Category Archives: Columnists

In Rome, II

Posted on July 1, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 1, 1957Los Angeles The late Art Buchwald, continued.

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 28, 1957 Rehabilitation can come in curious ways. Let a man who occasionally checks in here tell his story of self-appraisal and reinstatement in society. One day he picked up a book, “Blood on the Boards,” by William Campbell … Continue reading →

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In Rome

Posted on June 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 26, 1957 Los Angeles The late Art Buchwald always struck me as one of the least amusing humor columnists America has ever produced. But as this piece shows, he was a pretty fair writer when he wasn’t trying to … Continue reading →

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Boxer dies

Posted on June 26, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 26, 1957 Los Angeles I’m pleased to present the work of John Hall, a columnist for the Mirror, The Times and the Orange County Register. In this piece, he recalls the late boxer “Mexican” Joe Rivers and his fight … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 24, 1957 SUBJECT’S NAME: Delbert Wilson Miller. SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION: Age, 60. Height, 5 feet, 10 inches. Weight, 155 pounds. Bald, rim of gray hair. Glass right eye. Tattoo: "IRMA-DELL" upper right arm. Tattoo of swastika on left forearm. Any … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 22, 1957 By now, presumably, people who voted for the $40,000,000 bond issue to extend the city’s park and recreation system and expand the zoo know that $2,000,000 of the money will go for roads into Chavez Ravine, where … Continue reading →

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Sketchbook

Posted on June 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 22, 2007 Los Angeles I got on the Red Line at the 7th and Figueroa station last night to find two teenage boys with skateboards at one end of the car. They called out an odd warning for all … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 18, 1957 Los Angeles By oath and by tradition, policemen and probation officers are on the same side of the law. Yet I know of no two groups so closely associated and so united in cause which are so … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 17, 1957 Sometimes it is very difficult to know whom to believe. Take the case of a young sailor named Mike. Mike, 19, on leave from his base in San Diego, went to a wedding and reception a few … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 15, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 15, 1957 It can now be revealed that a dark plot against the Stanfords by the Uclans–an offshoot of the feuding between the two universities as a result of PCC [Pacific Coast Conference] penalties–has been inadvertently thwarted. Not long … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 12, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 12, 1957 "Marijuana," you don’t say out loud. You whisper it. Because, in the last few years, it has become a hysterical word. And the hysteria has reached a point, today, whereby guilt can be decided by association. But … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 11, 1957 Our national concern for the plight of soldier William Girard has, from the start, struck me as oddly misplaced. As well as I can understand it, we’re upset because the United States has failed to stand behind … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 8, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 8, 1957 Maxwell Spencer knows more drunks, habitual and occasional, than most men know sober people. But he is a man of strong constitution. So far, he hasn’t permitted his associations to drag him down the neck of a … Continue reading →

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John Fante file

Posted on June 8, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 8, 1933 The Los Angeles Examiner scooped The Times on John Fante. Read the story from Aug. 7, 1933. Thanks to Richard Schave.  

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Reunited

Posted on June 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

  June 6, 1957 Los Angeles Just in time for Father’s Day, 16-year-old Barbara Davis Chilton was reunited with her dad, whom she had never seen, thanks to a Paul Coates column. Lester Eugene Davis came to the door of … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 4, 1953 Harold Leader is not a man of few words. Or minced words. He is one of a group of persons who are planning, shortly, to start a house of ex-cons in Los Angeles. And he has every … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 3, 1957 SUBJECT’S NAME: Lester Eugene Davis. SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION: Age 42. Height, 6 feet. Weight, average. Light brown hair. Brown eyes. Any person with information as to subject’s whereabouts is requested to contact his daughter, Barbara Davis Chilton, 11812 … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 3, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 3, 1957An alumnus of a large social fraternity has received a letter from national headquarters in Indianapolis alerting him to a "major crisis in California." Under this particular fraternity’s laws, Negroes and Orientals are not eligible for membership. The … 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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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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