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What’s in a Name?
I don’t see a lot of new babies being named Robert these days. I used to have such a popular name. What happened?
The Social Security Administration is out with the list of the most popular baby names for 2020, and it’s pretty much the same list it was last time. The top male name is Liam and the top female name is Olivia. Other names in the top ten include Noah, Oliver, James, Emma, Ava, and Mia.
At that link you can see how the most popular names have changed over the years and even check lists by decade and by state. It’s interesting to see how names that were popular in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s — names like David and Steven and Mary and Patricia — barely register in an era of Elijahs and Harpers. William and Elizabeth are still pretty popular though.
Corrections: May 13, 2021
May 12, 2021
FRONT PAGE
An article on Monday about the use of psychedelic drugs in psychiatric treatment misstated where Field Trip Health, a two-year-old Canadian company, is traded. It is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange and the OTC Markets Group, not the New York Stock Exchange.
STYLES
An article last Thursday about knitwear designers misspelled the surname of one designer. She is Hope Macaulay, not Macauley. The error was repeated in two picture captions.
OBITUARIES
An obituary on Friday about the journalist Lucinda Franks erroneously credited her with a distinction. She was one of the first female reporters in United Press International’s London bureau, but not the first; at least one other woman, China Altman, was a reporter there before her. It also referred incorrectly to the Ohrdruf concentration camp, where Ms. Franks’s father, an American secret agent during World War II, was once flown. It was the first camp liberated by United States troops — not the first liberated by the Allies. (Soviet troops had earlier liberated another camp, Majdanek.)
Paul Van Doren, co-founder of Vans shoe brand, dies at age 90
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May 8 (UPI) -- Paul Van Doren, who co-founded the Vans shoe brand especially known for its popularity with skateboarders, has died at age 90, parent company announced.
"It's with a heavy heart that Vans announces the passing of our co-founder, Paul Van Doren," Vans said Friday in a Twitter post. "Paul was not just an entrepreneur; he was an innovator. We send our love and strength to the Van Doren family and the countless Vans Family members who have brought Paul's legacy to life."
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The company did not state the cause of his death.
Lucinda Franks, Pulitzer-winning journalist and author, dies at 74 Harrison Smith When Lucinda Franks started her journalism career in 1968, she was known simply as a “coffee girl,” charged with ensuring that the reporters in United Press International’s London newsroom — nearly all of them men — were adequately caffeinated. Impressing editors with stories she wrote on her own time, she was assigned to cover beauty contests and dog shows. But Ms. Franks had far greater ambitions. An American expatriate and self-described hippie, she went to Belfast one weekend to march for civil rights on behalf of Northern Ireland’s Catholic minority, then found herself in the middle of a major story after the marchers were attacked by club-wielding Protestants near the Irish border.
Former UPI reporter, Pulitzer winner Lucinda Franks dies at 74
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Lucinda Franks, a former UPI reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971, died Wednesday at the age of 74. File Photo courtesy of Lucinda Franks
May 6 (UPI) -- Former United Press International journalist Lucinda Franks, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, has died in New York, her family announced Thursday. She was 74.
Her family told The New York Times that the cause of her death Wednesday was cancer. A resident of Manhattan, Franks spent her final months at her late husband's family home in Hopewell Junction, The Washington Post reported.
Lucinda Franks Dies at 74; Prize-Winning Journalist Broke Molds
She avoided covering beauty pageants by going to Northern Ireland on her own and was later the first woman to win a Pulitzer for national reporting.
Lucinda Franks in 1991. She wrote for leading magazines and produced two well-received memoirs, about her father’s secret past and her marriage to the Manhattan district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau.Credit...David Damroth
Published May 6, 2021Updated May 20, 2021
Lucinda Franks, a widely published writer and investigative journalist who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, died on Wednesday in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. She was 74.