DIED While living a hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll lifestyle, John Martyn, 60, the British folk singer--songwriter, influenced artists such as Eric Clapton, U2 and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.
He called himself the "Jackie Robinson of journalism." Robert Churchwell Sr., 91, became the first African American at a major Southern newspaper after joining the Nashville Banner in 1950.
Friends called her the "cowgirl of the typewriter." She started in 1941 on a simple script rewrite, and over a 10-year career during the 1940s and '50s, Frances Kavanaugh, 93, wrote nearly 30 screenplays for westerns, a genre dominated by men on both sides of the...
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