Dodgers Swap Don Zimmer

Posted on April 8, 2010 by lmharnisch
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April 8, 1960: Don Zimmer, the Dodgers' vocal and often-angry backup infielder who thought he should be starting or at least playing, finally got his wish to leave L.A. as the big name in a four-player trade with the Cubs.

The Dodgers received three youngsters, including Ron Perranoski, who anchored the Dodger bullpen for several seasons.

Zimmer had been seeking a trade just about since the Dodgers arrived from Brooklyn. On his way out of town, he made it clear he blamed Manager Walt Alston for his troubled times in L.A.

"I know he doesn't care for me," Zimmer told The Times. "That's because I'm always after him to play me or trade me."

The Cubs weren't the answer for Zimmer. The Mets picked him up in 1962. He also played for the Reds, Senators and the Dodgers again.

–Keith Thursby

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Cholos

Posted on April 8, 2010 by lmharnisch
Sept. 19, 1887, Cholo

Sept. 19, 1887: A comment on the use of “cholo” in a 1910 story prompted me to look for the first occurrence in The Times. ProQuest’s search engine is imperfect – it mistakes “cholera” for “cholo” — but this seems to be one of the earliest appearances.

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End of Watch, Danny Galindo

Posted on April 8, 2010 by lmharnisch

Photograph by Don Cormier / Los Angeles Times
Regular Daily Mirror readers will be familiar with Detective Danny Galindo, who died Tuesday at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Here he is in 1963, taking the part of Karl Hettinger, center, in a reenactment of the “Onion Field” killing with Sgt. G.H. Bates, left, as Officer Ian Campbell; Sgt. Pierce Brooks, right, as Gregory Powell, and suspect Jimmy Lee Smith.
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Hot Stove League

Posted on April 8, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
March 10, 1960, Hot Stove League

March 10, 1960: The Times published the Hot Stove League as a daily feature, but I’m posting them once a week so they’ll last longer. Is Don Blasingame safe or out?

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The Times’ Changing Nameplate

Posted on April 8, 2010 by lmharnisch

 April 8, 1910, Logo

The Times’ nameplate before the 1910 bombing, with The Times Building at right. 

April 8, 1913, Logo

The revised nameplate of 1913 shows the building on fire.

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The 1913 nameplate also shows the new building on the site of the old one at 1st and Broadway.

Times Eagle
Photograph by Larry Harnisch / Los Angeles Times

April 8, 1910: I thought it would be interesting to look at how the October 1910 bombing changed The Times’ nameplate. The Times’ eagle, which was on the roof of both buildings, remains on display in the Globe Lobby, but it has acquired a new base since the 2007 exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Garden, above.

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Matt Weinstock, April 7, 1960

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

April 7, 1960, Peanuts
April 7, 1960, Peanuts

'Good Evening, Friends…'

Matt Weinstock

    The TV cliche file is overwhelming again so let's drain off another batch.

    Irene McCroskey of Burbank shrinks every time she hears the line, which she contends is in every British film, "Darling! It must have been awful for you!"

    Nancy Cooney squirms when she hears the villain who is on the lam tell his girlfriend, "I thought I told you not to call me here!"  Also when the innocent victim is caught leaning over a body with a gun in his hand and says, "Are you going to call the police?"

    Al Sisto cringes when he hears a cowboy say, "Now you listen and listen good!"  And more so when the other cowboy retorts, "Now you listen hard!"

    Melissa Caron winces at the sequence in which the girl learns that her father, husband, brother or boyfriend has been shot and insists on riding with the posse.  That sheriff says, "I'm sorry, it's too dangerous for a woman."  The next scene shows her leading the posse.

 

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

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch


April 7, 1960, Mirror Cover

S. Smith Griswold's Finest Hour at Hand

Paul Coates

    The man's name:  S. (for Sam) Smith Griswold.

    He's 51 years old, married, father of two, and — by his own admission — a descendant of Aaron Burr.

