https://mail.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6/220/730719.pdf eced8ac66433091370d4d10a5e0802b5 https://mail.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5ac6d889efc8b2e1ca1d55c92836f809.txt a2bf99c64f58dcbc6d7790da4343d0e5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1973 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === **Page: 1 of 2** Scientists July 19, 1973 Mr. Warren Smith Clinton, Iowa Dear Warren: (that dam 's;) Just a note...to point out to you...that I sent in my precog predictions to you in early June...and one of those, under "celebrities", stated thast (that dam 's' again) an unusual nuster of movie stars would pass away within a year or so from the date of my writing to you. Incredibly, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper today reported the death of Jack Hawkins...famous movie star...and the newsclip went on to state the following: "Hawkins was the sixth major film performer to die...in two weeks. The others were Robert Ryan, Veronica Lake, Joe E. Brown, Betty Grable, and Lon Chaney, Jr." How's that for precog forecasting, Warren? (The others I mentioned haven't demised yet.) But I was uncannily accurate on the volume of those demising! Foot.... Ted Owens (PR Man) Box 48, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === **Page: 2 of 2** A4 Virginian-Pilot, Thursday, July 19, 1973 Noted British Actor Dies LONDON (AP) - Actor Jack Hawkins, who often played the role of the stiff-upper-lip war- time English officer and gentle- man, died Wednesday in a Lon- don hospital. He was 62. Hawkins, who had his larynx removed in a 1966 throat can- cer operation, had undergone surgery in New York in April to implant an artificial voice box, one of the first to volun- teer for such an operation. But he never healed from the oper- ation and soon after his return to England he was forced to en- ter St. Stephen's Hospital where he began hemorrhaging. His wife Doreen said: "He was so brave, I just can't tell you. It was remarkable. He never complained and that was what broke my heart." "It was very courageous of him to become a guinea pig. It would have been marvelous for fellow sufferers if he had recov- ered. I am so sorry it did not work." Hawkins did manage to make some films after his initial op- eration. In 1967, he was coaxed into playing the part of a Brit- ish ambassador in "Catherine The Great" by coproducers Pe- ter O'Toole and Jules Buck. "It's ideal for me," he said at the time. "Every time I open my mouth to speak, someone inter- rupts me." The voice box surgery, which has been performed on less than a dozen patients, was in- tended to give Hawkins near-nor- mal speech. After his larynx was re- moved, he had learned to speak in what he laughingly called "burps," by forcing air from his lungs and stomach through his throat and mouth. A London-born actor who first appeared on the stage when he was 13, Hawkins en- joyed a career which spanned the era of George Bernard Shaw and modern Hollywood. He was only 14 when he was auditioned by Shaw - success- fully - for a part in "St. Joan." Hawkins was a London theater star before he was 20 and a stage contemporary of Laurence Olivier. He began getting small movie parts in 1935 and quickly shot to international stardom. After World War II, he ap- peared in screen classics like "The Cruel Sea," "Ben Hur," and "Bridge over the River Kwai." His imposing presence and personality fitted him per- fectly for officer roles. Hawkins in New York hospital (UPI) Hawkins interrupted his ca- reer briefly after the 1967 oper- ation. "When I knew I would lose my voice it was pretty shatter- ing," he said. "I could scarcely overcome the black moods of depression that I felt because I no longer could speak." In "Catherine The Great," just a year after his operation, other actors dubbed in the lim- ited voice parts. Hawkins said at the time he would rather re- tire than take jobs offered out of pity, but he said O'Toole and Buck spent nine months con- vincing him that was not the case. Hawkins was the sixth major film performer to die in two weeks. The others were Robert Ryan, Veronica Lake, Joe E. Brown, Betty Grable, and Lon Chaney Jr. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 730719