Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Folsom did not send me to Eleanor Tennant for coaching . . . It was after I had discontinued lessons with him that a friend of mine, Mrs. Curt Tree, of Los Angeles, recommended Miss Tennant and arranged our introduction. MAUREEN CONNOLLY San Diego...
...Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly, 17, went to work on her first full-time job: as a copy girl on the San Diego Union...
Little Things. In San Diego, Mrs. Lois Cardwell sued for divorce on grounds that her husband, among other things, set fire to some papers she was reading...
Time Off. In San Diego, when Motorist John Fleisher held out his arm to signal, a thug ripped off his wristwatch...
Gertrude Ederle, now 44, was the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1926. Since then, a dozen women have followed in her wake from France to Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...