AP Obits--8/21
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Obituaries in the News
Wed Aug 21, 7:25 PM ET
By The Associated Press
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Carter L. Burgess, assistant secretary of defense for
President Eisenhower and a one-time aide who had been entrusted to deliver news
to France of the planned Normandy invasion, died Sunday. He was 85.
Burgess, a diplomat and business executive, retired to his hometown in 1980
after a career that brought him around the world and in touch with many global
figures, from Margaret Thatcher to J.P. Morgan.
Burgess rose from a second lieutenant to colonel during World War II. He worked
under then-Gen. Eisenhower as secretary of the general staff of Supreme
Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces.
While stationed in England, Burgess delivered a message from Eisenhower to Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, then in North Africa, informing him of the plans to invade
Normandy. The allies were afraid that any information sent by wire could be
decoded by the Germans.
When the war ended, Burgess served as deputy secretary of the secretariat at
the San Francisco conference establishing the United Nations. He worked as
special assistant to the secretary of state in 1945 and 1946.
In 1954 he returned to government to serve as Eisenhower's assistant secretary
of defense.
Ruth E. Claplanhoo
NEAH BAY, Wash. (AP) — Ruth E. Claplanhoo, the Makah Indian Tribe's oldest
member, died Monday. She was 100.
Claplanhoo, a lifelong resident of Neah Bay at the northwest tip of Washington
state, had suffered a heart attack in June.
Claplanhoo was the last of the tribal members fully fluent in the Makah
language and a highly decorated basket weaver. She once traveled to Washington,
D.C., to demonstrate her skills at the Smithsonian Institution.
She taught basket weaving at the Neah Bay grade school until 1990. A finger
injury prevented her from making baskets in recent years, but many people in
Neah Bay took basket-weaving lessons from Claplanhoo and say they plan to carry
on her skills.
The Makah tribe gained publicity in May of 1999 by killing a gray whale after a
75-year hiatus in whale hunting.
Martin Deutsch
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Martin Deutsch, a physicist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology who helped develop atomic weapons and later discovered
an elemental form of matter, died Friday. He was 85.
In 1951, at age 34, Deutsch confirmed the existence of positronium, a
hydrogen-like atom without a nucleus that exists for as little as 1/10 of a
billionth of a second. The discovery corroborated the quantum theory of
electrodynamics for a two-particle system.
Deutsch headed MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science from 1973-79.
He worked on the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos,
N.M. After the war, Deutsch returned to MIT as Manhattan Project colleagues
built the Laboratory for Nuclear Science.
Among his students was the late Henry Kendall, who won the Nobel Prize in 1990
for his co-discovery of the quark. Deutsch retired from MIT in 1987.
Lillian Goldman
NEW YORK (AP) — Lillian Goldman, an advocate for women's education who
donated more than $20 million to Yale Law School, died Tuesday of pancreatic
cancer. She was 80.
Goldman donated to Yale's law school in part because it was one of the first in
the country to accept women. Her gift was used for the expansion and
reconstruction of the school's library, which was renamed the Lillian Goldman
Law Library.
It was also used to endow a day care center at the school and for scholarships,
especially for women and those interested in studying women's rights.
Goldman was married to Sol Goldman, whom she encouraged to leave his family's
grocery business to invest in New York City real estate.
At the time of his death in 1987, Goldman was one of the largest private
landlords in New York City.
Lillian Goldman also made significant donations to the Alzheimer's Association
and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, among other organizations.
Arne Haukvik
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Arne Haukvik, the founder of track and field's Bislett
Games, died Wednesday of cancer at age 76.
Haukvik was the meet director of the Bislett Games from 1966-85. He created the
traditional strawberry party, which brought together athletes, media and
organizers at his home, where he used to greet guests in his trademark straw
hat.
Haukvik continued to support the Bislett games, never missing a meet. He
attended this year's Bislett Games on June 28.
Haukvik was a member of the Oslo City Council 1968-79, and Member of
Parliament, representing the Center Party, 1993-97.
Laurence Jolidon
NEW YORK (AP) — Laurence Jolidon, a war correspondent and author who covered
the Persian Gulf War and U.S. forces in Somalia, died Tuesday in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he was serving as media spokesman for the NATO
peacekeeping force. He was 64.
Jolidon suffered a heart attack, according to his sister, Mimi Schmergel.
He had served as spokesman for the NATO Peace Stabilization Force for most of
the past year.
A graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, Jolidon saw duty with the
U.S. Army advisory group in Vietnam and later was a member of the U.S. Marine
Corps Reserve.
In a long journalism career, he worked for the Dallas Times-Herald, Texas
Observer, Detroit Free Press, St. Petersburg Times and USA Today, where he was
an editor and reporter from 1983 to 1993, covering the Gulf War and Somalia.
He founded his own publishing company, Ink Slinger Press, which produced his
book, "Last Seen Alive," about Americans missing in the Korean War, and "Turn
Back Before Baghdad," a compilation of journalists' dispatches from the Gulf
War.
Jolidon is survived by his sister.
