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EndNotes archive for April 18, 2012

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012

Dick Clark, left, poses with Ryan Seacrest in New York in 2006.  Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the New Year's Eve countdown from Times Square, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. He was 82. (Abc)

Dick Clark: That's a wrap

Dick Clark, the teen music pied piper, died of a heart attack today. His death prompted a short discussion in our newsroom pod about his continued appearance on the New Year's Eve show, even after his stroke in 2004. It was a bad stroke, rendering…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.