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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the
grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Bishop Hall
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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
This week we say goodbye to Denny Doherty, founding member
of the 1960's pop group, The Mamas & The Papas. The group
broke onto the scene in 1966 with their top 10 hit "California
Dreamin'." They recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968;
releasing five albums and charting ten hit singles before
they broke up in 1968.
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DENNY DOHERTY, SINGER OF THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS, DEAD AT 66
Denny Doherty of the 1960's pop group, The Mamas & The Papas,
died Friday at his home in Mississauga, near Toronto, of an
abdominal aneurysm. He was 66. "He was one of the greatest
tenors in rock 'n' roll," his former band mate, Michelle
Phillips, told Rolling Stone. Doherty's death leaves Phillips
as the only surviving member of the group, known for such
hits as "California Dreamin'," "Monday, Monday," and "Dream a
Little Dream." Mama Cass Elliott died at 32 in 1974, and Papa
John Phillips died at 65 in 2001. Doherty met Elliott in 1963,
and joined her group, The Big Three. Doherty and Elliott then
joined John and Michelle Phillips in The Magic Circle, which
became The Mamas & The Papas in 1965, Rolling Stone said.
Their first single, "California Dreamin'," hit No. 4 on the
Billboard Hot 100. The group broke up shortly after the 1967
Monterey International Pop Festival, which they headlined and
helped organize. Doherty appeared on Broadway in 1974 in "The
Man in the Moon," and premiered the autobiographical musical
"Dream a Little Dream" in Toronto in 2001. He and John
Phillips formed a new version of The Mamas & The Papas in
1982, featuring John's daughter, actress Mackenzie Phillips.
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GEORGE SMATHERS, FORMER U.S. SENATOR, DEAD AT 93
George Smathers, a former U.S. senator from South Florida,
died this weekend at the age of 93. The Miami Herald reported
that Smathers, who gained national notoriety for a deceptive
speech he never actually gave during the 1950 Democratic
primary, died Saturday in his native Florida. During the
infamous primary, Smathers was said to have made a speech in
which he bashed incumbent Florida Sen. Claude Pepper and used
tricky language to confuse potential voters, a move he
vehemently denied. "It's a kind of an insult to the people of
Florida to think that you can tell them that kind of junky
stuff and get away with it," he once said of the concept.
"The people in Florida are not that dumb." A confidante of
President John F. Kennedy, Smathers also enjoyed three terms
in the U.S. Senate and another two as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives. The newspaper said he is survived
by his wife, Carolyn; two sons, Bruce and John; a sister,
Virginia Myers, and three grandchildren.
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E. HOWARD HUNT, WATERGATE CONSPIRATOR, DEAD AT 88
Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt Jr. died Tuesday in Miami
at the age of 88. His wife Laura said he died of pneumonia at
North Shore Medical Center, The New York Times reported. The
June 1972 burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee led to an administration coverup which
eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Hunt
recruited four of the five burglars, The Washington Post said,
but did not participate in the burglary itself. "I will always
be called a Watergate burglar, even though I was never in the
damn place," Hunt told The Miami Herald in 1997, the Post
said. "But it happened. Now I have to make the best of it." He
was charged in the incident and served 33 months in prison. A
veteran of World War II, he also had a career in the CIA,
though he was working as a White House "security consultant"
at the time of the burglary. Hunt was born in Hamburg, N.Y.,
on Oct. 9, 1918.
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THORNTON JAMES 'POOKIE HUDSON, 1950s CROONER, DEAD AT 72
Thornton James "Pookie" Hudson, lead singer of the doo-wop
group The Spaniels, has died of cancer at his home in Wash-
ington. He was 72. The Spaniels achieved fame with their 1954
hit, "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight," which Hudson wrote
for his girlfriend at the time, Artistsdirect.com said. Hudson
had a brief solo career after The Spaniels disbanded in the
1960s. He re-formed the group with a new lineup in the early
1970s, issuing a new version of "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Good-
night" after the song was featured in the film "American
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Smokey Robinson and Aaron Neville, said Bill Carpenter,
Hudson's publicist. "He really made a blueprint for what a
crooner should sound like," Carpenter said. He continued to
perform until cancer forced him to retire last fall. Hudson,
who died Jan. 16, is survived by his wife, nine children and
16 grandchildren.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
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In 1947, organized crime figure and Chicago gangster Alphonse
"Al" Capone died of cardiac arrest. He was 48.
In 1963, acclaimed writer and poet Robert Frost, who won four
Pulitzer Prizes for his work, died at the age of 88.
In 1993, Andre "Andre the Giant" Roussimoff, the largest
athlete to participate in any sport, and the first wrestler
to gain national fame, died at the age of 46.
In 2004, Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan, best remembered for
his long running children's show, died at the age of 76.
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