The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2008.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

March 2008

1
Haroldo de Andrade, 73, Brazilian radio presenter (Rádio Globo), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Dora Dolz, 66, Spanish-born Dutch artist.
Kevin Dunn, 57, British Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.
Bhanbhagta Gurung, 86, Nepalese Gurkha soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Raúl Reyes, 59, Colombian FARC second-in-command, airstrike.
Moustafa Soheim, 70, Egyptian Olympic fencer.
Sid Spindler, 75, Polish-born Australian senator (Democrats) (1990–1996), liver cancer.
Andrey Tissin, 32, Russian world and European canoeing champion, Olympian and coach, drowning.
George Toley, 91, American collegiate tennis coach.

2
Sofiko Chiaureli, 70, Georgian actress.
Barbara Anne Davis, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
Roger Gill, 35, Guyanese Olympic sprinter, car accident.
Jeff Healey, 41, Canadian jazz and blues-rock guitarist and vocalist, sarcoma.
Carl Hoddle, 40, English footballer (Leyton Orient, Barnet), brain aneurysm.
Paul Raymond, 82, British pornographic magazine publisher and property magnate.
Ted Robinson, 84, American golf course architect, pancreatic cancer.
Frederick Seitz, 96, American physicist who co-discovered the Wigner-Seitz cell.

3
Bertil Albertsson, 86, Swedish runner.
Vizol Koso, 93, Indian Naga politician.
Ramón Barquín, 93, Cuban army colonel and diplomat, opponent of Fulgencio Batista, led 1956 coup attempt, cancer.
William Brice, 86, American painter and UCLA professor, injuries from fall.
Giuseppe Di Stefano, 86, Italian operatic tenor, after long coma following assault.
Donald S. Lopez, Sr., 84, American deputy director of the National Air and Space Museum, heart attack.
Malcolm McKenna, 77, American paleontologist.
Norm O'Neill, 71, Australian cricketer, throat cancer.
Annemarie Renger, 88, German politician (SPD), Speaker of Parliament (1972–1976).
Iván Ríos, 45, Colombian FARC commander, shot by his Chief of Security.
Norman "Hurricane" Smith, 85, British singer, recording engineer (The Beatles, Pink Floyd) and record producer.
Kenneth Woollcombe, 84, British Bishop of Oxford (1971–1978).

4
Hossein Alikhani, 63, Iranian NGO founder, political scientist and author, leukemia.
Richard Davis Anderson, 86, American mathematician.
Erwin Ballabio, 89, Swiss football goalkeeper.
Robert Bruning, 79, Australian actor, heart attack.
Gary Gygax, 69, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
Tina Lagostena Bassi, 82, Italian politician.
Elena Nathanael, 61, Greek actress, lung cancer.
Leonard Rosenman, 83, American film composer (Barry Lyndon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Bound for Glory), Oscar winner (1977, 1978), heart attack.
Semka Sokolović-Bertok, 72, Croatian actress, stroke.
George Walter, 79, Antiguan Premier (1971–1976), heart attack.

5
Eve Carson, 22, American student leader (UNC Chapel Hill), shot.
Derek Dooley, 78, British footballer and former chairman of Sheffield United.
Elfriede Kaun, 93, German 1936 Olympic bronze medalist in the high jump.
Nader Khalili, 72, Iranian architect, heart failure.
John C. Mackie, 87, American Representative from Michigan (1965–1967).
Richard Miles McCool, 86, American Medal of Honor recipient for actions during World War II.
Don McFarlane, 81, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
Stephen Oliver, 66, American actor (Peyton Place), gastric cancer.
Sixty Rayburn, 91, American politician.
Hajibey Sultanov, 86, Azerbaijani astronomer, fire accident.
Joseph Weizenbaum, 85, German-born American computer scientist, inventor of ELIZA computer program, stroke.
Ihor Yemchuk, 77, Ukrainian Olympic silver (1952) and bronze (1956) medal-winning rower.

