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Barbara Howar, whose hit memoir dished on D.C. society, dies at 89
Defiantly unorthodox, she wore pajamas to an embassy gala, drove an orange motorcycle through a Georgetown park, and had a barbed wit that brought her a reputation as the enfant terrible of the capital’s social scene.
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Billy Bean, second openly gay ex-MLB player who later worked in commissioner’s office, dies at 60
Bean played six seasons, then joined the commissioner’s office in 2014, eventually being promoted to senior vice president for DEI.
Walter Arlen, Holocaust refugee and belated composer, is dead at 103
The Viennese musical prodigy fled to the United States after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938; it would be three-quarters of a century before he created musical remembrances of surviving the Holocaust and exile.
Tsung-Dao Lee, 97, physicist who challenged a law of nature, dies
Mr. Lee, a Chinese American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957 for overturning what had been considered a fundamental law of nature — that particles are always symmetrical — died Sunday at his home in San Francisco.