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With the help of other family members, the wife of Donald Nixon, a brother of the president, found and preserved hundreds of items from his childhood home in Yorba Linda.
'Stan the Man,' a career .331 batter, played 22 seasons — all with St. Louis — and won seven National League batting titles and three most valuable player awards.
The irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting Weaver is the winningest manager in the franchise's history. He led the team to the 1970 World Series title and four American League pennants.
In 1963, Hood and Vivian Malone were physically blocked from enrolling at the school by Gov. George Wallace. Later in life, Hood and Wallace became friends. |
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Jesus 'Chucho' Castillo dies at 68; Mexican boxing champion
Castillo, a hard-punching bantamweight with a huge following in Los Angeles, fought four celebrated title fights at the Forum between 1968 and 1971.
Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94; original 'Dear Abby'
Phillips, writing as Abigail Van Buren, dispensed wry, no-nonsense advice to newspaper readers around the world for over 40 years. Her identical twin also wrote an advice column, as Ann Landers.
Gussy Moran dies at 89; tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt
Her tennis talents took her to a No. 4 ranking among U.S. women and into the seventh-seeded spot in the 1949 tournament. She left the amateur circuit to turn pro in 1951 and travel with a touring group.
Allan K. Jonas dies at 91; developer and volunteer
Jonas built his real estate career in the 1950s buying and constructing properties near LAX. He was a leader of the American Cancer Society, ACLU and LA's BEST.
Conrad Bain dies at 89; played father on 'Diff'rent Strokes'
Conrad Bain was also an uptight neighbor on 'Maude.' When he was cast in the role, he had two decades of New York theater behind him.
Robert L. Citron dies at 87; central figure in O.C. bankruptcy
A low-key bureaucrat, Robert L. Citron's bad bets on Wall St. investments plunged Orange County into insolvency.
Roger Broggie Jr. dies at 73; audio-animatronics whiz for Disney
Roger Broggie Jr., began work for Walt Disney by tending his backyard railway. He helped give life to Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln and other theme park marvels.
Nagisa Oshima dies at 80; iconoclastic Japanese filmmaker
Oshima, considered one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, is best known in the West for directing the sexually explicit films 'In the Realm of the Senses' and 'Empire of Passion.'
PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes, NASA's manned space flight director in early 1960s, dies at 91; T.S. Cook, coauthor of 'China Syndrome,' dies at 65; Joel Schaeffer, longtime Reseda High football coach, dies at 70
Jimmy O'Neill dies at 73; L.A. deejay hosted TV's 'Shindig!'
O'Neill emceed the ABC prime-time show that featured frenetic dancers and showcased such acts as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Righteous Brothers.
Leon Leyson dies at 83; youngest survivor on Schindler's List
Leyson was one of the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He taught school in Huntington Park for 39 years and shared his survival story with others.
Eugene Patterson dies at 89; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
As editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1960s, he helped bring national attention to the civil rights movement as it was developing across the South.
Gerda Lerner dies at 92; pioneered field of women's history
Memories of her experience in a Nazi prison as a young woman shaped her life's work in her adopted country of the United States, where she became a groundbreaking feminist.
Aaron Swartz dies at 26; Internet folk hero founded Reddit
Swartz, who was accused of stealing nearly 5 million articles from an MIT archive and was set to be tried in February, was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment.
Jayne Cortez dies at 78; poet and performance artist
Jayne Cortez founded the Watts Repertory Theater Company, which she used to highlight racial inequalities. Her evocative, surreal poetry tackled racial and sexual oppression.
Evan S. Connell Jr. dies at 88; iconoclastic novelist, historian
Evan S. Connell Jr. won the admiration of critics and a cult-like following of discerning readers with books on subjects as eclectic as Midwestern provincialism, the Crusades and Custer's last stand.
Jeanne Manford dies at 92; co-founder of group for parents of gays
Jeanne Manford was inspired by the reception she got when she walked in a gay pride parade with her son. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays was the eventual result.
