Hail and Farewell

[Cynthia]

Hail and Farewell to so many talented and controversial human beings.

 Adieu   Прощание   Abschied   Adi?s  告別

and... Deus beatus to all!



Merv Griffin

Liz Claiborne

Denny Doherty

Money Penny-Lois Maxwell

Beverly Sills

J Robert Cade- (inventor of Gatorade)

Momofuku Ando--(Cup o'Noodle)

Ira Levin?(Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil)

Evel Knievel

Ike Turner

Wally Shirah-Astronaut

Dr. Paul B. MacCready's--Gossamer Albatross

Harold E. Froehlich,-Alvin inventor.Titanic

Paul Lauterbur -INVENTOR OF MRI


Ingmar Bergman-Director

Luciano Pavarotti

Marcel Marceau

Normal Malier

Oscar Peterson

Deborah kerr

Leona Helmsley

Iwao Takamoto  -- character designer scooby doo

Betty Hutton

Molly Ivans

David Halberstam-The Best and the Brightest

Theodore H. Maiman builder of the first laser
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/213522

Kurt Votegan- Ahh Kurt. Visonary


Then there are so many many Veterans of so many wars ---current and past. To those I Hail and Bid well.
1000 WW2 veterans lost each day.
 Joe O'Donnell- WW2 photographer
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/washington/14odonnell.html


Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr.- The Pilot of the ENOLA GAY

Lady Bird Johnson

Tammy Faye Baker

Rev. Jerry Falwell

Lee Hazlewood- singer songwriter    These Boots are made For Walking

Colin Fletcher

MR Wizard-Don Herbert


Dick Wilson_ don?t squeeze the Charmin

E. Howard Hunt- 33 months in prison for a break-in
 Jane Wyman

Michael Kidd-choreographer (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

Boris Yeltsin

Max Roach-Musician and Civil Rights activist

Phil Rizzuto- Baseball on and off the field

Tom Snyder

Art Buchwald- Made politics a laughing matter

Jack Valenti

Peg Bracken-I Hate to Cook    book

Saul Lewitt--artist....

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Robert Goulet

Russian virtuoso cellist Rostropovich