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Girl from Laguna. The oldest human remains discovered in North America so far were found by chance. Howard Wilson, 17, amateur collector of arrowheads, was scratching around near his Laguna Beach home in 1933 when he uncovered a skull. His mother suggested the garbage pail as a suitable receptacle; Howard stoutly held out for a shoe box and eventually gave his find to a museum. Many years and expert examinations later, it was established that the "girl from Laguna" had lived between 15,000 and 18,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bones, Spears and Hohokam | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...South Laguna, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1971 | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...course with such a play is that once you assign each character a telling adjective there isn't much more to say of them. No one is about to accuse Dumas the Father of too much character development. As compensation, Joan Minto has provided costumes that would do the Laguna Beach "Festival of the Masters" proud. Warren Motley's Cardinal Richelieu, silently suffering from constant migraine as he tries to hold together both himself and the entire French state, could easily have stepped out of a painting by Goya, and Charles Smith, with just the slightest trace of foppishness under...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Theatre The Three Musketeers at the Loeb | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

HUBBARD KEAVY South Laguna, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1970 | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...Laguna Mountains, the flames were barely visible at first. Franklin Greene, 59, a court reporter who lives in a hillside house near the town of Jamul, east of San Diego, watched the distant flickerings with little concern, then took some relatives out to dinner. Just before 6 the next morning, a group of hippies from a commune farther down the mountain roused Greene and warned him to flee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Ordeal by Fire Storm | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

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