Henry Ehrmann, 86, a former judge and teacher whose escape from France was featured in the public TV program "The Exiles," died Saturday in La Jolla, Calif. Born in Germany, he had been a judge in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933. He was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned. He escaped to the Czech border, where he skied over the Sudeten Mountains to freedom. He worked as a journalist and scholar in France until it fell to the Germans in 1940. His subsequent escape to Spain through the Pyrenees was featured in "The Exiles."
Marjorie Stewart Joyner, 98, a beautician who fought for racial and gender equality during years of rapid growth in Chicago's black community, died Tuesday. Her life was featured in a 1987 Smithsonian Institution exhibit on the exodus of Southern blacks to the Northeast before World War II. During the 1944 Presidential campaign, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to a national campaign committee, and she traveled and appeared with the president and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Nathan I. Daniel, 82, an inventor, designer and maker of musical instrument amplifiers and electric guitars, died of a heart attack Saturday. After World War II, he formed Danelectro, an amplifier business in Red Bank, N.J. The company, which began making electric guitars in 1954, was sold to MCA in 1966 and closed several years later.
Eugene Martin,49, chairman of the Wisconsin Investment Board and money manager for a Milwaukee investment firm, died Wednesday. He was appointed to the Investment Board in 1987, where he was responsible for handling $35 billion in public employee pension funds and other government trust funds. He was also executive vice president, a director and shareholder in National Investment Services of America.
Walter McQuade, 72, an architesture critic who served on New York City's planning commission, died Monday of pneumonia. He led the move to rezone the Plaza Hotel as residential, thus saving it from demolition to make room for an office building. He joined the staff of The Architectural Forum in 1947 and Fortune magazine in 1964. He was the architecture and design critic for The Nation from 1959 to 1965 and for Life magazine from 1970 to 1974, and wrote a number of books.
Roy J. Mumpton, 91, a sportswriter and editor for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester (Mass.) for 47 years, died Tuesday.
Cardinal Pietro Pavan, 91, a close aide to Pope John XXIII and a key figure in the Second Vatican Council that liberalized the Roman Catholic Church, died Monday in Rome. He was named a cardinal in 1985 by Pope John Paul II.