DEANNA DURBIN (VIDEO), Plucky Movie Star of the Depression Era, 91, Deanna Durbin, as a plucky child movie star with a sweet soprano voice charmed American audiences during the Depression and saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy before she vanished from public view 64 years ago.
EMIL FREI III, Put Cancer Cures in Reach, 89, Dr. Emil Frei III was an oncologist whose trailblazing use of combination chemotherapy — in which anticancer drugs are administered simultaneously rather than singly — helped make certain cancers curable for the first time.
MIKE GRAY, Co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay, 77, Mike Gray was an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant.
