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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

David Jack, Scottish pharmacologist, died he was 87.

Sir David Jack CBE FRS FRSE  was a Scottish pharmacologist and medicinal chemist who specialised in the development of drugs for treating asthma died he was 87. He was head of research and development at Glaxo from 1978 until 1987.
(22 February 1924 – 8 November 2011[1][2])

Early life and education

Jack was born the sixth and youngest child of a coal miner, in Markinch, Fife, Scotland.[3] He attended Buckhaven High School before turning down a place at Edinburgh University to become an apprentice pharmacist. In 1944, having completed his apprenticeship, he began a BSc course in chemistry and pharmacy at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. He won a number of undergraduate prizes and graduated with first class honours.[3]

Career

He turned down an offer to study for a doctorate and instead worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow.[3]
In 1951 he joined the phamaceutical company Glaxo Laboratories, moving to Smith Kline and French in 1953.[3] In 1961 he became director of research at Allen and Hanburys, a subsidiary of Glaxo, and served as Glaxo's research and development director from 1978 until his official retirement in 1987.[1] Jack was known for heading a group which developed salbutamol, ranitidine, beclometasone, salmeterol, fluticasone propionate, ondansetron and sumatriptan.

Honours

Jack was knighted for services to the pharmaceutical industry in 1993.[3]
In 1987, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.[4]


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Ricky Hui, Hong Kong actor, died he was 65.

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying  (Chinese: 許冠英) was a Hong Kong movie star died he was 65.. He and his brothers, Michael and Sam, made several comedy blockbusters in the 1970s and 1980s.

(August 3, 1946 – November 8, 2011)

Biography

Ricky Hui Koon Ying was born August 3, 1946 in Panyu, Guangdong, China. He has four siblings, Samuel, Michael, Stanley and Judy. The Hui family migrated from mainland China to Hong Kong in 1950 and settled in the then poor area of Diamond Hill. His father worked hard and undertook any work available to be able to support his family. In the Hui family Arts played a very significant role. Ricky's father played the violin and his mother loved Cantonese opera.

Films

Ricky worked as a correspondent for the French Press Agency in Hong Kong. He also frequently appeared in Shaw Brothers films between 1972 and 1976, such as The Lizard (1972), The 14 Amazons (1972), The Sugar Daddies (1973), The Generation Gap (1973), Rivals of Kung Fu (1974), Hong Kong 73 (1974) etc. For him the big break came when he joined his brothers on screen.
The first time was in Games Gamblers Play (1974) as a card player followed by The Last Message (1975) with a short appearance as a waiter. The dialogue between him and Sam's character is hilarious. Ricky got a slightly bigger role in The Private Eyes (1976) and with that film a new era of the Hong Kong Cinema started. The brothers together made the best comedies the Hong Kong film industry has ever seen. Their films were packed with visual gags and the unique Cantonese humor. Although Ricky had only a small role in The Private Eyes, it remained one of the all time favorites among fans. According to Michael Hui, Ricky had only brief appearance in this film because at that time he had a contract with Shaw Brothers. Sources believe that contract ended around 1976, because the last Shaw Brothers film he appeared in was Challenge of the Masters that year. The following year found Ricky at Golden Harvest with a leading role in John Woo's Money Crazy. In 1979 Games Gamblers Play was released for the Japanese market. For this edition Michael shot a new scene, a fight between Ricky and Sam on the beach, and replaced the original Sammo Hung vs Sam Hui fight with it. The next Hui brothers production where Ricky teamed up with his brothers again was The Contract in 1978, followed by Security Unlimited (1981), one of the biggest success of the brothers, full of gags and their trademark Cantonese humor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Ricky played leading roles in John Woo films like From Riches To Rags (1979), To Hell with the Devil (1982) or Plain Jane To The Rescue (1982).
Michael became a producer in 1987 and Ricky appeared in his films: Chicken and Duck Talk (1988), Front Page (1990), The Magic Touch (1992). In 1985 Sammo Hung produced one of the biggest cult films Mr. Vampire where Ricky Hui played Man Choi, a memorable role on the side of the unforgettable (Lam Ching Ying).
Ricky was most active in his film career in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late 1990s he appeared in only one film, in First Love Unlimited (1997). He later rejoined with his brother Sam Hui in Winner Takes All (2000). The last films Ricky Hui appeared in are Super Model and Forever Yours, both from 2004.

