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Shepard was the fifth of only a dozen hu
mans who have walked on the moon, part
of a mission that crewmate Edgar Mitchell
called y/ the greatest adventure of a lifetime."
Now, only four of the original seven
men of Mercury are still living: John Glenn,
Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter and Wal
ter M. Schirra Jr.
Virgil I. Grissom died in the Apollo I fire
in 1967, and Donald K. Slayton died of a
brain tumor in 1993.
Glenn, a senator from Ohio, will fly into
space again this October, at age 77, aboard
the space shuttle.
Shepard's 1961 flight captured the
imagination of the generation of engineers
and scientists who are now running Amer
ica's space program, NASA Administrator
Daniel Goldin, who was in college at the
time, said.
Driving one day in Florida, the astronaut
was suddenly struck by dizziness. Doctors
diagnosed it as a syndrome caused when the
inner ear filled with fluid, and told Shepard
his space flying days were over.
But he spent six years seeking a medical
solution and found it finally, in 1968, after a
small drainage tube was inserted in his ear.
In November 1969, just months after the first
American moon landing, Shepard was
named to command Apollo 14.
During the years that he was ground
ed by his ear problem, Shepard served as
head of the astronaut office, a job ready
made for unpopularity because it re
quired supervising the sometimes-bois-
terous astronaut corps.
Shepard left NASA in 1974, retired
from the Navy with the rank of admiral
and concentrated on business. He became
a millionaire with investments in banks,
oil wells, quarter horses, real estate and a
beer distributorship.
He also was president of the Mercury
Seven Foundation, an astronaut-based
group that raises money for science and en
gineering scholarships.
Shepard was born in Derry, N.H., the son
of a banker. He graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1944, just in time to see
World War II action aboard the destroyer
Cogswell. After the war, he stayed in the
Navy, earned his aviator wings and later be
came a test pilot.
He is survived by his widow, Louise, two
Magazines
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Bender said the magazines, one is
sue of Architecture and two issues of
The American Architect, will be kept
on display in the special collections
cases in the TRC.
"They'll be kept with the other
journals in the special collections cen
ter," she said. "We unlock it and let
our patrons look at it."
Bender also said when books,
magazines or other library material
go unreturned for a long period of
time, usually the library attempts to
replace them.
Although the magazines were dat
ed, Bender said she recognized them
because they have others like them in
other collection sections.
"It's always nice to see something
like this that we want to preserve,"
she said.
The TRC operates during normal
library hours. People interested in
viewing the magazines can stop by
during that time.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Young, loved by
millions of viewers as television’s all-knowing dad
on “Father Knows Best” and the compassionate
“Marcus Welby, M.D.,” has died. He was 91.
Young died Tltesday evening at his home in
Westlake Village, his physician, Dr. John Horton,
said Wednesday. He had suffered from heart
problems, Horton said.
Jane Wyatt, Young’s costar on “Fatlier Knows
Best,” paid tribute to him as ’’simply one of the
finest people to grace our industry.”
“Though we never socialized off the set, we
were together every day for six years and during
that time he never pulled rank (and) always treat
ed his on-screen family with the same affection
and courtesy he showed his loved ones in his pri
vate life,” she said.
After a prolific career in films, where Young ap
peared in such well-remembered movies as Sit-
tingPretty, Northwest Passage and Journey for Mar
garet, he went on to even greater success in the two
long-running television shows that were among
the most popular of their respective decades.
Young won two Emmys for “Father Knows
Best” and a third for “Marcus Welby M.D.”
“Father Knows Best,” which Young originated
on radio in 1949, was moved to television in 1954
and, after a rocky start in the ratings, finished its
run in 1959-60 as No. 6. It was so popular that CBS
continued it in primetime remns for two seasons
after Young decided he’d had enough and the
original run ended in 1960.
In contrast to the shows where the comedy
came largely from a blundering character, “Father
Knows Best” aimed forchucklesmorrJ
laughs as Jim Anderson and wife]
(played by Wyatt) thoughtfully soothe;
ing pains of their Betty (Elinor Dont
(Billy Gray) and Kathy (LaurenChapit
“He never had any problemsabouth
ma donna,” Gray recalled Wednesh;
very generous as an actor.” And Donah
loved him very much. During filming^
he was a real father to me.”
Answering latter-day criticism thar
wasn’t realistic, Young said that adding
about ill ness or d mgs “would have beeii-
a beautiful painting and obliteratingit«
paint—and that really would have tin#-
d ience off. We never in tended the series;
titan a weekly half-hour of fun and entefc
He recalled telling a produce? iffit
process of creating the original radioslw
to be (he father, but not a boob."He:
strove to create “what we thought wont
resentative of a middle-class American
there was such a thing. There
that was what we were looking for.’’
“Marcus Welby, M.D.,” which ranonh
1969 to 1976, got even larger audienff
similarly thoughtful, compassionatelK-
ter. It was the highest-rated showintlif
season—the fi rst ABC show to be smalt-
was in the top 15 shows for four seasons
Young is survived by daughters!!
Gleason, Carol Proffitt, Barbara Bft :
Kathy Young; six grandchildren; H
great-grandchildren.
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