Eilaine Roth, American baseball player (AAGPBL), died she was 82.

Eilaine Roth was an outfielder who played from 1948 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed died she was 82..^[1]

^{(January 17, 1929 – November 1, 2011)} 

Born in Michigan City, Indiana, Eilaine Roth was the daughter of Herman and Elsie (née Kumnatzke) Roth. Younger than twin sister Elaine by fifteen minutes, Roth spent four years in the league mainly as a right fielder and pinch-hitter, while her sister was a pitcher for seven years. The twins attended Elston High School, graduating in 1946.^[2]
The Roth twins joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1948 with the Peoria Redwings. They played together for two years as the "dynamic duo" (″E″ and ″I″), because it worked well for promotion, but when the team folded before the 1951 season, Eilaine was relocated to the Kalamazoo Lassies and Ellaine joined the South Bend Blue Sox. In 1953, the sisters came together again in Kalamazoo.^[3]
Her most productive season came in 1950, when she posted career numbers in games played (107), hits (78) and stolen bases (64), while hitting a .202 average. Used sparingly in 1954, she hit .251 (52-for-207) in 79 games.^[4]
After leaving the league, Roth played slow-pitch softball in a factory league from 1954 to 1957. She later worked 21 years as an inspector for Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[5]
Eilaine Roth died in Springfield, Michigan, aged 82, following complications from cancer.^[1]

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Dorothy Howell Rodham, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, died she was 92.

Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham was an American homemaker and mother of First Lady, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.  died she was 92.



(June 4, 1919 – November 1, 2011)

Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. (1897–1946), a Chicago firefighter,^[4] and Della Murray (1902–1960).^[5][6] Her sister is Isabelle Howell (born 1924).^[4] Her ancestry included Welsh, English, Scottish, French, and Dutch; her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Bristol in Gloucester, and many of her recent forebears had lived in Canada.^[5]
Dorothy's childhood has been described as Dickensian.^[6][7] The family lived as boarders in a crowded house.^[6] The parents were dysfunctional and unhappy^[8] and prone to sometimes violent fights;^[6] they moved Dorothy amongst various schools,^[3] and paid only sporadic attention to the children before divorcing in 1927.^[4] The children were then sent on a train by themselves, unsupervised (Dorothy was eight, Isabelle younger), to live with their paternal grandparents in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, California.^[3][8][9] The sisters endured harsh treatment from their grandparents and Dorothy left home at age 14 at the height of the Great Depression, working as a $3-per-week housekeeper, cook, and nanny in San Gabriel, California.^[6][8] Encouraged by her employer to read and go to school, Dorothy attended Alhambra High School, where she joined several clubs and benefited from two teachers.^[6] After graduating from there in 1937,^[10] she moved to Chicago for a failed reunion with her mother,^[4][8] who by then had gotten married to Max Rosenberg.^[11] Subsequently, she moved into her own apartment there and took office jobs to support herself.^[3][4] She later said, "I’d hoped so hard that my mother would love me that I had to take the chance and find out. When she didn’t, I had nowhere else to go."^[6] Hillary Clinton later attributed her interest in children's welfare to her mother's life as well as her belief that caring adults outside of family can fill a child's emotional voids.^[6]
While applying for a job as a clerk typist at a textile company, she met traveling salesman Hugh Ellsworth Rodham,^[4] eight years her senior, in 1937.^[12] After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942.^[4] She became a full-time homemaker, raising three children, Hillary, Hugh and Tony, in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois. She encouraged Hillary to have a love for learning and to pursue an education and a career, though she had never done so herself.^[8] In contrast to her husband's staunch Republican views,^[13] Dorothy Rodham was, as her daughter later wrote, "basically a Democrat, although she kept it quiet in Republican Park Ridge."^[4]
In 1987, Rodham and her husband moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter, Chelsea.^[11] An excellent student as a youth, Rodham now took college courses in subjects such as psychology, logic, and child development, although she never graduated.^[4][11] Her daughter later wrote, "I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman."^[3]

Hugh Rodham died in 1993. Dorothy Rodham remained active but valued her privacy and almost never spoke to the media,^[8] although she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004.^[14] In 2006, she moved into the Clintons' large Whitehaven house in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.^[8][14][15]
Starting in December 2007 she made a rare public appearance in Iowa and other early primary states to campaign for her daughter's presidential nomination bid.^[3][16] She appeared at some events concerning women's issues and also appeared in a Clinton campaign television advertisement.^[3][17]
Dorothy Rodham died on November 1, 2011, in Washington, D.C., with Secretary Clinton cancelling a foreign trip in order to be by her side.^[3]


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Sergio Montiel, Argentine politician, Governor of Entre Ríos (1983–1987; 1999–2003), died he was 84.

