From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:20:38 Subject: Two Weeks in Death: Feb 4-16 a UpdReq Celebrity Birthdays, February 17 Michael Jordan, retired basketball player (32) Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (32) Mary Ann Mobley, actress (56) Jim Brown, football player-actor (59) Alan Bates, actor (61) Chaim Potok, author (66) Hal Holbrook, actor (70) Margaret Truman Daniel, author (71) Quote of the Week "Biography lends to death a new terror." -- Oscar Wilde Two Weeks In Death (February 4 -- February 16) Sen. William Fulbright (89), D.-Ark. Fulbright's was a measured voice of reason for decades, though he made his share of awful mistakes. In such instances, if he didn't back down, he held his ground with a cogent defense, and if he did acknowledge error, he was forthcoming about it. He was one of the earliest detractors of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and in fact was the only Senator to vote against bankrolling the McCarthy Army hearings. Though he introduced legislation to retaliate after the Gulf of Tonkin incident at LBJ's request, he was also one of the first to see the folly of the Viet Nam War, and to crusade against it. "The biggest lesson I learned from Viet Nam," he said, "is not to trust government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on government statements." Now we all know. He repeatedly voted against civil rights measures, half because he doubted their efficacy, and half for political expediency. He was also proud of voting to establish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. L.C. Graves (76), policeman. One of three officers escorting Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was shot. Graves was the one who wrestled the gun from Jack Ruby, preventing Ruby from firing a second shot. After the Oliver Stone movie, JFK conspiracy theory bores us, so please don't write with additional details. Kendall L. Hayes (59), songwriter. Composed the country classic "Walk on By." Patricia Highsmith (74), author. Though her books are to be found in the mystery section, they were less concerned with the murder itself than with the nature of impulse, irrationality, and obsession that lead to the act. Several of her books featured Tom Ripley (formerly Tom Burma), a smart, worldly guy who also killed people. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. Nat Holman (98), athlete, coach. "The World's Greatest Basketball Player" -- at least in the 1920s. The Celtics, then a barnstorming group of pro ball ambassadors, rarely lost a game with Holman, who was already applying personal discipline to the fluid New York street game. As a coach with CCNY, he adapted the fast break approach, and led his 1950 team to wins in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments. He was implicated in a point- shaving scandal with that team, but returned to his job after a brief suspension. His 37- year coaching record was 421-190. Li Zhisui (75), physician. In Li's recent book, "The Private Life of Chairman Mao: the Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician," Li presented an account of life in Mao's court that was compelling and believable, despite the fact that few westerners had ever heard of him. In it, he revealed Mao's gruesome lack of personal hygiene (his teeth had a green coat on them), his voracious appetite for young girls, and his raging egomania. Kinda makes you want to burn your little red book, don't it? ... Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. * Euripides 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:20:54 Subject: Two Weeks in Death: Feb 4-16 b UpdReq Doug McClure (59), actor. An early career in bronco-busting was just preparation for a career in westerns, notably The Virginian, The Men from Shiloh, and Barbary Coast, in which he co-starred with Captain Kirk. McClure was amiable enough, but nobody expected to see him in a contender for Best Picture, and nobody ever did. His films included "Gidget," "Cannonball Run II," and "52 Pick-Up" (formerly "52 Burma"). James Merrill (68), poet. Merrill's poetry was lyrical and elegant. TWIDman, for one, really has to be in the mood for it, but we're well-known for our barbarianism. Merrill won two National Book Awards, a Pulitzer, a Bollingen, and a National Book Critics Circle award for his verse. He was also the son of the man for which Merrill Lynch (formerly Burma) is named. Paul Monette (49), author. Monette won a National Book Award for non-fiction in 1992 for "Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story." In his latter years, he wrote several works inspired