The American anthropologist Leslie A. White (1900-1975) was known for his fieldwork among the Keresan-speaking Indians, his "culturological" theory of human behavior, and his energy theory of cultural evolution. Leslie White was born at Salida,...

PEACE, WILLIAM, J. Leslie A. White: evolution and revolution in anthropology. xviii, 282 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Lincoln: Univ. Nebraska Press, 2004. [pounds sterling]41.95 (cloth) Leslie White was a pivotal figure in mid-twentieth-century anthropology. Entering the field at a time when the...

C. Earl Leslie, 91, who as assistant chief of the White House social office was responsible for engrossing, or hand-lettering, everything from place cards for state dinners to historic documents needed by the president, died of cancer May 6 at Washington House in Alexandria....

Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who recently turned his incisive wit toward a budding career as a novelist, died Tuesday in an auto accident in Mississippi. He was 57.Marlette, who split his time between Hillsborough and Tulsa, Okla., and was visiting Mississippi to help...