Obituaries

Russian filmmaker Tatyana Lioznova, who helmed a Soviet-era TV series featuring a patriotic spy with James Bond-like characteristics, died Sep. 29 in Moscow at 87. Lioznova’s series, “Seventeen Moments of Spring,” featured Soviet spy Maxim Isayev – alias Stirlitz, “a deep cover agent providing vital intelligence against the Gestapo at the end of the Second […]

Helen Faith Keane Reichert, known as “Happy” since she was a child, a psychologist, radio and TV personality, as well as a university lecturer on fashion, died Sept. 25 in New York at 109. She and three siblings, all of whom lived to be more than 100, were studied in recent years by scientists and […]