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DIED. Ernie Bushmiller, 76, cartoonist who for half a century turned out his daily comic strip Nancy, now syndicated in more than 600 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn. He turned to cartoons featuring the simply drawn, beady-eyed Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi after concluding that he had less talent than his fellow art students...
...program to restructure the company, called AEG '83, was stillborn when trade unions blocked the elimination of some 20,000 jobs. A British electronics firm early in August backed out of a plan to buy 40% of AEG-Telefunken's operations, and United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., also rejected a last-minute overture for help...
Pass's scam was exposed when police in Glastonbury, Conn., caught him just as he was escaping from a burglarized house. His previous criminal record, it turned out, included 26 felonies and 50 misdemeanors. Fass has now begun a prison term of 13 to 26 years for burglary...
DIED. Carl Braestrup, 85, physicist who sounded early alarms about radiation's dangers and co-invented the Theratron, a cobalt-therapy machine patented in 1953 and still used to treat cancer; of complications from a stroke; in Middletown, Conn...
...Shakespearean role after 46 years of acting, Anne Baxter, 59 (The Razor's Edge, All About Eve), managed in one falling swoop to live up to two of the stage's hoariest bywords: "Break a leg" and "The show must go on." At the opening of Stratford, Conn.'s American Shakespeare Theater production of Hamlet, Baxter, playing Queen Gertrude to Christopher Walken's Hamlet, was maneuvering herself and her 20-lb. dress down a darkened backstage staircase when she tumbled, breaking her foot and spraining her ankle. Baxter then made it through the second half...