Feature Stories
I offer a Mother’s Day proposal, to wit: Once your mom hits 70, give her a free pass. That is, she’s done it, she’s been nurturing, caring; she should get time off.
He gave us a very favorable lease, a good thing for the San Diego Harbor. He was helping to create a good tenant, which National Steel became. He did the same with Convair, Solar, and Rohr.
I was 19 when World War II broke out. I turned 20 going into Bataan on my birthday, the 12th of December 1941. I was in the antitank company, 31st Infantry, the only American infantry …
I recall setting up house with one Peggy O’Dwyer, a freckled, blonde Irish woman, full of spunk, brass, and devilment. This was a rare woman, the one in a thousand who was road-buddy material. I …
I find a cinnamon-colored strand of fur, black-banded, poking through the sleeve of my sweater. Another cat hair; I had hoped I’d gotten them all out of my life. They turn up now and then, …
The first planned action by [Otis and Spreckels] was to hamper the ability of radical unions to spread their messages by shutting down San Diego’s Soapbox Row, the stretch of E Street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues.
Sitting at tables with cocktails while watching half-dressed boys and girls mime to Liza Minelli songs as they wade through a miasma of dried ice is a concept of entertainment that has died out elsewhere
"Donald Trump told me the other night at a United Cerebral Palsy gala, 'Baby, you look beautiful!''" And, "'Hair is what life is all about,' says my delicious friend Nancy Collins of Prime Time Live."
CAMALU, Mexico — Powdery dirt coats this tiny hamlet on the Baja California coast like a blanket of copper-colored snow. The dust pastes the sides of school buses that haul working boys and girls to …
"We are the only Streicher's store that has charge accounts. All our stores used to. We have them because we have so many customers in Mexico. Those customers could not use their credit cards outside Mexico.”
Mr. Van Winkle asked the Student Council Reps, to indicate to the classes that if they can convince him through sound logical arguments that they should ride skateboards to school that he will reconsider his position.
Judge Brown took Luis for rides in his Porsche He brought him to his home in Ensenada. And when Luis contracted a throat infection Brown sent him to his own doctor.
My friend Cynthia wanted to take a ride on my mountain bike and asked about the problem of the dogs on the road. I told her just to yell at them if they bothered her.
Years of drought and neglect led to a stunting of the tree’s growth as the thirsty roots searched beneath the asphalt parking lot for water. Vandals have defaced its intricate trunk with carved initials.
Zerbe picked up a pizza at the Romano Dodge House restaurant in Julian “between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m.,” according to Mrs. Romano, wife of the owner. She told the deputies that Zerbe was “sober and clear-eyed.”
Anyway, I made out a will, which I also intended as a farewell note. Nothing changed Saturday night. My chest pain and arm weakness seemed to remain about the same, whether I took pain pills or not.