Milestones

DIED

Charles Rosen, 85, pianist and scholar; he won the 1972 National Book Award for The Classical Style, an essential study of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

DIED

Saul Steinberg, 73, corporate raider who for more than three decades took over companies and got handsome greenmail payments from others to leave them alone.

AWARDED

The Heisman Trophy, to Texas A&M; quarterback Johnny Manziel; nicknamed Johnny Football, he broke the SEC single-season total-yards record with 4,600 and became the first freshman to win the Heisman in its 77 years.

DIED

Sir Patrick Moore, 89, monocled British astronomer and presenter on the BBC's The...

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