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Life In Legacy - Week of December 03, 2004

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Athur Hailey, author Robert Barker, California journalist George Canseco, Popular Filipino songwriter Cy Coleman, Famed Broadway composer David Grierson, Canadian radio and TV host Jimmy Lovelace, Bebop drummer and NYC jazz musician, Mae Madison, Hungarian actress in Warner Brothers films Terry Melcher, Producer and songwriter who co-wrote Frederik Prausnitz, Classical music conductor and Julliard faculty member, Richard Alan Simmons, Emmy-winning writer and television producer Bob Allen, World champion trapshooter Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Alexander Ragulin, Soviet Olympic gold medallist in hockey Tom Washington, American Basketball Association player and coach Nancy Larrick, Children's book writer and editor, Strome Galloway, Canadian infantry officer and founder of the Monarchist League of Canada Bobby Frank Cherry, KKK member who killed four black girls in famed 1963 Birmingham bombing, Margaret Hassan, Aid worker and a director of CARE international thought to have been killed by Iraqi kidnappers, Sir John Vane, Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered how aspirin works, Robert Bacher, Physicist and co-founder of leading radio astronomy facility Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Iranian physician who promoted the healing power of water, Robert Beale, Jr., Prominent Washington, D.C. diet doctor, Thomas Dibblee, Geologist whose research aided the study of plate tectonics Irene Ferrer, Cardiologist and member of Columbia University faculty, Jasper Kane, Biochemist and Pfizer executive, George Maslach, Noted faculty member and administrator at UC Berkeley Walter Mintz, Investor and hedge fund co-founder Martin Malia, predicted the fall of communism J. Edward Martin, Structural engineer on many LA buildings Noel Perrin, essayist who loved his farm Ancel Keys, found the link between high cholesterol and heart disease ></A><A NAME= Doug Peterson, trained Seattle Slew after he won the Triple Crown Lawrence J. Pierce, Rhododendron cultivator Donald R. Puddy, NASA flight directo for Apollo and Skylab missions J.L. Billy Joseph J. Sisco, United States diplomat James A Swift, Conductor who let musicians play Ed Paschke, Chicago painter of Alfred Blanchard, Mystery novel writer, Ellsworth Van Graafeiland, Conservative New York judge, Edward Waters, Emmy-winning writer and producer Ralph Sewell, Oklahoma journalist Peter Cox, Newspaper publisher and environmentalist Harry Hargreaves, British cartoonist who drew 'Paddington Bear'
Most wanted photos
Harry Hargreaves, Lawrence J. Pierce, Rhododendron cultivator John Cordle, British Member of Parliament and part of the Poulson scandal, Peter Twinn, British mathematician and WWII codebreaker, Peter Loeb, Investor and university board member who was also involved with the Special Olympics Frank Shelley, British stage, screen and television actor Mimis Chrysomallis, Popular Greek actor Judy Corman, Harry Potter publicist Corlies Smith, New York book editor



News and Entertainment
Robert Barker - (73) Longtime Orange County journalist who covered the Huntington Beach, CA city beat for nearly 30 years and developed a reputation as an aggressive but fair reporter, who retired in 1992 but continued to work part-time for the LA Times, then for the Pilot and Independent until 1998, and who, in retirement, joined a 60-and-over slow-pitch softball team that won a national title, died on November 18 of brain cancer in Irvine, CA
Alfred A. Blanchard -(59) Mystery novelist and the president of the New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America, who published five mystery works including his most recent work, The Stalker & Other Tales of Love & Murder, who, shortly after the MWA's third annual convention had concluded, stood for a group photo but then left the room, telling a friend that he didn't feel well, was taken to a Lowell, MA hospital, where he died a short time later on November 14.
George Canseco- (70) One of the Philippines' most popular songwriters, who wrote more than 160 songs over 30 years and was commissioned by former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos to compose the country's national hymn, who also was a movie music director and won awards for best score in various films, and who was the former head of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, died on November 19 of liver disease and lung cancer in Manila, Philippines.
