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Died. Ted Mack, 72, genial, soft-spoken host of television's Original Amateur Hour; of cancer; in North Tarrytown, N.Y. A bandleader in the 1920s, he started as talent scout for the radio version of the Amateur Hour in 1935, serving its late (1946) legendary M.C., Major Edward Bowes. Amateur Hour went on TV in 1948, and Mack ran the show until it died because of poor ratings in 1970. Among the future stars the show presented: Beverly Sills, Maria Callas, Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, and a skinny New Jersey kid named Frank Sinatra. Mack missed a couple...
...Wong Howe, 76, Oscar-winning cinematographer (for The Rose Tattoo, 1955, and Hud, 1963); after a long illness; in Hollywood. Born in China and named Wong Tung Jim, the diminutive (5 ft.) Howe was so harassed by his Pasco, Wash., schoolmates that he became a professional prizefighter. Seeing a Mack Sennett comedy being filmed in the streets, he asked for a job as cameraman but was rejected as too small for heavy equipment; he eventually caught on as assistant to Cecil B. De-Mille. Noted for his constant efforts to achieve realism, Howe once filmed John Garfield's boxing...
...second study, conducted by Dr. Thomas Mack of the University of Southern California among women at a retirement community near Los Angeles, found that no drug other than estrogen was significantly associated with the disease. Mack also found that the chance of getting uterine cancer is about eight times as great among women who take estrogen during menopause, but he found that the risk was less if they used the drug in monthly cycles including four or more days without any dosage. In any event, he advised that when estrogens are prescribed, "they should be given at the lowest effective...
Captain Pam Mack and Sarah Herrick shared skippering duties for Radcliffe in A and B divisions respectively. Kit Tilly, Kleinschmidt, Laura Brown, and Cassie Livitt crewed for the Crimson effort...
Jones recently completed the biography of Mack Herron, the former New England Patriot running back now with the Los Angles Rams. "Mack! "will be published this winter by Sports Illustrated's Little-Brown...