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LOS ANGELES — Phyllis Coates, who portrayed “Superman” Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, has died. She was 96.

Phyllis Coates, the first actor to portray DC Comics' Lois Lane on television, died Oct. 11 in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 96.

Phyllis Coates was perhaps best known for portraying Lois Lane in both the 1951 film “Superman and the Mole Men” and the first season of TV's “Adventures of Superman.”

A one-time chorus girl, Ms. Coates brought the iconic character to the small screen in 1952.

She replaced Noel Neill, who had played Lois in two Superman movie serials; Ms. Neill in turn replaced her after one season.

Christopher made his big league debut with Pittsburgh in 1958 and appeared in three games in the 1960 World Series against the New York Yankees.

Graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Arkansas at Monticello recently launched the first issue of "Shadowplay," a new print literary journal.

This is a press release from Biofuelwatch: An independently produced radio series on liquid fuels and the proposed conversion of two San Francisco Bay Area refineries to biofuels, largely soy-based diesel and jet fuel, came to a conclusion last week with the broadcast on KMUD – Redwood Community Radio of an interview with neighbors of the massive Phillips 66 facility in Rodeo,