Over the past year, the Jackson Southernaires, as they have for most of the last five decades, left home nearly every Thursday and spent the weekend on the road.
In the two decades left to her, shuttling between her children in Boston and her apartment in Moscow, she took it upon herself to continue the battle for human rights, liberal values, and democratic norms.
While his birthday may have marked him, as he likes to say, as "the oldest living decorator in captivity," Mr. Irvine said he had no plans to retire, although Thomas Fleming, his business partner of nearly five decades, left the firm last year.
The death of the "city symbol" who charmed generations of Sarajevans over six decades left the city "emptier," the mayor said back then.
She worked as a newsreader and announcer at Radio 4 for more than three decades, leaving the station earlier this year.
Before 1995, Chicago teachers went on strike nine times in two decades, leaving the system in perpetual disarray.Even the shimmering magnet academies draw criticism.
The Clinton machine has been operating nationally, with limited interruptions, for over three decades, leaving Mrs Clinton with unmatched heft within the party.
But the departure of Mr. Leach, who had been at Ford for more than two decades, leaves the European operation looking for a new boss at a troubled time.
Mr. McGregor has a delicious role in Fred, a buttoned-up, unhappily married bureaucrat whose cold, nasty wife of two decades leaves him for months at a time to conduct business in other places.
