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CALIFORNIA B7 LOSANGELESTIMES Obituaries By Valerie J. Nelson Times Staff Writer David Shaw, a prolific writer from golden age who also wrote the film Tuesday, This Must Be Broadway plays, has died. He was 90. Shaw, who was featured in the HBO documentary Old in his sleep Friday at his home in Beverly Hills after a long illness, his family announced. In the late 1940s, he followed his older brother, novelist and playwright Irwin Shaw, to Los Angeles and soon started working in television.

He had his greatest success in the 1950s and for such dramatic anthologies as and the TV which he contributed more teleplays than any other writer, according to the Archive of American Television. For Shaw adapted 80-Yard a short story by his brother that told the tale, in flashbacks, of a wife who matured while her husband remained a college boy. The 1958 review said the starring Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, had ingredients of a great In the early 1960s, Shaw was a writer and story editor for CBS show starred E.G. Marshall and was known for addressing such issues as abortion and mercy killing at a time when most TV shows tried to avoid controversial topics. Writer Frank best friend since junior high, credited Shaw with helping save his career after Tarloff was blacklisted.

Shaw and producer Reginald Rose hired blacklisted writers chance they Tarloff told the Hollywood Reporter in 1997. For decades, Shaw and Tar- loff had lunched every Tuesday at the Mulholland Tennis Club with a group of about eight veteran Hollywood writers and producers. In 1998, filmmaker David Zeiger made a documentary about the group, Old that also highlighted how they dealt with impending death from cancer, including staging memorial service while he was still alive. lack of a better word, David was the most humble of all of the guys who were in the Zeiger told The Times on Sunday. of them were trained writers, and this was actually a relatively easy way for them to make a On Broadway, Shaw wrote the book for two original musical comedies, including which starred Gwen Verdon in a Tony Award-winning role and was named best musical in 1959.

Vivian Leigh also won a Tony for play about nobility exiled after the Russian Revolution. Among the few film scripts Shaw wrote was Tuesday, This Must Be which starred Suzanne Pleshette.The review praised the 1969 film about a whirlwind tour of Europe as observed and inventive without getting farcically He was born Samuel David Shamforoff on Aug. 27, 1916, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Russian-Jewish immigrants. His father, William, was a milliner and his mother, Rose, was a homemaker. When he was a teenager, the family name was changed to Shaw.

In 1936, Shaw graduated from the Pratt Institute of art in Brooklyn, where he met his first wife, Vivian Rosenthal. She died in 1969. After serving as a Morse Code operator in Africa in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he became a writer for episodic radio in New York, then moved to Los Angeles because he thought he could make a living as a comedy writer. His last television project was writing for early-1980s CBS series that starred Ralph Waite. Asked how he wanted to be remembered, Shaw, then 88, told the American Archive of Television interviewer, a After retiring, Shaw had returned to the medium he considered his first love and regularly showed his Impressionistic-style work.

Shaw is survived by his wife, Maxine Stuart, an actress whom he married in 1973, and two daughters, Liz Baron of Dallas, owner of the Blue Mesa Grill restaurant chain, and Ellen Agress of New York City, deputy general counsel of News a stepdaughter, Chris Ann Maxwell, vice president of Fox Searchlight Pictures; and four grandchildren. Services are pending. valerie.nelson@latimes.com was the most humble of all of the guys who were in the David Zeiger, whose documentary Old features Shaw and his friends David Shaw, 90; prolific writer for golden age, Broadway and film DAVID SHAW He followed his brother, novelist Irwin Shaw, to L.A. after WWII and began working in television. He wrote for and TV Looking for an obituary that appeared in The Times last week? You can still find it on the Internet.

Go to The web- site at latimes.com/obits. Finding News Obituaries By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Sister Andree Fries, who oversaw the retirement collection for thousands of nuns, priests, brothers and other members of Catholic religious orders, died July 14 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore of pneumonia after knee surgery last month. She was 65. Fries had led the National Religious Retirement Office since 2000, after two years as project director and four years as associate director of the Tri-Conference Retirement Office. Fries received a degree in business administration from Southern Illinois University in 1972 and twice served as superior general of her order, the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood.

had great business sense, religious sense and common said Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Bishops. In the Catholic Church, stipends from working members of each order support the retirees. But since the 1960s, fewer people have entered religious life, so the amount available to retirees has fallen. used to have a whole lot of young nuns, and be out there working, and send money home to take care of a few older Fries told Reuters news service in 2001.

we have an inverted pyramid. We have a very small group of women working and a larger group needing Since the 1970s, religious institutes have been able to buy credits to make their members eligible for Social Security, but the low-income wage history of most nuns, priests and others results in benefits about one-third that of other U.S. workers. think the common perception is that the church takes care of us the Vatican sends us Fries told the Los Angeles Times in not the way it In 1988, several years after the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article about nuns on food stamps, several foundations, the bishops conference and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men established the National Religious Retirement Office. Avoluntary collection taken each December in churches across the nation helps address the financial needs of more than 37,000 retired religious members.

