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- January 5, 1981IMAGES: GOODBYE
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- William O. Douglas, 81, energetic outdoorsman, author of more
- than a score of books and, above all, an uncompromising champion
- of what he liked to call the "firstness of the First Amendment."
- During his 36 years as a Supreme Court Justice--a record
- term--the onetime SEC chairman and law professor at Yale and
- Columbia battled vigorously to safeguard the rights of
- individuals.
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- Jimmy Durante, 86. For nearly 65 years, from New York
- vaudeville stages to television screens across the land, "the
- great Schnozzola" cracked his gentle gags, rasped out his
- endearingly silly ditties and strutted his way into the hearts
- of millions. Goodnight, Mr. Durante, wherever you are.
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- Alfred Hitchcock, 80, much mimicked master of cinematic suspense
- who in 53 meticulously crafted films concocted riveting
- nightmares of evil that set the world squirming, and sometimes
- laughing (albeit nervously), at the anxieties that bedevil just
- about everyone.
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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96, eldest daughter of President
- Teddy, wife of House Speaker Nicholas and a tart-tongued
- Washington hostess who delighted in the biting quip. In her
- upstairs sitting room she kept a pillow embroidered with the
- advice, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right
- her by me."
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- George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor
- who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFLCIO from its
- birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union
- lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who
- accused him of being too conservative, MEany lectured Presidents
- and public alike with equal bluntness.
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- Jesse Owens, 66, black track-and-field star whose four gold
- medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics dashed Hitler's dream of
- staging a showcase for Aryan supremacy.
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- Jean Piaget, 84, innovative Swiss psychologist who devoted his
- life to mapping out how children think. During a 60-year
- career, he published more than 50 books and evolved the theory
- that knowledge is not poured into a child like water into a cup
- but that a child helps create what he learns through his own
- activity.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who
- embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a
- generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays
- (No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended
- that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his
- own actions.
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- Josip Bronz Tito, 87. Wily, autocratic, ruthless and more than
- a little van, Tito effectively ruled Yugoslavia's ethnic crazy
- quilt for nearly 35 years. Breaking with Stalin in 1948, he
- fashioned an unorthodox Communism streaked with touches of
- capitalism ("self- management"). In the 1950s he helped found
- the "nonaligned" movement, to which most Third World nations now
- profess allegiance.
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- Mae West, 87. "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad,
- I'm better," she cooed, and nobody made sex more of a laughing
- matter than the voluptuous blond from Brooklyn. Winking and
- leering across the screen during her heyday in the 1930s, Mae
- delighted a generation with her slightly suggestive one-liners.
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