Hi Cousins; Haven't heard much this week from anybody, but I have been busy too. Thought maybe I would send out this obit on Burgess. He was kind enough to return to Dana in 1995 for the fifty year anniversary of Ernie Pyle's death. I never seen the movie, but will I bet, when I can find it. Here is the Obit: 03:43 PM ET 09/10/97 Character actor Burgess Meredith dies at age 89 LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - Actor Burgess Meredith, who in seven decades played roles as varied as the Penguin in the ``Batman'' TV series, the grizzled trainer in the ``Rocky'' films and the tragic hobo George in ``Of Mice and Men,'' has died at age 88, the Cable News Network reported. CNN said he died at his home in Malibu. The son of a Cleveland doctor, Meredith began his career as a doormouse in a Broadway production of ``Alice in Wonderland'' in the 1930s, then became a star with his stage performance in 1936 as the son of an executed anarchist in ``Winterset,'' a powerful Maxwell Anderson play written for Meredith and based on the Sacco and Vanzetti case that divided the country. He then made the film version of ``Winterset'' and Hollywood fell in love with his off-beat manner, resonant, ironic voice and bushy eyebrows. In 1940, he played the hobo George who travels the country with the simpleton Lenny in the film version of John Steinbeck's Depression drama ``Of Mice and Men,'' a performance that many consider classic. He also was featured many times on TV's ``The Twilight Zone,'' series, including a beloved episode, ``Time Enough at Last'' (1959), in which he played a bookworm who survives a nuclear holocaust. Freed at last from work, he can read to his heart's content -- until he breaks his glasses. He won an Emmy in 1977 for his portrayal of lawyer Joseph Welch in the docudrama ``Tail Gunner Joe,'' about Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Welch was the lawyer who finally shamed the notorious communist-hunter. Meredith's film credits also included his portrayal of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the 1945 film ``The Story of G.I. Joe,'' and dozens of other pictures, including ``Advise and Consent,'' ``The Day of the Locust,'' ``92 in the Shade'' and ''Grumpy Old Men.'' But he is perhaps best remembered on the big screen for his role as a crusty old trainer opposite Sylvester Stallone in the ``Rocky'' movies and as the devilish Penguin in the Batman TV series of the 1960s. Ron Pyle