He’s spent nearly 7 decades at The San Francisco Chronicle. This year, at 98, he’s retiring.
David Perlman was born in 1918 — a decade before the discovery of penicillin and the Big Bang Theory.
July, 2017
Pat Gallant-Charette, 66, takes 18 hours to swim across English Channel
A 66-year-old from the United States has become the oldest woman to swim across the English Channel.
Pat Gallant-Charette battled lower-than-expected water temperatures, difficulty keeping her food down and a jellyfish sting on her face. She wrote on her blog that she also saw a large dorsal fin that turned out to be a sunfish, not a shark.