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Ralph Young, Sandler & Young Singer, Is Dead at 90

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:00am GMT by By FRANK PRIAL

Mr. Young was a singer best known as the English-language half of the popular multilingual duo Sandler & Young.

Jerry Ford, 83, Man Behind the Models, Dies

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:59am GMT by By ERIC WILSON

Mr. Ford, with his wife, Eileen, established one of the most recognizable modeling agencies in the world.

Tad Mosel, TV Dramatist, Dies at 86

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Mosel’s dramatic scripts for live television were regularly featured in prime-time programming in the 1950s, and his play “All the Way Home” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1961.

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Fred Crane, Scarlett’s Suitor in the Film ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 90

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:34am GMT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mr. Crane was one of Scarlett O’Hara’s twin beaus and spoke the opening line in “Gone With the Wind.”

Laurence Urdang, Language Expert Who Edited Dictionaries, Dies at 81

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Urdang was a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books.

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Arts, Briefly: A New Judge Joins ‘Idol’ Panel

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

“American Idol” is adding a fourth judge: Kara DioGuardi, a songwriter and producer.

Where Tradition Has Ruled, a Home for Contemporary Art

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:17am GMT by By SOMINI SENGUPTA

The art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum.