Obituaries
For nearly three decades, George McArthur was the quintessential foreign
correspondent as he reported from the boulevards of Paris to the sands
of the Middle East and jungles of Vietnam, for the AP and later the Los Angeles Times.
McCandlish Phillips joined The Times as a copy boy in November 1952 and retired in late 1973 for a life in religion.
Roger Ebert reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years.
Louis Werneke played a pivotal role in shaping
the narrow Web tag and label market.
Dan Turner began his career as a reporter for the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif. and the San Francisco Chronicle.
In 1962, Kathryn C. Lee, her husband William H. Lee and several other area leaders pooled their finances and bought a
local religious paper, The Sacramento Outlook. The name was later
changed to The Sacramento Observer.
Cooper Rollow was the Tribune’s sports editor from 1969-76.
Edward Willis Scripps III worked in the newspaper industry, holding various posts in the
family's Scripps League Newspapers chain, including as publisher of
daily and weekly community newspapers.
In 1998, Polster was hired to overhaul news gathering and reporting at The Times Record — to immediate
effect upon both the newspaper staff and its readership.
Anthony Lewis won the Pulitzer for
national reporting for the Washington Daily News in 1955. He won again
for national reporting for the New York Times in 1963.
Tom Forstrom retired in 2005 after serving the area for more than 35 years.
Murrey Marder joined The Washington Post in 1946 and retired in 1985. In 1996, he launched
the Nieman Foundation’s Watchdog Project.
Hans Müller developed the first pad and booklet stitching machine in 1946.
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