The requiem is dedicated to George Hunter, the child of a friend of Mr Till's who was stillborn on 27 March, last year.

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It seems like only yesterday when Dodgers baseball coach Tommy Lasorda was hawking Slim-Fast, along with Whoopie Goldberg (until she was dropped in 2004 for making off-color jokes about George W. Bush) and model Rachel Hunter.

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Oates pitched the idea to Capitals general manager George McPhee during a job interview to replace Dale Hunter as Washington's coach.

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George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Robert Stone, Willie Morris, Peter Maas and Hunter Thompson were often in attendance.

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