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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:14:51 EDT
Obituaries in the News
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Marshall Barer
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Marshall Barer, who wrote the words for the Broadway
musical ``Once Upon a Mattress'' and penned the lyrics for the ``Mighty
Mouse'' cartoon theme song, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 75.
Barer wrote ``Once Upon a Mattress'' with composer Mary Rodgers. The 1959
musical, based on the fairy tale ``The Princess and the Pea,'' rocketed Carol
Burnett to stardom.
Barer began his career as a magazine illustrator. He was a staff lyricist and
then an editor of children's songs for Golden Records and also wrote material
for television's ``Bell Telephone Hour'' and ``That Was the Week That Was.''
Barer contributed lyrics to other Broadway musicals, including ``New Faces of
'56,'' an updated edition of the ``Ziegfeld Follies'' (1957) and Duke
Ellington's ``Pousse-Cafe'' (1966), as well as the 1966 off-Broadway revue
``The Mad Show.''
Cartoon fans are most likely to know his lyrics for ```Here I Come to Save the
Day,'' the theme song for television's long-running ``The Mighty Mouse
Playhouse.''
Irene Kraus
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Sister Irene Kraus, a former school teacher who went on to
run a series of hospitals and spent six years as the founding chief executive
of the $3 billion Daughters of Charity National Health System, died Aug. 20 of
cancer. She was 74.
After earning a nursing degree from the Catholic University in Washington in
1952, she quickly became an operating room supervisor. Three years later, she
became administrator at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, N.Y., the
first of several hospitals she ran for the order.
When the five autonomous U.S. provinces of the Daughters of Charity decided to
consolidate their hospital systems in 1986, Sister Kraus was chosen to run the
operation, which included 36 hospitals and 19 other facilities in 17 states
with a combined annual budget of more than $3 billion.
Sister Kraus later ran a hospital in Pensacola, Fla., and was vice chairwoman
of the merged Baptist St. Vincent's Hospital system, in Pensacola, Fla.
Frederick Reines
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) -- Frederick Reines, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known
as the father of neutrino physics for his groundbreaking research on particle
physics, died Wednesday at 80.
Reines, who was a physics professor at the University of California, first
began his research on neutrinos in 1951 while at Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory in New Mexico, where he produced the ghostlike, virtually massless
subatomic particles with a nuclear reactor so that he could detect them using
a tank of water as the agent of detection.
His career in neutrino physics culminated in 1995, when he and Martin L. Perl
shared a Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering experimental contributions to
lepton physics.
For seven years beginning in 1959, Reines headed the physics department at
Case Institute of Technology, now Case Western University.
In 1966, Reines became the founding dean of physical sciences at the then-new
University of California, Irvine. He led a team of neutrino scientists whose
research on neutrinos from supernova 1987A won the Bruno Rossi prize in high-
energy physics from the American Astronomical Society.
Dick Roraback
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Roraback, a feature writer and copy editor at the Los
Angeles Times for 22 years, died Saturday of throat cancer. He was 68.
Roraback was sports editor from 1957 to 1972 of the International Herald
Tribune in Paris. His verse ode ``The Crack of a Bat,'' is reprinted by that
paper every year around opening day.
Roraback joined the Times in 1973, and in a 1985 series he followed the route
of the Los Angeles River, telling the history of the flood channel to
residents who scarcely knew of its existence. He retired in 1995.
Roraback also helped refugees escape from Hungary after the 1956 uprising
against communist rule. He was captured by Hungarian authorities and
imprisoned for several weeks until State Department negotiated his release.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, a daughter and a son.
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