"Someone asked: 'How could you write a book like this? It will destroy your mother.'
South African runner Zola Budd has told a Seattle television station she deliberately slowed down
for a new challenge," Elizabeth Brafford, the mayor's press secretary, disclosed Tuesday that she plans to resign early next month.
An 18-year-old woman who admitted that she was frightened and confused by the birth of her baby
What a shame that knee-jerk attachment to antiquated grammatical rules is swaying your editorial staff (March 24), "He or She Is a Sexist."
Even the venerable Fowler's Modern English Usage admits (Page 404) that "in a perfect language, there would exist pronouns and possessives that were of as doubtful gender as 'they' and yet were . . . singular," adding (Page 635) that "in colloquial usage, the inconvenience of having no common-sex personal...
--Somewhere on the streets of the nation's capital there goes a bag lady who is not what she appears to be.
"First of all," said Joan Rivers, opening her spit-and-fire routine at Caesars Palace, "you are looking at a woman who has finally been able to make Johnny Carson happy."
It was 1953 and Janet Gordon was prouder than ever to be an American living in Orderville, Utah.
I am so glad the Alhambra school board is considering adding on to existing high schools instead of taking homes in Rosemead for a new one, because I am one who would have to move if they built a new school in Rosemead.
Softball pitcher Debbie Mygind of Cal State Fullerton won 21 games last year, but the satisfaction you would expect to accompany such success was strangely lacking.
A woman who said she confessed to an Episcopal priest that she had embezzled $28,000 from their
As a writer and editor, I read your editorial with great interest.
The problem is easily solved by saying, "People who drive without a seat belt take their lives in their hands."
Charlot Evans of Malibu is looking for someone to replace the rollers on the sliding doors in her home ; the doors were made about 25 years ago by the Ador Co. and are 4 feet wide and 10 feet high.
Your editorial seemed to imply that avoiding sexist language in writing is such a difficult problem that you would have us shelve it and wait for some future generation to supply new pronouns.
The July 27th episode of "Murder, She Wrote" was great.
A woman who accidentally shot and killed her policeman husband cannot continue collecting workers' compensation benefits for his death because he did not die on duty, the state's top court ruled Thursday.
--It might not be every woman's dream, but Marsha Padilla of Woods Cross, Utah, was married on Thanksgiving Day on the Mayflower--to a pilgrim.
them terrific for that purpose, but she can't find them anymore.