Little, Brown and Company. After Maryland Public Television dropped Louis Rukeyser in March 2002 as host of the Wall $treet Week program he had created 32 years earlier, Loeb and retired economics correspondent for CBS News Ray Brady were tapped to fill the hosting responsibilities during a three-month period while the program format was revamped. Loeb died of Parkinson's disease in Manhattan, at the age of 88. He was survived by his two children, Michael (1955) and Margret (1956) and six grandchildren. His wife, Peggy, died on October 26, 2010. His son Michael is the co-founder of Synapse Group, a magazine distribution company. Bibliography Awards 1975 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "Faisal and Oil," Time 1996 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award References External links 1929 births 2017 deaths American magazine editors American male journalists 20th-century American Jews Writers from Chicago University of Missouri alumni St. Louis Globe-Democrat people Fortune (magazine) people Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award winners 21st-century American Jews Presidents of the American Society of Magazine Editors