Larry Benoit, ‘Babe Ruth for Hunters,’ Is Dead at 89
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Benoit tracked whitetail deer through northern New England and southern Canada for more than seven decades and became one of the nation’s most revered deer hunters.
Maxine Powell in 2009. “I teach class,” she said of her record-label work, “and class will turn the heads of kings and queens.”
Ms. Powell was the director of the label’s in-house finishing school in the 1960s and was considered in no small part responsible for its early success.
Mr. Benoit tracked whitetail deer through northern New England and southern Canada for more than seven decades and became one of the nation’s most revered deer hunters.
Metsu, a Frenchman, was a midfielder on European teams for nearly two decades, but he achieved his biggest success working in Africa.
Mr. Pallana, who spent decades on the vaudeville circuit as a plate spinner and was a Texas yoga instructor, became a sought-after character actor in his late 70s in films by Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg and others.
Mr. Riegel made the teddy bear-shaped gelatin sweets known as gummi bears a global favorite, and Haribo, his family-owned company, into an internationally recognized brand.
Mr. Rogers came to fame as a versatile Shakespearean in his native England and, in 1956, played four demanding roles in a three-month run of Shakespeare on Broadway.
Mr. Read, known as Chopper, based top-selling books and stand-up performance on his violent and varied life of crime.
Mr. Scott, who wrote country and bluegrass hits, sang and performed comedy in a traveling medicine show long after such productions had become a rarity.
Mr. Hijuelos’s 1989 book, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” was his best-known work. His characters faced the conundrums of assimilation while holding on to an ethnic and national identity.
Mr. Smith, a Southern California minister, preached fire-and-brimstone theology to Jesus Movement hippies.
Mr. Fiorentino had a major role in some of the biggest events in TV history, including three Kennedy-Nixon debates.
Mr. Cabana, who worked in corrections for more than 25 years, argued that capital punishment was ineffectual, expensive and inhumane.
Mr. Carpenter’s flight into space was in May 1962. Before the first mission to orbit the Earth, in February that same year, he famously told another astronaut, “Godspeed, John Glenn.”
Mr. Priebke, who was under house arrest in Rome, helped organize the execution of 335 men and boys at the Ardeatine Caves in 1944.
Mr. Emanuel, a poet, educator and critic frustrated by racism in the United States, moved to France permanently after the death of his only child.
Seamus Heaney, the accomplished and admired Irish poet, reading from his work over the years.
Mr. Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth, following John Glenn, now the only surviving member of America’s original space program.
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