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Edward Kennedy dies at 77
Los Angeles TimesSen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat and icon of American liberal politics who was the last surviving brother of a legendary political family, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., his family announced. He was 77. Kennedy...Tags: U.S. Senate, Health, Career and Workplace, Defense, Death
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'60 Minutes' creator Don Hewitt dies at 86
FOX 5 San Diego StaffDon Hewitt, the innovative television news pioneer who changed the face of broadcast journalism in 1968 as the creator and executive producer of "60 Minutes," the long-running CBS News powerhouse that launched the TV newsmagazine genre and turned a...Tags: Walter Cronkite, Documentary (genre), Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Death
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Ex-Nixon aide dies in La Jolla at 91
Los Angeles TimesHerbert G. Klein, the veteran newspaperman who covered Richard M. Nixon's 1946 congressional campaign and then followed the California Republican through shattering electoral defeats to the White House to play his part in Cold War politics and the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Armed Forces, White House, Super Bowl, Death
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Dr. David L. Rimoin dies at 75; Cedars-Sinai geneticist
Dr. David L. Rimoin, a medical geneticist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center who pioneered studies of dwarfism and other skeletal abnormalities, died Sunday at the Los Angeles hospital. He was 75 and had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer days...Tags: Medical Specialization, Health, Science, Religion and Belief, University of California, Los Angeles
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Guitarist Doc Watson dead at 89: A 1-2-3 video primer
Pop & HissGuitarist Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, leaves an extensive legacy that documents his wide-reaching influence in the world of guitar playing and folk music. Here are three video examples of his artistry in different settings.... -
Doc Watson dies at 89; guitarist and singer
In 1962, Doc Watson and some of his musician neighbors set out from their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the journey of a lifetime, to perform at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles.
"I remember the first trip we did," Watson said in a 2008...Tags: Chet Atkins, Barbara Lee, Radio Industry, Music, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Richard W. Lyman, Johnny Tapia
Richard W. Lyman
Former president of Stanford University
Richard W. Lyman, 88, a former president and provost of Stanford University who clamped down on student protests during the Vietnam War era, died Sunday of congestive heart failure in Palo Alto,...Tags: Stanford University, International Boxing Federation, Students, World War II (1939-1945), Boxing
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Hen compositions tend to be lyrically simple
If you think education is going downhill, I can tell you there's at least one school that has met a remarkable standard.
As a recent In Your School column reported, "Jefferson Elementary School will hold Beatification Day 10 a.m. to noon April 28."...Tags: Medical Specialization, The Associated Press, Health, Coca-Cola Co., Lehigh Valley IronPigs
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Laura Garrett: Mom ran store in Sanford, raised family
Laura Garrett was a working mother long before the term was coined. For more than four decades, Garrett and her late husband, Joe, ran Garrett's Department Store in downtown Sanford while she raised a family, made a home and was active in her church....Tags: Crosswords, Health, Heart Attack, World War II (1939-1945), Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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Jack Christmas: Apopka nurseryman boosted foliage industry
The metal casket was the color of earth. It was draped in a blanket of the green foliage Jack Christmas so loved: philodendron, pothos, dieffenbachia, sansevieria, nephthytis and ferns. His coffin looked like a field of house plants. His funeral at...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Holidays, Museums, Apopka, Christmas
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