Mimis Chrysomallis (66) Popular Greek actor who studied at the prestigious Karolos Kuhn acting school in Athens before embarking on a career in film and theater that spanned 40 years, who became famous with Greece's "Free Theater"group in the early '70s and won critical acclaim for his part in theatrical adaptations of works by Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, and who had been starring in a Greek adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple; died on November 12 of heart attack in Athens, Greece
Cy Coleman - (75) Famed jazz pianist and Tony-award winning Broadway composer, who was the composer of such legendary Broadway tunes as "The Best Is Yet to Come", "Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now"and composed such noted musicals as "Will Rogers Follies," "City of Angels," and "Sweet Charity," during a 50-year career, died on November 18 of heart failure in New York City after attending a Broadway premiere.
Judy Corman (65) Wife of best-selling author Avery Corman and the head publicist for Scholastic, Inc., which releases the Harry Potter novels in the US (she was the main contact for reporters eager for news about the Potter phenomenon), who began her career in the entertainment industry in the "60s as publicist with Epic Records with such clients as Miles Davis, John Denver, and Willie Nelson, died on November 15 of cancer in New York City.
Peter W. Cox - (67) Publisher, editor, and cofounder of Maine Times, an alternative weekly newspaper whose investigations into environmental and child welfare issues often helped to lead to state action, whose paper was an early voice in the environmental movement, attacking the state's plans to clear forests or build oil refineries, was one of the few alternative weeklies to be distributed statewide and was required reading for policy makers in Maine, died on November 18 of esophageal cancer in Georgetown, Maine.
David Grierson (49) Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) radio and TV host for 20 years, who was also a best selling author of The Expo Celebration, which featured the work of Canadian photographers at the World's Fair in Vancouver, whose series The Performers aired on TNT, and who was a founding member of British Columbia chapter of Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, died on November 20 of heart attack in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Arthur Hailey - (84) Author of Airport, Hotel, and other novels that became movies and TV miniseries; his knack for turning the mundane into thrilling tales brought 11 books published in 40 countries and 38 languages, with 170 million copies in print; left England in 1947 for Canada, where he later took citizenship (while retaining his British citizenship); quit tractor-trailer sales position to write TV screenplays; died in sleep of apparent stroke in Lyford Cay on New Providence Island, Bahamas Nov. 24, 2004.
Harry Hargreaves (82) British cartoonist for the London Evening New, who was perhaps best known for his illustrations of Michael Bond's "Paddington Bear"stories for the Blue Peter annuals, and who designed promotional toys for Kellogg's cereals, died on November 12 after previously suffering an aneurysm and being recently diagnosed with cancer.
Jimmy Lovelace (64) Veteran bebop drummer who appeared on more than two dozen recordings and performed with some of New York City's leading jazz musicians, who was a regular fixture at Smalls, a West Village club that closed in 2003, and who performed with guitarists Wes Montgomery and George Benson, died on October 29 of pancreatic cancer in New York City.
Mae Madison - (90) Hungarian-born leading lady of some 20 Warner Bros. films made upon the arrival of the "talkies", who played opposite John Barrymore in The Mad Genius, was once billed above newcomer Bette Davis in So Big!, and appeared in The Big Stampede with John Wayne, and who later became a favorite of Busby Berkeley and appeared in almost all his WB extravaganzas , died on November 1.
Terry Melcher (62) Record producer and songwriter who co-wrote "Kokomo"for the Beach Boys, produced The Byrds"hits "Mr. Tambourine Man"and "Turn, Turn, Turn, and worked with Paul Revere & the Raiders, Gram Parsons, and the Mamas & the Papas, who was the son of Doris Day and the executive producer of his mother's CBS-TV show, and who had rented the home where Sharon Tate and others were murdered by Charles Manson's followers (rumors circulated that Melcher was the real target because he had turned Manson down for a record contract, but the rumors were discounted); died on November 19 of melanoma in Beverly Hills CA.
Frederik Prausnitz - (84) Internationally acclaimed conductor who promoted contemporary classical music and worked with several American and European orchestras, who served on the faculties of NYC's Julliard School, Boston's New England Conservatory, and the Peabody Institute's conservatory in Baltimore, died of November 12 of cancer in Lewes, DE.