It raises about $30million each year toward a shortfall of $7billion, according to the retirement website. Fries, born Sharon Ann Fries in Quincy, entered the convent of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, based in at 18. She took her final vows in 1967. After graduating from Quincy College in her hometown, she taught school in St. Louis and Quincy but was drawn to administration.

Fries became director of financial planning for her order and later was general councilor. The order sent her to graduate school to earn an MBA, a rare degree for nuns of that era. She was the superior general from 1980 to 1986 and 1992 to 1998. Fries was one of three elected U.S. representatives to the International Union of Superiors General in Rome.

She also was appointed deputy to the general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops to deal with the response to sexual abuse issues in the church. Her survivors include two sisters. Sisters of the Most Precious Blood SISTER ANDREE FRIES She had led the National Religious Retirement Office since 2000. As a young nun, her order sent her to graduate school to earn an MBA. Sister Andree Fries, 65; oversaw retirement funds for nuns, priests, brothers Ferrell Secakuku, 69; Hopi leader helped settle tribal land dispute Former Hopi Chairman Ferrell Secakuku, 69, who helped resolve a longtime land dispute between his tribe and the Navajo Nation, died Wednesday at a home in Flagstaff, said his daughter, Kim.

He had suffered from cancer. Born in the Village of Sipaulovi, Secakuku was chairman of the Hopi Tribe from 1994 to 1997. While in office, he facilitated the negotiation of the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement, which was worked out after a federal judge in 1991 ordered the tribes to reach an agreement over land they had been quarreling over since the 1800s. At the time, Secakuku said the agreement was important in providing a way for Navajo and Hopi families to live in harmony on the land in northern Arizona. The Hopi reservation covers more than 2,400 square miles and is surrounded by the much- larger Navajo reservation.

Secakuku grew up working in his trading post and, after graduating with a business degree from Northern Arizona University, converted it to the only supermarket on the reservation. He also earned a degree in anthropology from the university in 2006. Tsang Tsou-choi, 86; Hong Kong street artist known for calligraphy Graffiti artist Tsang Tsou- choi, 86, whose incoherent Chinese calligraphy writings on public walls have been displayed in Italy and auctioned by Sothe- died July 15 of heart disease, said his friend Lau Kin-wai. Tsang is a household name in Hong Kong because of his brush- written script that appears in neat lines on sides of pedestrian overpasses and other public places. The graffiti often claimed his royal background and ancestral rights to the area known as Kowloon.

His calligraphy was recognized by the international art world in 2003 when his work was displayed at the 50th Venice Bi- ennale. He was heralded as the oldest graffiti artist in the In 2004, auction house sold a piece by Tsang, along with a photograph of his street work, for $7,000. Born in a Chinese village in 1921, he moved to Hong Kong at 16, became a farmer and worked as a laborer. He married at 35 and had eight children. About 50 years ago, Tsang started painting city walls with his grievances and stopped in 2003 when his legs could no longer support him.

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Box 345, Agoura, CA 91376. Beloved Wife, Mother and Nana. Born July 28, 1939. Passed away on July 23, 2007. Preceded in death by her son, Louis III.

She is survived by her husband, Lou; daughters, Terri, Angela and Diane; and grandchildren, Taylor and Ryan. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, July 31, 1p.m., at the Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn Mortuary, 6300 Forest Lawn Los Angeles, CA 90068. Lorraine will be greatly missed, never forgotten and will always be with us. Passed away July 23rd, 2007, at the age of 73. Beloved husband of Karel Guefen.

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Midge was always impeccably dressed and carried her sense of humoruntil the very end. She will be missed by all who knew her. Memorial service to be held Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:00 p.m. at HillsideMemorial Park, 6001 CentinelaAvenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045. In lieu of flowers her family asks that donations be made to the 211 Club at Seacrest, which may be reachedat 760-632-0081.

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