DIED. Richard Boone, 63, craggy-faced veteran of western and action films and television dramas best known for his role as Paladin, the gunslinger-for-hire in the long-running (1957-63) TV series Have Gun, Will Travel; of throat cancer; in St. Augustine, Fla.

DIED. Fawn McKay Brodie, 65, historian whose 1974 psychobiography Thomas Jefferson: an Intimate History alleged that the nation's third President had a 38-year love affair with a black slave woman named Sally Hemings, who bore him five children; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif.

DIED. David Lilienthal, 81, brilliant, contentious self-described "craftsman in public affairs" who ran the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1941 to 1946 and later, as the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, directed the postwar U.S. nuclear power program; of a heart attack; in New York City. A onetime public utilities lawyer, Lilienthal sold electricity cheaper than competing private firms, made TVA the nation's biggest power producer within a decade after its 1933 creation, and was equally aggressive at the AEC. One Senator accused him of running the TVA like "a Fuehrer," and opponents used the fact that his parents came from what is now Communist Czechoslovakia to cast doubt on his loyalty. When under fire, Lilienthal, a college boxer, liked to recall a bout he had with a pro: it "taught me something about coming up off the floor and taking more--which has come in handy."

DIED. Beulah Bondi, 92, ever sprightly character actress who spun a 50-year career out of portrayals of sweet, tart, tetched and/or touching older women in scores of films, including the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which she was the ma of the young Senator played by Jimmy Stewart; in Woodland Hills, Calif.

DIED. Emanuel Celler, 92, doughty, witty, longtime Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn who over a 25-term House career became one of Washington's most powerful urban voices; in Brooklyn. A whisky and wine merchant's son who thrived on New York City's combative clubhouse politics, Celler went to Capitol Hill in 1923, and over the next 50 years--until upset in a Democratic primary by Elizabeth Holtzman--became one of Congress's most influential big-city liberals. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for more than two decades, he was instrumental in shaping key civil liberties legislation, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A good Congressman, Celler once said, must have "the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat and the good humor of an idiot."

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