Monthly Archives: August 2007

Kiss and Tell

Posted on August 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 24, 1957 Los Angeles And where does our favorite scandal magazine get such high-quality dirt?  (Oh, I know, people only read it at the beauty parlor and the barbershop). It turns out that in Hollywood, money will unseal … Continue reading →

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The plight of the ‘manless woman’

Posted on August 23, 2007 by lmharnisch
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A light in the window

Posted on August 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 23, 1957Los Angeles Sandra O’Hara, 11, was sent to live with her mother when her parents divorced and apparently preferred to live with her father, Martin. So they devised a plan. The next time Sandra’s mother, Veda, 30, had … Continue reading →

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Grace Paley–review and interview

Posted on August 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here is an interview with the late Grace Paley by Elizabeth Mehren and Carolyn See’s review of Paley’s "Later the Same Day." Paley died Wednesday at the age of 84. Interview, May 22, 1985, Part 1 Review, May 19, 1985, … Continue reading →

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Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

Posted on August 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 23, 1957Los Angeles Bad things happen when two men (Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn) abduct a movie star (Jane Russell). It turns out that her upcoming film is "The Kidnapped Bride" and everyone–including the studio and the alleged … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on August 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 22, 1957 Desmond Slattery–actor, naturalist, man-about Googies–paid his annual visit to my plush offices yesterday. And, of course, I’m glad he did. Because it means that he won’t be around for another 11 months or so. But don’t get … Continue reading →

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The Choirboys

Posted on August 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 17-22, 1957 Los Angeles Officers Robert J. Steele, 25, and James K. Sherratt, 28, were sitting in Steele’s car at 4 a.m. after finishing their shifts at Newton Division when a gunman tried to rob them, The Times said. … Continue reading →

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Countdown to Watts

Posted on August 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

The California Eagle, Aug. 22, 1957. The Times never reported the NAACP’s lawsuit against the Police Department. Apparently the Los Angeles police chief giving sworn testimony about the department wasn’t considered news.

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Countdown to Watts

Posted on August 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 21-22, 1957Los Angeles Note the contrasting coverage as Kappa Alpha Psi, an African American fraternity, holds its national convention in Los Angeles.

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on August 21, 2007 by lmharnisch

The Mirror, June 13, 1956. Note: No 72-point headline on Jack O’Leary’s hiccups. Aug. 21, 1957 June 13, 1956, was a grim and heavy news day. In New York, six children were killed in a cave-in. In San Diego, plans … Continue reading →

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Dodgers, go home!

Posted on August 21, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Confidential: Tells the Facts and Names the Names

Posted on August 21, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 19-22, 1957Los Angeles Whatever Polly Gould knew about Confidential magazine died with her. The Times said that Gould, 46, a former “investigator” for Confidential and Whisper, had once been a columnist for Jimmy Tarantino’s Hollywood Night Life magazine, a … Continue reading →

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Great moments in advertising

Posted on August 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

Well, you have to admit, it gets your attention.

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Los Feliz strangler

Posted on August 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 20, 1957Los Angeles It’s late afternoon and we’re parked outside a 1926 bungalow at 4020 Holly Knoll Drive. Pretty soon the street will be full of police and reporters, but right now everything is quiet. Ready? Let’s go in. … Continue reading →

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Pepe Arciga

Posted on August 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 19, 1957 Here’s a short-short that I think you’ll like. It’s a story, though no tale. The principal character is a woman. A woman of middle age, slightly plump, gray-haired, bespectacled and, up to now, of no traceable city … Continue reading →

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California baseball!

Posted on August 19, 2007 by lmharnisch
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The vexations of research

Posted on August 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 18, 1957 Los Angeles Nearly a century ago, Los Angeles had the wisdom and foresight to appoint the first policewoman in the United States–or was she? Alice Stebbins Wells is usually given that distinction today, but the record … Continue reading →

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Paul Rosenfield on Merv Griffin

Posted on August 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here’s a two-part feature on Merv Griffin published in The Times in August 1981. And a letter from Griffin in response. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Letters

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Confidential: Tells the Facts and Names the Names

Posted on August 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here’s the Confidential magazine article about Maureen O’Hara that prompted her lawsuit and the testimony about the alleged tryst at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. From the March 1957 issue. (Note: O’Hara successfully proved that she was out of the country when … Continue reading →

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Grauman confidential–Part II

Posted on August 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 18, 1957Los Angeles Maureen O’Hara says through her lawyer that it was impossible for her to have engaged in the alleged tryst at Grauman’s Chinese Theater because at the time it supposedly occurred she was out of the country … Continue reading →

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