Monday, Aug. 02, 1999
Milestones
By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Autumn DeLeon, Michelle Derrow, Aisha Durham, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Michele Orecklin and Chris Taylor
MARRIED. HELEN HUNT, 36, Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress of Mad About You fame; and longtime boyfriend, actor HANK AZARIA, 35; in Los Angeles.
DIED. BARBARA RASKIN, 63, author of the best-selling novel Hot Flashes (1987), a paean to female friendship; of complications after surgery; in Baltimore.
DIED. KING HASSAN II, 70, leader of Morocco for 38 years with an uncanny survival instinct; of a heart attack; in Rabat. The ever diplomatic, pro-Western Hassan helped facilitate a number of key Middle East negotiations, including a visit to Jerusalem in 1977 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. A deft handler of vastly different factions in his country, among them Islamic militants, the charismatic ruler was said by Moroccans to have baraka, or blessedness. Hassan, who had been ill for several years, will be succeeded by his son Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, 35.
DIED. STANLEY TRETICK, 77, photojournalist who captured the iconic image of an almost-three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. peeking out from underneath his father's Oval Office desk in 1963; after several strokes, three days after the death of his famous subject, John Jr.; in Gaithersburg, Md.
DIED. DAVID OGILVY, 88, sharp-witted advertising progressive, promoter of the soft sell and founder of Madison Avenue giant Ogilvy & Mather; near Bonnes, France (see Eulogy, below).
DIED. FRANK M. JOHNSON JR., 80, uncompromising federal judge from Alabama whose rulings invigorated the civil rights movement; in Montgomery. Johnson helped desegregate many of Montgomery's public facilities and cleared the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of supporters to march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Governor George Wallace called him a "scalawagging...integrating liar." A Republican appointee, Johnson always insisted he was simply upholding "the supremacy of the law."