Don Williams, Singer of Plain-Spoken Country Songs, Dies at 78
Mr. Williams, whose admirers included Pete Townshend and Eric Clapton, was best known for ballads extolling the virtues of romantic commitment.
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Mr. Williams, whose admirers included Pete Townshend and Eric Clapton, was best known for ballads extolling the virtues of romantic commitment.
By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN
An all-American in college, McDaniels got off to a tangled start in his professional career because of contract disputes.
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Mr. Stevens’s promising career with the band Tower of Power was derailed when he was sentenced to life in prison. He was paroled after 36 years.
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Mr. Keil spearheaded a campaign to educate Americans on how to “take a bite out of crime,” and provided the voice for its cartoon spokesman.
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
An Egyptian-American composer, Mr. El-Dabh was best known for the haunting, Eastern-inflected scores for “Clytemnestra” and other ballets by Ms. Graham.
By MARGALIT FOX
An award-winning documentarian, Mr. Tuchman introduced Bill Clinton to many Americans in a film nationally broadcast from the 1992 Democratic convention.
By SAM ROBERTS
He was the managerial genius behind Yves Saint Laurent, his former lover, and had a stormy run as the head of Paris’s opera houses.
By JONATHAN KANDELL
A former shortstop, Michael rose to general manager under a mercurial George Steinbrenner and built powerful teams starting in the mid-’90s.
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, John Hurt, William Peter Blatty and others who died this year.