6
Gloria Shayne Baker, 84, American songwriter (Rain Rain Go Away, Do You Hear What I Hear?), lung cancer.
Lili Boniche, 87, Algerian-born French singer of Andalusian Arabic songs.
Don Curtis, 80, American professional wrestler, stroke.
Kurt Eberling, Sr., 77, German-American inventor of SpaghettiOs, cancer.
Gustaw Holoubek, 84, Polish film and theatre actor and politician.
Stanislav Konopásek, 84, Czechoslovakian Olympic silver medallist in ice hockey (1948).
*Peter Poreku Dery, 89, Ghanaian cardinal, Archbishop of Tamale (1974–1994).
Kiddinan Sivanesan, 51, Sri Lankan Tamil Parliament member (TNA), roadside bomb.
Malvin Wald, 90, American screenwriter (The Naked City).

7
Ossie Álvarez, 74, American Major League Baseball player (Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers).
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 71, Spanish noblewoman and author.
Isaías Carrasco, 43, Spanish Basque politician, shot.
Leonardo Costagliola, 87, Italian football goalkeeper (ACF Fiorentina).
Dick Durrell, 82, American founding publisher of People magazine, lung cancer.
David Gale, 86, American mathematician, heart attack.
Charles A. Gillespie, Jr., 72, American diplomat, Ambassador to Colombia and Chile, cancer.
Leon Greenman, 97, British Holocaust survivor, only Englishman sent to Auschwitz.
Julius Paltiel, 83, Norwegian Holocaust survivor.
Francis Pym, 86, British Conservative Party politician, Foreign Secretary (1982–1983).
Howard Wing, 92, Chinese Olympic cyclist.

8
Lucy G. Acosta, 81, Mexican-American activist.
Sadun Aren, 85, Turkish academic and politician.
Carol Barnes, 63, British ITN news presenter, stroke.
Donald C. MacDonald, 94, Canadian politician, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
Les Smith, 80, English footballer (Wolves, Aston Villa), cancer.

9
Gus Giordano, 84, American Emmy Award-winning jazz dancer, pneumonia.
Edward L. Hart, American poet and Mormon hymnwriter.
Florent Jodoin, 85, Canadian Olympic cyclist.
Simon Reisman, 88, Canadian chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, cardiac arrest.

10
Galo Ador Jr., 39, Filipino cartoonist.
Richard Biegenwald, 67, American serial killer.
William Bradford, 61, American serial killer, natural causes.
Hugh Brown, 88, British Labour politician, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (1974–1979).
Charles Wayne Day, 65, American blues guitarist, wrote the distinctive riff in "Secret Agent Man".
Robert P. Foster, 90, American academic administrator, president of Northwest Missouri State University (1964–1977).
Ricardo García, 81, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
Dennis Irwin, 56, American jazz double bassist, complications of cancer.
Ana Kalandadze, 83, Georgian poet.
Vangelis Kazan, 70, Greek actor.
Lee Ho-seong, 41, South Korean baseball player, thief and murderer, suicide by drowning.
Radovan Lukavský, 88, Czech actor.
Sai Htee Saing, 57, Burmese singer.
Otto Schnellbacher, 84, American football and basketball player, cancer.

11
J. I. Albrecht, 77, American-born Canadian manager and director in the Canadian Football League, complications from a stroke.
Zakaria Deros, 62, Malaysian former politician, heart attack.
John Roderick, 93, American journalist (AP) and author, extensively covered China (1930s–2000s), heart failure and pneumonia.
Phyllis Spira, 64, South African prima ballerina, complications of surgery.
Dave Stevens, 52, American comic book writer and artist (The Rocketeer), leukemia.
Michael J. Todd, 50, British Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, exposure.
Lukas Vischer, 81, Swiss theologian.

12
Alan Buckley, 66, British rugby union and rugby league player.
Folke Eriksson, 82, Swedish Olympic water polo player.
Erwin Geschonneck, 101, German actor.
Jorge Guinzburg, 59, Argentine journalist and comedian, pulmonary infection.
Alun Hoddinott, 78, Welsh composer.
Cassià Maria Just, 81, Spanish cleric, former abbot of Santa Maria de Montserrat, stroke.
Howard Metzenbaum, 90, American politician, Senator from Ohio (1974, 1976–1995).
Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, 66, Romanian actor, cancer.
Károly Németh, 85, Hungarian politician.
Lazare Ponticelli, 110, Italian-born last official French veteran of World War I.
Asesela Ravuvu, 77, Fijian politician and former University of the South Pacific academic, natural causes.
Tom Tuohy, 90, British chemist, averted potential disaster at Windscale.

