Category Archives: Columnists

Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 9, 1959

Posted on October 9, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Oct. 9, 1959: What to do with a boy-crazy girl. And Ignored asks: My husband has made it plain that he prefers the television set to me. Several of my women friends have the same complaint. What could be … Continue reading →

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October 8, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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Hollywood Intellectual Eugene Vale, author of “The Thirteenth Apostle,” lives and works a few blocks from Sunset and Laurel Canyon Blvds., rendezvous of actors, entertainers, agents and horse players, and fountainhead of glib, superficial wisecracks about Hollywood. Yet out of … Continue reading →

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The Strange, Terrible Saga of Mario Lanza

Posted on October 8, 2009 by lmharnisch

Oct. 8, 1959: Columnist Dick Williams on Mario Lanza. Oct. 8, 1959: “The Best of Everything” starts tomorrow at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 8, 1959

Posted on October 8, 2009 by lmharnisch

I always worry when Coates goes on vacation. He had some health problems and died at an early age, poor fellow, so his absences always trouble me. Dear Abby has advice for parents with mule-headed teenage daughters!

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October 7, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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Ledge to Remember As anyone who was around then will recall, things were mighty tough in 1936.  The Depression was on and jobs were scarce and, while hardly anyone went hungry, many persons weren’t eating too well. In this prevailing … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 7, 1959

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Oct. 7, 1959: Paul Coates is on vacation.   Dear Suspicious: If there is nothing “between them” there out to be a wall!

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October 6, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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Irony Backfires A great despair has settled on Jeffrey Rimmer of Garden Grove. Not long ago he became outraged at what seemed a miscarriage of justice and wrote this letter, which a paper printed: “By suspending the wealthy attorney’s jail … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 6, 1959

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    Oct. 6, 1959: Abby advises a young man to read “Johnny Tremain.”

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October 5, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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October 5, 1959: Matt Weinstock on UFOs, downtown bars and the greatest invention of all time.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Oct. 5, 1959

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October 3, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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Matt Weinstock writes of Steve Allen’s concerns about nuclear weapons and Edita Morris’ novel “The Flowers of Hiroshima.”

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October 3, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File

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October 3, 1959: Thelonious Monk leaves after playing two numbers at the Hollywood Bowl Jazz fest. Paul Coates says Mike Wallace decides not to have Aldous Huxley on his TV show because Huxley wasn’t well known. Huxley asked: “Mike Wallace? … Continue reading →

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October 2, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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October 2, 1959: “Thelonious Monk, who’ll be among those present at the Hollywood Bowl jazz festival tonight, is the composer of “Round About Midnight, in my opinion one of the finest mood pieces of recent years.”

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October 2, 1959: Paul V. Coates &ndash

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October 2, 1959: Paul Coates says of Caryl Chessman: “Justice tripped over her own skirts in her hurry to get rid of him when he asked for his day in court.”

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October 1, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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October 1, 1959: A caller tries to tap Matt Weinstock for a few dollars. He’s not soft touch.

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October 1, Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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October 1, 1959: And Paul Coates conducts a telephone survey on Caryl Chessman. The results reveal the common misconception that Chessman was a killer. And Mickey Cohen plans to marry Beverly (Jean) Hills.

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September 30, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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September 30, 1959: “The body of a San Bernardino Freeway crash victim was hurled into a tree where it hung unnoticed for five hours today” … W.C. Fields vs. Cecil B. De Mille … and Matt Weinstock on some friendly … Continue reading →

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September 30, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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September 30, 1959: Paul Coates on a young con man, and on the tragic tale of Barbara Burns, the daughter of Bob “Bazooka” Burns.

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September 29,1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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September 29, 1959: Paul Coates on Dorothy Roseborough, a woman who liked to write…

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September 28, 1959: Matt Weinstock

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September 28, 1959: “They say I have nothing but yes men around me. I don’t operate that way. I know what I know, so I’m interested in what you know. If you don’t tell me what you think, if you … Continue reading →

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