AP Obits--11/06/09

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Obituaries in the news
The Associated Press
Fri Nov 6, 11:02 pm ET

Donald Baim
NATICK, Mass (AP) ‹ Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical
device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of
cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60.
Baim had undergone recent surgery to remove diseased tissue caused by
adrenal cancer, a rare form of the disease that attacks the adrenal
glands.
Baim, a former Harvard medical school professor, most recently served as
chief medical officer for Boston Scientific Corp., a leading
manufacturer of pacemakers, defibrillators and other implants. He joined
the company in 2006.
Boston Scientific Chief Executive Ray Elliot called Baim, a pioneer in
the development of interventional cardiology.
Baim joined Harvard Medical School in 1981 and established the
interventional cardiology program at Beth Israel medical center, a
teaching hospital for Harvard students. The program specialized in
training surgeons to use new medical devices, including stents. The
mesh-metal tubes are used to prop open arteries after they have been
cleared of fatty plaque.
Baim edited the standard medical textbook for using the devices.

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Nick Counter
LOS ANGELES (AP) ‹ Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood
producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last
year and in 1988, has died. He was 69.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says Counter
died at a Los Angeles hospital on Friday.
Counter served as the group's president for 27 years and negotiated more
than 300 collective bargaining agreements with entertainment industry
guilds and unions on behalf of movie studios, television networks and
independent producers.
Current AMPTP President Carol Lombardini says Counter's ability to find
consensus at the bargaining table led to a sustained era of labor peace.
His family says he was most proud of his work with the industry health
and pension plans.

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Art D'Lugoff
NEW YORK (AP) ‹ Art D'Lugoff, whose famed New York City nightclub, the
Village Gate, featured performers from jazz great Duke Ellington to
1960s counterculture rocker Jimi Hendrix, has died at age 85, his
brother said.
D'Lugoff, who lived in the Bronx, died Wednesday at a Manhattan
hospital. His brother, Dr. Burt D'Lugoff, said an autopsy was performed
Friday to determine the cause of death.
D'Lugoff hired blacklisted singers Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger and
fired Dustin Hoffman as a waiter. Hoffman, then a struggling actor,
later said he was so distracted by the performers that he neglected
customers.
D'Lugoff booked jazz greats John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious
Monk and standup comics Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. Hendrix and Jim
Morrison performed at a 1970 benefit the club hosted for counterculture
icon Timothy Leary, a proponent of LSD experimentation.
Music lovers flocked to the Village Gate from 1958, when D'Lugoff opened
the Greenwich Village club, until it closed in 1994.
He was born on Aug. 2, 1924, and raised in New York City. After serving
in the Army Air Forces in China during World War II, D'Lugoff graduated
with a bachelor's degree from New York University.

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Manuel Solis
PANAMA CITY (AP) ‹ Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during
Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91.
Solis died at his home from respiratory failure, said Mitchell Doens,
the secretary general of the Democratic Revolutionary Party to which
Solis belonged.
Solis served as education minister during the military regime dominated
by Noriega and then was named acting president in February 1988 after
President Eric Arturo Del Valle was fired. He ruled until Sept. 1, 1989.
Doens said Solis fought for Panama's sovereignty and led the movement in
the 1940s against U.S. military presence in the Central American
country, where the U.S. built and ran the Panama Canal for generations.
His brief term as president ended with the U.S. invasion that ousted
Noriega.
Solis went on to serve as education minister from 2004-2009 in Martin
Torrijos' administration.
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