Category Archives: Matt Weinstock

  "Wha's a Int'llectual?" Good Samaritan? Nope! A man who lives on the sixth floor of a downtown hotel was awakened at 1 a.m. the other night by what he described as a banshee wail. He looked out the window … Continue reading →

'Save for Ball' The most spirited gag of the mad spring season came to a triumphant climax this week in the Civic Center. For a long time, fellow workers have been aware that Doarwell Ball, a pressman, is a scrounger. … Continue reading →

Election Gripe Ted Austin is unhappy about next Tuesday's municipal election. He doesn't think truth and justice will be served by closing the bars that day, thereby depriving thousands of deserving bartenders of a day's pay merely to provide an … Continue reading →

  Guardian of the Law On a recent Saturday about 2 p.m. Mrs. Joan Wheeler, 21, six months pregnant, began having pains. Her husband Ernest, 27, phoned the doctor, who said to take her to the hospital immediately and he … Continue reading →

Traffic Tantrums Noel Voge, professor of Slavic languages at UCLA, believes he has the explanation of our murderous freeway driving. It's tied in with GeoffreyGorer and his swaddled Russian babies. British anthropologist Gorer's thesis, which created quite a fuss when … Continue reading →

  Case of the Dead Cat Jean Helnze concedes that the Chavez Ravine eviction was more dramatic but there on the sidewalk last Tuesday in front of the publicity office at 521 N La Cienega Blvd., where she works, was … Continue reading →

Social Outcast A lady whose husband is a kind of subdued celebrity found herself listening in awe at a party as the other female guests discussed with embarrassing frankness their current and divorced husbands and boyfriends. Inevitably they turned to … Continue reading →

Cause of the World's  Ills It isn't often you get the kind of significant thinking that emerged the other day during a coffee break in a Spring Street restaurant. A man named Joe broke open the conversation by announcing that … Continue reading →

Auto Gremlins A man drove into the Max Barish agency, 444 S La Brea, last week and complained about a rattle in the trunk of his car. A mechanic, Virgil Helner, crawled into the big, deep recess to locate it, … Continue reading →

Memorable Mentor What, would you say, is the quality that makes students remember one teacher and not another? Severity? Encouragement? Guidance? Ability to inspire? Whatever it is, Frances M. Hov, Belmont High School journalism teacher has it. The word went … Continue reading →

Hearts Respond One of the city's older elementary schools, Hyde Park, is now set aside for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Last weekend Michael, 7, a first-grader learning to live in his silent world, wandered into a pool and drowned. His … Continue reading →

High Finance Talk is not only cheap, it's frequently boring. But once in a while, if you listen intently, you catch an offbeat fragment that is profound or wonderful nonsense or raffishly realistic. Mike Molony, who helps cover Hill St. … Continue reading →

Noisesome to Some Apparently a city employee who complained here about the music broadcast in City Hall is not alone in his irritation. Other tortured souls have chimed in with similar grievances. One man writes: "Each day from 7:30 a.m. … Continue reading →

Shell Game It is the nature of shell collectors to correspond with each other and, thus, adman Bennett Foster has learned of the fantastic tale of R. Julian Dashwood, the only white man on the island of Mauke, in the … Continue reading →

Non-Conformist There is a widespread belief that conformity has so overwhelmed everyone that even the hardiest individualists have lost their incentive and inspiration. There's evidence today that this is not entirely true. A solid citizen, piqued at some flaw in … Continue reading →