13
Tessa Birnie, 73, New Zealand concert pianist.
Iosif Boyarsky, 90, Russian former Soyuzmultfilm director, one of the fathers of Soviet animation.
Claire Brooks, 76, British politician.
Martin Fierro, 66, American saxophonist, cancer.
Scarlet Garcia, 23, Filipino model, shot.
Terry Moloney, 68, Irish hurler.
Chike Obi, 86, Nigerian mathematician and politician.
Rafael Tufiño, 85, Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, lung cancer.

14
Taslim Arif, 53, Pakistani cricketer, lung infection.
Gary Binfield, 42, British swimmer, heart attack.
Mel Brandt, 88, American actor and announcer.
Clyde Cameron, 95, Australian politician, MP (1949–1980), Minister in the Whitlam Government.
Mike Dawson, 54, American football player, heart attack.
Stig-Olof Grenner, 68, Finnish Olympic swimmer
Chiara Lubich, 88, Italian Catholic activist, founder of the Focolare Movement.
Ingvald Ulveseth, 83, Norwegian politician.

15
Sambhaji Angre, 87, Indian politician.
Jacob DeShazer, 95, American bombardier, participant in the Doolittle Raid.
Mikey Dread, 54, Jamaican singer, record producer and broadcaster, brain tumor.
Vytautas Kernagis, 56, Lithuanian singer, television announcer, gastric cancer.
G. David Low, 52, American astronaut, colon cancer.
Benjamin Ngoubou, 83/84, Gabonese foreign minister.
Sam C. Pointer, Jr., 73, American federal judge for the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1970–2000).
Ken Reardon, 86, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Montreal Canadiens), Alzheimer's disease.
Ross Scaife, 47, American classicist and digital humanist, cancer.
Yury Tsuranov, 72, Soviet Olympic sport shooter.
Vicki Van Meter, 26, American pilot, suicide by gunshot.

16
Anura Bandaranaike, 59, Sri Lankan politician, complications from cancer.
Bill Brown, 95, Australian cricket captain, member of 1948 Invincibles team.
Ola Brunkert, 61, Swedish session drummer for ABBA, injuries from accidental fall.
Wayne Davis, 44, American football player, motor neurone disease.
Ivan Dixon, 76, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, A Raisin in the Sun, Porgy and Bess), complications from kidney failure.
Gary Hart, 66, American professional wrestling manager, heart attack.
John Hewer, 86, British actor (Captain Birdseye), natural causes.
Otto Jemelka, 93/94, Czechoslovakian Olympic modern pentathlete.
Daniel MacMaster, 39, Canadian rock vocalist (Bonham), group A streptococcal infection.
Mary Meader, 91, American aerial photographer.
Bob Purkey, 78, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates), Alzheimer's disease.
John Shedd Reed, 90, American president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (1967–1986), natural causes.
Laurus Škurla, 80, Czechoslovakian-born American first hierarch of the ROCOR.
Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet, photographer and publisher, founder of The Jargon Society.

17
Roland Arnall, 68, American owner of Ameriquest Mortgage, Ambassador to the Netherlands (2006–2008), cancer.
Claude Farell, 93, Austrian actress.
Claus Luthe, 75, German automobile designer.
Georges Pisani, 89, French Olympic sailor

18
Hazel Barnes, 92, American philosopher.
Andrew Britton, 27, British-born spy novelist, undiagnosed heart condition.
Mariano Di Gangi, 84, Canadian Presbyterian minister.
Philip Jones Griffiths, 72, British photojournalist, cancer.
Martin Halliday, 81, British physician.
Jyrki Hämäläinen, 65, Finnish journalist, editor of Suosikki magazine.
Anthony Minghella, 54, British director (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley), Oscar winner (1997), post-surgery haemorrhage.
Geoffrey Pearson, 80, Canadian diplomat, son of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
Anton Pongratz, 60, Romanian Olympic fencer.
Maral Rahmanzadeh, 92, Azeri painter, visual artist.
Oreste Rizzini, 67, Italian voice actor, stomach cancer.
Justin Wright, 27, American animator (Ratatouille), heart attack.

