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...ones who hastily contracted the wanderlust bug after noting how well The Fugitive was doing on the lam. The most blatant copy will be Run for Your Life (NBC), in which Ben Gazzara is told he has 18 months to live (roughly three TV seasons). So with the grim reaper on his trail, he sets off to live dangerously all over the world...
Bernard M. Baruch was a millionaire at 30, a celebrated national figure at 50, and-as park-bench philosopher, adviser to Presidents and reaper of honors-a legend by the time he was 70. As with most legends, this one was somewhat larger than life, a fact that Baruch himself wryly recognized, but behind it, nevertheless, was a most remarkable man. Last week, two months before he would have turned 95, Bernard Baruch died in Manhattan of a heart attack...
Died. Marion Deering McCormick, 78, doyenne of Chicago society, heiress to a $120 million farm-machinery fortune (the Deering harvester, McCormick reaper), whose considerable philanthropies (Northwestern University, Chicago's Art Institute, Illinois Children's Home & Aid Society), gold-plated dinner parties and regal mien won her hands-down election in a 1954 Chicago Daily News poll to choose an "official" queen of the city's society; after a long illness; in Chicago...
...proceeded to build a seven-story pavilion with exposed, welded posts and beams. Nestled in a tree-rimmed ravine, where 100 water jets spout a car pet of spray over a lake (cooling the air-conditioning system), the raw-beamed facade flails the air like some forgotten, gargantuan reaper waiting for the Jolly Green Giant...
...running a race with the Reaper...