Steve Shickles http://www.shickles.net Just another Steve Shickles blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Obituaries in the news (AP) http://www.shickles.net/obituaries-in-the-news-ap-559/ http://www.shickles.net/obituaries-in-the-news-ap-559/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/obituaries-in-the-news-ap-559/ AP - Matthew J. Cianciulli

]]> http://www.shickles.net/obituaries-in-the-news-ap-559/feed/ Comedy writer Irving Brecher dies at 94 (AP) http://www.shickles.net/comedy-writer-irving-brecher-dies-at-94-ap-2/ http://www.shickles.net/comedy-writer-irving-brecher-dies-at-94-ap-2/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/comedy-writer-irving-brecher-dies-at-94-ap-2/ AP - Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville one-liners for Milton Berle and scripted Marx Brothers movies, the TV and radio hit “The Life of Riley” and the Oscar-nominated musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” has died. He was 94.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/comedy-writer-irving-brecher-dies-at-94-ap-2/feed/ Clive Barnes, theater, dance critic, dies at 81 (AP) http://www.shickles.net/clive-barnes-theater-dance-critic-dies-at-81-ap-2/ http://www.shickles.net/clive-barnes-theater-dance-critic-dies-at-81-ap-2/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/clive-barnes-theater-dance-critic-dies-at-81-ap-2/ AP - Clive Barnes, longtime theater and dance critic for the New York Post, has died.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/clive-barnes-theater-dance-critic-dies-at-81-ap-2/feed/ Renowned international art dealer Jan Krugier dies (AP) http://www.shickles.net/renowned-international-art-dealer-jan-krugier-dies-ap-2/ http://www.shickles.net/renowned-international-art-dealer-jan-krugier-dies-ap-2/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/renowned-international-art-dealer-jan-krugier-dies-ap-2/ AP - Art dealer Jan Krugier, an Auschwitz survivor who collected the works of Picasso and other renowned artists to help himself move past the horrors of the Nazi era, has died. He was 80.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/renowned-international-art-dealer-jan-krugier-dies-ap-2/feed/ British TV comedy star Reg Varney dies at 92 (AP) http://www.shickles.net/british-tv-comedy-star-reg-varney-dies-at-92-ap-2/ http://www.shickles.net/british-tv-comedy-star-reg-varney-dies-at-92-ap-2/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/british-tv-comedy-star-reg-varney-dies-at-92-ap-2/ AP - Reg Varney, a comic actor who played a cheery Cockney bus driver in British sitcom “On the Buses,” died Sunday, his daughter said. He was 92.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/british-tv-comedy-star-reg-varney-dies-at-92-ap-2/feed/ Florence Wald, leader in US hospice, dies at 91 (AP) http://www.shickles.net/florence-wald-leader-in-us-hospice-dies-at-91-ap-4/ http://www.shickles.net/florence-wald-leader-in-us-hospice-dies-at-91-ap-4/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:59 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/florence-wald-leader-in-us-hospice-dies-at-91-ap-4/ In this Saturday, July 11, 1998, file photo, Florence Wald is seen at the 1998 induction ceremony of the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Wald, a leader in the U.S. hospice movement, has died. She was 91. Wald was dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in the 1960s when she updated its curriculum to include a stronger focus on palliative care and comfort for dying patients and their families. (AP Photo/Michael Okoniewski, File)AP - Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean whose interest in compassionate care led her to launch the first U.S. hospice program, has died. She was 91.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/florence-wald-leader-in-us-hospice-dies-at-91-ap-4/feed/ Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Knoll dies at 78 (AP) http://www.shickles.net/pennsylvania-lt-gov-knoll-dies-at-78-ap-4/ http://www.shickles.net/pennsylvania-lt-gov-knoll-dies-at-78-ap-4/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:58 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/pennsylvania-lt-gov-knoll-dies-at-78-ap-4/ AP - Catherine Baker Knoll, who at age 72 became the first woman to be elected as Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, died Wednesday. She was 78.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/pennsylvania-lt-gov-knoll-dies-at-78-ap-4/feed/ Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Hendrix, found dead (AP) http://www.shickles.net/mitch-mitchell-drummer-for-hendrix-found-dead-ap-4/ http://www.shickles.net/mitch-mitchell-drummer-for-hendrix-found-dead-ap-4/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:58 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/mitch-mitchell-drummer-for-hendrix-found-dead-ap-4/ This Aug. 21, 1967 file photo shows Noel Redding, left, Jimi Hendrix, center, and Mitch Mitchell, of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, at Heathrow airport in London. Authorities say Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s, has been found dead in his Portland, Ore. hotel room. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp, file)AP - Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group’s last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He was 61.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/mitch-mitchell-drummer-for-hendrix-found-dead-ap-4/feed/ NY serial killer Arthur Shawcross dead at 63 (AP) http://www.shickles.net/ny-serial-killer-arthur-shawcross-dead-at-63-ap-4/ http://www.shickles.net/ny-serial-killer-arthur-shawcross-dead-at-63-ap-4/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:58 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/ny-serial-killer-arthur-shawcross-dead-at-63-ap-4/ This undated police booking photo shows Arthur J. Shawcross. Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, died Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 at 63. The cause of death was still under investigation, he said. (AP Photo)AP - Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, has died at 63.

]]> http://www.shickles.net/ny-serial-killer-arthur-shawcross-dead-at-63-ap-4/feed/ Serb who hijacked US plane in 1979 dies (AP) http://www.shickles.net/serb-who-hijacked-us-plane-in-1979-dies-ap-4/ http://www.shickles.net/serb-who-hijacked-us-plane-in-1979-dies-ap-4/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:58 +0000 http://www.shickles.net/serb-who-hijacked-us-plane-in-1979-dies-ap-4/ ** FILE * This is a March 9 2008 file photo. of Nikola Kavaja a self-styled assassin to former Yugoslavia's dictator Josip Broz Tito, who claimed Osama Bin Laden had copied his idea of crushing passenger jets into high-rises during the 9/11 attacks, has died of a heart attack, Belgrade media reported Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. In 1979, he hijacked an American Airlines jet in New York and commandeered it over the Atlantic with the intention of crashing it into the high-rise Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters in Belgrade. He was extradited to the U.S. from Ireland where the Boeing 707 landed when he abandoned his highjack mission, saying at the time he was not sure of the exact location of the downtown party headquarters and did not want innocent civilians to die if the jet missed the target. Kavaja, who spent 18 years in a U.S. federal prison on highjack charges, and was released 1999 had claimed that he was recruited by CIA to kill former communist dictator Josip Broz Tito, who ruled Yugoslavia from 1945 until he died in 1980, during his visits to Brazil and Chile in the early 1960s. (AP Photo/Bosko Karanovic, files)AP - Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked a U.S. passenger jet in 1979 with the intention of crashing it into Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters, has died.

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