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...sacred Bagmati River with full state honors. DIED. DAVID FRANCIS, 82, the great jazz drummer who led the swinging Savoy Sultans to the New York Jazz Society's Best Big Band award in 1980 and two Grammy nominations for Best Album; in Orlando. Francis was inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 1993. DIED. TONY MILES, 46, Britain's first chess grand master, who was ranked for a decade among the top 10 in the game; in his sleep, in Birmingham, England. Miles, confident, brassy and aggressive, beat former world champions Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Anatoly...
...kitchen—where dozens of famous chefs have come to cook, and Child has taped several of her television series—is moving to Washington, D.C., where a group of dedicated curators at the Smithsonian Institution now plans to preserve the kitchen that made Julia Child a household name...
...Child moves west, her kitchen is heading south. Smithsonian curators will pack it up—every knife, every larding needle, every rolling pin—and then ship it 442 miles to the National Museum of American History and reconstruct it piece by piece...
Most of her kitchen is going to the Smithsonian, except for one wall of copper pots that is heading to a culinary institute Child helped found in California. Assorted stoves and other household objects have been pledged to her nieces and nephews...
...experts. For Elaine and Mark Ganeles, both 59, of Cortland Manor, N.Y., it was a kick to see Washington, a city they know well, with their grandsons, 2 and 5. "I find it exciting to see things through the eyes of the little guys," says Elaine. "They loved the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, going into the space capsule, the moon rocks." Many grandparents say the ideal years for these jaunts are between 9 and 13, when the kids are old enough to take an interest in new things and young enough to retain their imagination and enthusiasm...