Milestones

By Camille Agon, Harriet Barovick, Elisabeth Salemme, Carolyn Sayre

OUSTED. Francis Harvey, 63, U.S. Army Secretary; following the disclosure of embarrassingly poor conditions for war wounded at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center; in Washington. The hospital's commander, Major General George Weightman, was also dismissed. (See p. 100.)

DIED. Bob Hattoy, 56, fiery, influential advocate for the environment and, later, aide to the Clinton Administration on gay and lesbian issues; of complications from AIDS; in Sacramento, Calif. Hattoy, most recently president of California's Fish and Game Commission, famously decried then President George H.W. Bush's "moral blindness" in handling the AIDS crisis in a brief, raw prime-time speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention. The outspoken activist, who opened his '92 remarks by thanking Aretha Franklin, was reassigned to a less visible post after criticizing a proposal Clinton said he'd consider to limit the deployment of gays in the military.

DIED. Thomas Eagleton, 77, wry, straightforward Missouri Democrat whose 18-day stint as vice-presidential candidate on George McGovern's ticket ended with reports that he had been hospitalized several times for depression; in Richmond Heights, Mo. Eagleton, who was then in his first term as a U.S. Senator, returned to Congress, where he sponsored the 1973 amendment halting the bombing in Cambodia and was pivotal in the Senate's passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

DIED. Bobby Rosengarden, 82, session drummer for artists from Duke Ellington to Harry Belafonte who became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risque, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dali, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than I was."

DIED. Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, etiquette maven and founder of classes for girls (White Gloves) and boys (Blue Blazers) once offered in 800 U.S. cities; in Kewanee, Ill. Raised in an orphanage and later on an Iowa farm, Stewart married at 17, moved to Washington and became a successful model. She switched careers after co-writing, with Art Buchwald's wife Ann, the lighthearted surprise-hit etiquette tome White Gloves and Party Manners.

DIED. Arthur Schlesinger, 89, vibrant, unabashedly liberal presidential historian who became a player in his own area of scholarship as a special White House assistant to his friend John F. Kennedy; in New York City. A bow-tied intellectual and dedicated Washington partygoer, he drew fire from critics who said he perpetuated the image of Camelot while gliding over Kennedy's political and personal missteps. Still, his more than 20 books, on subjects from F.D.R. to Nixon, influenced political debate for decades and won him two Pulitzer Prizes: the first, at age 28, for his fresh take on Andrew Jackson and the second for his most famous work, the intimate chronicle of the Kennedy White House, A Thousand Days.

DIED. Ernest Gallo, 97, vintner tycoon; just weeks after the death of his younger brother, cheesemaker Joseph Gallo; in Modesto, Calif. He grew up on a vineyard owned by his father, an immigrant from the wine-rich region of Piedmont, Italy. After their parents died, Ernest and his brother Julio began E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1933 with $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library. With Ernest directing the company's innovative marketing campaigns, the duo turned the distinctly American family business into one of the world's largest winemaking empires.

DIED. Herman Brix, 100, Olympic shot-put medalist turned Hollywood actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce.