Milestones

By By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Sandra Jamison, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

SWORN IN. LUIS GONZALEZ MACCHI, 52, former Paraguayan pro-basketball player and Senate president; as President of Paraguay; in Asuncion. Macchi took over for impeached President Raul Cubas.

RECOVERING. BARBARA BUSH, 73, former First Lady; from back surgery; in Houston.

DIED. FREAKY TAH, 28, a.k.a. Raymond Rogers, member of the hip-hop band Lost Boyz; when a gunman in a ski mask shot him in the head as he left a party; in New York City. On a 1996 record, Legal Drug Money, the band members, who have acknowledged dealing drugs in the past, referred to going straight after watching the shooting of a fellow dealer.

DIED. GARY MORTON, 74, film and TV producer and husband of the late Lucille Ball; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Morton was a popular stand-up comic when he met Ball on a blind date. He went on to produce The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, among others. The couple were married nearly 28 years.

DIED. JOE WILLIAMS, 80, jazz icon who sang with the Count Basie Orchestra; in Las Vegas. During his five-decade career, Williams, who in the '80s appeared on The Cosby Show as Grandpa Al, was known for perfect musical timing and the intimacy he conveyed in his blues and ballads, most famously his trademark Every Day (I Have the Blues). Among his many honors: a star next to Basie's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (see Eulogy).

DIED. LILA HOTZ LUCE TYNG, 100, first wife of Henry Luce, founder of TIME magazine; in Gladstone, N.J. A philanthropist and volunteer for numerous New York and New Jersey cultural institutions, Tyng was married to Luce from 1923 to 1935 and had two sons with him.