Teens Rescued From Ledge, Dodgers Beat Cubs, April 13, 1959

Posted on April 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

April 13, 1959, Dodgers at the Coliseum

The Coliseum's improvised arrangement for the Dodgers is changed for the opening of the 1959 season. The right field fence is brought in to 333 feet from 390 feet and right center is cut to 375 feet from 440 feet.

April 13, 1959, Los Angeles Times cover Assemblyman Thomas M. Rees, a Beverly Hills Democrat, plans to introduce a measure creating the State Air Pollution Board.

A TWA Boeing 707 sets a record time of three hours, 20 minutes from Chicago to Los Angeles, breaking the previous record of three hours, 54 minutes. A Sheriff's Department helicopter balances one skid on a narrow ridge as rescuers retrieve two teenage boys stranded on a ledge in Angeles National Forest.  

And former Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. William V. O'Connor reports the theft of $12,500 he hid in a Bible. O'Connor says he wasn't able to deposit the money in a bank before checking into a hospital for a checkup. 

April 13, 1959, Letters to the Los Angeles Times
What's on readers' minds? The quality of schools, raises for state workers, taxes, more police officers, unions — and newspaper bias. Notice the Bible passage, from Psalms. 		April 13, 1959, Art Buchwald Interviews Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds, in Paris en route to Madrid to film scenes for "It Started With a Kiss,"  says "I've never believed in divorce but I had no control over the circumstances." In one of the 1950s' biggest scandals, her husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for Elizabeth Taylor.

April 13, 1959, Comics Dec. 25, 1946, Milton Caniff,

Above, "Terry and the Pirates" by Milton Caniff, Dec. 25, 1946.

George Wunder's highly detailed panels in "Terry and the Pirates" always struck me as being a little too crowded and I prefer Milton Caniff's earlier artwork in the strip. I didn't always care for message in Caniff's later strip, "Steve Canyon," (which didn't appear in The Times,) but the man was a fabulous artist.

April 13, 1959, Movies and Theater
A clever ad campaign for "The Naked Maja" uses the back of a postcard from the Prado and a hint at what moviegoers can expect: "the other side." 		April 13, 1959, Los Angeles Times Sports
Sports writing of the era: "Don Demeter, the 23-year-old Oklahoma City church worker, delivered a powerful sermon to the Cubs on this cold but sunny Sabbath afternoon."

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1 Response to Teens Rescued From Ledge, Dodgers Beat Cubs, April 13, 1959

  1. Richard H's avatar Richard H says:
    April 13, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    251 ft down the Left field line!
    Must have been fun to play left field in the Coliseum.
    Too bad it was a screen and not a wall. Then the left fielder would have really gotten a workout in the outfield.
    Of course, if they put up a temporary wall, O’Malley couldn’t sell the seats behind left field or anywhere on that side of the Coliseum for that matter. Too bad. A screen it had to be.
    But if it had been a 42′ wall instead, the Coliseum would have seen some wild baseball! Every game would have been wild!

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