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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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OBITUARY

 Hall of Famer 
 George Kell 
 Dead at 86 

.306 career hitter won AL batting title in 1949

Mar 24, 09 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baseball Hall of Famer and broadcaster George Kell died in his sleep this morning in Arkansas, MLB.com reports; he was 86. He batted .306 during 15 seasons in the 1940s and ‘50s, winning the American League batting crown in 1949. The 10-time All-Star, whose stops included Detroit, Boston,... More »

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OBITUARY

 West Wing's 
 Ron Silver Dead at 62 

West Wing star became staunch Bush supporter

Mar 16, 09 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Silver, the award-winning actor who became an outspoken supporter of George W. Bush late in his career, died yesterday of esophageal cancer at age 62. As the Los Angeles Times writes, Silver won a Tony for his role in David Mamet's play Speed-the-Plow and won acclaim as campaign strategist... More »

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'One Shining Moment' Genius Dead on Eve of Big Dance

Creative Director Towey had hand in nearly every major sporting event

Mar 12, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The eagerly awaited coda of the NCAA men's basketball tournament—a montage of highlights set to the song "One Shining Moment"—will be even more poignant this year. Doug Towey, the reporter-turned-CBS Sports creative director who introduced David Barrett's tune to the network's coverage in 1987, has died... More »

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(AP) - Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in The Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, died today in Connecticut at age 92. Foote's writing career spanned more than half a century and earned him... More »

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obituary • Pulitzer Prize • screenwriters • playwright

OBITUARY

 T-Ball Pioneer Dies at 93 

Jerome Sacharski developed system to teach youngsters baseball fundamentals

Mar 3, 09 2:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Baseball lost a compassionate innovator last week with the passing of Jerome “Jerry” Sacharski, 93, the inventor of the baseball tee, the Battle Creek Enquirer reports. Sacharski introduced the tee in 1956 as part of his Pee Wee Baseball program, and is credited with popularizing the game. More »

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sports • obituary • Michigan • youth • baseball • youth sports • T-ball • Jerry Sacharski

(AP) - Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died today in Arizona at age 90. Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951,... More »

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radio • obituary • broadcasting

 Jazz Great
 Dearie Dead at 82 

Blossom Dearie dead at 82

Feb 9, 09 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Blossom Dearie, whose career as a jazz and cabaret singer spanned six decades, died peacefully in her sleep at her Greenwich village apartment over the weekend. She was 82. Dearie continued performing until 2006, and her last public appearance was at the now-defunct Danny's Skylight Room, reports the New York ... More »

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obituary • jazz • Andrew Lloyd Webber • cabaret • Blossom Dearie • Annie Ross

(Newser) - Down-to-earth stage and screen actor James Whitmore died of lung cancer in Malibu today, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 87. Known for his supporting roles and leads in films such as Battleground, Planet of the Apes, and The Shawshank Redeption, the Emmy and Tony Award winner preferred theater.... More »

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OBITUARY

Co-Founder
of Habitat for Humanity Dies

Fuller and his wife dumped riches to live out Christian values

Feb 3, 09 11:28 AM CST
(AP) - Millard Fuller, the millionaire entrepreneur who gave it all away to help found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity, has died at 74. His wife Linda says her husband was complaining of chest pains, headache, and difficulty swallowing before his death early today. A global 100-house "blitz build"... More »

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Jimmy Carter • obituary • housing • charity • poverty • Habitat for Humanity • Christian values • Millard Fuller

 Updike Mused 
 on Own  
 'Overdue 
 Demise'

3-stanza poem to be published this year

Jan 30, 09 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike considered his own mortality, and did so with his usual wry wit. The evidence is in one of his last poems called "Requiem," writes the New York Post. It begins: "It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would... More »

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OBITUARY

Publishing Vet James Brady Dead at 80

Storied career included helming New York, Harper's Bazaar

Jan 28, 09 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - James Brady, a veteran of numerous publications who rose from business reporting to become the editor of New York and Harper’s Bazaar, has died. He was 80. Brady is credited with founding two long-lived New York gossip standbys, the New York Post’s Page Six and... More »

