Entertainment & Arts
Oct. 12, 2017
Politics
Redistricting, political ambition and anti-incumbent fervor have combined to produce primary opposition for four state Assembly members from San Diego County in next week’s election.
May 30, 1992
Warner James Bentley, 86, founding director of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College and director of dramatic production at the old Dartmouth Center which in 1939 attracted some of America’s brightest writers and entertainers to the campus.
Jan. 1, 1988
California
Funeral services will be conducted today for Orange County businessman and arts supporter Donald James Bentley.
April 11, 1986
Idris Elba has broken the 88-year-old “flying mile” speed record at Wales’ Pendine Sands, a seven-mile stretch of beach that was used in the early decades of the 20th century as a place to run two-wheel and four-wheel vehicles at top speeds.
May 8, 2015
Music
KCRW’s People Meter problem
Sept. 18, 2009
Archives
James Craig, director of housing at UC Irvine since 1983, has been named assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, the university announced.
Sept. 12, 1987
Heirs of the late Newport Beach millionaire Donald James Bentley, embroiled in a bitter financial dispute with Chapman College, counterattacked Friday by demanding repayment of perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars that Bentley had donated to the school.
Feb. 11, 1989
Business
UC Irvine officials have removed a social sciences professor from a course after parents and students complained that he had solicited money for a class exercise involving an actual investment in the commodities market.
March 5, 1990
Chapman College has filed suit against the family of the late millionaire Donald James Bentley, charging his heirs with reneging on his promise to give the institution $1 million in exchange for naming its business school after him.
March 11, 1988