DIED
Harrison Dillard, oldest
living American Olympic
champion, on Nov. 15,
at 96. Dillard won four
gold medals, in 1948
and 1952, and is the
only man to have won
gold for both sprinting
and hurdles.
> Kimberly Gervais,
who was shot at the
2017 massacre at a
Las Vegas country-
music festival, on
Nov. 15, at 57. It was
the deadliest shooting
in modern U.S. history.
REPORTED
That deforestation
of Brazil’s Amazon
rainforest is occurring
at the fastest rate
since 2008, according
to the country’s space
agency.
APPROVED
A new North Carolina
redistricting map, by
state legislators, on
Nov. 15. Democrats are
positioned to flip two
Republican-controlled
U.S. House seats
under the new plan.
UNVEILED
The newest Ford
Mustang, an all-electric
SUV, on Nov. 17. Ford
says the vehicle can
accelerate from zero to
60 m.p.h. in less than
four seconds.
VISITED
Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center,
by President Trump,
on Nov. 16, for what
his doctor described as
an “interim checkup.”
The stop was not
listed on his schedule.
DETECTED
Water vapor, on Europa,
one of Jupiter’s moons.
The findings, published
on Nov. 18, have fueled
speculation on whether
the moon might
support life.
URGED
A complete ban on all
e-cigarettes and other
vaping devices, by
the American Medical
Association, on Nov. 19.
The organization cited
increasing use among
teenagers.
O’Neill, who was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) just months before his death, with actor Charlotte Rampling in 1988
DIED
Terry O’Neill
Lens on the stars
By Harry Benson
Milestones
APOLOGIZED
Michael
Bloomberg
For stop
and frisk
aS new York ciTY
mayor, Michael
Bloomberg defended
stop and frisk to the
end. When a judge
ruled in 2013 that the
NYPD’s practice of
patting down anyone
deemed “suspicious” was
“indirect racial profiling,”
Bloomberg responded,
“We go to where the
reports of crime are.
Those, unfortunately,
happen to be poor
neighborhoods and
minority neighborhoods.”
Police made almost
5 million such stops—
82% of which involved
black or Latinx people—
from 2003 to 2013, per
the New York Civil Lib-
erties Union. Six years
later, as he mulls a presi-
dential bid as a Democrat,
Bloomberg has apolo-
gized. At a black church
in Brooklyn on Nov. 17,
he acknowledged, “Far
too many innocent people
were being stopped.”
For some advocates,
however, it was too little,
too late. “Communities
under siege for years.. .”
tweeted Sherrilyn Ifill,
president of the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund. “But
now—as he prepares to
run for President—he’s
sorry.” —Tara law
his then wife Faye Dunaway brought their
new baby Liam over to our apartment in
a wicker basket to meet my wife Gigi and
me, and our doorman was delighted to see a
movie star.
I never saw Terry on a news story, but
I would always see him at the opening
of a new film or at a press call with an
upcoming new actress. The actor Michael
Caine once said to me, “Terry really
loves show business.” To me, Terry was
show business— and he has some great
photographs to prove it.
Benson, CBE, is a photographer
i remember TerrY o’neill aS a naTTY
dresser with a cockney accent, which was
all the rage in the late 1950s, when Terry
replaced me as a photographer at the
London Daily Sketch and I moved to the
London Daily Express.
That was one of his first jobs, and
Terry, who died at 81 on Nov. 16, went on
to create enduring images of icons from
Frank Sinatra to Brigitte Bardot. His own
life was glamorous too. Once Terry and
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