Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, April 2, 1991 TAG: 9104020369
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"Lee wasn't a political mercenary, simply serving the highest bidder," Vice President Dan Quayle said at the funeral, attended by some of Washington's elite. "Politics wasn't his business. It was Lee Atwater's calling in life."
Several hundred mourners filled Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, across the street from the South Carolina Statehouse, for the funeral. Burial followed at Greenlawn Cemetery.
Among those who attended were Secretary of State James Baker, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and White House Chief of Staff John Sununu.
\ Margaret Ray, the woman who claimed to be David Letterman's wife and broke into his New Canaan, Conn., home seven times, is missing from a state mental hospital, a nursing supervisor said.
Ray, who was undergoing treatment at Fairfield Hills Hospital, was found to be missing Sunday, said nursing supervisor Wayne Prescott.
Ray, of Crawford, Colo., left a note saying she was returning to Colorado and would not bother the talk show host, Prescott said.
\ Sidney Poitier said, "I don't do television" when writer-director George Stevens Jr. first tried to interest the Oscar-winning actor in a made-for-TV movie.
The film, "Separate but Equal," airs 9-11 p.m. Sunday and Monday on ABC. Poitier plays Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as a young lawyer in charge of a case involving school segregation.
Stevens said in an interview for the April 6 edition of TV Guide that he kept at his friend because he knew he had to get a big name to play the first black to join the nation's highest court before a network would buy the movie.
He finally persuaded Poitier to read the script.
"You tell me how I could refuse," Poitier said afterward. "Thurgood Marshall is a living legend. It's an honor to play him."
by CNB