Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86. Family spokesman Barry Greenberg says Martin died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.
Siegmund Nissel, 86, a violinist who fled his native Germany as a child to escape Nazi persecution of Jews and later helped found the Amadeus String Quartet, died Wednesday of an undisclosed cause at his home in London. Nissel, violinist Norbert Brainin and violist Peter Schildof escaped from the Nazis and formed a deep, enduring friendship when they were in an internment camp on the Isle of Man in Britain during World War II.
Dick Sutcliffe, 90, whose idea to use animated characters to teach religious principles resulted in the cartoon show "Davey and Goliath," died May 11 in Dallas shortly after suffering a stroke.
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