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Philip J. Hilts, 74, Dies; Reporter Uncovered a Massive-Tobacco Cowl-up

Philip J. Hilts, who as a science reporter for The New York Occasions in 1994 uncovered a tobacco firm’s decades-long cover-up of its personal analysis exhibiting that tobacco was dangerous and nicotine was addictive, died on April 23 in Lebanon, N.H. He was 74. The trigger was issues of liver illness, his son Ben mentioned.

Philip Margo of the Tokens, Who Sang of a Snoozing Lion, Dies at 79

Philip Margo, a member of the close-harmony group the Tokens, which earned enduring pop-music fame with the No. 1 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in 1961, died on Saturday in a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 79. The trigger was a stroke, his household mentioned. Mr. Margo had a diverse profession, performing with the