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When a Venezuelan oil tanker crashed through a retaining wall and landed in Palm Beach socialite Mollie Wilmot’s Olympic-sized swimming pool, Wilmot did the proper thing: She invited the crew in for Beluga caviar and Brie.
Feb. 16, 1986
Sports
To Susan and Bob Wilmot, the answer to who’s responsible for denting Susan’s 1991 Honda with an errant tee shot is crystal clear.
Aug. 3, 1994
Travel & Experiences
Things just seem to like to park on socialite Mollie Wilmot’s private strip of beach in Florida.
Aug. 25, 1986
California
If you’re like a lot of people, you respond to weird, funny or heart-warming human interest stories in your daily newspaper by shaking your head, laughing or crying and filing them away as good conversation fodder for your lunch break.
Aug. 20, 1986
Convinced by three marine biology graduate students that their use of Styrofoam constitutes an environmental hazard, UC San Diego officials have agreed to ban the non-biodegradable substance from the campus.
Jan. 20, 1989
UC San Diego has struck a blow for the environment and against those dreadful but ubiquitous little packing bubbles with a policy that will ban the use of plastic foam products on campus.
Jan. 22, 1989
A quick-thinking mother who plucked her young son from a first-floor window as a fire raged through her apartment was credited by fire officials Sunday with saving his life and that of her 3-year-old daughter.
July 24, 1995
Ventura County Sheriff’s Department investigators are seeking help in locating four men on outstanding felony warrants.
Oct. 7, 1997
Entertainment & Arts
The Scene: The industry screening of 20th Century Fox’s “29th Street” at the Cineplex Odeon in Century City.
Nov. 1, 1991
Movies
Ensemble cast can’t save ‘Intermission,’ a tedious film about ordinary Dubliners.
March 19, 2004