“This is Bill Ballance, self-ordained lay therapist to those huddled, perspiring masses yearning to be stroked, eager to participate in the Bill Ballance communicative pentathlon, a certified incubator of soaring euphoria carefully programmed for the …
Thursday, March 26
Billo: The Salubrious Life and Salacious (Well, Maybe) opinions of Willis Bennett Ballance
March 26, 1981
Thursday, March 19
Rancho Santa Fe's fire department defends itself
James Arthur Fox drove east from his home in Del Mar one day in 1957 looking for a new job. He was working then as a painter for an interior decorator while supporting a wife …
March 19, 1981
Thursday, March 12
The young Southeast San Diego parolee
One cloudy morning in July of 1978, I drove Mrs. Beatrice Walker See and her family to visit the reformatory in Whittier where Mrs. See's son was an inmate. His name (not his real one, …
March 12, 1981
Thursday, March 5
Jews like San Diego has never seen
Five hundred eyes focus on the foreskin of the infant son of Rabbi Yonah Fradkin. A drop of wine is applied to the infant’s lips while a dozen rabbis pray in a fervent, swaying motion. …
March 5, 1981