Category Archives: Paul Coates

September 22, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 22, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 22, 1959: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is gone but not forgotten, says Paul Coates, who polled 100 people about Khrushchev. Continue reading →

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September 21, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 21, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 21, 1959: Paul Coates writes about the effects of Little Rock, Ark., closing its schools over integration. Continue reading →

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September 19, 1957: Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on September 19, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 19, 1957: Paul Coates has the story of an eccentric old woman pulling a grift, then discovers she cases homes for a burglary gang. And meet Robert Wyatt, who pulled a gun on someone who said he shouldn’t keep his five children on leashes. Continue reading →

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September 18, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 18, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 18, 1959: Paul Coates writes about hazing pranks that end in death, including the case of USC dental student Richard Swanson. Continue reading →

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September 17, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 17, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 17, 1959: Paul Coates looks at the case of Caryl Chessman, scheduled to be executed in the gas chamber. A letter writer asks Dear Abby if it’s appropriate to ask restaurants for leftovers in a doggy bag. Continue reading →

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September 10, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 10, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 10, 1959: Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill) proposes a Senate junket to Hawaii and Paul Coates has a few thoughts. Continue reading →

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September 7, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 7, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 7, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a young woman’s experiences in traffic court. Hint: she wore a tight, revealing dress that she made herself, and has flaming red hair. Continue reading →

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September 5, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 5, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 5, 1959: Paul Coates writes about the unusual publicity campaign for the film “Private Property.” Continue reading →

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September 4, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 4, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 4, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of Lily Goldberg, who refused to believe that her son Gerald was guilty of writing bad checks, despite witnesses’ identification and testimony by a handwriting expert.
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September 3, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 3, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 3, 1959: Former Gov. Goodwin Knight is reinventing himself as a TV commentator, Paul Coates says. A letter writer tells Dear Abby that their trash can is loaded with empty beer cans every morning because of a neighbor who knocks back a case every night and doesn’t want the garbage man to know.
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September 2, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 2, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 2, 1959: E.A. Gillmann provides song to the forlorn mob of Pershing Square, hauling a piano and Gospel songbooks in a 1941 Chrysler and, with help, wheeling the piano into the square, Paul Coates says. Continue reading →

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September 1, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on September 1, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 1, 1959: Paul Coates tells the story of Jean Elizabeth Wood, 26, an attractive young woman wearing a black party dress who stood in the middle of a darkened desert highway and refused to move out of the way of an oncoming truck. Continue reading →

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September 1, 1949: L.A. Warned on Water

Posted on September 1, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 1, 1949: I thought it would be fun to dip into the Mirror from its early days as a tabloid. At that time, Paul Coates was covering nightclubs. Continue reading →

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August 31, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on August 31, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 13, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of a man who submitted lyrics titled “Cold Campfire Ashes” to one of those songwriting ads you see in the pulp magazines. Continue reading →

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August 30, 1953: Barbara Graham Defense Wins Delay After Prosecution Bombshell

Posted on August 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 30, 1953: Judge Charles Fricke grants a delay to attorneys for Barbara Graham after the prosecution discloses a recorded conversation between Graham and an undercover police officer. Continue reading →

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August 29, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on August 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 29, 1959: Paul Coates hears from Elvis fans who want to forgive him for the scathing review Coates wrote of Elvis’ notorious performance at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium. Dear Abby has advice for a man whose wife doesn’t care for her dog. Continue reading →

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August 28, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on August 28, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 28, 1959: The success story of L.D. Tallent — a man born with less than half a body — isn’t quite believable, but it happened anyway, Paul Coates writes. Continue reading →

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August 27, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on August 27, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 27, 1959: Paul Coates on President Eisenhower’s warm reception during Ike’s visit to West Germany. Continue reading →

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August 26, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on August 26, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 26, 1959: The Miss Universe Contest is becoming increasingly scandalous and tawdry, Paul Coates says. Dear Abby has advice for a woman who sees nothing wrong with having an affair “as long as nobody is hurt.” Continue reading →

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August 25, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

Posted on August 25, 2025 by lmharnisch

August 25, 1959: Paul Coates takes a look at women who leave their fortunes to their cats. Dear Abby has advice for the tired grandma who doesn’t want to take seven grandchildren for the summer. Continue reading →

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