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I am retired from the Los Angeles Times

Stravinsky turns 75

Posted on June 3, 2007 by lmharnisch

  June 3, 1957 Los Angeles Los Angeles celebrates the 75th birthday of one of its most famous emigre composers with a concert at UCLA and  a party in Beverly Hills. Calling him "the dean of the world’s music composers" … Continue reading →

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Chasing Marilyn Monroe

Posted on June 2, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Photographs by Larry Harnisch Los Angeles TimesThe "Wrong Door Raid" apartments at Waring Avenue and Kilkea Drive, May 27, 2007 June 2, 1957 Los Angeles Let’s suppose you are an American baseball legend being divorced by your beautiful Hollywood … Continue reading →

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Riot at Virginia Tech

Posted on June 1, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 1, 1957 Los Angeles In Washington, Arthur Miller is found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to reveal who else attended a Communist meeting in 1947. In an appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Miller, the playwright … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 1, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 1, 1957A rewrite man assigned to vacation relief on the police beat was shown around the new police building the other day. As he entered a padded cell he was told to feel how soft the walls were. When … Continue reading →

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Girl in coma

Posted on May 31, 2007 by lmharnisch

  May 31, 1957 Long Beach Suzanne was supposed to have a simple bit of surgery. Didn’t everyone get their tonsils out? The 15-year-old went into St. Mary’s Hospital in Long Beach on May 31, 1956, but during the operation, … Continue reading →

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Killing in Alhambra

Posted on May 30, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Photographs by Larry Harnisch Los Angeles Times22 Champion Place, Alhambra, Calif.     May 30, 1957Alhambra Yeah, we’re back in Alhambra, parked on the pinched, narrow street outside 22 Champion Place, a quirky, old two-story house built in 1910. … Continue reading →

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Fireball engulfs desert

Posted on May 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

Photograph by the Associated Press"A furiously boiling ball of fire, measuring 900 feet from edge to edge, churns with awesome grandeur at the Nevada atom bomb test site. The blast, which was set off on a 500-foot tower, was photographed … Continue reading →

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Neumann on the Mideast, Part 19

Posted on May 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

Note: In early 1957, The Times sent UCLA professor Robert G. Neumann on a six-week tour of the Middle East. Neumann, who was later the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, wrote these stories upon his return. His son, Ronald, … Continue reading →

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Maid held in murder

Posted on May 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 28, 1957 Los Angeles Former Nazi prisoner 33822 sat at the defense table, her hands clasped tightly.  Her light blue cotton dress was wilted from the heat and her dab of lipstick only accented her jail pallor. Police said … Continue reading →

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Random shot

Posted on May 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

I passed this building on Melrose en route to the "Wrong Door Raid" apartment house. Photograph by Larry Harnisch Los Angeles Times

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Countdown to Watts

Posted on May 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 27, 1957 Los Angeles In eight years, the city will explode in the Watts riots of August 1965 and white Los Angeles will ask itself what happened.  Look, for instance, at how the Mirror portrays integration at UCLA, which … Continue reading →

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Boy kills drunk father

Posted on May 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

  May 27, 1957 Maywood Drunk again, Harold L. Johnson, 43, lay passed out on a bed at 3069 Prospect Ave. in Maywood. His wife, Agnes,  38, helped herself to some money in his pocket. When Johnson came to and … Continue reading →

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USC rites

Posted on May 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

  May 26, 1957 Los Angeles All right, you sociologists at USC (and you know who you are) let’s aim our microscopes close to home, shall we, and examine an apparently forgotten campus rite: the Tri-Delt’s pansy ring. The rite … Continue reading →

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ABC apologizes

Posted on May 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

Page 1, Los Angeles Times Page 6

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Neumann on the Mideast, Part 18

Posted on May 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

Note: In early 1957, The Times sent UCLA professor Robert G. Neumann on a six-week tour of the Middle East. Neumann, who was later the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, wrote these stories upon his return. His son, Ronald, … Continue reading →

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Network to apologize

Posted on May 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

ABC agrees to make a formal apology for Mickey Cohen’s comments on the "Mike Wallace Interview." The Mirror, May 25, 1957 Page 1 Page 2

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Inventing tomorrow

Posted on May 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

  May 25-27, 1957 Pasadena Is it terribly cruel to pick apart a 50-year-old vision of the future? Must we laugh at the naivete of the 1950s as the work of well-meaning but misguided idealists? Let’s gently dissect a plan … Continue reading →

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Crooked partner

Posted on May 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

  May 25, 1957 Los Angeles Mohamad Ahmad should have picked a more honest partner for his liquor business. But maybe it was only after Ahmad died that the man’s true nature became clear. Ahmad, 55, died in Jerusalem on … Continue reading →

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Neumann on the Mideast, Part 17

Posted on May 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

Note: In early 1957, The Times sent UCLA professor Robert G. Neumann on a six-week tour of the Middle East. Neumann, who was later the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, wrote these stories upon his return. His son, Ronald, … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on May 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 24, 1957 REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more law ought to weed it out–Francis Bacon Six states out of our 48 have abolished the death penalty. And California had … Continue reading →

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