Category Archives: Matt Weinstock

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Big Money Bonanza Fails to Pay Off LeRoy McFarland of Huntington Park, has a money mine. It’s in his back yard. He just discovered it. It’s a lively one — chock full of coins, thousands of them. From … Continue reading →

New Twist on Smog Along with the rest of us, W. B. France is weary of reading about smog. But he thinks he has a solution. It is based on a science-fiction story he read long ago. In this tale … Continue reading →

Next Stop: the Couch This is to alert psychiatrists to keep their couches dusted off. At a party the other night a man was telling about a recurring dream. In it he would go up to a tobacco counter and … Continue reading →

Fix your toaster, mister? One Saturday morning about four years ago a man came into the Mayflower Hotel on Grand Avenue to repair a toaster. In the ensuing confusion involving the chef, the engineer and the assistant manager, the man … Continue reading →

Not Dead, but Reeling Reports of the death of the movie industry at the hands of television are premature, Jerry Wald, Fox producer, told a Press Club audience. He conceded, however, under the expert needling of Joe Hyams of the … Continue reading →

Closing the Books In the last week two big downtown bookmakers have folded their form charts and quietly stolen away. The gendarmes didn’t knock them over. The longshots at Santa Anita did. To stay in business a bookie has to … Continue reading →

Wages and Ages From out of the desert, where the lizards and the chuckwalla roam, comes a discouraging word from my sagebrush podner, Harry Oliver. The serenity which Harry enjoys at his adobe fort at Thousand Palms; where he publishes … Continue reading →

His Is a Good Job Last November, Frank Frohnhoefer’s daughter Francine wanted something different to "share" at school, so Frank, who did 27 months as an infantryman in the South Pacific during WWII, went through his mementos and found some … Continue reading →

She Stood in Bed They said it couldn’t be done, but it was to a lady who lives in a large apartment house in midtown L.A. She turned over in bed around 1 a.m. and the bed, installed a few … Continue reading →

Snowball Madness Last week, when Walter H. Wright was driving his family up to Crestline, someone in a car coming down threw a large snowball which shattered his windshield, impairing his vision. At the ranger station he learned this is … Continue reading →

Right-Hand Waiver Play No. 995 is very popular in the legal league these days. It is the argument for dismissal of a charge against a defendant on the grounds that the evidence was searched through illegal search and seizure. Atty. … Continue reading →

A Raid, A Hunch Deputy sheriffs this week raided a bookmaking joint in West Hollywood with 10 telephones, indicating it was a big operation. As the two suspects were taken into custody and evidence was gathered, the phones kept ringing. … Continue reading →

Thorns and Fragrance It’s the time of year when the two factions of the greeting card world, the sentimental and the offbeat, resume their snarling. The hearts-and-flowers folks have lost a little ground in the last few years to the … Continue reading →