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wiw OBITUARIES j)i erfsuastf 4g')wiiyrqf Marihiiiawrfato'rffa iiShMli VftjSW A IV laiitN-f ''xLmx a jJ fik Su UTlii'flUfl ilmifilii iiV Ronald Peierls 67 Physicist Mathematician Theater Lover By Joy Buchanan Amram Ducovny 75 Author Father 1HZ ASSOCIATED PSE8S Paris Amram Ducovny an author and father of "The star David Duchovny died Aug 23 his daughter said Tuesday He was 75 Ducovny who published a lauded first novel at age 73 died in Paris of heart disease said Lau- rie Duchovny Amram Ducovny who grew up in the Coney Island area of Brooklyn adopted Paris as his home about 10 years ago The father dropped the in the spelling of the surname but his children kept the original spelling novel was a semi-autobiographical account of adolescent lurid adventures among Coney Island misfits on the eve of World War "It was surprising to learn that a 70-something man had written this fresh first Paris editor Eloise said Tuesday "He will be remembered as a funny and charming mm His New York agent Andrew Blauner said Ducov- ny had finished a sequel to called "A Lifetime Is which fellows later life "We yet know if the manuscript will be published said Blauner Before turning to fiction Ducovny wrote 10 nonfiction books including "David Ben-Gurion: In His Own and to Shoot a Jewish A play "The Trial of Lee Harvey ran for a short time off-Broadway in 1967 and was adapted later for a television movie In addition to his son and daughter Ducovny is survived by his second wife Varda Ducovny another son Daniel a stepson Jonathan Sahula and two grandchildren Ronald Poierls computer function and networking He retired in 1998 but continued to work with the laboratory as a consultant Besides having a mind for math and computers Peierls was dedicated to music and the theater He and his wife became involved with Theatre Three Productions in Port Jefferson in 1969 The two were actors directors and fund-raisers for the organization Jeffrey Sanzel artistic director of Theatre Three Baid mathematical gifts gave him a different eye for theater from that of traditionally artistic folks was able to bring his scientific mind to his artistic Sanzel said "He was good with moving people fighting Peierls a fen of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas directed numerous productions some of which included his wife The couple moved to Port Jefferson in 1988 largely to be closer to the theater Peierls was managing director of the organize- tion until shortly before he became ill Sanzel said the organization will dedicate its second stage to Peierls calling it The Ronald Peierls Theatre An official dedication is planned for March 3 Peierls whose wife died in 1999 is survived by his sons Tim of Manhasset and Beqjamin iff Beaufort NC sisters Gaby Gross of Boston Jo Hookway of Sheffield England and Kitty Coppin of Vancouver Canada and two grandchildren Ronald Peierls of Port Jefferson a physicist mathematician and theater devotee died Tuesday at his home in Manhasset after a nine-month bout with brain cancer He was 67 "I find it hard to be solemn when talking about said Martin Blume friend and colleague for 40 years and editor at the American Physical Society in Ridge "When you think of him you Blume said Peierls was a study in contrasts a scientist and an artist who was both diffident and gregarious He was as good with words as he was with numbers "It was not easy to win an argument with him" Blume said Peierls son of renowned physicist Sir Rudolf Peierls was bora in Manchester England He earned a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1957 and his doctorate from Cornell University in Ithaca in 1959 He met Julie Wilson that year and they married soon after They moved to Brookhaven in 1963 after Peierls joined the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory He was appointed chairman of the Applied Mathematics Department in 1979 and served in that position for 10 years Peierls was trained as a physicist but he was most interested in math associated with Marion Hargrove 83 Wrote WW II Bestseller end with more than 400000 copies sold A 25-cent Pocket Books paperback edition sold 22 million copies the hapless hero having become what one writer called symbol of all left-footed "That marvelous book illuminated and illuminates even today that time of our said Earl Hamner Jr creator of "The who became friends with Hargrove in the 1970s when he wrote for folksy TV series think every GI read it and it enabled us to laugh at Hamner said "I know some of the experiences were of being young and away from home for the first