Music

Ricky is not only an actor but a very good singer, too. He has released seven albums, most of them on vinyl in the 1970s and 1980s. There are three Ricky albums on vinyl: 發錢寒 (1977), 夏之戀 (1978), 錢作怪 (1980). In 1993 '93 急流? was released, which featured new songs by Sam Hui and guest vocals from Michael Hui. The second album in 1993 was 一生渴望 (Lifelong Desire) a 2-CD set that featured one CD of hits from the 1970s and 1980s, and brand-new Mandarin recordings of songs from '93 急流?. It also paved the way for Ricky's 2 shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum (produced by Sam Hui). The third CD was released in 2001, called The Classical Songs of Universal. It is the re-released version of the album from 1980 with a few extra songs. The last, Greatest Hits album (2CDs), 十足斤兩, was released ony July 26, 2006.
Ricky not only sings but also wrote some songs for his brother Sam: On Sam Hui's debut Cantonese album, Ricky wrote 3 complete songs (music and lyrics): Track 3 (甜蜜伴侶), track 4 (無情夜冷風), and track 11 (夜雨聲). On Sam's 2nd Cantonese album, Ricky contributed 2 songs: track 5 (情人離別去), track 10 (歡樂桃源), and track 11 (故苑懷舊). On Sam's 3rd Cantonese album, Ricky has one contribution: track 12 (流水恨). He also wrote a song that can only be heard on his own debut album in 1977: 月影.
In 2000 Ricky had a stage play called Ha Luk Hei Ban. In the same year he appeared in five episodes of the ATV series Heung Gong Yat Ka Chun. In 2001 a DVD was released of a variety show about the development of Hong Kong entertainment, called Laughing Kaleidoscope which featured Ricky among various artists on stage. In the same year he participated with three songs in the La Fai Palace Jubilee concert. In 2003 Ricky appeared in a concert commemorating the 8th anniversary of the death of Teresa Teng Lai-Kwun and also celebrating her 50th birthday. Ricky participated with three songs in Sing Along Golden Hits Encore Concert in 2004 among other stars. He appeared in the Rosanne in Starry Night Concert in March, 2006.
Ricky is also a returning guest on Sam Hui's concerts singing a few songs on his own or duets with brother. He often participates in TV Game Shows as well.
On July 30, 2006 Ricky appeared on concert in Jockey Club Auditorium, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Death

Ricky Hui died of a heart attack at home on November 8, 2011 at the age of 65.[1]

Filmography

Year Title
1972 A Girl Fighter
The 14 Amazons
The Lizard
Man Of Iron
Thunderbolt Fist
1973 The Generation Gap
Sinful Confession
The House of 72 Tenants
Illicit Desire
The Iron Bodyguard
Kiss of Death
The Mandarin
The Sugar Daddies
The Delinquent
1974 Games Gamblers Play
The Ghost Lovers
Hong Kong 73
Kidnap
Rivals Of Kung Fu
Sex, Love And Hate
1975 The Flying Guillotine
The Last Message
1976 Challenge Of The Masters
The Private Eyes
1977 Money Crazy
1978 The Contract
1979 From Riches To Rags
1981 Security Unlimited
1982 Plain Jane To The Rescue
To Hell With The Devil
1983 The Trail
1984 Aces Go Places III: Our Man From Bond Street
1985 Infatuation
Mr. Vampire
1986 Chocolate Inspector
Naughty Boys'
Happy Ding Dong'
1987 The Haunted Cop Shop
Project A Part II
1988 Chicken and Duck Talk
The Haunted Cop Shop 2
The Inspector Wears Skirts
Operation Pink Squad
Stumbling Cops
Who Is the Craftiest
1989 Forever Young'
How To Be A Millionaire... Without Really Trying
The Inspector Wears Skirts 2
Miracles
Mr Coconut
1990 Front Page
1991 Ghost For Sales
1992 The Magic Touch
Mr. Vampire 1992
1993 All's Well, Ends Well Too
Laughter of "Water Margins"
1997 First Love Unlimited
2000 Winner Takes All
2004 Forever Yours
Super Model
2005 Divergence


