Matt Weinstock, Nov. 30, 1960

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 30, 1960, Comics  

Dec. 2, 1960: A publicity man never gives up, Matt Weinstock says, citing his experience with a tale about the Arizona Bar – in San Diego.

DEAR ABBY: We are the parents of four wonderful adopted children. One of the boys is part Indian. He is bright and lovable, but his skin is darker than the rest. When we take our family places, thoughtless strangers gawk at us like we were from outer space. I don't mind that so much, but I've had people….

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann, Nov. 30, 1960

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

 

 
 

  Nov. 3, 1960, Mirror  

Nov. 3,  1960: Israel's Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner tells Paul Coates: "Revenge is not the motive of this trial. What we want to do is, once and for all, set before the world the fully documented story of the so-called 'Final Solution to Jewry,' and we want to do it through the testimony of the man who was responsible.

"But let me assure you. We are bound by the strict observance of law. This will not become a circus. Adolf Eichmann will get a fair trial."

On the jump, Marilyn Monroe is purportedly an orphan but a gossip columnist finds her mother in  a sanitarium in the latest chapter of Maurice Zolotow’s biography “The Real Marilyn Monroe.”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 30. 1940

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

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  Nov. 30, 1940, Tom Treanor  

Nov.  30, 1940: I watched Olivia de Havilland select a swank pair of earrings which, she confided, were destined for sister Joan Fontaine's Christmas tree.

The purchase completed, the clerk asked: "Anything else, Miss de Havilland?"

"Nothing," replied Olivia reflectively, "except — please be nice to Miss Fontaine when she comes in to exchange these."

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Movieland Mystery Photo – Update 2

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 27, 2010, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

image Mack Sennett was this week’s mystery guest. I found this picture in his file and thought it would make a nice mystery photo.

Update: Harry “Kid” McCoy, center, is the only fellow identified in this photo, so I’m hoping the Daily Mirror “brain trust” will come through with the rest of the identities.  As Stacia suggests, the fellow on the lower left looks like Slim Summerville, although I can see a resemblance to Lupino Lane.  And the mystery woman on the right appears to be Mae Busch.

Update 2: Mary Mallory writes: I have some information on the Triangle Komedies photo.  It is THEIR WEAK MOMENTS (Triangle-Sennett, 1917).  Harry McCoy stands holding the gun, the woman in the straw hat is Cecile Arnold, and the woman in the black hat is Vivian Edwards.  The man on the floor with the tilted hat is Mal St. Clair.  Don't know the other two.  I figured this out from Brent Walker's book which has a photo of McCoy and the women, and then discovered that we have the exact same photo in the film file.

There are more detailed images on the jump.

At right: Mack Sennett and Thomas Ince ankle Triangle, July 7, 1917

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Dodgers’ Youth Movement

Posted on November 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 30, 1960, Dodgers  

Nov. 30, 1960: The Dodgers' youth movement rolled on.

"Our kids continue to improve and none of them has reached his peak," Manager Walt Alston told The Times' Frank Finch. "The Dodgers will be a team to be reckoned with for some time."

Highest on the list of future Dodgers were players who appeared in Los Angeles during the disappointing 1960 season—Frank Howard, Willie Davis and Tommy Davis.

Things had changed dramatically for the Dodgers since the move to Los Angeles before the 1958 season, when the team included many stars from its years in Brooklyn.

Consider the plight of Gil Hodges, an eight-time all star who was a fixture at first base. Discussing his catching situation Alston said he might keep only two catchers in 1961 "if Hodges is still around."

–Keith Thursby

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 29, 1960

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 29, 1960, Comics  

Nov. 29, 1960:  Matt Weinstock has the story of a group of people who were discussing current films (one of them had seen a preview of “Exodus”) and another said he hadn’t been to a movie since “Wings.”

Also on the jump, a story about Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and his clash with Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who inserted a statement in the official record of a hearing charging that Pauling had a "long record of service to Communist causes and objectives, many of them related in no way to his special field of science."

CONFIDENTIAL TO "TRYING TO FORGET": Get rid of the letters, pictures and all the little "reminders." The romance is dead, dead, dead!

