21.   Doctors check on him every few days, his son said.

22.   Few homeowners held out in those negotiations, which his sons said he regarded as one of his proudest achievements.

23.   For example, if your son says he did horribly on a test, draw him out, rather than soothe him.

24.   For one thing, says the son, Billy Carter was not a redneck buffoon.

25.   Georgia Ghiozzi of Scarsdale, N.Y., whose son Paul was injured in the accident, said her son was confused and bewildered.

26.   He agreed, but when planners saw an advance copy of the talk, they decided it was too inflammatory, his son said.

27.   He asked his son if he should go to Hawaii immediately, but the son said to wait.

28.   He did not eat human flesh, a son said.

29.   He died of complications from diabetes, said his son Richard, of Sherman Oaks, Calif.

30.   He appeared to have died three days earlier after a heart attack, said a son, Roderick Thorp III of Camarillo, Calif.