Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian physician and writer, died from a stroke. he was , 73.

Moacyr Jaime Scliar  was a Brazilian writer and physician.
Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats (Max e os Felinos), the story of a young man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman. Making his way to Brazil, his ship sinks, and he finds himself alone in a dinghy with a jaguar who had been travelling in the hold.^[1] The story of the jaguar and the boy was picked up by Yann Martel for his own book Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, in which Pi is trapped in a lifeboat with a tiger.^[2][3]

(March 23, 1937 – February 27, 2011)

Background

Scliar was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, into a Jewish family that immigrated to Brazil from Bessarabia in 1919. He graduated in medicine in 1962, majoring in public health.

Writing

In 1962, his first book Stories of a Doctor in Formation was published, although later on he regretted having published it so young. His second book The Carnival of the Animals was published in 1968.
Most of Scliar's writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil. In a recent autobiographical piece, Scliar discusses his membership in the Jewish, medical, Gaucho, and Brazilian tribes. He was elected a life-time member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2003.
His novel The Centaur in the Garden was included among the Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature by The National Yiddish Book Center.
Scliar's fiction has been translated into English, Dutch, French, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Czech. His translated fiction is listed in the UNESCO international bibliography of translations Index Translationum: Scliar, Moacyr

Works in English

Books

• The Centaur in the Garden, Translator: Margaret A. Neves
• The Gods of Raquel, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The One-Man Army, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The Carnival of the Animals, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The Ballad of the False Messiah, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The Strange Nation of Rafael Mendes, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The Volunteers, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The Enigmatic Eye, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• Max and the Cats , Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar, Translator: Eloah F. Giacomelli
• The War in Bom Fim, Translator: David William Foster

Short Stories in Anthologie

• Inside My Dirty Head - The Holocaust, translator Eloah F. Giacomelli, in TROPICAL SYNAGOGUES: SHORT STORIES BY JEWISH LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS, editor Ilan Stavans
• The Plagues, translator Eloah F. Giacomelli, in A HAMMOCK BENEATH THE MANGOES - STORIES FROM LATIN AMERICA, editor Thomas Colchie
• Van Gogh's Ear, translator Eloah F. Giacomelli, in THE VINTAGE BOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STORIES, editors Carlos Fuentes and Julio Ortega
• The Prophets of Benjamin Bok, translator Eloah F. Giacomelli, in WITH SIGNS AND WONDER: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH FABULIST FICTION, editor Daniel M. Jaffe
• The Ballad of the False Mesiah, translator Eloah F. Giacomelli, in THE OXFORD BOOK OF JEWISH STORIES, editor Ilan Stavans
• The Cow ; The Last Poor Man, translator Eloah F. Giacomelli, in THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF THE BRAZILIAN SHORT STORY, editor K. David Jackson

External Links to Reviews & Articles

• YUPPIES WITH FETLOCKS, review by Jean Franco, New York Times, June 30, 1985 The Centaur in the Garden
• THE CENTAUR IN THE GARDEN, review by Judith Bolton-Fasman, The Jewish Reader, August 2003 Centaur in the Garden
• JONAH WAS CLAUSTROPHOBIC, review by Herbert Gold, New York Times, January 31, 1988 The Strange Nation of Rafael Mendes
• MAIMONIDES IN BRAZIL, review by Mark R. Day, Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1988 Rafael Mendes
• THE BRAZILIANIZATION OF THE YIIDDISHKEIT TRADITION, article by Robert DiAntonio, Latin America Literary Review, Vol. 17, No. 34 (Jul. - Dec. 1989), pp. 40--51 Yiddishkeit Tradition
• RESONANCES OF THE YIDDISHKEIT TRADITION IN THE CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN NARRATIVE, by Robert DiAntonio, in Tradition and Innovation: Reflections on Latin American Jewish Writing, State University of New York Press, 1993 An Analysis of Scliar's Fiction
• MOACYR SCLIAR: SOCIAL DIFFERENCES AND THE TYRANNY OF CULTURE, an analysis of Scliar's fiction by Nelson H. Vieira, in Jewish Voices in Brazilian Literature: A Prophetic Discourse of Alterity, University Press of Florida, 1996 Social Differences and the Tyranny of Culture
• WLT INTERVIEW WITH MOACYR SCLIAR, article by Luciana Camargo Namorato, World Literature Today, May 1, 2006 Interview with Scliar
• MOACYR SCLIAR, article by Ilan Stavans, Jewish Writers of the 20th Century Moacyr Scliar
• ORACULAR JEWISH TRADITION IN TWO WORKS BY MOACYR SCLIAR, article by Naomi Lindstrom, Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter, 1984, University of Wisconsin Press) Two Works by Scliar
• THE ENIGMATIC EYE, review by Robert DiAntonio, The International Fiction Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1990) Enigmatic Eye
• IN BATTLE WITH THE TERRIFYING BEAST OF MAGICAL REALISM, article by Dolores Flaherty, Roger Flaherty, Chicago Sun-Times, August 5, 1990 Magical Realism
• FACING ONE'S INNER FELINES, review by Linda Morra, Canadian Literature #183 (Winter 2004), Writers Talking, pp. 166-167 Max and the Cats
• MOACYR SCLIAR, BRAZILIAN NOVELIST, DIES AT 73, a review article by William Grimes, BOOK section, The New York Times, March 5, 2011 Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist

