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  • Jeanne-Claude , 74 (1935 - 2009)

    Jeanne-Claude

    The Associated Press NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm, her family said in an e-mail statement. Mayor Michael Bloomberg...

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  • Sy Syms (2009)

    Sy  Syms

    Associated Press NEW YORK -- Sy Syms, founder and chairman of the SYMS Corp. discount clothing chain, died of heart failure Tuesday in New York, according to a statement issued by the company. He was 83. Syms founded his apparel business in 1959 in New York's financial district as a discount retailer of off-price men's clothes. By 1983, he had expanded the business to 11 stores and taken...

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  • Earl Cooley, 98 (1911 - 2009)

    Earl  Cooley

    The following story courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN MILLER On the afternoon of July 12, 1940, Earl Cooley jumped out of an airplane and into history by parachuting to fight an Idaho forest fire, as part of the first team of smokejumpers. Mr. Cooley, who died Nov. 9 at age 98, went on to become the superintendent of the U.S. Forest Service's first squad of smokejumpers,...

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  • Stefanie Spielman (1968 - 2009)

    Stefanie  Spielman

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42. Stefanie Spielman died at the family's home in Upper Arlington, surrounded by her family, said WBNS radio in Columbus, where Chris Spielman co-hosts a show. "Stefanie has gone home to...

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  • James Armstrong (2009)

    James  Armstrong

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Associated Press) - Birmingham barber and civil rights foot soldier James Armstrong has died. He was 86. Armstrong died Wednesday. The Birmingham News first reported Armstrong's death on its Web site. Armstrong had a long history of involvement in the civil rights movement. He carried the American flag at the head of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights march...

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