McCain Foods founder dies age 81

[AP] - Wallace McCain, the mogul and philanthropist who helped turn a small New Brunswick french fry plant into a multibillion-dollar frozen foods empire and later went on to control meat processor Maple Leaf Foods, has died.

TORONTO (AP) -- Wallace McCain, the mogul and philanthropist who helped turn a small New Brunswick french fry plant into a multibillion-dollar frozen foods empire and later went on to control meat processor Maple Leaf Foods, has died. He was 81....

Co-founder of McCain Foods, who later led Maple Leaf Foods, emerged as generous philanthropist

Wallace McCain, who with his brother Harrison McCain founded McCain Foods in 1956, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 81

SYDNEY (AP) -- Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, a prominent Australian philanthropist and mother of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has died at age 103....

The descendant of Irish potato farmers turned McCain Foods into a frozen food giant, netting himself

Gladys Horton, the lead singer of Motown girl group the Marvelettes whose hits included "Please Mr. Postman," has died at the age of 66, her son said Thursday.Horton died Wednesday in a nursing home north of Los Angeles where she had been recovering from a stroke, said her son Vaughn Thornton said in a statement released by the Detroit-based Motown Alumni Association."My mother died peacefully," he said, adding: "She fought as long as she could."

Corin Redgrave, the oldest member of Britain's Redgrave acting dynasty, died Tuesday at the age of 70, his family said."Corin Redgrave has died today. He was taken ill at home in the early hours of Sunday morning," his wife Kika Markham and the family said in a statement."He died very peacefully surrounded by his family. We will miss him so very much."Born in London on July 16, 1939 to theatrical actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Corin Redgrave was known for his theatre, film and television work as well as his left-wing political activism.