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It was the end of a busy Friday night dinner shift. Waitress Candacy Taylor sat in the back of a San Francisco restaurant with her exhausted coworkers.
My mother, Evelyn Sims McNeil, hated euphemisms. So I should say that her condition was that she was dying. And die she did, on Nov. 13.
NOVEMBER 26 , 1942
Allied forces secure North Africa the same day the film "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, debuts in New York.
1956: Rev. Bob Richards, the first athlete featured on a Wheaties box, becomes the only pole vaulter to win two Olympic gold medals.
1973: Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s personal secretary, says she is to blame for the 18.5-minute gap in a crucial Watergate tape.