Jerry Adler | Harmonica virtuoso, 91

He said in a documentary: “I think that my entire motivation and execution and philosophy can be two words: ‘Hey, look.’”

She grew up in New York, lived in Swarthmore and Philadelphia for more than 50 years, and taught a variety of classes at Temple from 1974 to her retirement in 2011.

He earned the nickname Hit Machine for collecting a record 3,085 of them in a long career than stretched from the late 1950s to the early ’80s.

At Rutgers, she mentored hundreds of doctoral students regarding academic requirements and clinical procedures, and supervised a community mental health clinic.

Prolific writer and veteran teacher Bennett Fairorth was looking forward to a 100th birthday party with former students, his brother said.

He joined the district attorney’s office in 1960, worked as assistant district attorney in the major trials unit, and handled hundreds of cases involving murder, assault, robbery, and other crimes.

A fellowship in India after graduation challenged Steinem — and transformed her

His sultry baritone, coifed hair, and funky songs about romance — notably “Let’s Straighten It Out” — made him a musical fixture of the 1970s and ’80s

She served as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine for five years and helped organize one of the first protests of the Miss America pageant.

He played on at least 188 albums in a career spanning seven decades.

He championed what he called “the two cities, one waterfront strategy” and was especially adept, former colleagues said, at marshaling funds and projects in Philadelphia and Camden.

Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Ms. Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice.

With her trademark streaked hair parted down the middle and large aviator glasses, Ms. Steinem was a hugely recognizable presence wherever she went.

She joined Penn’s School of Nursing in 1980, took charge of its new primary care nursing unit, and became director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation primary care nurse practitioner program.

The Kentucky farmer wrote lyrical poems, novels and essays — mostly in pencil and without electric light — that explored his elegiac visions of the life and death of agrarian America.

He worked in military intelligence at the Pentagon, was stationed at presidential retreat Camp David in Maryland, and took part in the operation that captured military dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989.

He began his career at age 16 as an apprentice in the sheet-metal shop of American Export Airlines.

His 44 years of research and clinical work, from 1978 to 2022, advanced the understanding and management of diseases, and extended the life expectancy of Marfan syndrome patients by 30 years.

He represented his country in sailing in three Olympic Games and was praised for his support of diversity and tolerance.

Inperium Inc. has been allowed to continue operating the nonprofit that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities while it appeals the license revocation.

Opponents fear the new cloverleaf interchange would push a massive amount of traffic into residential neighborhoods and onto narrow streets.

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

The MAGA influencer zeroed in on Angie Nixon after she won Florida’s Democratic Senate primary and accused her of using Ebonics. Loomer also likened the former grassroots organizer to a dog.

John Cole on Pennsylvania voters wondering which political party, exactly, Sen. John Fetterman belongs to.

First win of the 2026-27 season is in the books.