As she sped down a Utah mountain slope, she lost control on an icy bump, struck a spectator, crashed and tumbled into a tree.When she finally came to a stop, she couldn’t feel anything. She was 75. He was 47. In this May 2011 photo, Jill Kinmont Boothe is shown in her home in Bishop, Calif. Boothe, the skiing champion who became a painter and a teacher after being paralyzed during a race in 1955, has died. Though his designs were rarely constructed, they were considered widely influential and were exhibited in museums around the world. His “giant leap for mankind” in 1969 climaxed a monumental achievement in human history. Huxley was 94. House was a dentist-turned-ear specialist who 50 years ago defied the medical establishment and many advocates for the hearing impaired to champion an implantable device, now widely accepted, that made everyday sounds audible to the profoundly deaf. She was 81. She was 89. The Trinidad-born former teacher blazed trails for minorities in California politics in the 1960s and ‘70s. Head of production at The onetime headmistress of an elite girls’ school fatally shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, her lover and the creator of the famous “Scarsdale Diet.” The killing generated front-page headlines and national debates about whether she was a feminist martyr or vengeful murderer. The Associated Press. Time magazine described her as “a superbly energetic amalgam of feminist and Tasteful Lady.” She was 86. Playing Archie Bunker’s bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in “All in the Family” and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, “The Jeffersons,” Hemsley was one of television’s most widely watched black actors. He later worked as a “Monday Night Football” co-host and parlayed his hulking strength into an acting career with memorable roles on TV’s “Webster” and the film “Blazing Saddles.” He was 77. Though Grady’s musical talents at a young age led him to become a Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” he is best known for playing son Robbie, pictured pictured at left with He was 88. He also played the regulation-breaking commander of a PT boat in the South Pacific in ABC’s “McHale’s Navy.” He was 95. As head of the baseball union effort that allowed players to choose new teams when their contracts ended, Miller eventually guided players to an era of mega-salaries and free agency, thereby changing the landscape of American sports. Nothing says romance like surgical masks, no eye contact and the federal government’s ruinous response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The more people see wearing face masks and practicing social distancing as ways to protect the health of others, the more likely they are to comply, research shows. Undaunted, she moved north with her parents, earned a teaching certificate at the University of Washington and taught remedial reading in elementary schools on Mercer Island.When she and her mother returned to Los Angeles after her father died in 1967, one Southern California school district after another refused to hire her.In 1968, Kinmont Boothe told The Times that a Los Angeles school district physician kept saying: “ ‘What a tragedy. She and husband Herbert spent 43 years building Oakland’s World Savings Bank into a major -- and ultimately controversial -- adjustable mortgage lender. 1 hit, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952), not only turned her career around but also helped upend stereotypical thinking about men who strayed and the women they strayed with. The film actress whose credits include roles in movies such as “Forty Carats” and “Once Is Not Enough” was also a veteran of television miniseries. Their hits included “Only You” and “The Great Pretender.” He was 83. The former football player helped his father launch NFL Films, and offered an athlete’s perspective that helped the company combine gritty images with artistic flair. The Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer was with the band in the early 1970s when it was making the transition from British blues rock band to commercial powerhouse. A rare author and screenwriter whose works appealed to highbrow readers and mainstream movie-goers, Ephron wrote fiction that was distinguished by characters who seemed simultaneously normal and extraordinary. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jill Kinmont Boothe, the skiing champion who became a painter and a teacher after she was paralyzed during a race and was the subject of a book and two Hollywood films, has died. As the president of Mikawaya, the 102-year-old family business selling traditional Japanese sweet pastries and snacks, Hashimoto was one of Little Tokyo’s most influential business leaders. She was 84.