LA TIMES - Henry Denker, Author in Many Genres, Dies at 99, May 24, 2012

 "In a 1949 press release sent out after the publication of his first novel, “I’ll Be Right Home, Ma,” about a light-heavyweight fighter with “a sweet right-hand sock,” Henry Denker declared his belief that “a writer should be active in several forms of his trade.” He added: “Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.”
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LA TIMES - H.H. Brookins dies at 86; pastor was influential black leader, May 24, 2012

 "The Rev. Hamel Hartford Brookins, an influential bishop and former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles who became a political power broker, civil rights leader and mentor to former Mayor Tom Bradley, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and many others, has died. He was 86.
The son of Mississippi sharecroppers, Brookins rose to prominence in the 1960s and '70s as an articulate, self-assured champion of black political empowerment. He died Tuesday at a Los Angeles retirement center where he had been receiving hospice care, a church spokesman said. Brookins had been ill for some time."
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MARINE CORPS TIMES - Naval Academy’s 1st black graduate dies at 85, May 24, 2012

 "ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the Naval Academy, has died, the academy said. He was 85.
The Capital of Annapolis reported that Brown died Tuesday. An academy spokesman did not know where Brown died and a cause of death was not immediately known Wednesday.
Brown, a 1949 graduate, was appointed to the academy in 1945. He was the sixth black admitted but the first to earn a degree."
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GLOBAL GRIND - Hal Jackson, Radio Pioneer, Dead At 96, May 24, 2012

 "Hal Jackson, the legendary voice of New York's WBLS, has died at the age of 96 due to illness.
WBLS released a statement expressing their sadness at the loss of the radio pioneer.
Jackson was a popular radio and television personality and one of the most respected men in the communications industry.
As a radio pioneer, Jackson experienced many "firsts" that have assisted in opening doors for other aspiring Black broadcasters, musicians and performers."
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ITV - Greece president's last-ditch unity effort, May 13, 2012

 "Greece's president will meet political party leaders today in a last-chance effort to broker a deal for a coalition government and avoid another general election.
Karolos Papoulias took the step on Saturday after socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos officially gave up the mandate to form a coalition government - following three rounds of negotiations.
Mr Papoulias' office announced that the president would initially meet the heads of the three parties that won the most votes in last Sunday's inconclusive elections - the conservative New Democracy, radical left-wing Radical Left Coalition (Syriza) and socialist PASOK."
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WASHINGTON POST - Horst Faas, prizewinning war photographer, dies at 79, May 13, 2012

"Horst Faas, a German-born combat photographer whose calm under fire helped him capture searing portraits of life and death in Vietnam and other war zones in Asia, earning him two Pulitzer Prizes, died May 10 at a hospital in Munich. He was 79."
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Legendary car designer, racer Shelby dies at 89, May 13, 2012

"DALLAS (AP) — Decades after a heart condition forced him to retire from racing, Carroll Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars. Well into his 80s, the legendary car designer spent hours testing his last Mustang Shelby GT500, which sets a new record for horsepower and hits a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour."

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WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Early female pilot Evelyn Bryan Johnson dies, 102, May 13, 2012

"MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — Pioneering female pilot and Guinness world record holder Evelyn Bryan Johnson, known as "Mama Bird," died Thursday, according to a funeral home. She was 102.
Bryan started flying in 1944 and went on to run her own flying service and manage a small-town airport. The Farrar Funeral Home in Jefferson City said the Morristown resident died Thursday.
"I don't care how many problems you have down on the ground, you forget about them (while flying)," the bright-eyed and barely 5-foot-tall woman known to her students and colleagues as Mama Bird or Miss Evelyn told The Associated Press in 2005."
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LA OBSERVER - Artist Willie Middlebrook dies, May 13, 2012

"The Inglewood artist died over the weekend, just a week after the opening of the Expo Line, which features his artwork in the Crenshaw station. The MTA joined friends on Facebook in announcing his death:"
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FORWARD - Vidal Sassoon, Salon Soldier, May 13, 2012

 "The hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, who died on May 9, reportedly of leukemia, was more than just a fashion legend. Born in London in 1928 of Ukrainian-Greek Jewish background, Sassoon created an architectonically geometric updating of the short women’s haircut known as the “bob” for such 1960s celebrities as the English model Twiggy, dress designer Mary Quant, and actress Mia Farrow. These design prototypes are still highly influential today."

