Paul Good, a television and print journalist known for his coverage of the civil rights movement, died on Jan. 23 in Greenwich. He was 75 and lived in Westport, according to today’s New York Times.

The cause was a stroke, said his daughter, Regan.

Good was best known for his reporting from the South in the 1960’s, first for ABC News and later as a freelance newspaper and magazine writer, the newspaper said.

He wrote several books on race relations, including “The American Serfs: A Report on Poverty in the Rural South” (Putnam, 1968); “The Trouble I’ve Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement” (Howard University, 1975); and a novel set in the South, “Once to Every Man” (Putnam, 1970).

Iriwn Donenfeld: giant in comic industry. Westport Historical Society photo Irwin Donenfeld, one of the longest-serving members of Westport’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM) but better known outside of his hometown as a giant in the comic book industry, died Monday night at Norwalk Hospital. He was 78.

His wife, Carole, said he had been in ill-health for some time. Donenfeld was forced to retire from the RTM in 2003 after 22 years because of health problems. Only two others in the legislative body’s 55-year history had served the same period or longer.

“The town has lost a treasure,” said Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell. “He always had Westport’s interests at heart. He kept his sense of humor and on many occasions brought discussions back to the right perspective. He will be missed.”

Gordon Joseloff, Moderator of the RTM (and editor and publisher of WestportNow), said as longtime chair of the RTM’s Public Protection Committee, Donenfeld had left Westport a much safer place.

Westporter Irwin Donenfeld, who died Monday night at the age of 78, was best known to his neighbors as a longtime town legislator. But his notoriety outside of Westport was as a giant in the comic book industry. He was the son of Harry Donenfeld, founder of DC Comics, and later became editor and publisher there, overseeing Superman and other super heroes. Donenfeld often boasted that he was the first kid in the country to see a Superman comic. He is shown visiting a Westport Historical Society summer camp for youngsters in 2002. Private funeral services will be held Thursday with a town memorial service in January. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Westport Historical Society photo

Irwin Donenfeld, a 22-year veteran of Westport’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM) who retired from the legislative body in 2003, died Monday night at Norwalk Hospital. He was 78 and had been in ill health for some time. First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell called him “a true Westport treasure” and ordered town flags lowered in his honor. They are pictured together last January. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

The Westport-Weston United Way board of directors has scheduled a Westport memorial serice for the organization’s executive director, Bernice Corday, for Thursday, Nov. 18.

Corday died Oct. 15 in Danbury Hospital after a four-month struggle with cancer. She was 57.

The Westport service, to be held at 11 a.m. at Temple Israel, 14 Coleytown Road, follows one held in Danbury on Sunday at the United Jewish Center.

Corday had been executive director of the Westport-based charity for more than 20 years and was active in numerous other local civic organizations.

George Silk: at Westport Arts Center reception September 2003.  2004 WestportNow. com Westporter George Silk, a photojournalist who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of the strip camera for depicting athletes in motion, has died, three weeks short of his 88th birthday.

Silk died at Norwalk Hospital Saturday of congestive heart failure, family members said Monday. He had been in failing health for several years, his daughter Georgiana Silk said.

Silk, born in New Zealand on Nov. 17, 1916, joined the Life photo staff in 1943 and spent the next two years covering the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. He shot the first pictures of the atom-bombed city of Nagasaki and Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo.

He became an American citizen in 1947, the same year he married the former Margery Gray Schieber. They lived on Westport’s Owenoke Park, near Compo Beach, where he indulged a lifelong passion for competitive sailing.