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Obituaries: United States* ADLER, ROBERT, electronics engineer, in- WWII performed standup comedy in ventor; b. Vienna, Austria, Dec. 4, 1913; night clubs; appeared on T.V. on "What's d. Boise, Idaho, Feb. 15, 2007; in U.S. My Line?" 1950-67, "Password," 1961 - since 1941. Educ.: U. Vienna (PhD). Asst. 67, "The Tonight Show" (often subbing to patent atty., 1937-38; laboratory sci- for host Johnny Carson), 1962-92, "The entist, Acoustics. Ltd., London, 1940-41; Hollywood Squares," 1966-81, "The Joey research group. Zenith Radio Corp. (later Bishop Show" (late-night talk show), Zenith Electronics Corp.), Chicago, 1967-69, "Celebrity Sweepstakes," 1974- 1941-52, assoc. dir. research, 1952-63, 77, others; appeared in films The Deep v.-pres„ 1959-77, dir. research, 1963-77, Six (1958), The Naked and the Dead v. pres. research, 1977-82, technical (1958), Onionhead (1958), Oceans Eleven consultant, 1982-97; consultant, Mo- (1960), Sergeants 3 (1962). Johnny Cool torola, 1997-2001, Elo Touch Systems. (1963), Texas Across the River (1966), A 2001 -. Nearly 200 patents are credited to Guide for the Married Man (1967), Who's him, including inventions to improve T. V. Minding the Mint? (1967), Valley of the reception and for touch-screen technol- Dolls (1967), The Delta Force (1986), ogy, but the one with the greatest impact Betsy's Wedding (1990), Mad Dog Time on ordinary people was the T.V. remote (1996); inaugural ball master of cere- control, credited by some with creating monies, 1961; last surviving mem. of "Rat "a nation of couch potatoes." Rec.: Inst, Pack," entertainer friends of Frank Sina- of Radio Engineers Outstanding Techni- tra popular in 1960s. cal Achievement Award, 1958; Inst, of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edi- BUCHWALD, ART , humorist, newspaper col- son Medal, 1980; Natl. Acad, of Televi- umnist; b. Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Oct. 20, sion Arts and Sciences "Emmy" for 1925; d. Washington, D.C., Jan. 17, 2007. invention of remote-control device, 1997. Educ.: U. Southern Calif.; Alliance Frangaise, Paris. Served U.S. Marines, BISHOP, JOEY (JOSEPH ABRAHAM GOTTLIEB), 1942-45. Paris correspondent. Variety, comedian; b. NYC, Feb. 3, 1918; d. New- 1948-49; columnist, AC Y. Herald Tribune port Beach, Calif, Oct. 17, 2007. Served European edition, 1949-62, where, U.S. Army, 1942-45. Dropped out of among other journalistic coups, he con- high school and performed music and ducted the only interview with Sgt. Elvis comedy in several cities with two friends Presley; Tribune Media Services syndi- as "Bishop Brothers" until drafted; after cated columnist, 1962-, his three-times- *lncluding American Jews who died between January 1 and December 31, 2007. 712 OBITUARIES / 713 a week column appearing in over 500 Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 2007: in U.S. newspapers; frequent guest on radio and since 1921. Educ.: Juilliard School; Co- T.V. Left a video obituary beginning, "Hi. lumbia U. (BA); Cornell U. Served U.S. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." Au.: Army, 1943-46. Founder, coeditor, Paris After Dark (1950); I Chose Caviar Cross-Town, 1932-33, Jazz Info., (1957); More Caviar (1958); A Gift From 1938-39; assoc. editor, New Leader, the Boys (1958); Son of the Great Society 1938-43; managing editor. Plain Talk, (1961); Have I Ever Lied to You? (1968); 1946-47; publicity dir., Internat'l Ladies Washington Is Leaking (1976); Down the Garment Workers Union, 1947-48; asst. Seine and Up the Potomac (1977); While editor, Newsweek, 1948-50, natl. reports Reagan Slept (1983); Yasmine Is Very Nice editor, 1950-60, asst. chief, Washington and Happy (1994); Leaving Home: A Bureau, 1956-60; columnist, music critic, Memoir (f994); I'll Always Have Paris National Review, 1955-; syndicated (1996); I Think I Don't Remember (1997); columnist, King Features, 1960-71. Natl. Stella in Heaven (2000): Beating Around News Research Syndicate, 1971-74, the Bush (2005); Too Soon to Say Goodbye 1998-, Copley News Service, 1974-89. Heritage Features Syndicate, 1989-91, (2006). Rec.: Pulitzer Prize for Outstand- Creators Syndicate, 1991 -98. Taking the ing Commentary, 1982; Lifetime Achieve- side of Whittaker Chambers who testi- ment Award, Natl. Soc. of Newspaper fied that Alger Hiss had been a commu- Columnists, 2006; Commandeur, Order nist, forged a lifelong bond with Richard of Arts and Letters, France, 2006. Mem.: Nixon and emerged as a pioneer of post- Amer. Acad, of Arts and Sciences. war American conservatism. Au.: Seeds of DECTER, MOSHE, journalist, communal pro- Treason (with Victor Lasky, 1950); Spies, fessional; b. Tarentum, Pa.,Oct. 14, 1921; Dupes, and Diplomats (1952); Nixon d. NYC, June 28,2007. Served U.S. Army, (1956): Lament for a Generation (I960); The Goldwater Story (1964); J. Edgar WWII. Educ.: U. Pittsburgh; CCNY; Jew- Hoover (1973); Hit and Run: The Ralph ish Theol. Sem.; New School for Social Nader Story (1975); Notes from the Un- Research (BA). Political editor. Voice of derground (1997); Cry Havoc: The Great Amer., 1950-54; research fellow. Fund American Bring-down and How It Hap- for the Republic. 