AP News, June 16th, 2007
Samuel Isaac Weissman
ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Samuel Isaac Weissman, a professor and chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, has died. He was 94.
Weissman died Tuesday, said his wife, Jane Loevinger. She said a cause of death was not known.
Weissman's work with lasers and resonant energy transfer methods at the University of California at Berkeley was cut short when he became one of the first scientists to arrive in Los Alamos, N.M., to work on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
He was later intermittently active in groups working to prevent nuclear war.
Weissman earned a bachelor's degree in physical chemistry at the University of Chicago. He was a chemistry professor at Washington University in St. Louis from 1946 until his death, where he worked with other scientists to pioneer the use of electron spin resonance.
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Larry Whiteside
BOSTON (AP) _ Larry Whiteside, a baseball writer in Boston, Kansas City and Milwaukee, a pioneer for blacks in journalism and a mentor for reporters, has died. He was 69.
Whiteside had worked for The Boston Globe from 1973 until he was sidelined by Parkinson's disease in the past decade. He died Friday, the paper reported on its Web site.
Whiteside, known to friends as "Sides," was a member of the expert panel that selected baseball's all-century team.
He was the three-time chairman of the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, which awarded him its Dave O'Hara Award for long and meritorious service and nominated him this year for the Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
Whiteside covered the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 and 1986 World Series and memorably left in the middle of Roger Clemens' record-setting 20-strikeout game in 1986 to cover a Celtics playoff game.
Whiteside began his career with the Kansas City Kansan in 1959 and worked at The Milwaukee Journal from 1963-1973, where he covered the Braves of Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn.
He was also recruited to cover the civil rights movement.
In 1971, Whiteside created "The Black List" to aid sports editors in helping hire qualified black journalists. There were only nine names on the list when he started, but grew to more than 90 by 1983.
When he was hired by the Globe in 1973, Whiteside was the only black reporter in America covering major league baseball on a daily basis for a major newspaper. An expert on the Negro Leagues, he also was among the first to pay close attention to baseball in Japan and Australia.
Whiteside was honored in 1999 by the National Association of Black Journalists for his work in advancing the careers of black sports writers. He was the recipient in 1987 of the Stanford University John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship, where he studied international affairs and labor law.
