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DIED. HARRY LAMPERT, 88, original illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...
...same goes for Bush's record with the National Guard. Instead of answering the charges, Republicans first try to spin the story and then attack the media for their coverage. And we still have no definitive answer to the question of whether Bush did his duty. David Berry Raton...
Others from the old gang have had a variety of careers, selling everything from bricks and lumber to designer labels and major motion pictures. Some still live in New York City, and the rest can be found from Boca Raton, Fla., to Malibu, Calif. They always find one another; when marketing executive Joel Coler went to Los Angeles with 20th Century Fox in 1972, Shapiro saw an ad about the move in Variety and called Coler the same day. Ten of the guys were ushers at the wedding of Barbara Topper and Sam Lewis in 1951 but lost touch until...
...months, and on the East Coast, many live within driving distance of one another. Heywood (Woody) Broad and Leonard (Lenny) Kulick live with their families in neighboring communities in Florida, where many of the others head in winter. Several get together each New Year's Eve in Boca Raton, and when widower Broad, a supplier for nursing homes, remarried in 2002, Bronx Boys flew in from all over the country for the wedding...
...doesn't Congress rescind this insidious tax break for manufacturing filthy fuels that pollute our air and scar our land? Our use of 19th century energy sources that damage our environment is a true embarrassment. DIANE MARIE ANGER Boca Raton...