Obituaries in the news
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Jim "Hoss" Brock
DALLAS (AP) -- Jim "Hoss" Brock, a longtime executive director of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, died Thursday. He was 74.
He died in his sleep, Cotton Bowl officials said. Brock had been hospitalized since February after the first of several strokes.
A former sports information director at TCU and SMU, Brock served as head of the Cotton Bowl from 1979-92. He then spent one year as the chairman of team selection before retiring. He was elected to the bowl's hall of fame in 2005.
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Eva Reich
HANCOCK, Maine (AP) -- Dr. Eva Reich, daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and lecturer on the controversial work on orgonomy that he pioneered more than a half century ago, died Sunday. She was 84.
Reich died at her home, according to her daughter, Renata Moise of Hancock.
Eva Reich, a native of Vienna who moved to the U.S. in 1938, participated in many of her father's controversial experiments. Wilhelm Reich, a psychiatrist, died in prison in 1957 after his conviction for ignoring an injunction that outlawed devices he developed to accumulate energy associated with sexual orgasm.
A graduate of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Eva Reich and her husband, artist William Moise, moved to Hancock in 1952, where she set up a rural practice. After her divorce in 1974, Reich traveled to 30 countries to lecture about her father's work and her own.
Focusing on infant emotional health, she developed a treatment for upset and colicky babies that involved a gentle touch she called butterfly baby massage.
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Jack A. Weil
DENVER (AP) -- Jack A. Weil, founder of the Rockmount Ranch Wear company whose snap-buttoned Western shirts became popular with movie stars and rock icons, died Wednesday. He was 107.
Weil died at home, said Steve Weil, his grandson.
Jack Weil was the first to design Western shirts with snap buttons and also created pockets with jagged, sawtooth-pattern flaps, said Steve Weil, who is president of the business his grandfather started in downtown Denver in 1946.
Weil's shirts have been worn in movies by Elvis Presley, Clark Gable (in his last film, "The Misfits") and Heath Ledger ("Brokeback Mountain.") Bob Dylan, John Fogerty and Eric Clapton also have sported the shirts.
The price of a shirt has gone from about $2 in the 1940s to $60 and up today, mostly because the Weils kept manufacturing operations in the United States.
Jack Weil remained chief executive officer of Rockmount and went to work daily until a few days before his death, his grandson said. He was believed to be the oldest CEO in the world.
