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He single-handedly shot down 16 enemy planes in dogfights over Europe. After the war, he became one of America’s top test pilots during the “Right Stuff” era.
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Phil Wiggins, Virtuoso of the Blues Harmonica, Is Dead at 69
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Overlooked No More: Bill Hosokawa, Journalist Who Chronicled Japanese American History
He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.
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The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.
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Arising from the free-form San Francisco radio scene of the 1960s, he became an influential voice on the powerhouse WPLJ in New York.
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He coached the University of Michigan to 13 Big Ten Conference titles and a national championship. Overall, his swimmers won 21 medals at the Summer Olympics.
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Nurturing artists and performers, she was the last of Las Tres Hermanas, three sisters revered for galvanizing arts, education and social programs in the Latino community.
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She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.
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He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.
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He challenged racial barriers in Hollywood, was a producer of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and earned a Tony nomination for “Home,” a paean to his Southern roots.
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At Restaurant Jasper in the North End of Boston, and later with a small chain of family-friendly seafood establishments, he focused relentlessly on regional ingredients.
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He was the first Black officer to lead a Marine Corps infantry company into combat. He later became an Alabama state lawmaker and an assistant secretary of the Air Force.
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A prototypical Washington insider, he once said, “The hot air index is actually down when people like me go on vacation.”
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After serving as an officer, he became a leading antiwar activist. In 1971, he tossed away his medals during a Washington protest demonstration.
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