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reporting from bulverde, texas Felix "Doc" Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army's Mr. Inside in college football's most famous running-back combination, died Sunday. He was 84. Blanchard's daughter, Mary Blanchard, told the Associated Press late Sunday night in a phone interview that her father, the oldest living Heisman winner, died of pneumonia at home in Bulverde, a small town in central Texas, earlier in the day.

Nathaniel Davis, a longtime diplomat who was the American ambassador to Chile when President Salvador Allende was deposed in a bloody coup, died of cancer Monday in Claremont. He was 86. His death was announced by Claremont's Harvey Mudd College, where he taught political science for 19 years until his retirement in 2002. Once described as a "brilliant career officer" by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Davis also served as ambassador to Bulgaria, Guatemala and Switzerland.

Robert Dale Segee grew up in New Hampshire and Maine, a nervous boy taunted by siblings and schoolmates and continually berated by a brutal father who Segee said punished him by holding his fingers over a flame. His mother said he had bad dreams so often that he was afraid to go to bed. As young as 9 or 10 years old, Segee would sneak out of the house and roam the streets at night. Ohio Deputy Fire Investigator R.

What: Barry Halper Baseball Memorabilia Internet and live auction preview Where: Sotheby's, 9665 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills When: Today, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Ever wanted to own a piece of baseball history? This is your chance. Sotheby's of New York, the famous auction house, is auctioning off a large collection of baseball memorabilia in New York and on the Internet next week and has some of the items available for the public to see now.

Robert Hillen, who founded the crew program at USC in 1947 and coached its team for 43 years, has died. He was 86. In failing health for several months as he battled Parkinson's disease, Hillen died March 16 in a Los Angeles hospital. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was raised in Sacramento and attended Sacramento Junior College, where he was first introduced to the sport of crew. He transferred to UCLA in 1936, where he lettered as a coxswain.

Luise Rinser, a best-selling German writer who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime and later ran for the West German presidency, has died. She was 90. Rinser died Sunday, the Am Parksee senior home in Munich announced Monday without giving further details. Born in 1911 in the Bavarian town of Pitzling, Rinser worked as a teacher until 1939, when her refusal to join the Nazi Party or any other Nazi organization resulted in her exclusion from public employment.

My Faraway One Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 Edited by Sarah Greenough Yale University Press: 832 pp., $39.95 At the beginning of their correspondence, in 1915, she addressed him as Mr. Stieglitz. He called her Miss O'Keeffe. Within a few years, he was Dearest Duck and she was Fluffy.. By 1933, when the first volume of their letters ends, much more than appellations had changed. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe had evolved from acquaintances to lovers and then from marital partners to distant combatants struggling to maintain a passionate relationship despite his infidelities and her quest for independence.

At the Builders Emporium in Van Nuys, where the 97-store do-it-yourself chain was launched 47 years ago, a day of brisk hardware business was tarnished Wednesday by confusion, sorrow, anger and anxiety over the announcement that the firm is going out of business. Longtime employees and loyal customers spoke as if they felt jilted. "I raised three kids by myself from that store," said hardware salesman Paul Sewell of Pacoima. "All I make is $11.49 (an hour), and I been there close to 29 years. .

Bill Williams, the virile, boyishly good looking actor who rode the television range as the famous Indian scout in 104 episodes of "The Adventures of Kit Carson" in the early 1950s, has died at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank of complications of a brain tumor. A featured player in such Western films as "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" and "Rio Lobo," Williams was 77 when he died Monday.

When politics kept Wazifullah Khan from marrying his beloved, he had no intention of breaking off the engagement. "He who tries to forget a woman has never loved her," Wazifullah Khan told the Hindustan Times as he made plans to join his betrothed after a 40-year separation. Visa in hand, the 70-year-old shoemaker will soon leave India for Pakistan and his 55-year-old fiancee, Khurshida.