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Duke Snider American Baseball Hall of Famer (Dodgers, Mets, Giants) died he was , 84,.

Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider , nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", was a Major League Baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1947–62), New York Mets (1963), and San Francisco Giants (1964) died  he was , 84,.
Snider was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.

(September 19, 1926 – February 27, 2011)

Early life and career

Born in Los Angeles, Snider was nicknamed "Duke" by his father at age five.^[1] Growing up in Southern California, Snider was a gifted all-around athlete, playing basketball, football, and baseball at Compton High School, class of 1944. He was a strong-armed quarterback, who reportedly could throw the football 70 yards. Spotted by one of Branch Rickey's scouts in the early 1940s, he was signed to a baseball contract out of high school in 1943.^[1]He played briefly for the Montreal Royals of the International League in 1944 (batting twice) and for Newport News in the Piedmont League in the same year. After serving in the military in 1945, he came back to play for the Fort Worth Cats in 1946 and for St. Paul in 1947. He played well and earned a tryout with the Brooklyn Dodgers later that year. He started the next season (1948) with Montreal, and after hitting well in that league with a .327 batting average, he was called up to Brooklyn for good during the middle of the season.

Major League Baseball career

In 1949 Snider came into his own, hitting 23 home runs with 92 runs batted in, helping the Dodgers into the World Series. Snider also saw his average rise from .244 to .292. A more mature Snider became the "trigger man" in a power-laden lineup which boasted players, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Carl Furillo, Clem Labine, and Joe Black. Often compared with two other New York center fielders, fellow Hall of Famers, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, he was the reigning "Duke" of Flatbush.
In 1950 he hit .321. But when his average slipped to .277 in 1951, and the Dodgers squandered a 13-game lead to lose the National League pennant to the New York Giants, Snider received heavy media criticism and requested a trade (it didn't happen).
Usually batting third in the line-up, Snider established some impressive offensive numbers: he hit 40 or more home runs in five consecutive seasons (1953–57), and between 1953-1956 averaged 42 home runs, 124 RBI, 123 runs, and a .320 batting average. He led the National league in runs scored, home runs, and RBIs in separate seasons, and appeared in six post-seasons with the Dodgers (1949, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1959), facing the New York Yankees in the first five and the Chicago White Sox in the last. The Dodgers won the World Series in 1955 and in 1959.

Duke Snider's number 4 was retired by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980.

