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HOSPITALIZED. Anne Baxter, 62, actress currently starring in TV's Hotel who won a suppporting-role Oscar for The Razor's Edge (1946); in critical condition after suffering a stroke on the street; in New York City. In her best-known film, All About Eve (1950), she played an actress who schemed to succeed a star, portrayed by Bette Davis; in real life, Baxter took over the grande dame role in Hotel in 1983 after Davis was sidelined by a stroke...
DIED. Potter Stewart, 70, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1958-1981) who became the crucial "swing man" in the Warren Court era (1953-69) and remained a careful centrist who avoided sweeping principles and ideological stances; after a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. He balanced general support for civil rights with opposition to affirmativeaction programs, belief in a vigorous press with a dislike of pornography. In his most famous opinion, he said in 1964 that he could not define such hard-core material, "but I know it when...
...used to diagnose by excluding stroke, depression, and other diseases. What we were left with was Alzheimer's," Holman explained...
Katsias allowed only one late goal--on a penalty stroke--to seventh-ranked New Hampshire...
DIED. Marion Tanner, ninetyish, quirky, colorful, real-life model for the heroine of the Broadway musical Mame, which was based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame, written by her nephew Edward Everett Tanner III under the pen name Patrick Dennis; of pneumonia precipitated by a stroke; in a New York City nursing home. For more than three decades she ran a salon for struggling artists, writers, self-styled radicals and, later, drifters. In 1964, unable to meet mortgage payments, she was evicted from her house, prompting a deputy sheriff on the case to remark, "She is an amazing woman...