    This last fact, I'm sure, weighs significantly in the minds of many.

    Griswold currently holds down a $23,028-a-year appointive position as director of our Air Pollution Control District.  I stress the word appointive.

    In the community it's axiomatic that if you're against smog, you're against Griswold.  So he isn't a man likely to win elections.

    In spite of such political attributes as a thick shock of blond hair and kind face, Griswold is just plain unpopular.

    For years, he's been the target of a rare display of public disfavor, behind which lies an interesting story.

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Hedda Hopper, April 7, 1941

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
April 7, 1941

April 7, 1941: James Cagney … female impersonator? That’s a new one on me.

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Those Dodger Bugles

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

April 7, 1960, Danny Goodman

April 7, 1960: Danny Goodman knew how to sell baseball fans anything. He worked with the Hollywood Stars of the old Pacific Coast League and kept selling when the Dodgers moved to L.A.

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U.S. Clergymen Hold Easter Services for Embassy Hostages in Iran

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
April 7, 1980, Hostages

April 7, 1980, Hostages

April 7, 1980: Three Christian ministers from the American Iranian Crisis Resolution Committee hold Easter services for 50 hostages who had been held since Nov. 4, 1979, at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. On April 24, 1980, President Carter announced that eight American crewmen were killed when two planes collided after a rescue attempt was aborted.

April 25, 1980, Hostages

After 444 days of captivity, the hostages’ “flight to freedom” began 33 minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president, The Times said. 

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Nuestro Pueblo

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch
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Oct. 10, 1938: Joe Seewerker and Charles Owens visit Sunset Beach, where an old wooden fish advertises bait. Note: The original run of Nuestro Pueblo ended in 1939. I’m going back and picking up the entries I missed in 2008-09. The drawings appeared in a book, now long out of print, that is usually available from online dealers.

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Vernon Hog Farmer Accused of Ignoring L.A. Garbage Laws

Posted on April 7, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
April 7, 1910, Garbage Suit

April 7, 1910: A century ago, hogs were fed garbage, and if you had a lot of hogs, you needed lots of garbage. What better way to get it than what was discarded from Los Angeles restaurants?  P.J. Durbin, a hog raiser in Vernon, scoffed at a contract awarded to Charles Alexander and the new city regulation requiring that garbage be taken five miles from the city. As a result, one of his drivers was charged with collecting garbage without a permit, the other with using a wagon that didn’t meet sanitary standards. 

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Matt Weinstock, April 6, 1960

Posted on April 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

April 6, 1960, Caryl Chessman

The Silly Season

Matt Weinstock

    Obviously the sun spots which jammed radio and TV reception a few days ago didn't do people any good, either.  The kids are all mixed up, or at least pretending to be.

    Bob Owen thinks it's about time someone exposed what he considers an insidious publicity scheme to slip Chessman into public office, mayor maybe, with Dr. Finch as district attorney and Carole as head of health, education and welfare.

    Fellow named Art is mighty suspicious of the so-called return of the swallows to Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day.  He thinks it's romantic nonsense.  "However," he adds irrelevantly, "I personally have found that beating on a drum helps drive away eclipses."

    And someone signing A Sick Reader, noting the increase on falling objects from airplanes, points out that Chicken Little wasn't so wrong after all, in fact may have been prophetic, when it exclaimed, "The sky is falling."
 

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

Posted on April 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

April 6, 1960, Mirror Cover

Prudery Not So Very Practical These Days

Paul Coates

    Read a report the other day that a French sociologist named Pierre-Louis Weil sees the western world entering upon an era of prudery.

    He bases it on the belief that sex is beginning to lose its novelty.  That it has become a little more than a commercial force.  And that people now consider Jayne Mansfield and Brigitte Bardot mere satirical creations.

    As a result, Weil maintains, a new Victorian era lies dead ahead.

