GoogObits Website
All 45 hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts originally published on the dedicated GoogObits website I maintained from November 2003 through January 2005, with one last post in July 2006.
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Jerry Orbach
Lower right picture/ headline with full obit in section one. Jerry Orbach was the real deal.
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MARLENE SCHAMS, 45
Remarkable. Marlene Schams was born in an elevator in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “That’s why she had her ups and downs all these years,” quipped her father, Donald Schams. Ms. Schams, 45, a single mother and longtime Rogers Park resident who fought hard to give her son better opportunities, died Thursday, Dec. 23, at…
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Hugh McIntyre Was A Librarian
In my effort to publish more posts to this site, and to move past the cleverism of my early link-laden style, I am going to start simply placing links to (and archival copies of the text of) the obituaries of notable people. The obituaries that I have learned much from. The obituaries of people who…
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GoogObits: John Culligan Dies at 88; Led Transformation of American Home
Change is hard. John Culligan saw a company that made poisons and food as well as drugs, and he said, “hey, how about if we make drugs only?” Nice job, John. By JENNIFER BAYOT John W. Culligan, who rose from the mailroom to serve as the chief executive of the American Home Products Corporation, maker of familiar medications like…
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New: Annotations in the NYT
It seems the New York Times has gotten on the Annotated Bibiliography Bandwagon. Today was the first time I saw an obituary with extensive links in the body of the obit. In this case, Larry Buchanan Dies at 81; B-Movie ‘Schlockmeister’, they are self-linking to their entries on the movies of Larry Buchanan. Not a…