Eddie George, 70, the former governor of the Bank of England, died Saturday of cancer, the bank said.
George headed the bank between 1993 and 2003, and he was in charge when it was given independent authority to set interest rates in 1998. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2004, a year after he retired.
Jody McCrea, 74, an actor who appeared in “Beach Party” movies in the 1960s, died April 4.
McCrea’s brother Peter told the Los Angeles Times that after working in Hollywood, the actor became a cattle rancher in New Mexico, where he died. McCrea died of cardiac arrest.
McCrea appeared in about two dozen films and television shows, many of which were Western-themed, including “Wichita Town,” “The Broken Land,” “Young Guns of Texas” and “Cry Blood, Apache.” McCrea also appeared in a string of “Beach Party” movies, comedies starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, including “Muscle Beach Party,” “Bikini Beach,” “Pajama Party,” “Beach Blanket Bingo” and “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.”
Richard “Dick” Baker, 62, the former wave rider who reinvented Southern California’s iconic Ocean Pacific surf brand in the 1990s and in doing so helped spread surfing fashion styles around the world, died Tuesday.
Baker, the former chief executive of OP and president emeritus of the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, died of colon cancer, said his wife, Una.
A Southern California native who grew up surfing, Baker put the sport aside after college, eventually moving to New York to work in the fashion industry. But after decades helping to run such labels as Tommy Hilfiger and Izod Ltd., he returned to Southern California in the late 1990s as part of a partnership that acquired Ocean Pacific.
Although he didn’t return to the water himself, his wife said, Baker restored the company’s stature as one of the pre-eminent surf clothing brands. OP’s revenue increased fivefold during his tenure as CEO. After the company was sold in 2004, he stayed on, first as president and later as a consultant, until 2007.
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