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann, Nov. 29, 1960

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 29, 1960, Mirror  

Nov. 29, 1960: Paul Coates talks to Holocaust survivors in Israel about Adolf Eichmann and finds complex and contradictory views on him. One person wishes that his captors had simply shot him instead of bringing him to Israel for a trial.

Commander Antek (Yitzhak Zuckerman), one of the leaders of the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto, says: "If I got him in these hands I would kill him, of course. I could not help myself. But what good does killing him do? Will it make up for his crime? Can you kill a man 6 million times?"

Also on the jump, Chapter 14 of Maurice Zolotow's "The Real Marilyn Monroe," in which the actress' drama coach, Natasha Lytess, appears on the set of the Fritz Lang film "Clash by Night." It didn’t go well.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 29, 1940

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 29, 1940, Mexicans Riot  

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Nov. 29, 1940: HOLLYWOOD AFTER DARK: Bob Stack, with Pat Dane at the Pirates' Den, blushing a fiery red when a gushy fan dashed up, scissors in hand, to beg a lock of his hair.

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A Season of Optimism for Dodgers, Angels

Posted on November 29, 2010 by lmharnisch

 

  Nov. 29, 1970, Reagan  

Nov. 29, 1970: State income from tax revenue is running lower than expected while state spending — primarily for social welfare — is running higher than earlier estimates.

 

  Nov. 29, 1970, Dodgers  

Nov. 29, 1970: The Dodgers and Angels were feeling optimistic but how hard is that in the middle of winter?

"We have a chance to win it all next year," said the Dodgers' Al Campanis.

The Angels had "the highest of hopes for 1971," Dick Walsh told The Times John Wiebusch.

Both teams had made big offseason acquisitions, the Dodgers getting Richie Allen and the Angels Tony Conigliaro.

The Dodgers were named in various reports about looking for more pitching, specifically Steve Carlton of the Cardinals, Ken Hotzman of the Cubs and former Dodger Ron Perranoski of the Twins.

Campanis said he would consider trading one of their "good young kids," who included shortstop Bobby Valentine, first baseman-outfielder Bill Buckner, third baseman-outfielder Steve Garvey and outfielder Tom Paciorek.

Eventually, they would all become ex-Dodgers.

–Keith Thursby

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 28, 1960

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

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Nov. 28, 1960: Are American children lagging behind their Soviet counterparts? Matt Weinstock (who admits he was lousy in geometry) doesn’t think it’s so important.  “I thought it was a ridiculous waste of time, effort and money to try to teach algebra and geometry to students who have no affinity for it and will never use it,” he says.

DEAR ABBY: I've been wanting to write you for over a year but just couldn't get up the nerve. I am in love with my best girlfriend's husband. I am married, 23, and have two small children. I know he loves me for I see the love in his eyes when he looks at me. Call me silly if you want to, but I love him even though I have never kissed him. I have nothing against my husband but I know I am in love with this man. What should I do?

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Paul Coates on Adolf Eichmann’s Prison, Nov. 28, 1960

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 28, 1960, Mirror Cover  

Nov. 28, 1960: Paul Coates reports from Tel Aviv on the secret prison where Adolf Eichmann is being held.

“Adolf Eichmann, the Gestapo butcher who engineered the coolly scientific slaughter of 6 million Jews, will be tried for his incredible crimes by the kinsmen of his victims in March. Until then, the location of the prison where he's being held is Israel's most jealously guarded secret,” Coates says.

In Maurice Zolotow’s biography, “The Real Marilyn Monroe,” the actress says: “Studio bosses are jealous of their power. The are like political bosses. They want to pick out their own candidates for public office. They don't want the public rising up and dumping a girl they consider 'unphotogenic' in their laps and saying, 'Make her a star because we want you to make her a star.' ”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 28, 1940

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 28, 1940, RAF Sets Axis Center  
  Nov. 28, 1940, Tom Treanor  

Nov. 28, 1940: Autograph hounds who swarmed around Rosemary Lane at the Union Air Terminal the other day may be shocked to discover that the gal who laughed so heartily — on the sidelines — was Bette Davis, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Revisionism on Vietnam, November 1980

Posted on November 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 16, 1980, Peanuts  
  Nov. 16, 1980, Vietnam  

Nov. 16, 1980: President-elect Ronald Reagan calls the Vietnam  War a “noble cause,” echoing the views of a “small but increasingly vocal minority of scholars,” The Times’ Barry Siegel says.

