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Larry Harmon, above, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, said his publicist. He was 83. Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular clown in countless appearances and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of TV stations around the country. The stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos. Harmon was responsible for Bozo's distinctive look: orange-tufted hair, bulbous nose and outlandish red, white and blue costume.

Michael Turner, a leading contemporary comic-book artist who was known for the highly stylized covers he created and for drawing shapely female characters, died June 27 in Santa Monica, Calif., of bone cancer. He was 37. Turner created online comic adaptations for the NBC series "Heroes" and published his own titles, including "Fathom," a female superhero with water-based powers.

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Deaths elsewhere - Marek Edelman, 90, the last surviving leader of the ill-fated 1943 Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis, died Friday in Poland. Most of Edelman's adult life was dedicated to the defense of human life, dignity and freedom. He fought the Nazis in the doomed Warsaw ghetto revolt and later in the Warsaw City Uprising. And then for decades he fought communism in Poland. His heroism earned him the French Legion of Honor and Poland's highest civilian distinction, the Order of the White Eagle. One of the few survivors of three weeks of uneven struggle in the Warsaw ghetto, he felt obliged to preserve the memory of the fallen heroes of that first large-scale Jewish revolt against the Nazis. Each year, on the revolt's anniversary, he laid flowers at Warsaw's monument to the ghetto heroes and called for tolerance. AP More

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