JULIETTE "JULIE" JENNER STEGE 1912-2009
In the 1920s and 30s, she was in vaudeville with the Ziegfield Follies and other acts and during WW II, she served a pilot in the Women Airforce Service Pilots, died June 22nd at age 97.
Hobnobbed with stars like Cary Grant and dated director Vincente Minnelli and was often in gossip columns of Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell.
While a dancer, she took flying lessons and eventually earned her pilot's license.
When WW II broke out, many of her relatives were killed in the concentration camps, and, according to her son, she wanted very much to kill Hitler. She was not allowed to do combat, but did join the WASPs where she performed test flights, moved planes around the country and towed targets for male pilots, who she said hated them for ruining their macho image.
In 2006, she again flew a WW II aircraft from Kankakee to Wheeling.
ALLEN KLEIN 1931-2009
Former manager of the Rolling Stones and Beatles
Died July 5th at age 77.
Very powerful and controversial figure in music in the 1960s. An accountant known for his brashness and temper in record deals. Some of his clients were Sam Cooke, Bobby Darrin, and Herman's Hermits. But he became most famous for signing on the Rolling Stones and later The Beatles. These eventually ended with lawsuits.
He started his own firm which later became ABKCO in the late 1950s and co-produced "The Concert for Bangladesh" in 1971.
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