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Obituaries
By Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK — Dana Fra-
don, whose sophisticated and
occasionally absurd lampoons
of businessmen, politicians,
and lawyers helped define The
New Yorker’s postwar comic
voice, died on Oct. 3 at his
home in Woodstock, N.Y. He
was 97.
His daughter, Amy Fradon,
said the cause was liver cancer.
In a simple, unadorned
hand, Mr. Fradon drew nearly
1,400 cartoons in his five de-
cades at The New Yorker — a
run that began under the maga-
zine’s founding editor, Harold
Ross, and ended under the cur-
rent editor, David Remnick.
“I don’t think there was ever
a cartoonist who was as consis-
tently good as he was,” Bob
Mankoff, a former cartoon edi-
tor of The New Yorker and pres-
ident of the licensing database
Cartoon Collections, said by
phone. “There was a great clari-
ty to his style.”
Like many New Yorker car-
toonists, Mr. Fradon cast a wide
and whimsical net on American
society. Some of his most mem-
orable work focused on mock-
ingthepomposityanddubious
ethics of powerful men.
A 1977 cartoon shows four
executives huddled around a
desk. One pushes an intercom
button and says, “Miss Dugan,
will you send someone in here
who can distinguish right from
wrong?”
A year later, another group
of businessmen was confrontedwith a similar ethical quandary.
“ ‘Honesty is the best policy.’
OK!” the boss says. “Now what’s
thesecondbest policy?”
A file cabinet was the subject
of a cartoon in 1977 that today
seems prescient. There is no
caption, only drawer labels:
“Our Facts,” “Their Facts,” “Bare
Facts,” “Neutral Facts,” “Disput-
able Facts,” “Absolute Facts,”
and “Unsubstantiated Facts.”
In the preface to “Insincerely
Yours” (1978), a collection of
his cartoons, Mr. Fradon pon-
dered why he delved into
“bribes, kickbacks and political
hacks” for his inspiration while
other cartoonists drew cats,
dogs, and married couples.
While promoting the book, he
told The Hartford Courant that
the answer came from an editor
at The New Yorker.
“Let’s face it,” he quoted the
editor as saying, “you’re not
motivated by any love for the
oppressed. You’re motivated by
hatred of the oppressor.”
Arthur Dana Fradon was
born on April 14, 1922, in Chi-
cago. His father, Norman, and
his mother, Minnie, were Rus-
sian immigrants who struggled
with odd jobs during the De-
pression but found some finan-
cial relief from New Deal social
programs.
Mr. Fradon was interested in
politics and astronomy as a
youth, but he also showed tal-
ent as an artist and ended up at
the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. After serving in the
Army, he graduated from the
Art Students League in NewYork.
He drew some political car-
toons for The New Masses, a
Marxist political magazine, and
learned about The New Yorker
from Albert Hubbell, a writer
for the magazine who was mar-
ried to one of Mr. Fradon’s sis-
ters, Marion.
His first cartoon was pub-
lished in 1948, and for most of
the next 55 years he drew al-
mostallhiscartoonsforThe
New Yorker. He declined to con-
tribute for a few years in the
1990s because he reportedly
disliked some of the changes
that Tina Brown made to the
magazine when she became its
editor in 1992. He returned af-
ter Remnick took over in 1998.
Mr. Fradon lived at his
daughter’s house with his for-
mer wife, Ramona (Dom) Fra-
don, a renowned illustrator
who drew the Aquaman comic
book in the 1950s and the com-
ic strip “Brenda Starr” in the
1980s and ’90s.By Sam Roberts
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK — Beverly Sack-
ler,aphilanthropistandmatri-
arch of the family that owns
Purdue Pharma, whose pain-
killer OxyContin has been
blamed for the opioid epidemic,
died on Monday. She was 95.
Her death was disclosed in a
legal filing by Purdue Pharma’s
lawyers in US Bankruptcy
Court, where last month state
and local jurisdictions and oth-
er plaintiffs reached a settle-
ment that would require the
family to relinquish the compa-
ny and pay at least $3 billion in
claims. Purdue Pharma filed for
bankruptcy; suits from 25
states are pending.
Last week a judge in bank-
ruptcy court in White Plains,
N.Y., citing the mounting legal
costs, ordered a pause in those
states’ action and urged the
parties to work toward a com-
promise.
Mrs. Sackler had been a
board member of Purdue Phar-
ma since 1993.
The court filing did not say
where she died, give the cause
of death, or list her survivors.
She lived in Greenwich, Conn.
Mrs. Sackler’s husband, Ray-
mond, was the youngest and
last surviving of three brothers,
all psychiatrists, who in 1952
bought what became Purdue
Pharma. Raymond Sackler died
in 2017 at 97. Arthur, the el-
dest, died in 1987, Mortimer in
2010.
