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Lollipop, Lollipop, by the Chordettes, co-written by Julius Dixon is a tune many of us more mature folk remember from youth. It is mostly forgotten, but not so much as Julius Dixon who now even is excised from the news. New York Post published this story. Thanks, LesforLife.

January 29, 2007 -- The songwriter of the '50s pop hit "Lollipop" starved to death at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan - where doctors and nurses brushed off complaints that he needed his missing dentures to eat, a shocking lawsuit claims.

Julius Dixson Sr. "was wasting away in their hospital, and, essentially, they did nothing to stop that," said Mitchel Ashley, a lawyer representing co-executors of Dixson's estate in their Manhattan Supreme Court suit against St. Luke's and two doctors.

HOSP STARVE DEATH... 'LOLLIPOP' TUNESMITH

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One more step in the aftermath of exposing what happened to Haleigh Poutre is the formation of a committee. This committee now up and operating is plowing ahead, although all have seemed to forget the part on how DSS wanted Haleigh dead. Maybe there wasn't room in this story for it all. Or maybe they are rewriting what happened to make the whole episode all about DSS procedureal mistakes and not about how badly they wanted to snuff the kid.

BOSTON — The number of children abused or neglected across the state in 2005 could fill Fenway Park, according to House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi.

The startling amount prompted him to create a child-abuse committee, whose members spoke with social workers and child-abuse experts last week to improve the safety of children in Massachusetts.

The House Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect met for the first time and heard testimony from state agencies and private individuals about improvements and future plans for the Department of Social Services, Department of Mental Health, and other associated agencies. The 11-person committee, formed by DiMasi, D-Boston, was triggered by the devastating 2005 case of Haleigh Poutre, which caused lawmakers to examine how the Department of Social Services operates.

House establishes child-abuse committee

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>> Dixson died on Jan. 30, 2004, from "metabolic complications of weight loss and dehydration."

Sickening. But the starvation death of a SHOW BUSINESS figure may open some eyes. It's one thing to snuff a nobody like Terri Schiavo, but if they start killing actors and reporters, that's different! That's too close to home.

Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather eat 'WAY too much, don't you think? And Jane Fonda. Of all the superannuated useless eaters on earth, she heads the list.