Salon Blogs
All 63 hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts originally published on the Salon Blog I maintained from October 2002 through November 2003.
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GoogObits: Moments (Ezra Solomon, Who Shaped Finance Theory, Dies at 82)
Often obituaries act like long ribbons that run directly from your newspaper or monitor to a frozen moment in the past, and jolts a re-cognition of that moment.
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GoogObits: Lessons (Murray Pergament, Chain Grew From Paint Stores, 76, Dies)
Today we’re delivered a few capitalist lessons that we instinctively already knew: Paths to economic success disappear over time. One scientific advance can lead to the launch of vastly different and successful product lines. Google moves on. Land is king.
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GoogObits: Philip B. Meggs, 60, Educator and Historian of Graphic Design, Dies
Philip B. Meggs, a scholar of graphic and advertising design who wrote the first full history of the field, from the time of Gutenberg to the postmodern era, died on Nov. 24 in Richmond, Va. He was 60.
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GoogObits: Eugene Gregorie, Automobile Designer, Dies at 94
DETROIT, Dec. 2 — Eugene T. Gregorie, the first design chief of the Ford Motor Company and the creator of the Lincoln Continental, died on Sunday in St. Augustine, Fla., where he lived. He was 94.
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GoogObits: Mary Bright, 48, Curtain Maker Who Used Unorthodox Materials, Dies
Mary Bright, an innovative curtain maker whose work for the Museum of Modern Art, Calvin Klein, Wendi and Rupert Murdoch, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Lauren Bacall and other clients moved the traditional craft of cutting, sewing and pleating curtains to the realm of modern art, died yesterday in New York Presbyterian Hospital. She was 48.