{"id":24988,"date":"2022-07-31T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24988"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T15:44:05","slug":"obit-watch-july-31-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24988","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 31, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Burt Metcalfe<\/a>. In addition to his producing credits on “M*A*S*H”, he did some acting. Credits<\/a> include “The Twilight Zone” (“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”), “Perry Mason”, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”, “The Outer Limits”, and the “12 O’Clock High” series. Producing credits also include “AfterMASH”.<\/p>\n

Stuart Woods<\/a>, another one of those big-shot thriller authors.<\/p>\n

Mr. Woods, who was also a swashbuckling licensed private jet plane pilot and trans-Atlantic sailor with homes in New York, Maine and Florida, tacked into his career as a novelist somewhat haphazardly.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

He later moved to Ireland, where he began to write his first novel. But he was soon diverted when he became enamored with sailing and began racing. In 1976, in a race from Plymouth, England, to Newport, R.I., that took him 45 days, he finished about in the middle of the field.<\/a>
\nHe then wrote a nonfiction account of the race, \u201cBlue Water, Green Skipper,\u201d and, after returning to Georgia, sold the American rights to W.W. Norton & Company. It also agreed to publish \u201cChiefs,\u201d the thriller that Mr. Woods had begun eight years earlier.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was another one of those guys whose books I saw all the time on the rack at the grocery store, but I’ve never actually read any of them. Chiefs<\/strong> sounds like it might be a good place to start…<\/p>\n

Mary Alice<\/a>, actress. She won a Tony for “Fences”, an Emmy for “\u201cI\u2019ll Fly Away”, and appeared in \u201cThe Matrix Revolutions\u201d among other credits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burt Metcalfe. In addition to his producing credits on “M*A*S*H”, he did some acting. Credits include “The Twilight Zone” (“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”), “Perry Mason”, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”, “The Outer Limits”, and the “12 O’Clock High” series. Producing credits also include “AfterMASH”. Stuart Woods, another one of those big-shot thriller authors. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,16,49,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-obits","category-theatre","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24990,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988\/revisions\/24990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}