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Heavy D, Jamaican-born American rapper ("Now That We Found Love") and actor (The Cider House Rules, Life), died from pulmonary embolism he was 44.

Dwight Arrington Myers[2],[3] better known as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, singer, actor, and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included dancers/background vocalists G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released were produced by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, his cousin Pete Rock and Eddie F.[4]

 

(May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011)


Biography

Myers was born on May 24, 1967 in Mandeville, Jamaica, the son of Eulahlee Lee, a nurse, and Clifford Vincent Myers, a machine technician.[5] His family moved to Mount Vernon, New York, in the early 1970s,[6] where he was raised.[7]
Heavy D & the Boyz were the first group signed to Uptown Records, with Heavy D as the frontman and only rapper, and Eddie F was his business partner in the group, DJ, and one of the producers. The other two members, T-Roy and G-Wiz were the dancers. Their debut, Living Large, was released in 1987. The album was a commercial success; Big Tyme was a breakthrough that included four hits.
Dancer Troy "Trouble T. Roy" Dixon died at age 22 in a fall on July 15, 1990, in Indianapolis. Dixon's death led to a tribute on the follow-up platinum album, Peaceful Journey. Pete Rock & CL Smooth created a tribute to Trouble T. Roy called "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" which is regarded as a hip hop classic.[4]
Heavy D gained even more fame by singing the theme song for the television program In Living Color and also MADtv. Heavy D performed the rap on Michael Jackson's hit single "Jam" as well as sister Janet Jackson's hit single "Alright". Heavy D then began focusing on his acting, appearing in various television shows before returning the music charts with Nuttin' But Love. After appearing in the off-Broadway play Riff Raff at Circle Repertory Company, Heavy D returned to recording with the hit Waterbed Hev.[4] In 1997, Heavy D collaborated with B.B. King on his duets album Deuces Wild rapping in the song "Keep It Coming". Heavy D was referred to in the song "Juicy" by the Notorious B.I.G., and appeared in his music video for "One More Chance".
While still an artist at Uptown Records, Myers was instrumental in convincing Andre Harrell to originally hire Sean “Diddy” Combs for his first music business gig as an intern. Then also to his credit, in the mid-1990s, Myers became the first rapper to head a major music label, when he became the president of Uptown Records. During this time, Myers also developed the R&B boy band Soul for Real, and was the executive producer and principal writer of several songs on the group's breakout album, Candy Rain.[8] He later became the senior vice president at Universal Music.[9]

Death

Heavy D performed at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards on October 29, 2011. It was his first televised live performance in 15 years and would be his final live performance. Myers died just ten days later, on November 8, 2011, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 44. He collapsed outside his Beverly Hills home and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.[7] Heavy D's death was initially thought to be connected to pneumonia.[10]
An autopsy report, released on December 27, 2011, found that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism (PE).[11] The coroner's office found that Myers died of a PE that had broken off from a deep vein thrombosis in the leg. He also suffered from heart disease. The blood clot was "most likely formed during an extended airplane ride," said Craig Harvey, chief of the Los Angeles County department of coroner. The rapper had recently returned from a trip to Cardiff, Wales where he performed at a tribute to Michael Jackson.[11]
Shortly after his death, MC Hammer and others led tributes for Heavy D on Twitter. Hammer Tweeted: We had a lot of great times touring together. He had a heart of gold. He was a part of what's good about the world.[12][13]
He fathered a daughter in 2000 during a relationship with chef Antonia Lofaso, a contestant on Top Chef (season 4).[14]

Discography

Filmography

Television appearances



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Nosson Tzvi Finkel, 68, American-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva, died he was 68.