19
Joe Blackledge, 79, British cricketer, former captain and president of the Lancashire County Cricket Club.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science fiction author (2001: A Space Odyssey), heart failure.
Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian author, voluntary euthanasia.
John Dowie, 93, Australian sculptor, stroke.
Mia Permanto, 19, Finnish singer, finalist in Idols, accidental drug overdose.
Raghuvaran, 59, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
Paul Scofield, 86, British actor (A Man for All Seasons, Quiz Show, Serpico), Oscar winner (1967), leukaemia.
Chantal Sébire, 53, French esthesioneuroblastoma patient and euthanasia activist, Pentobarbital overdose

20
Eric Ashton, 73, British rugby league player for Wigan and Great Britain, cancer.
Sobhan Babu, 71, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
Ann Baumgartner, 89, American aviator.
Alexandru Custov, 53, Romanian footballer.
Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, 81, Italian claimant to headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Jon Hassler, 74, American author, progressive supranuclear palsy.
Al Hofmann, 60, American drag racer, heart attack.
Carlos Galvão de Melo, 86, Portuguese general, Conservative member of National Salvation Junta.
Bestia Salvaje, 46, Mexican lucha libre wrestler, liver disease.
Brian Wilde, 80, British actor (Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen).

21
Gadzhi Abashilov, 58, Russian journalist, chief of VGTRK TV company in Dagestan, shot.
Anna Alchuk, 52, Russian poet and visual artist, suicide.
Henri Blaffart, 42, Belgian wildlife conservationist for Conservation International in New Caledonia, drowned.
Tamás Bujkó, 48, Hungarian judo competitor, stabbed and beaten.
Denis Cosgrove, 59, British geographer and Alexander von Humboldt professor of geography at UCLA, cancer.
Klaus Dinger, 61, German drummer (Neu!, Kraftwerk), heart failure.
Roy Foster, 62, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
Lynne Golding-Kirk, 87, Australian ballerina, complications of surgery.
George Gross, 85, Canadian sports journalist, founding sports editor of the Toronto Sun, heart attack.
Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer.
Raymond Leblanc, 92, Belgian comic book producer and publisher (The Adventures of Tintin).
John List, 82, American mass murderer, complications of pneumonia.
*Gabriel París Gordillo, 98, Colombian military governor, chairman of Colombian Military Junta.
Waltrude Schleyer, 92, German widow of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, advocate against the Red Army Faction.
Ilyas Shurpayev, 32, Russian journalist responsible for North Caucasus news on Channel One, murder by strangulation.
Merv Wallace, 91, New Zealand cricket captain (1952–1953).

22
Robert Dyk, 71, American television reporter (ABC News, WMTW-TV), cancer.
Cachao, 89, Cuban musician credited with creating mambo, renal failure.
Robert J. McIntosh, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1957–1959).
Harvey Picker, 92, American philanthropist.
Adolfo Suárez Rivera, 81, Mexican cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Monterrey, brain hemorrhage.

23
Abdallah al-Ajmi, 29, Kuwaiti bomber, suicide.
Big Jack Armstrong, 62, American radio DJ.
Heath Benedict, 24, American football offensive lineman (Newberry College), 2008 NFL Draft prospect, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Al Copeland, 64, American restaurateur, founder of Popeyes Chicken, salivary gland cancer.
Hugo Correa, 81, Chilean journalist and science fiction writer.
Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist.
E. A. Markham, 68, Montserrat-born British poet and writer.
George Switzer, 92, American mineralogist, acquired the Hope Diamond for the Smithsonian Institution, pneumonia.
Chase Tatum, 34, American World Championship Wrestling wrestler and road manager for Outkast, apparent accidental drug overdose.
Vaino Vahing, 68, Estonian writer and psychiatrist.