Snider's career numbers declined when the team moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Coupled with an aching knee and a 440-foot right field fence at the cavernous Coliseum, Snider hit only 15 home runs in 1958. However, he had one last hurrah in 1959 as he helped the Dodgers win their first World Series in Los Angeles. Duke rebounded that year to hit .308 with 25 home runs and 88 RBI in 400 at bats while platooning in center field with Don Demeter. Injuries and age would eventually play a role in reducing Snider to part-time status by 1961.
In 1962 when the Dodgers led the NL for most of the season (only to find themselves tied with the hated Giants at the season's end) it was Snider and third-base coach Leo Durocher who reportedly pleaded with Manager Walter Alston to bring in future Hall of Fame pitcher (and Cy Young award winner that year), Don Drysdale, in the ninth inning of the third and deciding play-off game. Instead Alston brought in Stan Williams to relieve a tiring Eddie Roebuck. A 4-2 lead turned into a 6-4 loss as the Giants rallied to win the pennant. Snider subsequently was sold to the New York Mets. It is said that Drysdale, his roommate, broke down and cried when he got the news of Snider's departure.
When Snider joined the Mets, he discovered that his familiar number 4 was being worn by Charlie Neal, who refused to give it up. So Snider wore number 11 during the first half of the season, then switched back to 4 after Neal was traded. He proved to be a sentimental favorite among former Dodger fans who now rooted for the Mets. But after one season, Snider asked to be traded to a contending team.
Snider was sold to the San Francisco Giants on Opening Day in 1964. Knowing that he had no chance of wearing number 4, which had been worn by Mel Ott and retired by the Giants, Snider took number 28. He retired at the end of that season.
In Snider's 18-year career he batted .295 with 407 home runs and 1,333 RBI in 2,143 games. Snider went on to become a popular and respected analyst and play-by-play announcer for the Montreal Expos from 1973 to 1986, characterized by his mellow, low-key style.

1955 Most Valuable Player balloting controversy

Snider finished second to teammate Roy Campanella in the 1955 Most Valuable Player balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America by just five points, 226-221, with each man receiving eight first place votes. A widely believed story, summarized in an article by columnist Tracy Ringolsby^[2], holds that a hospitalized writer from Philadelphia had turned in a ballot with Campanella listed as his first place and fifth place vote. It was assumed that the writer had meant to write Snider's name into one of those slots. Unable to get a clarification from the ill writer, the BBWAA, after considering disallowing the ballot, decided to accept it, count the first place vote for Campanella and count the fifth place vote as though it were left blank. Had the ballot been disallowed the vote would have been won by Snider 221-212. Had Snider gotten that now-blank fifth place vote, the final vote would have favored Snider 227-226.
Investigative reporting by Joe Posnanski, however, has suggested that this story is not entirely true^[3]. Instead, Posnanski writes that there was a writer who did leave Snider off his ballot and write in Campanella's name twice, but it was in first and sixth positions, not first and fifth. Had Snider received the sixth place vote, the final tally would have created a tie, not a win for Snider. Additionally, the position was not discarded -- everyone lower on the ballot was moved up a spot and the writer, and pitcher Jack Meyer was inserted at the bottom with a 10th place vote.
Snider did, however, win the Sporting News National League Player of the Year Award for 1955, and the Sid Mercer Award, emblematic of his selection by the New York branch of the BBWAA as the National League's best player of 1955.^[4]

Later life

In 1995 Snider pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud charges. According to the charges, he had failed to report income from sports card shows and memorabilia sales.^[5][6]
Besides his selection to the Hall of Fame in 1980, in 1999 Snider was ranked 84 on The Sporting News's list of "100 Greatest Players", and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
Snider married Beverly Null in 1947; they had four children.
Snider died on February 27, 2011, at age 84 of what his family said were natural causes at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, California. ^[7]

Accomplishments

• Eight-time All-Star (1950–56, 1963)
• Six-time Top 10 MVP
  • 1950: 9th
  • 1952: 8th
  • 1953: 3rd
  • 1954: 4th
  • 1955: 2nd
  • 1956: 10th
• .540 slugging percentage (37th all-time)
• .919 OPS (50th all-time)
• 3,865 total bases (87th all-time)
• 407 home runs (41st all-time)
• 1,333 RBI (77th all-time)
• 1,481 runs scored (74th all-time)
• 850 extra-base hits (65th all-time)
• 17.6 at-bats per home run (59th all-time)
• Dodgers career leader in home runs (389), RBI (1,271), strikeouts (1,123), and extra-base hits (814)
• Holds Dodgers single-season record for most intentional walks (26 in 1956)
• Only player to hit four home runs (or more) in two different World Series (1952, 1955)
• One of only two major leaguers with over 1,000 RBI during the 1950s. The other was his teammate, Gil Hodges.

Books

• Duke Snider, Bill Gilbert (1988). The Duke Of Flatbush. Citadel. ISBN 978-0806523637.
• The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
• Irwin Winehouse, 1964, The Duke Snider Story, Julian Messner, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog No. 64-11367

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Gary Winick, American film director (13 Going on 30, Letters to Juliet), died from pneumonia he was , 49.

