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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 18, 1960

Posted on February 18, 2010 by lmharnisch

Squaw Valley Squawk Doubtless it is attributable to crotchety advancing age but the Squaw Valley gymkhana leaves me cold. So a flock of virile young people are going sliding in the snow. What does that prove? Outside of … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 17, 1960

Posted on February 17, 2010 by lmharnisch

The Golfo Nuevo Case It distressed me no end to read how the Argentine Navy bungled things with the unidentified submarine trapped in Golfo Nuevo. First reports stated the sub had been crippled by depth charges and 13 … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 16, 1960

Posted on February 16, 2010 by lmharnisch

Father vs. Son Jimmy, 19, got off to a bad start, no question about that. His mother took off when he was 7 and there was a divorce. He started getting in trouble early in his teens. He was … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 15, 1960

Posted on February 15, 2010 by lmharnisch

Traffic Lesson Cost This Motorist $27 As she approached a pedestrian zone about two blocks from a school in Burbank, a lady named Marilyn saw a child step off the curb and she prepared to stop. Just then the … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 13, 1960

Posted on February 13, 2010 by lmharnisch

Birds Get the World It was mentioned here recently that the cedar waxwings, which have come each January and in a furious assault denuded the pyracantha bushes of their red berries, seemed to have passed us by this year. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 12, 1960

Posted on February 12, 2010 by lmharnisch

Hollywood Countdown Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, retired Army chief of research and development, related wryly yesterday that MGM almost launched the nation's first satellite in 1957. Producer Andy Stone, he recalled, was bringing out a movie about … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 11, 1960

Posted on February 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

A Visit From Ptex After an absence of several years, Tex, or as he prefers to spell it, Ptex, dropped in the other day to say hello. He brought with him, as he usually does, a great idea. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 10, 1960

Posted on February 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

The Recollectors Reading the testimony in the Finch trial, I am again filled with awe and admiration for those who can remember exactly where they were standing and what they were thinking when they heard the fatal shot or … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 9, 1960

Posted on February 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

Urge to Kill On his return from lunch a few days ago a doctor was told by his nurse that a man was waiting to see him. "Send him in," he said. The patient, a young man, had been … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 8, 1960

Posted on February 8, 2010 by lmharnisch

Economics and Justice Eunice Carlisle happened to be in the courthouse on another matter a few days ago when Dr. R. Bernard Finch told all and she was unavoidably caught in the crush and excitement. She also was appalled … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 5, 1960

Posted on February 5, 2010 by lmharnisch

Kindly Artist A woman came into artist Leon Frank's studio and said she admired his work and wanted to buy one of his paintings. He showed her several, ranging in price from $150 to $500. She was hesitant … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 4, 1960

Posted on February 4, 2010 by lmharnisch

"Never Be Catty When Boys Are Around!" Token Trouble An angry lady who rides the buses left five tokens on my desk with this note: "The drivers won't take these old tokens and I am unable to get to … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 3, 1960

Posted on February 3, 2010 by lmharnisch

“Crash!” The Foundry Almost everyone at one time or another aspires to be a writer and perhaps reshape the world with a literary effort so filled with truth and wisdom that fame and riches are inevitable. When they … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 2, 1960

Posted on February 2, 2010 by lmharnisch

Mystery of Missiles One of the problems of those who guide our missile program is making it understandable to earth-bounders. In other words, translating complex scientific data into ordinary terms. Toward this end former newspaperman Chris … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 1, 1960

Posted on February 1, 2010 by lmharnisch

Different Way to Lose Those who have learned the hard way will stipulate that race track betting is a snare and a delusion. Today we have with us reader G.S., who has a dynamic idea to unsnare and undelude … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 30, 1960

Posted on January 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

Rewarding Experience Ad executive Henry Mayers and his wife came home from a trip to southeast Asia about a year ago appalled by the deluge of printed propaganda they saw extolling communism and attacking this country. To help … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 29, 1960

Posted on January 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

Monetary Crisis An armored truck, the kind that picks up and delivers large sums of cash for banks and stores, stopped a few days ago at 1st and Main Sts. The armed attendants got out and grimly … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 28, 1960

Posted on January 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

Leap Year Pitch For a while it appeared we might tiptoe into 1960 without arousing the usual corny, anachronistic nonsense about leap year and the girls chasing the boys, object matrimony. No such luck. The subject was merely dormant. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 27, 1960

Posted on January 27, 2010 by lmharnisch

Costly Wrong Number Mrs. Margaret Guevara, 742 W 144th St., was going about her household chores the other day when her daughter Diana, 9, called, "Mommy, a lady on the phone wants to talk to you." The … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 26, 1960

Posted on January 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

Patient's Prescription A doctor who has been overworked treating flu patients came down himself the other day with the old virus. He was home in bed, sniffing and coughing, when a woman patient phoned through his … Continue reading →

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