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July 15, 2007
World & Nation
Ann Landers, whose newspaper column dispensed advice to millions of Americans on everything from adultery to adult bedwetting, from parental difficulties to pet adoption, died Saturday in Chicago.
June 23, 2002
A man who wrote to “Dear Abby” for advice on how to handle his fantasies about having sex with girls was charged in Milwaukee with possessing child pornography after the columnist turned him in, authorities say.
March 14, 2002
L.A. Now
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Jan. 17, 2013
Music
Pauline Friedman Phillips, using the pen name Abigail Van Buren, wrote the “Dear Abby” column for more than 40 years, dispensing advice to newspaper readers worldwide on matters as devastating as infidelity and as commonplace as snoring.
I’ve read the story of the Dear Abby columnist who called police over a letter writer who said he was attracted to underage girls (“No Advice This Time, Just a Call to Police,” March 15).
March 24, 2002
Politics
Columnist Abigail Van Buren had some advice for Congress: change the Social Security formula that has resulted in lower benefits for people born between 1917 and 1921.
Sept. 11, 1986
California
Among the 11,000 would-be advisers to the lovelorn who applied to take Ann Landers’ job after she left the Chicago Sun-Times was sex therapist Carol Wells of Long Beach.
May 3, 1987
After 30 years of doling out advice to the depressed, the anxious, the worried, the lovelorn, the perplexed, the happy and the puzzled, columnist Dear Abby was left almost speechless at a dinner Friday night in her honor.
June 2, 1986
Poor Jeff Zaslow.
Jan. 16, 1990