Notable deaths

Peg Bracken

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Peg Bracken, author of the "I Hate to Cook Book," which sold more than 3 million copies after it appeared in 1960, died Saturday. She was 89.

She died in Portland, family members said. No cause of death was immediately available.

The book was intended for working women who decried the notion that their destiny was to stand by the stove and be the ideal wife. Bracken adored convenience foods that were new at the time -- mixes and canned foods -- and discovered that a can of mushroom soup could cover many sins.

The book was followed by "The I Hate to Housekeep Book" and "I Try to Behave Myself," on etiquette. There were others.

Shav Glick

LOS ANGELES -- Shav Glick, who covered the Indianapolis 500 and a variety of other races during 37 years writing about motorsports for the Los Angeles Times, has died. He was 87.

Glick died Saturday at his Pasadena home of complications from melanoma, the newspaper confirmed Sunday. He retired at 85 last year.

By the time he was assigned the auto racing beat at the Times, Glick was 48 and had already spent 34 years covering other sports.

In 1994, Glick was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Novi, Mich., becoming the first writer for a general circulation daily newspaper to earn that honor.

Benjamin Barnes Graves

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Dr. Benjamin Barnes Graves, a former president of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., and first president of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, died Friday. He was 86.

He died at his home of natural causes. The death was confirmed by Laughlin Service Funeral Home in Huntsville.

A native of Jones County, Miss., Graves was Millsaps president from 1964 to 1970. He was UAH president from 1969 to 1978.

He started at UAH the year the University of Alabama created autonomous campuses in Birmingham and Huntsville.

"Ben deserves a tremendous amount of credit for making UAH the university as we know it today," said UAH president Dave Williams.

-- Associated Press