Gary Winick  was an American film director and producer who directed films such as Tadpole (2002) and 13 Going on 30 (2004) died from pneumonia he was , 49.. He also produced films including Pieces of April (2003) for which Patricia Clarkson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and November (2004) through his New York City-based independent film production company InDigEnt (founded in 1999; stands for Independent Digital Entertainment).^[1] He won the 2003 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for producing Personal Velocity.

(March 31, 1961 – February 27, 2011)

Winick directed the live action remake of Charlotte's Web starring Dakota Fanning. It was released on December 15, 2006.^[2] His most recent films were Bride Wars and Letters to Juliet.^[3]
For his primary and high school education Winick attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in the New York City borough of Manhattan (where he was born^[4]), graduating in 1979.^[5] He is a 1984 graduate of Tufts University^[6] and went on to receive Master of Fine Arts degree from both the University of Texas at Austin and the AFI Conservatory.^[7]

Death

Winick died of pneumonia in a hospital in Manhattan^[4] after a long battle with brain cancer on February 27, 2011 at age 49, shortly before his 50th birthday.^[8]

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Judith Coplon, American political analyst, convicted of espionage died she was , 89

Judith Coplon Socolov  was one of the first major figures tried in the United States for spying for the former Soviet Union; problems in her trials in 1949-1950 had a profound influence on espionage prosecutions during the McCarthy era died she was , 89.

(May 17, 1921 – February 26, 2011)

Career

Work and arrest

Coplon obtained a job in the Department of Justice shortly after she graduated from Barnard College, cum laude in 1943.^[2] She transferred to the Foreign Agents Registration section in 1944, where she had access to counter-intelligence information, and was allegedly recruited as a spy by the NKGB at the end of 1944.^[3]
She first came to the attention of the FBI as a result of a Venona message in late 1948. Coplon was known in both Soviet intelligence and the Venona files as "SIMA". She was the first person tried as a result of the Venona project—although, for reasons of security, the Venona information was not revealed at her trial. FBI Special Agent Robert Lamphere testified at her trial that suspicion had fallen on Coplon because of information from a reliable "confidential informant".^[4]
An extensive counter-intelligence operation planted a secret document for her to pass to the Soviets. FBI agents detained Coplon in March, 1949 as she met with Valentin Gubitchev, a KGB official employed by the United Nations, while carrying what she believed were secret U.S. government documents in her purse.^[4][3]

Trials and appeals

Coplon was convicted in two separate trials, one for espionage in 1949, and another for conspiracy along with Gubitchev in 1950; both convictions were later overturned in 1950 and 1951, respectively in appeal.^[4]
The appellant judge in New York concluded that while the evidence showed that she was guilty, that the FBI had lied under oath about the bugging. Moreover, he wrote, the failure to get a warrant was not justified. He overturned the verdict, but the indictment was not dismissed. In the appeal of the Washington trial, the verdict was upheld, but, because of the possible bugging, a new trial became possible. For political and evidentiary reasons it never took place.
Due to these legal irregularities, she was never retried and the government ultimately dropped the case in 1967.

National Attention

The Coplon trials commanded nationwide attention. After her arrest but before her trials, Coplon received earnest attention from the media. For example, Gertrude Samuels wrote for the New York Times, questioning the situation:

Why do some people become traitors? What turns some native-born Americans, as well as naturalized citizens, into Benedict Arnolds and Quislings? What motivates them to betray their country and themselves?...

Samuels examines four kinds of traitors: professional, people loyal their birth lands, crackpots, and idealists. In this last group, she named Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. To understand this group, she argues, one must understand their drive for social justice -- reasons "beyond FBI jurisdiction," while "few judges are bothered by motivations."^[5] NYT Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus wrote in March 2011:

...At the time of her trial, Ms. Coplon drew a great deal of interest, particularly in the lively tabloid press of the day. A 27-year-old cum laude graduate of Barnard, employed in the internal security section of the Justice Department, she seemed the model postwar “government girl,” fetchingly clad in snug sweaters and New Look skirts... [with] sort of attention Lindsay Lohan’s courtroom appearances attract today.^[6]

Coplon's death in February 2011 received wide syndication via Associated Press, mostly in the U.S..^{[4][7][8][9][10][11]}

Personal life

She was the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Moroh Coplon.^[3] She married one of her attorneys, Albert Socolov, and they remained married until her death. They had four children.^[4]

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Susan Crosland, American journalist, widow of Anthony Crosland died she was , 84.

