Harry Lorayne, a master of memory and a frequent guest on late-night television talk shows, where he showed off his powers of retention, died Friday. He was 96. Lorayne died at a hospital in ...

Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. His prodigious memory grew out of childhood deprivation. And landed him on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ By Jon Mooallem ...