Patricia Marand, 74, who played Lois Lane in the Broadway musical “It’s a Bird . . . It’s a Plane . . . It’s Superman,” has died.
Family spokeswoman Maryellen Lee says Marand died of brain cancer Thursday at her Manhattan home.
Marand was nominated for a Tony Award for the 1966 musical. She also appeared on Broadway in “Wish You Were Here,” the hit 1952 musical set in a Catskill resort. The show was best known for its on-stage swimming pool and its popular title song.
Marand was a regular in summer stock, on TV’s “Merv Griffin Show” and often performed with symphony orchestras as well as at New York nightspots. Survivors include her husband, Irving Salem.
Edwin E. Salpeter, 83, an astrophysicist whose work in the “Salpeter-Bethe equation” showed how helium changes to carbon, has died.
Salpeter had leukemia and died Tuesday at his Ithaca, N.Y., home, said Cornell University, where he had been a professor emeritus of physical sciences.
In 1951, Salpeter and Cornell theoretical physicist Hans Bethe, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics, introduced an equation showing how helium nuclei fuse to form carbon in the interiors of ancient stars. Until then, the origin of elements beyond helium in the periodic table was a mystery.
In 1964, working independently, Salpeter and Soviet physicist Yakov Zeldovich were the first to propose that a stream of gas falling toward a black hole could be heated to produce detectable X-rays. Thirty years later, data from the Hubble telescope confirmed it.
