Preston W. Wenzing, 53, window installer, veteran...

Preston W. Wenzing, 53, window installer, veteran

Preston Warren Wenzing, a former window installer and Air Force veteran, died Tuesday of emphysema at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore. He was 53.

Mr. Wenzing had worked for more than 20 years as a window installer for Banner Glass Inc. before retiring several years ago.

Born in Edmondson Village, he attended Edmondson High School before enlisting in the Air Force in 1967. He served as a mechanic in Vietnam until he was discharged in 1970.

His marriage to Marcell Foxwell ended in divorce.

A memorial service will be held at an undetermined date.

He is survived by two sons, Robert Wenzing and Michael Wenzing, both of Overlea; his mother, Helen Wenzing, and a sister, Virginia Evans, both of Bel Air.

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Balthus, one of the 20th century's greatest realist painters best known for his erotic - some said pornographic - portrayal of adolescent beauties, died yesterday at his home in the Swiss mountain village of Rossiniere, Mayor Daniel Martin said. No cause of death was given for Balthus, who was just short of his 93rd birthday.

Balthus inspired and influenced the art world for more than six decades. But personally, he long remained a mystery to all but a handful of intimate friends.

Burt Kennedy, 78, a prolific writer and director of Western films and television shows, including "The War Wagon" and several other movies with John Wayne, died Thursday of cancer at his Los Angeles home.

He wrote more than a dozen Westerns, including "Seven Men From Now," which was released in 1956 and starred Randolph Scott. That movie, his first produced screenplay, recently was restored and shown at the New York, London and Telluride film festivals. Among his other films are "The Rounders," "Young Billy Young," "Support Your Local Gunfighter," "Mail Order Bride," and "The Train Robbers."

Victor Veysey, 85, a former Republican member of Congress and assistant secretary of the Army, died Tuesday in Hemet, Calif. He served in the House of Representatives from 1971 until 1977. President Gerald Ford appointed him assistant secretary of the Army.

Howard W. Koch, 84, a veteran producer and director whose film credits include "The Manchurian Candidate" and the TV series "The Maverick," died Friday in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Koch was a one-time president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and former head of production at Paramount Pictures. He was on staff as a producer at Paramount at the time of his death.

Boris Goldovsky, 92, a stage director, conductor, pianist, impresario, educator of artists and audiences, and "Mr. Opera" to generations of Americans, died Wednesday at his home in Brookline, Mass.

Mr. Goldovsky headed the opera program at the Tanglewood Music Center from 1942 to 1962, where he gave the American stage premieres of Mozart's "Idomeneo" and "La Clemenza di Tito," and supervised important revivals of forgotten works and the American premieres of operas by Benjamin Britten.

At Tanglewood and elsewhere, he trained several generations of important American singers in operatic craftsmanship. In 1946, he founded in Boston the New England Opera Theatre, which presented the American premiere of Berlioz's "Les Troyens." Between 1952 and 1984, Mr. Goldovsky carried fully staged operatic productions to more than 2,000 U.S. cities and towns with the Goldovsky Opera Theatre.

For more than four decades, he was a favorite musical commentator during the intermissions of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, illustrating his points at the piano and occasionally bursting into song.

Morison S. Cousins, 66, an industrial designer who created the Dixie Cup dispenser, died Feb. 10 of cancer.

In 1963, he and his brother, Michael, formed Cousins Design in New York and won a series of design awards. A 1970 Dixie Cup dispenser was one of their most widely recognized products. The narrow, simple cylinder remained on the market for 20 years, with 100 million sold.

He was Tupperware Corp.'s vice president for design, a position he held since 1990. He designed nearly two dozen objects for Tupperware, including bowls, canisters, a kitchen timer, a vase, colanders and vegetable peelers.

More than two dozen of his works are part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Ugo Fano, 88, a University of Chicago physicist whose research helped in the development of the laser and the use of radiation in medical diagnosis and therapy, died Tuesday from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

His work was instrumental to a better understanding of the structure of atoms and molecules, and their interaction with light. A number of phenomena bear his name, including the "Fano Effect" and the "Fano Factor."