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Female World War II pilot 'will be sorely missed'
Violet "Vi" Cowden, a Huntington Beach resident who served with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II and recently became the subject of an award-winning documentary, died Sunday at 94.
Cowden died at 8:34 p.m. at Hoag Hospital in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Documentary (genre), World War II (1939-1945), South Dakota
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Violet Cowden dies at 94; civilian WASP aviator during World War II
Violet Cowden never lost her love of flying, a passion born when she was a young girl envying the hawks soaring above her family's South Dakota farm in the 1920s.
When she was a young first-grade teacher learning to fly out of an airfield in Spearfish,...Tags: Science and Technology, Documentary (genre), World War II (1939-1945), Tuskegee Airmen, Air and Aviation Sports
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Mailbag: Off-season lifeguards essential to saving lives
To cut the permanent staff of lifeguards in Newport Beach as a guise for saving money is the stupidest thing I have ever heard ("Off-season lifeguards may be reduced," April 19). Between Councilwoman Leslie Daigle, Chief Mike Morgan and City Manager...Tags: Basketball, Abortion, Health Treatments, Family Planning, World War II (1939-1945)
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Mailbag: Show stopped for taxpayers' sake
On behalf of the soldiers of the United States Army Field Band, let me tell you how upset we are that we were unable to perform for the great folks in the Huntington Beach area April 10 ("Show does not go on," April 14). Like many, many Americans, we...Tags: Entertainment, Fort Meade (military base), Theft, World War II (1939-1945), Crime, Law and Justice
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City Lights: Vi's memories won't be lost
Monday afternoon, I sat in a living room a block from the Huntington Beach shore, surrounded by the effects of the life of Vi Cowden. I may be one of the last people to see them all under one roof. Kim Ruiz, Cowden's only child, invited me to visit...Tags: Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre), Awards and Prizes, World War II (1939-1945), Newport Beach
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Jefferson Thomas dies at 67; one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School
Jefferson Thomas, one of nine students who in 1957 integrated a Little Rock, Ark., high school, a turning point for the civil rights movement, has died. He was 67.
Thomas, who lived much of his adult life in Los Angeles, died Sunday of pancreatic...Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Los Angeles, Bill Clinton, Columbus, Cancer
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There's something about ukuleles
"I think he played in Megadeth?" Shirley Orlando is thinking back to her days as the owner of Huntington Music at Goldenwest Street and Warner Avenue. For 26 years, she ran the place, and in addition to it being a music store, Shirley also used the...Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, World War II (1939-1945), Music
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DeBakey Library And Museum Complete
KIAHHouston has its share of museums like the one for fine art, natural science and children, but now there is one like no other. "This museum was unique because Dr. DeBakey was unique," said Dr. William Butler, Interim President of the Baylor College of...Tags: Heart Surgery, Government, Heads of State, Awards and Prizes, Drugs and Medicines
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Letters to the editor
Heeeeere's Conan Re "Leno keeping NBC up at night," Oct. 15 Ever since NBC made the announcement to replace Jay Leno with Conan O'Brien on "The Tonight Show" in 2009, I have been hoping the network would change its mind. Why must youth always be served?...Tags: Clarence Thomas, Los Angeles, TiVo Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals
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Atlanta's Nobel peace prize laureates
Special to The Los Angeles TimesThe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Social activist, pastor Born: Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta Died: Assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. Accomplishments: Led U.S. civil-rights movement. Emerged as a force in 1955, with the Montgomery, Ala., bus...Tags: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Death, International Relations, Heads of State
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The Master of the One-Liner
Times Staff WriterBob Hope, the elder statesman of comedy whose extraordinary career spanned vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, movies, books and makeshift concert platforms in war zones, has died. He was 100. Hope died at 9:28 p.m. Sunday at his home in Toluca...Tags: Arts and Culture, Eddie Cantor, Wars and Interventions, Chrysler Group LLC, Bill Clinton
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