J. L. "Red" Hunter Rountree - (92) Believed to be the U.S.'s oldest bank robber who didn't start robbing banks until he was in his 80's and whose last robbery was when he was 91 (and also the robbery in which he got caught,) who said he robbed banks partly because he was angry at them for pulling some loans on his business, forcing him to file for bankruptcy, who says he never used a weapon but rather handed the youngest teller a manila envelope that said "Robbery" on the front and tell the teller to fill it with money, who says he finally got caught the third and final time because he got lazy and didn't hide the tag of his car with tape and was sent to prison for 12 years, died in the federal prison in Springfield, Missouri on October 12.
Billy "Uke" Scott - (81) Ukelele player and music hall star who wrote a "teach yourself" ukelele manual and more than 100 songs including his signature song, "He's Only Singing for One" and who toured Scotland with the Moss Empire touring circuit during the hey-day of musical halls-late 1940s and early 1950s, died November 12.
Ralph Sewell - (96) Former editor of The Oklahoman and the Oklahoma City Times who became a professor of journalism and editor-in-residence at U of Oklahoma School of Journalism, who was the first chairman of the advisory committee of the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation when it was created in 1982 and served on that committee until the late '90s, died on November 17 in Oklahoma City, OK.
Frank Shelley - (92) British actor and a former director of the Oxford Playhouse who helped to nurture the careers of Maggie Smith and played alongside Sir Alec Guiness, who appeared in numerous TV series and films including "The Avengers"and "Remains of the Day", died on November 8.
Richard Alan Simmons - (80) Writer and producer from the early days of TV who was best known for his Emmy-nominated teleplay The Price of Tomatoes, who earned writing credits on several films, including Clark Gable?s The King & Four Queens and Jane Russell's The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, and who was the executive producer of the Peter Falk series The Trials of O'Brien and, in the late '70s and '80s and produced episodes of Falk's Columbo, died on November 13 in Los Angeles, CA, having been in failing health for some time.
James A. Swift - (89) Founding conductor and music director of what is now the New Valley Symphony Orchestra who devoted himself to free public concerts that showcased local talents of all ages-amateur or professional, who was able to convince artists like Henry Mancini, Stan Kenton, Lalo Schifrin, Steve Allen, and Dennis Weaver to perform with the orchestra, who lamented that waning interest of the younger generation in classical music on cuts in budgets for music education, died in Laguna Hills, California on November 15.
Edward S. Waters (74) Writer and producer of such TV series as Kung Fu and Police Story, which won him an Emmy in 1976, who wrote scripts for several films, including Sorority Girl and Man-Trap and spent the bulk of his 40-year career in TV, writing scripts for more than 100 prime-time shows; producing or writing and often both, who also worked on such series as Kraft Suspense Theatre, The FBI, Mannix, The Sixth Sense, Baretta, T. J. Hooker, The Equalizer, and Jake & the Fatman, died on November 9 in Santa Monica, CA.

Sports
Bob Allen - (84) World-champion trapshooter who won two world all-around championships and 72 statewide championships in 12 states, who had victories in Cuba, Mexico, Portugal, France, Italy, and Mozambique and used $40,000 of his winnings to start sportswear business in Des Moines, died on November 17 near Logan, Iowa, after his car plunged off a bridge.
Mikael Ljungberg - (34) Swedish wrestler who won gold medal for Sweden in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2000 Olympics, who also won gold at the world championships (1993, '95, '99) and the European title (1995, '98-99); committed suicide on November 16 in a hospital in southwestern Sweden, where he was being treated for depression.
Doug Peterson - (53) Horse trainer who took over the training of Seattle Slew in 1978, a year after he won the Triple Crown, who led the horse to several major victories, including the Marlboro Cup, Woodward Stakes and Stuyvesant Handicap, and who trained other multiple stakes winners including Sigfreto and Apalachee Ridge, was found dead of unknown causes in a hotel room near Hollywood Park, California on November 21.
Alexander Ragulin - (63) Defenseman on the great Soviet hockey teams of the '60s and '70s and a three-time Olympic champion (1964, '68, and '74), who led Soviet teams to nine Soviet national championships and 10 world championships, and who was inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997; died on November 17 in Russia.
Tom ('Trooper') Washington - (60) Member of the American Basketball Association's first championship team and coach of the ABA's Pennsylvania Pit Bulls, who was drafted in the fifth round of the 1967 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals ( now the Sacramento Kings) but instead joined the Pittsburgh Pipers, leading that team to a championship, who enjoyed six seasons in the ABA and was recruited to coach Pittsburgh's new ABA franchise in October, died on November 19 in Pittsburgh, PA, after collapsing while coaching the new franchise's first game.