Sergio Alberto Montiel  was an Argentinian politician, lawyer, and professor of constitutional law at the National University of the Littoral. Monitel served as Governor of Entre Ríos Province for two nonconsecutive terms died he was 84.: He was first elected on October 30, 1983, and served his first term until 1987.^[1] Montiel served a second gubernatorial term from 1999 to 2003.^[1] Montiel supported nationalization and opposed the 1993 Pact of Olivos.<sup>[1]

(October 20, 1927 – November 1, 2011)</sup>

Montiel was born in October 20, 1927, in Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina.^[1] He died of cardiac arrest at Militar de Paraná, a military hospital in Paraná, Entre Ríos, on November 1, 2011, at the age of 84. ^[1]
He was an active freemason.


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Christiane Legrand, French jazz singer, died she was 81.

Christiane Legrand was a French singer died she was 81..

(21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011^[1] )

Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."
She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six.^[2]
She was the original lead soprano of the Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort.
Christiane did the French dubbing for the title role of Disney's film Mary Poppins (1964) and lent her talents to numerous other film projects.
Christiane was the featured soprano on the track "Fires (Which Burn Brightly)" on the 1973 Procol Harum album Grand Hotel. Her niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the American indie rock group Beach House.


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André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer, died he was 90.

André Hodeir  was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist died he was 90.

(January 22, 1921 – November 1, 2011^[1])

Biography

André Hodeir was born in Paris. His initial training was as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he took Olivier Messiaen's analysis class, and won first prizes in fugue, harmony, and music history. While pursuing these studies, he discovered jazz, and embarked on an exploration of all music forms, jazz as well as classical. Subsequently as a critic he expressed vigorous disgust with nearly all early jazz (Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence; 1957).
Hodeir was a founder, in 1954, and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, made up of nine musicians, including Bobby Jaspar, Pierre Michelot and Nat Peck. He was the author of two books of Essais (1954 and 1956), of numerous film scores, including Le Palais Idéal by Ado Kyrou, the Jazz Cantata for the film Chutes de pierres, danger de mort by Michel Fano, etc. Hodeir was the founder of his own orchestra during the Sixties (Catalyse, Arte della commedia dell', Transplantation, Crepuscule with Nelly, etc., available in an album by Martial Solal, in 1984). He composed, in 1966, the monumental jazz cantata Anna Livia Plurabelle, on James Joyce's text, and in 1972 of Bitter Ending, by The Swingle Singers and a jazz quintet, on the final monologue of Finnegans Wake.^[2]

Discography

• 1954 : The Vogue Sessions (BMG, R/1999)
• 1956 : Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2001)
• 1957 : The Alphabet et autres essais (not available on CD)
• 1959 : Kenny Clarke's Sextet joue André Hodeir (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2002)^[3]
• 1960 : Jazz et jazz (coll. Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2004)
• 1966 : Anna Livia Plurabelle (second version Patrice Caratini in 1994, Label Bleu)
• 1972 : Bitter Ending (not available on CD)
• 1984 : Martial Solal et son orchestre jouent André Hodeir (Carlyne Music, 1984)

Bibliography

• André Hodeir, Le Jazz, cet inconnu, preface by Charles Delaunay, collection "Harmoniques", Éditions France-Empire, 1945
• Si seulement la vie : nouvelles (2001)
• Les aventures de la chevalière, (1983 historical novel for children)
• La chevalière et le panache blanc, (1983 historical novel for children)
• Le Rire de Swann, ed. Rouge Profond, coll. Birdland, Paris 2006
• Le Joueur de violon (Musikant)
• La Musique depuis Debussy, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1961
• Hommes et problèmes du jazz, Flammarion, Paris, 1954, re-released by Parenthèses, coll. Epistrophy, Paris 1981, 3 printings, then coll. Eupalinos, 2008
• Les Formes de la Musique, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. "Que sais-je ?" n° 478, Paris
• Jazzistiques ed. Parenthèses, coll. Epistrophy, Paris 2004
• Les Mondes du Jazz , ed. Rouge Profond, Paris 2004
• The André Hodeir Jazz Reader, Michigan University Press, 2006
• Pierre Fargeton, Le Jazz comme œuvre composée : le cas d'André Hodeir (2006, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Université Jean-Monnet (Saint-Étienne))
• Christian Tarting, article Hodeir, André (Dictionnaire du jazz, ed. Robert Laffont, coll. Bouquins)

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Sam Fink, American calligrapher, died he was 95.

