Obituaries of note

WILLIAM DONN HAYES JR., 87, a retired Air Force colonel who commanded a reconnaissance squadron that photographed the Normandy beaches before the Allied invasion of France in World War II, died Feb. 26 in Aurora, Colo. His squadron later provided photo reconnaissance for Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army. He was a former commander of MacDill Air Force Base. He had a role in intelligence-gathering during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

JANE ENGELHARD, 86, a philanthropist and art collector whose gifts ranged from major donations to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Christmas creche displayed at the White House, died Sunday in Nantucket, Mass. From the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George W. Bush, she served on committees to preserve the White House.

SUSIE BROWN, 87, the mother of singer James Brown, died Feb. 26 in Augusta, Ga., of heart failure.

MEYER BLINDER, 82, who became the self-proclaimed king of the nation's penny stock market in the 1970s and '80s, died Feb. 26 in Scottsdale, Ariz. In 1986, his firm, Blinder, Robinson & Co., was ranked 10th in the nation in the number of brokers employed. But in 1990, his company, which at one time had 66 offices in 37 states, was liquidated. In 1992, he was convicted on six counts of racketeering, money laundering and securities fraud and spent 40 months in a federal prison.

PAUL M. SWEEZY, 93, who became the nation's leading Marxist intellectual and publisher during the Cold War and the McCarthy era, died Saturday in Larchmont, N.Y. A Harvard University economist, he responded to the Great Depression by turning to Marxism. In 1949 he became co-founder and co-editor of the Monthly Review, an independent Marxist journal published in New York City. He continued to edit it and contribute to it until well into the 1990s.

BART HOWARD, 88, a songwriter and pianist best known for his composition Fly Me to the Moon, died Feb. 21 in Carmel, N.Y. Fly Me to the Moon - also known as In Other Words - first gained fame in 1960, when Peggy Lee sang it on The Ed Sullivan Show. Two years later, it was a hit in instrumental form for conductor Joe Harnell.

DAN KILEY, 91, a landscape architect who combined modernist functionalism with classical design principles in more than 1,000 projects, died Feb. 21 in Charlotte, Vt. His projects, often done with the great architects of his time, included the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and I.M. Pei's East Building for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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