Category Archives: Columnists

Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, Dec. 3, 1960

Posted on December 3, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Dec. 3, 1960: Matt Weinstock says: "People are warming up to our town's pro basketball team, the Lakers. But something will have to be done about that name, which derives from their former home state, Minnesota, with … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Dec. 2, 1960

Posted on December 2, 2010 by lmharnisch

    Dec. 2, 1960: For a second time, Matt Weinstock debunks the notion that the tear-off strips on cellophane cigarette packs should be saved as a way to raise money.  Urban myths are hard to kill, he discovers. Also … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, Dec. 2, 1960

Posted on December 2, 2010 by lmharnisch

    Dec. 2, 1960: Paul Coates and his wife visit the tomb of Lenin (and, at that point, Stalin) … and John Grover takes a humorous look at President-elect Kennedy’s plan to televise news conferences. 

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 2, 1940

Posted on December 2, 2010 by lmharnisch

           RKO's new importation, Signe Hasso, almost severed a finger peeling a potato; it's sewed in place and doctors say she won't lose it, Jimmie Fidler says.  ALSO Signe Hasso on the Daily Mirror

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Matt Weinstock, Dec. 1, 1960

Posted on December 1, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Dec. 1, 1960: Matt Weinstock complains because Charlie Chaplin has no star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has an update on the fire hydrant in the gutter at 2nd and Hill streets.  DEAR ABBY: Have … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 1, 1941

Posted on December 1, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Dec. 1, 1941: Tom Treanor visits the cavalry troops at Camp Seeley and mentions the remarkable lack of interest in the war. All the men talk about is their horses and maybe the M-1 Garand. Pat … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 30, 1960

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Dec. 2, 1960: A publicity man never gives up, Matt Weinstock says, citing his experience with a tale about the Arizona Bar – in San Diego. DEAR ABBY: We are the parents of four wonderful adopted children. … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann, Nov. 30, 1960

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

         Nov. 3,  1960: Israel's Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner tells Paul Coates: "Revenge is not the motive of this trial. What we want to do is, once and for all, set before the world the fully documented … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 30. 1940

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

           Nov.  30, 1940: I watched Olivia de Havilland select a swank pair of earrings which, she confided, were destined for sister Joan Fontaine's Christmas tree. The purchase completed, the clerk asked: "Anything else, Miss de … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 29, 1960

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

    Nov. 29, 1960:  Matt Weinstock has the story of a group of people who were discussing current films (one of them had seen a preview of “Exodus”) and another said he hadn’t been to a movie since “Wings.” … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann, Nov. 29, 1960

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

    Nov. 29, 1960: Paul Coates talks to Holocaust survivors in Israel about Adolf Eichmann and finds complex and contradictory views on him. One person wishes that his captors had simply shot him instead of bringing him to Israel … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 29, 1940

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

           Nov. 29, 1940: HOLLYWOOD AFTER DARK: Bob Stack, with Pat Dane at the Pirates' Den, blushing a fiery red when a gushy fan dashed up, scissors in hand, to beg a lock of his hair.

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 28, 1960

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Nov. 28, 1960: Are American children lagging behind their Soviet counterparts? Matt Weinstock (who admits he was lousy in geometry) doesn’t think it’s so important.  “I thought it was a ridiculous waste of time, effort and money … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann’s Prison, Nov. 28, 1960

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Nov. 28, 1960: Paul Coates reports from Tel Aviv on the secret prison where Adolf Eichmann is being held. “Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo butcher who engineered the coolly scientific slaughter of 6 million Jews, will be tried … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 28, 1940

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Nov. 28, 1940: Autograph hounds who swarmed around Rosemary Lane at the Union Air Terminal the other day may be shocked to discover that the gal who laughed so heartily — on the sidelines — was … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 27, 1940

Posted on November 27, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Nov. 27, 1940 – Jimmie Fidler says:  Wot's this about Samuel Goldwyn mulling plans to produce in South America, figuring films can be made as well AND MUCH CHEAPER down there?

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 26, 1960

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Nov. 26, 1960: Caryl Chessman is dead – but far from forgotten, Matt Weinstock says. DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are beside ourselves. Our 21-year-old son has been going with a girl. We did not disapprove … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, Nov. 26, 1960

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

           Nov. 26, 1960: Paul Coates’ stories about Adolf Eichmann are coming up next week in the Mirror…. Marilyn Monroe works with John Huston in the latest chapter of Maurice Zolotow’s biography “The Real Marilyn Monroe.”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 26, 1940

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Nov. 26, 1940: CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNIQUE to Frances Farmer: I'm sorry to hear you're bitter because the press failed to support your attempted screen comeback, but after your mistreatment of reporters when you were a star what did … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 25, 1960

Posted on November 25, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Nov. 25, 1960: Matt Weinstock checks in with John Cheever, who’s in Hollywood doing a treatment of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Lost Girl.” “If the short story, of which I am an enthusiastic addict, has any future, Cheever … Continue reading →

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