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...Layne, 59, fiercely competitive, party-loving Pro Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Detroit Lions to National Football League championships in 1952, 1953 and 1957 and set unsurpassed team records before finishing his 15-year career with the Pittsburgh Steelers; after a long bout with liver problems, and cancer; in Lubbock, Texas. He was a dedicated carouser off field, but he was also a disciplined team leader whose skills were strongly evidenced in the last minutes of many games. His strategies helped develop what was later known as the two-minute drill. "Bobby Layne never lost a game," said...
DIED. Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-born actor, bandleader and innovative TV producer, best known for playing Harried Husband Ricky Ricardo in television's phenomenally successful series I Love Lucy (1951-59); of lung cancer; in Del Mar, Calif. Fleeing Cuba after the revolution of 1933, he formed a Latin dance band, making his film debut in Too Many Girls (1940), where he met and married his leading lady Lucille Ball. While co-starring with her in Lucy, he headed their production studio, Desilu, pioneering in the use of film for TV programs. The approach preserved Lucy and other shows, resulting...
...little more than a year ago, I was asked to read something at a ceremony for a wonderful man then in the latter stages of cancer. It wasn't a funeral. The man was still alive and would, in fact, attend the ceremony, along with dozens of friends. It was to be a celebration of his life and relationships, bonds he'd formed, not easily, over many years with many people. That he was dying was inescapable, though. Pretending otherwise, when he never did, would have been inappropriate. I chose to read from Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted...
...deeper truth rather than give a strictly factual account. But in rendering scenes such as this, he was at his best, depicting the dynamics at work among a group of people in response to capricious circumstance. I also thought it a pitch-perfect description of this man's cancer-a source of misery, without question, but one that drew many people together, if even for an instant, and managed to produce a few moments...
...Katie Couric's Holly Golightly party at Tiffany's. This past Sunday, the CBS news anchor donned a Holly-style frock and long black gloves and threw herself a 50th birthday party at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship store. (Proceeds to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance...