Milestones

By Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin and Alain Sanders

BOWING OUT. MARION BARRY, 62, shameless mayor of the District of Columbia for four controversial terms (interrupted by a stint in prison) that left the city insolvent and under near total congressional rule; announcing he will not seek re-election when his term expires.

TRADED. MIKE PIAZZA, 29, All-Star catcher, momentarily, for the cost-cutting Florida Marlins; to the New York Mets in a three-player deal, just one week and five games after Florida acquired him from his longtime team, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

DIED. JOHN DEREK, 71, dreamy actor-director whose real talent lay not in his so-so acting (in All the King's Men and The Ten Commandments) but in marrying often and well (the four foxy actresses Patti Behrs, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and, most recently, Bo Derek); of heart complications; in Santa Maria, Calif.

DIED. DOROTHY DONEGAN, 76, exuberant jazz pianist; reportedly of colon cancer; in Los Angeles. A flamboyant performer, Donegan was known as much for her jokes and gyrations as for her music (a patchwork of swing, pop, ragtime, boogie-woogie and classical).

DIED. MONTIE MONTANA, 87, rough-riding cowboy who left the Montana range to appear in silver-screen westerns alongside John Wayne and Roy Rogers; in Santa Clarita Valley, Calif. A skilled lassoer of barnyard beasts, Montana was more famous for hitching humans: he roped President Eisenhower during Ike's 1953 Inaugural parade.

DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck.