Monday, Sep. 30, 2002
Milestones
By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, Sean Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz And Sora Song
SURRENDERED. MADELYNE GORMAN TOOGOOD, 26, who was videotaped shaking and pummeling her 4-year-old daughter outside a department store; to police in South Bend, Ind. Police began searching for Toogood after the footage was broadcast on national television.
RETIRED. PATRICK EWING, 40, longtime--and long suffering--star center for the New York Knicks, most recently of the Orlando Magic; in New York City. Ewing, the NBA's 13th highest scorer, will become an assistant coach for Michael Jordan's Washington Wizards.
RELEASED. MAURICE PAPON, 92, the highest ranking French civilian ever jailed for Nazi war crimes; from prison; because of old age and poor health; in Paris.
RELEASED. WAN YANHAI, 38, AIDS activist; by the Chinese government. One of the few voices publicizing China's aidsepidemic, Dr. Wan was imprisoned for posting on the Internet a classified government report about a rural AIDS outbreak.
DIED. BOB HAYES, 59, Olympic gold-medal sprinter and Dallas Cowboys receiver; of complications from prostate cancer; in Jacksonville, Fla. Hayes tied the world record in the 100 meters in 1964 and later took his speed to the NFL. He finished his career with 71touchdowns--and a Super Bowl ring.
DIED. DEREK DAVIES, 71, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review; in Antibes. Davies took over a newsprint newsletter in 1965 and during the next 25 years turned it into an internationally respected source of political and economic commentary.
DIED. JOHN C. HARPER, 78, rector for 30 years of St. John's Episcopal Church, known as the Church of the Presidents, on Lafayette Street across from the White House; in Washington. Harper preached to eight Presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton.
DIED. ORVAN W. HESS, 96, pioneering obstetrician and gynecologist; in New Haven, Conn. In 1942 Orvan injected a human patient with penicillin in a last-ditch effort to save her and became the first doctor in clinical practice to use the antibiotic successfully. Fifteen years later, he developed the first fetal-heart monitor. Today versions are used in delivery rooms worldwide.