LOS ANGELES (AP) – Cecily Adams, an actress, casting director and the daughter of “Get Smart” television star Don Adams, died Wednesday of lung cancer, her agent said Thursday. She was 39.

Adams appeared in the 1990s syndicated series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” playing the mother of Ferengi bar owner Quark. She had guest roles in TV shows including “Just Shoot Me,” “Murphy Brown” and “Party of Five.”

She concentrated on casting in recent years and was working on Fox’s “That ’70s Show” at the time of her death.

Adams’ mother, Adelaide Adams, was a singer. Don Adams gained fame as bumbling agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s spy spoof “Get Smart.”

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Bud Baedeker

NEW YORK (AP) – Bud Baedeker, the horse racing handicapper who helped pioneer the business of selling tip sheets to fans at California racetracks, has died. He was 90.

Baedeker died Feb. 28 in New York City, said his grandson, Toby Turrell.

Baedeker and his brother, Jack, began selling their selections outside Southern California racetracks in 1938.

Using a mimeograph machine, the pair gained respect after picking the winners of all seven races on opening day at Hollywood Park in 1950. Over the next two days, the brothers picked 10 winners in 14 races.

The guide has been sold at Southern California tracks since 1938. It is now published by Bob Baedeker, one of Bud Baedeker’s sons.

Bud Baedeker, whose real name was Frederick Martin, grew up in Chicago. He moved to California with his family when he was 19 because he was ill with tuberculosis. Doctors eventually removed his left lung.

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Julius Dixon

NEW YORK (AP) – Julius Dixon, an early rock n’ roll songwriter whose hits included the pop tune “Lollipop,” died Jan. 30, according to family. He was 90.

He wrote for several groups including Ronald and Ruby, for whom he penned the song. It reached No. 20 in 1958. It was recorded later that year by the Chordettes and went to No. 2.

Dixon first hit the charts at No. 11 in 1955 with the Bill Haley song “Dim, Dim the Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere), a follow up to Haley’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll.”

Other songs Dixon is credited with writing or co-writing include “It Hurts To Be in Love,” for Annie Laurie, “Begging, Begging” for James Brown, and “Three Ways (to Love You)” for Kitty Wells.

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Catherine O’Neil Henson

SEATTLE (AP) – Catherine O’Neil Henson, a favorite of West Coast sailboat enthusiasts for her dramatic racing photographs and effervescent spirit, died Tuesday after an automobile accident left her in a coma, friends and relatives said. She was 46.

Initially a wedding photographer, Henson – known as Kelly – parlayed her dual love of cameras and sailing into a career by shooting regattas and selling her work to the crews. Her photographs also appeared frequently in 48 North and other sailing magazines.

She worked first from a 13-foot Avon and later from Smile, a 21-foot inflatable boat she maneuvered with her golden retriever Whidbey at her side, at regattas from Victoria, British Columbia, to San Diego.

Fair weather or foul, she would toss handfuls of Hershey’s Kisses to sailboat crews as they rounded the mark.

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Fernando Lazaro Carreter

MADRID, Spain (AP) – Fernando Lazaro Carreter, a respected linguist who worked to improve the way Spanish is spoken and written, died Thursday after being hospitalized with breathing problems, a hospital said. He was 80.

A journalist and literary critic, Lazaro Carreter had been a member of the prestigious Royal Spanish Academy, the language’s official referee, since 1972 and was its president for seven years, until 1998.

An insomniac, he spent long nights listening to the radio and checking up on the way journalists spoke, publishing a collection of articles he wrote on linguistic gaffes in the media in 1997. “The Dart in the Word” was a huge hit.

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