Art and Literature
Nancy Larrick - (93) Educator whose poetry anthologies and widely used parent's guide helped introduce generations of children to reading and literature, who was the editor of children's books for Random House and pushed for revision of children's books of the '50s, which she considered insulting even to a five-year-old's intelligence and criticized because of the near absence of black characters, and who went on to write or edit some 30 books for children, including at least 14 poetry anthologies, died on November 14 of pneumonia in Winchester VA.
J. Edward Martin - (88) Structural engineer who was a partner in an architectural firm, AC Martin, which designed some very recognizable buildings in the Los Angeles area including Million Dollar Theater, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building, Arco Plaza and the Union Bank Building, and who was a pioneer in the use of computers to determine the stress and earthquake puts on a building, died in Bradbury, California on November 22.
Ed Paschke (65) Celebrated Chicago painter for more than 30 years whose startling and metamorphosing imagery made him one of the foremost artists of his time and whose neon colors, zombielike figures, acid-toned Kool-Aid formalism and love of urban subcultures brought a distinctively dark vision to Pop Art, whose work is held in public collections from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to the Musee d'Art Moderne Nationale in Paris, and who in 1990 had the honor at the time of being the only living Art Institute alumnus to be featured in retrospective there, died on November 25 of heart failure in Chicago, IL
N Noel Perrin - (77) Writer and professor at Dartmouth College who wrote more than a dozen books and was known for his collections of autobiographical essays about living on a Vermont farm, and for the books "First Person Rural," "Second Person Rural" and "Third Person Rural," died from complications from Shy-Drager syndrome in Thetford Center, Vermont on November 21.
Corlies "Cork" Smith (75) New York book editor known for his elegant manners and tart one-liners, who in a 50-year career published an all-star list of writers including Jimmy Breslin, died on November 22 of emphysema in New York City.

Politics and Military
Col. Strome Galloway - (88) Canadian infantry officer noted for coolness under fire who took part in 25 of the 27 actions in Italy and northwest Europe for which his regiment was awarded battle honors, who helped to establish the Monarchist League of Canada, and who later went on to write nine books, including an autobiography, The General Who Never Was, died on August 11 of natural causes in Ottawa, Canada.
Joseph J. Sisco - (85) United States diplomat who was with the State Department through five presidents, who served as a State Department negotiator to develop the U.S.'s Middle East policy during the 1960's and ?70's, died of complications from diabetes in Washington, D.C. on November 23.
Ellsworth Van Graafeiland (89) Senior judge and a longtime conservative mainstay on the federal appeals bench in New York, who was among the first jurists on the federal bench to challenge the constitutionality of affirmative action regulations that involved quotas, arguing that it was reverse discrimination, died on November 20 in Rochester, NY.
Peter Twinn (88) British mathematician and WWII code-breaker who was recruited as an Enigma cipher-breaker into the British Government Code & Cipher School (GC&CS) before the war and was later credited with being the first British cryptographer to break an Enigma cipher, which embarrassed him and led him to dismiss its significance, whose work was of particular importance during the Fortitude deception operation that helped to ensure the success of the D-Day landings, died on October 29

Social and Religion
Bobby Frank Cherry - (74) Alabama man and former KKK member convicted in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison for killing four black girls in the racially-motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, the deadliest act of the civil rights era; the case went unsolved for years until new evidence, including FBI files recently became available; died on November 18 following a long illness in the hospital unit at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery AL.
Margaret Hassan - (59) Aid worker and the British-Irish director of CARE International in Iraq who spent more than 30 years helping disadvantaged Iraqis, who was seized by unknown gunmen and then was shown on Arab TV pleading for her life and calling on Tony Blair to withdraw troops from Iraq, was presumed murdered after her husband received a video on November 16 showing her being shot in the head. Her body has not been found.
Martin Malia - (80) Historian of Soviet communism who predicted the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, who wrote the books "The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991" and "Russia Under Western Eyes," died of a series of infections in Oakland, California on November 19.

