The Monitor From The Week Of Jan. 10-16, 1999

IN PASSING

William W. Warren, a broadcaster who worked his way up the ranks at Seattle’s KOMO Radio to oversee its parent company for radio and television, operations, died Jan. 8 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 87.

Jim Peters, the British runner who broke the world marathon record four times in the 1950s but is best remembered for a poignant failure in the 1954 Commonwealth Games, died Jan. 9. He was 80.

Ted E. Hustead, who helped build South Dakota’s Wall Drug into an international tourist attraction, died Tuesday. He was 96.

William H. Whyte, an expert on urban planning who warned against corporate conformity in his bestseller “The Organization Man,” died Tuesday. He was 81. Doug Wickenheiser, a hockey player who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 37.

MEMORIAL

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan placed the first signature last week on the Anne Frank Declaration, which pledges to “remember the millions of children around the world who will not greet the new millennium with us because they were killed in wars and conflict.”