Almost 2,700 lawsuits have
been filed against Purdue Phar-
ma asserting that in its market-
ing of OxyContin it failed to
warn doctors and patients
about the risks of addiction,
and hundreds of those suits
name members of the Sackler
family as culpable because they
were officers or board members
of the company, which is based
in Stamford, Conn.
Purdue Pharma’s profits fu-
eled a philanthropic dynasty,
whichendowedprofessorships
and cultural prizes around the
world and emblazoned the fam-
ily name on medical institutes
and museums. Forbes has esti-
mated the family’s worth at $
billion.
Mrs. Sackler’s son Richard S.
Sackler was the company’s
president from 1999 to 2003
and later co-chairman of the
board. Her other son, Jonathan
D. Sackler, was a vice president
and also a board member, as
was her grandson David. By
early this year, no family mem-
bers remained on the board.
Richard and Jonathan also
run the Raymond and Beverly
Sackler Foundation.
The Sacklers and the compa-
ny denied responsibility for the
opioid crisis. They averred that
even during the worst years of
the epidemic, from 2013 to
2016, Purdue Pharma manu-
factured about 4 percent of pre-
scription painkillers sold in the
nation and that its products
were federally approved.
Beverly Feldman was born
on May 13, 1924, in New York
City to Dave and Anna Feld-
man, Jewish immigrants from
Eastern Europe. Her father
managed a clothing factory. She
married Raymond Sackler in
1944.
The New Yorker described
“Dr. Raymond,” as he was
known, as “the least interesting
of the three brothers” (he mar-
ried once, each of his siblings
three times) and said Richard
Sackler had “worked tirelessly to
make OxyContin a blockbuster.”
The family’s philanthropy
built wings housing the Temple
of Dendur at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York
and Asian antiquities at the
Louvre in Paris, as well as a li-
brary at the University of Ox-
ford in England and a scientific
institute at Columbia Universi-
ty in New York.
The family has funded en-
dowed professorships at the
Raymond and Beverly Sackler
Institute for Biological, Physical
and Engineering Sciences at
Yale. A university spokeswom-
an said that Yale had decided
this year to stop accepting do-
nations from the Sacklers as a
result of the opioid controversy.By Matt Schudel
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Scotty
Bowers, who claimed to have
been one of Hollywood’s most
infamous hustlers and procur-
ers, arranging illicit liaisons
with straight and gay film stars,
often taking part in the sexual
high jinks himself, died Oct. 13
at his home in Los Angeles. He
was 96.
The death was confirmed by
filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, who
made a 2017 documentary
about Mr. Bowers, ‘‘Scotty and
the Secret History of Holly-
wood.’’ He did not specify a
cause.
From the time he arrived in
Hollywood in 1946, fresh out of
the Marine Corps, Mr. Bowers
became an active and, by his
own account, eager participant
in the film world’s under-
ground sex scene.
His first encounter, he said,
came when he was pumping
gas on Hollywood Boulevard,
and a well-dressed man drove
up in a Lincoln.
‘‘Can I help you, sir?’’ Mr.
Bowers recalled in his 2012
memoir, ‘‘Full Service: My Ad-
ventures in Hollywood and the
Secret Sex Lives of the Stars.’’
‘‘The man behind the wheel
smiled, looked me up and
down, and said, ‘Yes, I’m sure
you can.’ ”
The distinguished-looking
man paid for the gas, included a
$20 tip and asked Mr. Bowers
to climb into the front seat of
the Lincoln.
‘‘Name’s Walter,’’ he said,
shaking hands.
Mr. Bowers said he spent the
afternoon with Walter Pidgeon
and the Oscar-nominated ac-
tor’s male lover, both of whom
were married to women. Mr.
Bowers was soon launched on a
career as a prostitute and pur-
veyor of sexual favors.
His services were an open
secret in Hollywood, particular-
ly among closeted gay men and
lesbians, who were compelled
by social mores and harsh pub-
licity to keep their sexual lives
under wraps. Using the gas sta-
tion as a front for about five
years — and later working as a
handyman and bartender at
private parties — Mr. Bowers
coordinated countless trysts
but said he never collected
money for the arrangements.
‘‘I didn’t believe in being an
outright pimp,’’ he told CBS’
‘‘Sunday Morning’’ in 2012.
‘‘Sort of a pimp, but not an out-
right pimp. There’s a difference,
you know.’’
His knowledge of Hollywood
was far more intimate than
most people’s, yet he remaineddiscreetly in the shadows for
decades. When he finally told
his story in 2012, the revela-
tions were shocking to a Holly-
wood that seemed to have no
more secrets to tell. Skeptical
critics questioned the veracity
of his salacious accounts.