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STYLE NEWS - Vidal Sassoon Dies, May 13, 2012

 "Legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon died in his Bel Air home on Wednesday morning. He was 84.
The famed coiffeur passed away from apparent natural causes at the house on Mulholland Drive, where family members were present, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.
Born in England, Sassoon grew up in London’s Cockney East End. Placed in an orphanage as an infant, he dropped out of school at 14 to work as a shampoo boy in a small salon. After volunteering to fight for Israel in the Negev Desert in 1948, he returned to London to open his first salon. “If I had to be in hair, I was going to do it my way,” he told PEOPLE (read the magazine’s 1976 profile of the just-budding mogul here)."
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Kennedy, Johnson aide Nicholas Katzenbach dies, May 13, 2012

 "TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — While researching his epic series on Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro found himself again and again calling upon Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, the former Justice Department and State Department official.
"He was a key figure in so many of the most crucial moments in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations," says Caro, whose fourth Johnson volume, "The Passage of Power," was recently released. "And he was so careful about making sure that I truly understood them."
The Bay of Pigs. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Integration of schools"

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BLOOMBERG - Red Sox Announcer Beane Dies of Heart Attack While Driving Car, May 13, 2012

 "Carl Beane, the “Voice of Fenway Park,” died yesterday after having a heart attack while driving his car in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, the Boston Red Sox said.
Beane, 59, had been the public address announcer since 2003, when he won a competition for the position."
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PBS - Maurice Sendak Dies at Age 83, May 13, 2012

"Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of children's literature who was best known for his book, "Where the Wild Things Are," died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83. He had suffered a stroke on Friday.
Sendak came to fame in 1963 after the publication of "Where the Wild Things Are," for which he won the Caldecott Medal. He authored dozens of children's books over the following years, including another big hit in 1970, "In the Night Kitchen."
In 2002, for a segment about an exhibition on children's illustrations, Jeffrey Brown sat down with Sendak to talk about his roots as an artist and his interest in exploring children's perceptions of everyday life."

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TELEGRAPH - Roman Totenberg, May 13, 2012

"Roman Totenberg, who has died aged 101, was a Polish-born violinist who made music with Yehudi Menuhin, ate with Eleanor Roosevelt and built sandcastles with Igor Stravinsky."ALEXANDER LANGUAGE SCHOOLS

LEZ GET REAL - Laugh-In Creator Digby Wolfe Has Died, May 13, 2012

 "With co-producers George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, creator/writer Digby Wolfe gave us a bikini-clad Goldie Hawn, covered in psychidelic body paint gyrating on a bare stage, and diminutive Judy Carne being hit with bucketsful of water. He gave us a German-helmeted Arte Johnson, cigarette held European-style, sinisterly intoning “Ver-r-r-y interesting” and a former vice-president popping his head through a hole in a wall to ask “Sock it to me?” just before he became President Richard M. Nixon. (His opponent in that election, Hubert Humphrey was later to comment that refusing to appear on Laugh-In probably cost him the election. That’s how far back “being cool” mattered.)"
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LA TIMES - George Lindsey, Goober Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show' dies, May 13, 2012

"George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning. He was 83.
Lindsey, who later was a regular on the long-running country music comedy show "Hee Haw," died at a healthcare center in Nashville after a brief illness, said his manager and booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed."
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ALSHAHID.NET - South African minister dies in Addis Ababa, May 13, 2012

 "Addis Ababa (Alshahid)- A South African Cabinet minister died while attending an African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian government said Saturday.
South Africa’s Public Service and Administration Minister Padayachie, 62, collapsed at Addis Ababa airport Friday and died later in the Sheraton hotel, Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman Dina Muti said."

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TICO TIMES - Sandinista founder Tomás Borge dies at 81, May 13, 2012

"Tomás Borge, the last living founder of Nicaragua’s left-wing Sandinista movement and the country’s feared interior minister for more than a decade, died Monday at the age of 81.
“With great sorrow we announce that the earthly and fruitful life of the revolutionary and commander Tomás Borge has come to an end,” said Rosario Murillo, wife of Sandinista leader and current President Daniel Ortega.
“Tomas is of the dead who will never die. He will always be with us in the Sandinista Front and in the revolutionary process,” Murillo, who also serves as a government spokeswoman, told local radio, her voice shaking with emotion."
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MYDOC HUB - Patricia Medina Dies at 92, May 13, 2012

"92-year old British-born actress Patricia Medina, whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the ’50s spanned comedies, dramas, adventure films and thrillers, has died.
Patricia Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, passed away Saturday at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. She had been in declining health.
A petite, dark-haired beauty who launched her career in England in the 1930s, Medina was married to actor Richard Greene when she arrived in Hollywood."
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