Max Bygraves obit

 

Max Bygraves obituary

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Sentimental singer and cheery comedian who became a star at the London Palladium

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Veteran entertainer Max Bygraves has died in Australia, aged 89.

The comedian, actor, and singer, whose catchphrase was "I wanna tell you a story", died in his sleep at home in Hope Island, Queensland, on Friday. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

He emigrated from Bournemouth, Dorset, to Australia in 2005.

"We have lost one of the best entertainers that Britain has ever produced," his agent Johnny Mans said.

"His death is a great loss to the entertainment profession and a great loss to all of his friends in the industry."

"He was a friend to everyone and there was no 'airs and graces' about him, he was just a superstar, but didn't realise he was a superstar."

Born in Rotherhithe, south-east London, in 1922 as Walter William Bygraves, the former Family Fortunes presenter gained the nickname Max from his impersonations of comedian Max Miller while serving in the RAF.

'Very cheeky'

After World War II, Bygraves rose to fame as a variety entertainer, also writing a string of comic songs.

He performed on stage with Spike Milligan, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe and Frankie Howerd, and often appeared at the London Palladium in later years.

Recalling a conversation with Frankie Howerd, he once said: "Frankie read my palm and told me that I was going to be a millionaire and top of the bill one day.

"I thought he had got his wires crossed. Years later, he reminded me of it and used it to get a free lunch out of me."

Bygraves, whose career spanned five decades and made him a multi-millionaire, also went on to star in radio and television shows, and films, including Charley Moon. He also bought the rights to a then-unknown musical - Oliver! - from its creator Lionel Bart, which then went on to make him huge amounts of money.

Bygraves was popular in the US, where he performed with Judy Garland at the Palace Theatre in New York during a tour in the 1950s.

He was awarded an OBE in 1983, describing himself as "just an ordinary cockney bloke who made it".

He married Blossom Murray in 1942 and had three children. She died last year.

Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, who was an old friend of Bygraves, described him as "a great favourite" who "really enjoyed" being on stage.

"They loved him - you don't get that love very often. Max had it in handfuls.

"He could be very cheeky, he wasn't above that. I mean he was a rascal. I have nothing but lovely memories of him," he added.

Speaking of his friend's impact on his own work, Tarbuck said: "He was a lovely and big, big influence on me, and a very big influence - the way he works - on Des O'Connor.

"I mean (he was) the King of the Palladium. He ruled it when he was on there, it was a joy to watch him win an audience and he would have them roaring with laughter, he would have them singing along, he could have them with a tear in their eye if he did a sentimental song, just a great, great all round entertainer.

"I'll miss him and I'm sad today because I was very fond of him - because he was so nice to me when I was a kid, with advice."

'A great character'

Former radio presenter and friend Ed Stewart said Bygraves was a "unique talent" who "gave a lot of pleasure to a lot of people".

"He as a person never dated."

"He was a great character with a great sense of humour, a lovely family and it's just a shame that he's gone, but at nearly 90, he had a good run. He was an entertainer through and through.

"There were one or two others at the time but Max was the doyen of them all, and this likeable lad was just on everybody's radio sets in the days of the BBC when you only had the live programmes.

"Those programmes and those records of his gave a lot of pleasure to a lot of people and were huge sellers."

 

Television

Whack-O! (1960)

The Royal Variety Performance (1961; 1963 etc.)

The Jack Benny Program (1963, season 13, episode 13)

It's Sad About Eddie (1964)

Max Bygraves meets The Black and White Minstrels (1965, 1 episode)

Max Thames Television (1968–72 including The Max Bygraves Hour 1970 and The Max Bygraves Show 1972)

Max at the Royalty (1972)

SingalongaMax (1973)

Max ATV (1974)

Max Bygraves Says "I Wanna Tell You a Story" (1975–77)

Max's Holiday Hour (1977)

Lingalongamax (1978–80 including hour long special From Max with Love 1979)

Max Thames Television (1981)

Max Rolls On (1982)

Max Bygraves – Side by Side (1982)

Family Fortunes (1983–85, 42 episodes)

The Mind of David Berglas (1986)

Call Up the Stars (1995)

Against the Odds RAF Documentary (2001)

 

Partial filmography

Bless 'Em All (1948)

The Nitwits on Parade (1949)

Skimpy in the Navy (1949)

Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)

Charley Moon (1956)

A Cry from the Streets (1958)

Bobbikins (1959)

Spare the Rod (1961)

The Alf Garnett Saga (1972)

The Jigsaw Man (1983) Uncredited cameo appearance (policeman)

Tom Keating obit

Tom Keating – Former Buffalo Bill and Oakland Raider lineman passes away

 

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Tom Keating, a former All-Pro defensive lineman for the Raiders who had a distinct four-point stance with both hands on the ground, died Friday, two days shy of his 70th birthday. He died of prostate cancer at a hospice in Denver with family members by his bedside.

He and teammate and close friend Ben Davidson were diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer within two weeks of each other and died two months apart.


The two defensive linemen would motorcycle through Mexico, Panama and the United States during the offseason. During their playing days, Davidson was also a regular at dinner at Keating's Alameda house, a social event that would welcome a range of guests, from actor Nick Nolte and writer Peter Gent to teammates Ken Stabler and Fred Biletnikoff.

A Chicago native and three-year starter at Michigan, Keating was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1964. He left after two seasons to play for the Raiders from 1966 to 1972.

