Milestones May 8, 1995

DIED. OTTO FRIEDRICH, 66, writer; of lung cancer; in Manhasset, New York. Boston-born Friedrich first hit his stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden.

DIED. ART FLEMING, 70, TV-game-show host; of pancreatic cancer; in Crystal River, Florida. Had his life been summed up in a Final Jeopardy...

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