1954- 59; managing ed- pened (2006); many others. Ghost writer, itor, New Leader, 1959-60; dir., Jewish The FBI Pyramid from the Inside by W. Minorities Research, 1960-63; exec, sec., Mark Fell (1979), unaware that Felt was Conf. on the Status of Soviet Jews; dir. "Deep Throat." Cmdr., Natl. Press Club research, Amer. Jewish Cong.; ed., Near Amer. Legion Post 20,2005-. Rec.: Free- East Report, 1980s; adviser and consul- doms Foundation Award, 1950, 1961, tant to Israeli Embassy in U.S.; project 1974; Veterans of Foreign Wars Ameri- dir., adviser, Israel Bonds, 1990s. Played a canism Award, 1953. major role in initiating the Soviet Jewry movement with publication of "Jews in the Soviet Union" issue of New Leader FF.LDMAN, GERALD D., historian; b. NYC, (Sept. 14, 1959), organizing Amer. Conf. Apr. 24. 1937; d. Berkeley, Calif. Oct. 31, on Soviet Jewry, 1963. Au.: McCarthy and 2007. Educ.: Columbia U. (BA); Harvard the Communists (with James Rorty, 1954); U. (PhD). Taught German hist, at U. Silence and Yearning: The Status of Soviet Calif. Berkeley, 1963-2007, holding Jane Jewry (1966); Israel and the Jews in the K. Sather chair, dir., Center for German Soviet Mirror: Soviet Cartoons on the and European Studies, 1994-2000, Middle East Crisis (1967); A Hero for Our founding dir., Inst, of European Studies, 2000 2006. Adviser to Presidential Time (1970); To Serve. To Teach. To Comm. on Holocaust Assets in the U.S. Leave: The Story of Israel's Development Au.: Army, Industry and Labor in Ger- Assistance Program in Black Africa many, 1914-18 (1966); German Business (1977). Ed.. Redemption! Redemption! Re- between War and Revolution (1970); Ger- demption! Jewish Freedom Letters from man Imperialism, 1914-18 (1972); The Russia (1963); Myths and Facts: A Con- Great Disorder: Politics. Economics and cise Record of the Arab-Israel Conflict Society in the German Inflation. 1914 -24 (1982). (1993); Iron and Steel in the German In- DE TOLEDANO, RALPH, journalist, author; flation. 1916 -23 (1999); August Thyssen b. Tangier, Morocco, Aug. 14, 1916; d. and Hugo Stinnes (2002); Allianz and the 714 / AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, 2007 German Insurance Business. 1933 - 45 porting from Democratic Republic of (2002); other books and many articles in Congo. 1961-62, Vietnam, 1962-65, both English and German. At time of his Warsaw, 1965-66; contrib. editor. death was in the midst of research on Harper's magazine. 1967-71. Widely German and Austrian banks during the credited with bringing the reality of the Natl. Socialist period. Rec.: Guggenheim Vietnam War home to the American peo- Fellowship; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; ple. Au.: The Noblest Roman (1961); The Amer. Historical Assn. Central European Making of a Quagmire (1965); One Very Hist. Group Best Book Award, 1995; Hot Day (1968); The Unfinished Odyssey Berlin Prize Fellow, 1998-99; Federal Re- of Robert Kennedy (1969); The Best and public of Germany Commander's Cross the Brightest (1972); The Powers That Be of the Order of Merit. 2000; German (1979); The Breaks of the Game (1981); Studies Assn. Award, 2001. The Amateurs (1985); Summer of '49 (1989); The Next Century (1991); The FELDMAN, MYER, lawyer, presidential ad- Fifties (1993); War In a Time of Peace viser; b. Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 1914; (2001); Firehouse (2002); The Coldest d. Bethesda, Md„ Mar. 1, 2007. Educ.: U. Pa. (BS, LLB). Served U.S. Air Force, Winter: America and the Korean War 1942-46. Atty. in private practice, (2007). Rec.: Pulitzer Prize for Internat'l 1939-42; lect., U. Pa Law School, Reporting, 1964; George Polk Memorial 1941-42; special counsel, exec. asst. to Award, 1964; Overseas Press Club Award, chmn., S.E.C., 1946-54; counsel, Senate 1973; Robert Kennedy Book Award, Banking and Currency Com., 1955-57; 1999. legislative asst. to Sen. John F. Kennedy, HART, KITTY CARLISLE (CATHERINE CONN), 1958-61; deputy special counsel to pres., actress; b. New Orleans, La., Sept. 3, 1961 -64 (including the "Jewish" portfo- 1910; d. NYC, Apr. 17,2007. Educ.: Lon- lio); counsel to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, don School of Economics; Royal Acad, of 1964 65; founder, partner, Ginsburg Dramatic Arts, London. Theater and Feldman & Bress, Washington, D.C., 1965-98; pres., Ardman Broadcasting opera performances in Champagne. Sec Corp., 1992-. Exec., bd. mem., numer- (1933), White Horse Inn (1936), Three ous corporations; produced Broadway Waltzes (1937), Walk With Music (1940), plays. Au.: Standard Pennsylvania Prac- The Rape of Lucretia (1948), Anniversary tice (4 vols., 1958). Mem., bd. dirs., Weiz- Waltz (1954), Die Fledermaus (1967), On mann Inst., 1963-84; trustee, Jewish Your Toes (1983), continued to perform Publ. Soc., 1966-78. one-woman show "Here's to Life" until a few months before she died; acted in films FINE, MORRIS, editor, communal profes- Murder at the Vanities (1934), She Loves sional, b.