Business and Science
Robert Bacher - (99) Physicist at Los Alamos Labs during the Manhattan Project who became one of the first members of the US Atomic Energy Commission, who joined CalTech faculty in 1949 and remained there for the rest of his career, and who helped create the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, one of the leading radio astronomy facilities in the world, died on November 18 in Montecito, CA.
Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj - (73) Iranian-born physician whose "water cure"suggested that many diseases were simply the result of dehydration and urged people to drink far more water than most authorities recommended (his remedy was outlined in his book Your Body's Many Cries for Water), who said he discovered the healing powers of water while treating fellow prisoners during the Iranian Revolution, died on November 15 of pneumonia in Fairfax, VA.
Robert S. Beale Jr. - (62) Prominent diet doctor who treated thousands at his Washington, DC clinics and was considered a pioneer in bariatric medicine, the specialty of treating obesity, who was known for his work with black women and often found himself at odds with authorities over accusations of fraud and sexual harassment, and who was a sports car enthusiast, died on November 13 in Gambrills, MD after a car accident in one of his many high performance vehicles.
Thomas Dibblee - (93) Renowned field geologist who mapped out nearly a quarter of California and created maps for almost 40,000 square miles of state territory, who won a Presidential Volunteer Action Award from President Reagan after charting 2 million acres of Los Padres National Forest, and who cowrote a key study suggesting that the San Andreas Fault had moved south by almost 350 miles that became a fundamental part of research into plate tectonics, died on November 17 in Santa Barbara, CA.
Dr. M. Irene Ferrer - (89) New York cardiologist and medical educator who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram, which have become diagnostic essentials in heart treatment, who spent 35 years as a member of the faculty at Columbia University and was a former editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, who was also the elder sister of actor/director Mel Ferrer, died on November 12 of pneumonia and congestive heart failure in New York City.
Jasper Kane (101): Biochemist who suggested that antibiotics could be manufactured in mass quantities rather than dose-by-dose in a lab, who worked for Pfizer and helped steer that company, at the time a chemical supplier for the food industry, toward pharmaceutical production, and who eventually became Pfizer’s VP and director of biochemical R&D, died on November 16 in Boca Raton, FL.
Ancel Keys - (100) Creator of K ration diet (portable meals that soldiers in World War II could eat in emergency situations-contained 3,000 calories, included such items as hard biscuits and dry sausage and were easily carried in a pack) and who studied white-collar middle aged men in the Minneapolis area and discovered the link between diets high in cholesterol and heart disease, and who, with his wife, championed the Mediterranean diets, died in Minneapolis on November 20.
George J. Maslach - (84) Former vice chancellor for research and academic affairs at UC Berkeley who joined the faculty in 1952, was named dean of the school of engineering in 1963 and also served as the university's provost for professional schools and colleges, whose name appears, with his wife's, on a campus residence hall, died on November 11 of complications from a stroke in Richmond CA.
Walter Mintz - (75) Investor and cofounder of one of the country's first hedge funds who later promoted free-market approaches to education and city governance, whose investing success allowed him to retire at 53 and devote his time to applying the economic theories he had studied and espoused while a doctoral candidate, who designed and funded studies promoting the idea of charter schools in the early '90s and funded two scholarships that bear his name, died on November 16 of neuroendocrine cancer in New York City.
Lawrence J. Pierce - (104) Rhododendron cultivator who spent over 20 years in the military to help with rural electrification and education, whose garden contains more than 1,000 species of Rhododendrons, including the "piercei," which is named for him, and covers nearly four acres, died as the result of complications from a spinal fracture from a recent fall in Seattle on November 14.
Donald R. Puddy - (67) NASA flight director who oversaw the flights of Apollo, Skylab and early space shuttle missions, who was with the organization for 31 years and was the 10th person to serve as flight director for NASA, who directed the Apollo-Soyuz Test project and who was inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame in 2002, died following a lengthy illness in Houston, Texas on November 22.
Sir John Vane (77) Scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1982 for his work in discovering how aspirin works, a discovery that led to new treatments for heart and vessel disease, including ACE inhibitors, which are widely used to treat high blood pressure, heart failure and other vascular diseases, who was a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's pre-eminent academic society and was knighted in 1984; died on November 19 in Farnborough, England, of complications from fractures suffered earlier in the year.

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