Susan Barnes Crosland  was an American journalist and novelist long resident in London. She was the widow of the Labour Party politician Anthony Crosland  died she was , 84.

(23 January 1927 – 26 February 2011^[1])

Born Susan Barnes Watson in Baltimore, Maryland, the descendant of passengers on the Mayflower,^[2] she was the daughter of Mark Skinner Watson, a defence correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, later the publication's editor,^[2] and Anne Owens who was also a journalist.^[3] She graduated from Vassar College and taught at the Baltimore Museum of Art.^[1] In 1952 she married Patrick Skene Catling, then working with her father,^[4] and relocated to London in 1956 when Catling was posted to the London office of The Baltimore Sun.
At a party during the year she met Anthony Crosland shortly after The Future of Socialism, his most significant book, had been published. Her first marriage collapsed in 1960, and she and Crosland married in 1964; they kept separate residences at first.^[5] By now she had begun to write for British newspapers, originally as Susan Barnes. Taken on by John Junor of The Sunday Express just prior to her divorce, she freelanced after her second marriage, and specialised in writing features and profile articles. Following a period on the pre-Murdoch The Sun, Crosland worked for The Sunday Times from 1970. Noted for her profiles she insisted on not interviewing the wives of 'great men' feeling that "they wanted to perpetuate the image".^[6] Labour politician Tony Benn though, one of her subjects and a friend of her husband, persuaded Crosland not publish an article dedicated to himself (he had been allowed to vet it) which Benn considered unflattering.^[4] The interview was eventually published in The Spectator during October 1987.^[7]
Anthony Crosland had a fatal stroke in February 1977. His wife had strongly supported him throughout his periods as a Cabinet Minister, culminating in his appointment as Foreign Secretary in 1976, was pressed to stand as the Labour candidate for his Grimsby constituency in the subsequent by-election. She declined, but subsequently wrote a well-received biography of him published in 1982.^[8] One friend she acquired in this period via the biography, Therese Lawson, second wife of the Conservative politician Nigel Lawson, once spoke of the impression Crosland made on her:

Resuming her writing career, a biography of Anthony Blunt fell through after Crosland had already spent a third of the advance. George Weidenfeld, her publisher, suggested a novel instead, the result Ruling Passions appeared in 1989,^[2] the first of several works of fiction ending with The Politician's Wife in 2001. Crosland also assembled two volumes of collected journalism.
By the mid-1980s, Crosland had formed a deep platonic relationship with the conservative journalist Auberon Waugh which lasted until his death in 2001. By then she had begun to suffer from severe arthritis, thought to have had its origins in a riding accident she had suffered at eighteen, and acquired the MRSA bacterium while in hospital having a hip replaced; the infection went undiagnosed for some time.^[10]
Susan Crosland is survived by her first husband and their two daughters.

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Richard F. Daines, American physician, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (2007–2010) died he was , 60

Richard Frederick Daines, M.D.  was an American doctor and served as the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health from 2007 through 2010  died he was , 60. Afterward, he was a visiting scholar at the New York Academy of Medicine, focusing on policies that promote obesity prevention.

(February 17, 1951 – February 26, 2011)


