Category Archives: Columnists

Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 29, 1959

Posted on May 29, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File Bounty on Adjectives Viewed With Alarm It is my studied opinion that Fidel Castro has flipped. Not irreparably, I hope. A few weeks of intensive psychotherapy, or perhaps just a good fatherly talking to by a more mature … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 28, 1959

Posted on May 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

A Fast Start A long-cherished dream of the professors of the Italian department at UCLA — a cultural magazine named the Italian Quarterly — recently came true. As any proud authors, the profs were keenly interested in its reception. Would … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 28, 1959

Posted on May 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File Medical Profession Recognizes a Peril There are groups in this town that are highly sensitive to criticism by the press. So sensitive, in fact, that I get the feeling sometimes they'd just as soon we didn't exist. They … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 27, 1959

Posted on May 27, 2009 by lmharnisch

Check out this font. How about that G in "judge?" Police File Trouble A television station's mishandling of confidential information from criminal files in the Police Dept.'s record room has complicated the lives and labors of those hard-working, hard-bitten police … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 27, 1959

Posted on May 27, 2009 by lmharnisch

Is that really Toulouse-Lautrec's "A La Mie" balanced on a chair in a publicity photo for Irving Stone, the Mirror's new art crtic? It most certainly is. Luckily, the painting is now in safer hands at the Museum of Fine … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Matt Weinstock

Posted on May 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

Two copies of Matt Weinstock's "My L.A." have been listed on EBay. The book, which Weinstock wrote while he was at the Daily News, is quite like his columns for The Times. One copy is priced at $15 …. and … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 26, 1959

Posted on May 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

  "Wha's a Int'llectual?" Good Samaritan? Nope! A man who lives on the sixth floor of a downtown hotel was awakened at 1 a.m. the other night by what he described as a banshee wail. He looked out the window … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 26, 1959

Posted on May 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

At UCLA's new faculty center, there are three lounges for men — and two for women. Confidential File Drinking Can Become Overly Free and Easy I know that this will come as a shock to my many fine-feathered drinking companions … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on May 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

"You'll Never Know How Sorry I Am." Missile Nonsense Don Dwiggins, this paper's aviation editor, has ferreted out a deep, dark Air Force secret — the planning behind Project Musmusculus. One day, apropos of nothing, a Pentagon general asked his … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on May 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File Careful, Doctor, With That 'Trash' Doctor, we've met before. Under slightly strained circumstances, if you'll remember. I called you into my consultation room to tell you how to run your business. That was more than three years ago. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 23, 1959

Posted on May 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

'Save for Ball' The most spirited gag of the mad spring season came to a triumphant climax this week in the Civic Center. For a long time, fellow workers have been aware that Doarwell Ball, a pressman, is a scrounger. … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 23, 1959

Posted on May 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

"All Our Plans … in the Hands of a Woman With a Gun!" Confidential File Mash Notes and Comments "Dear Mr. Coates: "Last Friday night, when I was exiting from my room, a beautiful 19-year-old Mexican senorita stopped me and … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 22, 1959

Posted on May 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

TV Stool Pigeons The upsurge of the private eye on TV has brought into focus a rather nasty bit of behaviorism which, let us hope, is not quite as true as it is made to appear. This is the sequence … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 22, 1959

Posted on May 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File Disappearance Without Reason I'm going to tell you the story of a missing person. His name is Robert Corbell. His disappearance just doesn't add up. He doesn't fit in the statistical picture of a man who disappears from … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 21, 1959

Posted on May 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

Election Gripe Ted Austin is unhappy about next Tuesday's municipal election. He doesn't think truth and justice will be served by closing the bars that day, thereby depriving thousands of deserving bartenders of a day's pay merely to provide an … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 21, 1959

Posted on May 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File Moms-to-Moscow Movement Churning WASHINGTON, May 14 — EXCHANGING MOMS WITH RUSS URGED. Congress was asked today to authorize a cultural exchange of mothers between the United States and the Soviet Union as an approach to peace. Rep. Kind … Continue reading →

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Highway Patrol Rounds Up Missing Legislators, May 21, 1939

Posted on May 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

"Teach me to dance, Dragon Lady." View this page At left, my kind of story. The Assembly sends the Highway Patrol to track down legislators who skipped their session on the last day they got paid. Among the missing is … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, May 20, 1959

Posted on May 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

"Don't shoot, Margo, I'm coming in!" Just a Mistake Several months ago the after-midnight serenity of the 100 block on South Commonwealth Avenue was disturbed by a sustained crashing noise which turned out to be a drunk driver banging into … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, May 20, 1959

Posted on May 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

Confidential File More Letters From a Badly Warped Mind The hard way, Jet Simrell got what he wanted this week: Headlines. By threatening to kill six superior judges and three other court officials, he got his name and picture plastered … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — May 19, 1959

Posted on May 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Guardian of the Law On a recent Saturday about 2 p.m. Mrs. Joan Wheeler, 21, six months pregnant, began having pains. Her husband Ernest, 27, phoned the doctor, who said to take her to the hospital immediately and he … Continue reading →

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