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Sunday, March 19,2000 NorABLE DEAIHS WEEK Choreographer Fred Kelly; bombardier Section 13 unas Associated Press Fred Kelly, choreographer and award-winning entertainer who taught his famed older brother, Gene Kelly, to tap dance, died in Tucson, Wednesday of cancer. He was 83. Kelly won three Fred Kelly Tony Awards for his lead Broadway performance in "Time of Your Life" in 1940. Re was also a dance instructor whose students included Queen Elizabeth and John Travolta. He taught the queen how to dance and Travolta how to strut.

Fred and Gene Kelly appeared together on film only once, in the 1955 production of "Deep in my Heart." Thomas Wilson Ferebee, the bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, died in Windermere, Thursday. He was 81. Ferebee was 26 on Aug. 6, 1945, and already a major and a veteran of G4 missions when the B- 29 Enola Gay took Thomas off for Japan with W. Ferebee the first nuclear weapon ever deployed.

Ferebee, who retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1970, said he never felt guilty but was sorry the bomb killed so many. America's bombing of Hiroshima and the blast at Nagasaki three days later left more than 100,000 dead and led to the end of the war. The only other man who has dropped a nuclear bomb in war, Nagasaki bombardier Kermit Beahan, died in 1989. Japan surrendered on Aug. 14, 1945, Five days after the Nagasaki bomb was dropped.

Dorathy Yurkiewicz, a former rodeo daredevil and stunt rider who turned in her spurs to become a foster mother, died in New Brunswick, N.J., a week ago. She was 81. Yurkiewicz, who rode Brahma bulls, gave snapshooting demonstrations and had knives thrown at her, performed as Dot Cole in the 1930s and 1940s. Richard Collier, a character actor who appeared in more than 1,000 television shows and such movies as "Hello, Dolly!" and "Blazing Saddles," died last weekend in Los Angeles. He was 80.

Collier, whose credits include the children's television show "Mr. Giggles," died at the Motion Picture Television Hospital, where he had been living since April. Collier played Dr. Sam Johnson in "Blazing Saddles," and Walter Matthau's barber in "Hello, Dolly!" Mack Robinson, the older brother of Jackie Robinson and a world- ciass athlete in his own right, died a week ago in Pasadena, of complications from a stroke, diabetes and kidney failure. He was 85.

Robinson won the silver medal in the 200 meters in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, finishing behind Jesse Owens. Robinson's accomplishments came long before his brother broke baseball's color line in 1947, and the elder Robinson's performance in Berlin was considered a surprise. Tommy Collins, who wrote country music hits for Merle Haggard, George Strait and other singers, died in Ashland City, Tuesday of complications from emphysema. He was 69. His hits included "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" by both Strait and Ferlin Huskey, and Haggard's "Carolyn." Joseph Goldstein, a longtime Yale Law School professor who introduced the best interests of children into the canon of family law, died a week ago hi New Haven, from a heart attack.

He was 76. His work introduced the idea courts should handle child custody disputes according to the child's best interest and should consider the child's point of view. Bobb McKittrick, a gritty offensive line coach for the San Francisco 49ers who worked with five Super teams, died in Stanford, Wednesday of cancer. He was 64. Morris B.

Abram, an attorney Elgin Community College who served in the administrations of five presidents and was the former head of Brandeis University, died in Waltham, Thursday of pneumonia. He was 82. Abram was named one of the top 50 most influential Jews in the world in 1994 by the publication the Forward. In 1946, Abram served on the prosecution staff at the Nuremberg Trials. Over the next 20 years he worked on the Marshall plan, for the Peace Corps and with Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Leon Bond, a pickle magnate and philanthropist who donated millions of dollars for the community center that bears his name, has died in Oconto, Wis. He was 104. Bond and four brothers started the Bond Pickle Co. in 1917.

It later became Bond Food Products Co then Kelly Pickle Co. in August 1999. Durward Kirby, a TV funnyman who for years played second banana on "The Garry Moore Show" and for a time was co-host of "Candid Camera," died of congestive heart failure Wednesday in Tampa, Fla. He was 88. Kirby was co- host of "Candid Camera" from 1961-66.

The show created by Allen Funt, which secretly filmed unsuspecting citizens in amusing situations, had at one- point been a segment of "The Garry Moore Show. Barbara Cooney, a children's author and illustrator whose works received a National Book Award and two Caldecott Medals, died recently in Portland, Maine, after a long illness. She was 83. Cooney's career, mostly as an illustrator, spanned 60 years and 110 books. The last, "Basket Moon," was published in September.

Aleksandar Nikolic, a basketball pioneer in Yugoslavia who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998, died a week ago in Belgrade after a short illness. He was 76. Malcolm Wilson, who served as caretaker governor of New York for a year after Nelson Rockefeller resigned in 1973, died Monday in Albany, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 86. A conservative Republican, Wilson was Rockefeller's lieutenant governor for 15 years before stepping into the top spot.

Eight months later, Rockefeller was appointed vice president by President Ford Durward Kirby i with world traveler and show host BEGINNING SUNDAY after Richard Nixon's resignation. Tara Sloan, the swimmer who holds the Canadian record in the 100-meter breaststroke, died in Calgary, Alberta, from injuries suffered in a car accident. She was 20. Roy Henderson, a baritone famed for his performances of Frederick Delius' works and a teacher of Kathleen Ferrier, died recently in London. He was 100.

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