George Seaton, 68, prolific, perdurable screenwriter (The Song of Bernadette, 1944), producer (The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1955) and director (Airport, 1970); of cancer; in Beverly .
The book, as its name suggests, would write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald once vowed, would .