Julia MacRae, who has died aged 88, elevated the status of children’s books both commercially and culturally during a 35-year career in the publishing industry; among her greatest triumphs was Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman (1978), which has since been adapted for television and become a perennial Christmas classic.
Dr. Ronald William Maris, 87, of Columbia, passed away on August 21, 2023. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 14, 1936, he was the eldest son of the late George