Hasta La Creative!

Decades before the term was used for a potentially catastrophic federal budget situation, Mr. Stern connected the two words in an article about property taxes.

Ms. Chase appeared on the New York stage, on television and in film under the name Irene Kane, before finding her voice in writing.

Mr. Mazer, who spent more than 60 years in broadcasting, earned the nickname “The Amazin’ ” for his encyclopedic recall of sports facts.

Mr. Richman is widely credited with helping to invent a multimillion-dollar industry built on licensing the rights to images of dead celebrities.

The first black woman to cover the White House for CBS News, Ms. Thornton also was a co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR, a news program producer for CNN and a teacher of journalism.

Mr. Bruckner, who was a longtime editor for The New York Times Book Review, landed on Nixon’s enemies list over his syndicated columns for The Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Worthington owned a string of car dealerships and ran dozens of outlandish commercials daily on California television for more than half a century.

Mr. Shear, the publisher of St. Martin’s Press, helped writers like Janet Evanovich and Augusten Burroughs climb the best-seller lists.

Ms. Burns helped to lead the movement for public access to cable television and started a New York University program to foster Internet wizards.

Mr. Lynde’s syndicated work was set in the town of Conniption, and featured, in addition to the title character, the gunslinger Hipshot Percussion, the banker Mort Gage and a boy named Quyat Burp.