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President Reagan waves just before being shot outside a Washington hotel in 1981. Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr is at left wearing a raincoat.

Secret Service agent credited with saving Reagan’s life dies at 85

June 22, 2019 at 11:33 p.m.

Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent who shoved President Reagan into the back of the presidential limousine and ordered the car to the hospital during the 1981 assassination attempt, died...

Rollin King dies at 83; pilot founded Southwest Airlines

June 17, 2018 at 12:27 p.m.

Rollin King, a Texas businessman whose idea for a low-fare, no-frills intrastate airline grew into the nation's top domestic carrier, Southwest Airlines, died Thursday in Dallas. He was 83. The...

Clarissa Dickson Wright dies at 66; costar of TV’s ‘Two Fat Ladies’

June 17, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.

When the offbeat BBC cooking show "Two Fat Ladies" was given a green light in 1996, costar Clarissa Dickson Wright did not have the highest hopes. "I found it very...

Writer a ‘well-known name-dropper’

August 22, 2021 at 6:20 a.m.

Dominick Dunne's first book was "The Winners," a sequel to gossip columnist Joyce Haber's popular novel "The Users." Released in 1982, "The Winners" was poorly reviewed, but, for Dunne, it...

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