Mr. Bowers said his sexual
adventures, which began long
before Pidgeon picked him up
in the Lincoln, included en-
counters with ‘‘Eddy and Wal-
ly,’’ the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor: ‘‘Like her husband,
she definitely preferred homo-
sexual sex.’’
Although Mr. Bowers said he
‘‘preferred the sexual company
of women,’’ he was nothing if
not open-minded. He said he
took part in threesomes with
actresses Lana Turner and Ava
Gardner and, separately, with
actors Cary Grant and Ran-
dolph Scott. (“The three of us
got into a lot of sexual mischief
together,’’ he wrote.)
At various times, he said was
in bed with Vincent Price, Vivi-
en Leigh, Édith Piaf, Tyrone
Power, Tennessee Williams, No-
el Coward, and George Cukor.
He said Roy Scherer worked for
him at the gas station before he
became known as the movie
star Rock Hudson.
‘‘I was setting up an average
of 15-20 tricks a day,’’ Mr. Bow-
ers noted in his book, written
with Lionel Friedberg. ‘‘This
was a 24/7 operation, extend-
ing over a period of, say, 30 to
40 years. As for tricks that I per-
formed personally, I was often
seeing two or three people a
day.’’
One of his most startling but
unverifiable claims was of
meeting FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover at a party of men
dressed in drag. Mr. Bowers
said the long romance of actors
Katharine Hepburn and Spen-
cer Tracy was a sham dreamed
up by Hollywood mythmakers.He personally had sex with Tra-
cy, he said, and set up Hepburn
with at least 150 women over
several decades.
He also arranged for female
companions for male actors
Bob Hope, Desi Arnaz, and Wil-
liam Holden, among others. Ar-
naz’s wife, Lucille Ball, once
saw Mr. Bowers at a party and
punched him in the face.
Detractors charged Mr. Bow-
ers with exaggeration or out-
right fabrication, noting that
everyone named in his book
was safely in the grave.
‘‘I’ve kept silent all these
years because I didn’t want to
hurt any of these people,’’ he
told The New York Times in
2012.
Tyrnauer, a former Vanity
Fair journalist, said he was in-
troduced to Mr. Bowers by writ-
er Gore Vidal, who first met Mr.
Bowers at the Hollywood gas
station in 1948.
Whilemakingthe film,Tyr-
nauer said, he spent two years
checking sources and inter-
viewing men who had worked
with Mr. Bowers as gay prosti-
tutes.
‘‘I understand the skepti-
cism,’’ Tyrnauer said in an inter-
view. ‘‘I’m a journalist, and I ap-
proached the story journalisti-
cally. I found anecdotal
confirmation for almost every-
thing he said.’’
Descriptions of houses and
backyard swimming pools were
verified by photographs and
satellite imagery. Mr. Bowers
recalled, without prompting,
the nickname of one of Grant’s
male lovers. Columnist Liz
Smith confirmed that Hepburn
had an active lesbian love life.
Others who were participants
in one way or another told Tyr-
nauer and reporters that the
sexual underworld facilitated
by Mr. Bowers was, in fact, true.
George Albert Bowers was
born July 1, 1923, in Ottawa,
Ill., and grew up on a family
farm. During the Depression,
his parents divorced, and he
moved to Chicago with his
mother and two siblings.
In World War II, Mr. Bowers
was a Marine Corps paratroop-
er in the Pacific. He settled in
California after the war.
During his most active years
as a prostitute and as a procur-
er, he had a long relationship
with Betty Keller. (It is unclear
whether they were married.) In
his book, Mr. Bowers said their
daughter, Donna Bowers, died
in 1968 after undergoing a
botched abortion.
In 1984, Mr. Bowers mar-
ried singer Lois Broad, who
died in 2018. Survivors include
a sister.DanaFradon,cartoonist
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ANDREW HUBBELL VIA THE NYT
Mr. Fradon drew 1,
cartoons at The New Yorker.ScottyBowers,Hollywoodsexprocurer;
DAVID KUHN VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Bowers saw himself as a
“gentleman hustler.”BeverlySackler;
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and for more than two decades at
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brothers and sisters, Harry White, Ma-
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White. Funeral Mass on Monday, Oct.
21, 2019, at 3PM in the Chapel of Saint
John’s Preparatory School, 72 Spring
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ian Brothers Cemetery, Danvers. Visita-
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978-777-Of Braintree, formerly of Wayland and
Hyannis, died on October 14, 2019.
Beloved wife of the late Edward T.
