Wow! I didn’t know he was still among the living.
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No, he died in 2003.
Or, as I said in the other thread, Henry Kissinger, still alive at 98.
I know Julie Newmar is, and I did know about Sam the Sham - even had him on my Celebrity Death list.
The other two, not sure. You can say “gotcha” if you like, but those two are not people I know a lot about. My point was more along the lines of, if someone you care about dies, the knowledge will filter down to you. I suppose there’s celebrities (Joe Namath, you know him even if you don’t watch football) and “well-known in their field” people whose passing might escape general notice.
I just checked. Of the twenty-nine people who served as a cabinet officer in the Nixon administration, Kissinger is the only one still living (since George Shultz’s death last February).
Separate trivia note: Winton Blount (the Postmaster General) was the only person to serve a full eight years in Nixon’s cabinet.
2 of LBJ’s cabinet ministers died within the past year, Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd, age 98
and Attorney General Ramsay Clark, age 93.
According to his Wiki page, he served as Postmaster General from January 22, 1969 until January 1, 1972. He ran a failed campaign for a Senate seat in the 1972 election.
Also, Nixon wasn’t president for eight years.
R.I.P. Dave Berg (“The Lighter Side Of …”), Antonio Prohias (“Spy vs. Spy”) and MAD’s maddest artist, Don Martin, who went ka-floo-ie.
However, Sam Viviano (innumerable superb MAD movie parodies), Sergio Aragones (“A Mad Look At…” and “Groo the Wanderer”), and Al Jaffee (“The MAD Fold-in”) are all still kicking.
This is what I get for relying on Infoplease. They didn’t even get the man’s name right; they said he was William Blount.
They listed Blount as the only Postmaster General to serve under Nixon. This was not correct. Elmer Klassen served starting in 1972. Perhaps Infoplease chose not to list Klassen because the office was downgraded to a non-cabinet position.
I can’t blame Infoplease, however, for my mistake in saying Nixon served for eight years. I forgot there was a long-ago era when a President was held accountable for committing criminal acts.
Gotcha.
mmm
Mamie Eisenhower is still dead.
Any updates on Generalissimo Francisco Franco ?
Anna Maria Alberghetti (in a taxi, baby) is still alive.
Yeah, but if Chubby Checker tried to do the Twist now, he’d fly apart like a Lego toy in a hurricane.
On the other hand, there’s probably a whole lot more shakin’ goin’ on then there was back in 1958.
Just heard about another one I wasn’t aware of; Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie on The Honeymooners, is still alive at 97.
I just saw a really good documentary on the Cocoanut Grove fire, which happened in November of 1942. It was made a few years ago, but according to the updates at the end, at least one of the survivors is still alive.
I just checked, and the last survivor of the Hindenburg died about two years ago.
Ann Turner Cook, the original Gerber Baby, turned 95 yesterday.
Clarissa Eden, the widow of Anthony Eden, died only last week. Nor was that a case of a late marriage long after he had retired, although there was a big age difference. They were already married when he became Prime Minister 66 years ago.