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DIED. JAMES WELCH, 62, Montana-born author of novels and poetry about Native American life; of a heart attack after a battle with lung cancer; in Missoula, Mont. A member of the Black Feet tribe, he grew up on a reservation and was encouraged to write poetry by a high school English teacher. The first of his seven novels, Winter in the Blood, tells the story of a young Indian, and was praised by novelist Reynolds Price as a "nearly flawless novel about human life...
Riley even taught All-American defenseman Noah Welch when the latter was a seventh-grader at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury...
DIED. ELISABETH WELCH, 99, American-born expatriate cabaret and jazz singer, adored by Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Paris cafe society; outside London. A hit on the London stage, she later took her mellow voice to New York City; she made a splash in Porter's New Yorkers by singing Love for Sale, a song about prostitution. In the 1980s she won acclaim for her one-woman show A Time to Start Living and the musical revue Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood...
...Died. Elisabeth Welch, 99, American-born cabaret singer who found acclaim in Europe for stage performances of such hits as Cole Porter's Love for Sale; in London. American audiences discovered Welch's warm style after she returned to the U.S. to perform...
...could become the first Harvard player to be chosen for the World Junior team since rising junior Noah Welch, who missed the 2001-2002 tournament with an injury, and the first to participate since Brett Nowak...