Keating started at defensive tackle in the 1967 season in which the Raiders went 13-1, beat the Houston Oilers 40-7 in the AFL Championship Game and lost 33-14 to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II.

The defensive line of Mr. Keating, Davidson, Dan Birdwell and Ike Lassiter led a defense that gave up the fewest yards rushing and the fewest rushing yards per attempt in the AFL. Oakland also had 67 sacks and finished third in fewest passing yards and second in least points allowed.

Mr. Keating was a first-team AFL All-Star in 1967 and played in the AFL All-Star Game in 1966 and 1967. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Kansas City Chiefs. He retired after the 1975 season.

In his later years, he worked as a private investigator for a law firm before opening his own agency in Walnut Creek.

Since 2008, Mr. Keating started spending several months of the year in Limoux, a small town in southern France. He made some new friends, bicycled, cooked and enjoyed the local wines, his brother Bill Keating said.

Mr. Keating asked his family members that his ashes be spread in the Aude River, which runs through Limoux, and along his favorite cycling route from Limoux to St. Polycarpe.

"When Tom passed on, it cheered my heart to imagine that he was really just taking the road to St. Polycarpe," said Bill Keating, an attorney in Denver who played for the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins. "There are vineyards that border the road to St. Polycarpe, and we will spread some of his ashes in the best of them."

Tom Keating is also survived by his three sons: James Alexander Keating, Patrick Gould and Ryan Gould.

Myles Tanenbaum obit

Myles Tanenbaum, Mall Builder, Political Activist, Dies at 82

 

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Myles H. Tanenbaum, 82, a man who held court in fields as diverse as mall development, synagogue construction and building a springtime football team for Philadelphia, died Aug. 31 at the Quadrangle in Haverford, battling Alzheimer’s disease.

A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Penn­sylvania, as well as Penn law school, the Gladwyne resident made his mark in the main as a partner in Kravco, whose area real estate empire extended to King of Prussia, where the Plaza and the Court unfolded under his watch, in addition to the Oxford Valley Mall.

In an interview in his office in King of Prussia, he told the Jewish Exponent some 35 years ago that he envisioned malls as a natural form of entertainment for shoppers eager to make their purchases in an area that all family members could enjoy themselves. Indeed, the establishment of the King of Prussia Mall and the Plaza was instrumental in the explosion of interest and traffic along the Route 202 Corridor.

The developer left Kravco in 1988, several years after he had already become president of EQK Realty Investors.

Politically, Tanenbaum had been co-chair of the local Republican Jewish Coalition, co-writing an op-ed for the Jewish Exponent touting John McCain’s presidential bid in 2008.

Investing time and effort in the Jewish community was also important to this Queens, N.Y., native. Indeed, more than 50 years ago, Tanenbaum joined other area residents to provide funding for a new synagogue in Cheltenham, Congregation Melrose B’nai Israel, which recently moved to rent space from Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park.

It wasn’t the only building of Jewish interest he helped establish: Named after his parents, the Jeanne and Bennett Tanenbaum Music Conservatory proved a notable addition to the cultural landscape of Netivot, Israel. Tanenbaum also served in the past as president of the National Museum of American Jewish History and served as co-chair of its capital campaign as it prepared its move to its new home in Society Hill.

A member of seemingly countless boards, including that of his alma mater, where he also was instrumental in establishing the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton and fund­ing the law school’s Tanenbaum Hall, the real estate mo­gul, a certified public accountant, wasn’t all business. He held a certain love in his heart for sports and perhaps got one of his biggest kicks out of becoming a principal owner of the Philadelphia Stars in the just-established United States Football League in 1983. The team later relocated to be the Baltimore Stars and played in all three of the championship games for the USFL.

The team captured the title in 1984, the league’s second year of operation, after losing in the championship game in 1983, all the while sporting the colors of another of Tanenbaum’s alma maters, Central High School.

Along with Ron Blanding in Denver and John Bassett in Tampa, Tanenbaum was a strong champion for the concept of spring football, believing that the USFL was viable under David Dixon's original plan for the league. As the league evolved and the forces of fall took root, Tanenbaum publicly and privately battled those pushing for a fall schedule. Nevertheless, Tanenbaum relocated the team to Baltimore (where there was no competition from the NFL) after the USFL voted to move to the fall. In the interim between the 1985 and 1986 seasons, Tanenbaum sold the Stars, refocusing his efforts on his business interests. He retired and continued to live in the Philadelphia area, remaining active in local charitable causes.

The fledgling league didn’t make it past the third year; the Stars also captured the flag that final year but from their new home in Baltimore.

Tanenbaum is survived by his daughter, Sharon; sons Stev­en and Lawrence; and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by daughter Nicole and wife Ruthe Freedman.

 

Joe Lewis obit

 Actor and Kick Boxer Joe Lewis Has Died

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Blond, muscular, tall, handsome, and the greatest heavyweight point-fighter and kick-boxer of the 1960s and 70s, Joe Lewis coined the phrase,"American Kickboxing". He fought in the first kick-boxing heavyweight title fight in 1970. Had one of the greatest point-fighting careers in history. Lewis is one of only 5 men to defeat the legendary Chuck Norris. Turned professional in 1970. Was undefeated in his first 12 fights, all by knockout. The first kick-boxing champion to appear on the cover of the RING Boxing Magazine. Retired after losing back-to-back decisions. Years later, launched a highly publicized ring comeback. Achieved a world ranking, but failed to recapture his lost crown. Considered one of the top 3 greatest kick-boxing champions in history; some say he was the best.

