Doug Banks Phila.-born radio host, 57

Doug Banks, 57, a Philadelphia native and nationally syndicated radio host, died Monday of complications from diabetes.

Mr. Banks cohosted the news feature show 190 North for 10 years on WLS-TV, an ABC affiliate in Chicago.

He was raised in Michigan and began his career at his Detroit high school radio station, when he was noticed and given a late-night weekend show by WDRQ-FM.

Mr. Banks later worked at radio stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. Several shows were syndicated.

He also worked at Chicago's rhythm-and-blues station WVAZ-FM in Chicago.

His business partner, DeDe McGuire, said Mr. Banks' wife informed the station's program director of his death.

Mr. Banks also is survived by his four children.

- AP 

William Hamilton, 76, a cartoonist whose work for the New Yorker magazine satirized the wealthy, has died in a car accident in Kentucky.

The car Mr. Hamilton was driving went through a stop sign and collided with a pickup truck Friday in Lexington, Police Lt. Matthew Greathouse said.

In his 51-year cartoon career, Mr. Hamilton often focused on money and depicted corporate executives or characters in suits and gowns in lavish dining settings or parties.

In a 1988 interview with the New York Times, Mr. Hamilton said his interest with people in high society came from "being near money, but far enough away that I couldn't quite get my fingers around it."

New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff said Monday that Mr. Hamilton was "witty in a cutting way. He was cutting into the people he knew so well. And he was making fun of their pretensions and pompousness."

The magazine paid tribute to Mr. Hamilton on Sunday with a display of his cartoons on its website.

Born in Palo Alto, Calif., in 1939, Mr. Hamilton graduated from Yale University.

After a stint in the Army, he had his work published in the New Yorker from 1965 until his death.

He also wrote four plays and three novels.

- AP

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