Category Archives: Comics

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

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    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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Matt Weinstock, April 13, 1961

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    April 13, 1961: The Mirror publishes a tough editorial on Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. A sample: "Welch's spurious reasoning went the full circle and came back to the familiar cry — if you are not … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 13, 1941

Posted on April 13, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 13, 1941: Stocking buyers to whom I have talked believe there is only about a two-month supply of raw silk in the country. That would seem to be the tipoff to buy. In a … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 13, 1961

Posted on April 13, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 13, 1961: For years, Abe Saperstein had been enduring the slurs and digs of organized basketball, which referred to his menagerie of ball wizards as "trained giraffes playing stooges and sparmates." In the … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, April 12, 1961

Posted on April 12, 2011 by lmharnisch

DEAR ABBY: I boiled when I read the letter from the woman who signed herself “Fed Up.” She was annoyed because her clergyman (Protestant) visited her in the hospital after her seventh child was born and asked her if she had ever heard of birth control.
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 12, 1941

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        April 12, 1941: FOR THE INFORMATION of the ladies who have written and telephoned about getting jobs in the manufacturing end of the aircraft industry — Vultee is the company which opened a women's department a … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 12, 1961

Posted on April 12, 2011 by lmharnisch

Like Caesar’s Gaul, all golf for the moment is divided into three parts: Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and a bunch of guys playing for third money, Jim Murray says.
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Matt Weinstock, April 11, 1961

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

    Men are from math class,  women are from Planet Prom, evidently. April 11, 1961: What's with the high handlebars set? Well, an elderly gent in Bermuda shorts was reaching for the sky, as seems to be fashionable, while … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, April 11, 1961

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 11, 1961: Mayoral candidate Sam Yorty sues Mayor Norris Poulson for slander! Life is good (if you’re a newspaper)!  Al Capp interviews a stewardess for American Airlines – none of this flight attendant stuff in … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 11, 1941

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 11, 1941: These soldier boys sneer a little when they read of strikes in war industries. My lad is on duty for a 12-hour shift, apparently. The first four months of his soldiering he got … Continue reading →

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Liz Renay Sentenced to Prison

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 11, 1961: Liz Renay (d. 2007) is sentenced to prison for violating the terms of her probation for perjury in Mickey Cohen’s tax evasion case. She later said: "I have paid a dear … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, April 10, 1961

Posted on April 10, 2011 by lmharnisch

    April 10, 1961: Lawrence Clark Powell, head of UCLA’s library school, surveys students’ attitudes on reading and touches off an interesting exploration of their reading habits. Many say they don’t have time to read for pleasure or that … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 10, 1941

Posted on April 10, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 10, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the wildflower fields of Kern County. “Now I have seen them and I know that until one has seen them one cannot comprehend what California's spring wildflower show … Continue reading →

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Jim Murray, April 10, 1961

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            April 10, 1961: Jim Murray takes his daughter Pam and his two sons to boxing at the Olympic.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 9, 1941

Posted on April 9, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 9, 1941: Whom do you think of as the Lone Ranger? Clayton Moore? Brace Beemer? Meet Earl Graser, who played the Lone Ranger on the radio until he was killed in a car accident … Continue reading →

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Buses Replace Red Cars to Long Beach, April 8, 1961

Posted on April 8, 2011 by lmharnisch

             April 8. 1961: Red Cars are being replaced by buses on service between Los Angeles and Long Beach, San Pedro and Compton. Transportation conspiracy buffs please note: The Metropolitan Transit Authority is making the … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 8, 1941

Posted on April 8, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 8, 1941: Lee Shippey shares a letter from England and Tom Treanor has a roundup of items about the fighting in Europe. Those "changes" in Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" dwindled to one minor alteration, … Continue reading →

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