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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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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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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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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 12, 1941

Posted on April 12, 2011 by lmharnisch

        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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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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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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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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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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Jimmie Fidler, April 7, 1941

Posted on April 7, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 7, 1941: Reporter Leland Stowe certainly drew attention on his sweep through Los Angeles. Lee Shippey has another column about him! Tom Treanor, who was killed covering World War II for The Times, says: A … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 6, 1941

Posted on April 6, 2011 by lmharnisch

The country is virtually at war. Its defense efforts are being hamstrung by unjustified strikes, uncooperative industrialists and blathermouthed, spotlight-hunting politicians. The average man in America has, with excellent reason, such a deep distrust of inefficient nincompoops in public office that his patriotism is in danger of being poisoned by his distrust.
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 5, 1941

Posted on April 5, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 5, 1941: A well-paid reporter was thinking of quitting journalism to write fiction. He sought advice from a reader for a publishing house, who told him to stick to reporting and write fiction on … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 4, 1941

Posted on April 4, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 4, 1941: Lee Shippey has an item on Leland Stowe, the reporter who was the subject of a Tom Treanor column. Treanor, meanwhile, writes about Arthur Ernest Morgan, the former president of Antioch College and … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 3, 1941

Posted on April 3, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 3, 1941: Tom Treanor, who died covering World War II for The Times, writes about Leland Stowe, a reporter for the Chicago Daily News who was visiting Los Angeles. Stowe and Treanor had crossed paths … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 2, 1941

Posted on April 2, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 2, 1941: Tom Treanor talks to Richard Neutra about a 300-unit housing development he designed for a community outside Dallas.  Betty Grable tells Jimmie Fidler: “Any girl in the Hollywood spotlight is handicapped in the … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 1, 1941

Posted on April 1, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 1, 1941: Leroy Keane lives in a 7 by 10 room at 415 Crocker, but has a library of several hundred books, many of them first editions. He acquires them from the drivers of … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 31, 1941

Posted on March 31, 2011 by lmharnisch

        March 31, 1941: Everybody has ideas about making movies – even the window washers, Lee Shippey says. EVER SINCE RETURNING from Europe I have been pestered by one question to which I could give no satisfactory … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 30, 1941

Posted on March 30, 2011 by lmharnisch

           March 30, 1941: In a classic example of one its attempts to meddle in local politics, The Times publishes a Page 1 editorial about the mayor’s race, sharply criticizing the incumbent, Fletcher Bowron, and advocating … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 29, 1941

Posted on March 29, 2011 by lmharnisch

           March 29, 1941: Jan Valtin (Richard Krebs), the author of the controversial book “Out of the Night,” is arrested on charges of being an illegal immigrant. I’m almost 100 pages into “Out of the Night” … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 28, 1941

Posted on March 28, 2011 by lmharnisch

        March 28, 1941 — Lee Shippey has a letter from England: “My daughter is nursing at a hospital. Among others they are caring for wounded German airmen. But that didn't prevent six bombs being aimed at … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 27, 1941

Posted on March 27, 2011 by lmharnisch

        March 27, 1941: I'm delighted to see that four speakers at a Japanese meeting here declared the Japanese people to be loyal to America. The Rev. Kengo Tajina declared that his son, though born in Japan, … Continue reading →

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