From:    Albertus Magnus                        Area: Metaphysical
To:      All                                     1 Feb 94 23:04:06
Subject: The Week in Death: Jan 23-29           UpdReq 

 QUOTE OF THE DAY
 Georgette: ``It's so sad.  Funerals always come too late.''
      Mary: ``I'm not sure I understand that, Georgette.''
 Georgette: ``Well, I mean we take people for granted while
              they're still with us.  Then when they're gone we
              wish we'd been nicer to them so we dress in black
              and cry our eyes out.  Why don't we think to do
              that while they're still alive?''
                             -- from ``The Mary Tyler Moore Show,'' the
                                episode where Chuckles the Clown dies
   THE WEEK IN DEATH (January 23-January 29)
   STANLEY ADAMS (86), lyricist. President of ASCAP for 24 years.
   His best known lyric was for ``What a Difference a Day Made'' (some
   performers sing it as ``what a difference a day makes'').  Although
   her career was meritorious enough otherwise, DINAH WASHINGTON's
   version of that tune was probably what got her on a stamp.
   CLAUDE AKINS (67 or 75), actor. Akins landed supporting roles in
   such movie classics as ``Inherit the Wind,'' ``From Here to
   Eternity,'' and ``The Caine Mutiny,'' then went straight to TV.
   We know a man's gotta eat, but ``BJ and the Bear''? Please.
   PAT CRAWFORD (91), athlete. A substitute infielder, and the last
   surviving member of the Gashouse Gang -- the 1934 World Series
   champion St. Louis Cardinals.
   LEE ALVIN DUBRIDGE (92), administrator. As former president of
   Caltech, DuBridge helped manage the development of radar, the
   building of the Hale Telescope and the opening of the Jet
   Propulsion Lab.
   VICTOR LOMBARDO (82), musician. The youngest of the four
   Lombardo boys, Victor played sax for GUY's Royal Canadians
   before starting his own band.
   ESTHER RALSTON (91), actress. Made 130 films, mostly silents,
   including ``The Kid,'' with JACKIE COOGAN.
   TELLY SAVALAS (70), actor. Important as the bridge between YUL
   BRYNNER and JERRY DELLA FEMINA.  Savalas made some movies and
   stuff, but of real consequence was ``Kojak,'' one of the first
   cop shows on TV to acknowledge moral ambiguity. It was also one
   of the first cop shows on TV to acknowledge dirt. New York City
   ain't always that pretty, and it was obvious on ``Kojak.'' The
   lollipop was just too, too cool, but what in tarnation was ``Who
   loves ya, baby?'' supposed to mean?
         Ten years ago, TWIDMAN was walking around The Village and
   spied an oil painting of Telly for only $50, and we didn't get
   it. He had on black pants and one of those white silk shirts
   with no buttons where it just folds across the waist and tucks
   in, so that his chest was exposed real sexylike. It was a great
   painting. We regret passing it up to this day.
   OLIVER SMITH (75), Set designer. Created the sets for the
   Broadway plays ``Brigadoon,'' ``West Side Story,'' ``My Fair
   Lady,'' ``Camelot,'' and ``Hello, Dolly!'' among many others, as
   well as the set for the ballet ``Rodeo.''
   From the SD: For the first time, the number of deaths from
   firearms has surpassed the number of deaths from auto accidents
   in the District of Columbia and six states -- New York,
   California, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, and Virginia. New Jersey
   would have been on the list, but that state suffers from having
   the worst drivers east of the Mississippi.
         Nationwide, auto deaths are decreasing. They've dropped by
   10 percent during the 1985-91 stretch, to 43,536 in 1991.
   Meanwhile, shooting deaths went up 14 percent over the same
   period, to 38,317 in 1991.
 (The Week in Death is by Brian Santo, [B.SANTO@genie.geis.com].)
... The essence of knowledge is, having it, to use it. * Confucius  


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