time in that very strange atmosphere where you were really just a dog soldier what we vrnr Hairmor raid it "VmnirnHy a grim pt- for which Hargrove "provided the humor that helped all of us see ourselves not just as dog soldiers but as young men away from home: homesick lovesick and A successful MGM film version of "See Here Private starring Robert Walker was released in 1944 followed by a less-successful 1945 sequel "What Next Corporal In the spring of 1942 Hargrave was transferred to New York City to work as a staff writer for the GI publication Yank Over the next three years he worked for Yank in China the Philippines and India He said it until 1947 that he was able to finish a second book Got to a satirical novel about a married couple who create a domestic radio program which sold about 20000 copies His 1956 novel Girl He Left about the peacetime Army became a film starring Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood Hargrove wrote or co-wrote nine screenplays His script for the 1962 musical "The Music won a Writers Guild Screenplay Award Besides being a frequent contributor to "The he wrote for numerous TV series including "77 Sunset "The "I "The "Fantasy and "Eight Is Enough" Hargrove is survived by his wife of 49 years Robin their children James Edward and Martha Haesel-er his children from his first marriage to the former Alison Pfeiffer Christopher Stephen and Penelope Hargrove a stepdaughter Julianna Roosevelt a sister Cheryl Wolf and eight grandchildren The Los Angeles Times is a Tribune Co newspaper LOB ANOEUB HUBS Marion Hargrove an Army draftee from North flamlinn who tnrnad his Tnimdvnturft in Kaaic train- ing into the humorous World War bestseller "See Here Private died Aug 23 He was 83 Hargrove a television -'and film writer whose credits include and "The as well as the screen adaptation of Meredith "The Music died of complications of pneumonia in a hospice in Long Beach Calif from President of the United the letter to Hargrove exclaimed indirectly setting in motion the Mount Olive NC unexpected path to becoming an overnight wartime literary sensation at age 22 The son of a railway mail clerk Hargrove was a features writer and the editor of his high school newspaper in Charlotte NC but left school a half-credit short of graduating in 1938 He had worked his way up from proofreader to assistant to the city editor and features editor at the Charlotte News when Unde Sam came calling Inducted into the Army on July 18 1941 Hargrove underwent basic training at Fort Bragg NC He wrote about his experiences for the Char- lotte News in his column In the Army Now gently humorous tales of sleeping through reveille Tnitnkmly saluting noncommissioned officers learning Ids left foot from his right while marching landing KP duty instead of a weekend pass In March 1942 while still stationed at Fort Bragg Hargrove met playwright Maxwell Anderson who was there to research Army life for a play Hargrove who would serve as the model for the Southern soldier Francis Marion in Howard McCoy Jr Pioneering Police Chief -a up in Mount Vernon and became the first black Marine from that city when he joined the Corps in 1943 He was stationed in the Pacific with the 61st Defense Battalion the first all-black Marine outfit to serve overseas He became Mount second black policeman when he joined the department in 1949 He became a detective in 1952 a sergeant in 1959 a lieutenant in 1964 and a captain in 1973 McCoy is survived by his wife Lorraine three daughters five brothers a sister and five grand- children A funeral is scheduled for Saturday at THE ASSOCIATED PUSS Greenburgh NY Howard McCoy Jr Ua mild-mannered former Marine who became 'the first black police chief of Mount Vernon died Saturday at his home of complications from cancer He was 81 Police Commissioner Bernice Kennedy called McCoy a pioneer and said "His sudden passing was a great blow to those who knew and loved him" Mayor Ernest Davis called him very gentle souL' McCoy was chief in Mount Vernon from 1977 to 1992 and regularly attended police functions video camera in hand after his retirement McCoy born in New Rochelle in 1921 grew IURSDAY SEPTBR aOW "The Eve of St showed the playwright copies of his newspaper column Anderson was so impressed that wheat he returned to New York City he showed them to the editor of Henry Holt and Co Holt published the articles in book form in July 1942 with a foreword by Anderson "It approaches Army life with just the right touch of hard-boiled banter to take the sting out of a Time magazine reviewer said A No 1 bestseller "See Here Private went through 12 i.