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January 5, 1981IMAGES: GOODBYE
William O. Douglas, 81, energetic outdoorsman, author of more
than a score of books and, above all, an uncompromising champion
of what he liked to call the "firstness of the First Amendment."
During his 36 years as a Supreme Court Justice--a record
term--the onetime SEC chairman and law professor at Yale and
Columbia battled vigorously to safeguard the rights of
individuals.
Jimmy Durante, 86. For nearly 65 years, from New York
vaudeville stages to television screens across the land, "the
great Schnozzola" cracked his gentle gags, rasped out his
endearingly silly ditties and strutted his way into the hearts
of millions. Goodnight, Mr. Durante, wherever you are.
Alfred Hitchcock, 80, much mimicked master of cinematic suspense
who in 53 meticulously crafted films concocted riveting
nightmares of evil that set the world squirming, and sometimes
laughing (albeit nervously), at the anxieties that bedevil just
about everyone.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96, eldest daughter of President
Teddy, wife of House Speaker Nicholas and a tart-tongued
Washington hostess who delighted in the biting quip. In her
upstairs sitting room she kept a pillow embroidered with the
advice, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right
her by me."
George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor
who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFLCIO from its
birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union
lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who
accused him of being too conservative, MEany lectured Presidents
and public alike with equal bluntness.
Jesse Owens, 66, black track-and-field star whose four gold
medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics dashed Hitler's dream of
staging a showcase for Aryan supremacy.
Jean Piaget, 84, innovative Swiss psychologist who devoted his
life to mapping out how children think. During a 60-year
career, he published more than 50 books and evolved the theory
that knowledge is not poured into a child like water into a cup
but that a child helps create what he learns through his own
activity.
Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who
embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a
generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays
(No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended
that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his
own actions.
Josip Bronz Tito, 87. Wily, autocratic, ruthless and more than
a little van, Tito effectively ruled Yugoslavia's ethnic crazy
quilt for nearly 35 years. Breaking with Stalin in 1948, he
fashioned an unorthodox Communism streaked with touches of
capitalism ("self- management"). In the 1950s he helped found
the "nonaligned" movement, to which most Third World nations now
profess allegiance.
Mae West, 87. "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad,
I'm better," she cooed, and nobody made sex more of a laughing
matter than the voluptuous blond from Brooklyn. Winking and
leering across the screen during her heyday in the 1930s, Mae
delighted a generation with her slightly suggestive one-liners.