Milestones

DIED

Dr. Jane Wright, 93, innovative oncologist who helped pioneer chemotherapy and develop it from an option of last resort to a more standard treatment for many types of cancer.

UNVEILED

The 750-h.p., 220-m.p.h. carbon-fiber Lamborghini Veneno, in honor of the Italian carmaker’s 50th anniversary; priced at $3.9 million, all three cars that will be produced have been sold.

SPONSORED

A NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race called the NRA 500, by the National Rifle Association, to be held at the Texas Motor Speedway on April 13; the one-year deal has a renewal option.

DIED

Joseph Frank, 94, biographer whose five-volume portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published from 1976 to 2002, is the definitive account of the Russian writer’s life.

NAMED

David O’Connor, a former assistant director of investigations, as director of the Secret Service; he replaces Mark Sullivan, who retired from the agency after a career of nearly three decades.

DIED

Nobel laureate Donald Glaser, 86, who was awarded the prize for physics in 1960 for a device he invented at age 25 called the bubble chamber, which traced the path of subatomic particles.