Obituaries
Larry Finch, a former Memphis State basketball star and coach, dies at 60
April 3, 2011
Sports
Bill Finch, 89, a designer of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, died Monday of a cerebral hemorrhage at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.
Aug. 2, 2003
PASSINGS: Larry Finch
California
“Barnacle” Bill Finch of Huntington Beach is about as close as you’re going to get to a waterfront character in the county.
May 25, 1986
World & Nation
Researchers have discovered a new species of finch whose pristine habitat in eastern Venezuela is threatened by a hydroelectric dam project.
Oct. 25, 2003
Mary Finch Hoyt, press secretary to Rosalynn Carter, dies at 89; Antonia Bird, British film director, dies at 54; Francisco Mayoral, protector of Mexico whales, dies at 72; Bill Mazer, longtime N.Y. sportscaster, dies at 92.
Oct. 26, 2013
Television
Darwinians have gotten into the habit of taking it from all sides--from Christian fundamentalists who dismiss Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory out of hand, to the new wave of cyber-techies and their fuzzy “post-Darwinian” notions.
Oct. 18, 1995
PASSINGS: Mary Finch Hoyt, Antonia Bird, Francisco Mayoral, Bill Mazer
Beach: Upon learning his creations were destroyed, homeless man concedes the tall ones might have been risky. He says he will rebuild, but not ‘so high.’
Jan. 7, 2000
Science & Medicine
A genome study of the famed Darwin finch species on the Galapagos and Cocos islands has unveiled a gene behind the 15 species’ remarkable variation of beaks, a feature that helped inspire the father of evolutionary theory.
Feb. 11, 2015