Milestones Mar. 13, 2000
ENGAGED. ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, Russian tennis starlet, to Russian hockey pro PAVEL BURE, 28; in Miami. Kournikova, who won her first Grand Slam title (in doubles) in last year's Australian Open, lives in the same Miami Beach apartment building as the Florida Panther All-Star MVP.
SUSPENDED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 37, Yankees' designated hitter who tested positive for cocaine in January; for one year, by commissioner Bud Selig; in Tampa, Fla. It is his third suspension for drug use in five years. Two days after the ruling, the eight-time All-Star checked into a rehabilitation clinic.
COMPLETED. DORIS ("GRANNY D") HADDOCK, 90, arthritic New Hampshire activist who walked 3,200 miles across the U.S. to highlight congressional foot dragging over campaign-finance reform. Haddock, who covered 10 miles a day for 14 months, wore a steel back brace and a vest emblazoned with GRANNYD.COM, which has a reform petition and a list of "Granny's Dirty 30" corporations undermining American democracy.
DIED. JOSEPH WOLFSON, 50, legendary surfer who was nicknamed "Dr. 360" after being the first boogie boarder to turn full circle while riding a wave; in a car crash; in Los Angeles. Surfers rescued Wolfson in 1998, after the lung-cancer patient left a note onshore with $5,000 for a funeral party and paddled out to sea to die.
DIED. GEORGE DUNING, 92, film and television composer whose five Oscar-nominated scores include From Here to Eternity (1953) and Picnic (1955); in San Diego.
DIED. IOANNA, 92, Bulgarian queen; in Estoril, Portugal. Her marriage to King Boris III was blessed by Mussolini, and her husband was rumored to have been poisoned by Hitler. She helped many Jews escape the Nazis, and was exiled in 1946 when communists dissolved the monarchy.
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