Paul Coates

Posted on May 14, 2008 by lmharnisch


May 14, 1958


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Dodger Woes

Posted on May 14, 2008 by lmharnisch


May 14, 1958

1958_0514_dodgers By Keith Thursby
Times staff writer

The game story in The Times was bad enough. The Dodgers lost to the Giants, 16-9, for their fifth defeat in a row. This wasn’t what anyone had in mind when the team moved to Los Angeles. So what was wrong?

That was the basis of a story by Times writer Al Wolf, in which owner Walter O’Malley, Manager Walt Alston and shortstop Pee Wee Reese were asked to explain the team’s struggles.

O’Malley’s opinions were interesting given that there was less than a month before Los Angeles voters had their say on the city’s contract with the team to build a stadium in Chavez Ravine.

O’Malley noted the loss of catcher Roy Campanella and the effect on the pitching staff. He also suggested that some players were trying too hard to make a good impression in their new home.

But the Coliseum received its share of criticism.

O’Malley said the team had become “afflicted with a phobia” playing so many of its early-season games in “an unorthodox park.” The best answer to the team’s problems might be a trip out of town.

“Playing on regulation, familiar diamonds should get them going again,” he said.

That is, of course, until a certain baseball stadium could be built.

keith.thursby@latimes.com

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May 14, 1958

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Above, I don’t even know where to begin with this one: "Islam is identified with the darker races while Christianity is thought to be a white man’s religion. Thus Mohammedanism is more acceptable to socially conscious Negroes, who have a new spirit of nationalistic pride." This is beyond appalling. I cannot imagine how this got into the paper. Even in 1958. Below, Nixon’s disastrous Latin American tour becomes fodder for his book "Six Crises" … The view of former Foreign Service worker Russ Olson is here.

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May 14, 1938

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Above, 300 Jewish refugees arrive from Germany … and President Roosevelt asks Congress to approve money so the U.S. can join an international committee to study the problem of refugees. Below, police surgeon Charles F. Sebastian testifies about Harry Raymond’s injuries in the bombing that nearly killed him. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because he was the son of Charles E. Sebastian, the former police chief who was elected mayor in one of the more colorful and corrupt eras in Los Angeles history … Sheriff’s deputies raid the gambling ship Rex and The Times gives the story just a few paragraphs … but more coverage is coming … And crews are hard at work to get Union Station ready for the Shriners’ Convention in June.

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May 14, 1909: Man Swallows Carbolic Acid on Streetcar, Battles Conductor Before Dying

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May 14, 1909: Man commits suicide on streetcar by swallowing carbolic acid

May 14, 1909: Above, the drama of daily life in early 20th century Los Angeles. Please point out this story to anyone who thinks the past was a “kinder, simpler time.” Below, the attempted rape of 13-year-old Neruda Nielson after she got off a streetcar at Central Avenue and 52nd Street. Neruda’s only identification of the attackers is that she thought they might be African American.

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Paul Coates

Posted on May 13, 2008 by lmharnisch


May 13, 1958

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Matt Weinstock

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May 13, 1958

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Mob spits on Nixon

Posted on May 13, 2008 by lmharnisch


May 13, 1958

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Mystery photo 2

Posted on May 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

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Photograph by Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles Times

I had so much fun going through Ronald Reagan’s pictures I decided to post another one. Who is she?

  • City Councilwoman Rosalind "Roz" Wyman? (Ken Odessky). Absolutely right. Very good!

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May 13, 1958

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Above, President Eisenhower tells African Americans to be patient about gaining civil rights … Below, Dr. Lawrence Michael Dillon, formerly Dr. Laura Maude Dillon, who was apparently the world’s first trangendered man, is interviewed in Philadelphia. In 1945, Dillon began a series of operations to change his sex, The Times said. Dillon was a member of the British nobility and his change was noticed by readers of books on British peerage. According to the Gender Centre website, Dillon fled after his operation was revealed and eventually became a Tibetan monk in Bengal, taking the name Lobzang Jivaka.