Nosson Tzvi Finkel  was an American-born Haredi Litvish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel died he was 68. During his tenure from 1990 until his death in 2011, he built the Mir into the largest yeshiva in Israel with nearly 6,000 undergraduate students[2] and over 1,600 avreichim (married students).[3][4] According to one estimate, he taught 25,000 students over his lifetime.[5] Although he suffered from Parkinson's disease for the last 28 years of his life,[6] experiencing involuntary spasms and slurred speech, he did not let his illness stop him from learning Torah for long hours, delivering regular shiurim (lectures), and fund-raising for his yeshiva around the world.[1] He raised an estimated USD$500 million for the Mir during his tenure as rosh yeshiva.[7] He was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah.[8] He was known for his Torah erudition and his warmth and concern for his students.

(12 March 1943 – 8 November 2011)

Early life

Nosson Tzvi Finkel was born in Chicago, Illinois to Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Finkel and his wife, Sara Rosenblum, who ran a kosher catering business.[9] His paternal grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Finkel, was a mashgiach ruchani at the Hebron yeshiva in Israel,[10] and his paternal great-grandfather was the Alter of Slabodka, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, after whom he was named.[2] He had one brother, Gedaliah, who now teaches at the Mir yeshiva. After his parents immigrated to Israel in 1973,[11] his mother published a best-selling kosher cookbook.[12]
Finkel grew up as a "typical American Jewish boy"[2] who enjoyed playing baseball.[13] He was known as Nathan in school and Natie to his friends.[14] He was one of the first students of the Central Park Hebrew Day School (later renamed Arie Crown Day School) and received after-school tutoring in Torah studies from Rabbi Yehoshua Levinson.[15] In 1957, at the age of 14, he accompanied his parents on a trip to Israel to visit the holy sites and his father’s family. His great-uncle, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel ("Reb Leizer Yudel"), the Mir rosh yeshiva, recognized his ability to think clearly and have patience for studying, and asked his parents to let him stay and study in his yeshiva. Finkel remained at the Mir for eight months, studying with top-notch chavrutas (study partners) to develop his skills.[16] He returned to Chicago to take his secondary education at the co-ed, Modern Orthodox Ida Crown Jewish Academy, where he was president of the student council and a starting centerfielder for the baseball team.[9] At the age of 17, Finkel returned to Jerusalem to learn at the Mir under the guidance of his great-uncle.[17] He learned diligently for the next six years.[1] With one of his chavrutas, Rabbi Zundel Kroizer, he completed the entire Talmud each year.[1]
In the summer of 1964[18] Finkel married Reb Leizer Yudel's granddaughter, Leah, his second cousin and the eldest daughter of Rabbi Binyomin Beinush Finkel, who was his father's first cousin.[19] He and his wife had 11 children.[1] He continued to learn with chavrutas at all hours, stopping at 2 a.m.;[20] his wife would bring their children to visit him at the yeshiva so he wouldn't have to take the time to walk home.[7] He also began delivering shiurim in the yeshiva, which was headed by his father-in-law after the death of Reb Leizer Yudel in 1965.[21] Upon the death of his father-in-law on 13 February 1990,[22] Finkel was named rosh yeshiva of the Mir[23] together with Rabbi Refoel Shmuelevitz (son of former Mir rosh yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz). Finkel took on the financial responsibility for the yeshiva.

