ASSOCIATED PRESS / SEPTEMBER 1981
Conrad Bain of 'Diff'rent Strokes' dead at 89
Stars of the television show "Different Strokes," clockwise from foreground, Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain and Todd Bridges at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," died of natural causes Monday at his home in Livermore, Calif. He was 89.