Milestones

By Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Michele Orecklin, Romesh Ratnesar, Jeffrey Ressner, Alain Sanders and Joel Stein

ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, counterculture guru and peripatetic fugitive; for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend in Philadelphia; in France. The former Harvard lecturer fled to Europe just before the start of his 1981 trial for killing Holly Maddux. He was convicted in absentia in 1993 and arrested last year. But a French court refused to allow his extradition, citing a lack of provisions in Pennsylvania state law--since added--that would grant him a new trial.

ENDED. Baltimore Orioles third baseman CAL RIPKEN JR.'s hallowed streak of consecutive games played; at 16 years and 2,632 games, a major league record; in Baltimore, Md. Ripken surpassed Lou Gehrig's mark of 2,130 consecutive games, which had stood for 56 years, in 1995.

DIED. FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER, 38, incandescent American sprinter and winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics; of undetermined causes; in Mission Viejo, Calif. (see Eulogy, below).

DIED. MARY FRANN, 55, known to television viewers as Bob Newhart's chirpy wife on the CBS series Newhart; of undetermined causes; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

DIED. JEFFREY MOSS, 56, Emmy-winning writer and composer who helped create Sesame Street's lovable fur balls, Coooookkiiieeeee! Monster and Oscar the Grouch; of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. BETTY CARTER, 69, boldly idiosyncratic jazz singer and nurturer of young jazz talent, who won a National Medal of Arts award in 1997; of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. MURIEL HUMPHREY BROWN, 86, consummate political wife and, briefly, a U.S. Senator; in Minneapolis, Minn. When Hubert H. Humphrey launched his political career in 1945, Brown campaigned next to him. She broke the spouse-as-campaign-prop mold during Humphrey's three bids for President and his term as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking out on such issues as the rights of the mentally disabled.