Growth of the Mir


Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (center, in wheelchair) participates in a Simchat Beit HaShoeivah at the Mir in 2006.
When Finkel first came to the Mir at the age of 17 in 1960, enrollment was less than 200 students, of which 75 percent were avreichim (married students) and 25 percent were undergraduates.[24] When he became rosh yeshiva in 1990, enrollment stood at approximately 1,200 students.[24] At the time of his death, enrollment reached nearly 6,000 undergraduates[2] and over 1,600 avreichim.[3] This growth is credited to Finkel's open-door policy as rosh yeshiva: whoever wished to learn at the Mir was welcome. Enrollment now includes Litvish, Hasidic, Ashkenazi, Sephardi and baalei teshuva students from Israel, the United States and Europe.[1][3]
To accommodate the ever-increasing enrollment, Finkel fund-raised for and constructed four new buildings in addition to the original yeshiva building constructed by Reb Leizer Yudel in 1949.[17] He assigned separate battei medrash (study halls) for each group of students, making one for Israeli students, one for Americans, one for those who wished to study without a daily shiur, and so on. As enrollment continued to climb, several students of the main maggidei shiur (lecturers) began delivering shiurim in English, and Finkel raised the funds to open a new beis medrash in 2006 for these shiurim too. Yet another beis medrash was built in recent years.[19] The Mir also opened a yeshiva gedola for Israeli students in the Brachfeld neighborhood of Modi'in Illit[25] where Finkel gave shiurim and occasional shmuessen (musar talks), and a yeshiva ketana in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem.[1]
In an unusual move for a Litvish yeshiva, Finkel accepted 800 Hasidic students and allowed them to learn in their own chabura and follow their own customs, including a fartug (pre-dawn study session) before morning prayers. This group, known as Chaburas Ameilim BaTorah (the "Toiling in Torah" Study Group), was housed in a different neighborhood, but the week before his death, Finkel moved them onto Mir yeshiva premises. He participated in their Thursday-night study sessions as well as their seudot mitzvah (festival meals) marking a siyum, and Hanukkah parties.[1][3]
Notwithstanding the Mir's huge enrollment, Finkel tried to remember the name of each student.[2] He also remembered personal details about each of his alumni and donors abroad. His brother-in-law, Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky, rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, said that at Mir dinners, 1,000 people could be waiting to speak with the rosh yeshiva, "and almost every single one on the line was someone he had had a personal connection with".[7]
Despite his busy schedule, Finkel also expressed a willingness to learn in chavruta with any student who asked. It was estimated that he studied with approximately 80 people every week.[26] Like his great-uncle Reb Leizer Yudel, Finkel offered cash incentives for Torah study, challenging his students to learn many pages of Talmud and study for large blocks of time. He regularly hosted siyums for students in his own home and at his own expense.[27]
Finkel shouldered the responsibility for raising funds for this giant Torah enterprise. Despite his disease and its side effects, he traveled twice a year to England and the United States.[1] In the past two years, the economic recession saw the yeshiva's debts mounting quicker than they were being met, with salaries and kollel stipends running months behind. Finkel was said to be very upset by this state of affairs.[7][1]

Illness

Finkel was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the late 1980s.[19] Though he experienced much difficulty in walking and talking, and suffered from involuntary tremors and spasms and slurred speech, he continued to learn for hours every day and gave regular shiurim in the yeshiva, as well as embarked on regular fund-raising trips abroad.[23][1] In later years, when he felt too weak to sit in a chair during the chaburas (small-group learning sessions) that he organized for students in his home, he would lie down on a couch and encourage the students to begin the session.[19] He refused to take medication for his condition, since the drugs could make his mind foggy or cause memory loss[19] and he didn't want to risk forgetting his Torah studies.[9] He only took medication that provided temporary relief from his symptoms.[28]