Tobin, Jr, who died in 1993. Devoted
mother of Amy L. Bolster and her
husband Robert of Hollis, NH; Edward
T. Tobin, III and his wife Christina
of Milton and the late John A. Tobin
who died in 2016. Cherished grand-
mother of Teddy, James, Roddy and
Fiona Tobin. Sister-in-law of David and
Shirley Tobin of Northborough. Also
survived by many nieces and nephews.
Sister of the late Joyce George. Her fam-
ily will receive family and friends on
Monday, October 21, 2019 from 10:
until 11:30 am, prior to her Mass of
Christian Burial at Good Shepherd Par-
ish at St. Ann Church, 124 Cochituate
Road (Rte, 27), Wayland, Interment to
follow in North Cemetery, Wayland. In
lieu of flowers, her family kindly sug-
gests that gifts in her memory be sent
to Buddy Dog Humane Society, 151
Boston Post Rd., Sudbury, MA 01776.
Arrangements entrusted to the care of
the John C. Bryant Funeral Home of
WAYLAND. For condolences please visit
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TOBIN, Corinne F. (Shea)
Of Winthrop, Oct. 14, 2019. De-
voted husband of Elizabeth Prendable
Whelan (Pirroni). Loving father of
David J. Whelan, Jr. of South Carolina,
Jason Whelan and his wife Adrienne
of North Andover, Jamie Whelan of
Malden, Michelle Harkins and her
husband Patrick of Winthrop, Danielle
Prendable of South Carolina and Nicole
Smith and her husband James of Win-
throp. Dear brother of George Wedge of
Tewksbury and Doug Whelan of South
Carolina. Cherished grandfather of
Megan, Grace, Callie, PJ, JJ, Keegan and
Cameron.
Visiting Hours:Family and friends
are cordially invited to attend the
Visitation from the Ernest P. Caggiano
and Son Funeral Home, 147 Winthrop
St., WINTHROP on Friday, October 18,
2019 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM. A Funeral
Service will be held in the Funeral
Home on Saturday, October 19, 2019
at 1:00 PM. Committal will be private.
Memorial donations may be made to
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Caggiano-O’Maley-Frazier
WinthropOur beloved Nancy L. Vincola passed
away Sunday, October 13, 2019 at
age 75. Raised in Needham, MA, she
was the daughter of the late Basil and
Myrtle (Cooper) Roberts. Nancy and
her husband, L. David Vincola “Buzz”,
were devoted to each other in marriage
for 53 years. They raised their children,
Christian, Heather and Jeffrey in
Wellesley and Wenham, MA.
Nancy was an accomplished artist,
having attended the Museum of Fine
Arts School. She incorporated her
creative talents throughout her life
as a teacher, interior designer, and
an art and antiques collector. Nancy
was especially enriched in her life as
a pre-school teacher for over 30 years,
and by her five grandchildren, Sasha,
Sadie, Jake, Nicholas and Sammy.
Nancy’s special place was Paines Creek
Beach, Cape Cod, where she loved to
spend time with friends and family.
Adored by many, Nancy is remembered
as a compassionate, nurturing, socially
outgoing, radiant beauty, and a self-
proclaimed Chocoholic. We lay her to
rest knowing that she truly lived the
most fulfilling life she had dreamed.
In addition to her loving husband,
children and grandchildren, Nancy is
survived by her sister Connie Tomsick,
brother Richard Roberts, son-in-law
Michael Bornhorst, and daughter-in-
law Sonja Vincola.
A Service to Celebrate Nancy’s Life
will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday,
October 19, at the First Church in
Wenham, 1 Arbor Street, Wenham, MA.
Arrangements by the Campbell Funeral
Home, 525 Cabot Street, BEVERLY. The
family appreciates donations, in lieu of
flowers, to be made to the Alzheimer’s
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VINCOLA, Nancy L.
(Roberts)
Age 79, of Wilmington, formerly of
Charlestown, passed away surrounded
by her loving family on October 16,
- Carol was the beloved wife of
the late Francis E. Sullivan, devoted
mother of Sherry A. Dattilo & her hus-
band Tony of Stoneham and Alicia M.
Johnson of Wilmington, loving “Nan” of
Alicia Farina, Erika Johnson and Brent
Johnson, cherished daughter of the late
John and Alice (Shanahan) Ployer, dear
sister of the late Alice Driscoll.
Visiting Hours:Family and friends
will gather for a Funeral Service at the
Nichols Funeral Home, Inc., 187 Mid-
dlesex Ave., (Rte. 62), WILMINGTON
on Saturday, October, 19th at 10:
a.m. Interment to follow in Wildwood
Cemetery, Wilmington. Visiting Hours
will be held at the Funeral Home on
Friday, October 18th from 4:00 – 8:
p.m. Memorial donations in Carol’s
name may be made to the Alzheimer’s
Association, 309 Waverly Oaks Road,
Waltham, MA, 02452.
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