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Bill Angel; Former News Anchor at KFWB

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Bill Angel, 78, former news anchor for KFWB-AM (980) radio. Angel joined the station in 1956 as music director, freeway traffic reporter and disc jockey. He was assistant to programmer Chuck Blore when the station launched its “Color Radio-Channel 98” in 1958. When KFWB switched to its all-news format in 1968, Angel continued as a news anchor. He retired in 1983. On Saturday in Burbank from the complications of a stroke.

Michael Denison;

British Stage and Film Actor

Michael Denison, 82, British stage actor who appeared in such films as “Shadowlands.” He performed frequently with his wife, actress Dulcie Gray, whom he married in 1939. They made their Broadway debut in 1996 in a critically acclaimed revival of Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband.” In London, Denison portrayed Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady,” Capt. Hook in “Peter Pan” and Malvolio in “Twelfth Night.” Among his more than 40 other plays were “The Fourposter,” “Candida,” “The Wild Duck” and “The School for Scandal.” In addition to the 1994 “Shadowlands” with Anthony Hopkins, Denison appeared in the motion pictures “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “My Brother Jonathan” and “The Glass Mountain.” Born in Doncaster in Yorkshire, England, Denison was educated at Oxford University and served in British intelligence during World War II. On Tuesday in Amercham, England, after suffering from cancer.

* Edward F. Edinger; Jungian Analyst, Writer

Edward F. Edinger, 75, leading analyst and writer in Jungian psychology. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Edinger grew up in Indiana and studied chemistry at Indiana University and medicine at Yale. He served two years in the Army as a medical officer and later became supervising psychiatrist of Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, N.Y. Embracing the teachings of the Swiss psychologist, Edinger became a founding member of the C.G. Jung Foundation and the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He was president of the institute from 1968 until 1979, when he moved to Los Angeles and continued his writing, teaching and practice with the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. His writings interpreted Jungian psychology, particularly in relation to religion. Among his essays were “The Bible and the Psyche” and “The Christian Archetype.” On July 17 in Los Angeles of bladder cancer.

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* Victor Junger; Print and Broadcast Journalist, Teacher

Victor Junger, 77, journalist and teacher of English as a second language. Junger was in the Army during World War II, participating in the Allied invasion of France, and served in the Korean War. He worked as an investigative reporter for the Houston Post until he came to Los Angeles to write for NBC and then ABC. Fluent in Spanish, he taught English as a second language for the Los Angeles Unified School District and often used his classes as material for articles. In a humorous Op-Ed piece for The Times in 1976, he related the struggle of his students to understand baseball lingo. Among the explanations he had to give was that saying a player was “four for 10” did not mean that baseball players were selling at a rate of four for $10. On July 17 in North Hollywood from the complications of a stroke.

* Ann Cappello McCord; Co-Founder of Clerical Workers Union

Ann K. Cappello McCord, 88, co-founder and first president of the California clerical employees union. Born Ann Klukoff in Brooklyn, N.Y., McCord first worked as a photographer’s model and then as a secretary. After moving to the San Fernando Valley, she went to work for the state of California--for the state Labor Commission, the attorney general’s office and the California State University and Colleges system. With Noby Fukoma Reidell, she founded Clerical & Allied Service Employees, and McCord then served as its first president. She lobbied extensively in Sacramento to improve the pay and benefits of state clerical workers who belonged to the new union. On July 16 in Santa Barbara.

* Robert W. Oliver; Economist, Caltech Professor

Robert W. Oliver, 75, international economics expert and Caltech professor. A native of Los Angeles, Oliver studied economics and international relations at USC and earned a doctorate at Princeton. He taught at USC, Princeton and Caltech, and in the late 1950s was a research economist at Stanford. During his many years at Caltech, Oliver was also an economist with the World Bank and consultant to the Brookings Institution and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Also a civic leader in Pasadena, Oliver served on the city’s Board of Directors, Citizens Downtown Improvement Board, Planning Commission, Future Land Use Committee and Utility Advisory Committee. On July 17 in Pasadena of a heart attack.

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