Category Archives: Paul Coates

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

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August 18 , 1959: Paul Coates profiles Mel Travioli, the newsboy at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. A woman writes to Dear Abby about baby showers where people drop off their gifts and leave. Continue reading →

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

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August 17, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of a judge and a defendant charged with public intoxication who insisted on pleading not guilty and demanding a jury trial. Continue reading →

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August 15, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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August 15, 1959: A letter writer asks Paul Coates why adults are so mean about teen idols — like Kookie! A letter writer asks Dear Abby why she always sticks up for women. Continue reading →

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August 14, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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August 14, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a recent encounter with the Queen’s Guards. Dear Abby answers the questions: How do you forget a boy when you know he is no good? Continue reading →

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August 13, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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August 13, 1959: A beauty contest winner comes to Hollywood, gets a job — then drops out and joins the Beats in Venice, Paul Coates writes. Continue reading →

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August 12, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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August 12, 1959: A retired teacher has an idea for a simplified spelling system, Paul Coates writes. And Dear Abby has advice about the widower who buries his wife on Monday and asks for a date on Saturday. Continue reading →

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August 11, 1959: Paul V. Coates — Confidential File

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August 11, 1959: Paul Coates wonders how Madison Avenue would change Nikita Khrushchev’s image as the Soviet leader is about to visit the U.S. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, August 10, 1959

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August 10, 1959: Paul Coates on the dangers of signing a blank contract. And Dear Abby has the case of the road-tripping husband. Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, Aug. 9, 1960

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August 9, 1960: Paul Coates writes about the current fad of boating. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, Aug. 8, 1959

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August 8, 1959: Paul Coates’ weekly letter column with a note from Ira Cook of KMPC. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, Aug. 7, 1959

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August 7, 1959: Paul Coates writes that he is hopelessly under the influence of ad slogans. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, Aug. 6, 1959

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August 6, 1959: Preston Sturges dies. Paul Coates writes about teenagers who sniff glue and gasoline. And a poll on what Nikita Khrushchev should see on his U.S. visit. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, Aug. 4, 1959

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August 4, 1959: Paul Coates with the real (well, maybe) story of why Simon Rodia began the Watts Towers. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, Aug. 3, 1959

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August 3, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a letter he received from a distraught 18-year-old who can’t afford counseling for mental illness. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, Aug. 1, 1959

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August 1, 1959: In Paul Coates’ weekly letters column, a writer complains about a pet shop that balked on selling her a bobcat. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 31, 1959

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July 31, 1959: Paul Coates has the story of 12-year-old Joe Oliveira and his coverage of the Laurel Canyon fire. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 30, 1959

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July 30, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a certain tangential figure in the Black Dahlia case whose phone number is confused with that of Edd “Kookie” Byrnes. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 29, 1959

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July 29, 1959: Paul Coates writes about a man who has a problem with a wildcat in a eucalyptus tree. Also: A man tells Dear Abby he can’t live without his ex-wife. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 28, 1959

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July 28, 1959: Columnist Paul Coates writes about hospitals turning away patients without treatment if they couldn’t pay and didn’t have proof of insurance. Also stripper Candy Barr on the Sunset Strip and Dear Abby on a woman’s parents who are fighting after 44 years of marriage. Continue reading →

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Paul V. Coates — Confidential File, July 25, 1959

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July 25,1959: Paul Coates writes about a missionary who returned to the U.S. with leprosy. Continue reading →

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