-Caveat Lector- from: http://withoutboundaries.com/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://withoutboundaries.com/">withoutboundaries.com</A> ----- Quote of the Day from the New York Times Good Morning! Time: 9:33 Date: 3/10/2000 withoutboundaries.com Our webmaster is on sabbatical. In the meantime, here are our top ten stories. You can also access the latest obits. Last, but certainly not least, please tell us whether or not you enjoyed the site and would return. Thanks! Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from our affiliation with Amazon.com goes toward our pledge to the Brockway Memorial Library Building Fund. Contact Us! Last Revision: Mon Feb 28 19:55:24 2000 Discover and celebrate the fascinating and often controversial lives, achievements and times of memorable people by reading short biographies known as OBITUARIES...(accompanying graphics link to relevant books, cds or videos that you can buy right now from Amazon.com by cliking thru on the graphic). Craig Claiborne, 79, Food Writer & Restaurant Critic Par Excellence (LATimes) He was the author of 20 books, including "The New York Times Cookbook" (1960), and called the man who "single-handedly invented honest restaurant criticism". Claiborne's zest for and knowledge of food fit hand in potholder with JFK's "New Frontier"; he was instrumental in causing an unrivaled American preoccupation with food. Claiborne created the NYTimes restaurant rating system and his articles made stars out of budding chefs. Of his Mississippi roots, he wrote that "nothing can equal the universal appeal of the food of one's childhood and early youth." Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, "Chronicler of Unsung Lives" (NYTimes) He started at the Times as a copy boy in 1959, and only began writing obits (known as McG's) in 1995 -- artfully and accurately assuring that we could be moved and inspired by fascinating lives that we might never have heard of otherwise. How else might we have learned that Edward Lowe, a sawdust merchant from Cassopolis, Mich., turned kiln-dried granulated clay he had been selling as a sop for grease spills into something so totally indispensable as Kitty Litter? Don Martin, 68, MAD's Maddest Cartoonist(Miami Herald) His counterculture, edgy work appealed to adolescents who related to the grotesque characters and X-treme humor. Martin even invented his own sounds. He drew for MAD from 1956-1987, but all along he was a quite, mild-mannered man who lived in Miami -- drawing from the Coconut Grove beatnik scene of the 50's and 60's. Those coneheads with "bulbous elbows and eyelids as big as palmetto bugs" were Floridians! FAGROON! FAGROON! FAGROON! Charles Spalding, 81, JFK Friend and Crony (LATimes) A JFK pal since their Ivy League days, Spalding lived the Hollywood life as a scriptwriter before turning to investment banking. He was one of the last surviving Kennedy cronies with firsthand knowledge of JFK's starlet-hunting Hollywood escapades from 1946 (when first elected to Congress) to his ill-fated relationship with Marilyn Monroe. Israel Myers, 93, American Who Created London Fog (NYTimes) The son of a tailor parlayed a law degree and an order for 10,000 army raincoats during WWII into the London Fog raingear empire. The fabrics were based on a waterproof, lightweight blend developed with DuPont. Londontown was the first clothing manufacturer to advertise on TV: "London Fog let's you laugh at the weather." Miss Charlotte Green, 101, 3-Century New Yorker (NYTimes) She rode buggies and trolleys, saw Babe Ruth bat in Yankee Stadium, and heard Enrico Caruso at the Metropolitan Opera. By the by, she was the indepensable "clerical keystone" of the 125-lawyer firm of Lord Day & Lord (now defunct) from 1918-78. She also negotiated workmens' compensation injury claims for one of the clients, Cunard Lines. But she was mostly remembered by friends and family for her kindness, vitality, and modesty. Clayton Moore, 88, The Lone Ranger (LA TImes) He last appeared on TV in 1957, but Moore was the masked man in personal appearances for 30 years more despite legal efforts to stop him. Where would we be without the Lone Ranger, his white hat, Tonto, the Wm Tell Overture and a hearty "Hi-yo Silver"? "I believe that all things change but truth, and that truth alone lives on forever." (Lone Ranger Creed) Bill Bowerman, 88, Legendary Track Teacher & Innovator (The Oregonian) He fielded championship teams (including Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar) and helped popularize the jogging craze. Bowerman revolutionized running shoe design by creating treads made by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron. He co-founded Blue Ribbon Sports -- which later became Nike -- with one of his students, Phil Knight. The shoe became the "Nike Waffle". The now hugely-powerful Knight calls Bowerman his personal hero. Louis Cloitier, 75, Beloved Waitress (Miami Herald) She had herself become an institution, serving the rich and the famous as well as the common laborer at the S&S restaurant for 19 years. But there were no VIPs in her book. Cloitier's legendary talent for keeping everyone happily in line was equaled only by her ability to dish out the hottest Miami gossip. Milton Rudin, Hollywood Attorney, 79 (LA Times) Mickey Rudin "made waves for more than 50 years" and was fiercely loyal to his clients, primarily Frank Sinatra. He once complained to ABC for airing footage of Sinatra that devoted too much time to his singing. "As [Marilyn] Monroe's lawyer and the brother-in-law of her psycholanalyst, Ralph Greenson, Rudin was one of the first on the scene when Monroe died of a drug overdose August 5, 1962." (Note: the cause and date of Monroe's death have been disputed ever since.) ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. 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