Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://ctreadereast.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://ctreadereast.com/files.php?file=rss_logo_884692374.jpg http://ctreadereast.com/ http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/albert_m_sack_antiques_dealer.html Obituaries Tue, 31 May 2011 13:52:28 -0600 Mr. Sack’s guidebook to early American furniture became the bible for a generation of weekend antiquers and professional collectors. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/andy_robustelli_giants_hall_of.html Obituaries Tue, 31 May 2011 07:55:03 -0600 Robustelli was an All-Pro six times and the N.F.L.’s most outstanding player in 1962, and the Giants defense in his prime evoked a celebrity aura. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/abdias_do_nascimento_rights_voice.html Obituaries Mon, 30 May 2011 16:07:46 -0600 The Brazilian writer, painter, politician and scholar who was an outspoken civil rights leader on behalf of black Brazilians has died in Rio de Janeiro. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/bill_clements_dies_at_94.html Obituaries Mon, 30 May 2011 16:10:04 -0600 Mr. Clements founded an international drilling company before going into politics and breaking the Democrats’ stranglehold on the Texas governor’s office in 1978. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/sergei_bagapsh_abkhazia_s_leader.html Obituaries Sun, 29 May 2011 16:48:02 -0600 Mr. Bagapsh was a skillful politician who steered Abkhazia through its break with the republic of Georgia while also maintaining its independence from neighboring Russia. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/paul_j_wiedorfer_hero_of.html Obituaries Sun, 29 May 2011 17:23:40 -0600 Mr. Wiedorfer, of Baltimore, took out two German machine-gun nests during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/dana_brand_blogged_of_mets.html Obituaries Sat, 28 May 2011 17:40:16 -0600 Brand, a scholar of American literature who was chairman of the English department at Hofstra University, wrote of fans’ “delight and despair.” http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/gil_scott-heron_voice_of_black.html Obituaries Sat, 28 May 2011 17:45:24 -0600 Though often called the “godfather of rap,” Mr. Scott-Heron preferred to call himself a “bluesologist,” drawing on blues, jazz and Harlem Renaissance poetics. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/nicholas_v_riasanovsky_dies_at.html Obituaries Sat, 28 May 2011 17:48:04 -0600 Mr. Riasanovsky, a Russian émigré who came to the United States at 14, became one of the country’s leading scholars of Russian history. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/tom_west_dies_at_71.html Obituaries Fri, 27 May 2011 14:50:01 -0600 Mr. West was the leader of the engineering team portrayed in Tracy Kidder’s book, “The Soul of a New Machine.” http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/margo_dydek_towering_women_s.html Obituaries Fri, 27 May 2011 14:50:05 -0600 The 7-foot-2 former star, who led the league in blocks nine times, was the No. 1 draft pick in 1998 and the tallest player in http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/jeff_conaway_actor_in_taxi.html Obituaries Fri, 27 May 2011 17:58:23 -0600 Mr. Conaway, who earned praise as Kenickie, John Travolta’s bad-boy sidekick in the film version of “Grease,” was known to have an addiction to alcohol http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/steve_rutt_an_inventor_behind.html Obituaries Sat, 28 May 2011 03:30:09 -0600 Mr. Rutt’s video animation system helped propel the video-art revolution of the 1970s. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/gil_scott-heron_spoken-word_musician_dies.html Obituaries Sat, 28 May 2011 03:57:05 -0600 Mr. Scott-Heron was the author of the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” which helped pioneer sounds that would fuse to become rap. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/leonora_carrington_is_dead_at.html Obituaries Thu, 26 May 2011 14:30:06 -0600 Ms. Carrington was a British-born Surrealist and onetime romantic partner of Max Ernst whose paintings depicted women and half-human beasts floating in a dreamscape of http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/john_delaney_founder_of_intrade.html Obituaries Thu, 26 May 2011 14:33:02 -0600 Mr. Delaney was an Irish businessman who founded Intrade, an online exchange that allows customers to bet on world political, entertainment and financial events. http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/arthur_goldreich_a_leader_of.html Obituaries Thu, 26 May 2011 17:20:35 -0600 Mr. Goldreich wrote a detailed plan for the overthrow of the South African state and once posed as the operator of a farm where Nelson http://ctreadereast.com/connecticut_obituaries/paul_splittorff_royals_biggest_winner.html Obituaries Wed, 25 May 2011 11:54:05 -0600 Splittorff was a Royals lifer who not only spent his entire 15-year pitching career in Kansas City but who also became a color commentator and CTReaderEast.com Local News, Read all about it!