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Warren H. Phillips, who started at The Wall Street Journal as a $40-a-week proofreader and then vaulted through the ranks to become its publisher and the chief executive of its parent, Dow Jones & Co., died Friday at his home in Bridgehampton, New York. He was 92.Henry W. Bloch, who founded the tax preparation company H&R; Block with his brother and was its folksy pitchman in television commercials for decades, helping to establish it as one of the most recognizable brands in American business, died Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 96.Henry W. Bloch, who founded the tax preparation company H&R; Block with his brother and was its folksy pitchman in television commercials for decades, helping to establish it as one of the most recognizable brands in American business, died Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 96.Henry W. Bloch, who founded the tax preparation company H&R; Block with his brother and was its folksy pitchman in television commercials for decades, helping to establish it as one of the most recognizable brands in American business, died Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 96.
