Category Archives: Matt Weinstock

Talk Is Cheaper At this moment of drought there is much talk of water. At a meeting in Sacramento a few days ago John E. Hunt, financial consultant of the California Department of Water Resources, outlined to interested persons from … Continue reading →

Wanton Juveniles On their return from several months in Europe, a couple learned the furnished house they own in San Fernando Valley had been vacated by the people they had rented it to and become the rendezvous of juveniles who … Continue reading →

Cans! Cans! Cans! The man on the phone, asking a moment of my time, sounded reasonable — at first. "You might want to write about this," he said. "I think I know why people are so tense and nervous and … Continue reading →

Crime and Punishment A young man named Len was stopped recently for an illegal left turn on Vermont Ave. and, when it turned out he didn't have his driver's license, the officer ran a routine check on him over the … Continue reading →

  Prize for Pungency Every year the San Francisco Chronicle has a crayon drawing contest for youngsters. Top prize is $25. Among this year's entrants was a bold, impressionist drawing of a pig delivering the Chronicle to a farmhouse, sent … Continue reading →

Clever, These Hollywooders Not long ago a producer, director and writer drove to Santa Barbara for a preview of their new movie. On the return trip, around 2 a.m., on a lonely stretch of Highway 101, they ran out of … Continue reading →

  On Conformity The horrid word of the moment is conformity — submitting to the other fellow's whims, influence and propaganda. The villains are vaguely identified as ruthless persuaders, sometimes known as the Madison Avenue boys, whose sneaky, repetitious sales … Continue reading →

  Glendale 'Witch' While recovering from the flu in 1942 Charlotte Armstrong amused herself by writing a mystery novel, "Lay On, MacDuff!" To her surprise, she sold it and it was published the way she wrote it. Until then she … Continue reading →

Dilemma Continues A year and a half ago the frustrating dilemma of Roy Huerta, 38, a cook, and his wife, Manuela, 32, was told here. Ten years before, in 1947, they were married in Los Angeles. One day in 1949 … Continue reading →

Justice Strained A man who lives in an outlying section a few nights ago drove a guest, a visitor from New York, to the Biltmore Hotel. It was after midnight when he reached the downtown section. He was driving west … Continue reading →

Big Car Man Driving through isolated beanfield country on the way home the other day, Dave Hall, staff artist who lives in Corona del Mar, came upon a Cadillac on the side of the road and, farther along, a man … Continue reading →

The Skin Swimmer Bal Week, the traditional pilgrimage of exuberant youth to Balboa during Easter vacation, has been watered down, so to speak, the last few years. The burghers wearied of high-spirited youth taking over their town, and the gendarmes … Continue reading →

Works of Art When he finishes his day's work at the easel, Lenard Kester, like many other artists, smears the surplus paint on unworked canvases. Otherwise, it would harden overnight and be wasted. It is not only relaxing to make … Continue reading →

TV Cliches Shocking About a year ago a registered nurse inquired here what the frontier doctors on TV wanted with all the hot water they were forever demanding when about to deliver a baby. Her inquiry raised quite a storm. … Continue reading →

Righting of the Left Not long ago a New York bank announced it had made left-handed checks available to southpaw patrons. Now Mattell, Inc., the firm on W. 102nd Street which makes toy guns, has come out with a left-handed … Continue reading →

Petty Crime Solved Having a little time to kill before a critics' preview of "The Naked Maja" the other night, United Artists publicist Roy Smith looked in a pet shop at 10650 W. Pico Blvd. A light was on so … Continue reading →

End of the Trail It may take a generation or two — and in the broad scheme of things what are a few years — but writer Bob Schiller is confident of the inevitable demise of the TV western. The … Continue reading →

Back on Canopus … Another election is only a week away and the air is heavy with confusion, obscurantism and apathy — mostly apathy. The confusion belongs to the voters. Many of them are recent arrivals who don't understand our … Continue reading →