“Virtually all scholars still say America should never have gotten involved in Vietnam because the costs were too high and the goals unachievable. But some now argue that, although the war effort was badly misguided, recent events prove the concerns of the pro-war camp to be honorable and legitimate,” Siegel says. 

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 27, 1940

Posted on November 27, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 27, 1940, Vultee  
  Nov. 27, 1940, Florentine Gardens  

Nov. 27, 1940 – Jimmie Fidler says:  Wot's this about Samuel Goldwyn mulling plans to produce in South America, figuring films can be made as well AND MUCH CHEAPER down there?

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Movieland Mystery Photo

Posted on November 27, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 23, 2010, Mystery Photo  

  Los Angeles Times file photo  

Here’s three mystery chaps. Our guest is in the middle.

Last week’s mystery guest was Polly Walters and the weekend guest was Gregg Palmer. Congratulations to Don Danard for recognizing him!

There’s a new photo on the jump!

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Nixon’s Neckties

Posted on November 27, 2010 by lmharnisch

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  Huntington Library  

Every Friday, Natalie Russell, a library assistant at the Huntington, e-mails several photos from the Jack Smith collection to a group of old-timers in hopes that someone can identify the people in the pictures. [Note: Make it a New Year’s resolution to label all your old photographs!] 

Although I couldn’t identify anyone besides Jack and Richard Nixon, I was able to narrow the date the photo was taken to about 1950, based on Nixon’s necktie.

  Jack Smith, Nixon  

Richard Nixon, 1950

  Nixon, May 26, 1950  
Richard Nixon, 1950

  Nixon, L.A. Press Club,
election night,
Nov. 9, 1950		  

I don’t suppose anyone, except for a complete research drudge like me, has ever made a study of Nixon’s neckties – a future dissertation subject, perhaps? Anyway, I was only able to find two photos in The Times archives (and we have lots of Nixon pictures) showing him with this tie. Nixon was consistently conservative in his choice of neckwear, preferring small, repeated patterns like this one, and he didn’t seem to wear his ties more than a few times. 

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 26, 1960

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 26, 1960, Comics  

Nov. 26, 1960: Caryl Chessman is dead – but far from forgotten, Matt Weinstock says.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are beside ourselves. Our 21-year-old son has been going with a girl. We did not disapprove of her, but when they asked permission to announce their engagement, we told them we wanted them to wait a while as the girl is only 18 and our son is presently in the Army. To our amazement….

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Paul Coates, Nov. 26, 1960

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 26, 1960, Mirror Cover  

  Nov. 26, 1960, Paul Coates, Eichmann  

Nov. 26, 1960: Paul Coates’ stories about Adolf Eichmann are coming up next week in the Mirror…. Marilyn Monroe works with John Huston in the latest chapter of Maurice Zolotow’s biography “The Real Marilyn Monroe.”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 26, 1940

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 26, 1940, Vultee Strike  

Nov. 26, 1940: CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNIQUE to Frances Farmer: I'm sorry to hear you're bitter because the press failed to support your attempted screen comeback, but after your mistreatment of reporters when you were a star what did you expect?, Jimmie Fidler says. 

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‘Ma Perkins,’ ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’ Signing Off Radio

Posted on November 26, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 26, 1960, Ma Perkins  

Nov. 26, 1960: CBS cancels four radio soap operas: “Ma Perkins,” “Dr. Jerry Malone,” “The Right to Happiness” and “The Second Mrs. Burton.” Also canceled: “Amos ‘n’ Andy.”

A Times editorial said: “Daytime radio is retrenching. There will be more news, more music, more personalities, more variety. But the soap operas will no longer fill the morning hours. The CBS network is closing out the last of them, although the newer, brighter detergent operas will still fill hours of television time.”

Virginia Payne, the voice of Ma Perkins, tells Times radio columnist Don Page: "We just finished doing the 7,000th broadcast. I can't believe it will end. It is one of the last bits of Americana left."

Listen:  “Ma Perkins,”  “Right to Happiness” and “Amos ‘n’ Andy.”

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