Obituaries

Hard-playing NFL player Jack Tatum, once called the "assassin," has himself been felled albeit by natural causes. He was 61 and died of a heart attack.

On Aug. 12, 1978, Stingley, playing for the New England Patriots, ran head-on into the hard-hitting Tatum on a crossing pattern. The blow severed Stingley’s fourth and fifth veterbrae and left the receiver paralyzed.


Tatum said he tried to visit Stingley at an Oakland hospital shortly after the collision but was turned away by Stingley’s family members.


Stingley died in 2007.

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Actress and ex-wife of Mike Wallace, Buff Cobb, died July 12 at the age of 82. She passed away in a New Hampshire nursing home.

Her real name was Patrizia Cobb Chapman.
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