PUNE, India (AP) – Mulk Raj Anand, one of India’s best-known writers of English-language novels and short stories, died Tuesday. He was 99.

Anand died of pneumonia in a western India hospital, said his nephew, Baldev Raj Anand.

He shot to fame in the 1930s with his novels “Coolie” and “Untouchable,” which portrayed the struggles of a child laborer and a lower-caste sweeper.

E.R. Haggar Sr., clothier, dies at 88

DALLAS (AP) – E.R. Haggar Sr., the clothier who launched the family business to national prominence, died Tuesday. He was 88.

Haggar suffered from pancreatic cancer.

He was president of Haggar Clothing Co. from 1948 until 1971 and chairman of the board from 1971 to 1991.

Haggar began working for the company during the summer when he was 14. By the time he graduated from Notre Dame in 1938, he had been involved in every phase of the business.

After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Haggar returned to the company and helped begin development of a national brand and national distribution.

He launched an advertising campaign that took the Haggar name to television in the 1950s. During the same decade, he introduced finished bottom pants that eliminated the consumer’s wait for alterations.

In 2001, he wrote “Big Ed and the Haggar Family: Behind an Apparel Giant,” in which he describes building his father’s business with his brother, Joe, and sister, Rosemary Haggar Vaughn.

He served on the board of trustees for Notre Dame and as national director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

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Lewis A. Roney

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Lewis A. Roney, a member of Wyoming’s 1943 NCAA basketball championship team, died Tuesday. He was 82.

Roney died at Life Care Center of Cheyenne, his family said.

Roney, who grew up on a dairy farm, lettered in 1942 and was a member of the 1943 team that went 31-2 and beat Georgetown for the national title. Wyoming also defeated St. John’s, the NIT champ, in a charity game.

Roney’s collegiate career was interrupted by World War II. In July 1943 he entered the Navy and served in the Pacific until 1946.

He returned to UW to complete his degree and then began a long teaching career in Laramie. He taught math and industrial arts and coached football, basketball and track until his retirement in 1984.

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Walter Scheuer

NEW YORK (AP) – Walter Scheuer, a wealthy investor whose love of classical music led him to produce musical documentaries including the Oscar-winning “From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China” and support several New York cultural institutions, died Sept. 20. He was 82.

Scheuer was a trustee of Carnegie Hall where he worked closely with Stern.

In 1979, he backed Murray Lerner’s film documenting Stern’s tour of China, which won an Oscar in 1980 for best documentary.

Scheuer also produced the 1988 film “High Fidelity: The Guarneri String Quartet,” “November’s Children: Revolution in Prague” in 1991 and was the executive producer of “The Turandot Project” in 2000. The latter documented a production of Puccini’s opera in Beijing, where it was set.

He was a trustee of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and financed its first tour of China in 1996. He also was an early financial supporter of Symphony Space, a cultural institution on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and backed music programs for city schoolchildren as well as aspiring documentary makers and foreign students coming to study in New York.

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Justin Strzelczyk

HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) – Justin Strzelczyk, a former player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, died Thursday in a fiery head-on collision with a tanker truck after he led state troopers on a 40-mile highway chase during morning rush hour. He was 36.

Strzelczyk was an offensive lineman with the Steelers for nearly a decade until the team released him in February 2000.

State police said Strzelczyk crashed his pickup truck into the westbound empty tanker just moments after swerving around a tractor-trailer that pulled across the highway to block the eastbound lanes. Strzelczyk drove 15 miles on three tires and a rim after one of his pickup’s tires was punctured by metal spikes thrown into the road by troopers.

Strzelczyk had been involved in a minor accident about an hour earlier just west of Syracuse that started the bizarre sequence of events, Simpson said.

Police identified the driver of the tanker as Harold Jackson, 60, from Bowman, S.C. He was treated at a hospital for minor injuries and released. No one else was hurt.

The 6-foot-3, 309-pound Strzelczyk spent nine years with the Steelers and played in the 1995 Super Bowl.

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Heinz Wallberg

BERLIN (AP) – Heinz Wallberg, the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra conductor whose concerts were featured on more than 100 records, died Wednesday. He was 81.

Wallberg died in Essen, orchestra spokesman Thomas Oberholz said. He did not have further details, but said that Wallberg conducted his last concert May 10.

Wallberg turned early to conducting, making his earliest appearances with several local and regional orchestras including Muenster, Trier and Hagen.

In 1954, he became music director in Augsburg, a position he went on to hold in Bremen, Wiesbaden, Essen, Munich and Vienna.

He was particularly well known in Austria, where he made some 450 appearances at the Vienna State Opera, and also conducted more than 400 concerts at Vienna’s Musikverein.

In addition to more than 100 records, his performances have been the subject of some 100 television productions.

He was awarded the Great Cross of Merit for his contribution to the arts in Germany, while Austria presented him with the Cross of Honor for Art and Science, first class.

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Shimon Wincelberg

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Shimon Wincelberg, a television writer and Broadway playwright, died Wednesday. He was 80.

Wincelberg died at a nursing home after a long illness, said publicist Fred Stuart.

Wincelberg wrote nearly 100 scripts for television series, including “Naked City,” “Mannix,” “Police Woman,” “Star Trek,” “Gunsmoke,” “Have Gun – Will Travel,” “Lost in Space” and “Law & Order.”

He also wrote the 1959 Broadway play “Kataki,” which was inspired by his World War II service in the Army’s 27th Division, Combat Intelligence. His 1962 play “Windows of Heaven” made its world premiere at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater.

Wincelberg, born in Kiel, Germany, started his career as a short story writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar and Punch.

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