With an aggressive forehand and an arsenal of lobs, drop shots and slices, he was one of Spain’s most prominent tennis players and the oldest man to win a singles title at the French Open.
He brought a brash style to coverage of the rock world in the late 1960s and ’70s, then applied similar skills to novels and books on Dean Martin and Sonny Liston.
A television mainstay, he was also a playwright. His best-known play, “Norman, Is That You?,” flopped on Broadway but went on to international success.
A Major League veteran, he was posted at second base when New York swept Minnesota two weeks ago. He died after having a blood clot following knee surgery.
He used a broom for the sense of speed and monumentality it imparted to his paintings. He hit on the idea as young artist living hand-to-mouth in Paris.
She ran boardinghouses whose lodgers included members of New York’s elite, raised money for an orphan asylum and was active in the abolitionists’ cause.
In conservative Turkey, she sought the same artistic freedoms that men were granted, championed art education for women and ultimately left for the United States to pursue her ambitions.