Originally a practitioner of Shōrin-ryū karate and champion in point sparring competitions, he became one of the fathers of full contact karate and kickboxing in the United States, and is credited with popularizing the combat sport in North America.

As a fighter, Lewis gained fame for his matches in the 1960s and 1970s, and was nicknamed "the Muhammad Ali of karate." He has twice been voted the greatest fighter in karate history, having won several karate tournaments, and has attained the titles of "United States Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion," "World Heavyweight Full Contact Karate Champion," and "United States National Black Belt Kata Champion." Though initially trained and primarily known as a karateka, Lewis cross-trained in several other martial arts, including Ryukyu Kenpo, boxing, judo, jeet kune do, tai chi, and folkstyle wrestling.

His friend and training partner Bruce Lee coined him "The Greatest Karate Fighter of All Time." He was also named by the STAR System World Kickboxing Ratings as the "STAR Historic Undisputed Heavyweight World Champion" and is credited on their site as the "Father of Modern Kickboxing". He competed professionally from 1965 to 1983, with a 16-1-4 record and 14 wins by knockout.

Joseph Henry Lewis was born on March 7, 1944, in Knightdale, North Carolina. He is of Welsh and Scottish ancestry. In 1962, Lewis enlisted in the US Marine Corps. He was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina from July 20, 1962, to April 12, 1964. He studied Shōrin-ryū Karate with Eizo Shimabukuro, John Korab, Chinsaku Kinjo, and Seiyu Oyata while stationed in Okinawa between May 21, 1964, and November 29, 1965, earning his black belt in seven months. He was one of the first Marines stationed in Vietnam; there, he met Rocky Graziano.

From February 7 to July 14, 1966, he was stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during which he was released from active duty. Upon returning to the US, he began a winning tournament career. From 1967 to 1968, he studied privately with the influential Wing-Chun kung fu teacher, Jeet Kune Do founder, and Chinese/Hollywood movie legend Bruce Lee.

Hong Kong cinema historian Bey Logan says Lewis was the original pick of Bruce Lee for the villain Colt in Way of the Dragon, but that Lee and Lewis either had a falling out or Lewis had a scheduling conflict, and thus Chuck Norris was tapped instead.

In 1966, with only 22 months of training, Lewis won the grand championship of the first tournament he entered, the U.S. Nationals, promoted by Jhoon Rhee. Lewis defeated seven opponents before defeating Thomas Carroll by a 2–0 decision. Lewis reigned as the U.S. Nationals grand champion from 1966 to 1969. At the 1967 Nationals in Washington, Lewis won the championship by defeating Mitchell Bobrow in the semi-final and beating Frank Hargrove 3–2 in the finals. Previously, Lewis defeated Hargrove in New York City at 'Henry Cho's Karate Tournament'.

In 1966, at the Long Beach Internationals, Lewis lost an upset decision to Allen Steen. In 1967, Lewis defeated Chuck Norris's brother Wieland Norris, Steve LaBounty, and Frank Knoll, as well as Frank Hargrove for the third time.

At the 1968 'Orient vs. U.S. Tournament', promoted by Aaron Banks, Lewis lost to Japanese-American N. Tanaka. At the 'First Professional Karate Tournament' in Dallas, Texas, Lewis won the championship trophy by decisioning Larry Whitner, Phil Ola, and Skipper Mullins.

In February 1968, Lewis, along with Bob Wall, Skipper Mullins, J. Pat Burleson, David Moon, and Fred Wren, fought in the first World Professional Karate Championships (WPKC) promoted by Jim Harrison. This was the first "professional" tournament in karate history, and took place in Harrison's dojo in Kansas City. The rules allowed "heavy contact." Lewis won the tournament and was paid one dollar, officially making him the first professional champion in karate history. In August 1968, Lewis was defeated by Victor Moore at the World's Hemisphere Karate Championships, the second professional karate tournament in history, which took place in San Antonio, Texas and was promoted by Robert Trias and Atlee Chittim. Moore and Lewis split the championship purse of $1,000. The same year, Lewis defeated Louis Delgado, who had beaten Chuck Norris the year before. On November 24, 1968, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, Lewis won Aaron Banks' World Professional Karate Championships by defeating Victor Moore to win the World Heavyweight Title, and was paid $600.

In 1970, Lewis lost in an upset to John Natividad at the All-Star Team Championships in Long Beach, California. At the 'Battle of Atlanta', which was promoted by Joe Corley, Joe Lewis defeated Mitchell Bobrow in a closely contested come-from-behind victory for the Heavyweight Championship, and Joe Hayes for the Grand Championship.

Hong Kong cinema historian Bey Logan says Lewis was the original pick of Bruce Lee to play Colt in the 1972 martial-arts action film Way of the Dragon, but as a result of either Lee and Lewis having a falling out or Lewis having a scheduling conflict, Chuck Norris was chosen instead.

Joe Lewis co-starred alongside Robin Shou in the 1989 B-movie Bloodfight 2: The Deathcage (戰龍), as Mr. Kent.