by the deaths of two companions of AIDS. He also died from complications of AIDS. U Nu (87), politician. The first Prime Minister of independent Myanmar (formerly Burma), Nu was prominent in the drive for Myanmarian independence. Devoutly principled and dedicated to democracy, Nu got the job of PM in 1947 as a replacement for the assassinated U Aung San. Nu was a popular though mostly ineffective leader, and in 1962, the military staged a coup, and has held power since. Nu became an opposition leader operating from neighboring Thailand; in 1988 when the military indicated that it would relinquish power, Nu, by then back in the country, headed a largely symbolic opposition party. Massive anti-government demonstrations convinced the military to crack down and retain power (U Aung San's daughter, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest; she is the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner). Bob Randall (57), writer. Author of the play 6 Rooms Riv Vu, and head writer and co-producer of Kate and Allie (formerly Burma). John Smith (63), actor. Another veteran of classic oaters, Smith's fame was a square jaw, and perfect teeth. He appeared in Laramie and Cimmarron City, and in the films Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's and Island of Lost Women. "Island of Lost Women"? Having a square jaw has its advantages... Art Taylor (65), musician. Taylor (formerly Burma) was one of the developers of the jazz drumming style created in the late '40s and early '50s. He was in huge demand by nearly every contemporary jazz musician of consequence, and appeared on some of the most important disks in jazz, including John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Miles Davis' Miles Ahead. He was no less important for teaching a generation of new jazz musicians over the last 10 years, after a nearly three-decade-long self-exile in Europe. Margaret Wade (82), coach. Coached Delta State to three national championships in six seasons (1973-'79), during which her teams set a record for consecutive victories (51). That was after she became the first woman in the Basketball Hall of Fame, in part for her playing career in the '20s with the Tupelo Red Wings, and also for achieving a 453-89-6 record coaching high school teams. David Wayne (81), actor. Add the Mad Hatter to the list of Batman villains who have passed on. Wayne won the first Tony Award for Best Actor for Finian's Rainbow; he won another for The Teahouse of the August Moon. Films include: How to Marry a Millionaire, The Tender Trap, The Andromeda Strain, and The Apple Dumpling Gang. The Week in Death is written by Brian Santo (formerly Burma). Uploaded by Mitch Wagner, (c) 1995 Brian Santo ... Adventure is not outside a man, it is within. * Grayson 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:21:18 Subject: The Year in Death: 1994 a UpdReq The Year In Death, 1994 1994 was the year that the fearful and the resentful joined with the angry and the hateful in a crusade of rage, with Citizen Newt its figurehead and martinet. With the stated (and worthy) intention of curbing excess, Newt raised a banner under which he is happily sheltering bigots, the willfully ignorant, desperate fanatics, greedheads, and hot-tempered simpletons who mistake their various hostilities for political acumen -- and presumed agreement with Newt's political agenda. This is most evident in the growing support for the death penalty, a swelling tide fed by fear of crime, by outrage against criminals' continual upping of the ante on horror, by hatred of those racial groups whose members are most deeply mired in poverty, a condition from which an inordinate amount of crime seems to spring. It is possible to lock up forever a felon whose crimes offend us, but that is no longer enough. The recompense for heinousness must now be the felon's life. TWIDman has no sympathy for cruel lunatics like Jeffrey Dahmer, or for pathetic, desperate losers like Susan Smith, and the fate of either their bodies or their souls is of supreme indifference to us -- if there is a God, vengeance belongs to him, and he will make the wicked suffer for their crimes, and if there is no God, then killing them serves nothing more noble than satisfying our own bloodlust. Some of us try to cover our thirst for blood by pretending it's all about economics. ``I don't want my tax dollars used to feed criminals yaddadda yaddadda...'' We're not being mean, we're being thrifty, whines the rabble. The facts are that it costs more to convict under the death penalty than it does to lock someone up for 30 years. Of course, that counterargument