Category Archives: Paul Coates

CONFIDENTIAL FILE Webster Wasn't Hep to County General Webster's, I admit, is pretty vague in defining the word "hospital." The dictionary says: "An institution in which patients or injured persons are given medical or surgical care." That plainly leaves a … Continue reading →

Confidential File So Wyatt Outdrawed Him With a Potater Stay a moment and consider with me the potato. Or, if you prefer, Solanum tuberosum, a perennial plant of the nightshade family. (You can be damn sure I didn't put all … Continue reading →

  Confidential File Nice Heart-Warming Variety of Larceny I have, in rare moments of self-examination, confessed to filching stories from fellow newspapermen. Consequently, I am not in a position to be outraged when someone lifts one of my pieces. Sometimes, … Continue reading →

Confidential File The Time the Earth Shook So Gaudily Some of us live a lifetime clinging to one moment. John C. Crowe has. Fifth-three years ago tomorrow, he was a lonely boy of 17, orphaned by the death of both … Continue reading →

CONFIDENTIAL FILE We Should Be Told All the Mafia Facts Yesterday's headlines posed a question vital to every citizen of the United States. "Is the Mafia fact or fiction?" asked the black type. The question was inspired by two opposing … Continue reading →

Confidential File Trujillo Jr. No Playboy at Home It was just about a year ago, give or take a month, that the Dominican man-o'-war Angelita steamed into Los Angeles Harbor, dropped anchor and launched the most lavish fiesta this jaded … Continue reading →

Confidential File (Press release) "Those who are skeptical of the adage 'love at first sight' would do well to know Steve Allen's account of his first meeting with Jayne Meadows. "Steve leaves no doubt about his feelings on the subject … Continue reading →

Confidential File Con Men Live High When Going's Tough Paul Coates is back on the local scene. He'll take another look at the explosive Caribbean situation beginning Monday. It's a simple economic fact. When times get tough, the con men … Continue reading →

  Coates Talks With Exiled Boss Batista This is another in a series of columns by Paul Coates, based on a trip to the Dominican Republic, where he interviewed ousted dictators Juan Peron andFulgencio Batista. By PAUL V. COATES, Mirror … Continue reading →

Confidential File Mash Notes and Comments "I spent most of my early life in the saddle in West Texas and New Mexico. In 27 years I'll be 100, but I am still just a kid. "I wonder if you know … Continue reading →

Confidential File Birth Travails of a Spaghetti Salon Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford, the Moskowitz and Lupowitz of Italian food, have, as you doubtlessly heard, opened a plush Beverly Hills lasagna palace called "Puccini's." It's an old racket to Sinatra, … Continue reading →

Confidential File My Mom Loves Me, in a Sinister Fashion I'm a member, in good standing, of the grossly sentimental school which maintains, despite statistical evidence to the contrary, that a boy's best friend is his mother. When all others … Continue reading →