    Personally, I don't mind.  I'm as much of a prude as the next one.

    But if we regress to Victorian life, a tretorian** era lies ahead.

    For example, the entire field of advertising will be in a temporary state of utter confusion.  No more billboards of a girl in a Bikini extolling the virtues of denture cement.  No more TV commercials of girls in tight-fitting Capri pants undulating through the garden with a sack of Bandini tenderly cradled in their arms.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 6, 1940

Posted on April 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
April 6, 1940, Jimmie Fidler 

April 6, 1940: After I ran across a mention of Hollywood gossip columnist Jimmie Fidler in an upcoming Paul Coates column, I thought it would be fun to take a break from Hedda Hopper with a small dose of Fidler. Sample: “What's this about Paulette Goddard, with only three screen leads to her credit, high-hatting the hired help at Paramount?”

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Bukowski From the Bottoms Up

Posted on April 6, 2010 by lmharnisch
April 6, 1980, Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski reads his poetry in Redondo Beach

April 6, 1980: “After two hours, 16 poems, a lot of locker room laughs and two bottles of Concannon Petite Sirah, Bukowski and a few of his patrons were just this side of drunk and disorderly. Some words in his last poems slipped on the wine at times. And some of the verbal barbs tossed at him by the audience of mostly under 30 men and women had cruel edges now and seemed to sting a bit,”  Bill Steigerwald writes.

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A setback for Larry Sherry

Posted on April 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

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imageApril 6, 1960: The Cleveland Indians roughed up World Series hero Larry Sherry, who was hoping to use a spring training start to convince the Dodgers he should permanently escape the bullpen.

"Naturally I want to start and I think I could help the club if I did," he told The Times' Frank Finch a few days earlier. "But they are paying me good money and I'm willing to do what they ask. This sure beats playing for St. Paul any way you look at it."

Given those quotes, not sure this was as big a deal as The Times made it appear. Finch might have been looking for a good controversy late in spring training. Even worse, losing to the Indians allowed the paper to say "Sherry Shelled" in the headline and Finch to write that the Indians scalped Sherry. Hard to believe the paper was still writing such nonsense in 1960.

–Keith Thursby
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Men Support Women’s Right to Vote

Posted on April 6, 2010 by lmharnisch

April 6, 1910, Chinese Medicine

April 6, 1910, Women Voters

image April 6, 1910: Men establish the Political Equality League of Southern California to promote women’s right to vote. "I can see no reason why you should go on making laws for the government of my mother, my wife and my sister without their consent," organizer J.C. (or J.H.)  Braly says.

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Found on EBay – Williams and Walker

Posted on April 5, 2010 by lmharnisch

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May 1, 1898: Bert Williams and George Walker share the stage with McIntyre and Heath at the Orpheum.

This postcard of George Walker of the Williams and Walker vaudeville team has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $8.
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Matt Weinstock, April 5, 1960

Posted on April 5, 2010 by lmharnisch

 April 5, 1960, Buck Rogers

Say, doesn’t that ray gun look familiar?



Han Solo Blaster

Looks like Han Solo is packing the same Mauser!

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The Knife Turns

 Matt Weinstock
    The ides of April are only 10 days away and the squeals of those wrestling with their state income tax are pitiful indeed.  A single man, with no dependents, who made $800 less in 1959 than in 1958, was dumbfounded to discover he must pay the state about $140 more than last year.  His total payment will be around $375.
 
    Worse is the plight of an elderly woman whose only source of income is an old four-unit apartment house.  Of all her expenses, including maintenance, utilities and upkeep, the biggest is income tax.
 
    By the way, the deadline, April 15, falls on Good Friday, and a low-bracket secretary, who has to contribute $42 to the state by that date, wants to know, "What's good about it?"
 
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    THIS BEING National Library Week, book men are expressing their elation at the resurgence of reading.  Why, it's almost as if people were turning off their TV sets, refusing to watch reruns the fourth time around.

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