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- December 28, 19871987 IMAGES...Farewells
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- Arthur Burns, 83 (Economist)
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- "Anyone who is convinced that he can fine-tune the economy
- doesn't know what he is talking about."
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- Erskine Caldwell, 83 (Novelist)
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- "His special talent is the utterly stranded world of the
- South's rural poor...He celebrates in them...the will to assert,
- in the midst of every privation, the basic appetites of life."
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- --Poet Richard Wilbur
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- William Casey, 74 (CIA director)
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- "There are some things about this scandal that he takes to the
- grave. Knowing Bill Casey, I think he'd prefer it that way."
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- --Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy on the Iran-contra
- affair
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- Robert Fosse, 60 (Choreographer)
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- "I always thought I would be dead by 25. It was romantic.
- People would mourn me: `Oh, that young career.'"
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- Jackie Gleason, 71 (Comic)
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- "How sweet it is!"
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- Jascha Heifetz, 86 (Violinist)
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- "He has been in the inner ear of every violinist since at least
- 1930."
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- --Isaac Stern
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- Rudolf Hess, 93 (Nazi war criminal)
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- "I was allowed for many years of my life to work under the
- greatest son that my people produced in their 1,000-year
- history...I regret nothing."
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- --At the Nuremberg tribunal
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- John Huston, 81 (Director, Actor)
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- "Why does a painter keep on painting? Painters retiring?
- Nonsense!"
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- --To the New York Times when asked why he went on making films
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- Danny Kaye, 74 (Comic)
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- "Walter Mitty dreamed it, Danny Kaye lived it."
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- --Sylvia Fine, his wife
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- Lee Marvin, 63 (Actor)
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- "If I appeal to anybody, I hope it's to the guy who collects
- the garbage."
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- Robert Preston, 68 (Actor)
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- "Feathery-footed, nimble-fingered, he is brassy, sassy and
- seemingly inexhaustible...His portrayal of a likable cad is a
- fine job of acting."
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- --TIME cover on The Music Man, July 21, 1958
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- Randolph Scott, 89 (Actor)
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- "[Westerns] have been the mainstay of the industry ever since
- its beginning. And they have been good to me."
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- Alf Landon, 100 (Politician)
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- "An oilman who never made a million, a lawyer who never had a
- case and a politician who carried only Maine and Vermont.
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- Andres Segovia, 94 (Classical guitarist)
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- "That stupid young fellow is making useless efforts to change
- the guitar--with its mysterious, Dionysiac nature--into an
- Apollonian instrument."
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- --Madrid critic after Segovia's 1910 debut
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