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• Alan Dary, popular host of Boston radio shows; at 89

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  From behind his bedroom’s closed door, a young Alan Dary could often be heard talking at length. At first, it surprised his mother, who could not imagine who was on the other end of the conversation. She quickly found out he was reading aloud from the newspaper, in his best radio voice, rehearsing for a career that ...
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• Art Lake, 85, institution on R.I. TV station

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  Art Lake, a broadcasting icon in Rhode Island whose career paralleled the rise of television, died yesterday, according to WJAR-TV, his station for more than half a century. He was 85.
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• Memorial service for Kevin Knox

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  A memorial service for Boston comedian Kevin Knox has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Collins Center for the Performing Arts in Andover. Knox, a Tyngsboro native who performed regularly in Boston, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City clubs, died Nov. 16 of melanoma at age 53.
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• Memorial service for Kevin Knox

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  A memorial service for Boston comedian Kevin Knox has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Collins Center for the Performing Arts in Andover. Knox, a Tyngsboro native who performed regularly in Boston, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City clubs, died Nov. 16 of melanoma at age 53.
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• Richard Hatch, 91, philanthropist

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  TOPSHAM, Maine - A Maine philanthropist who quietly helped preserve thousands of acres of land and gave away millions of dollars has died.
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• Richard Hatch, 91, philanthropist

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  TOPSHAM, Maine - A Maine philanthropist who quietly helped preserve thousands of acres of land and gave away millions of dollars has died.
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• K. Feoktistov, 83; designed, flew on Soviet spacecraft

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  MOSCOW - Konstantin P. Feoktistov, a Soviet engineer who was one of the first civilian astronauts and a prominent spacecraft designer, died Saturday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said. He was 83.
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• K. Feoktistov, 83; designed, flew on Soviet spacecraft

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  MOSCOW - Konstantin P. Feoktistov, a Soviet engineer who was one of the first civilian astronauts and a prominent spacecraft designer, died Saturday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said. He was 83.
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• Harry Kabakoff; trained, managed boxers

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  LOS ANGELES - After boxing’s Melville Himmelfarb started going by the name Harry Kabakoff, sportswriters invariably marveled over the unorthodox trading of one unwieldy name for another.
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• Harry Kabakoff; trained, managed boxers

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  LOS ANGELES - After boxing’s Melville Himmelfarb started going by the name Harry Kabakoff, sportswriters invariably marveled over the unorthodox trading of one unwieldy name for another.
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• Dell Hymes; scholar stressed cultural setting of language

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  NEW YORK - Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist, and folklorist whose work mined the rich territory where language and culture intersect, died Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va., where he lived. He was 82.
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• Dell Hymes; scholar stressed cultural setting of language

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  NEW YORK - Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist, and folklorist whose work mined the rich territory where language and culture intersect, died Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va., where he lived. He was 82.
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• Alan Dary, popular host of Boston radio shows; at 89

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  From behind his bedroom’s closed door, a young Alan Dary could often be heard talking at length. At first, it surprised his mother, who could not imagine who was on the other end of the conversation. She quickly found out he was reading aloud from the newspaper, in his best radio voice, rehearsing for a career that ...
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• Elisabeth Soderstrom, 82, famed Swedish opera singer

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  WASHINGTON - Elisabeth Soderstrom, a Swedish soprano who was greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice, died Friday of a stroke in Stockholm. She was 82.
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• Art Lake, 85, institution on R.I. TV station

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  Art Lake, a broadcasting icon in Rhode Island whose career paralleled the rise of television, died yesterday, according to WJAR-TV, his station for more than half a century. He was 85.
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• Art Lake, 85, institution on R.I. TV station

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  Art Lake, a broadcasting icon in Rhode Island whose career paralleled the rise of television, died yesterday, according to WJAR-TV, his station for more than half a century. He was 85.
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• Elisabeth Soderstrom, 82, famed Swedish opera singer

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  WASHINGTON - Elisabeth Soderstrom, a Swedish soprano who was greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice, died Friday of a stroke in Stockholm. She was 82.
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• Thomas Graff, at 65; was catalyst for changes in US water policy

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  WASHINGTON - Thomas Graff, who helped transform the nation’s water policy as the longtime regional office director in California for the Environmental Defense Fund, died at a hospital in Oakland, Calif., after battling thyroid cancer for more than two years. He was 65.
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• Thomas Graff, at 65; was catalyst for changes in US water policy

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  WASHINGTON - Thomas Graff, who helped transform the nation’s water policy as the longtime regional office director in California for the Environmental Defense Fund, died at a hospital in Oakland, Calif., after battling thyroid cancer for more than two years. He was 65.
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• Rusty Kanokogi, 74; led effort to expand judo to women

  
  Boston.com / Boston Globe -- National News — Authority: 688
  DENVER - Rena “Rusty’’ Kanokogi, known as the “Mother of Judo’’ partly for her role in bringing women’s judo to the Olympic Games, died Saturday at Lutheran Medical Center in New York after a three-year battle with leukemia. She was 74.
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