Category Archives: Columnists

Paul Coates — Confidential File, March 3, 1959

Posted on March 3, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photographs by the Los Angeles Times Frank Heller and Linda Mintz in a photograph published Nov. 11, 1958, in The Times.  Slave Camp to Murder Trial Nazi Victim Still Hopes For Linda Mintz, tomorrow the horror may end. The tiny, … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — March 2, 1959

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Next Stop: the Couch This is to alert psychiatrists to keep their couches dusted off. At a party the other night a man was telling about a recurring dream. In it he would go up to a tobacco counter and … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, March 2, 1959

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CONFIDENTIAL FILE First-Hand Report From Bed of Pain [Note: I’m always concerned when Paul Coates takes a sick day or writes about his health. He suffered a stroke in 1966, made a startling recovery, but died Nov. 16, 1968. He … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — February 28, 1959

Posted on February 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

Fix your toaster, mister? One Saturday morning about four years ago a man came into the Mayflower Hotel on Grand Avenue to repair a toaster. In the ensuing confusion involving the chef, the engineer and the assistant manager, the man … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 28, 1959

Posted on February 28, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE "No Place to Pull a Job" Half a year ago, I first met Albert Ebert. He was a short and solid man whose 50-odd years had removed his hair, but none of his backbone. By trade, Ebert was … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — February 27, 1959

Posted on February 27, 2009 by lmharnisch

Not Dead, but Reeling Reports of the death of the movie industry at the hands of television are premature, Jerry Wald, Fox producer, told a Press Club audience. He conceded, however, under the expert needling of Joe Hyams of the … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 27, 1959

Posted on February 27, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE American Cleared in Tijuana Slaying TIJUANA, Feb. 27 — Mexican officials have cleared Richard N. Thomas, 34, of La Puente, of any connection with the slaying of an unidentified woman whose torso was found 19 miles south of … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — February 26, 1959

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‘Criminal’ Confesses The lady admits her crime. The engine in her 1947 Mercury station wagon is inefficient. And when the APCD man stopped her a block from her home in Whittier and told her it was emitting 70% white smoke, … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 26, 1959

Posted on February 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

Since Coates is ill (don’t worry, he’ll be back), here’s Abby. I guess this is documented proof that people actually put lampshades on their heads at 1950s parties. I thought they only existed in the comics.

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Matt Weinstock — February 25, 1959

Posted on February 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Closing the Books In the last week two big downtown bookmakers have folded their form charts and quietly stolen away. The gendarmes didn’t knock them over. The longshots at Santa Anita did. To stay in business a bookie has to … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 25, 1959

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Matt Weinstock — February 24, 1959

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Wages and Ages From out of the desert, where the lizards and the chuckwalla roam, comes a discouraging word from my sagebrush podner, Harry Oliver. The serenity which Harry enjoys at his adobe fort at Thousand Palms; where he publishes … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 24, 1959

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Matt Weinstock — February 23, 1959

Posted on February 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

Buddy Buddy Stuff Recently I blurted out that I could talk squirrel language. Actually I don’t know whether I can or not. All I know is that a beautiful wild squirrel in the back yard came over to my outstretched … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 23, 1959

Posted on February 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Mash Notes and Comments (Press Release) "There is a rangy, talkative sprite whose fantastically photogenic face has graced some 60 magazine covers. She has earned a fortune in fashion modeling, a career she all but shunted two years … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — February 21, 1959

Posted on February 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

His Is a Good Job Last November, Frank Frohnhoefer’s daughter Francine wanted something different to "share" at school, so Frank, who did 27 months as an infantryman in the South Pacific during WWII, went through his mementos and found some … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 21, 1959

Posted on February 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

Killer Thinks He Deserves to Die By Paul CoatesStaff Columnist Robert Leonard Mason wants to die. Without a flicker of emotion, the 40-year-old confessed murderer told me today: "I think I should go to the gas chamber. "Through the State … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — February 20, 1959

Posted on February 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

She Stood in Bed They said it couldn’t be done, but it was to a lady who lives in a large apartment house in midtown L.A. She turned over in bed around 1 a.m. and the bed, installed a few … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, February 20, 1959

Posted on February 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Fallacy Exploded on Older Workers Between 40% and 45% of those individuals seeking employment are in the "older worker" bracket. It’s an unrealistic, unreasonably high figure. But it’s a figure we cannot ignore. For some vital answers on … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — February 19, 1959

Posted on February 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

Snowball Madness Last week, when Walter H. Wright was driving his family up to Crestline, someone in a car coming down threw a large snowball which shattered his windshield, impairing his vision. At the ranger station he learned this is … Continue reading →

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