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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 remember baseball left fielder, "Shoeless" Joe
Jackson, who died December 5, 1951, at the age of 63. He was
one of the greatest hitters of his era. The nickname "Shoeless"
came from before he played in the major leagues. Suffering from
a blister due to a new, stiff pair of cleat shoes, he took his
shoes off before he went to hit, and when he got to base a fan
started yelling "shoeless son-of-a-bitch." The name stuck with
him all the way to the major leagues.
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PUBLICIST AND MANAGER, RONNIE LIPPIN, DEAD AT 59
Ronnie Lippin, a veteran publicist and manager who worked with
rock icons such as Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson and Prince, died
Monday. Lippin died of a rare form of breast cancer at Cedar
Sinai Medical Center here. She was 59 years old. Though she
got her start working as a publicist for film and stage
productions, Lippin, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, migrated to
music publicity when she moved to Los Angeles with her husband,
Dick Lippin. She started out as a chief publicist for MCA
Records and later worked with Elton John's Rocket Records and
became the top publicist for RSO Records, home of the Bee Gees
and the best-selling "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever"
Soundtracks. In 1989 she joined The Lippin Group, the marketing
and public relations firm founded by her husband. There, she
represented acts ranging from Mark Knofler, Clapton to Prince.
She also served as a co-manager to Wilson. "Ronnie Lippin was
one of the most loving, thoughtful, sensitive and caring people
I've ever met," Wilson said in a statement. At the time of her
death, she was president of The Lippin Group.
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ROSE MATTUS, CO-CREATOR OF Häagen-Daz ICECREAM, DEAD AT 90
Rose Mattus, who with her husband, Reuben, turned a family-
owned ice cream business in the Bronx into a national brand
with the invented name Häagen-Dazs, died Tuesday in Westwood,
N.J. She was 90. Around 1960, while sitting on their couch in
the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Mattus fabricated the foreign-sounding
name. In the company’s early years, Mrs. Mattus, the company’s
controller, built the business by going to bodegas and grocery
stores to offer free samples. By 1983, when Häagen-Dazs was
acquired by Pillsbury for $70 million, the company had a strong
presence in supermarkets, a coast-to-coast string of franchise
ice cream shops and sales of about $115 million a year. It is
now owned by Nestlé. "Reuben was a true dairy expert, a bug
about quality. Rose basically ran the business, holding the
company together and making it possible for a dreamer like
Reuben to be successful." At the time, most supermarket ice
cream was made with artificial flavoring and nonfat dry milk,
while Häagen-Dazs used egg yolks and real cream, as well as
ingredients like Belgian chocolate, vanilla beans from
Madagascar and coffee from Colombia.
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LEONARD FREED, PHOTOJOURNALIST, DEAD AT 77
Leonard Freed, a prominent photojournalist and member of the
Magnum Photography Collective who was known primarily for his
in-depth coverage of African-Americans in the era of the civil
rights movement, died on Wednesday at his home in Garrison,
N.Y. He was 77. He joined Magnum in 1972 and distinguished him-
self with classic photo essays on assignments for Life, Look,
Paris-Match, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Stern, The Sunday Times
Magazine of London, Libération and Fortune. In 1968, he
published "Black in White America," a book about African-
Americans from Harlem through the South. His 1980 book "Police
Work" used words and images to document the New York police.
Photography became Mr. Freed’s means to explore society’s
violence and racial discrimination. Over the years, he produced
picture essays ranging from Poland, Asian immigrants, North Sea
oil development and Spain since Franco. He shot four films for
Japanese, Dutch and Belgian television. His work is in museum
collections around the world, including the Israel Museum, the
Stedelijk in Amsterdam and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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SEXIEST MAN ALIVE'S PIG, MAX, DEAD AT 19
LOS ANGELES, California -- George Clooney's beloved potbelly
pig Max died Monday December 5. He was 19. The Oscar-winning
actor, 45, who owned the hog for 18 years and he once said
that his longest relationship ever was with Max, his personal
porker. Max, who lived at Clooney's Hollywood Hills home, died
"peacefully" of natural causes on Friday. "Max, like any pet,
became a member of the family," Rosenfield, his publicist
said. "He was a big pig, as pigs go." Clooney commented "I was
really surprised, because he's been a big part of my life."
Clooney was out of town promoting his upcoming film "The Good
German" when Max died.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
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In 1951, Joseph "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, the professional
baseball player known for being banned from the sport during
a scandal in 1919, died at the age of 63.
In 1967, American stage and film actor Bert Lahr, best known
for his comedic roles, the most famous being the Cowardly
Lion in the MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz," died at the age
of 72.
Also in 1967, one of the most popular and critically
acclaimed soul vocalist, songwriter and musicians of Southern
soul, Otis Redding, Jr., died at the age of 26.
In 1980, John Lennon, the lead singer, guitarist and song-
writer of the innovative rock group The Beatles, was
assassinated by a deranged fan in front of his apartment
building in New York City. He was 40.
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