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SAN DIEGO Herbert Klein,
former Nixon aide
Herbert Klein, Richard Nixon's White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91.
Klein died Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, family members said.
Klein became a special correspondent for Copley after serving with the Navy in World War II. He covered Nixon's 1946 congressional campaign for Copley, starting an association that would eventually lead him to the White House.
Klein accompanied Nixon when he was vice president to Moscow in 1959 for historic meetings with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The next year, he represented Nixon in setting the terms for his debate with John F. Kennedy – the first televised debates between presidential candidates.
Klein resigned as Nixon's communications director in 1973, one year before the Watergate scandal forced the president to step down.
He later joined Metromedia, a national non-network broadcasting group. In 1980, he went back to Copley Newspapers as editor-in-chief. He served a combined 52 years with Copley. Associated Press
Anna Karen Morrow, ‘Peyton Place' actress
Anna Karen Morrow, an actress who had a regular role on the prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place” and also appeared on Broadway, in films and on numerous other television shows, has died. She was 94.
Morrow died Wednesday, said her son-in-law, Darrell Christian.
Her film credits included “The Price of Fear,” which starred Merle Oberon, “The Wrong Man” alongside Henry Fonda and “It Happened in Athens” with Jayne Mansfield.
On “Peyton Place,” she played Mrs. Chernak, the Harrington family housekeeper. Morrow also appeared in the TV series “Star Trek,” “Gunsmoke,” “Hazel” and “The Perry Como Show,” and on Broadway in the play “Red Gloves.” Before acting, she was a model in New York. Associated Press
Harve Presnell, singer, actor
Harve Presnell, whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and “Annie,” has died. He was 75.
Presnell's agent Gregg Klein said the actor died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif.
An operatic singer, Presnell had the role of Johnny “Leadville” Brown in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” written just for him by composer Meredith Willson in 1960. He earned kudos for his stage performance and later for his screen recreation with Debbie Reynolds in 1964.
Presnell was cast alongside Liberace and the British rock group Herman's Hermits in 1965's “When the Boys Meet the Girls,” and with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in “Paint Your Wagon” in 1969.
Returning to the stage, Presnell landed the role of Daddy Warbucks in the Broadway musical “Annie” in 1979, and he later toured in the role.
After more an absence of more than 25 years, Presnell became a viable character player of the big screen after appearing in “Fargo” in 1996. Subsequent films included 1998's “Patch Adams” and “Saving Private Ryan” and 2000's “The Legend of Bagger Vance” and “Family Man.” Associated Press
