Jerry Vale (Gennaro Luigi Vitaliano)  (July 8, 1930 – May 18, 2014)

According to a statement by family attorney Harold J. Levy, Vale, who had been
in declining health, died Sunday at his Palm Desert home surrounded by family
and friends.

Glen Campbell and wife Kim

Singer Glen Campbell‘s battle with Alzheimer’s has progressed to the point where
he is unlikely to ever perform in public again. According to his wife Kim Woolen, “he
can’t even tune a guitar now”. She told reporters at the Open Hearts Foundation’s
4th Annual Gala in Malibu on Saturday, “If I tune one and hand it to him he can still
”play a couple licks here and there, and he finds joy in that.” Glen is now living in a
full-time care facility near the family’s home in Nashville.

Beverly Long (April 18, 1933 – May 8, 2014)

Beverly Long, one of the last surviving cast members of the 1955 James
Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause, died May 8 in Los Angeles after a
short hospital stay. Long also had a lead role in the 1958 film “The Green-
Eyed Blond”, appeared in Paramount’s As Young as We Are (1958) and
was seen on Robert Young’s CBS sitcom Father Knows Best.”

Long, second from the right, in a scene from “Rebel Without A Cause”

 
       
      Jeb Stuart Magruder (November 5, 1934 – May 11, 2014)

Jeb Stuart Magruder, the former Nixon aide who went to prison over his
role in the 1972 Watergate scandal, died Sunday from complications from
a stroke. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister after serving a seven
month prison term stemming from the Democratic Party headquarters break-
in. 

The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

USS Saratoga (CVA 60) was commissioned April 14, 1956

The USS Saratoga, the legendary aircraft carrier that played a key role in the
Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and Gulf wars, is destined for dismantling after
the Navy paid one penny to a Texas firm to recycle the 81,101-ton behemoth.

The once-mighty vessel is the second of three conventionally-powered carriers
to set to sail to the scrapyard, following another one-cent deal involving the
Forrestal in October. ESCO Marine, of Brownsville, will pay to tow, dismantle 
and recycle the ship, which was decommissioned in 1994 after more than 38
years of service. Efforts to spare the ship failed, as they did with the Forrestal
last year.