Robert W. Greene, 78, who led reporters from across the country in an effort to uncover corruption in Arizona and who twice helped Newsday win the Pulitzer Prize for public service, died Thursday.
Greene, who spent 37 years as a reporter and editor at Newsday, had been ill for some time and died in a Smithtown, N.Y., hospital of complications including congestive heart failure, the newspaper reported.
He won his first Pulitzer in 1970, for exposing land scandals in a Long Island town. Four years later, he helped a team of reporters win for a series that traced heroin from growing fields in Turkey to the streets of Long Island.
In 1976, Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was killed by a car bomb as he worked to expose organized crime. Greene, who had helped found the Investigative Reporters and Editors group, led a team of volunteers from the organization in a five-month project to complete the slain reporter’s work.
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Marvin Sylvor, 74, whose merry- go-rounds of giraffes, rabbits, cats and horses spanned the globe from New York’s Bryant Park to Saudi Arabia, died Wednesday in Miami of kidney failure, Dan Pisark, a vice president at Bryant Park Corp., said Friday.
Pisark called Sylvor a carousel historian and storyteller who helped revive merry-go-round building in New York City.
Bryant Park, a patch of lush green behind the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan, commissioned Sylvor to design a carousel in 1997. It opened in 2002 with 14 one-of-a-kind pieces: 10 horses, a frog, a deer, a cat and a rabbit, all adorned with flowers, ribbons and garlands in a kaleidoscope of color.
The original cat design for the Bryant carousel called for the feline to have a bird in its mouth “but Marvin thought it was too frightening for children” and left it out, Pisark said. The Associated Press
