Category Archives: Front Pages

Snowstorm Threatens JFK Inaugural

             Jan. 20, 1961: Everyone (except Kayo Mullins) is eager to see the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. I remember watching the inaugural on a black and white TV someone brought into my grade … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Jan. 18, 1961

       Jan. 18, 1961: Paul Coates has an update on the Cat Ladies of Glendale!  ALSO The Cat Ladies of Glendale on the Daily MirrorAnd here

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Paul Coates, Jan. 17, 1961

    Jan. 17, 1961: The new issue of Playboy has an article by J. Paul Getty on how to be a successful businessman (his advice: be a nonconformist) and Paul Coates examines his own lifestyle to see whether he … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Jan. 16, 1961

Jan. 16, 1961: Paul Coates has a first-rate interview with a man he calls Gramps, a man in his 70s who has been a drug addict for most of his life.

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, Jan. 14, 1961

       Jan. 14, 1961: Matt Weinstock notes the activities marking the anniversary of the Treaty of Cahuenga, Jan. 13, 1847. Paul Coates talks to a man who has written a song in tribute to President John F. Kennedy, … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Jan. 13, 1961

    Jan. 13, 1961: Paul Coates has a Hollywood mystery story and it’s a good one.

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Paul Coates, Jan. 12, 1961

    Jan. 12, 1961: Paul Coates faces readers who are angry over his treatment of Parkey Sharkey and Jack Oakie! And Coates hears from Parkey Sharkey himself.

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Paul Coates, Jan. 11, 1961

       Jan. 11, 1961: Paul Coates has the story of  Richard, a man who has been battling drug addiction for years.  He’s been out of jail for eight weeks. Still no job, but at least he is clean, … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Jan. 10, 1961

    Jan. 10, 1961: Author Dashiell Hammett dies… Paul Coates didn’t get invited to the John F. Kennedy inaugural…. notice the Page 1 story on Frank Sinatra’s wardrobe for the Kennedy bash! 

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Paul Coates, Jan. 5, 1961

      Jan. 5, 1961: Paul Coates notes that London’s Sunday Express published a series on "The Fabulous Kennedys" with this caption: "This picture was taken by the new president with a box camera on a visit to Ireland … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Jan. 4, 1961

      Jan. 4, 1961: Three unidentified military personnel are killed in the explosion of a nuclear reactor 40 miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho. "There appeared to be no major radiation alarm here, although the Post-Register newspaper and local … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Jan. 2 1961

        Jan. 2, 1961: Paul Coates (yes, he’s a native New Yorker) compiles a list of civic sins – Bloody Christmas and the county grand jury, included – but declares for the new year that he actually … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 30, 1960

    Dec. 30, 1960: Academy Award winners Gale Sondergaard, Albert Maltz and Nedrick Young are among 12 Hollywood figures suing the studios over being blacklisted. The suit was brought by A.L. Wirin under the Sherman Antitrust Act. And Paul … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 29, 1960

    Dec. 29, 1960: Paul Coates has the goods on a couple of fast-buck artists who weren’t quite fast enough.  The crooked shoeshine man and the gents who let sailors take out payday loans on wallets have vanished, so … Continue reading

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The Mirror, Dec. 24, 1960

            Dec. 24, 1960: Our friends at the Los Angeles Mirror are celebrating Christmas – not realizing that in a little more than a year the paper — and the Los Angeles Examiner — will … Continue reading

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Iran Hostages Spend 2nd Christmas in Captivity

            Dec. 24, 1980: The nation’s Christmas tree is lit for 417 seconds, one for each day the 52 hostages have been held in captivity in Iran…. San Fernando Police Officer Dennis Webb is shot … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 23, 1960

       Dec. 23, 1960: Paul Coates dips into the mailbag and writes about Hugh Hefner’s plans for Playboy tours “designed to appeal to the sophisticated urban young Playboy reader." Talk about futurism: Reader A.M. Spencer warns of the … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 22, 1960

    Dec. 22, 1960: Police are hunting a “werewolf”  and Paul Coates has more on the notorious Brink family, in which William Brink  talks about changing his name to avoid the stigma. ALSO Paul Coates on the Brink family … Continue reading

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Paul Coates, Dec. 19, 1960

       Dec. 19, 1960: Paul Coates has the story of William Gossett, who was scraping along on skid row one week and a street corner Santa Claus the next.

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Reagan May Call Economic Emergency

Ronald Reagan’s political education: The new Assembly speaker, Van Nuys Democrat Bob Moretti, went to Reagan and said, “Look, you don’t like me and I don’t like you but if we want to get anything done here we’ve got to work together.”
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