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How to Get–and Keep–a Husband

Posted on August 30, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 29, 1957 Los Angeles If it’s true that a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle, then author Kate Constance wants every salmon to have a Schwinn. She’s written a book on the subject, "How … Continue reading →

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How to Get–and Keep–a Husband

Posted on August 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 28, 1957 Los Angeles If it’s true that a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle, then author Kate Constance wants every salmon to have a Schwinn. She’s written a book on the subject, … Continue reading →

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How to Get–and Keep–a Husband

Posted on August 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 27, 1957 Los Angeles Now that a fish has landed a bicycle, how does she hang on to it? Kate Constance gives the answers in the second installment of "How to Get and Keep a Husband" being serialized in … Continue reading →

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The plight of the ‘manless woman’

Posted on August 23, 2007 by lmharnisch
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Grace Paley–review and interview

Posted on August 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here is an interview with the late Grace Paley by Elizabeth Mehren and Carolyn See’s review of Paley’s "Later the Same Day." Paley died Wednesday at the age of 84. Interview, May 22, 1985, Part 1 Review, May 19, 1985, … Continue reading →

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The want ads

Posted on August 13, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 13, 1957 Los Angeles Swedish massages, photo models (they even provide the camera) and lots of lonely people. Take a look at the Daily Mirror’s personals (click on the image for the full listings):

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Fashion notes

Posted on August 8, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 8, 1957Los Angeles Los Angeles men: You’re slobs, surpassed only by your male counterparts in Houston and Fort Worth. You should let your wives pick out your clothes, or so says Francis DeWitt Pratt of the American Institute of … Continue reading →

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Hal Fishman–1970

Posted on August 7, 2007 by lmharnisch

Nov. 8, 1970, Los Angeles Times

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Hiroshima 12 years later

Posted on August 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 6, 1957New York I wish I could find the story that went with this picture, but I haven’t been successful so far. I’ll keep digging. There’s a wiki entry on Hubert Schiffer.  Email me

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on July 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 22, 1957 SUBJECT’S NAME–Dr. George Ripley Fuller. SUBJECT’S DESCRIPTION–Age, 28. Height 5 feet, 10 inches. Weight, 150 pounds. Blond hair. Blue eyes. Slight horizontal scar upper lip on right. Any person with information as to subject’s whereabouts is requested … Continue reading →

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Pepe Arciga

Posted on July 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 22, 1957 Usually, advance press releases dealing with anyone’s mammoth or secretly puny celluloid projects begin this way: So-and-so Productions take pleasure in announcing the filming of another 12-reeler to star so-and-so…. It might be pointed out that our … Continue reading →

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El Segundo revisited

Posted on July 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

Over lunch today, King C. Brown and I discussed the El Segundo case and I worked out this scenario for what might have happened that night. I apologize for the extremely low-tech simulation but this is all I could find … Continue reading →

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Another plan for the Ambassador

Posted on July 11, 2007 by lmharnisch

July 11, 1957Los Angeles Yes, it’s another architectural plan, this one for the site of the Ambassador Hotel. And no, it never got built, either. Somewhere in Los Angeles, there’s a small library of designs that were shelved over the … Continue reading →

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Ouch!

Posted on July 6, 2007 by lmharnisch

  July 6, 1957 Los Angeles Oh this is a painful moment on the Mirror’s comics page. I was always a big fan of Gus Arriola and "Gordo," which I read for many years. The strips are beautifully drawn and … Continue reading →

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Cold case file–the Pied Piper

Posted on June 28, 2007 by lmharnisch

Tyler Marshall’s Column One (known at The Times as a “nondupe) on the Pied Piper is one of my favorites. And since the presumed anniversary of the incident is in late June, it seemed like a good time to share … Continue reading →

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Voices

Posted on June 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

I remember well the Paul Coates program on TV, Channel 11, when it was owned by The Times.  Never understood anything he was talking about when he was on, but I remember the stark blackness of the set behind him. … Continue reading →

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Victor Segno–man of mystery

Posted on June 25, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aha! EBay has  another envelope addressed to A. Victor Segno of the Segno Success Club, 701 N. Belmont. Segno, author of such books as “The Law of Mentalism,” “How to Be Happy Though Married” and “How to Have Beautiful Hair,” … Continue reading →

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A blast

Posted on June 20, 2007 by lmharnisch

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West is hosting a two-day conference in August on the history of the aerospace industry in Southern California. Speakers will include writers, historians, pioneers in the aerospace industry and military officials. "Rocket Science … Continue reading →

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A name to remember

Posted on June 15, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 15, 1957

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Pot pad raided

Posted on June 14, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 15, 1957 Los Angeles Deputies arrested 13 people after finding them hiding in tunnels dug beneath at house at 12117 Jersey Ave., Norwalk, apparently intended as a bomb shelter. Investigators found 22 marijuana cigarettes in the house and 22 … Continue reading →

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