Word: jacked
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DIED. JANET GOOD, 73, Dr. Jack Kevorkian's aide who championed the right to die and started Michigan's Hemlock Society; in an apparent suicide, while suffering from cancer; in Farmington Hills, Mich...
...today. It isn't a state funeral, since Diana wasn't officially Royal at the end of her life. She lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more than the usual pomp and circumstance. The Union Jack is flying half-mast at Buckingham Palace for the first time in the history of the monarchy ? a triumph of public pressure over traditional protocol. Neither President Clinton nor President Chirac are attending, but that doesn't matter to the estimated two million Britons who lined the route...
...palace also bowed on the issue of the Buckingham Palace flag, announcing that the Union Jack would fly at half-staff there on Saturday in place of the monarch's personal flag that the Queen would not lower. The length of the funeral parade route through London has been tripled to accommodate the anticipated huge crowd...
Dorothy's sex life was just as stormy. Her first husband, Harold Nicholas of the dance team, was absent and faithless; their daughter Lynn was brain damaged and had to be institutionalized. Her second marriage, to Las Vegas sharpie Jack Denison, yanked her into bankruptcy. Her trysts with Preminger, Jurgens, Peter Lawford and others left her forlorn. Her nightclub career dipped; after Porgy and Bess (1959), good film offers dried up. Dorothy was yesterday's darling...
...hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, and grew up there. I learned a lot about printing and photography from his father Kenneth. Many an hour I spent with Ken, learning how to develop and print my own film (in his darkroom) and hearing the rumble of that press in the background. JACK FOSTER Prescott, Ariz...