 

Born

March 7, 1944 · Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Died

August 31, 2012 · Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA (brain tumor)

Nickname

The All-American Boy

 

Actor

Cynthia Rothrock, Don Wilson, Matt Mullins, and Chiranan Manochaem in Death Fighter (2017)

Death Fighter

4.9

Conrad

2017

 

Kill 'em All (2012)

Kill 'em All

4.5

Carpenter

2012

 

Chuck Norris in Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)

Walker, Texas Ranger

5.6

TV Series

Joe Lewis

2001

1 episode

 

The Cutoff

6.3

Detective Parnelli

1998

 

Gary Daniels in Bloodmoon (1997)

Bloodmoon

5.8

Fighter #1

1997

 

Mr. X (1995)

Mr. X

5.1

Mr. X

1995

 

Taekwon sonyeon Erniewa Master Kim (1989)

Taekwon sonyeon Erniewa Master Kim

6.2

1989

 

Zhan long (1989)

Zhan long

5.4

Mr. Kent

1989

 

Lee Majors and Heather Thomas in The Fall Guy (1981)

The Fall Guy

7.1

TV Series

Joe Lewis

1981

1 episode

 

Joe Lewis and Richard Norton in Force: Five (1981)

Force: Five

5.0

Jim Martin

1981

 

Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine, John Huston, Joe Lewis, Woody Strode, and Joseph Wiseman in Jaguar Lives! (1979)

Jaguar Lives!

4.2

Jonathan Cross (Jaguar)

1979

 

Dean Martin in The Wrecking Crew (1968)

The Wrecking Crew

5.5

Guard (uncredited)

1968

 

Stunts

Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine, John Huston, Joe Lewis, Woody Strode, and Joseph Wiseman in Jaguar Lives! (1979)

Jaguar Lives!

4.2

action staging

1979

 

Circle of Iron (1978)

Circle of Iron

5.7

stunts (uncredited)

1978

 

Dean Martin in The Wrecking Crew (1968)

The Wrecking Crew

5.5

stunts (uncredited)

1968

 

John Wayne and David Janssen in The Green Berets (1968)

The Green Berets

5.6

stunts (uncredited)

1968

 

Additional Crew

Circle of Iron (1978)

Circle of Iron

5.7

martial arts coordinator

1978

Les Moss obit

JOHN LES MOSS Obituary

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MOSS, JOHN "LES", 87, passed away after a long illness with Yana Amarii and Charleen Schliep by his side in Longwood, FL, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. He was an accomplished Major League Baseball player, manager, coach, and scout for over 54 years starting with the St. Louis Browns and ending with the San Francisco Giants. Les loved nothing more than baseball and his family both of whom will miss him greatly. He was predeceased in death by his granddaughter Carole Wall; and is survived by his daughter Sandy

Trager; granddaughter Charleen and her husband Dan Schliep; Grandson Les and his wife Kelsey Wall; and great-grandchildren Erika and Cyrus Schliep, and Kamryn and Kamilah Wall.

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Moss threw and batted right-handed; he was listed as 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg). He began his professional baseball career in 1942 at the age of 17, playing for the Americus Pioneers of the Georgia–Florida League. In 1943 he moved up to the Class A Elmira Pioneers of the Eastern League where he posted a .308 batting average in 96 games. He missed the 1944 and 1945 seasons while serving in the Merchant Marines during the Second World War. He would play for the Toledo Mud Hens in 1946, hitting .297 in 121 games before, being called up late in the season to make his major league debut at the age of 21 with the St. Louis Browns on September 10.

Moss platooned alongside left-handed-hitting catcher Jake Early, producing a .157 batting average in 96 games during the 1947 season. He caught the majority of the games for the Browns in 1948 while his hitting improved substantially, with a .257 average along with 14 home runs and 46 runs batted in. In 1949, the Browns acquired 24-year-old Sherm Lollar from the New York Yankees and Moss became the second-string catcher. Moss' hitting continued to improve with a .291 average and an impressive .399 on-base percentage.

On May 17, 1951, Moss was traded to the Boston Red Sox. After producing a .198 batting average in 71 games for the Red Sox, he was shipped back to the Browns on November 28, 1951. He continued as the Browns' second string catcher backing up Clint Courtney. Moss was the Browns' catcher on May 6, 1953 when Bobo Holloman pitched a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1954, the Browns relocated to Baltimore and were renamed the Orioles. Moss played one full season in Baltimore before being traded to the Chicago White Sox on June 6, 1955, where he once again served as a backup to Sherm Lollar. He played three more seasons with the White Sox before ending his major league career after the 1958 season. He would remain a member of the White Sox organization for the next dozen years.

Moss returned to the minor leagues, appearing in two games for the Indianapolis Indians in 1959 and then, appeared in three games for the San Diego Padres in 1960, before retiring as a player at the age of 35.

After his playing career, Moss served as the White Sox' batting practice catcher, then moved into their player development organization as a manager in their farm system and an occasional scout through 1966. In 1963, he managed the Lynchburg White Sox to a second-place finish, and was named the Sally League manager of the year. In 1964 he returned to Indianapolis and managed the Triple-A Indians to a second-place finish. He was a coach on the White Sox' MLB staff from 1967 to 1970. Moss served as interim manager in 1968 for 36 games when White Sox manager Al López had to undergo an emergency appendectomy. He was the White Sox pitching coach in 1970.

From 1971 through 1973, Moss managed high-level teams in the California Angels' system, at Shreveport of the Texas League and Salt Lake City of the Pacific Coast League. Then, after a year as an Angels' scout, in 1975, Moss was hired by the Detroit Tigers to manage in their minor league organization. He managed the Montgomery Rebels to two Southern League championships in 1975 and 1976. In 1977 and 1978, Moss managed the Tigers' Triple-A affiliate, the Evansville Triplets. There he was credited with developing Lance Parrish's catching skills, after the Tigers converted him from a third baseman. After the 1978 season, Moss was voted Manager of the Year in the American Association, and The Sporting News named him Minor League Manager of the Year.