24
Severin Cecile Abega, 52, Cameroonian author and anthropologist.
Chalmers Alford, 53, American jazz guitarist, diabetes.
Neil Aspinall, 66, British road manager for The Beatles and executive of Apple Corps, lung cancer.
Rafael Azcona, 81, Spanish screenwriter, lung cancer.
Victor Christ-Janer, 92, American architect.
John Cushley, 65, Scottish footballer (Celtic, West Ham United), motor neurone disease.
Ray Drinkwater, 76, British footballer (Queens Park Rangers).
Boris Dvornik, 68, Croatian actor, stroke.
Mary Joan Nielubowicz, 79, American head of the Navy Nurse Corps (1983–1987).
Hal Riney, 75, American advertising executive, founder of Publicis & Hal Riney, cancer.
Dina Sassoli, 87, Italian actress.
Sam Toy, 84, British chair of Ford UK (1980–1986).
Richard Widmark, 93, American actor (Kiss of Death, Judgment at Nuremberg, Against All Odds).
Sherri Wood, 28, Canadian journalist (Toronto Sun), brain cancer.

25
Art Aragon, 80, American boxer, stroke.
Ben Carnevale, 92, American college basketball coach.
Tony Church, 77, British actor.
Jimmy Dell, 83, British Wing Commander and test pilot.
Ronald Dick, 76, British Royal Air Force officer.
Thierry Gilardi, 49, French journalist and TF1 sports commentator, heart attack.
William G. Hyland, 79, American intelligence official.
Sergey Kramarenko, 61, Russian football player.
Abby Mann, 80, American screenwriter (Judgment at Nuremberg), Oscar winner (1962), heart failure.
Herb Peterson, 89, American fast food pioneer, inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin.
Gene Puerling, 78, American vocal jazz musician, singer, musical arranger for the Hi-Los and Singers Unlimited.
Edward Rafeedie, 79, American senior judge for the California Central District Court, cancer.
Sérgio de Souza, 73, Brazilian journalist, co-founder and editor of Caros Amigos magazine, respiratory illness.
Ivan Toms, 55, South African physician, activist against apartheid and conscription, meningitis.

26
Hawley Ades, 99, American choral arranger.
Christian Bergelin, 62, French politician.
Robert Fagles, 74, American professor, poet and translator of ancient epics, prostate cancer.
Donald Hunter, 81, British football player.
Manuel Marulanda, 78, Colombian founder and commander-in-chief of terrorist organization FARC.
Wally Phillips, 82, American radio personality, pioneer of talk radio, Alzheimer's disease.

27
Jean-Marie Balestre, 86, French former President of FISA and later FIA.
Beverly Broadman, 60, American broadcaster with CNN and CBS News, cancer.
Billy Consolo, 73, American baseball player and coach, heart attack.
George Pruteanu, 60, Romanian literary critic and senator, heart attack.

28
Mohammad Asaduzzaman, 60, Bangladeshi university academic and administrator, cardiac arrest.
Lorne Ferguson, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
Kunio Lemari, 65, Marshall Islands acting President (1996–1997).
Michael Podro, 77, British art historian.
Herb Rich, 79, American football player.
Ron Slinker, 62, American professional wrestler.
Helen Yglesias, 92, American novelist.

29
Fereydun Adamiyat, 87, Iranian historian.
Albert Alcalay, 90, American abstract artist.
Angus Fairhurst, 41, British artist, suicide by hanging.
Allan Ganley, 77, British jazz drummer.
Josef Mikl, 78, Austrian painter, cancer.
Isabella Nardoni, 5, Brazilian murder victim, thrown out of window.
Ralph Rapson, 93, American architect, heart attack.
Albert Stallard, Baron Stallard, 86, British Labour MP and life peer.
Myint Thein, 62, Burmese National League for Democracy spokesman, stomach cancer.

30
Marie-Françoise Audollent, 70, French actress, accidental fall.
Anders Göthberg, 32, Swedish guitarist (Broder Daniel).
Douglas Kent Hall, 69, American writer and photographer.
David Leslie, 54, British racing driver and commentator, Farnborough air crash.
Sean Levert, 39, American R&B singer.
Richard Lloyd, 63, British racing driver and team owner, Farnborough air crash.
Jim Mooney, 88, American comic book artist (Batman, Spider-Man, Thor).
David D. Newsom, 90, American Ambassador to the Philippines (1977–1978), respiratory failure.
Dith Pran, 65, Cambodian-born American journalist, survivor of the Killing Fields, pancreatic cancer.

