Michael Stern, a swashbuckling correspondent-turned-philanthropist who helped found New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, died last week in Palm Beach, Fla., at age 98, reports The New York Times.

Mr. Stern filed some of the first dispatches from Rome as Allied forces entered the city in 1944 and continued to live in and write about the city for 50 years. He and the late builder and philanthropist Zachary Fisher started the Intrepid Museum Foundation in 1978 to save the historic aircraft carrier and later co-founded charities supporting Alzheimer’s research and military families.

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