If baseball fans nationwide were to vote on a favorite musical chances are it’d be Damn Yankees. After all we who don’t worship at the altar of all things pinstriped are united by our disdain for the team’s free spending ways and obscene hoarding of talent. So it’s fitting that news of the m...

Van Johnson, 92, a disarming and popular Hollywood star of 1940s musicals and comedies who later proved effective as a G.I. in "Battleground" and a conflicted naval officer in "The Caine Mutiny," died Dec. 12 at Tappan Zee Manor, a senior citizens home in Nyack, N.Y. No cause of death was reported....