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LJ Country Day offers stellar recruits Anthony Torres, taking a swing, has one more season left before he moves on to play for the University of Iowa. A number of Country Day star athletes have made final decisions on where they are playing next fall.
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Tex & Fran
Drugmaker returns to drawing board
July 7, 1945
BY KENDRA HARTMANN | VILLAGE NEWS
La Jolla love stories Companions celebrating decades of marriage share how to make it last By Kendra Hartmann
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Tex Hay says it was a Corsair F4U fighter plane that brought him and wife Fran together. Assigned to be trained on the plane, he ended up at Mojave Marine Air Corps Station, where Fran was using her education from law school as a legal occupational specialist in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. On New Year’s Eve 1943, while World War II was raging, the two found themselves deep in conversation at a celebration to ring in the New Year. Tex had to return to the war, to the Pacific and the last great battle at Okinawa. He and Fran, now both 93, stayed in constant contact while he was gone, and a month after he returned in June of 1945, they were married. When asked what it has been like sharing a life with one person, Tex said, “Well, you learn to
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turn your back on a lot of things. You learn to walk away now and then.” Tex came from Texas dairy farmers, and he said that when he broke the news to his father that he was going to Boston to marry a woman lawyer, his reserved “You learn to father said he had never heard of such turn your back a thing. When he told on a lot of him that she was also things. You learn Catholic, his father to walk away was silent for a long time before saying now and then.” simply, “Well, I hope TEX HAY you know what La Jollan you’re doing.” It seems Tex did know what he was doing. He and Fran will celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary this year. For 66 years, the two have celebrated birthdays, holidays and vacations. They have watched the births of their three chilSEE MARRIAGE, Page 5
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., a La Jolla-based pharmaceutical firm, received some discouraging news on Jan. 31 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected the company’s new diet pill, Contrave. In response to Orexigen’s application for approval, the FDA issued a letter stating the company must conduct a “randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sufficient size and duration to demonstrate that the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in overweight and obese subjects does not adversely affect the drug's benefit-risk profile.” Company executives indicated that though they hadn’t expected outright approval of Contrave, they were surprised by the administration’s high expectations. Michael Narachi, president and CEO of Orexigen, said in a recent statement that the company plans “to work closely with the FDA to gain more information to determine the appropriate next steps." Contrave was initially submitted for U.S. regulatory approval last March based on multiple clinical trials that evaluated the drug in more than 4,500 patients. During a conference call with stock analysts, Narachi said the letter had not specified the size of the study requested by the FDA. "It's pretty clear that these [types of] trials are fairly large and take fairly long to conduct," he said.