EditorialJustice Torres, then an assemblyman, at a news conference in New York on Jan. 30, 1964. Torres, a former New York State Supreme Court justice who, as the son of a Family Court jurist and later the father of a federal judge, championed greater Hispanic representation in the legal profession and on the bench, died on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 in the Bronx. He was 93. His death, in a hospital from complications of pneumonia, was confirmed by his daughter Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court in Manhattan. (Neal Boenzi/The New York Times)
EditorialJustice Torres, then an assemblyman, at a news conference in New York on Jan. 30, 1964. Torres, a former New York State Supreme Court justice who, as the son of a Family Court jurist and later the father of a federal judge, championed greater Hispanic representation in the legal profession and on the bench, died on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 in the Bronx. He was 93. His death, in a hospital from complications of pneumonia, was confirmed by his daughter Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court in Manhattan. (Neal Boenzi/The New York Times)
EditorialTheodore Lambrinos as Tonio in an Aug. 25, 2006 performance of "Pagliacci" put on by the New York Grand Opera in the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park. Lambrinos died on March 29, 2021, in Brooklyn of pneumonia related to COVID-19, his wife Hallie Neill, a soprano, said. He was 85. He also sang with the Metropolitan Opera, a career achievement that he found hard to imagine as a Greek immigrants' son in Brooklyn who hung out at Coney Island, attended Dodgers games and sang in a Greek Orthodox choir. (Jennifer Taylor/The New York Times)
EditorialThen Secretary of Labor Bill Brock during a Congressional hearing in Washington in 1988. Brock, the former Tennessee senator who as party chairman revived and broadened the Republican Party machinery after Watergate to pave the way for Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, died on Thursday, March 25, 2021, at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 90. The cause was pneumonia, said Tom Griscom, a spokesman for the family. Brock voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a representative from Tennessee - a vote he later regretted - but as party leader he became an insistent voice for greater Republican efforts to win over Black voters. (Teresa Zabala/The New York Times)
EditorialMary Wilson-Snipes, who was hospitalized with pneumonia in both lungs when she got COVID-19 in November 2020, at her home in Junction City, Kan. via Zoom on Feb. 21, 2021.
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EditorialCami Neidigh, whose 90-year-old mother Geneva Wood was diagnosed with pneumonia at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, and would later test positive for the coronavirus, stands in a park in Kenmore, Wash., March 19, 2020. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)