https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/lyon-gardiner-tyler-jr-dead.html Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., the older of two surviving grandsons of the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, and part of a genealogical marvel that in just three generations spanned almost the entire history of the United States, died on Sept. 26 in Franklin, Tenn. He was 95.
Bernard Cohen, lawyer who won victory for interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia, dies at 86 https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...506128-0d4f-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html "The couple wrote to then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, asking if he might assist them. He referred them to the American Civil Liberties Union, which in turn connected them with Mr. Cohen, one of the organization’s volunteer lawyers. He practiced in Alexandria, Va., but met the couple in Washington, to avoid making them enter Virginia. “I knew it was going to be a landmark case,” Mr. Cohen told the Associated Press in 1992. “I knew it was going to the Supreme Court. And I definitely thought there was something serendipitous about the fact that the case would be called Loving vs. the Commonwealth of Virginia.” The entire obit, linked above, is well worth reading.
I remember Joe Morgan on ESPN’s baseball show I believe it was talking about 12 years ago and he went on and on about how his team hockey team (I forget who) was winning and he was saying “we will win it all” and his colleagues were riding him saying what do you mean “we will win?” Then he went on trying to say he was real good friends with the owner. Supposedly , old Joe was a hockey fan as well which is a novelty. Not too many old time baseball players at least from the 70’& 80’s talked or knew much about hockey from what I recall...
Ferguson Jenkins was a huge fan. Still is, I would guess. He was also a former junior hockey player, and Canadian... Here's his 1971 baseball card, my copy of which, like all my Cubs cards, likely met its demise on the spokes of my sting ray bicycle... Still alive: keep it up, Fergie...
I met Fergie Jenkins at the ‘91 All-Star game fan fest events here. He was chatting with folks as we got a couple throws with a radar gun - I got a ‘nice arm kid’ for my 81mph attempt - not gonna lie, a compliment like that from a Hall Of Famer pretty much made my whole summer.
You could have used pretty much any similarly thick cardboard! Friend of mine had one of these It didn't have the Sting-Ray provenance, but we all thought it was a better-looking ride. JC Penney, made by only-God-knows who...
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/spencer-davis-gimme-some-lovin-dead-dies-1234810794/ Spencer Davis, Veteran British Rocker Known for ‘Gimme Some Lovin’,’ Dead at 81
I met him briefly in the 80's when he played a gig here with a cluster of aspiring Brit teens hoping to grow up to be Steve Winwood. He was the classic weatherbeaten road warrior, ageing but tough, in his fifties and babysitting a band of 20 year olds. (The local promoter liked to introduce me to the artists because I mostly knew enough about them to have a decent chance of not saying the wrong thing to them. I told him--Davis-- that I was probably the only radio guy he was going to meet that year whose favorite SDG tune was "Waltz For Lumumba," and he said I might be surprised. Then he asked me if I had a favorite Manfred Mann and I said "Demolition Man" and he liked that and we had common ground... ) Rest in peace or make a joyful noise Spencer, whatever's fair. And if you see Lumumba, play him the waltz...
James “The Amazing” Randi Magician, Paranormal Debunker Age 92 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/the-amazing-randi-famed-magician-and-escapologist-dies-at-92
I was at a talk he gave at Santa Clara University a while back. He pulled off a fantastic card trick.
Wow. I was in ugrad when I first heard Everytime You Cry. It didn't really stick with me over decades, but I did put it on a cassette that I kept for a few years. RIP.
One of his own talents was showing conmen and charlatans up for what they were .. cheats . He famously did that to that shyster Uri Geller ..