31
Nikolai Baibakov, 97, Russian economist, Gosplan head (1955–1957, 1965–1985), pneumonia.
Jules Dassin, 96, American film director (The Naked City, Rififi, Never on Sunday), influenza.
William Louis Dickinson, 82, American judge and Representative from Alabama (1965–1993), colon cancer.
Eliyahu Boruch Finkel, 60, Israeli rabbi and lecturer.
Robert F. Goheen, 88, American President of Princeton University (1957–1972), Ambassador to India (1977–1980), heart failure.
Bill Keightley, 81, American equipment manager for Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball since 1962, bleeding from spinal tumor.
Halszka Osmólska, 77, Polish palaeontologist.
David Todd, 93, American architect, designed Manhattan Plaza, former chairman of NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.

References

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Block Busters is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Wallace Fox and starring the East Side Kids.

Plot
After an afternoon of playing baseball, Muggs McGinnis and the East Side Kids gang arrive at the door of their clubhouse, where a man named Higgins, is removing their "East Side Club" sign. Higgins explains that the owner of the place plans to rent it to some "respectable" tenants. When Muggs learns that the new tenants are due to examine the place at noon the following day, he plans to frighten them away by picking a fight with Butch and the Five Pointers, a rival gang.

The next day, Glimpy and Pinky, scribble a challenge to the Five Pointers on the sidewalk. When Butch and his gang read the message, "The East Siders dare you to fight," they seek out their challengers. Meanwhile, Muggs and the gang see Higgins supervising the delivery of some window boxes that he ordered to replace the weather-beaten pots that are lining the street. Pretending to be helpful, the gang offers to dispose of the old pots, but instead, stack them against a nearby wall.

Soon, the prospective tenants, an elderly woman named Amelia Norton and her French-born grandson Jean arrive, and Higgins greets them. Just then, Butch and his gang show up and take the bait, hurling the empty pots at Muggs and his gang, while a shocked Amelia looks on. When Jean critiques Muggs's fighting style, Muggs begins to brawl with him. After they are both arrested, the judge tells Muggs that he will hold each one accountable for the other's behavior.

Later, Jean goes to the clubhouse to make sure that Muggs is staying out of trouble, and the gang teaches him some American games. Afterward, Jean invites the gang over for tea, and they meet snobby Irma Treadwell and her mother Virginia. When Muggs and Glimpy see a black sedan pick up Jean, who is dressed like Count Dracula, they decide to follow him. The car takes Jean to a costume party at a chic club, where Muggs wins 'best costume' for being dressed as a Bowery tough.

Meanwhile, Tobey Dunn, an ailing member of Muggs's baseball team, is told by his doctor that a stay in the country would cure him, but unfortunately, Tobey's family cannot afford the trip. Later, Danny (Jimmy Strand), sees his girlfriend Jinx dancing with Jean at a party, so the gang decides to crash it. When Glimpy tells Danny that he saw Jinx riding on the back of Jean's bicycle, Danny tries to fight with his rival, but Muggs intervenes.

The gang then goes to the field to play baseball, and Jean quickly learns the game. At the clubhouse, Amelia thanks the gang for allowing Jean to play with them. During the team's next game, Lippman, the team's sponsor, tells the gang that if they win, he will send them all to summer camp in the Catskill Mountains. With the bases loaded, Jean hits a home run and wins the game, and Tobey is awarded his much-needed trip to the country.