Moss succeeded Ralph Houk as manager for the 1979 Detroit Tigers. In his time with the Tigers he went 27–26. He actually was not fired for cause or because he was ineffective, but rather because Sparky Anderson, a proven big-league manager and four-time pennant winner with the Cincinnati Reds, had unexpectedly become available. Moss was named the Tigers' manager soon after the 1978 season concluded. However, after Anderson was fired by the Reds on November 27, 1978, the Tigers came to a deal to bring Anderson to Detroit after the first third of the 1979 season. Following Moss's dismissal on June 12, 1979, coach Dick Tracewski served as interim manager for two games until Anderson's arrival on June 14.

Moss finished with a managing record of 39–50 (.438) in 89 games. Moss became a minor-league pitching instructor in the Chicago Cubs' system in 1980, then served as pitching coach of the MLB Cubs in 1981 and Houston Astros from 1983 to 1989, helping the Astros win the 1986 National League Western Division title. Mike Scott won the 1986 National League Cy Young Award while Moss served as the Astros' pitching coach. In 1990, he worked as minor-league pitching instructor for the Astros, before working as a pitching coordinator for the San Francisco Giants starting in 1991. He retired from baseball in 1995.

 

Teams

As player

St. Louis Browns (1946–1951)

Boston Red Sox (1951)

St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1952–1955)

Chicago White Sox (1955–1958)

As manager

 

Chicago White Sox (1968)

Detroit Tigers (1979)

Art Heyman obit

Art Heyman, Star at Duke, Dies at 71

 

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Art Heyman, a 6-foot-5 scoring force drafted No. 1 over all by the Knicks after leading Duke University to its first Final Four in 1963, winning national player of the year and starring in a central, combative role in the fierce rivalry between Duke and the University of North Carolina, died Monday in Florida. He was 71.

His death was confirmed by Brewer & Sons Funeral Home of Clermont, Fla.

Heyman was one of the most highly recruited high school players in the nation in his senior year at Oceanside (N.Y.) High School, and he first committed to play for North Carolina. He planned to attend along with a not necessarily friendly playground opponent from his childhood, Larry Brown, who lived in nearby Long Beach. But Heyman and his family had a change of heart at the last minute, and he chose to go to Duke, which had not yet become a basketball power.

Four years later, that had changed.

“As much as any other human being, Art was responsible for Duke University becoming a national power in college basketball,” the former Duke coach Vic Bubas said in a statement released by the university.

In the three years Heyman played on the varsity — freshmen were not allowed on the team at the time — Duke had a 69-14 record and Heyman averaged 25.1 points and 10.9 rebounds. He made the all-Atlantic Coast Conference team all three years. His senior season, 1962-63, he was named N.C.A.A. player of the year by The Sporting News, A.C.C. Player of the Year and most outstanding player of the Final Four, where Duke lost to Loyola of Chicago.

The Knicks drafted Heyman first that spring and he averaged 15.4 points per game his first year, making the all-rookie team. But his N.B.A. career did not last long. By 1967 he had moved to the newly formed American Basketball Association, where he helped lead the Pittsburgh Pipers to the league’s first championship, in 1968. Starting at guard for the losing team, the New Orleans Buccaneers, was Larry Brown.

 

Career history

1963–1965            New York Knicks

1965            Cincinnati Royals

1965–1966            Philadelphia 76ers

1966            Wilmington Blue Bombers

1966–1967            Hartford Capitols

1967    New Jersey Americans

1967–1969            Pittsburgh / Minnesota Pipers

1969–1970            Miami Floridians

Career highlights and awards

ABA champion (1968)

NBA All-Rookie First Team (1964)

NCAA Final Four MOP (1963)

USBWA Player of the Year (1963)

AP Player of the Year (1963)

UPI Player of the Year (1963)

Sporting News Player of the Year (1963)

Helms Foundation College Player of the Year (1963)

Consensus first-team All-American (1963)

Consensus second-team All-American (1962)

Third-team All-American – AP, UPI (1961)

ACC Player of the Year (1963)

ACC Athlete of the Year (1963)

3× First-team All-ACC (1961–1963)

No. 25 retired by Duke Blue Devils

First-team Parade All-American (1959)

Career NBA and ABA statistics

Points   4,030 (13.0 ppg)

Rebounds            1,461 (4.7 rpg)

Assists  859 (2.8 apg)

Malcolm W. Browne obit

Malcolm W. Browne, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter, Dies at 81

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Malcolm W. Browne, a former Associated Press correspondent acclaimed for his trenchant reporting of the Vietnam War and a photo of a Buddhist monk's suicide by fire that shocked the Kennedy White House into a critical policy re-evaluation, has died. He was 81.

Browne died Monday night at a hospital in New Hampshire, not far from his home in Thetford, Vt., said his wife, Le Lieu. The couple met in Saigon.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000 and spent his last years using a wheelchair to get around. He was rushed to the hospital Monday night after experiencing difficulty breathing, Le Lieu Brown said. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he died.

Browne spent most of his journalism career at The New York Times, where he put in 30 years of his four decades as a journalist, much of it in war zones.

By his own account, Browne survived being shot down three times in combat aircraft, was expelled from half a dozen countries, and was put on a "death list" in Saigon.

In 1964, Browne, then an AP correspondent, and rival Times journalist David Halberstam both won Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting on the conflict in Vietnam. The war had escalated because of a Nov. 1, 1963, coup d'etat in which U.S.-backed South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and murdered, along with his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, the national security chief.

