Carnegie Hall Vice Chair Dead in Apparent Suicide

1010 WINS ^ | Jul 29, 2005 10:18 am US/Eastern | 1010 WINS

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I believe unless there is a decapitation, only a medical professional (MD) can declare a death. Thus the numerous fatal accidents where people obviously dead weren't declared dead until later.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Give a hint for those of us exhausted at week's end??

[Tall_Texan]

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill Carnegie Hall...

[MinuteGal]

Was he a friend and financial advisor to Hillary?

Leni

[Oldexpat]

Hmmm
Since it was NY, he couldn't have a gun legally..so those libs usually jump. The nice ones don't hit anybody if they can help it. Good intentions count.

[nutmeg]

ping

[Clemenza]

Suicide is always tragic.

BTW: I'm still pissed that Carnegie got rid of the small art house movie theatre in the basement.

[mollynme]

He fell on a hospital?

Ta da

[Calpernia]

Hitllary Clinton was a Partner of Carnegie Hall. Arthur Zankel was Vice Chair but then got it renamed after him.

[nutmeg]

You may want to check out post #1... I should've put that in my ping.

I've only been to Carnegie Hall once (about a year and a half ago to see opera star Renée Fleming)... wonderful venue. "Zelig" ran into Henry Kissinger at that performance in the men's room! He said Kissinger looked quite fit and in pretty good shape for a man of his age.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hint: He fell from a 25 story building and was still alive after falling for 24 stories. Not for long, however.

[Clemenza]

He said Kissinger looked quite fit and in pretty good shape for a man of his age.

I saw Henry two years ago walking down Madison in the 60s. He is indeed in great shape for a guy in his 80s.

[Willie Green]

I wonder what he was about to get caught having done.

If he was "about to get caught" for something, he woulda shot himself.
Jumping out a building on 5th Ave only indicates he lost his pants on a bad investment.

[Alberta's Child]

I read a fascinating story about a crew member on a British bomber who survived a fall from 18,000 feet when he jumped out of his burning aircraft without a parachute. His parachute had caught fire in the plane as it was going down, so he couldn't bail out with the rest of the crew. He made a quick decision that he'd rather die in a fall than in the burning plane, so he jumped out and came all the way down.

He himself was the author of the story, and he vividly described the surreal experience of looking "down" (up) at the stars between his feet as he hurtled downward through the eerie silence. He crashed down into a thicket of pine trees and landed in a deep snowbank somewhere in Belgium or Germany. Eventually, he was captured by a German patrol. His only injuries were some burns that he sustained while trying to retrieve his parachute in the plane.

His German captors thought he was some kind of spy because he had an aviator's uniform on but he had no parachute (and they didn't find any trace of a parachute anywhere along the route they identified using his footprints in the snow). He was able to convince them that he had jumped out of the aircraft with no parachute -- but only after they searched the wreckage of the plane and found the remnants of his parachute gear with his name on it. He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp -- treated like royalty by his German captors because of his amazing good fortune.

[MinuteGal]

The List! The List! Who's keeping The List?

It must be close to a hundred by now.

Play it again, Sam.

Leni

[nutmeg]

Zelig was told by (I can't remember who) either a guy who was with Kissinger at that Carnegie Hall performance or by one of the bartenders there that "Henry has a personal trainer." ;-)

[Calpernia]

Which list? The oil for food bump list? Hitllary?

[NerdDad]

Cuz you ain't dead till Mr Fancy Pants college educated Doctor says you're dead. Doesn't matter if they have to use a street sweeper and fire hose to get you off the street. You are officially alive until the ambulance gets you to the hospital and the MD 'declares' you dead.

Granted, I'm being a bit hyperbolic -- but not much.

[nopardons]

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