)
• Ekushey Padak (1991)
• Bangla Academy Award (1973)
• Mohammad Nasiruddin Literary Award (1986)
• William Carey Award (India, 1994)
• Tagore Peace Award (India)

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Graham Brown, American actor, died from pulmonary failure he was 87.

Graham Brown was an American actor best known for his work in the theatre  died from pulmonary failure he was 87..^[1]

^{(October 24, 1924 – December 13, 2011)}

Biography

Born Robert Brown in New York, New York, he is best known for his work on the stage. He attended Howard University where he earned a BA in theater. He also studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York. He began his career as a Shakespearean actor at Guthrie Theater where he appeared in productions like Hamlet and Richard III.^[2] Brown was an original member of Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and played in many NEC productions like: Malcochon by Derek Walcott, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonnie Elder III, District Line and The River Niger both by Joseph A Walker. He was part of the original cast of controversial play Song of the Lusitanian Bogey by Peter Weiss which toured Europe and was subject to a riot in a London theatre in August 1968. Graham Brown was often cast as professional and/or highly educated people such as doctors and clergymen.
One of his best remembered roles was as "Jared Philibert", the 50-year-old patriarch of a Caribbean-American family in Steve Carter's critically acclaimed play, Nevis Mountain Dew. He originated the role in NEC's Off-Broadway production and reprised the role in the West Coast premiere of the play. For the latter he received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance.^[3]

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Gene Summers, American architect (McCormick Place), died from liver disease he was 83.

Gene Summers was an American modernist architect died from liver disease he was 83. Considered to have been Mies Van Der Rohe's "right hand man", he assisted his famed employer in the design of the iconic Seagram Building on Park Avenue on the island of Manhattan in New York City. Later in private practice he designed the huge McCormick Place convention center in Chicago, Illinois.

(July 21, 1928 - December 12, 2011) 

Life and career

Gene R. Summers was born in 1928 in San Antonio, Texas. He studied architecture at Texas A & M, where he received his bachelor's degree, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology under Mies van der Rohe, where he received his master's degree in 1951. From 1950 until 1966 Summers served as project architect for Mies van der Rohe, working on important commissions such as the Seagram Building in New York City and the National Gallery in Berlin. In 1967 he became partner in charge of design in the Chicago architectural firm of C. F. Murphy Associates, where he remained until 1973. His best-known project from that time, the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago, was completed in 1970. From 1973 until 1985 Summers, in association with Phyllis Lambert, worked as a real estate developer in California, where they restored, among other projects, several industrial parks, the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Newporter Resort Hotel in Newport Beach. In 1985 Summers moved to France but returned to Chicago in 1989 to become dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a position he held until 1993. Summers was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1972, and later relocated to Healdsburg, California. Summers died on December 12, 2011 in Sebastopol, California at the age of 83.



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