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- December 26, 1988FAREWELLS
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- Charles Addams, 76: CARTOONIST
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- "His work is essentially a denial of all spiritual and physical
- evolution in the human race."
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- --Wolcott Gibbs in foreword to the collection, Addams and Evil
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- Milton Caniff, 81: CARTOONIST
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- "Stick to your inkpots, kid, actors don't eat regularly."
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- --A veteran cartoonist advising Caniff, creator of Terry and
- the Pirates and Steve Canyon, to avoid the stage
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- John Carradine, 82: ACTOR
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- "Nature has not endowed me with the physical requirements for
- the leading man. Besides, villains are more interesting."
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- --Carradine, who was in some 500 films
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- Billy Carter, 51: PRESIDENT'S BROTHER
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- "My mother joined the peace Corps at 70, my sister Gloria is a
- motorcycle racer...my brother thinks he's going to be President.
- I'm really the only normal one in the family."
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- Richard Feynman, 69: PHYSICIST
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- "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you
- are the easiest person to fool."
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- --The 1965 Nobelist in his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr.
- Feynman!
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- Robert A. Heinlein, 80: SCIENCE-FICTION WRITER
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- "He has raised science fiction from the gutter of pulp space
- opera to the altitude of breathtaking concepts."
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- --A fellow writer on the author of Stranger in a Strange Land
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- John Houseman, 86: ACTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER
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- "When he spoke, he had roughly the authority of God, and
- probably the same eyebrows."
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- --A critic's description
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- Trevor Howard, 71: ACTOR
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- "I don't know how it started or why. Could it be because I
- felt better when I was someone else?"
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- --On his choice of a career
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- Carl Hubbell, 85: BASEBALL PITCHER
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- "Baseball is the only game that calls for every skill from
- normal- sized people...Fans identify with baseball."
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- --The Hall of Famer, who had five straight 20-win seasons
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- Robert Joffrey, 57: BALLET-TROUPE FOUNDER
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- "I gave them ballerinas in sneakers and modern dancers in toe
- shoes, jiving to Vivaldi and pirouetting to the Beach Boys."
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- Louis L'Amour, 80: AUTHOR OF WESTERNS
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- "I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too much about the egg
- I've just laid because five more are pushing to come out."
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- --In all, he wrote 101 books, with 200 million copies in print
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- Frederick Loewe, 86: COMPOSER
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- "I was always amazed how good we were and how simple it was."
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- --Loewe on the late Alan Jay Lerner, with whom he wrote My Fair
- Lady, Brigadoon and Camelot
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- Joshua Logan, 79: DIRECTOR
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- "The whole damn theater is alive and vibrating when Josh is at
- work."
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- --Oscar Hammerstein, who shared 1950 Pulitzer with Logan and
- Richard Rodgers for South Pacific
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- Georgi Malenkov, 86: SOVIET PREMIER
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- "Malenkov was just an errand boy."
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- --Nikita Khrushchev, who ousted him as Premier and Communist
- Party leader in 1955, two years after Stalin's death
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- John Mitchell, 75: U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL
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- "The big enchilada."
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- --Nixon aide John Ehrlichman's famous sobriquet for the only
- American Attorney General to be imprisoned
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- Louise Nevelson, 88: SCULPTOR
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- "She transformed junkyards of secular carpentry into almost
- sacred altarpieces."
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- --Art Historian Robert Rosenblum
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- Christina Onassis, 37: HEIRESS
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- "The cycle of tragedy closed. Christina Onassis found no
- happiness in four marriages and her multimillions."
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- --Athens daily Apogevmatini
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- Alan Paton, 85: SOUTH AFRICAN AUTHOR
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- "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they turn
- to loving, they will find we are turned to hating."
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- --The black priest Msimangu in Cry, the Beloved Country
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- H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, 76: BRITISH TRAITOR
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- "To betray, you must first belong. I never belonged."
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- Isidor Isaac Rabi, 89: PHYSICIST
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- "The new powers represented a threat to all forms of life. My
- concern was to help to contain these dangers."
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- --The 1944 Nobel Prizewinner on the atomic force he helped
- develop
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- Art Rooney, 87: FOOTBALL TEAM OWNER
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- "It didn't matter whether he was talking to the Pope or a bum
- on the street. He treated everybody the same."
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- --Terry Bradshaw, who led Rooney's Pittsburgh Steelers to four
- titles
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- Franz Josef Strauss, 73: WEST GERMAN POLITICIAN
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- "He thought in great perspectives and broad horizons."
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- --West German President Richard von Weizsacker on the "Bavarian
- bull"
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- Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, 64: PAKISTANI PRESIDENT
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- "I am a dictator. But I am not out to destroy Pakistan. My
- mission is to make it a better and more prosperous nation."
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