Harvey Mudd College

Malibu retreat with four-star pedigree for sale

2013-05-17 20:24:00

Actor Nick Nolte has put a Malibu compound up for sale that has seen a galaxy of stars come through its arched entryway. Besides Nolte, other notables to have owned the house include comedian Tommy Chong, Don Felder of the Eagles and music producer...

Historic Harvey Mudd estate asking nearly $23 million

2013-05-11 12:10:00

The Harvey Mudd estate, designed by noted architect Elmer Grey in 1922, is for sale in the 90210 ZIP Code at $22.995 million. Sited on an acre with a swimming pool, an aviary and gardens, the English country estate has nearly 11,000 square feet of...

UCLA and USC tie in national non-athletic ranking

2012-09-11 21:12:51

For the record

2012-11-21 00:00:00

Alfred Hitchcock: A Critic's Notebook in the Nov. 11 Calendar section about filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock referred to British critic Michael Wood. The critic's name is Robin Wood. Paul Landacre: An article in the Nov. 18 Arts & Books section about an...

Joseph B. Platt dies at 96; founding president of Harvey Mudd College

2012-07-13 00:00:00

Launching a new college would "clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge," physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont. Humor was a...

3 Claremont professors awarded engineering's highest honor

2012-01-07 00:00:00

Nathaniel Davis dies at 86; U.S. ambassador to Chile when Allende was deposed

2011-05-21 00:00:00

Nathaniel Davis, a longtime diplomat who was the American ambassador to Chile when President Salvador Allende was deposed in a bloody coup, died of cancer Monday in Claremont. He was 86. His death was announced by Claremont's Harvey Mudd College, where...

Kenneth Alan Jonsson dies at 79; co-founder of cancer center at UCLA

2010-04-04 00:00:00

Kenneth Alan Jonsson, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, died March 15 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He had been in declining health for several months after a hospital stay in December,...

From the archives: 10th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History

2007-11-16 00:00:00

As exclusive gatherings go, this one was noteworthy, even by the high local standards set by A-list Hollywood, with attendees including a former acting director of the CIA, at least one prime-time TV star and half of Penn & Teller (the smaller, quieter...

Elise Mudd Marvin dies at 79; founding trustee of Pitzer College, philanthropist

2009-01-30 00:00:00

Elise Mudd Marvin, a founding trustee of Pitzer College who also was a generous donor to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other leading cultural institutions in Southern California, has died. She was 79. Marvin died Jan. 13 at her home in Pasadena, her...

Lectures and performances

2007-11-16 00:00:00

Mr. Mysto: The Indian Rope Trick! A comedic presentation performed by John Carney, assisted by Jim Piper. Dustin Stinett: Speaker: Catching up with Milo and Roger. Stinett is a writer for the magicians' magazine Genii. John Gaughan: Performed the Shower...

Meridian's McGuinn to keep calling signals for UPS

2013-04-28 03:14:02

Meridian senior Max McGuinn will still be calling signals, and in the end, that was a deciding factor in his decision to sign a National Letter of Intent to play football at the University of Puget Sound next year. "I got a couple of offers to play...

Taylor Swift, shown at the BBC 1 Radio Teen Awards on Oct. 7 in London, played a 'VH1 Storytellers' concert for Harvey Mudd College students on Oct. 15.

2012-10-16 09:03:00