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,
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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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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 25, 1960

Posted on November 25, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 25, 1960, comics  

Nov. 25, 1960: Matt Weinstock checks in with John Cheever, who’s in Hollywood doing a treatment of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Lost Girl.” “If the short story, of which I am an enthusiastic addict, has any future, Cheever is one of those in whose hands it will rest,” Weinstock says.

CONFIDENTIAL TO HANK: Love cannot be preserved in alcohol. Get wise.

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John Kennedy Jr. Born

Posted on November 25, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 25, 1960, Mirror Cover  

Nov. 25, 1960: Paul Coates is en route to his next assignment. On the jump, Marilyn Monroe meets agent Johnny Hyde in Maurice Zolotow’s biography “The Real Marilyn Monroe.”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 25, 1940

Posted on November 25, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 25, 1940, Nazis Shell Ship  
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Nov. 25, 1940: Pals of Henry Wilcoxon's who think they ate his home-grown turkeys last Thursday are mistaken. Hank bought those gift birds at market because he was too soft-hearted to kill his own pets, Jimmie Fidler says. 

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Thanksgiving 1910

Posted on November 25, 2010 by lmharnisch

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  Nov. 20, 1910, Thanksgiving  

Thanksgiving 1910: President Taft declares the annual holiday. “The records of population and harvests which are the index of progress show vigorous national growth and the health and prosperous well-being of our communities throughout this land and in our possessions beyond the seas.

“These blessings have not descended upon us in restricted measure but overflow and abound. They are the blessings and bounty of God."

The Times’ School for Housewives says: As Thanksgiving day is the family festival, we lay aside the latest fads and "wrinkles" that belong to present-day whims and have the good, old-fashioned dishes in which we rejoiced as children. We dispense with French entrees, elaborate salads and many courses. We feel that on this occasion "old things are best" and turn with delight from what is known as "fancy cooking" to the roast turkey and homemade pies.

On the menu: Cream of corn soup, oyster pie and Spanish rice. 

On the jump, a Bethany College football player is charged with murder after a West Virginia player dies of head injuries,  and a Thanksgiving editorial notes: “Standing beside the blackened walls of The Times, and under the sheltering wings of the brave old eagle that symbolizes its dauntless spirit, we breathe a prayer for the repose of our murdered dead.”

Also on the Daily Mirror:

Thanksgiving 1908

Women Postpone Thanksgiving Dinner to Meet Militant Feminist, 1909

Thanksgiving With a Microwave, 1975

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Found on EBay – Bullock’s Wilshire

Posted on November 24, 2010 by lmharnisch

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This dress from the Collegienne department at Bullock’s Wilshire has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $54.89.

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 24, 1960

Posted on November 24, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

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Nov. 24, 1960: Matt Weinstock has the amusing saga of a national anthem titled "The Salutation and March to His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and Oman" and the British admiralty’s attempt to obtain a fresh copy of the score. The story also appears in Time magazine. And the story appears here. I hope it’s true.

CONFIDENTIAL TO "WAITING TO BE PAID": Take a lesson from my Uncle Henry, who was a credit manager. He sent out a letter saying: "We have done more for you than your mother. SHE carried you for nine months — We've carried you for 12. Please remit!"

Also on the jump, a story headlined: “Arab-Israel Feuding Perils World Peace.”

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Paul Coates, Nov. 24, 1960

Posted on November 24, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 24, 1960, Mirror  

Nov. 24, 1960: Paul Coates has the day off…. Marilyn Monroe meets Groucho and Harpo Marx in the latest chapter of Maurice Zolotow’s “The Real Marilyn Monroe.”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Nov. 24, 1941

Posted on November 24, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Nov. 24, 1941 British Split Up Axis Tank Armies  

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Nov. 24, 1941: Lucille Ball's Thanksgiving gift to Desi Arnaz was a crate of prize Plymouth rocks for their new ranch, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Oh, Tin-enbaum!

Posted on November 24, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
 

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Nov. 24, 1960: Yes, the aluminum Christmas tree is back again, in all its shimmering majesty, at Sears! The 7-foot tree with 153 branches cost $178.73 in 2009 dollars.

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RIP Garth Gimble

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84 Die as Fire Rages Through MGM Grand, Nov. 21, 1980

Posted on November 24, 2010 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 21, 1980, Cover  

Nov. 21-22, 1980: A fire in the deli at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas spreads into the casino and then through the high-rise building, killing 84 people. The first-day story is by the master rewrite man, Eric Malnic. The Times stories on this disaster are a casebook on how to cover breaking news. A color story by Henry Mendoza and Richard West on the second day is especially worth reading.

Also on the jump, a lengthy analysis by Bob Secter, Gaylord Shaw and Ronald L. Soble on what was the second-worst fire in U.S. history.

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