Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennistar at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponent's throat...
...first sign that anything was wrong came when a six-year-old San Diego youngster, Lawrence Vicker, got home for lunch from Eugene Field School and complained that he did not feel like eating. What was more, he had a stiff neck. His mother took his temperature: 103°. Here were three symptoms of polio (although several other diseases cause similar symptoms). Yet Larry, like 26,000 other San Diego children, had been inoculated only five days earlier with the Salk vaccine...
...Turning point was Dec. 12, 1531, when an Indian peasant named Juan Diego reported a vision of the Virgin Mary and showed his cloak on which there was an image of a dark-skinned Madonna above a crescent moon. The Virgin of Guadalupe became the patroness of Mexico, and on the site of the Aztec temple to Mother-Goddess Tonantzin, Mexicans built the basilica that became their national shrine...
...Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego...
...naval aviator, commander of the group of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that helped save the U.S. beachhead in the Philippines by turning back the bulk of the Japanese fleet in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; of a heart attack; in San Diego...