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DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lamé suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...
...snowpack to melt too early, so that by the time it's needed, it's largely gone. Climatologist Philip Mote of the University of Washington has compared decades of snowpack levels in Washington, Oregon and California and found that they are a fraction of what they were in the 1940s, and some snowpacks have vanished entirely...
...Lush has been doing that all her life. Her late father John, an engineer and inventor, taught her to make her own paints at age four. Her mother Ellie passed on the domestic skills she'd learned as a child in the 1940s. "We had to find a way of doing things with next to nothing," she says. "Clean, do plumbing - you name it." Lush recalls how, "when I was really little, Mum showed me how you could use rotten (spoiled) milk to get ink out of clothes. I thought it was magic...
...Case Estates was the property of the two Case sisters, Marian and Louisa, and much of it was acquired by Marian in the early decades of the 20th century. They donated their estate—202 acres in total—to the Arboretum in the 1940s. Some of the land has already been sold by the University to the town in the intervening years, or has been claimed by the U.S. government for municipal purposes. Kathleen McCahan, chair of the Weston Case Estates Review Committee, said that the town—the only buyer the University is offering...
RETIRING. MIKE WALLACE, 87, after 38 years as the face of CBS' groundbreaking television news program 60 Minutes; in the spring; in New York City. Over a storied career begun on Chicago radio in the 1940s, the ex-game-show host helped invent the TV interview with a hard-charging approach to subjects from Eleanor Roosevelt to Yasser Arafat. He will become correspondent emeritus, a post he said entitled him to "longer vacations...