Beef with beer, ala New York of the 1970s. |
At Cooking With the Junior League, Mary McCoy writes:
The Frenchified ’70s vibe of the Junior League of the City of New York’s New York Entertains is ideal if you’re hosting a retro ladies’ luncheon, a benefit for the Philharmonic, or perhaps a key party. However, any cookbook that suggests cream of scallop soup for a tailgating menu just does not have its finger on the pulse of the sporting community. |
All Steve Medved wants is to be left alone by the LAPD. He hopes that now, after a third trial, he has it made.
Medved, 38, is a big (6’2, 230), easy going fellow of Yugoslav descent. But he can be tough and stubborn when aroused. He was in the Marine Corps during the Second World War.
His trouble began last Feb. 5 when two officers stopped him at 6th and Bixel and accused him of being drunk. He said he wasn’t but admitted he’d had several beers. The words became hotter and the nightmare began. Continue reading
TOKYO — There’s an ancient and revered Oriental proverb which, roughly translated, goes: “Man who take wife to Japan is man who bring coal to Newcastle.”
But to my way of thinking, this is an archaic, reprehensible attitude. It has no place in today’s western world of togetherness. In our way of life, marriage is a partnership. Fifty-fifty. When we do things we do them as a team. That, friends, is red-blooded, true-blue American sportsmanship. Am I right?
Take my own case, for example. Where I go, my wife goes.
She insists on it.
Reporters meet Virginia Arness at the airport and follow her home. Photographers ask James Arness, the star of "Gunsmoke," to pose with her, but he refuses.
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| Oct. 26, 1959: The front page teases a story about the Lions getting a bonus to beat the Rams, but I can’t find the story anywhere in the sports pages. Very curious … and the Conelrad frequency was a fixture of the Cold War era. |
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| Oct. 26, 1953: It’s ladies night at the roller derby! And a group of teenagers attacks a former boxer after the girl sitting next to him at a theater claims he molested her. |
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Virginia Arness attempts suicide in Hawaii. The Biltmore Bowl is heavily modernized so that is virtually unrecognizable. |
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New and Old Chinatown, divided by Broadway.
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Five copies a minute, only 2 1/2 cents each.
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| The Lions beat the Rams, 17-7. |
Halloween with R.F. Outcault’s Buster Brown.
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| Oct. 26, 1919: The “unwritten law,” that a husband was justified in killing any man who romanced his wife, appears frequently in The Times and was cited as a defense for decades – often successfully. In fact, the term appears as recently as 1981 in Al Martinez’s profile of legendary Los Angeles attorney Max Solomon, who defended Mickey Cohen, Brenda Allen and Bugsy Siegel.
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| Labor activists in Indianapolis set off four precisely timed bombs targeting a contractor using non-union workers. One bomb destroyed a barn at his home, two bombs wrecked buildings under construction and the fourth damaged a building at his plant.
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| A chauffeur testifies in the trial of Dr. George A. Fritch, accused of killing Maybelle Millman of Ann Arbor, saying that Fritch threw three heavy sacks into Ecorse Creek.
"Have you been killing someone?" the chauffeur asked. "You are not supposed to know anything," the doctor replied. "Millman's body was found in three sections in sacks in Ecorse Creek and lower Detroit River early last September. The police decided the body showed evidence of a criminal operation," The Times says. |
| Photograph by Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times |
| Here’s a little bonus: A certain film star’s funeral. See if you can identify the (not very) mysterious pallbearers.
Update: As most people realized, this is Errol Flynn's funeral. Curiously enough, although the papers reported that Jack Oakie was unable to get into the service because of tight security, he's in this picture. Also shown, from left: Mickey Rooney, Raoul Walsh, Guinn Williams and Otto Reichow. The other folks are unidentified. |
| The hall, later known as Philharmonic Auditorium, at 5th and Olive.
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| Oct. 25, 1909: John Philip Sousa and his band arrive for a weeklong engagement in Los Angeles. The Sousa band was composed of first-rate players and their skill comes through even on early, primitive recordings.
Notice the variety of the selections. Of course, there are Sousa’s marches, but he has also programmed Rachmaninoff, Goldmark, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Smetana, Bizet and Chabrier. Sousa is also preparing for production of his new opera, “The Glassblowers.” And he's brought his family along. |
Yet another panel you’ll never see in the legacy version of “Peanuts.”
While driving south from San Francisco recently, Mike Molony stopped in Paso Robles and was momentarily puzzled to discover he was the object of the admiring glances of passerby.
He soon caught on. The men of the town had gone in for whisker growing in observance of the annual Pioneer Day celebration and Mike’s distinguished white beaver, a thing of beauty, virtually established him as king for a day.
Not one to holler copper, Mike permitted himself to be lionized by several home guard enthusiasts as a local pioneer and ventured a few ad lib historical comments. Among other things he recalled the last Indian raid on Paso Robles, back in ’93 he thought it was, and the blood-curdling yells of the marauding redskins. Continue reading
| Glendale limits residents to three cats!
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| Oct. 24, 1959: “You women who have good husbands should stay home and take care of them. If you leave him alone again, the next girl might not be as charitable as…” |
| Dave Brubeck at Reseda High School: $2.
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| Oct. 24, 1959: Don’t worry. That train crash is actually in Canada … The New York district attorney is considering perjury charges against Charles Van Doren and Hank Bloomgarden, who voluntarily made substantial changes in their testimony about rigged TV shows. Dist. Atty. Frank S. Hogan refuses to reveal what the changes were. |
| William Boyd, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans! |
| Oct. 24, 1951: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker and William Bendix are expected for the premiere of “Detective Story” at the Fox Wilshire Theater. Is that Keefe Brasselle, author of "The CanniBalS?" It sure is! |
Oct. 24, 1959: Smog continues to blight Los Angeles. City Hall is barely visible from Temple and Hill streets. And Walter O'Malley promises that Dodger Stadium will be dignified. |
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| Oct. 24, 1919: Geraldine Farrar makes a comedy with her husband, Lou Tellegen. But it’s not for public release. |
| “Industrial Independence” is a code phrase for “no unions.”
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| Oct. 24, 1909: The Times recommends “The Tyrant in White,” promising: "There are no long rambling lectures or sermons in its pages. The characters do their own talking. They are boys who grow up into young men and they talk exactly as schoolboys talk, as baseball players talk, and as young men whose fancies 'lightly turn to thoughts of love' talk, too."
Copies of “The Tyrant in White” sell for hundreds of dollars – if you can find them. But you can read it online for free, thanks to Archive.org. |
A man driving here from Chicago became confused the other day as he neared Los Angeles. His car is equipped with two-way radio so he called the local dispatcher, who is on the same wave length. He identified himself as Chicago 287 and explained his problem. He was coming in on the Santa Ana Freeway and wanted to get to an address near Olympic and La Cienega Blvds. What should he do?
The dispatcher instructed him to continue to the interchange, then turn onto Harbor Freeway and take Olympic Blvd. turnoff.
Soon Chicago 287 reported in again. He was becoming more confused by the minute. Continue reading
| Paul Coates will be back soon …
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| Oct. 23, 1959: A family has trouble traveling with grandma. She weighs 300 pounds always brings a pick and shovel in case she admires some roadside greenery – like somebody’s lemon tree. But she’s 72 and doesn’t like to be told what to do. |
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Funeral services for quintuplets born a few days earlier.
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| Oct. 23, 1959: A pall of smog covers the city as county supervisors plan to send a representative to talk to Detroit auto executives about emission controls. |
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