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Tulley Brown, founder of Direction Sports, a groundbreaking program for disadvantaged youths that used their interest in sports to challenge them in math and other academic subjects, has died. He was 72. Brown, who had been in failing health for some time, died Nov. 13 of heart failure at his home in La Crescenta.
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JERUSALEM Rafael Eitan, a blunt former Israeli army chief and Cabinet minister who opposed any compromise with the Palestinians, drowned Tuesday after being swept into the stormy Mediterranean Sea while inspecting equipment at a construction site. He was 75. Eitan was working for a construction company expanding the southern Israeli port of Ashdod when he was swept off a breakwater, port officials said. Eitan was on the breakwater to check whether equipment had been damaged in a storm.
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Langdon Gilkey, 85, Protestant theologian, educator and prolific author who wrote widely on the relevance of God in “time of troubles,” died Friday of meningitis at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. The Chicago-born son of a liberal Baptist minister, Gilkey described himself as an “ethical humanist.” As a Harvard student, he expressed pacifist beliefs and with his classmate, future Cardinal Avery Dulles, formed a Keep America Out of War Committee. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Gilkey was teaching English in Beijing and was interned by the Japanese, prompting his 1966 book, “Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure.”
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Melba Phillips, 97, a physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer and was a pioneer in developing science education, died Nov. 8 in a Petersburg, Ind., nursing home of natural causes. After earning a doctorate at UC Berkeley, Phillips worked with Oppenheimer in the mid-1930s to explain unexpected reactions of various kinds of subatomic particles. Their findings, known as the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect, is considered classic in early nuclear physics. In the 1940s, as Oppenheimer led the development of the atomic bomb, Phillips helped organize the Federation of American Scientists, which later helped assure civilian control of atomic energy.
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Jerry Bick, 81, who produced Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” and Jonathan Demme’s “Swing Shift,” died Monday in Los Angeles of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born in New York, Bick graduated from the University of Georgia, where he taught English, and studied at the Sorbonne after serving in the Navy during World War II. After a stint as an MGM publicist in New York, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as an agent with MCA, Goldstone/Tobias and the Kurt Frings Agency. He also had his own Jerry Bick Agency, marketing books for such authors as Jim Thompson and Daniel Mainwaring.
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Trina Schart Hyman, who illustrated an entire shelf of children’s books and inspired many others who worked in the genre, died on Friday in Lebanon, N.H. She was 65 and lived in Lyme, N.H.The cause was complications of breast cancer, said Jean Aull, her partner.
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Corlies Smith, a New York book editor who in a 50-year career published an all-star list of writers, from Muriel Spark and Jimmy Breslin to William Trevor and Calvin Trillin, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 75.The cause was emphysema, said his wife, Sheila.
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Paul Stuart Ostrove, the executive vice president who suavely presided over the selling floor of the Madison Avenue clothing store that was named for him, died on Nov. 21 at his home in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 73.The cause was lymphoma, said Jack Freedman, marketing manager for Paul Stuart.
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James A. Swift, an aerospace engineer and gifted musician who was founding conductor and music director of what is now the New Valley Symphony Orchestra for 35 years, has died. He was 89. Swift, who retired from leadership of the community orchestra on Feb. 8, died Nov. 15 in Laguna Hills of natural causes.
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John Vane, the British pharmacologist who in 1982 shared a Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that affect a wide range of body mechanisms, has died. He was 77. Vane, who shared the prize with Swedish scientists Sune Bergstroem and Bengt I. Samuelsson, died Friday in Farnborough, England, of complications from injuries he sustained in a fall earlier this year, the University of London said in an announcement.
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J.L. Hunter “Red” Rountree, believed to be the nation’s oldest bank robber, who turned to crime in his 80s, has died. He was 92. A spokesman for the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., said Rountree died Oct. 12.
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Peter W. Cox, publisher, editor and co-founder of Maine Times, a feisty alternative weekly newspaper whose investigations into environmental and child welfare issues often helped lead to state action, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Georgetown, Me. He was 67.The cause was esophageal cancer, said his wife, Eunice.
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DALLAS, Nov. 22 - Red Rountree said robbing banks made him feel “good, awful good.” But he did not discover his calling until he was in his 80’s. Mr. Rountree, who died in federal prison in Springfield, Mo., on Oct. 12, two months shy of his 93rd birthday, was the nation’s oldest known bank robber.
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Fred Hale Sr., the world’s oldest man, who was still shoveling snow off his roof at 103 and driving at 108, has died at the age of 113. Hale, who held the tenuous men’s longevity record for more than eight months, died Friday in his sleep in suburban Syracuse, N.Y. He had been fighting a case of pneumonia.
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Nancy Larrick, 93, an educator who through her helpful guide for parents encouraged children to read, died of pneumonia on Nov. 14 in her native Winchester, Va. Educated at Goucher College, Columbia and New York universities, Larrick taught at Lehigh University, NYU and Indiana University. She also worked as an editor of children’s books and poetry anthologies for Random House and wrote widely about children’s ability to appreciate literature.
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Bob Allen, 84, world-champion trapshooter, died Wednesday in a one-car accident when his car plunged off a bridge near Logan, Iowa. The expert marksman earned two world all-around trapshooting championships. He was also a member of the U.S. team that scored a victory in 1951 at the Match of Nations in Monte Carlo.
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George Canseco, 70, one of the Philippines’ most popular songwriters, died Friday in Manila of complications from liver disease and lung cancer. Canseco, who wrote more than 160 songs over three decades, was commissioned by Imelda Marcos, the former Philippine first lady, to compose the national tribute hymn, “I Am a Filipino.”
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LEWES, Del., Nov. 21 - Frederik Prausnitz, an internationally acclaimed conductor who promoted contemporary classical music, died on Nov. 12 at his home here. He was 84.The cause was cancer, his daughter said.
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Walter Mintz, an investor who was co-founder of one of the country’s first hedge funds and later promoted free-market approaches to education and city governance, died Nov. 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 75. The cause was neuroendocrine cancer, said his wife, Sandra.
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Peter K. Loeb, an investment manager and a philanthropist, died last Tuesday in New York City. He was 68.The cause was a stroke, according to his wife, Jeanette W. Loeb.
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