1960 Year

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the only surviving member of the slain president's immediate family, will address next month's Democratic National Convention. Details, including when she will speak, have yet to be decided, said Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Vice President Al Gore. Schlossberg's speech will be 40 years after her father accepted the Democratic nomination at the last convention in Los Angeles in 1960. This year's convention in Los Angeles is scheduled for Aug. 14-17.

Red Hickey, 89, an NFL player and coach who is credited with inventing the shotgun formation, died Thursday of natural causes in Aptos, Calif., east of Santa Cruz, where he was receiving hospice care, his son Jeffrey said. Howard Wayne Hickey was born Feb. 14, 1917, in Hickeytown, Ark., a town founded by his paternal grandfather. At the University of Arkansas he was an end on the football team and a forward on the basketball team that went to the 1941 NCAA Final Four.

Earl Battey, 68, an all-star for the Minnesota Twins who was regarded as one of baseball's best catchers during the 1960s, died of cancer Saturday in Ocala, Fla., the Twins announced Monday. A native of Los Angeles, Battey was signed as an amateur free agent by the Chicago White Sox in 1953. He broke in with the Chicago White Sox in 1955 before joining the then Washington Senators in 1960, the year before they started playing in Minneapolis.

Bebo Valdes Pianist and bandleader who fled Cuba Bebo Valdes, 94, a renowned Cuban pianist who recorded with Nat King Cole, was bandleader of Havana's Tropicana nightclub during its glittering heyday and was considered the last luminary from the golden age of Cuban music, died Friday of pneumonia in Sweden. His death was confirmed by the agent for his son Chucho Valdes, a well-known pianist in his own right. Valdes, who enjoyed a remarkable late-career resurgence after he was coaxed out of retirement in the 1990s, was a classically trained musician with a strong interest in American jazz.

Martti Talvela, the 6-foot-7, 300-pound basso whose rich voice and pliant tones brought him acclamation in the capitals of the world, most often in the role of "Boris Godunov," has died of a heart attack, Finnish newspapers reported Monday. He was 54.

Sixty-seven female Navy employees were awarded back pay Wednesday in an 18-year-old sex discrimination lawsuit, and the judge said he would consider sanctions against the government for harassing and delaying tactics. "The government has sought to prolong this litigation by every means possible, both fair and foul," U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene said. "In these days of an enormous budget deficit, it would seem to be an extravagant waste of taxpayer funds."

One evening in 1966, not long after the Los Angeles Philharmonic moved into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, concertgoers were surprised to find a picket line in front of the hall on opening night. Though picket lines were a dime a dozen in the '60s, this one was unusual, for these young music lovers were protesting the shortage of works by Gustav Mahler on the philharmonic's agenda. The protest received radio coverage, and it had the effect of launching the local Gustav Mahler Society. Can you imagine such a scene today?

At UCLA in the late 1950s, the concept for a magazine celebrating an "unruly young city" started to take off after grad student Geoff Miller happened upon David Brown, an ad executive with an "ambitious scheme," Miller later wrote. Miller put aside plans for an urban arts magazine to help launch the Southern California Prompter in 1960. A year later, it was renamed Los Angeles magazine . Aspirational from the start, it was billed as the "Guide to the Good Life in L.A. and Suburbia.

Paul Burke, who received two Emmy nominations in the early 1960s for his role as Det. Adam Flint in the acclaimed dramatic TV police series "Naked City" and later starred as a World War II Army Air Forces colonel in the action-adventure series "12 O'Clock High," has died. He was 83. Burke, who had leukemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma, died Sunday at his home in Palm Springs with his wife Lyn at his side, said family spokeswoman Daniela Ryan. During a four-decade career that included roles in the movies "Valley of the Dolls" (1967)

Pairing up aging leading men with much younger actresses is an age-old story in Hollywood where it seems guys are almost never that far past their prime that they can't catch a leading lady. History, in fact, is repeating itself with "A Perfect Murder."