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Obituaries of note
By Times Staff Writer
Published September 23, 2004
MARVIN M. MITCHELSON, 76, a divorce lawyer who pioneered the legal revolution known as "palimony" and represented scores of Hollywood clients in high-profile, big-money marital disputes, died Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif. In the Marvin vs. Marvin case that made him a household name in the 1970s, he won a $104,000 award for Michelle Triola Marvin, the live-in lover of actor Lee Marvin. The award was overturned, but the concept of palimony was upheld by the California Supreme Court.
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DONALD YETTER GARDNER, 91, who wrote the international children's favorite All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, died Sept. 15. He died of complications from an operation after falling at his home, said his son, Richard Yoder Gardner. He wrote the song in 1947 while teaching music at the Smithtown, N.Y., public schools. He was filling in for his wife, teaching a class of grade-schoolers during the holiday season. He asked the class members what they wanted for Christmas, and when they hissed and lisped their answers, he noticed that almost all of them had at least one front tooth missing, his son said.
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ICEAL "GENE" HAMBLETON, 85, a military aviator whose 1972 rescue in Vietnam inspired the movie Bat 21, died Sunday in Tucson, Ariz. He was the focus of the largest rescue operation in Air Force history. Actor Gene Hackman played Mr. Hambleton in the 1988 film, which depicted how he survived amid thousands of enemy troops. Bat 21 was the call sign of the EB-66 radar jamming aircraft in which Mr. Hambleton flew as navigator.
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JAMES E. BEASLEY, 78, a Philadelphia trial lawyer who successfully sued Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein on behalf of Sept. 11, 2001, victims, died Saturday. In May 2003, he won a $104-million judgment on behalf of the families of two men killed in the World Trade Center attacks, after a federal judge agreed that Iraq had provided "material support" to bin Laden and al-Qaida. The judgment has not been collected.
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