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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.
We take a moment to remember Stevie Wonder's mother, Lula
Mae Hardaway, who has recently died. She helped her son
write some of his biggest hits, including "Signed, Sealed,
Delivered I'm Yours" and "I Was Made to Love Her." We also
remember NASA rocket scientist Wilber B. Huston, Austrian
journalist Hubertus Czernin, and avant garde composer Gyorgy
Ligeti.
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LULA MAE HARDAWAY, STEVIE WONDER'S MOTHER, DEAD AT 76
Stevie Wonder's mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, who helped write
some of her son's biggest hits, has died at age 76, it was
reported Saturday. The family revealed Hardaway died May 31,
but did not say where or release the cause of death, The Los
Angeles Times reported. Hardaway helped her son write
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" and "I Was Made to
Love Her," among others, the newspaper said. The Alabama
native described her tumultuous childhood and the abuse she
later suffered at the hands of her husband in Michigan in
her 2003 book, "Blind Faith, The Miraculous Journey of Lula
Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother." She thought Wonder's
blindness was punishment from God for her past sins, the
newspaper said, and tried for years to find a cure through
faith healers and traditional medicine. Hardaway is survived
by her five children, five siblings and 20 grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
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WILBER B. HUSTON, NASA ROCKET SCIENTIST, DEAD AT 93
NASA rocket scientist Wilber B. Huston, selected by Thomas
Edison as the nation's "brightest boy" in 1929, has died in
Fountain Hills, Ariz. He was 93. Huston was chosen as the
representative of the State of Washington and was tested in
mathematics, physics, chemistry and cultural and moral
issues, said The News York Times. After winning the
competition, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, with Edison offering to pay all expenses.
Huston was known from then on as "Edison's smartest boy"
or "America's Brightest Boy," the Times said. His every
move was chronicled. Huston expressed some irritation, say-
ing that he disliked being referred to by variants of the
"smartest boy." He later joined the NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where he was mission
director for the launching of seven weather satellites.
He retired from the government to do private consulting
work in 1974.
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HUBERTUS CZERNIN, JOURNALIST, DEAD AT 50
Austrian journalist Hubertus Czernin, who was instrumental
in returning art seized by the Nazis to its rightful owner,
has died in Vienna at 50. Czernin died Saturday of complica-
tions associated with mastocytosis, a rare cell disorder he
suffered from and which had left him in poor health for last
few years, The Los Angeles Times reported. Czernin -- the
first journalist to have access to records at the Austrian
Gallery in Vienna -- reported in a series of articles about
the questionable ownership papers of famous paintings from
artist Gustav Klimt. The 1998 articles helped pave the way
for the passage of Austria's Art Restitution Law, which
allowed the family of Maria Altmann to pursue claims to art-
work that had been seized during World War II. A U.S. Supreme
Court ruling allowed Altmann to sue the Austrian government
for ownership of the multimillion dollar Klimt paintings.
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GYORGY LIGETI, COMPOSER, DEAD AT 83
Hungarian musical pioneer and avant garde composer Gyorgy
Ligeti has died in Vienna at the age of 83. Ligeti died
Monday, the Guardian reported Tuesday. He was best known for
his creation of "micropolyphony," the mixing of musical
facets such as texture to the point that borders ceased to
exist between melody and rhythm, the Guardian said. "Ligeti
was an avant garde, definitely modern composer who did the
most for renewing the musical language in the second half of
the 20th century," Budapest Festival Orchestra conductor
Ivan Fischer said. Ligeti contributed to the soundtrack of
the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and also contributed to
Romanian folk music. One of his former assistants, Stephen
Furguson, said his "cluster sound" H fascinated Kubrick "and
propelled Ligeti to the top of the great composers of the
second half of the 20th Century." Ligeti is survived by his
wife and a son.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1979, actor John Wayne, who became the greatest figures
of one of America's greatest native art forms, the western,
died at age 72.
In 1986, Benny Goodman, the King of Swing whose clarinet led
a generation of music fans into the Big Band era in the
1930's, died of a heart attack. He was 77.
Also in 1986, one of the most popular singers of the century,
Kate Smith, who made 'God Bless America' an unofficial
national anthem, died at age 79.
In 1996, Ella Fitzgerald, the most celebrated jazz singer of
her generation, known as the First Lady of Jazz, died at the
age of 78.
In 2003, actor Gregory Peck, whose long career included such
classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound, and his Academy Award
winner To Kill a Mockingbird, died at age 87.
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