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All-Pro Defensive Back for Colts and L.A. Schoolteacher, Counselor 

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Milt Davis, an All-Pro defensive back for the Baltimore Colts who played on two National Football League championship teams and twice led the league in interceptions, has died. Davis, who also played at UCLA and went on to a long teaching career in Los Angeles, died of cancer Monday at his home in Elmira, Ore., said his daughter Allison Davis-White Eyes.A member of the Colts for only four seasons, 1957 through 1960, Davis was an integral part of one of the NFL's most dominant teams of that decade and a starter in what is often called the greatest game ever played, the 1958 NFL championship game against the New York Giants, which the Colts won, 23-17, in overtime. Read more

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Nick Reynolds: 1933 - 2008
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Nick Reynolds, who as a college student grabbed a guitar, donned a broad-striped button-down shirt and quickly helped propel the 1950s folk music revival to the top of the pop music charts as a founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday... Read more
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Richard H. Faust, Authority on Negro League, Dies at 83

THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS

Sep. 30--When Richard H. Faust Sr. was a boy, he and his father would walk from their West Philadelphia home to a ballfield at Belmont and Parkside avenues to watch some of the greatest baseball... Read more

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The Goal is to Carry on — but How?

THE SEATTLE TIMES

Sep. 30--Anything else? the obit writer asked me. He sounded like a deli man taking a sandwich order, a mechanic wiping the grease from his hands. The question opened a vast horizon in my soul.... Read more

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Anne R. Somers, Professor of Medicine
THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
Oct. 3--ANNE RAMSAY Somers, longtime professor of medicine who specialized in long-term care, health economics, health education and geriatric care, died Sept. 24. She was 95 and was living in Pennswood Village, Newtown, but had lived for years in... Read more
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Ex-News Executive Dead at 91

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL

Fred P. Pettijohn decided to become a journalist in the eighth grade after a stint as a reporter for a mimeographed classroom publication called Ye Weekly Snooze. The decision served him, and... Read more

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TV's "Mr. Clean" dies at age 92

REUTERS

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The actor who played muscular "Mr. Clean" in hundreds of dirt-busting television commercials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 92, his... Read more

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James Webster Brooks, Richmond Surgeon, Dies

RICHMOND TIMES - DISPATCH

Sep. 30--Dr. James Webster Brooks was known for his surgical care and patient care. For the past 51 years, Dr. James Webster Brooks was a fixture around VCU Medical Center. A longtime thoracic... Read more

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Hayden Carruth: 1921 - 2008

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Hayden Carruth, whose forceful observations of nature, hard work and mental illness brought him late acclaim as one of the most important poets of his generation, died Sept. 29 at his home in... Read more

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Dionicio Morales, 89, Activist

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL

Dionicio Morales, an early giant of Los Angeles activism who came out of the agricultural fields to create the nation's largest Hispanic human services provider, has died. He was 89. Mr. Morales... Read more

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