Category Archives: Front Pages

Paul Coates – Confidential File, June 14, 1960

  June 14, 1960: Paul Coates takes a look at the possibility of a national lottery, which he supports. 

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Paul Coates – Confidential File, June 13, 1960

  June 13, 1960: Paul Coates writes about the strengths and weaknesses of various writers, including Matt Weinstock – and himself.

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Jimmie Fidler, June 12, 1940

  June 12, 1940: “New Yorkers say Al Jolson is revolving among Ruby Keeler, Jinx Falkenberg and Broadway dancer Gloria Cook,” Jimmie Fidler says.

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, June 11, 1960

  June 11, 1960: Paul Coates, Matt Weinstock and Abby on one page!

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 10, 1960

  June 10, 1960: Paul Coates tells a story of the slow-moving bureaucracy of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Tokyo Mob Threatens U.S. Ambassador

June 10, 1960: The Times brings out an extra about a mob of “fanatic leftists” in Tokyo that attacked a car carrying White House Press Secretary James Hagerty and U.S. Ambassador Douglas A. MacArthur II … And an angry Richard … Continue reading

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 9, 1960

June 9, 1960: Paul Coates has an item on people who campaign against pornography, called “smut” in 1960, and on the bravery of some teenagers who rescued a girl from a shark.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, June 9, 1941

  June 9, 1941: The North American Aviation strike in Los Angeles (many stories mistakenly say the plant was in Inglewood) comes at a pivotal time for the city. A few days earlier, Police Chief Arthur C. Hohmann. generally considered … Continue reading

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 8, 1960

  June 10, 1960: Paul Coates writes updates on several continuing stories. Tijuana appears to be improving after years of preying on tourists … Harold Moore, whose son, Leonard, was killed in a holdup by drug addicts, is looking for … Continue reading

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 7, 1960

  June 7, 1960: Paul Coates has the story of a baby girl who was left in Ray Gahring's Cadillac, which was parked behind his real estate office at 7131 Balboa Blvd. The little girl would be 50 now. I … Continue reading

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 6, 1960

  June 6, 1960: Paul Coates has a follow-up on the story of a doctor  confined to a mental ward who saved another patient’s life.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 4, 1960

  June 4, 1960: “The other day (Monday, I think it was) I was listening to the ballgame between the Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. Vin Scully is the regular announcer and, as usual, he was giving us fans … Continue reading

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 3, 1960

  June 3, 1960: How to pay for the proposed national healthcare program? Paul Coates writes about a campaign by congressional candidate William H. Ware Jr. for a national lottery.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, June 1, 1940

  June 1, 1940: "We hear that Lana Turner's constant bickering with MGM heads is not prompted by Artie Shaw at all but by a wardrobe girl who's been giving Lana a lot of bad advice,” Jimmie Fidler’s staff says.

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Paul Coates – Confidential File, May 31, 1960

May 31, 1960: Paul Coates writes about Norman Farberow and Edwin Shneidman, founders of the Suicide Prevention Center.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, May 30, 1960

May 30, 1960: Paul Coates spends Memorial Day on skid row and talks with a World War I veteran. 

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, May 28, 1960

  May 28, 1960: Paul Coates’ cat ladies, Beth Lawrence and her daughter Betty,  have new troubles. TV host Jack Linkletter was interviewing them (and their 13 cats) in Bronson Canyon Park when their white Persian cat named Prince Baba … Continue reading

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, May 28, 1940

May 28, 1940: “Linda Darnell, locationing at Lone Pine, Cal., where the thermometer has been scoring 114, postcards she's lost seven pounds,” Jimmie Fidler says.

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Paul V. Coates, Confidential File, May 26, 1960

  U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. displays a passive listening device, concealed in the Great Seal that hung in the residential office of the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from about 1945 to 1952.  The National Cryptologic Museum … Continue reading

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, May 23, 1960

  May 23, 1960: Paul Coates gets a second column out of the arrest of two people in a 25-cent gambling pool on roller derby at the Olympic Auditorium.

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