Milestones

By Melissa August; Peter Bailey; Carolina Miranda; Julie Rawe; Jeffrey Ressner; Deirdre van Dyk Sunday, Apr. 11, 2004
    • WITHDRAWN. A guilty plea to a felony tax charge, by LEA FASTOW, whose spouse will spend 10 years in prison for his role in the Enron megafraud; in Houston. Fastow reneged after a judge said he would not abide by a plea bargain that called for her to spend only five months in jail, a deal designed to ensure that their children would have at least one parent at home. Her trial is scheduled for June 2.

    DIED. BRUCE EDWARDS, 49, left, longtime caddy for former Masters champion Tom Watson; 15 months after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease; in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Despite his deteriorating condition, Edwards — buoyed by cheers from the gallery — helped Watson complete one of his best-ever seasons last year.


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    DIED. CARRIE SNODGRESS, 57, erstwhile movie star, whose role as an unfulfilled homemaker in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) won her an Oscar nomination; of heart failure while awaiting a liver transplant; in Los Angeles. In 1971, she abandoned her budding career to live with rock star Neil Young, returning seven years later to smaller film and TV roles.

    DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression.

    DIED. PIERRE KOENIG, 78, pioneering California architect who shocked suburbia with modernist glass-and-steel-frame homes; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. His cantilevered Case Study House #22, below, remains one of the most photographed residences in the world. A San Francisco native, Koenig created more than 50 eye-popping homes, most of them in Southern California, including his own magnificent, multilevel Brentwood abode, where he lived out his life. "Modernism was not a style, not a passing fancy," Koenig told TIME in 1998. "It was a social movement."

    DIED. JOSEPH ZIMMERMANN, 92, answering-machine inventor; in Brookfield, Wis. In 1948, when this U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran and enterprising engineer couldn't afford a secretary, he rigged up an 80-lb. contraption that used a lever to lift a phone receiver, a 78-r.p.m. record player to convey a personalized greeting, and a wire recorder to capture callers' 30-sec. messages. More than 6,000 of these "electronic secretaries" were in use by 1957, when he and a partner sold the patent to General Telephone Corp.

    DIED. TIMOTHY THE TORTOISE, approximately 160, British navy mascot that in 1854 witnessed the bombing of Sevastopol during the Crimean War aboard the H.M.S. Queen and later served in the East Indies and China; at Powderham Castle, England. The 11-lb. veteran enjoyed a lengthy, if largely uneventful retirement in the Earl of Devon's garden, although an ill-fated mating attempt in 1926 revealed that he was, in fact, a she. Timothy will be buried with full honors on the castle grounds.