August 14, 1944
Sat and talked with Joan Fontaine the night before she left for Mexico and I have seldom seen her as happy. She had an engagement to meet Preston Sturges and there is a very good chance he may direct “The Affairs of Susan,” her first picture for Hal Wallis at Paramount. Her eyes sparkled as she told me if he didn’t direct it at least he would write the story and she knew that would make it the picture she has been waiting for all these months.
Joan was very cute when she said she had cut her household expenses because she hadn’t worked for so long. The man who was with us offered to lend her money. “Oh,” she said. “I don’t need money. I have saved enough so I can live without ever working, but I can’t be extravagant.”
LEO: Planetary rays beneficent. Solid application improved rules of progress necessary for maximum gains. You have capability.
Splash!
When visitors wonder why Jim Wallin, Arcadia planning commissioner, has no diving board for his swimming pool, he tells them about his big impulsive moment. Not long ago a nephew from out of state, a husky lad of 21, visited him and kept practicing triple flips, striking the water with a tremendous splash.
August 13, 1959: Did Miss Japan have plastic surgery? 
She was a pretty little girl with natural blond hair and baby-blue eyes with stars in them.
August 12, 1959: “People said it was just a whim — that they couldn’t understand why a young girl wanted to study law — that it would all go to waste — that I’d just spend time and money and then get married.”
August 12, 1959: One man is killed and six are injured in the collapse of a bridge being built over the Pacific Electric tracks on 
Wait a minute, the Beats reject things like beauty contests. What’s with this?
Aug. 11, 1969: The Times brings out an extra for the La Bianca killings.
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