Rudolph R. SprÃ¼ngli, Heir to the Lindt Chocolate Empire, Is Dead at 88
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Mr.  SprÃ¼ngli was the heir to a Swiss chocolate empire and head of the world-renowned Lindt & SprÃ¼ngli business for more than two decades.
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How a Dutch filmmaker became a campaigning candy man when he discovered that chocolate being sold in his country's stores was made by child slaves
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Actor and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield's ex-husband, dies at the age of 80.
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PARIS: Francis Mayer, chairman and chief executive officer of French state-owned bank CDC, has died at age 56 in Paris.Comment
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Angelo Giuliani, who was behind the plate for Joe DiMaggio&#39;s first at-bat in the majors and went on to sign Kent Hrbek as a Minnesota Twins scout, died at 91.
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Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli  is considering buying Campbell Soup Co.'s  Godiva Chocolatier brand, its chief executive told the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper.
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Carl Karcher, founder of the Carl's Jr. chain of fast-food restaurants, died on Friday of complications from Parkinson's Disease at a hospital in California, the company said.
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St. Louis Rams owner Georgia  Frontiere, a former nightclub entertainer who became one of the  few women to own a major U.S. sports franchise when she  inherited the National Football League team from her husband,  died on Friday.
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"Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker" (Viking, 608 pages, $32.95), by Stacy A. Cordery: On Valentine's Day in 1884, two days after the birth of his first child, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his beloved mother, to typhoid, and his beautiful wife, to an undiagnosed kidney ailment.
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LESLIE, Mich. - A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name. Frank L. White died in 1938, and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name.
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German ex-heavyweight champ Max Schmeling dies at the age of 99.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Former Swedish prince Count Lennart Bernadotte has died aged 95 at his home in southern Germany, his family said in a local newspaper.
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Former Mr. Universe turned actor   Mickey Hargitay, the onetime husband of Hollywood bombshell   Jayne Mansfield and father of Emmy-winning actress Mariska   Hargitay, has died at the age of 80.
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LOS ANGELES The Disney animator who helped bring life to the dancing penguins in &quot;Mary Poppins&quot; has died. Frank Thomas was 92 when he passed away at his California home yesterday.
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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of Germany's "Iron Chancellor" was clouded by two deaths at his decadent parties, has died at the age of 44.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.