Category Archives: Paul Coates

Columnist’s Wife Influences Column TOKYO — There’s an ancient and revered Oriental proverb which, roughly translated, goes: “Man who take wife to Japan is man who bring coal to Newcastle.” But to my way of thinking, this is an archaic, … Continue reading →

  Paul Coates will be back soon … Oct. 23, 1959: A family has trouble traveling with grandma. She weighs 300 pounds always brings a pick and shovel in case she admires some roadside greenery – like somebody’s lemon tree. … Continue reading →

Paul is still on vacation … but he will be back. Oct. 22, 1959: He’s a man. He works hard. And he smells like a man who works hard.

Paul is still on vacation… Oct. 21, 1959: A cleaning lady who steals … a grandmother who gets hungry when she’s babysitting … and foreigners who brag.

  Paul is still on vacation … Oct. 20, 1959: Well this is cryptic: “He who lives more lives than one more deaths than one shall die.”

Paul is still on vacation … Oct. 19, 1959: A woman who may have a bad case of “nerves” yells constantly at her 4-year-old daughter … And a woman whose husband keeps telling people about her  “horrible mistake” and her … Continue reading →

 Paul is still on vacation … Oct. 16, 1959: A paperboy wonders what to do with stale gifts from one his clients … and the plight of a 67-year-old bachelor.

Paul is still on vacation … Oct. 15, 1959: A respectable neighbor is a peeping Tom … And a high school girl has a crush on her science teacher!

 Paul is on vacation … Oct. 14, 1959: Dear Abby, should I tell my neighbor that there are weevils in her flour?

  Still on vacation. Oct. 13, 1959: The classic Abby column, “Too Late.” “I am the most brokenhearted person on earth. I always found time to go everywhere else but to see my dear old gray-haired parents. They sat home … Continue reading →

Paul Coates is still on vacation. Oct. 12, 1959: A divorcee gives a going-away party when she leaves the company – no wives invited! The men were fat and 40 – or 50.

  Oct. 10, 1959: “Would you allow your child to eat garbage? Then why do you permit her to read such trash? Replace those four-letter words with another four-letter word –“LOVE”—and give her something worthwhile to read.” I wonder if … Continue reading →

  Oct. 9, 1959: What to do with a boy-crazy girl. And Ignored asks: My husband has made it plain that he prefers the television set to me. Several of my women friends have the same complaint. What could be … Continue reading →

I always worry when Coates goes on vacation. He had some health problems and died at an early age, poor fellow, so his absences always trouble me. Dear Abby has advice for parents with mule-headed teenage daughters!

Oct. 7, 1959: Paul Coates is on vacation.   Dear Suspicious: If there is nothing “between them” there out to be a wall!

    Oct. 6, 1959: Abby advises a young man to read “Johnny Tremain.”