Marty Linsky
Clayton Moore, hero to a legion of baby booomers, was best known to the world as the Long Ranger. TV’s Masked Man made legendary the cry of “Hi-yo, Silver! Away! He died of a heart attack at 85.
Soul music’s social conscience was Curtis Mayfield, 57, the Chicago-born singer with the famous falsetto, author of “Pusherman” and the “Superfly” soundtrack. A 1990 stage accident left Mayfield a quadriplegic, but he kept recording music; the Rock and roll Hall of Fame inducted him last March. He died of natural causes.
Japan’s Princess Masako, wife of the country’s future emperor, has suffered a miscarriage, according to imperial officals. Rumors of the princess’s pregnancy (after six closesly watch years of marriage) had swirled for weeks, and were officially confirmed only by the news of the first-trimester miscarriage.