won't be valid for long, because Justices Rehnquist and Scalia are working to make it easier, and therefore cheaper, to execute the guilty. The problem is that their efforts will concurrently make it so much easier to execute those who are falsely accused and wrongly convicted. Of approximately 7,000 felons executed in this country (we do not recall if that covers our history, or just this century), 23 were demonstrably innocent. Another handful of people on death row were proven not guilty of the crimes they were charged with before the state managed to kill them. One-third of 1 percent is not even a bump on a chart. Fine. If you can tell the parents, the spouses, and the children of any one of those innocent people that their loss is statistically insignificant, that it is irrelevent, that such mistakes are the price they must pay to satisfy your personal need for revenge, then you find life no more dear than any common murderer, and as far as we're concerned you are morally no different from those you condemn to death. The death penalty is deplorable less for its own sake than for what it represents. It is a symptom of the growing blaze of viciousness in us, the surge of hate, the hardening of our hearts and souls. It makes murderers of us all. If we lived in a universally kind, generous, sympathetic and charitable nation, if we really tried to ease poverty, provide jobs, create conditions less conducive to the begetting of crime, terrible and senseless crimes would still be committed. And even if we successfully slash waste and diminish fraud, people will still find ways to take unfair advantage of whatever system remains standing. The crusade to live within our means has already turned to mindless penury, and we will pay for that. Poverty, homelessness, and crime will all be exacerbated, not eased. There must be an alternative to retreating behind triple-bolted doors or into gated communities, where once a year we'll shake our heads at Ebenezer Scrooge on the tube. We are hiding our basest motives from scrutiny with a shield constructed of cynicism and selfishness. More and more, we resent and hate each other, rich and poor, any race and any other. We hurtle apart. The advances our country has made have often been paid for in blood -- the Civil War, labor-management battles, the civil rights movement. And yet, we have solved issues without bloodshed -- we have done that. But if the abortion debate is any indication, we have forgotten how, or no longer care to remember. It is an issue where wrong is piled upon wrong, but in 1994, murdering doctors became a popular tactic of debate, the heaping of yet another wrong on top of the pile. Murder is a solution that voids itself. We are better than that. And if we aren't, we should be. I'll tell you now that you'll find Richard Nixon under Irredeemable Scum, and I'm jumping the gun because there are still people dumb enough to think him some sort of great man. America is defined and distinguished by its priniciples -- not by our flag, not by our President, not by the strength of the dollar -- by our Constitution. Richard Nixon made an active decision that the U.S. Constitution didn't apply to him, and that was treasonous. Aldrich Ames betrayed his country for money -- a weak and petty reason, but a reason nonetheless. Nixon betrayed his country because he felt like it, because he thought he could get away with it -- in other words, for no reason at all. Ames is a petty cretin who undermined our security, but Nixon -- a senator, a Vice-President, a President -- was unrelenting in undermining the principles he swore over and over again to uphold and protect, and no one will ever convince me that that isn't much, much worse. ... Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. * Alfieri 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:21:50 Subject: The Week in Death: 1994 b UpdReq Why a roll call of the dead? Why do TWID? For one reason, we frequently mark and measure our lives against the activities of celebrities, or events in their lives. John Kennedy's presidency defined a moment in our history; Jackie Kennedy Onassis, admirable enough just for being herself, was that much more valued as the living symbol of that time. We hear of Jackie's death, mourn the passing of a good and true soul, and remember... God, was it really thirty years ago?! Similarly, we flash on Jerry Rubin's antics, and recall our own feelings about the Vietnam War, or we note the passing of the Mets' Marvelous Marv Throneberry, and once again feel the confusing enjoyment of rooting for losers. Actors -- the best of them, anyway -- frequently become our friends, perhaps because we see something in them that makes us wish they were. If you didn't feel a personal sense of loss for Burt Lancaster, perhaps you did for Jessica Tandy, or Raul Julia, or Mildred Natwick, or John Candy. Sometimes it's half the actor, and half their characters. It's sad to see off, for the last time, Howard Sprague and Otis, Darrin Stevens and Harriet Nelson, Mr. Haney and Mr. Mitchell, Kojak and Cannon. We'd prefer not to miss missing them. Artists are at once closest and farthest away from us than any other category of celebrity. What we respond to is frequently not their personalities, but their work, and yet their words, and pictures and music can be so much more personal, and affect us so much more viscerally. Robert Bloch could chill your marrow, Henry Mancini and Jule Styne make you reach to a sweetheart, Erick Hawkins vivify your myths, Kurt Cobain lay bare what's behind your defenses, and Marion Williams make your soul soar. These are just some of those we'll mourn. The following list is long, but not comprehensive. -- Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. -- Somerset Maugham ACTORS/Performing arts: Claude Akins (67 or 75); Herb Anderson (77); Mr. Mitchell from Dennis the Menace; Noah Beery, Jr. (81); Sorrell Booke (64); John Boylan (82); Pat Buttram (78), Mr. Haney; Howard Caine (67), Maj. Hochstedder; John Candy (43), Macdonald Carey (81); Timothy Carey (65); William Conrad (73); Joseph Cotten (88); Nick Cravat (82); Peter Cushing (81); Royal Dano (71); Jack Dodson (63), Howard Sprague; Johnny Downs (80), Our Gang; Charles Drake (76); Tom Ewell (85); Tyrone Fletcher (9), Toonces the Driving Cat; Tiger Haynes (79); Laurence Hugo (79); Robert Hutton (73); Raul Julia (54); Steven Keats (48); Patrick Kelly (53), the fast-talking guy in Federal Express' ads; Burt Lancaster (80); Robert Lansing (66); Richard Martin (75); Mark McManus (60), Taggart; Cameron Mitchell (75); Dennis Morgan (85); Henry Morgan (79); Patrick O'Neal (66); George Peppard (65); Dennis C. Ott (36); Dack Rambo (53); Fernando Rey (76); Gilbert Roland (88); Cesar Romero (86); Dick Sargent; Lionel Stander (86); Barry Sullivan (81); Dub Taylor (87); Bill Travers (72); Ron Vawter (45); Tom Villard (40); Gian Maria Volante (61); Dennis Wolfberg (44 or 48) ACTRESSES/Performing arts: Iris Adrian (81); Lina Basquette (87); Janice Carter (80); Dorothy Collins (67); Nola Dolberg (99); Lynne Frederick (39); Nadia Gray (70); Sally Knapp (68); Giulietta Masina (73); Maria ``Melina'' Mercouri (68); Priscilla Morrill (67); Anita Morris (50); Mildred Natwick (89); Harriet Nelson (85); Martha Raye (78); Jessica Tandy (85); Paula Trueman (96); Danitra Vance (35); Fredi Washington (90) PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Lindsay Anderson (71), James Hill (75); Joe Layton (64); Jerome Minskoff (78), Harry Saltzman (78); Terence Young (79); Billy Wilson (59) WRITERS/PUBLISHERS: Robert Bloch (77); Pierre Boule (81); Charles Bukowski (73); Elias Canetti (89); Thomas Chastain (73); Alice Childress (77); Amy Clampitt (74); James Clavell (69); William Dickey (65); Ralph Ellison (80); Jacques Ellul (82); William Everson (81), aka Brother Antoninus; David Feinberg (37); Raymond Z. Gallun (83); Sidney Gilliat (86); Albert Goldman (66); Lewis Grizzard (47); Alfred Harvey (80), publisher of Richie Rich; Joan Harrison (83); William Henry III (44); Eugene Ionesco (84); E.J. Kahn, Jr. (77); Harry Kondoleon (39); Andrew Kopkind (59); Erwin Knoll (63); Christopher Lasch (61); Robert E. Lee (75); Frank Belknap Long (90); Margaret Millar (79); Douglas S. Morrow (81); Michael O'Donaghue (54); Juan Carlos Onetti (84); Alun Owen (69), ``A Hard Day's Night''; Dennis Potter (59); Reynaldo Povod (34); Lewis Puller (48); John Preston (48); Derek Raymond (NA); Berton Roueche (83); Richard Scarry (74); Randy Shilts (42); Hazel Brannon Smith (80); Julian Symons (82); Meta Wilde (86) (lover of William Faulkner); Helen Wolff (88), founder of Pantheon books; Ed Zern (83) ... Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. * Wilde 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:22:14 Subject: The Week in Death: 1994 c UpdReq POLITICS (world): Basil Assad (33), son of Syrian president Hafez Assad; Selometsi Baholo, (NA) Deputy Premier of Lesotho (assassinated); Ferndando Chamorro (62), Nicaraguan insurgent; Oscar Collazo (80), Puerto Rican separatist; Luis Donaldo Colosio (44), Mexican presidential candidate (assassinated); Gamini Dissanayake (NA), Sri Lankan presidential candidate (assassinated); Prince Louis Ferdinand (86), grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II; Zviad Gamsakhurdia (54), former Georgian president; Hannah Grunwald (94), former director of Amnesty International; Juvenal Habyarimana (57), President of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira (38), President of Burundi (both presumably assassinated); Nicholas Kekelidze (38), Georgia's deputy defense minister; Masayoshi Ito (80), Foreign Minister of Japan; Yevgeny Ivanov (68), Russian spy at the heart of England's Profumo Affair; Muzabsho Nazarshoyev (NA), vice premier of Tajikistan; Georges Watin (71), terrorist who inspired ``Day of the Jackal'' POLITICS (U.S.): Donald Atwood (69), Deputy Secretary of Defense; George W. Ball (84); Col. Charlie Beckwith (65); Ted Bissell (84); Kathryn Clarenbach (73), co-founder of NOW; Gov. Orvil E. Faubus (84); Rep. Dean Gallo (58), R-N.J.; Elizabeth Glaser (47); Aldyn McKeane (45), member of ACT-UP; Rep. William H. Natcher (84), D-Kent.; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (64); Thomas ``Tip'' O'Neill (81); Dixie Lee Ray (79); Jerry Rubin (54); Dean Rusk (85); Sen. Hugh Scott (93), R-Pa.; Frank Sturgis (68), one of the five Watergate burglars; Pedro Zamoro (22), AIDS activist DANCERS/CHOREOGRAPHERS: Evelyn Anderson (87); Carola Goya (88); Erick Hawkins (85); Tracy-Kai Maier-Forsythe (32); Michael Peters (46); Pearl Primus 74); Walter Raines (54); Igor Youskevitch (82) MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS/VOCALISTS: Stanley Adams (86), lyricist, What a Difference a Day Made; Tommy Boyce (55); Lee Brilleaux (41), Dr. Feelgood; Cab Calloway (86); Ken Carson (79), Sons of the Pioneers; Kurt Cobain (27); ``Papa'' John Creach (76); Mack David (81), composer/lyracist, La Vie en Rose; Rudolf Firkusny (82); Eric Gale (55); Danny Gatton (49); Jimmy Hamilton (77); Wilbert Harrison (65), ``Kansas City''; Lejaren Hiller (69); Nicky Hopkins (50); Willie Humphrey (93); Oliver Jackson (61); Antonio Carlos Jobim (67), ``The Girl From Ipanema,'' Ish Kabibble (86); Max Kaminsky (85); Michel-Melthon Lynch (25), Boukman Eksperyans; Carmen McCrae (74); Jimmy Miller (52); Victor Lombardo (82); Henry Mancini (70); Pierre Menard (53); Harry Nilsson (52); Joe Pass (65); Kristen Pfaff (27), Hole; Shorty Rogers (70); Red Rodney (66); Warren Harding ``Sonny'' Sharrock (53); Anne Shelton (66); Dinah Shore (76); Fred ``Sonic'' Smith (44); Willa Mae Ford Smith (89); Jule Styne (88); Dino Valenti (66) ARTISTS: Anni Albers (94), last surviving teacher of the Bauhaus; Charles Baskerville (98); Alighiero e Boetti (53); Hans Burkhardt (89); Kevin Carter (33), Pulitzer-winning photographer. Paul Delvaux (96); Robert Doisneau (81); Jack Hannah (81), animator, Donald Duck; Donald Judd (65); Jack Kirby (76), Captain America; Walter Lantz (94); Fulgencio Garcia (Garcieta) Lopez (79); Princess Alexandra Troubetzkoy Malcolm (84); Forest Sagendorf (79), Popeye; Carolyn Wyeth (84), (daughter of N.C. Wyeth). ATHLETES/SPORTS: Dave Albritton (82); Paul Anderson (61); Ray Arcel (94); Verlon Biggs (51); Neil Bonnet (47); Julius Boros (74); Jean Borotra (95); Jim Brock (57); Pat Crawford (91), last surviving member of the Gashouse Gang; Hugh Culverhouse (75); Ray Dandridge (79); Buff Donelli (87); Andres Escobar (26); Charles ``Chub'' Feeney (72); Jim Finks (66); Ray Flaherty (89); Gretchen Fraser (75); Vitas Gerulaitis (40); Thomas Hamilton (88); Merle Hapes (75); Christy Henrich (22); Robert Lee ``Big Daddy'' Herron (69); Larry Klein (42); Fred Lebow (62); Ulrike Maier (26); Bob Matheson (49); Fred McGuire (80); Bill Mosienko (72); Rodney Orr (31); Rudy Pilous (80); Buddy Rosar (78); Roland Ratzenberger (31); Jimmie Reese (92); Allie Reynolds (77); Wilma Rudolph (54?); Ayrton Senna (34); Jack Sharkey (91); Eric Show (37); Francis Simmons, Sr. (94); Fred Snowden (57); Charley Smith (57); Helen Stevens (75); Earl Strom (66); Marv Throneberry (60); Jean-Claude Tremblay (55); Jersey Joe (81); Gary Wood (52) SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/GADGETRY Pietro Belluschi (94), architect; Erik Erikson (91); Marija Gimbutas (73), archeomythologist; William A. Higgenbotham (84), physicist; Irving B. Kahn (76), the TelePrompTer; Gary Kildall (52), (CP/M) operating system; Richard Light (92), surgeon; Andre Lwoff (92), shared the 1965 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine; Jules Masserman (89); psychiatrist; Rollo May (85); William Morgan (88), astronomer; Alfred Nier (82); Linus Pauling (93); Roy J. Plunkett (83), Teflon; Stuart Roosa (64), pilot of command module in 1971 moon landing; Julian Schwinger (76), shared the 1965 Nobel for Physics; Roger Sperry (80), shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Howard M. Temin (59), 1975 Nobelist for Biology; Jan Tinbergen (91), Shared the first Nobel awarded for Economics (1969); Allen Vine (79), oceanographer; James Watts (90), neurosurgeon ... The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. * Rabelais 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:22:28 Subject: The Week in Death: 1994 d UpdReq BUSINESS: Marcel Bich (79), Societe Bic; Joyce Chen (76), restaurateur; Betty Furness (78); Arthur Krim (84). Hollywood mogul; Iving Paul Swifty'' Lazar (86); William J. Levitt (86), builder of Levittown/inventor of suburbia; Robert Oscar Peterson (78), founder of Jack in the Box; John Shad (71), chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission; Rose Totino (79), Totino's Pizza; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (79), IBM; Frank Wells (62), Disney RELIGION: Gabriel Abdelsayed (66), archpriest of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the U.S.; Ezra Taft Benson (94), president of the Mormon Church; Rev. Daniel N. Corrigan (93), Episcopal bishop, civil rights activist; Arturo Rivera Damas (71), Archbishop of El Salvador; Menachem Schneerson (92), 7th Grand Rabbi of the Lubavitch Jews; Vazgen I (85), the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church RELATIVES OF THE FAMOUS: Ann Buchwald (74), Art's wife; Elvera Burger (84), wife Warren; Paul Child (92), husband of Julia; Ida Chagall (78), Marc's only child; Rildia Bee Cliburn (97), mother of Van; Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild (87), grandson of Alexander Graham Bell; Anna Hauptmann (95), wife of Bruno; Margaret Janus (68), Jack Kevorkian's sister; Virginia Kelley (70), President Clinton's mother; Edna Manilow (70), Barry's mother; Billy Mantle (36), youngest son of Mickey; Mari Yoriko Sabusawa Michener (74), wife of James; Gertrude Russek Nemerov (93), mother of the Howard Nemerov and Diane Arbus; Evelyn Nightingale (90), first wife of Evelyn Waugh; Aurelia Plath (87), Sylvia's mother; Nicole Simpson (35), ex-wife of O.J.; Gloria Stewart (75), Jimmy's wife; Caitlin Thomas (81), wife of Dylan; Micaela Villa (83), daughter of Pancho; Booker T. Washington (79), namesake's grandson; Rosalie White (80), mother of NPR commentator Bailey White; Ella Keats Whiting (98), Hussein of Jordan. RANDOM NOTABLES: Paul Arbiso (99), rang the bell in Capistrano that each year heralded the return of the swallows; Barry Bishop (62), member of the Hillary expedition to Everest; John Bradley (70), the last surviving member of the group of Marines in the photograph of the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima; Susie Brunson (123), perhaps the oldest American; Guy T. Buswell (103), oldest living former soda jerk; Frank Corder (39), suicide-attacker of the White House; Julian Cornell (84), lawyer who defended Ezra Pound against charges of treason; Lt. Gen. Laurence Craigie (92), America's first military jet fighter pilot; Faith Cardwell Davis (95), member of the oldest living complete set of triplets; Dorothy Davis (77), WWII pilot; Ronald ``Buster'' Edwards (early 60s), Great Train Robbery bandit; Avery Fisher (87), philanthropist; Hugh Gravitt (74), driver of the car that killed Margaret Mitchell; Pat Harper (59), first woman to anchor a news show; Alfred Kassab (73), father/grandfather of Jeffrey McDonald's murder victims; Morty the Moose (6), unofficial greeter of Cicely, Ala.; William J. Obanhein (69), officer who arrested Arlo Guthrie in 1965 for littering; Luba Potamkin (73), television commercial pitchman for her husband's NYC Cadillac dealership; R.J. Reynolds 3d (60), heir and anti-smoking crusader; Margaret Skeete (115), officially the oldest American IRREDEEMABLE SCUM: Ramon Camps (67), member of Argentine junta; Jeffrey Dahmer (34); John Wayne Gacy (NA), Richard Herrnstein (64), co-author of The Bell Curve; Erich Honecker (81), former leader of East Germany; Richard Milhous Nixon (81); Kim Il Sung (82); Gen. Roberto Viola (69), member of Argentine junta. (The Year in Death was written by Brian Santo [B.SANTO].) Uploaded by Mitch Wagner ; (c) 1995 Brian Santo ... Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot. * Sherlock Holmes 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Metaphysical To: All 28 Feb 95 22:25:58 Subject: TWID UpdReq Well true-believers, I'm happy to say it looks like TWID will be flowing again... and I am happy to x-post copies into here for the adoring public. }:) .\ .\.\ ... Faithful to a cause only because opponents remain insipid. - Nietzsche 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718