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Alfred J. Gallodoro
NEW YORK (AP) _ Alfred J. Gallodoro, a jazz musician who performed on the saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet, died Saturday. He was 95.
He died at his home in Oneonta in upstate New York, said his grandson Kevin Wood.
Gallodoro worked with some of the world's greatest conductors, including Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski and Leonard Bernstein, according to his Web site.
The Chicago native began his career at age 13 at a vaudeville house in New Orleans. He spent about five decades on Long Island before moving to Oneonta in 1981.
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Eileen Herlie
NEW YORK (AP) _ Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on "All My Children" for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, died Wednesday. She was 90.
Herlie died of pneumonia, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the ABC soap opera's executive producer.
The actress joined the show in 1976 to play Myrtle, who became the surrogate mother to many of the soap's major characters, including Erica Kane, portrayed by Susan Lucci. Her last appearance on the program was in June.
Before joining "All My Children," Herlie was a regular on Broadway. She made her debut in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" in 1955, playing milliner Irene Molloy in the comedy, which starred Ruth Gordon as Dolly Gallagher Levi.
Musical theater buffs knew Herlie from her appearances in two shows: "Take Me Along" (1959), an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!", in which she played Jackie Gleason's love interest, and "All American" (1962), in which Herlie co-starred with Ray Bolger. In "All American," she and Bolger sang the musical's best-known song, "Once Upon a Time," a Charles Strouse-Lee Adams tune later popularized by Tony Bennett.
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David Lett
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ Pioneering Oregon winemaker David Lett, considered the father of the state's pinot noir industry, died Thursday. He was 69.
He died at his home in Dundee, said his spokeswoman Emily Stoller Smith. He had an illness that she didn't disclose.
Lett, the founder of Eyrie Vineyards in Dundee, was the first to plant the pinot grape in Oregon's Willamette Valley more than four decades ago.
Since then, Oregon pinot noir wines have earned a global reputation for high quality.
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George Palade
SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation, died Tuesday. He was 95.
The University of California, San Diego, confirmed Palade's death.
He was born in Romania, earned his medical degree there and came to the United States in 1946.
During the 1950s and 60s, he took advantage of new techniques to understand the cell structure, its function and chemistry. Using those techniques, he identified the function of, among other things, mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, and ribosomes, the protein-making machinery.
Working with Albert Claude at what is now Rockefeller University in New York, Palade began developing ways to separate cellular components.
He also discovered and studied the endoplasmic reticulum, a system of folded membranes that permeates the cytoplasm of cells and provides a large surface area for chemical reactions. He showed that the endoplasmic reticulum is a vital component of all types of body cells except the mature red blood cell.
The work of Palade and his fellow scientists earned them the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
In 1973, he left Rockefeller for Yale University. He went to UCSD in 1990, retiring in 2001 but remaining a consultant.
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Alexei Prokurorov
MOSCOW (AP) _ Alexei Prokurorov, an Olympic cross-country ski gold medalist, died Friday. He was 44.
A police official said the Russian _ who won gold in the 30-kilometer freestyle at the 1988 Calgary Games _ was crossing a road toward a train station in the town of Vladimir, 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Moscow, when he was hit by a car.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she said she was not authorized to talk.
Prokurorov competed in five Winter Games, his last in 2002 at Nagano, Japan, where he was also the Russian team's flagbearer, according to the International Ski Federation.
Cross Country Ski Federation secretary Yuri Garmash said Prokurorov was a 13-time national champion and received state honors for his services to sport.
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