Cast

The East Side Kids
Leo Gorcey as Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis
Huntz Hall as Glimpy
Gabriel Dell as Skinny (a.k.a. Pinky)
Jimmy Strand as Danny
Bill Chaney as Tobey

Additional cast
Billy Benedict as Butch
Fred Pressel as Jean
Roberta Smith as Jinx
Noah Beery as Judge
Harry Langdon as Higgins
Minerva Urecal as Amelia Rogiet
Jack Gilman as Batter
Kay Marvis as Irma Treadwell
Tom Herbert as Meyer
Bernard Gorcey as Lippman
Charles Murray Jr. as Umpire
The Ashburns as Themselves (uncredited)
Jimmie Noone as himself (uncredited)
Robert F. Hill as Doctor (uncredited)

Production
This was one of the few East Side Kids movies in which Gabriel Dell plays a member of the gang, and where Billy Benedict plays a different character. It is Bill Chaney's only film as an East Side Kid and the last film released in Harry Langdon's lifetime.

It features performances by Jimmie Noone and His Orchestra and The Ashburns, and Leo Gorcey's wife, Kay Marvis, has a supporting role as Irma Treadwell. In addition, his father, Bernard Gorcey has a role as the gang's baseball team sponsor, Lippman.

See also
List of American films of 1944

References

External links

1944 films
1944 comedy films
1940s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Monogram Pictures films
Films produced by Sam Katzman
American comedy films
East Side Kids
Films directed by Wallace Fox
1940s American films

Block Busters


Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892May 22, 1993) was a Polish-American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.

Life

Early life
Horszowski was born in Lwów (Lemberg), Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He was first taught piano by his mother, a pupil of Karol Mikuli, who had himself been a pupil of Frédéric Chopin. He became a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna at the age of seven; Leschetizky had studied with Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny. Leschetizky's sister-in-law, Angele Potocka, referred to Horszowski as "a wunderkind of high order".

In 1901 he gave a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Warsaw and soon after toured Europe and the Americas as a child prodigy. In 1905 the young Horszowski played for Gabriel Fauré and met Camille Saint-Saëns in Nice. In 1911 Horszowski put his performing career on hold in order to devote himself to literature, philosophy and art history in Paris.

While Horszowski's family was of Jewish origin (which made him a fugitive from Europe in the 1930s), he was himself an early convert to Roman Catholicism, and was very devout. As the French critic André Tubeuf has written, "Horszowski was both very Jewish and very Catholic, in both cases as only a Pole could have been."

Career

Horszowski, who was barely five feet tall, had rather small hands, reaching just over one octave; however, Allan Kozinn of The New York Times noted that "he turned this limitation into an asset by focusing on music that was written on a more compact scale and made intellectual rather than physical demands". Horszowski's performances were known for their natural, unforced quality, balancing intellect and emotion.  He was frequently praised for his tonal quality, as was common for pupils of Leschetizky.

Having returned to the concert stage with the encouragement of Pablo Casals, he settled in Milan after the First World War, remaining there until he emigrated to the United States during World War II.  Following the war, Horszowski frequently gave recitals with artists such as Casals, Alexander Schneider, Joseph Szigeti and the Budapest Quartet. He often appeared at the Prades Festival and the Marlboro Festival.

From 1940 Horszowski lived in the United States, first in New York City and later in Philadelphia.  He became an American citizen in 1948. Horszowski performed with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Toscanini, with whom he was friends, in 1943 and 1953.  During the 1954–1955 season, he gave a memorable cycle of Beethoven's entire solo piano works in New York. In 1960 he did the same for Mozart's piano sonatas. His very diverse and extensive repertoire also embraced such composers as Honegger, d'Indy, Martinů, Stravinsky, Szymanowski and Villa-Lobos. In 1979, the pianist recorded several works of Lodovico Giustini on a restored Cristofori pianoforte. These works had been commissioned by Cristofori and are the first known compositions written specifically for the pianoforte.

Horszowski twice performed at the White House: with Casals and Schneider in 1961 for President Kennedy and a solo performance in 1979 for President Carter.

Horszowski was widely recorded and can be heard on the HMV, Columbia, RCA, Vanguard, Nonesuch, and other labels. His final recordings for Nonesuch were made when he was in his mid to late nineties. He also taught at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where his pupils included Robert Dennison, Julius Eastman, Richard Goode, Dina Koston, Anton Kuerti, Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, Steven De Groote, Kathryn Selby, Cecile Licad, and Leslie Spotz.

