Milestones

DIED

Chester Hansen, 95, aide to U.S. General Omar Bradley during and after WW II; his multivolume war diaries have been a valuable resource for historians for decades.

DIED

Margaret Osborne duPont, 94, who learned to play tennis on San Francisco public courts and won 37 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles from the '40s to the '60s.

WON

The 2012 World Series, by the San Francisco Giants, who defeated the Detroit Tigers in a four-game sweep. The games averaged just 12.7 million viewers on Fox, making this the lowest-rated World Series in history.

PROMOTED

Jonathan Ive, Apple's design guru, who...

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