Johnny Dawson

Palm Springs calls itself the winter golf capital of the world, and rightly. On the desert floor of California's Coachella Valley a concatenation of 16 golf courses has emerged from the sand to form a colorful...

Greta Andersen, onetime Danish Olympic champion, fought painful fatigue and adverse tides, pressed on for almost 27 hours, became first to swim 22-mile Catalina channel both ways.

Rosalind Wyman, Los Angeles councilwoman and one of Dodgers' earliest and staunchest boosters, had good reason to grin after voters approved city's deal to put Walter O'Malley and his club into Chavez Ravine.