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Article: MEL ZIMMER; ONE LIFE, TWO DEATHS HIS FIRST DEATH CAME IN 1989, THE SECOND LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AGO. IN THE SPAN OF YEARS BETWEEN THEM, THE POWERFUL POLITICIAN WHO HAD BEEN MEL ZIMMER BECAME A SOLITARY WALKING MAN WHOSE WILL PREVAILED WHERE HIS PHYSICAL SELF FAILED.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2002
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Byline: Hart Seely Staff Writer
His last day resembled most of the others of his second life. He rose at dawn and walked miles upon miles. He dined in restaurants and coaxed smiles from friends. He pushed himself, probably too hard.
The evening of Jan. 4, he stepped into the path of a car about a mile from the motel room he called home. By morning, the news reported the death of Mel Zimmer.
Those reports would hail Melvin N. Zimmer as a retired state Assemblyman from Syracuse, a lawmaker who changed the way New Yorkers measured adulthood, and a power broker who had vanished from the political landscape. Old friends, who soon gathered in grief, ...