Jury Weighs Cleaver Killing; Renting the Coliseum, March 19, 1949

Posted on March 19, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Walter Miller slashes his wrists, stabs himself and smashes his head into
the backyard incinerator — and lives.

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The Times asks Andre Kostelanetz: Should Dmitri Shostakovich be allowed to visit the U.S.? Stravinsky says "No!" 		Above, the sordid murder case of Betty Ferreri and Vincent Charles Fauci, who are accused of killing her husband, Jerome. Although they lived in what The Times called a "fashionable Wilshire district mansion," 310 S. Lucerne, she worked as a carhop. They were acquitted.

Bad news for Virginia McElhiney: She won’t get the life insurance on late her husband, Everett, whom she poisoned with arsenic. The money will go to her former mother-in-law, Eva, a court rules.

At left, a baffling suicide of a young UCLA student.

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"Moon Mullins," "Abbie An’ Slats," "Ella Cinders" and "Li’l Abner." 		1949_0319_classified

Classified ads are (or were) built backward, starting with the last page so the first page sometimes had leftover space for editorial content, like this, above. We took one column for stories and put a "house ad" in the second column.

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Los Angeles’ two pro football teams asked the Coliseum Commission to reduce their rent.

The Rams and Dons paid 15% of their gross receipts while USC and
UCLA paid 10%, The Times’ Braven Dyer reported. The Dons, of the All
American Football Conference, played in the Coliseum from 1946-49.

"As every football fan well knows, the Rams and Dons have been
having their troubles making both ends meet," Dyer wrote. "Maybe
they’re finally going to get a break. Every little bit helps, you know,
when you’ve been on the losing end for so long."

USC paid the most of the four teams, nearly $86,000. The Dons paid a
little more than $67,000 and the Rams paid nearly $67,000. UCLA paid
almost $52,000.

–Keith Thursby
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