Michael Rosenwald

Maryland

NYT staff writer. Natl Mag Award finalist. New Yorker, Esquire, etc. Writing book @penguinrandom || ⚾️ Ex-baseball coach || Nova (Fla.) HS baseball HOF 1992 ||

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Articles

David Paton, creator of Flying Eye Hospital, dies at 94

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Michael Rosenwald

David Paton, an idealistic and innovative ophthalmologist who started Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet into a flying hospital that took surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients and educate local doctors, died April 3 at his home in Reno, Nevada. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his son, Townley. The son of a prominent New York eye surgeon whose patients included the Shah of Iran and financier J.
Philip Sunshine, 94, Dies; Physician Who Pioneered Treatment of Premature Babies

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Rosenwald

A founder of neonatology, he helped revolutionize the care of preterm and critically ill newborns. "We were able to keep babies alive that would not have survived," he said. Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, died on April 5 at his home in Cupertino, Calif. He was 94.
Julia Parsons, Navy code breaker during World War II, dies at 104

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Michael Rosenwald

Julia Parsons, who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats during World War II, died on April 18 in Aspinwall, Pa. She was 104. Her death, in a Veterans Affairs hospice facility, was confirmed by her daughter Margaret Breines.
Julia Parsons, US Navy code breaker during World War II, dies at 104 in Pennsylvania

1 week ago | telegraphindia.com | Michael Rosenwald

Her death, in a Veterans Affairs hospice facility, was confirmed by her daughter Margaret Breines Michael S.
David Paton, Creator of Flying Eye Hospital, Dies at 94

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Rosenwald

An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room. David Paton, an idealistic and innovative ophthalmologist who started Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet into a flying hospital that took surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients and educate local doctors, died on April 3 at his home in Reno, Nev. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his son, Townley.
Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator and 'Real-Life Scully,' Dies at 80

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Rosenwald

A professional skeptic, he took on hundreds of mysteries, offering rational explanations for the Loch Ness monster, the Shroud of Turin and countless hauntings. Before Joe Nickell became, in his words, "the world's only full-time professional paranormal investigator," he was:a magiciana blackjack dealera private investigatora poeta bingo callera riverboat managera professor of literaturea carousel operator anda calligrapher. He listed roughly 1,000 more "personas" on his website.
Joseph Boskin, scholar of humor and April Fools’ prankster, dies at 95

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Michael Rosenwald

In March 1983, a public relations official at Boston University asked Joseph Boskin, a scholar of humor in the history department, whether he knew anything about the origin of April Fools’ Day. Answering facetiously -- but apparently not facetiously enough, Dr. Boskin later recalled -- he replied that he had been researching the subject for many years. The university, to his surprise, issued a news release touting him as an authority on the subject.
Joseph Boskin, Scholar of Humor and April Fool's Prankster, Dies at 95

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Rosenwald

To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday's origin. He didn't realize it would turn out to be his "Andy Warhol moment." In March of 1983, a public relations official at Boston University asked Joseph Boskin, a scholar of humor in the history department, whether he knew anything about the origin of April Fools' Day.
King K. Holmes, a Pioneer in STD Research, Dies at 87

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Rosenwald

He took a down-to-earth approach to sexually transmitted infections, a subject no one wanted to discuss, arriving at novel methods of treatment and prevention. King K. Holmes, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Washington who almost single-handedly legitimized the study of sexually transmitted infections, turning a neglected, stigmatized subject into a major field of medical research, died on March 9 at his home in Seattle. He was 87.
Joe DePugh, speedball pitcher in Bruce Springsteen's 'Glory Days,' dies at 75

1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Michael Rosenwald

Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired the rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in Freehold, N.J., where time passed by “in the wink of a young girl’s eye,” died March 28 in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 75. The cause of death, in a hospice facility, was metastatic prostate cancer, his brother Paul DePugh said.