Recently Dead

Have you called Jenny yet? When you do, be sure to offer your condolences on the death of her husband. Sidney Craig, who with his wife Jenny built a weight-loss program into a $460 million business with 650 centers on two continents, died Monday of cancer at home in Del Mar, California. He was 76. "Sid has the charisma of a Jack Kennedy, the intelligence of an Alan Greenspan, and the humor of a Jackie Mason, along with the good looks of a Clark Gable," Mrs Craig wrote in her 2004 autobiography, The Jenny Craig Story. No mention of how much he weighed. (LA Times; photo: Scott Linnett/San Diego Tribune)

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