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: Matta, Chilean Artist of the Surrealist Movement, Is Dead
November 25, 2002 Matta, Chilean Artist of the Surrealist Movement, Is Dead By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, known as Matta, whose sometimes nightmarish, hallucinatory paintings made him a premier Surrealist and major artist of the mid-20th century, died on Saturday in Tarquinia, Italy. He was 90 or 91. In later years he split his time among Paris, London,…
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GoogObits: RADOSLAV KOVACEVIC, 79
Radoslav Kovacevic, 79, an architect who designed dozens of churches during a 50-year career in the Chicago area, died Friday, Nov. 22, of heart failure in Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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GoogObits: Lynda Van Devanter, Nurse Who Became Chronicler of Her Wartime Pain, Dies at 55
Lynda Van Devanter, whose pained account of her life as an Army nurse in Vietnam focused attention on the burdens of American servicewomen in the war, died on Nov. 15 at her home in Herndon, Va. She was 55.
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Two Magnificent Heart Attacks
This is the first “On The Same Day” I published on the GoogObits Salon Blog
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GoogObits: Victor Herbert, Scientist Who Linked Folic Acid to Anemia, Dies at 75
Dr. Victor D. Herbert, whose experiments on himself 40 years ago showed that a shortage of folic acid found in leafy vegetables and fruits caused a type of anemia, died on Nov. 19 in New York City. He was 75.