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New York City • Page Six • New York Post • obituary • gossip • publisher • editor • Parade magazine • publishing industry • New York magazine • James Brady • Harper's Bazaar • Women's Wear Daily • Fairchild Publications

APPRECIATION

 Updike: An Author 
 'Hoping to Talk to America' 

Superlatives hardly lacking in wake of writer's death at 76

Jan 27, 09 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe, calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times, the first line of his story A&P displays a “... More »

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obituary • literature • novelist • author • novel • Ted Williams • John Updike • sports writer

OBITUARY

 John Updike 
 Dies at 76 

Pulitzer winner suffered from lung cancer, publisher says

Jan 27, 09 12:39 PM CST
(AP) - John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters, and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and other adventures in postwar America, died today of lung cancer at age 76. A literary force who frequently appeared on best-seller lists, Updike penned novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir Self-Consciousness, and... More »

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OBITUARY

 Bob May, 
 Lost in Space 
 Robot, Dies 

Actor moved the suit, but never said "Danger, Will Robinson"

Jan 19, 09 2:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Bob May, famous for inhabiting the robot suit on 1960s sci-fi hit Lost in Space, has died at 69 of heart failure, the AP reports. “He always said he got the job because he fit in the robot suit,” a co-star said. May did not voice the robot—... More »

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television • obituary • robot • science fiction • actor • Bob May • Lost in Space • stuntman

OBITUARY

Real-Estate Pioneer Crow Dead at 94

Turned single Dallas warehouse into international empire

Jan 16, 09 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Visionary real-estate developer Trammell Crow, who pioneered strategies that helped him become one of the world’s largest landlords, has died, the Dallas Morning News reports. He was 94 and suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Crow, who helped popularize the concept of building on spec—erecting structures before they were... More »

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obituary

 Painter Andrew 
 Wyeth Dead at 91 

'Polarizing' Pennsylvanian known for 'Christina's World'

Jan 16, 09 9:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Wyeth, a painter both celebrated and scorned in the art community, has died at 91 at his home outside Philadelphia. In his paintings, the “polarizing” figure depicted a rural America of fallow fields, faded colors, and weather-beaten people, writes Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times. He was... More »

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OBITUARY

 Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88 

Mexican-born actor was best known for role on Fantasy Island

Jan 14, 09 4:08 PM CST
(AP) - Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's Fantasy Island, died today at his California home at age 88. A generation of TV watchers knew Montalban as the faintly mysterious, white-suited Roarke, who presided over a... More »

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(Newser) - German businessman Adolf Merckle, 74, killed himself yesterday in the face of mounting debt and a crumbling multibillion dollar empire, Bloomberg reports. Merckle’s personal fortune of $9.2 billion put him 94th on Forbes' list of the world’s richest people, but his holding company, which owned stake... More »

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suicide • Germany • obituary • debt • global economy • economic downturn • Adolf Merckle • holding company • Heidelberg • recession depression

 Bell, Carter's AG, Dead at 90 

Bell defanged Jim Crow as appellate court judge

Jan 5, 09 5:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Griffin Bell, a Southerner who opposed racial segregation and led the Justice Department under President Carter, died today at age 90, the New York Times reports. Bell handled damage control as a post-Nixon attorney general, de-politicizing the Justice Department and the FBI. His earlier rulings as an appeals court judge,... More »

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Department of Justice • law • Attorney General • Jimmy Carter • obituary • racism • segregation • US Circuit Court of Appeals

Batman's Commissioner Gordon Dies

Pat Hingle, veteran tough-guy actor, mentored young

Jan 5, 09 2:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Actor Pat Hingle—whose characters included Commissioner Gordon in the '90s Batman movies and Norma Rae's father in the 1979 film—has died of blood cancer at his Carolina Beach home at the age of 84, the Wilmington Star-News reports. The Tony Award nominee and Broadway star had said he... More »

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Hollywood • independent film • obituary • Broadway • cinema • actor • Pat Hingle

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