Our Daily Dead

No long are we tracking the Minuteman and rattlesnakes with the Call of the West ringing in our ears - “I wish I was in Tiajuana eating barbecued iguana”. Thus safely back in the ODDfellow confines and just out of our Cowboy boots we circle the wagons and tickle the plastics to bring you ‘That Was The Week That Was’:

Ezer Weizman - Former Israel President Ezer Weizman, a warrior-turned-statesman who helped build his fledgling state’s air force and later played a key role in peacemaking with Egypt.
John Hultberg - American abstract painter and printmaker who came to the fore with the avant-garde after World War II
Pooru (Paul) Maki - achieved fame in the Japanese TV industry early 1970s with something as simple as a finger snapping routine
Helen Liu Fong - a commercial architect who helped create icons of style in the futuristic coffee shops that sprouted in Southern California in the 1950s and ’60s
Philip Morrison - one of the youngest physicists to work on the Manhattan Project and a leading voice in post-World War II efforts to contain the bomb
Robert Farnon - a composer and arranger who was a leading figure in the once-popular genre of light orchestral music
Earl Wilson - a leading pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, and one of the top home run hitters among major league pitchers
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi - a father of British Pop Art and a leading sculptor of the postwar era
Martin Blumenson - a leading historian of World War II who wrote the U.S. Army’s official account of the D-day invasion and was perhaps the foremost authority on the life of Gen. George S. Patton Jr
Hasil Adkins - artist whose screaming vocals and freestyle approach to rhythm made him a cult favorite among rockabilly fans
Maria Schell - an international film and television actress of the 1940s and ’50s and older sister of actor and director Maximilian Schell
J. B. Stoner - an unapologetic racist whose conviction for bombing a church, divisive political campaigns and vituperations about Jews and blacks made him a benchmark for racial extremism in the United States
Percy Heath - his forceful and buoyant bass playing anchored the Modern Jazz Quartet for its entire four-decade existence
Red Horner - a Hall of Fame defenseman who was one of hockey’s most rugged players of the 1930’s
Saunders Mac Lane - one of the country’s leading mathematicians and a professor at the University of Chicago for nearly four decades

And there you have it. Remember haggling is always worth a try.

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