Death

At 6 a.m. in his home on November 8, 2011 (11 Cheshvan 5772), Finkel suddenly lost consciousness. EMS personnel attempted to revive him for 50 minutes while students of the Mir stood outside in the street praying for him. His personal doctor summoned to the home determined that he had died of cardiac arrest.[1]
An estimated 100,000 people[8][29][30] attended his funeral, which began at the Mir yeshiva in Beit Yisrael and continued on foot to Har HaMenuchot,[1] where he was buried next to Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, a former rosh yeshiva of the Mir,[30] and close by the graves of Reb Leizer Yudel and Rabbi Binyomin Beinish Finkel.[29] The Edah HaChareidis ordered all Haredi businesses to close during the funeral, and Litvishe Torah leaders Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and Aharon Leib Shteinman instructed teachers and students of Talmud Torahs, yeshivas, and kollels to join the funeral procession.[8][2] The procession blocked the entrance to the city and halted operations of the Jerusalem Light Rail, as tens of thousands of mourners blocked the tracks on the Jerusalem Chords Bridge en route to the cemetery.[31]
Rav Finkel's death was a double blow for the Jerusalem Litvish yeshiva world, coming one day after the death of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman, another respected Litvish rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem. Rabbi Finkel participated in Rabbi Schwartzman's funeral on 7 November.[32]
At the funeral it was announced that Finkel's eldest son, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, would succeed his father as rosh yeshiva.[19]


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Hal Bruno, American journalist, political director of ABC News (1980–1999),died from heart arrhythmia after a fall he was 83.

Harold Robinson Bruno Jr.  was an American journalist and political analyst, who worked as the political director of ABC News from 1980 to 1999 died from  heart arrhythmia after a fall he was 83.. He served as the moderator of the 1992 vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle, Al Gore, and James Stockdale.







(October 25, 1928 – November 8, 2011)

Early life

Hal Bruno was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 25, 1928.[2] His father sold housewares for a living.[2] He became a volunteer firefighter during the 1940s.[2] Bruno earned his bachelor's degree in 1950 from the University of Illinois, where he worked as a sportswriter for the university's newspaper, The Daily Illini, alongside Shel Silverstein, Bud Karmin, Gene Shalit, Hugh Hough and Robert Novak.[1][2][3] He also worked for the Champaign News Gazette during weekends while in college.[4]
He served in the Korean War as an Army intelligence officer.[1] Bruno then earned a Fulbright scholarship to study in India after the war.[2] He married his wife, Margaret "Meg" Christian Bruno, on November 12, 1959.[2][3]

Career

Bruno launched his professional career as a reporter for Chicago area newspapers and news agencies. His first job after his graduation was for Advertising Age before becoming the sports editor of the The Daily Chronicle.[4] He temporarily left his profession in order to serve in the Korean War.[4] Bruno returned to Chicago after the war and joined the staff of the Chicago City News Bureau as a police reporter.[4] He joined The Chicago American in 1954[4] In 1956, Bruno earned a Fulbright Scholarship in India to study Indian media.[4] He worked as a South Asian correspondent for the International News Service while in India.[4] Bruno covered some of the biggest news stories of the 1950s, including the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958, and the Cuban revolution in 1959.[2]
He joined the staff of Newsweek magazine in 1960.[2] Bruno worked as a reporter, foreign correspondent, news editor and chief political correspondent for Newsweek for 18 years.[1][3] One of his first assignments at the magazine was the 1960 president election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.[1] His foreign reports included the 1962 Sino-Indian War.[4] He rose to become Newsweek's Chiacgo bureau chief and later the magazine's political editor in Washington D.C.[2]

ABC News

Bruno joined ABC News in 1978 after leaving Newsweek.[1][2] He oversaw ABC News' election and political coverage during the 1980s and 1990s.[1] Ken Rudin, the current political editor of NPR who worked as Bruno's deputy at ABC News, described Bruno as "...the eyes and ears for Peter (Jennings) and 'World News Tonight' and (Ted) Koppel."[1] As political director, Bruno packaged much of the political headlines presented by ABC's best known reporters, including Ted Koppel, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and Peter Jennings.[2] Colleagues, such as Donaldson, have described Bruno as personnally knowing nearly every major party county chairman in the United States.[2]
While much of his work at ABC took place off-screen, Bruno was invited onto news and talk shows owing to his political expertise.[2] Bruno also hosted the weekly radio show, Hal Bruno's Washington, on ABC Radio until 1999.[1][5]
Bruno received public attention as the moderator of the 1992 vice presidential debate in Atlanta on October 13, 1992.[1][2][3] The debate took place between incumbent Republican Vice President Dan Quayle, Democrat Al Gore, and Independent retired Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, who was the running mate of Ross Perot.[3] The debate would become known for unusual responses and negative rhetoric from the candidates and the audience.[2] It would later be called "the most combative debate in the 32-year history of the televised forums" by the Washington Post.[2] One of the most memorable moments from the debate came early in the night. Bruno, in his capacity as debate moderator, asked James Stockdale, "Admiral Stockdale, your opening statement, please, sir?"[3] Stockdale famously replied to Bruno's request: "Who am I? Why am I here?"[2][3]
Bruno also scolded the debate's audience when they jeered candidates Quayle and Gore, saying, "There’s no call for that ... so knock that off."[2]
He retired from ABC in 1999 to become the chairman of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.[4][5]