Sam Fink  was an American calligrapher died he was 95..^[1]

^{(May 27, 1916 – November 1, 2011)}

He created illustrated and inscribed editions of various historically significant American documents. His book, The Constitution of the United States of America, was well received. The art from the book was displayed at a courthouse in Pennsylvania. The opening of this showing at the courthouse was broadcast on the international news channel CNN.
Fink released an illustrated version of the Book of Exodus (hand lettered in English and Hebrew) in September 2007 published by Welcome Books.
Fink was an artist of inimitable range who first learned to hand-letter from his father. After marrying his wife Adele, they raised two sons while he studied at the National Academy and the Art Students' League. For two decades, Fink worked as an art director at Young & Rubicam. Later, he taught at Pratt Institute and made professional contributions to the Lands’ End catalog.
For more than 20 years, Fink educated and entertained adults and children with his illustrated texts of American history. He celebrated his 90th birthday in 2006 with the release of The Constitution of the United States of America (Welcome Books) which had won a Gold IPPY. He also published The Declaration of Independence: The Words that Made America (Scholastic), and Welcome Books published Fink’s full-color edition of The Gettysburg Address in 2007.^[2]


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Gumaa Al-Shawan, Egyptian intelligence agent, died he was 74.

Gumaa Al-Shawan Ahmed Al-Hawan was an Egyptian double agent who worked for the Israeli Mossad from 1967 until 1973 died he was 74.. He provided the Israelis with false military information with the help Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.^[1]
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^{(1 July 1937 – 1 November 2011)}

Biography

Ahmed Al-Hawan was born and raised in Suez. He and his family left after Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula during the 1967 War. His wife Fatima reportedly lost her eyesight due to an Israeli air strike and they moved to Cairo.

Mossad

When Al-Hawan couldn't find a job in Cairo, he traveled to Greece to earn his living on a ship. He met a woman with whom he fell in love, but who was reportedly a Mossad agent and who convinced him to work at her father's company. There he met an undercover Mossad agent posing as a Syrian who asked Al-Hawan to return to Egypt and gather information regarding the ships that were sailing in the Egyptian channel.^{[citation needed]}

Egyptian Intelligence

Al-Hawan opened a grocery store and began to collect information for his bosses but he soon developed some doubts about their intentions. He went to the headquarters of the General Intelligence Service (GIS) and met with Rais Zakariya (General Mohammed Abdul Salam Al-Mahgoub) whom he informed him about his experiences with the people he worked with. The GIS recruited him to provide the Israelis with false information for the next six years without knowing he was a double agent.

End of Mission

Shortly after the war, Al-Hawan received a letter from the Mossad requesting he come to Tel Aviv.^{[citation needed]} Rais Zakariya persuaded him to travel so that the Mossad agents would supply him with an advanced transmission device that could send messages within six seconds, and the GIS needed that device. Al-Hawan arrived in Rome and received an Israeli passport with a fake name. In Israel he was taught how to use the device and gave him instructions upon his return to Egypt. The Mossad received the following message: "From the Egyptian intelligence to Mossad, thanks for cooperating with our agent Ahmed Al Hawan all these years and supplying him with your transmission devices; see you in future rounds!"^{[citation needed]}

Retirement

In January 1976, while collecting some info for the Mossad under the supervision of the Egyptian intelligence, an army vehicle hit Al-Hawan causing him a major injury in his right leg that he says could have easily been cured, had the doctors been more competent. The injury was followed by damage to the right eye as a result of using invisible ink. He requested retirement which was approved by President Sadat in December 1977.^{[citation needed]}

Popular culture

His story was made into a drama series titled Tears in Insolent Eyes دموع في عيون وقحة starring Adel Emam as Gumaa Al-Shawan.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Ahmed Al-Hawan died on 1 November 2011 at the age of 74 after suffering from an illness. For several months he has been treated at the expense of the armed forces.


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