Posted on 03/27/2004 6:33:52 PM PST by nuconvert
Obituaries in the News
Mar 27, 2004
The Associated Press
Bryan L. Armstrong FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Bryan L. Armstrong, a former newspaper editor and reporter who became a public relations director for Kentucky's community college system, was found dead of a gunshot wound Thursday in Frankfort. He was 45.
The case was under investigation, according to the coroner's office.
Armstrong was a journalism graduate of Western Kentucky University. His early career included internships at the Tampa Times in Florida and The Louisville Times. He was an editor at The Kansas City Times before moving to The Cincinnati Post in 1983.
Armstrong moved to The Kentucky Post in Covington as state editor, then became chief of the newspaper's Frankfort bureau.
He is survived by a daughter, a son, his parents and a sister.
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Chen Zhongwei
BEIJING (AP) - Chen Zhongwei, a Chinese surgeon credited with pioneering the process of reattaching severed limbs, died Tuesday. He was 74.
Chen fell seven floors while trying to enter his apartment in Shanghai through the window, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Police ruled out the possibility of murder after investigators found Chen's keys and mobile phone in his room and his briefcase by the apartment's front door, the agency said.
Xinhua said Chen successfully reattached the severed right hand of an injured factory worker in 1963 - the first operation of its kind.
Chen, a professor at Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai, also worked with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He has been a guest professor at Harvard University, New York University and Oxford University, Xinhua said.
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Karl Joachim Weintraub
CHICAGO (AP) - Karl Joachim Weintraub, a longtime University of Chicago professor who was so popular with students that they would sleep in line to register for his class, died Thursday, according to the university. He was 79.
Weintraub taught a course on Western history and culture for about 50 years. He died of a brain tumor in the university's Bernard Mitchell Hospital.
Each spring students would line up for hours on campus to get a spot in his class. The student newspaper once reported the annual event under a headline: "Waiting for Weintraub."
Although he was failing in health, Weintraub met with his classes until 2002. He had technically retired, but continued his teaching and refused to accept a salary.
His wife and colleague, Katy O'Brien Weintraub, said that was his way of protesting changing styles in higher education. The Western Civilization course was being downsized and changed by a younger generation of faculty - except in the two sections the Weintraubs offered.
Weintraub was born in Germany to a Jewish father and a Christian mother. During World War II, he was hidden by a Christian family in Holland. Afterward, the Quakers arranged for him to come to the United States. He finished his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1957.
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