Category Archives: Matt Weinstock

‘Lady’ and the Mails As you may have read, “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” the controversial novel by David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), is okay again. At least for the moment. Postmaster General Arthur F. Summerfield banned it from the mails several months … Continue reading →

Free Enterprise The 30-cent bite for a pack of cigarettes in vending machines is still outraging the addicts and, free enterprise being what it is, two regulars in a downtown saloon have set up an unusual business operation. They take … Continue reading →

Yes? No? Someone at the Allied Artists Studio got an idea the other day for a gimmick to draw attention to the opening Aug. 5 of the movie, “The Big Circus” — have a wire walker go back and forth … Continue reading →

Responsibility Law Every motorist has heard of the financial responsibility law. Today a man named Tom furnishes a horrible example of how it can work. On May 20 he stopped in the left lane at Sepulveda Blvd. and Vose St., … Continue reading →

“Great Scott! I’ve Kept You Rigid for Almost Two Hours! Why Didn’t You Stop Me, Miss Simmons? Body Surfers It appears that Bob Lee, who, as reported here, was knocked down by an unidentified object, which turned out to be … Continue reading →

July 27, 1959: Another downbeat "Peanuts" strip from the Cold War era that you won't see in the sitcom legacy version. Back to Aimee Ever since the book "The Vanishing Evangelist," the story of the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping affair, … Continue reading →

New-Type Hero If the situation in Cuba seems chaotic, let writer Malvin Wald fill you in on some details. He has just returned from five weeks in Havana getting material for a film about Fidel Castro. One time he and … Continue reading →

After the Ballyhoo Is Over Two years ago, against the same backdrop of beauty and ballyhoo as emanates presently from Long Beach, Leona Gage, Miss Maryland, was acclaimed Miss U.S.A. At her moment of triumph, as she prepared to compete … Continue reading →

Song of the Islands Don't get him wrong, writer Don Quinn loves the Hawaiian Islands. But during his latest visit — his 17th, by the way, from which he has just returned — be became painfully aware of the natives' … Continue reading →

McCarthy Ghost Still Haunts Two teachers who have been subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee here Sept. 15 called on a staff member the other day to tell their stories and ask a favor. One is a … Continue reading →

Charles Schulz veers dangerously close to sitcom territory. Ugh! I am constantly assailed by brilliant ideas for improving the world. They come to me from out of nowhere. The other day I was attacked by a little beauty which I … Continue reading →

Those Towers By the nature of their work, artists are individualists. But they have become united as never before by the condemnation of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers. It has become a cause celebre to them, and every day those who … Continue reading →

  I'm sure "Uras" wasn't pronounced the way you think. Either that or the comics editors didn't have a clue.  Only in L.A. Sometimes it is very difficult to make clear to visitors that the natives are not really as … Continue reading →

Morbid Morons It isn't a nice thing to say but an indignant Hollywood hillsider said it and hoped it might be repeated here. He lives a few ridges away from Friday's holocaust in Laurel Canyon. He said, "If we'd had … Continue reading →

Highway Manners While driving on Highway 1 recently, Jean Meredith of CBS ran over a rock and in a few minutes was marooned on this picturesque, narrow, winding, lonelyMonterey Peninsula road with a flat left front tire. But luck was … Continue reading →

Dear Friend It's too hot for indignation but maybe, with a cool drink, we can muster a little pique. I refer to a certain type of unsolicited direct mail pitch. A large envelope shows up in the mailbox. How the … Continue reading →