Obituaries
Leroy Miller, a Los Angeles architect, dies at 78; Suzanne Grossmann, an actress, writer and translator, dies at 72
Aug. 25, 2010
Olympics
Evelyn Grossmann, who comes from Katarina Witt’s hometown, stamped herself as a successor to the East German star by coming from behind to win the women’s title at the European Figure Skating Championships today.
Feb. 1, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
PASSINGS: Leroy Miller, Suzanne Grossmann
Evelyn Grossmann of East Germany stamped herself as a likely successor to East German star Katarina Witt by rallying to win the women’s title at the European Figure Skating Championships in Leningrad.
Feb. 2, 1990
World & Nation
Authorities arrested the last chief of East Germany’s spy network on espionage charges Wednesday in Berlin, a federal prosecutor’s spokesman said.
Oct. 4, 1990
The German archeologist Peter Grossmann has spent 30 years trying to unravel the story of one of early Christianity’s great pilgrimage centers, Abu Mina, a city of miracles 1,400 years before France’s Lourdes.
June 12, 1994
CLASSICAL MUSIC Disharmony at Boys Choir: The Vienna Boys’ Choir, a revered Austrian musical institution for five centuries, is in turmoil following the abrupt resignation of artistic director Agnes Grossmann, the daughter of Ferdinand Grossmann, who led the choir for more than two decades.
Dec. 23, 1998
Simeon the Elder, legend has it, went to the mountaintop to be nearer his God.
Oct. 21, 1990
Egypt was an ancient, religious land under the stranglehold of Nero’s Rome when the first strains of Christianity came quietly and swiftly across the Sinai Desert from Judea.
Jan. 19, 1991
Bomb experts have defused a letter-bomb addressed to an Austrian firm that has business dealings with Iraq, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Friday.
March 7, 1987