Firefighting

Bruno said that his interest in firefighting began "after riding as a kid on fire trucks in Chicago."[4] Bruno originally became a volunteer firefighter during the 1940s and remained in firefighting for more than 60 years.[4] He served as the chairman of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation from 1999 to 2008[5] and remained Chairman Emeritus after retiring from the post.[4] He combined his background in journalism and firefighting as a monthly columnist for Firehouse Magazine.[3]
Bruno called in coverage of the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.[3] He was one of the first rescue workers to respond to the Pentagon attack and remained on site for hours.[2]

Later life

Bruno was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame in 2008.[3]
Bruno died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, November 8, 2011, of heart arrhythmia caused by a fall at the age of 83.[1][2] He was survived by his wife of nearly 56 years, Margaret; two sons, Harold R. Bruno III and Daniel Bruno; his sister, Barbara; and four grandchildren. Bruno and his wife were residents of Chevy Chase, Maryland.[3]


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Jimmy Adamson, British football player and coach, died he was 82.


James "Jimmy" Adamson  was an English professional footballer and football manager. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland  died he was 82..[1] He made 476 appearances for Burnley ranking him sixth in their all-time appearance list.[1]

(4 April 1929 – 8 November 2011)


Career

Playing

Adamson, a right-half, joined Burnley in January 1947 after playing non-league football in his native Ashington and working as a miner. His early career was interrupted by National Service, which he completed with the Royal Air Force, meaning his debut had to wait until February 1951, when Burnley played away to Bolton Wanderers. He played once for the England B team, but never made the full England side.
He was an ever-present as Burnley won the 1959-60 Football League Championship and captained the side to the 1962 FA Cup Final which they lost against Tottenham Hotspur. He was also named Footballer of the Year in 1962.[1]
Adamson formed a midfield partnership with inside-forward Jimmy McIlroy, around which much of Burnley's creative play was centred.

Coaching and managerial

He retired in 1964, having played 426 league games, and joined the Burnley coaching staff. He had previously coached the England team in the 1962 World Cup in Chile and was the Football Association's preferred choice of manager ahead of Alf Ramsey but declined the offer. [1]
In February 1970, when Burnley manager Harry Potts was made general manager, Adamson stepped up to become team manager. Burnley were relegated at the end his first full season in charge, but returned to the top-flight in 1973, winning the Second Division title.[1]
Burnley were relegated again in 1976, although Adamson had already left that January. In May 1976 he was appointed as manager of Dutch side Sparta Rotterdam, but left the following month. In November 1976 he was made manager of Sunderland, but was unable to prevent them from relegation from the First Division.[1]
He left Sunderland in November 1978, taking over from Jock Stein as manager of Leeds United. His time at Leeds is well remembered for the huge roars of "Adamson Out" with which the crowd greeted his later appearances.[citation needed] He left Leeds in October 1980.[1] He took no further part in professional football and spent the rest of his life in Burnley.[2]
Adamson died on 8 November 2011, aged 82.[1] He was predeceased by his wife, May, and daughters, Julie and Jayne. He is survived by three granddaughters and two grandsons. [2]


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Dickey Betts died he was 80

Early Career Forrest Richard Betts was also known as Dickey Betts Betts collaborated with  Duane Allman , introducing melodic twin guitar ha...