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May 13, 1938

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Above, Albert "Baby" Arizmendi vs. Wally Hally at the Olympic. Arizmendi died in 1963 at the age of 48 after a long illness … Below, George Sakalis, a key witness in the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette, is cleared of charges that were trumped up in Arizona in an attempt to keep him from testifying in the Harry Raymond bombing … The city of Los Angeles prepares for summer by opening the swimming pool at the Exposition playground and the "Griffith plunge" … A vice crackdown continues with 11 men arrested at 4104 Long Beach Blvd. for shooting dice and two investigations of the gambling ship Rex, anchored three miles off Santa Monica. 

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May 13, 1908: Work to Begin on Streetcar Tunnel to Ease Traffic

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May 13, 1908: Men held in attempted holdup at streetcar stop.

May 13, 1908: Above, two suspects are arrested on charges of trying to rob a man at a streetcar stop in Santa Monica … Below, pay careful attention to the story about renewed efforts to excavate a tunnel on Hill Street. This is important because the hill–like the one on Broadway–no longer exists and because the account is further proof that traffic problems are nothing new: Los Angeles has been struggling with its congested streets for more than a century …

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Paul Coates

Posted on May 12, 2008 by lmharnisch


May 12, 1958


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Matt Weinstock

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May 12, 1958

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Mystery photo

Posted on May 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

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OK, who are they?

2008_0512_mystery_detail Notice Reagan’s clenched right hand as he puts his arm around Mystery Woman No. 1 — no fooling around with this boy.
  • Everybody recognizes Ronald Reagan. The two women are more problematic.
  • Lucille Barkley and Diana Lynn (not Wanda Hendrix)?  (Michael Goosman). Excellent guess. Mystery woman No. 1 is Lucille "Arizona Manhunt" Barkley. The photo, dated June 27, 1950, was taken of a parade for the Pasadena premiere of an unidentified movie. According to caption information on the back of the photo, the woman on the right is Wanda Hendrix.

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May 12, 1958

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Above, a landmark we actually saved — sort of. I’m still waiting for the Sinai and Olivet to be reinstalled … Below, celebrity journalism, 1950s style: Peter Lawford gets clipped by a hit-and-run driver and Gen. Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic is mighty generous with the ladies: A car and a chinchilla coat to Zsa Zsa and an $8,400 ($61,216.70 USD 2007) Mercedes for Kim Novak …  And Red Skelton’s son Richard dies of leukemia in the heartbreaking conclusion of a tragic story.

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Mystery photo countdown

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May 12, 1938

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It’s fun to imagine the first crowds going into the movie palaces for the premiere of "Robin Hood" with nobody to say "Oh, I saw that on TV as a kid" or "Isn’t Basil Rathbone a great villain"?" and no CD compilation of Erich Korngold’s film scores. I suppose it’s a bit like those of us who are old enough to remember the opening day of "Star Wars" when it was all new and undiscovered. Below, in the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette, another expert testifies about the pipe bomb that nearly killed Harry Raymond. William Harper says detonator wire found at the crime scene was cut from a roll found in Kynette’s garage … A woman hitchhiking from New York to California is found strangled next to a road in Lawrence, Kan. Her diary gives her name as Marlene O’Brien …

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May 12, 1908: Stanford Officials Open Unmarked Graves

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May 12, 1908: Graves are opened in an unmarked cemetery near the Stanford campus.

Above, a gruesome story from Stanford is Page 1 news … Below, a cross-section of what The Times often called “Life’s Seamy Side” … Continue reading →

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May 11, 1958

Posted on May 11, 2008 by lmharnisch

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Above, a look back at Anna Jarvis, who died in seclusion after inaugurating an annual tribute to mothers (especially her own) only to have it turned into a commercialized holiday hijacked by merchants. Below, one woman’s view of Mother’s Day … Robert G. Neumann’s thoughts on Algeria and the Mideast, especially the role of Muslim women … And every last word of the contract for Dodger Stadium, as a present to all the moms who are Dodger fans.

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