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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.
Actor Glenn Ford, who brought a quiet reserve to the screen
in movies dating back to Hollywood's golden era, has died
this week after suffering several strokes. Marie Tharp, a
pioneering undersea mapmaker who was one of the first to
recognize sea-floor spreading, died of cancer. Also this
week we remember the passing of the founder and lead singer
of the doo-wop group the Condors, and experimental composer
James Tenney.
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GLENN FORD, ACTOR, DEAD AT 90
Glenn Ford, who brought a quiet reserve to the screen in
movies dating back to Hollywood's golden era, has died at 90
at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Ford was best known for
his roles in such films as "Blackboard Jungle," "Gilda" and
"Pocketful of Miracles." His credits also included "Teahouse
of the August Moon," "Don't Go Near the Water" and "The
Courtship of Eddie's Father." Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel
Newton Ford May 1, 1916, in Quebec. His family moved to Santa
Monica, Calif., when he was 7. He began working with local
theater groups after high school, and broke into Hollywood in
the 1939 feature "Heaven with a Barbed-Wire Fence," the Times
said. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943, where he met
actress-dancer Eleanor Powell. They married, and had a son,
Peter, but divorced after 16 years of marriage. Ford married
actress Kathryn Hays in 1966, but the marriage ended quickly,
and Ford's 1977 marriage to Cynthia Hayward ended in 1984.
Ford also married his nurse, Jeanne Baus, in 1993.
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MARIE THARP, UNDERSEA PIONEER, DEAD AT 86
Marie Tharp, a pioneering undersea mapmaker who was one of
the first to recognize sea-floor spreading, has died in
Nyack, N.Y. The cause was cancer, The New York Times reported.
Tharp, 86, spent her career at the Lamont Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, N.Y. She
came there in 1948 as a research assistant to the founder,
Maurice Ewing, and retired in 1982. Because women were not
allowed to sail on research ships in the 1940s and 1950s,
Tharp remained at the institute plotting data. Tharp spent
much of her life in a professional and personal partnership
with Bruce Heezen, who came to Lamont as one of Ewing's
students. Tharp and Heezen collaborated on the first complete
map of the ocean floor. In 1953, Tharp observed a crack in
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. She wondered if the crack might be
continuous and evidence of sea-floor spreading. Heezen died
of a heart attack in 1977. Tharp leaves no survivors.
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SANDERS BARBER JR. CONDORS SINGER, DEAD AT 68
Sanders Barber Jr., founder and lead singer of the doo-wop
group the Condors, has died in Pittsburgh at age 68. Barber
founded the singing group with six others following high
school graduation. The Condors performed throughout
Pennsylvania, including venues like the White Elephant in
White Oak, Dave's Walnut Inn in McKeesport and the Elks
Club in Donora, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Barber
was born in Albany, Ga., but moved to McKeesport, Pa., as a
child. In addition to singing, he worked for the Pittsburgh
Water and Sewer Authority until his retirement about three
years ago. He died Aug. 23 from complications from leukemia.
His sister, Susie Brown, said Barber had been sick for
about a year. Barber is survived by his wife Lois Evon Baker
Barber; sons Kevin Davis and Sanders Devon Barber; daughters
Jackie Wright and Nicole Barber; stepchildren Karilyn Reese
and Marilyn Hopkins; and 12 brothers and sisters.
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JAMES TENNEY, COMPOSER, DEAD AT 72
Experimental composer James Tenney, who was a musical
theorist, pianist and university professor, has died of
cancer in Valencia, Calif., at age 72. Tenney attended the
University of Denver with the intention of studying
engineering, but when he heard John Cage play "Sonatas and
Interludes," his music "blew me away," he told the Los
Angeles Times in 2002. After studying at Juilliard School
in New York, he earned his bachelor's degree from Bennington
College in Vermont in 1958. At the University of Illinois,
he earned his master's degree. Tenney worked at Bell
Laboratories from 1958 to 1964, researching the new field of
computer music, the Los Angeles Times reported. He taught at
several universities, including California Institute of the
Arts in Valencia and York University, Toronto, where he also
got orchestral commissions and recorded. Tenney is survived
by his wife Lauren Pratt, two sons, two daughters and three
grandchildren.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1969, Vietnamese Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh, who was
noted for his success in blending Nationalism and Communism,
died at the age of 79.
In 1982, actress Ingrid Bergman, an international star of
films, television and on the stage, died at the age of 67.
In 1997, Princess Diana, who married Prince Charles and was
famous for her groundbreaking fashion choices and breaking
barriers, died in a car crash. She was 36.
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