Industrialist Evolved With Brazil
Olavo Egydio Setubal built an industrial and financial empire whose crown jewel is Banco Itau. His 60-year career spanned Brazil's evolution to an emerging economic power.
View ArticleDanner Built Shoney's
Raymond L. Danner built Shoney's into the nation's third-largest restaurant chain.
View ArticleMogul Applied Franchising to Real Estate
Art Bartlett wasn't the first to apply to home sales a franchise model more often associated with selling hamburgers, but he was the most successful.
View ArticlePioneer Meteorologist Peered Into Storms
Joanne Simpson, who overcame significant professional barriers for women and become chief scientist for meteorology at NASA's Earth Sciences Directorate, dies at 86.
View ArticleExplorer Established Antarctic Stations
Phillip Law, an Australian explorer who established three stations on Antarctica and mapped more than a half a million square miles of the continent, dies at 97.
View ArticleFormer H-P Chairman Patricia Dunn Has Died
Dunn stepped down as H-P's outside chairman in 2006. Her tenure was marred by a scandal over tactics used as the company investigated boardroom leaks.
View ArticleJournal's Jeffrey Zaslow Is Killed in Crash
Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow, who wrote some of the paper's most memorable front-page features and became a best-selling author, died in a car crash Friday. He was 53.
View ArticleAcquirer of Small Firms Helped Them Thrive
Tinkham Veale II, who died Tuesday at age 97, built one of the most successful conglomerates in America. Beginning in the 1960s, Mr. Veale's Alco Standard bought and sold hundreds of companies in a...
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