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DIED. WALTER LORD, 84, popular historian and author of A Night to Remember, the seminal account of the Titanic disaster, upon which 1997's Oscar-winning film was based; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. As a boy, Lord became fascinated with the sinking of the world's biggest ship after finding a slim volume on the tragedy in his aunt's home. His meticulous approach to reconstructing events--he interviewed 63 of the survivors--turned the 1955 book into a best seller...
...center of Mistry's fine new novel Family Matters (Faber and Faber; 487 pages) is Nariman Vakeel, a 79-year-old Parsi widower besieged equally by Parkinson's disease and his middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy and Jal. Nariman is also haunted by memories of the real love of his life, a Catholic Goan whom he did not marry in deference to the "marriage arrangers, the wilful manufacturers of misery," a failure of courage that resulted in scandal and tragedy. His joyless family resides in a spacious apartment in Bombay's Chateau Felicity...
...quietly slipping a note in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall two decades later, this Pope has always found ways to keep the world watching. But last week it was John Paul, 81, who had to do the watching. Struggling with an arthritic right knee and symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the Pope for the first time in his pontificate stepped aside and let others lead several of the most important Holy Week Masses. Official word from the Vatican is that the Pope simply has a bum knee and was pacing himself through last week's rigorous schedule. But some church insiders...
DIED. ANNALEE FADIMAN, 85, convention-defying author and World War II correspondent for TIME; a suicide, after suffering from breast cancer and Parkinson's; in Captiva, Fla. A graduate of Stanford, Fadiman moved to China in 1941 without a journalism job but determined to report on the war raging there. The wife of the late writer and critic Clifton Fadiman, she co-wrote with Theodore H. White the 1946 best seller Thunder Out of China...
...spectator. "Thrilla in Manila," he says, struggling to speak, in a low, gravelly whisper. "These are the people." He often draws these pictures, re-creating his glorious fights. Making the dots keeps him busy for hours and helps maintain his motor skills, which have been diminished by the Parkinson's he has suffered from for two decades. But his mind and sense of humor remain sharp. While tap-tap-tapping away with his black marker, he talks about Ali, the movie about his life opening Dec. 25, with Will Smith in the title role...