Richard Daines was born in Preston, Idaho and grew up in Logan, Utah. Daines graduated from Utah State University in 1974 and served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bolivia from 1970 to 1972. He then attended medical school at Cornell University Medical College and graduated in 1978. He completed his residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital. He was board certified in internal medicine.
He worked as a physician in New York City for over 25 years. At St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, where he began practicing in 1978, his skills and compassion coupled with his ability to speak fluent Spanish made him a valued member of the staff and a favorite among his patients. In 1994 he became the hospital's Senior Vice President for Professional Affairs and Medical Director.
In 2000, he became Medical Director at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan, and served as President and CEO there from 2002 to 2007. He often worked shifts in the emergency department there to observe first hand the care patients received.
As State Health Commissioner, Dr. Daines managed a budget of more than $50 billion and a staff of 6,000. He was an architect of key state policies to increase coverage for uninsured New Yorkers, improve the safety and quality of health care, and achieve a high-performing health care system. Dr. Daines focused national attention on childhood obesity as a public health issue and oversaw implementation of the recommendations of the Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, also known as the Berger Commission, which restructured institutional health care. He promoted the development of primary care and patient-centered medical homes and hailed the Adirondack Medical Home initiative in the Adirondacks of northern New York as a national model. He established a new office in the State Health Department to focus on the development and implementtation of electronic health records and other health information technology to improve health care delivery in the state.
In 2009, Daines criticized nutritionist and activist Gary Null for his remarks as a keynote speaker at a political rally against mandatory vaccination of health care workers against H1N1 influenza at the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York.^[3] Daines said, "Like any number of things he’s wrong about, he’s wrong about that."^[3]
A former Scoutmaster who was an Eagle Scout, Dr. Daines conducted physicals for scouts and promoted youth health throughout his life. During his tenure as State Health Commissioner, he traveled to all 62 counties of New York State to promote New York's Prevention Agenda toward the Healthiest State and highlight local public health activities, often accompanied by his father, Newell. These activities included dropping rabies vaccine baits from a helicopter over northern New York; hunting disease-carrying mosquitoes in Cicero Swamp near Syracuse; tragging for ticks to highlight the prevention of Lyme Disease; promoting pet rabies clinics; highlighting low-fat, nutritious foods served in restaurants; supporting smoke-free outdoor community areas and parks; highlighting fresh fruits and vegetables available through community gardens and local farms; showcasing community efforts to promote physical activity, and encouraging New Yorkers to drink water and low-fat milk in place of high-calorie sugary beverages to prevent overweight and obesity. He was featured in several YouTube videos promoting obesity prevention.
In a farewell message to employees of the New York State Department of Health in December 2010, Dr. Daines quoted Hippocrates: "Art (of medicine) is long. Life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment perilous, judgment difficult."
Daines died at age 60 on February 26, 2011 of a sudden cardiovascular event while working at his farm in Dutchess County, New York. He and his wife of 36 years, Linda, also shared an apartment in Manhattan. He was the father of three children, William, Katherine and Andrew.^[4]

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Eugene Fodor, American violinist, died from cirrhosis he was , 60.

Eugene Nicholas Fodor, Jr. was the first American violinist to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow died from cirrhosis he was , 60..

(March 5, 1950 – February 26, 2011)

Fodor was born in Denver, Colorado. His first ten years of study were with Harold Wippler. He then studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, Indiana University and the University of Southern California, where his teachers included Ivan Galamian, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz, respectively.
Fodor made his solo debut with the Denver Symphony at the age of ten, playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 and began touring as a soloist while still a young teenager.
Fodor won numerous national contests before the age of seventeen, including First Prize in both the Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, D.C. and the Young Musicians Foundation Competition in Los Angeles, California.

He went on to win first prize in the International Paganini Competition in Italy in 1972, at the age of 22. It was his win at the Paganini competition that gained him widespread public attention. He achieved the highest prize awarded (second prize, shared with two other violinists) in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1974 in Moscow, Russia. This award raised his profile further, as an American winning the top Soviet prize during the height of the Cold War. He signed a recording contract with RCA Red Seal and was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson. Fodor was also awarded the European Soloist award "Prix Europeen du Soliste" in January 1999.
He appeared on the television show SCTV in November 1981 in a parody of the Joan Crawford movie Humoresque called New York Rhapsody.^[3]
His career declined in the late 1980s after an arrest for drug possession on Martha's Vineyard resulted in negative publicity.^{[citation needed]}
He died from cirrhosis^[4] in Arlington County, Virginia, at the age of 60.

Selected discography

• Bach Violin Concertos
• Nielsen Violin Concerto (2001, Grazioso Records 72601)
• Lalo: Symphony espagnole / Sibelius: Violin Concerto (2000, Grazioso Records 61501)
• Brahms: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano (1996, Clarity Records 1014)
• Concertos of Brahms, Sibelius and the first two concertos of Paganini with the Kiev Philharmonic
• Love Fodor Style (2002, Grazioso Records 95143)
• Instrument of the Angels (2001, Grazioso Records 81904, famous gospel pieces)

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