AP Obits--10/24/05
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Obituaries in the News
The Associated Press
Monday, October 24, 2005; 11:03 PM
-- Harry Dalton
CAREFREE, Ariz. (AP) _ Harry Dalton, who spent more than four decades as
an executive with the Baltimore Orioles, California Angels and Milwaukee
Brewers and completed one of baseball's most lopsided trades, died
Sunday. He was 77.
Dalton died from complications of Parkinson's disease.
Dalton was voted into the Halls of Fame for both the Orioles and
Brewers. His clubs reached the World Series five times _ Baltimore won
the title in 1966 and 1970, and much of its success was the result of
the deal he made to bring Frank Robinson to town.
Robinson was 30 in December 1965 and at the time, the Cincinnati Reds
considered him past his prime. In a deal that Lee MacPhail started
before leaving Baltimore for the commissioner's office, Dalton finished
off his first trade as the Orioles' GM, acquiring Robinson from the Reds
for pitchers Milt Pappas and Jack Baldschun and outfielder Dick Simpson.
Robinson went on to win the Triple Crown in 1966 and led the Orioles to
their first World Series title. Robinson was later voted into the Hall
of Fame.
Dalton retired in 1994, ending a 41-year career in baseball.
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Armand Pierre Fernandez
PARIS (AP) _ Armand Pierre Fernandez, the French-born sculptor known as
Arman who was a leading figure of the New Realism movement, has died in
New York, his family said Sunday. He was 76.
Arman died Saturday at his home in Manhattan after a battle with cancer,
said his daughter Marion Moreau.
Best-known for his large "assemblages" that turned everyday objects into
sculpture, Arman helped found the New Realism movement with sculptor
Yves Klein in the early 1960s.
French President Jacques Chirac mourned the passing of "a tireless
creator," who worked passionately with constant curiosity and
enthusiasm. "This is a very a large figure in contemporary art who has
left us," he said in a statement.
Exhibited at the world's great museums, Arman also created sculpture out
of burned objects, items found in garbage cans and destroyed items, such
as violins and pianos that he cleverly reattached atop pedestals.
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Reggie "The Crusher" Lisowski
MILWAUKEE (AP) _ Reggie "The Crusher" Lisowski, a professional wrestler
whose career spanned from the 1950s to the 1970s, has died. He was 79.
Lisowski never fully recovered from surgeries to remove a tumor at the
base of his brain stem and died Saturday, said his son David Lisowski.
Two surgeries had affected Lisowski's ability to swallow and left him
partially paralyzed, his son said. The former wrestler had to be fed
through a feeding tube for several months.
Lisowski learned to wrestle while in the Army in Germany during World
War II and played semi-professional football when he returned, his son
said.
One night, Lisowski accepted a fight in a carnival ring for the prize of
one dollar.
"Well, he stepped into the ring and beat him, and he got a buck," David
Lisowski said. "He did this for a couple of days and beat everybody."
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John Monagan
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) _ John Monagan, a seven-term U.S Representative,
died Sunday at his home in Washington after a long illness, his family
said. He was 93.
Monagan, a Democrat, served as Connecticut's 5th-District representative
until 1972, becoming known for chairing Cold-War hearings that
documented the failures of Communism.
He also played a major role in getting a system of dams built in the
Naugatuck River valley, a much-needed project after the flood of 1955.
After losing the 1972 election to Republican Ronald Sarasin, Monagan
went into private legal practice in Washington.
Monagan was mayor of Waterbury from 1943 to 1947, when the city hired
its first black teacher and police officer and ended gender-based pay
differences in the school system.
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Rosa Parks
DETROIT (AP) _ Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to
a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She
was 92.
Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a
spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was
to change the course of American history and earn her the title "mother
of the civil rights movement."
At that time, laws in place since the post-Civil War Reconstruction
required separation of the races in buses, restaurants and public
accommodations throughout the South.
The Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, an active member of the local chapter
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was
riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat.
Mrs. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats
to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that
year on the same charge, but Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined
$14.
Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a
then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who
later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
"At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this," Mrs.
Parks said 30 years later. "It was just a day like any other day. The
only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people
joined in."
The Montgomery bus boycott, which came one year after the U.S. Supreme
Court's landmark declaration that separate schools for blacks and whites
were "inherently unequal," marked the start of the modern civil rights
movement.
The movement led to the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned
racial discrimination in public accommodations.