Susan Reed, the cabaret singer whom Life magazine saluted in a l955 cover story as the leading lady of the folk music era, has died. She was 84.

The singer, who regularly performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, died Sunday of natural causes at her nursing home in Greenport, N.Y., publicist Dale Olson said.

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She is survived by her son, Reed Karen.

Rest In Peace, Susan.

Evelyn Cunningham, a pioneering journalist who covered the birth of the 1960s civil rights movement and later served as an aide to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, died Wednesday. She was 94.

She died of natural causes at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan, said her niece, Gigi Freeman.

Cunningham was a reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Courier, an influential black newspaper, from the 1940s through the early 1960s. She earned the nickname "the lynching editor" for her reporting on lynchings in the segregated South.

Rest In Peace, Evelyn.

Allen Swift, the voice of Mighty Mouse, Dinky Duck and, for a brief period, Howdy Doody, not to mention an Eveready battery, a toilet plunger for Drano, Vita’s Beloved Herring Maven and other characters both human and inanimate in more than 30,000 television and radio commercials, died on April 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, the stage and screen actor Lewis J. Stadlen.

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For Terrytoons, where he was a mainstay, he did the voices of Mighty Mouse and Dinky Duck, among others. He was Simon Bar Sinister and Riff Raff on “Underdog,” and most of the characters on the “Tom and Jerry” cartoons made from 1960 to 1962.

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His first marriage, to Vivienne Chassler, ended in divorce. In addition to his son, Lewis, of Manhattan, he is survived by his wife, Lenore Loveman; two daughters, Maxime, of Vallecito, Calif., and Clare, of Durham, N.C.; and five grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, Allen.