Category Archives: Columnists

January 16, 1959: Paul Coates — Confidential File

Posted on January 16, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Someday, Butch H., Try to Be Forgiving Some stories I’d rather not print. And when I first heard about what a bunch of grown men and women were doing to a kid named Butch Harris, I filed the … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — January 15, 1959

Posted on January 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

Frontier Pusher-Back To newsman John Cornell goes a silent roll of drums, a bugle call and maybe a flag-raising for alertness above and beyond the call of routine. John was banging out a rewrite about Les White, Southland auto dealer, … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, January 15, 1959

Posted on January 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Mother Knows Best (She Says So Herself) REPORT FROM A BOY’S BEST FRIEND: Deep down in the grimy recesses of my mind lives the unreasonable conviction that, in my dear mother’s eyes, I’m a bum. As I say, … Continue reading →

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January 14, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

Capricious Electron An engaging stranger named Peter Buchanan came into the office, apologized for taking my time, handed me a typewritten half-sheet of paper and asked me to read it and perhaps check it. It was a theory he had … Continue reading →

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January 14, 1959: Paul Coates — Confidential File

Posted on January 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Red Tape Frequently Chokes Logic, Justice Postscript to a tragedy: Two and a half years ago, a young Norwalk housewife returned from the home of a neighbor to find her husband sprawled dying across his bed. He had … Continue reading →

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Thousands in Los Angeles pray for peace, January 14, 1939

Posted on January 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

About 4,000 worshipers attend a Perpetual Novena for Our Sorrowful Mother at St. Vibiana’s Cathedral. People knelt in the aisles, in the doorways and outside praying for peace and for relief of the poor, The Times says. County Supervisor Roger … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — January 13, 1959

Posted on January 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

Losing Battle Perhaps you’ve noticed that a Data Card for Highway Planning came along with your auto registration renewal. Well, a Van Nuysian (or should it be a Van Nuyser?), who felt it was an invasion of his privacy, at … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Mikoyan interview, January 13, 1959

Posted on January 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

Interview With Coates Russian Stars on TV Show By Paul V. Coates, Mirror News Columnist When President Eisenhower sits down with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan on Saturday to plan give-and-take with West Berlin and Germany, it’ll be Ike … Continue reading →

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Voices — Jerry Cronin

Posted on January 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

Keith Thursby writes: Ned Cronin was a columnist at The Times until his death in 1958 and his work has been featured often in the Daily Mirror. His son, Jerry, recently discovered the blog and we started an e-mail conversation. … Continue reading →

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Jets win Super Bowl, 16-7, January 13, 1969

Posted on January 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

The New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, 16-7, to win the Super Bowl and become one of the most surprising champions in modern sports history. How surprising was it? Here’s the game according to Jim Murray: "On Sunday afternoon, … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — January 12, 1959

Posted on January 12, 2009 by lmharnisch

Taxing Times A young lady singer is very angry at the Internal Revenue Service. Her federal income tax last year came to around $380. She had paid all but about $70. Christmas week the revenuers attached the amount from her … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, January 12, 1959

Posted on January 12, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Batista Death Plot Laid Here When Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba last week, a fantastic plot by an American war hero to assassinate the dictator died in the planning. The initial secret meeting between the much-decorated World War II … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — January 10, 1959

Posted on January 10, 2009 by lmharnisch

Chinese Puzzle On a recent excursion to San Francisco, a Hollywood press party with TV executive Ted Galenter as host went to a Chinese restaurant. The food was wonderful but a writer named Jim didn’t eat. He said he wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, January 10, 1959

Posted on January 10, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Mash Notes and Comments "Dear Paul Coates: "We can’t forgive you for using the objective case instead of the possessive or genitive case with your verbal nouns or gerunds. "You’re an educated man, so please clean up this … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — January 9, 1959

Posted on January 9, 2009 by lmharnisch

Rugged Fisherman The telephone rang at 3 a.m. Wednesday in the Venice home of Bill O’Connor. It was Pat Lister, Santa Monica harbor master, informing him that gale winds were whipping the bay and his boat was dragging its mooring. … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, January 9, 1959

Posted on January 9, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE ‘Madame Guillotine,’ Alias Pierre Coates As a combined result of personal preference and the common sense economics of knowing what side my bread is buttered on, I have a paid-up subscription to this newspaper. And I recall reading … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock — January 8, 1959

Posted on January 8, 2009 by lmharnisch

Dogs, Diapers, Taxes   Comes now that hiatus between cries, when the feverish race begins to clear away Christmas bets in time to pay for auto license renewals by Feb. 4 and then face up to income taxes in April. … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates — Confidential File, January 8, 1959

Posted on January 8, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Wife Tells of Mate Who Died, and Lived BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 7 — Buried alive for hours and given up for dead, Leslie O. Stafford, a construction workman, was dramatically rescued today from the bottom of a 24-foot-deep collapsed … Continue reading →

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January 7, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

News From Detroit A group of grimly playful fellows at SC who call themselves Asthmatics Anonymous advise that at a raw-lunged meeting in the basement which serves as headquarters they have regrouped as Asthmatics Militant. First move was to change … Continue reading →

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January 7, 1959: Paul Coates — Confidential File

Posted on January 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Current Skull Doily Scene, With Larceny I don’t know what you do for kicks, but my friend Tiger Small snatches toupees. Not just anybody’s toupees, understand. The Tiger’s selective. He’s been working the Catskill-Manhattan-Miami circuit for years, dealing … Continue reading →

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