Category Archives: Paul Coates

Missing woman found

Posted on July 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Mildred Hall, 44, who vanished Nov. 15, 1956, and was the subject of a Paul Coates column, resurfaced in April 1959, posing as many baffling questions as she did when she disappeared after leaving a note for her husband, … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on July 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 15, 1957 SUBJECT’S NAME: Mildred Dolores Hall. SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION: Age, 42, height, 5 feet, 6 inches. Weight, 118 lbs., Red-blond hair. Brown eyes. Slim-medium build. Any person with information as to the subject’s whereabouts is requested to contact the … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on July 10, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 10, 1957 Since my boyhood days in the wheat fields of Manhattan I have steadfastly held Hollywood in veneration. I feigned interest in Lou Gehrig and Carl Hubbell and Hank Greenberg and the rest of their sweaty ilk to … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on July 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 6, 1957 Teenagers’ magazines are a comparatively new fad. But in spite of their recent arrival, they have already grabbed a strong position of influence. And respect. Yesterday, I printed some letters written to Lilly Cooper, Dig magazine’s problem … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on July 5, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 5, 1957 Lilly Cooper is an average, mature woman. But she has one quality which separates her from the rest of us older, wiser inhabitants of the world. She is neither amused nor annoyed by teenage melodramatics. Instead, she … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on July 2, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 2, 1957 This is a twist story–a reverse mystery. I’ve been presenting, for the past few months, weekly missing persons cases on file with local sheriffs and police. Each started with a living, active person, surrounded by apparent normalcy. … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 24, 1957 SUBJECT’S NAME: Delbert Wilson Miller. SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION: Age, 60. Height, 5 feet, 10 inches. Weight, 155 pounds. Bald, rim of gray hair. Glass right eye. Tattoo: "IRMA-DELL" upper right arm. Tattoo of swastika on left forearm. Any … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 18, 1957 Los Angeles By oath and by tradition, policemen and probation officers are on the same side of the law. Yet I know of no two groups so closely associated and so united in cause which are so … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 12, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 12, 1957 "Marijuana," you don’t say out loud. You whisper it. Because, in the last few years, it has become a hysterical word. And the hysteria has reached a point, today, whereby guilt can be decided by association. But … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 11, 1957 Our national concern for the plight of soldier William Girard has, from the start, struck me as oddly misplaced. As well as I can understand it, we’re upset because the United States has failed to stand behind … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 8, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 8, 1957 Maxwell Spencer knows more drunks, habitual and occasional, than most men know sober people. But he is a man of strong constitution. So far, he hasn’t permitted his associations to drag him down the neck of a … Continue reading →

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Reunited

Posted on June 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

  June 6, 1957 Los Angeles Just in time for Father’s Day, 16-year-old Barbara Davis Chilton was reunited with her dad, whom she had never seen, thanks to a Paul Coates column. Lester Eugene Davis came to the door of … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 4, 1953 Harold Leader is not a man of few words. Or minced words. He is one of a group of persons who are planning, shortly, to start a house of ex-cons in Los Angeles. And he has every … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on June 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 3, 1957 SUBJECT’S NAME: Lester Eugene Davis. SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION: Age 42. Height, 6 feet. Weight, average. Light brown hair. Brown eyes. Any person with information as to subject’s whereabouts is requested to contact his daughter, Barbara Davis Chilton, 11812 … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on May 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 24, 1957 REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more law ought to weed it out–Francis Bacon Six states out of our 48 have abolished the death penalty. And California had … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on May 21, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 21, 1957The note was found next to the man’s body. It was addressed to the dead man’s sister. "Dear Fanny," it read. "I am sorry to say goodbye, but it is best this way. I leave all I got, … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on May 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 20, 1957 The quality of mercy, according to an old-time scenario writer, is not strained. But much as I dislike taking the man on at this late date, I am forced to argue the point. Because I have just … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on May 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 16, 1957 The story appeared in the Mirror-News about a month ago. Venus Gonzales, 17, read it. That evening, when her husband, Buddy, 21, came home from work, she showed it to him. Both of them shuddered at the … Continue reading →

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Hollywood madam

Posted on May 15, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 15, 1957 Los Angeles The papers called her an actress, but she was never in anything but trouble and her only talent was for raising hell. Even the gossip magazines quit working with her because they didn’t trust her. … Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on May 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 6, 1957 Los Angeles SUBJECT’S NAME: Sandra Brandner SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION: Age 16. Height, 5 feet, 5 inches. Weight, about 135 pounds. Light brown hair. Brown eyes. The subject was last seen in El Segundo in July 1954. Any person … Continue reading →

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