Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, July 9, 1940

Posted on July 10, 2010 by lmharnisch
July 10, 1940, British-Italian Sea Battles Rage

July 10, 1940, War Map

July 10, 1940, Richelieu

July 10, 1940: Director Norman McLeod is eating again after a severe session of food poisoning, Jimmie Fidler says.

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James Reston and the Changing of the Guard

Posted on July 10, 2010 by lmharnisch
July 10, 1960, Bruce Russell 
A self-portrait of Times cartoonist Bruce Russell.

July 10, 1960: The 1960 Democratic National Convention marks an end to the era of political bosses, New York Times columnist James Reston says:

"The lobby of the Biltmore Hotel is jammed at this moment with a mob of notorious political peacocks smoking cigars as big as ball bats, and pretending they are going to 'put Kennedy over' or stop him on Wednesday.

"But most of these gentlemen are dead and don't know it. Kennedy did not come here yesterday to negotiate the nomination with them but merely to pick up the loving cup he won and negotiated by rushing all over the country weeks and even years ago."

Author Theodore White will underscores this theme in "The Making of the President 1960," Page 154: 

"In a matter of days another dominant note was struck by the mysterious process of common press observation. From the sounds and sights, from the hundreds of lost and milling faces in the Biltmore, the press distilled a swift truth that was a remarkably accurate historic assessment: that this was the convention where the young faced the old, this was — in James Reston's felicitous phrase — the assembly that witnessed the Changing of the Guard."

 

July 10, 1960, Bruce Russell

July 10, 1960, Kennedy

July 10, 1960, Kennedy Reston

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JFK Arrives in L.A.!

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 9, 1960, John F. Kennedy at the Biltmore
Photograph by S.A. Hixson / Los Angeles Times

July 9, 1960, John F. Kennedy Arrives

July 9, 1960: From S.A. Hixson’s notes on the back of this photo: “Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) arrives at the Biltmore Hotel, packed lobby with hundreds of backers hampered his way. Police were forced to bodily push their way ahead. At the elevator Kennedy was nearly pushed to the floor, turned angrily said: 'Will you guys stop pushing.’ ”
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Paul V. Coates and Matt Weinstock, July 9, 1960

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 9, 1960, Comics

July 9, 1960: Matt Weinstock takes a look at the way jurors are selected for coroner’s inquests.

CONFIDENTIAL TO LUKE WARM: You can buy a dishwasher, if that's all you want. Why marry one? Abby says.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, July 9, 1940

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lmharnisch
July 9, 1940, Warship Falls to Britain

July 9, 1940

July 9, 1940: Jimmie Fidler says:

Now that Lana's shown Artie the gate,
Maybe others will learn from their fate
That the gods of romance
Are denied a fair chance
When a marriage is based on one date!

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Why Vin Scully Calls No-Hitters

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 9, 1960, Vin Scully

July 9, 1960: Some baseball broadcasters won't say that a pitcher is working on a no-hitter. Back in 1960, Vin Scully made it clear what he thought of that superstition.

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Wages of Sin in Iran — Lashes, Death

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lmharnisch
 

July 9, 1980, Used Cars

Remember “Used Cars?” Back then, some movies weren't much more than a string of car chases and crashes.

July 9, 1980: "Seventeen months after they seized power from the crumbling regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran's mullahs (Muslim clergymen) have cracked down. They are imposing strict Muslim standards of morality on their 35 million subjects — with a vengeance," Times reporter Doyle McManus says.

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Ohio Mob Lynches Private Detective

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lmharnisch
July 9, 1910, Lynching

July 9, 1910: Charles Etherington, one of several detectives sent to Newark by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, is lynched in the public square by a mob of men and women after the former police chief, who owned the Last Chance restaurant, dies from being shot during a raid on speakeasies.

"Hundreds of women and little children were in the crowd, all eager to witness his death," The Times says.

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Matt Weinstock, July 8, 1960

Posted on July 8, 2010 by lmharnisch
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July 8, 1960: Matt Weinstock visits the Democratic headquarters at the Biltmore and notices the changes at the Biltmore Bowl.

CONFIDENTIAL TO "CURIOUS": A rich girl is "well-traveled" — a poor girl has 'been around.' The net result is usually the same, Abby says.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, July 8, 1960

Posted on July 8, 2010 by lmharnisch

July 8, 1960, Mirror Cover

July 8, 1960: Paul Coates talks to organizers of a march against nuclear weapons.

"This type of demonstration can reach the people, an individual's conscience, the men of authority, better than the normal channels of communications — such as writing your congressman," says the Rev. Curtis Moody of First Christian Church of Whittier.

