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    Apr 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Steve Alford has big legacy to fill

    Steve Alford was formally introduced as UCLA's basketball coach Tuesday, at center court in Pauley Pavilion. He mentioned John Wooden three times during his first three minutes in the Westwood spotlight.
    Steve Alford was formally introduced as UCLA's basketball coach Tuesday, at center court in Pauley Pavilion. He mentioned John Wooden three times during his first three minutes in the Westwood spotlight. Athletic Director Dan Guerrero noted the...

    Tags: Trials, College Sports, Iowa Hawkeyes, College Basketball, Basketball

  2. Jan 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Frank Pooler dies at 86; choral director mentored the Carpenters

    Frank Pooler, a longtime choral director at Cal State Long Beach who is credited with helping the 1970s pop group the Carpenters develop their signature sound, has died. He was 86.
    Frank Pooler, a longtime choral director at Cal State Long Beach who is credited with helping the 1970s pop group the Carpenters develop their signature sound, has died. He was 86. Pooler died Jan. 19 in his Los Alamitos home after a short battle with...

    Tags: Karen Carpenter, Students, Colleges and Universities, Religious Festivals, Obituaries

  4. Jan 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer

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    Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...

    Tags: Nuclear Power, Pneumonia, Los Angeles Unified School District, Colleges and Universities, Chernobyl Disaster (1986)

  6. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. What will a new hip cost? Few hospitals quote a price, study finds

    Only 16% of U.S. hospitals surveyed in a recent study gave a complete price quote for a common hip surgery, highlighting the obstacles many patients face in comparison shopping. Pricing information remains difficult to obtain from medical providers...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, American Medical Association, Medical Research, Consumers, Hip Replacement

  8. Sep 25, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. The Siren's Call: Inner journeys and mental travelers

    Visionaries. Blake had a special name for them: "Mental Travellers." Their bodies might be enslaved, but not their minds, which roamed and saw things "cold earth wanderers never knew."
    Visionaries. Blake had a special name for them: "Mental Travellers." Their bodies might be enslaved, but not their minds, which roamed and saw things "cold earth wanderers never knew." If you consider yourself one of these travelers, you're in good...

    Tags: Nick Owchar, New York University, World War II (1939-1945), Travel, Trips and Vacations

  10. Apr 8, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth

    Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author.
    Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...

    Tags: Biography (genre), Wallace Stegner, Apple iPhone, Customs and Tradition, Shingles

  12. May 2, 2012 |Story| AP Member Choice Complete
  13. Earl Rose dies at 85; Dallas medical examiner on JFK case

    Dr. Earl Rose, the medical examiner in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died Tuesday at a retirement community in Iowa City, Iowa. He was 85. Rose's wife, Marilyn, said he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and then...

    Tags: John Connally, Jack Ruby, Alzheimer's Disease, Colleges and Universities, John F. Kennedy

  14. Dec 29, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Herbert Nipson dies at 95; helped broaden Ebony magazine's audience

    When Herbert Nipson joined Ebony magazine's editorial staff in 1949, the publication, founded just four years earlier in Chicago, had a target readership of urban African Americans, and its stories reflected that sensibility. But as the civil rights...

    Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Journalism, Sociology, Arts, World War II (1939-1945)

  16. Feb 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  17. National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced

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    The White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (above) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts, joining actor......
  18. Mar 22, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  19. Juan Felipe Herrera appointed California poet laureate

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    Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed California poet laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. His 2008 collection "Half of the World in Light" was a winner of that year's National Book Critics Circle award in poetry....
  20. Jul 23, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat

    Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
    Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75. Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...

    Tags: Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, Dominican Republic, Barack Obama, Business Enterprises

  22. Aug 12, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. Philip Levine 'stunned' to be named next U.S. poet laureate

    Philip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize winner who was named the nation's next poet laureate Wednesday, has spent much of his career listening and reflecting on the voices of America. In his new job he said he has one main goal.
    Los Angeles Times
    Philip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize winner who was named the nation's next poet laureate Wednesday, has spent much of his career listening and reflecting on the voices of America. In his new job he said he has one main goal. "I want to bring poetry to...

    Tags: Journalism, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Career and Workplace, New York University, Colleges and Universities

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