Jose Pedrosa
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP)_ Jose Pedrosa, a pioneering modernist sculptor and
long-time collaborator of architect Oscar Niemeyer, died Tuesday of a heart
attack. He was 87.
Pedrosa died en route to a hospital in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte,
said Priscila Freire, curator of the Pampulha Museum and a long-time friend of
the artist.
Born in 1915, Pedrosa became dedicated to modernism and its clean, simple lines
while studying in France and Italy in the 1930s. In Paris, he helped to found
the Lyrical Abstraction Association of Europe, a modernist art group.
Returning to Brazil, Pedrosa teamed up with Niemeyer, a leading exponent of
modernism in architecture who later helped design the inland capital of
Brasilia.
In the 1940s, as Niemeyer won national recognition for his design of the
Pampulha Cathedral, Pedrosa was acclaimed for his sculpture "Pampulha," a
bronze female figure that remains on exhibition at the Pampulha Art Museum in
Belo Horizonte, some 200 miles northwest of Rio.
Pedrosa and Niemeyer collaborated on a handful of projects, including the
monument to the late President Juscelino Kubitschek in Brasilia.
Pedrosa's works in bronze, marble, plaster and stone are on display in cities
across Brazil. In 1954, he won the gold medal at the Brazilian National Salon
of Modern Art.
John Peyser
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Peyser, a veteran television director of more than
100 television series, including the live drama "Studio One," died Friday. He
was 86.
He died of natural causes in the San Fernando Valley.
Born in New York, Peyser attended Colgate College and then began producing and
directing programs for NBC before World War II.
Peyser moved to California in 1955 and worked as a contract director for Warner
Bros. and Universal Studios. Among the shows he directed were "Quincy," "The
Virginian," "Perry Mason" and "BJ and the Bear."
He lived in Spain for eight years, directing for major Hollywood studios. Among
his feature films were "Four Rode Out," "Kashmiri Run" and "Massacre Harbor."
After returning home, he directed such films as "The Young Warriors" and "Stunt
Seven."
He also became an accomplished painter, showing his work in local galleries.
David A. Phillipson
PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) — David A. Phillipson, who oversaw the growth of the
agricultural-products division at what used to be called The Upjohn Co., has
died. He was 79.
Phillipson died Aug. 15 of bladder cancer at his home in Sarasota, Fla.
He grew up in Holbrook, Neb., and lived in Portage while working for Upjohn,
now a part of Peapack, N.J.-based Pharmacia Corp.
Phillipson built the division from the ground up starting in 1964, when Upjohn
hired him, until his retirement in 1987 as the division's senior vice president
and general manager.
Phillipson studied veterinary medicine at Colorado State University, where he
was a quarterback on the football team. After graduating from veterinary school
in 1944, he enlisted with the Army Veterinary Corps, then spent 10 years in a
veterinary practice in Holbrook.
In 1958, Phillipson became a salesman for Elanco Products, a division of Eli
Lilly and Co. He was an Elanco vice president in 1964 when Upjohn hired him to
head its fledgling agricultural-products division. Four years later, he became
a vice president and a director on Upjohn's board.
Louis Epstein
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: Obituaries in the News
: Wed Aug 21, 7:25 PM ET
: By The Associated Press
: ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Carter L. Burgess, assistant secretary of defense for
: President Eisenhower and a one-time aide who had been entrusted to deliver news
: to France of the planned Normandy invasion, died Sunday. He was 85.
: Burgess, a diplomat and business executive, retired to his hometown in 1980
: after a career that brought him around the world and in touch with many global
: figures, from Margaret Thatcher to J.P. Morgan.
J.P. Morgan Jr. one must presume,since Burgess was born after
Sr. died and was barely adult when Jr. died.
: Burgess rose from a second lieutenant to colonel during World War II. He worked
: under then-Gen. Eisenhower as secretary of the general staff of Supreme
: Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces.
: While stationed in England, Burgess delivered a message from Eisenhower to Gen.
: Charles de Gaulle, then in North Africa, informing him of the plans to invade
: Normandy. The allies were afraid that any information sent by wire could be
: decoded by the Germans.
: When the war ended, Burgess served as deputy secretary of the secretariat at
: the San Francisco conference establishing the United Nations. He worked as
: special assistant to the secretary of state in 1945 and 1946.
: In 1954 he returned to government to serve as Eisenhower's assistant secretary
: of defense.
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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
Matthew Hubbard
>
> Martin Deutsch
> CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Martin Deutsch, a physicist at the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped develop atomic
> weapons and later discovered an elemental form of matter, died Friday.
> He was 85.
> In 1951, at age 34, Deutsch confirmed the existence of positronium, a
> hydrogen-like atom without a nucleus that exists for as little as 1/10
Back in the fifties, new elemental forms of matter were popping
up like mushrooms and the inconsistencies of quantum mechanics vs.
relativity were getting harder to hide by the minute. Some wag
physicist (probably Neils Bohr, who gets credit for a lot of funny
lines) suggested that the Nobel Prize should be given to any physicist
who does NOT discover a new fundamental form of matter that year.
News flash: quantum mechanics and relativity still don't add up,
MattH