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Thomas Wyatt couldn't agree more. Wyatt, 73, a retired Army colonel who lives in Clinton, Miss., has been writing a novel, counseling rape victims and studying to become a deacon in the Episcopal Church. That's when he isn't cooking and cleaning house or taking care of his 12-year-old daughter Nicole while his second wife teaches nursing at a nearby medical school. "I always had things that had to be done, and I just kept doing them," says Wyatt, whose career includes decorated service in World War II, Korea and Southeast Asia, plus a doctorate...
DIED. ALBERT SCHOEPPER, 83, conductor who kept the Marine Band--the President's Own--in line and on key; in Alexandria, Va. Colonel Schoepper also played the diplomat at White House concerts: he once continued gamely when Winston Churchill burst into song to accompany the band...
...time soap operas or Naked Gun movies. Then again, perhaps she should not have been so shocked at the estate's relative puniness. "Elvis," she notes with an ex-wife's hard-won lucidity, "did not plan for the future. When he needed money, he would just call [manager] Colonel [Tom] Parker up and say, 'Get me a tour,' and he would spend the money just as fast as he got booked...
...Cruel. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of Blowin' in the Wind (from a Graceland basement tape) shows he didn't quite get Dylan. Elvis was Vegas before he played Vegas--the ultimate lounge act. His movie and music producers, and the Colonel, called the shots in what should have been Elvis' prime. He didn't rebel; he did it their...
DIED. ARTHUR LIMAN, 64, among his generation's best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from...