The plot - by a cabal of generals acting with tacit U.S. approval - was triggered in part by earlier Buddhist protests against the pro-Catholic Diem regime. These drew worldwide attention on June 11, 1963, when a monk set himself afire in a Saigon street intersection in protest as about 500 people watched.

Although several Western reporters also had been alerted to the event in advance, only Browne took the Buddhists at their word and was there to witness the horrifying event. His photos of the elderly monk, Thich Quang Duc, being doused with aviation fuel and torching himself made front pages around the globe.

At the White House, President Kennedy told Henry Cabot Lodge, about to become America's ambassador to Saigon, that he was "shocked" by the photos, and that "we have to do something about that regime."

"That was the beginning of the rebellion, and it ended in the overthrow and killing of Diem," Browne recalled in a 1998 Associated Press interview. "Almost immediately, huge demonstrations began to develop that were no longer limited to just the Buddhist clergy, but began to attract huge numbers of ordinary Saigon residents."

The burning monk became photo became one of the first iconic news photos of the Vietnam War.

Malcolm Wilde Browne was born in New York on April 17, 1931. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania with a degree in chemistry. Working in a lab when drafted in 1956, he was sent to Korea as a tank driver, but by chance got a job writing for a military newspaper, and from that came a decision to trade science for a career in journalism.

He worked first for the Middletown Daily Record in New York, where he worked alongside Hunter S. Thompson, author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Browne then worked briefly for International News Service and United Press, the forerunner of United Press International, before joining the AP in 1960. A year later, the AP sent him from Baltimore to Saigon to head its expanding bureau.

There, he became a charter member of a small group of reporters covering South Vietnam's U.S.-backed military struggle against the Viet Cong, a home-grown communist insurgency.

Within the year he was joined in Saigon by photographer Horst Faas and reporter Peter Arnett. By 1966, all three members of what a competitor called the AP's "human wave" had earned Pulitzer Prizes - one of journalism's highest honors - for Vietnam coverage.

Writing about official corruption and military incompetence, the group - which also included the Times' Halberstam, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Charles Mohr of Time magazine, Nick Turner of Reuters and others - were accused by critics in Vietnam and Washington of aiding the communist cause.

At one news briefing, Browne's persistent questions prompted an exasperated U.S. officer to ask, "Browne, why don't you get on the team?"

Browne, like some of his peers, initially saw the U.S. commitment to helping the beleaguered Saigon government as a reasonable idea.

In his 1993 memoir, "Muddy Boots and Red Socks," Browne said he "did not go to Vietnam harboring any opposition to America's role in the Vietnamese civil war" but became disillusioned by the Kennedy administration's secretive "shadow war" concealing the extent of U.S. involvement.

Amid the furor over tendentious coverage, some reporters claimed to have received death threats, and Browne said his name was among those on a list of "supposed enemies of the state who had to be eliminated."

In the 1998 interview, he said that he "never took that seriously," but that when government agents tried to arrest his wife, who had angered officials by quitting her information ministry job, Browne stared them down by standing in his doorway brandishing a souvenir submachine gun.

Tall, lanky and blond, Browne was a cerebral and eccentric character with a penchant for red socks - they were easy to match, he explained - and an acerbic wit befitting his grandfather's cousin, Oscar Wilde.

He ridiculed the word "media," for example, as "that dreadful Latin plural our detractors use when they really mean "scum."

Overall, associates saw him as complex, rather mysterious, and above all, independent.

"Mal Browne was a loner; he worked alone, did not share his sources and didn't often mix socially with the press group," recalled Faas, who died in 2012. "And stubborn - he wouldn't compromise on a story just to please his editors or anyone else."

Browne wrote a 1965 book, "The New Face of War," and a manual for new reporters in Vietnam. Among its kernels of advice: Have a sturdy pair of boots, watch out for police spies who eavesdrop on reporters' bar conversations, and "if you're crawling through grass with the troops and you hear gunfire, don't stick your head up to see where it's coming from, as you will be the next target."

South Vietnamese officials censored early news reports, but to mixed effects. At least once, Browne sent a story to the AP by surreptitiously taping a handwritten note over an innocuous photo being transmitted to Tokyo.

By 1965, impressed by how television appeared to be dominating the public discourse, the reporter who had never owned a TV set left the AP to join ABC News in Vietnam.

Browne quit ABC after a year after beginning over management questions.

After a venture into magazine writing, Browne joined The New York Times in 1968. He worked in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia, left again to edit a science magazine, and returned to the Times in 1985, mainly as a science writer. He also covered the 1991 Gulf War, again clashing with U.S. officials over censorship issues.

In addition to his wife, survivors include a son, Timothy; a daughter, Wendy, from a previous marriage; a brother, Timothy; and a sister, Miriam.

Browne will be buried on the family's property in Vermont, his widow said.

Neil Armstrong # 21

First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, had passed away. He was number 21 on the list.

Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82

Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.

Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, a statement Saturday from his family said. It didn’t say where he died.

Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century’s scientific expeditions. His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast.

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind,” Armstrong said.

In those first few moments on the moon, during the climax of heated space race with the then-Soviet Union, Armstrong stopped in what he called “a tender moment” and left a patch commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.

“It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do,” Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer in 2012.

Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.

“The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to,” Armstrong once said.

The moonwalk marked America’s victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.


Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA’s forerunner and an astronaut, Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamor of the space program.

“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer,” he said in February 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. “And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession.”

A man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama’s space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships. He testified before Congress and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had “substantial reservations,” and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a “misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future.”

Armstrong’s modesty and self-effacing manner never faded.

When he appeared in Dayton in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.

He later joined former astronaut and Sen. John Glenn to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Glenn introduced Armstrong and noted it was 34 years to the day that Armstrong had walked on the moon.


“Thank you, John. Thirty-four years?” Armstrong quipped, as if he hadn’t given it a thought.

At another joint appearance, the two embraced and Glenn commented: “To this day, he’s the one person on Earth, I’m truly, truly envious of.”

Armstrong’s moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.

In the years afterward, Armstrong retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwest Ohio farm. Aldrin said in his book “Men from Earth” that Armstrong was one of the quietest, most private men he had ever met.


In the Australian interview, Armstrong acknowledged that “now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.”


At the time of the flight’s 40th anniversary, Armstrong again was low-key, telling a gathering that the space race was “the ultimate peaceful competition: USA versus U.S.S.R. It did allow both sides to take the high road with the objectives of science and learning and exploration.”

Glenn, who went through jungle training in Panama with Armstrong as part of the astronaut program, described him as “exceptionally brilliant” with technical matters but “rather retiring, doesn’t like to be thrust into the limelight much.”

Derek Elliott, curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s U.S. Air and Space Museum from 1982 to 1992, said the moonwalk probably marked the high point of space exploration.

The manned lunar landing was a boon to the prestige of the United States, which had been locked in a space race with the former Soviet Union, and re-established U.S. pre-eminence in science and technology, Elliott said.

“The fact that we were able to see it and be a part of it means that we are in our own way witnesses to history,” he said.

The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the U.S. into space the previous month.)


“I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,” Kennedy had said. “No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. “Houston: Tranquility Base here,” Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. “The Eagle has landed.”

“Roger, Tranquility,” the Houston staffer radioed back. “We copy you on the ground. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.”

The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship Columbia 60 miles overhead while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon’s surface.

In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and the last moon mission in 1972.

For Americans, reaching the moon provided uplift and respite from the Vietnam War, from strife in the Middle East, from the startling news just a few days earlier that a young woman had drowned in a car driven off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island by Sen. Edward Kennedy. The landing occurred as organizers were gearing up for Woodstock, the legendary three-day rock festival on a farm in the Catskills of New York.

Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He took his first airplane ride at age 6 and developed a fascination with aviation that prompted him to build model airplanes and conduct experiments in a homemade wind tunnel.

As a boy, he worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver’s license.

Armstrong enrolled in Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering but was called to duty with the U.S. Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea.

After the war, Armstrong finished his degree from Purdue and later earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He became a test pilot with what evolved into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, flying more than 200 kinds of aircraft from gliders to jets.

Armstrong was accepted into NASA’s second astronaut class in 1962 — the first, including Glenn, was chosen in 1959 — and commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. After the first space docking, he brought the capsule back in an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean when a wildly firing thruster kicked it out of orbit.

Armstrong was backup commander for the historic Apollo 8 mission at Christmastime in 1968. In that flight, Commander Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell and Bill Anders circled the moon 10 times, and paving the way for the lunar landing seven months later.

Aldrin said he and Armstrong were not prone to free exchanges of sentiment.

“But there was that moment on the moon, a brief moment, in which we sort of looked at each other and slapped each other on the shoulder … and said, ‘We made it. Good show,’ or something like that,” Aldrin said.

An estimated 600 million people — a fifth of the world’s population — watched and listened to the landing, the largest audience for any single event in history.

Parents huddled with their children in front of the family television, mesmerized by what they were witnessing. Farmers abandoned their nightly milking duties, and motorists pulled off the highway and checked into motels just to see the moonwalk.

Claire Malis obit

Actress Claire Malis Callaway Dies at 69

She starred in “The Facts of Life” and “One Life to Live.”

 

She was not on the list.

Actress Claire Malis Callaway, a star on the ABC daytime serial One Life to Live and a mom on NBC’s popular 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life, has died. She was 69.

Callaway died Aug. 24 of congestive heart failure and pneumonia at City of Hope Helford Clinical Research Hospital in Duarte, Calif. She had undergone a stem cell transplant in 2010 in a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

As Claire Malis, she played Rose Polniaczek, the divorced mother of Nancy McKeon’s character, on The Facts of Life. Earlier, she was Dorian, the matriarch of the Cramer family, on One Life to Live from February 1977 to April 1979. (Malis was succeeded in the role by Robin Strasser, who would star on the daytime drama for three decades.)

Malis was born on Feb. 17, 1943, and raised in Gary, Indiana. While at Indiana University, she auditioned for and received one of only 16 national full scholarships to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She was named best actress of her graduating class.

After performing in off-Broadway productions and national tours of two Broadway shows, Malis was cast in a small role in John Cassavetes’ film Husbands (1970). She followed that with a season at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, performing in Taming of the Shrew, then returned to New York for her stint on One Life to Live. She moved to Los Angeles in 1980.

Her other TV appearances included roles on Lou Grant, Taxi, St. Elsewhere, Falcon Crest, Murphy Brown, Picket Fences, Suddenly Susan and The Division.

Between 1983 and 1988 Malis portrayed Rose Polniaczek, mother of series regular Jo (played by Nancy McKeon), in six episodes of the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life.