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Kyle Palmer Analyzes the Democratic Candidates

Posted on July 8, 2010 by lmharnisch


July 8, 1960, Ted Kennedy

July 8, 1960, Kyle Palmer

July 8, 1960: Times Political Editor Kyle Palmer, one of the powers behind Richard Nixon’s career, takes a look at the Democrats. He finds the competition narrowing to Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas), with the respective campaigns advocating a Kennedy-Johnson or Johnson-Kennedy ticket.  This will be the last big race for Palmer, who died of leukemia in 1962 after a long illness. In fact, Palmer filed only a handful of columns after the November 1960 election.

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Jack Johnson Gets Hero’s Welcome

Posted on July 8, 2010 by lmharnisch


March 31, 1943, Jack Johnson
Photograph by Julian Robinson / Los Angeles Times

Jack Johnson and his wife, Irene, after winning a legal battle to avoid being evicted from their home at 2015 Hyperion Ave. because he was black, March 31, 1943.

July 8, 1910, Jack Johnson

July 8, 1910: “Five thousand members of his race and a big sprinkling of white persons made a living wall at the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Station when Johnson arrived at 2 p.m.,” The Times says.

On the jump, a fire chief foils a plot to set off 50 pounds of dynamite at the International Harvester Co. in Chicago. The explosives were placed under a car carrying iron made by nonunion workers in Philadelphia, The Times says. 

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Found on EBay: Aviation Meet in L.A.

Posted on July 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

aviation_slides_ebay A group of color lantern slides showing early aviation has been listed on EBay. The vendor says these slides were issued by the Southern Pacific. One of them shows a Los Angeles meet and another shows flier Eugene Ely in Hawthorne. Bidding starts at $24.95.
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Matt Weinstock, July 7, 1960

Posted on July 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 7, 1960, Comics

July 7, 1960: Two beautiful girls walking past the Lyndon Johnson quarters in the Biltmore were asked by guards at the entrance if they'd wear Johnson buttons. They agreed, then passed out cards inviting the Johnson people to the Pink Pussy Cat, which specializes in strippers, Matt Weinstock says.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, July 7, 1960

Posted on July 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 7, 1960, Mirror Cover

July 7, 1960: Paul Coates has the story of a clever scheme being used by a Long Beach con man.

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Jimmie Fidler, July 7, 1941

Posted on July 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 7, 1941, Reds SEize War Offensive

July 7, 1941, New Ships

July 7, 1942: Edgar Bergen visits ailing veterans at Olive View Sanatorium but insists on no publicity, Jimmie Fidler says. 

"Bergen's audience was a Negro veteran who lay at the point of death — so near the edge, in fact, that hospital officials warned Edgar the man might die at any moment and asked if he would rather not go in. But Bergen went in; he spent 30 minutes in that room and for 30 minutes the dying man watched Charlie McCarthy's painted face with a happy smile. He died shortly after they left, still with the smile on his lips. Doctors said it was the Negro veteran's first smile in months."

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Fight of the Century Touches Off Race Riots

Posted on July 7, 2010 by lmharnisch
 
JUuly 7, 1910, Editorial Cartoon

July 5, 1910, Race Riots

July 7, 1910: Times cartoonist Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale comments on the race riots that followed Jack Johnson’s defeat of James Jeffries in the Fight of the Century. Many cities barred theaters from showing film of the fight for fear of more violence.

On the jump, The Times draws parallels between Independence Day and “Industrial Freedom,” its term for the open shop.

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Matt Weinstock, July 6, 1960

Posted on July 6, 2010 by lmharnisch
July 6, 1960, Comics

July 6, 1960: Robert Sorrma, 9, is wise beyond his years, Matt Weinstock says.

CONFIDENTIAL TO BILL F.: If the nickel has no 'mint mark,' it is a counterfeit, Abby says.

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Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, July 6, 1960

Posted on July 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

July 9, 1960, Mirror Cover

July 6, 1960: Paul Coates writes about using animals in medical experiments and the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

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Jimmie Fidler, July 6, 1940

Posted on July 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
July 6, 1940, U.S. Warns Nazis
July 6, 1940, Hitler Mussolini

July 6, 1940: “Wallace Beery will return to Jackson Hole, Wyo., on completion of his current role to supervise construction of a landing field adjoining his new hunting lodge,” Jimmie Fidler’s staff says.

Also on the jump, Times reporter Tom Treanor, who was killed covering World War II, files a story from Bermuda en route to Europe.  

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