“Lucille was my best friend for 50 years. You probably remember her as Lucy from I Love Lucy, in which she seemed happy. But she was not happy all the time at all."
November 25, 1998
News & Stories
San Diego's Marcella Rabwin assisted David Selznick in Gone with the Wind
How are objects reflected in a mirror, and how do our eyes focus on the object?
Mat: Here is one that has always bugged me. It seems logical that when I look at something in a mirror, the critical distance my eyes should have to focus is between me and the …
November 25, 1998
The Santee and the Dolphin — cars engineered in San Diego
You can take the boy out of the car, but sometimes you just can’t get the car out of the boy. Especially if he grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, the hot rod and …
November 25, 1998
Point Loma's Bayside Trail is not simply for out-of-town tourists
The Bayside Trail, sweeping downward from the old lighthouse at Cabrillo National Monument, offers an incomparable view of the city of San Diego and its watery environs. Amid the sweet,pungent sage scrub and chaparral vegetation, …
November 25, 1998
I sit and stew during obscenity at Padres game
I love baseball. I grew up watching the Yankees suffer through the misery of the '80s -- despite having Mattingly and Winfield and Guidry -- on WPIX Channel 11, listening to Phil Rizzuto exclaim, "Holy …
November 25, 1998
John Chane, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, blames Catholic Church for conservatism among Anglican
Those unfamiliar with the Anglican Communion's range of belief and practice were puzzled in early August when, on the lawn of Kent University in England, Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma of Nigeria tried to lay hands on …
November 25, 1998