Category Archives: Columnists

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, May 1, 1941

Posted on May 1, 2011 by lmharnisch

           May 1, 1941: Alan Le May fills in for Lee Shippey, who is recovering from surgery. S.S. Santa Rosa — Like your appendix, this cruise is just a vestige of time gone by. As we … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, May 1, 1961

Posted on May 1, 2011 by lmharnisch

            May 1, 1961: Les Richter, middle-guard linebacker and mad red dog of the Rams, spends each football season as the Dracula of the line-of-scrimmage and each off-season as the William Jennings Bryan of sports.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 30, 1941

Posted on April 30, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 30, 1941: Horatio Winslow fills in for columnist Lee Shippey, who is recovering from surgery, with a piece about the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America. The organization, unofficially supported by the Army, … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 30, 1961

Posted on April 30, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 30, 1961: Down on the field, a team called the Los Angeles Angels were playing once again. It was possible to close my eyes and go back to 1944, the first time I … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 29, 1941

Posted on April 29, 2011 by lmharnisch

             April 29, 1941: Irvin S. Cobb fills in for Lee Shippey once again. Height of Something or Other: Gertrude Lawrence's reported plan to auction Vic Mature's appendix (well preserved in a bottle) for British … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 28, 1941

Posted on April 28, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 28, 1941: Irvin S. Cobb fills in for Lee Shippey, who is still recovering from surgery.  Tom Treanor files a report from a press junket to Venezuela, saying that reporters are treating it as a … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 28, 1961

Posted on April 28, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 28, 1961: Jim Murray dips into the mailbag and finds letters from Frank Capra and George Kennedy, among others. Meredith Willson wants Murray to write a baseball comedy so he can use it for a … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 27, 1941

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 27, 1941: Lee Shippey files  a column from his hospital bed! OUR PARTY FOR VENEZUELA met in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center before sailing today. We could look out across the city at the … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 27, 1961

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 27, 1961: The Angels make their debut at a refurbished Wrigley Field against the Minnesota Twins. Jim Murray says: "You have to marvel that, at 1:30 this afternoon, they will bravely begin an extended run … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 25, 1941

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 25, 1941: Lee Shippey is still recovering from surgery, so his friends are filling in for him. Today’s column by novelist Harlan Ware is about what Hollywood success did to one writer. No matter how … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 18, 1941

Posted on April 18, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 18, 1941: Lee Shippey is hospitalized after what The Times vaguely referred to as “major surgery.” His column continued to appear with guest writers filling in. On the jump: Benjamin “Bugsie” Siegel is … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 18, 1961

Posted on April 18, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 18, 1961: Talk about versatility. Today, Jim Murray writes about riding to hounds: “Here in Southern California, the traditions are being carried on by the West Hills Hunt Club, a doughty band of … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 17, 1941

Posted on April 17, 2011 by lmharnisch

            SANTA FE CHIEF, April 16 — NOTHING MAKES YOU feel more remote from the toil, trouble and strife of the war world than a powerful train. It's a moving island from which all disturbing influences … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 16, 1941

Posted on April 16, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 16, 1941: Tom Treanor writes another column about Leland Stowe and Thomas Mann. “Both of these splendid speakers emphasized strongly the evil that Germany is doing. They spoke on moral grounds and they used … Continue reading →

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Kennedy Names First Black U.S. Attorney

Posted on April 16, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 16, 1961: President Kennedy nominates Cecil F. Poole (d. 1997) as U.S. attorney for the Northern District California. He was the first African American U.S. attorney in the Continental U.S., the first black federal … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, April 15, 1961

Posted on April 15, 2011 by lmharnisch

       April 15, 1961: Matt Weinstock has two items on people who are crossing the country in walks for peace. One is a group that is walking from San Francisco to Moscow and the other is Miss Peace … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 15, 1941

Posted on April 15, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 15, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the restoration of the Don Ignacio de Palomares house as a WPA project to help celebrate the centennial of the Rancho Santa Anita grant to Don Hugo Reid. … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, April 14, 1961

Posted on April 14, 2011 by lmharnisch

    April 14, 1961: Like some huge, weird, robot-like monster in a dream, the steel and concrete pillars and bridges of the Santa Monica Freeway are advancing slowly westward from Figueroa Street to Venice Boulevard, laying waste all before … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 14, 1941

Posted on April 14, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 14, 1961: One of the joys of these old newspapers is stumbling across an undiscovered gem, and Tom Treanor has one today: An interview with Paul Revere Williams, the famous African American architect. … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 14, 1961

Posted on April 14, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 14, 1961: The arrival of major league baseball in Los Angeles has curtailed network TV's games of the week, so that sports announcer Dizzy Dean is off the local airwaves, which may be … Continue reading →

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