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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

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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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on August 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 17, 1957 In baseball, it’s "Take two and hit to the right." In football, it’s "Hit ’em low, hit ’em hard, when they get up, hit ’em again." But in the narcotics pushing trade, they’ve got their own credo: … Continue reading →

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Grauman confidential

Posted on August 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 17, 1957 Los Angeles BY JACK SMITH Actress Maureen O’Hara’s alleged love scene with a Latin in three rear seats of Grauman’s Chinese Theater was re-enacted before a spellbound audience here yesterday at the Confidential libel trial. A … Continue reading →

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Roadium revisited

Posted on August 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 17, 1957Los Angeles The "five swaggering gang members" who were arrested in the killing of John Edwards were released after being cleared by two witnesses. The slaying was never solved.

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Max Roach, 1977

Posted on August 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

Leonard Feather on Max Roach, Jan. 6, 1977

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Prisoner’s dream

Posted on August 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 16, 1957 Santa Monica We will never know what really happened on the night ad executive Guy F. Roberts was shot to death in a Santa Monica motel room because everyone involved was lying to cover up the … Continue reading →

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Countdown to Watts

Posted on August 15, 2007 by lmharnisch

Another story not appearing in the Los Angeles Times….. The California Eagle, Aug. 15, 1957  

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Movie murder

Posted on August 14, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 15, 1957Los Angeles Here’s your case: John Emmett Edwards,* 17, 243 E. 137th St., is on a double date at the Roadium, a drive-in theater at 2500 Redondo Beach Blvd., Torrance, with his girlfriend, Frances Clemens**, 16; her brother, … Continue reading →

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