A POSTCARD LOOK AT OAKS PARK IN 1910

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PROMOTER DON KIRSHNER DEAD AT 77

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    A business associate says rock promoter Don Kirshner has died of heart failure at a Florida hospital at age 77.

    Promoter Jack Wishna tells The Associated Press in Las Vegas that the man Time magazine once dubbed the "Man With the Golden Ear" died Monday at a Boca Raton hospital where he was being treated for an infection.

    Wishna calls Kirshner an icon who touched many lives in the music industry.

    Kirshner was behind the TV show "Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert" in 1972, and gave national exposure to many musicians. (AP)

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    ACTOR JOHN DYE FOUND DEAD AT 47 (AP)

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    Actor John Dye, whose career included the role of Andrew, the angel of death, in the long-running television series "Touched by an Angel," was found dead at his San Francisco home, a medical examiner’s spokesman said Thursday.

    Medical examiner’s investigator Charles Cecil said the 47-year-old Dye, a native of Amory, Miss., was found dead Monday.

    The cause of death has not been determined, Cecil said, but relatives said Dye suffered apparent heart failure. 

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    DAVID NELSON IS DEAD AT 74

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    LOS ANGELES — David Nelson, who starred on his parents’ popular television show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. He was 74.

    Nelson died at his home in the Century City area of Los Angeles after battling complications of colon cancer, said family spokesman and longtime Hollywood publicist Dale Olson.

    Nelson was the last remaining member of the Nelsons TV family, which included actor/bandleader Ozzie, his singer wife, Harriet Hilliard and his teen idol brother Rick. (AP)

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    DIRECTOR PETER YATES ~ DEAD AT 81

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    British filmmaker Peter Yates, who sent Steve McQueen screeching through
    the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in "Bullitt," has died at the age of 81.

    Yates was nominated for four Academy Awards – two as director and two as producer
    for the cycling tale "Breaking Away" and the backstage drama "The Dresser." (AP)

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