Milestones

By Kathleen Adams, Amanda Bower, Val Castronovo, Randy Hartwell, Ellin Martens, Sora Song, Chris Taylor and Josh Tyrangiel

CHARGED. O.J. SIMPSON, 53, infamous golf enthusiast; with battery and burglary; in Miami. Simpson surrendered to authorities for an incident in December in which he allegedly reached into a car and snatched glasses off the driver's face in a bout of road rage. He posted his own $9,000 bail.

CHARGED. ROBERT W. PICKETT, 47, former IRS employee who fired a .38-cal. handgun outside the White House; with assaulting a federal officer; in Washington. Pickett, who faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, was hospitalized after being shot in the knee by a Secret Service agent.

AMPUTATED. Transplanted hand of CLINT HALLAM, 50, wily ex-con who lost his original hand in prison, then vied for and received the world's first hand transplant in 1998. He failed to stick with anti-rejection drugs and had the extremity removed in hush-hush surgery in London. The hand has been sent to doctors in France for examination.

DIED. EDDIE PARKER, 69, nimble, self-taught pool shark who earned the nickname "Fast Eddie" in high school and claimed to have inspired Walter Tevis' book and screenplay The Hustler (Tevis' widow disagrees); of an apparent heart attack; at the U.S. Classic Billiard Eight-Ball Showdown in South Padre Island, Texas. He was a money player but, he avowed, an honest one who never hustled.

DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, lyric writer and poet, enduring romantic and, like her husband Charles, a pioneering aviator; in Passumpsic, Vt. Lindbergh was seven months pregnant when she and her husband set a transcontinental speed record in 1930. Two years later, their son Charles Jr. was kidnapped and killed in one of the era's most chronicled news events. (See EULOGY, below.)

DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, anti-Nazi propagandist who helped develop Club Med into a hedonistic waterside-resort chain; in Paris. A member of the French Resistance, he wrote for a communist paper after the war, later renting tents to the then rustic-themed vacation spots and eventually establishing them as the ultimate sybaritic destinations.

DIED. HOWARD L. CLARK, 84, philanthropist who rose from assistant to president and chief executive of American Express; in Greenwich, Conn. In 1960, when the charge card was two years old and losing money, he engineered the celebrity-packed "Do you know me?" campaign (and later the "Don't leave home without it" slogan), turning the card into AmEx's most valuable product.

DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, dulcet-voiced cowgirl, devoted humanitarian, author of more than 20 books and widow of Roy ("King of the Cowboys") Rogers; in Apple Valley, Calif. Evans' boss caught her singing while she worked--as a stenographer at a Dallas insurance company--and prodded her to appear on a company-sponsored radio program. Not long after, she was cast in her first of 28 films with Rogers, beginning a long reign as the radiant "Queen of the West." Despite her immense popularity, she was often outbilled by her husband's horse, Trigger, which co-starred in 90-plus Rogers films.