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DIED. JINX FALKENBURG, 84, cover girl and actress, who along with her husband journalist Tex McCrary helped pioneer the talk-show genre; in Manhasset, N.Y. The hazel-eyed, brunet beauty had appeared in several movies before finding her calling in broadcasting. The Hi Jinx radio show, with hosts Falkenburg and McCrary, first aired in 1946 and featured guest interviews as well as reports on such weighty topics as the atom bomb and venereal disease. Its success spawned a television offshoot called At Home that also starred the two. By the 1950s, the couple's franchise included two radio shows...
DIED. FELICE LIPPERT, 73, co-founder and longtime vice president of Weight Watchers International, which now assists millions in shedding pounds in 30 countries; of lung cancer; in Manhasset, N.Y. In 1963, when she and her husband Al wanted to lose weight, they asked a local diet counselor, Jean Nidetch, to be host of a meeting with them and a few friends. Following Nidetch's system of incentives and points, which allowed a wide choice in foods, the pair lost 100 lbs. between them. The system became Weight Watchers, which they ran until the company was sold to Heinz...
...knit group, these friends from Sands Point, N.Y. They had moved to the exclusive Long Island community in the late 1940s and early '50s. The husbands commuted to Manhattan; the wives raised the children, did volunteer work, played golf and tennis, and met every Friday for lunch at the Manhasset Yacht Club. They spent 40 New Year's Eves together. And then, about two years ago, when most were in their 80s, they all sold their houses and retired...
DIED. CARL SIGMAN, 91, Brooklyn-born composer-lyricist whose eminently hummable tunes were recorded by the likes of Guy Lombardo (Enjoy Yourself) and Billie Holiday (Crazy, He Calls Me); in Manhasset, N.Y. Most active in the '40s and '50s, he wrote everything from Frank Sinatra ballads (What Now My Love) to TV theme songs ("Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen"). His last major hit was the theme for Love Story (Where Do I Begin?), a sentimental coda to a remarkable career...
...Bellow leaves his wife; sons Douglas of Cambridge, Mass., and David; daughter Courtenay Kettleson of Medford, Mass.; and sisters Helaine Gould of Manhasset, New York, and Bonnie Bellow of New York City...