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Mr. LaMontaine, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1959 and composed music for the Kennedy inauguration, had passed an exam to be a stockbroker in order to support his career.
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Mr. Lindgren appeared with major American ballet companies before becoming the founding dean of the influential dance program at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Muncie played for UC Berkeley and went on to play in the NFL from 1976 to 1984. He was suspended in 1984 for cocaine use. He devoted his later life to helping others avoid drugs.Chuck Muncie, a star running back with the New Orleans Saints and the...
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Kenneth Battelle, hairstylist to Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and other luminaries, dies at 86Kenneth Battelle, an influential hairstylist who created Jacqueline Kennedy's tousled bouffant and counted Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball among his...
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Mr. Muncie blended speed and power to become one of the N.F.L.’s leading running backs of the late 1970s and early ’80s, but his career was cut short by drug abuse.
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Mr. Estes’s life captured America’s imagination, with its tales of business scams, political payoffs, covered-up killings and White House conspiracies.
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Jones, who taught full time at UCLA, was cast as the judge on KABC-TV's 'Traffic Court.' He was such a hit that he was elevated to network TV as the judge on ABC's 'Day in Court' and 'Accused.'The TV career of Edgar Allan Jones Jr. began with a...
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Wounded in the assault on Peleliu in World War II, he refused to be evacuated, 'personally leading his battalion … over 1,400 yards of open ground in the face of intense hostile … fire.'Retired Marine Brig. Gen. Gordon Gayle, who...
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Dr. Brothers arrived at the exact historical moment when cold war anxiety, a greater acceptance of talk therapy and the widespread ownership of television sets converged.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85.
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