Later life and death
In 1981 the 89-year-old Horszowski married Bice Costa, an Italian pianist. Bice later edited Horszowski's memoirs and a volume of his mother's correspondence about Horszowski's early years. She also discovered and recorded some songs composed by Horszowski on French texts around 1913–1914.

Horszowski's final performance took place in Philadelphia in October 1991.  He died in that city a month before his 101st birthday.  He gave his final lesson a week before his death.

References

External links
 [ Mieczysław Horszowski biography] at AllMusic
 Mieczysław Horszowski biography at Naxos Records
 Mieczyslaw Horszowski Solo Repertoire
 Article on Horszowski by pupil Darrell Rosenbluth

1892 births
1993 deaths
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Idolatry is the worship of statues or images as gods. It is also used as a metaphor for other extreme devotion to a person of thing.

Literal Meaning of Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of an idol or image, being a picture, a statue, or a person in place of God. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, idolatry means worshiping something that is not God. These religions teach that there is only one God. Idolatry is said to be the "worship of false gods". It is forbidden by religious rules such as the Ten Commandments. There it says, "You shall not make a carved image (as a God)" and "You shall not have any other god ahead of Me (the only God). The monotheistic religions all have such rules.

The strict understanding of these rules would not allow religious statues of any kind. People who hold these views think that such statues should be destroyed. Others would say that worshipers must understand that the statue is only a symbol for God. They say that the image or statue is not the god. This has long been accompanied with violence between religious groups that forbid idol worship and those who have accepted icons, images and idols for worship. In many Indian religions, such as theistic and non-theistic forms of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, idols (murti) are to be considered as symbolism for the absolute but not The Absolute. In the traditional religions of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa, Asia, the Americas and elsewhere, the reverence of an image or statue has been a common practice. These statues or images have carried different meanings and significance.

The definition of idolatry has been a contested topic within Abrahamic religions, with many Muslims and Protestant Christians condemning the Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary as a form of idolatry. This veneration of Mary and other Saints often involves statues. In the Orthodox churches, flat painted images are common, instead of carved statues. These are called Icons.

In history, many religions have accused others of idolatry. These accusations are that statues and images are devoid of symbolism. They say that many people believe the idol, statue or image is a god. Different groups often think that icons or statues in their religion have meaningful symbolism, but another person's religious images do not.

Idolatry as a Metaphor
Religious leaders have used the idea of Idolatry (literal worship of statues or images) as a metaphor. They call anything that comes ahead of God an Idol. Saint Paul writes that "covetousness" (wanting material things) is idolatry. Jesus preached that "you cannot serve God and Mammon". Mammon was the Syrian God of riches. Muslim writers warn of making idols of material things or even political ideologies. Eastern religions have also warned about making material things one's god.

"Idolizing" persons, such as rock stars can also be seen as a form of idolatry. The popular TV show "American Idol" seems to use the term in a positive way. But this has been questioned even by non religious persons. Billy Graham has warned against various things that become idols in a person's life.

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Acadia is the name of a territory in northeastern North America. Today, the area is mostly part of Canada. At the time, England and France fought over the territory. France said it had a legitimate claim, because Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier had done expeditions in the area. The British claim was founded on an expedition of Giovanni Caboto. The borders of the territory had never been defined clearly. Fights about where these borders were, were common. Historically, Acadia covered the territories of  Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and the southern part of the Gaspé Peninsula, in Quebec. The northeastern part of Maine was also part of Acadia.

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Ancylis selenana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from southern Sweden and Finland to France and Italy and to the Balkan Peninsula. Outside of Europe, it is found from Asia Minor to southern Siberia and Korea.

The wingspan is 10–15 mm. Adults are on wing from April to May and again in July and August in Germany and Poland. There are two generations per year in Germany and Poland. In southern Europe, there can be up to five generations yearly.

The larvae feed on Crataegus, Prunus cerasus vulgaris, Prunus avium, Prunus virginiana, Prunus spinosa, Prunus domestica, Prunus armeniaca, Malus and Pyrus. The larvae damage the leaves of the host plant. The species can cause serious damage to young trees, but has not been reported from orchards often.

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Enarmoniini
Moths of Asia
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Moths described in 1845

Ancylis selenana