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DIED. BRODRICK HALDANE, 83, photographer whose status as a member of high society (Scottish son of the 26th Laird of Gleneagles) helped him capture classic images of the famous (Dietrich, Chaplin) and the powerful (President Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth); in Edinburgh. DIED. RUSSELL COLLEY, 97, dubbed the "father of the spacesuit," who designed the 1961 extraterrestrial fashion statement worn by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first step starward; in Springfield, Ohio...
DIED. LORD HOME OF THE HIRSEL, 92, who, as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was British Prime Minister from 1963 until the Conservative Party lost the 1964 elections; in Berwickshire. The Scottish patrician changed party rules to let legislators pick their leader--thus assuring he would be the last blue blood to head the Tories. He also served two stints as Foreign Secretary...
...native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jarrett (who is of Hungarian and Scottish-Irish extraction, not African-American, as some have supposed from his appearance) began giving piano recitals in his hometown at the age of seven. He turned down a chance to study in Paris with the late Nadia Boulanger, teacher of three generations of American composers. "It wasn't a casual 'No,'" he recalls. "I was developing a way with music that would be better off minus the labels on everything, minus the descriptions, minus the analysis...
DIED. ALISON HARGREAVES, 33, Scottish mountaineer; on K2, in Pakistan. The first woman to scale Everest without using oxygen, Hargreaves was hit by an avalanche on the world's second-highest peak...
...role of England's King Arthur was made for Sean Connery, even if he is Scottish and has never quite lost his burr. Britain's Julia Ormond puts a new twist on the familiar Lady Guinevere, giving her a '90s strength to match her fabled beauty. And while Lancelot, played by Richard Gere, is the least inspiring of the three, he still manages to make believable his part in the peculiar love triangle...