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Larry E. Grant dies at 86; co-founder of L.A. Kingdom Day Parade
The Kingdom Day Parade always started with Larry E. Grant cruising down a boulevard in South Los Angeles with a procession of colorful floats, marching bands and dance troupes trailing behind. Grant traveled the three-mile route on the back of a...
Tags: Republican Party, Human Interest, Korean War (1950-1953), Arts and Culture, Civil Rights
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Joan Roberts dies at 95; female lead in original 'Oklahoma!'
Joan Roberts, who originated the female lead role of Laurey in the 1943 Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's long-running hit musical "Oklahoma!" and made a final return to Broadway after a more than five-decade absence in a 2001 revival of...
Tags: Movies, Music Theater, Broadway Theater, Arts and Culture, Astoria
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To Help Everyone Clinic in South L.A.
FrameworkCommunity clinics like Help Everyone Clinic in South LA are on the frontline in American healthcare for generations to provide medical care and social assistance to millions of poor, uninsured and chronically ill patients in struggling rural and urban... -
Karl Benjamin dies at 86; painter created colorful geometric works
Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its...
Tags: Museums, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts, Long Beach Museum of Art, Arts and Culture
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Crucial test for an outpost of healthcare in South L.A.
Nurse practitioner Matt Tomlin steps into a small patient exam room, logs on to a computer and pulls up a formidable list of ailments for the 57-year-old woman sitting in front of him. Hypertension. Diabetes. Congestive heart failure. Obesity. Anxiety...
Tags: Stanford University, Insurance, Family, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics
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PASSINGS: Richard W. Lyman, Johnny Tapia
Richard W. Lyman
Former president of Stanford University
Richard W. Lyman, 88, a former president and provost of Stanford University who clamped down on student protests during the Vietnam War era, died Sunday of congestive heart failure in Palo Alto,...Tags: Stanford University, Obituaries, Featherweight Boxing, International Boxing Federation, Wars and Interventions
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Frances Williams Preston dies at 83; president, CEO of BMI
She was an ambitious, well-connected former Nashville radio station receptionist when the performing rights organization BMI hired her to open a southern regional office in the Tennessee capital in 1958. By the time Frances Williams Preston retired as...
Tags: Radio Industry, Radio, Entertainment, Music Industry, Willie Nelson
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Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia
Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was limited to her husband's Barcalounger, where she had to...Tags: Health Treatments, Palliative Care, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Digestive System
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PASSINGS: Robert Hegyes
Robert Hegyes, an actor whose Jewish-Puerto Rican character Juan Epstein was one of the Sweathogs on the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Thursday of a heart attack in New Jersey. He was 60.
A resident of Metuchen, N.J., Hegyes arrived at JFK...Tags: Chico Marx, Ron Palillo, Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics, ABC (tv network)
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'Big Willie' Robinson dies at 69; L.A. drag race organizer
"Big Willie" Robinson was a 6-foot-6, 300-pound former Los Angeles street racer, a gentle giant who promoted organized drag racing as a way to unite people of all races and classes and ease racial tensions. "When you get around cars, man, there ain't...
Tags: Port of Los Angeles, Drag Racing, Racism
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New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer
In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...Tags: Health Treatments, Health Treatments, Mouth, Bevacizumab (drug), Breast Cancer
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PASSINGS: Eric Lowen, Bert Sugar
Eric Lowen
Singer-songwriter
Eric Lowen, 60, a singer, songwriter, guitarist and half of the Lowen and Navarro folk group who with his songwriting partner Dan Navarro penned "We Belong" for Pat Benatar, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Panorama City...Tags: HBO (tv network), Rocky Balboa (fictional character), Obituaries, Hospitals and Clinics, Pat Benatar
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