--- description: DIED Phyllis Krasilovsky, 87, author of nearly two dozen popular children's books, including The Very Little Girl (her first, in 1953) and The Cow Who... title: Milestones image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Milestones (6 Mar 2014) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2014 10:54 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 6, 2014 10:54 AM CUT DIED Phyllis Krasilovsky, 87, author of nearly two dozen popular children’s books, including The Very Little Girl (her first, in 1953) and The Cow Who Fell in the Canal. DECRIMINALIZED By the Washington city council, marijuana. Possession of up to 1 oz. (28 g) of pot will result in a $25 fine–comparable to a parking ticket. Smoking pot in public will remain a crime. DIED Jim Lange, 81, original host of ABC’s hit matchmaking show The Dating Game for 25 years. DIED Justin Kaplan, 88, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Mark Twain as well as Walt Whitman and Lincoln Steffens; he later became the editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. DIED Dale Gardner, 65, American astronaut best known for his 1984 rescue and return to the space shuttle Discovery of a pair of satellites that had drifted off course. DIED Huber Matos, 95, a top lieutenant in Fidel Castro’s rebel forces who split with Castro over the latter’s turn to communism. After 20 years of brutal imprisonment, he left Cuba and became a prominent anti-Castro activist in Florida. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/13824/milestones-133/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/13824/milestones-133/"},"headline":"Milestones (6 Mar 2014)","datePublished":"2014-03-06T10:54:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T20:02:28.233Z","description":"DIED Phyllis Krasilovsky, 87, author of nearly two dozen popular children's books, including The Very Little Girl (her first, in 1953) and The Cow Who...","url":"https://time.com/13824/milestones-133/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/13824/milestones-133/","name":"Milestones (6 Mar 2014)"}}]}] ```