On stage, Malis appeared in the Ahmanson Theatre production of Detective Story starring Charlton Heston in 1984 and produced and acted in plays at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. She co-created In the Trenches Productions, a production company aiming for roles for women over age 40.

Survivors include her husband Thomas Callaway, an architectural and interior designer who has worked on the homes of such Hollywood luminaries as producer Alan Ladd Jr. and Rhino Records founder Richard Foos; their son Catlin; and her brother Lee.

Actress (43 credits)

 2007 The Anna Nicole Smith Story

Etiquette Instructor (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2005 Mystery Woman (TV Series)

Mrs. Lowell

- Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder (2005) ... Mrs. Lowell (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2004 The Division (TV Series)

- Lost and Found (2004) ... (as Claire Malis Callaway)

- Rush to the Door (2004) ... (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2004 Line of Fire (TV Series)

Amy Frost

- The Best-Laid Plans (2004) ... Amy Frost (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2003 CSI: Miami (TV Series)

Adele Alonzo

- Bunk (2003) ... Adele Alonzo (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 2001 Will & Grace (TV Series)

Jo Black

- Sons and Lovers (2001) ... Jo Black (as Claire Malis Callaway)

- Sons and Lovers (2001) ... Jo Black (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1998 Suddenly Susan (TV Series)

Mrs. Shafer

- A Tale of Two Pants: Part 2 (1998) ... Mrs. Shafer (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1997 A Nightmare Come True (TV Movie)

Ellen (as Claire Malis Calloway)

 1996 The Client (TV Series)

Sally

- Private Lives (1996) ... Sally (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1995 A Mother's Prayer (TV Movie)

Mrs. Ford (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1994 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Emily Bryce

- Murder by Twos (1994) ... Emily Bryce (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1993 Picket Fences (TV Series)

Mrs. Fenn

- Blue Christmas (1993) ... Mrs. Fenn (as Claire Malis Callaway)

- Sugar and Spice (1993) ... Mrs. Fenn (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1993 L.A. Law (TV Series)

Mrs. Hartshorn

- Testing, Testing, 1... 2... 3... 4 (1993) ... Mrs. Hartshorn (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (TV Movie)

June Sofar (as Claire Mallis-Callaway)

 1992 Civil Wars (TV Series)

Corinne Jaeckel

- Devil's Advocate (1992) ... Corinne Jaeckel (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1992 Those Secrets (TV Movie)

Nora (as Claire Malis Callaway)

 1992 Murphy Brown (TV Series)

Mrs. Abernathy

- Murphy Buys the Farm (1992) ... Mrs. Abernathy (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1991 Silent Motive (TV Movie)

Hilary Davenport (as Claire Malis-Callaway)

 1990 Diving In

Mrs. Hopkins

 1989 Falcon Crest (TV Series)

Arlene 'Scotty' Scott

- Soul Sacrifice (1989) ... Arlene 'Scotty' Scott

 1988 Two Idiots in Hollywood

Indian Juror

 1988 Maybe Baby (TV Movie)

Lois

 1988 Moving

Helen Fredericks

 1983-1988 The Facts of Life (TV Series)

Rose Polniaczek

- Till Marriage Do Us Part (1988) ... Rose Polniaczek

- Rites of Passage: Part 1 (1987) ... Rose Polniaczek

- The Second Time Around (1983) ... Rose Polniaczek

- Graduation: Part 2 (1983) ... Rose Polniaczek

- Graduation: Part 1 (1983) ... Rose Polniaczek

1986 Our House (TV Series)

Alma

- Heart of a Dancer (1986) ... Alma

- That Lonesome Old Caboose (1986) ... Alma

 1986 'night, Mother

Operator (voice)

 1986 Convicted (TV Movie)

 1985 Washingtoon (TV Series)

Livia Vixen

- The God Lobby (1985) ... Livia Vixen

 1984 Heartbreakers

Marilyn

 1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series)

Diane Horton

- The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Diane Horton

 1983 St. Elsewhere (TV Series)

Mrs. Stewart

- Family History (1983) ... Mrs. Stewart

 1983 Quincy M.E. (TV Series)

Evelyn Hillman

- The Law Is a Fool (1983) ... Evelyn Hillman

 1982 Cry for the Strangers (TV Movie)

Rebecca Palmer

 1982 CHiPs (TV Series)

Mrs. Russell

- Meet the New Guy (1982) ... Mrs. Russell

 1982 Shannon (TV Series)

- John's Awakening (1982)

 1981 Born to Be Sold (TV Movie)

Claire

 1981 Taxi (TV Series)

Cynthia

- On the Job: Part 2 (1981) ... Cynthia

 1981 Lou Grant (TV Series)

Helen

- Venice (1981) ... Helen

 1980 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (TV Series)

Mrs. Monday

- The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn (1980) ... Mrs. Monday (as Claire Mallis)

 1980 From Here to Eternity (TV Series)

Dr. Anne Brewster

 1979 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)

Elizabeth Banner

- Homecoming (1979) ... Elizabeth Banner

 1977-1979 One Life to Live (TV Series)

Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2 / Dorian Lord

- Episode #1.2718 (1979) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

- Episode dated 24 May 1978 (1978) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

- Episode dated 1 February 1978 (1978) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

- Episode dated 23 January 1978 (1978) ... Dorian Lord

- Episode #1.2362 (1977) ... Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord #2

 1970 Husbands

Stuart's Wife

Self (1 credit)

 1978 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)

Self - Co-Host

- Episode #17.181 (1978) ... Self - Co-Host