Tag Archives: Jack Smith

Fleetwood Pugsley

Posted on April 23, 2008 by lmharnisch

July 26, 1971

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Fleetwood Pugsley

Posted on April 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 7, 1971

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Fleetwood Pugsley

Posted on April 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

May 26, 1971

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Jack Smith on Wry

Posted on April 1, 2008 by lmharnisch

  "Jack Smith on Wry," on display at the Huntington Library through May 12, 2008, focuses on the life and works of columnist Jack Smith, an institution at The Times from the 1950s to the 1990s. I asked his son … Continue reading →

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March 25, 1958

Posted on March 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a Navy officer is welcomed home by his family after a Westpac cruise. Below, Jack Smith visits Pershing Square and his column shows that it hasn’t changed much from today–except for the landscaping. Art Buchwald writes about the Amazing … Continue reading →

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March 11, 1958

Posted on March 11, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, an early column by Jack Smith. Click on the thumbnail for the entire story … Below, meat prices are going up by 3 cents to 21 cents a pound (22 cents to $1.53 USD 2007) … The U.S. will … Continue reading →

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March 4, 1958

Posted on March 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a Jack Smith piece on religious figure Daddy Grace. Click at the bottom of the post to read the entire column. Below, a very dull news day in The Times. So dull, in fact, that I’m adding the Mirror … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on January 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jan. 16, 1958 Fellow beer drinkers, we’ve got a crisis bubbling over right in front of us. Before we call in the United Nations, let’s give it a brief rundown. Plans have been going ahead, more or less quietly, for … Continue reading →

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Jan. 2, 1958

Posted on January 1, 2008 by lmharnisch
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Smith on Wry

Posted on December 27, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Photograph by the Los Angeles Times I love this picture of Times reporters Jack Smith and Marvin Miles, in coats and ties, of course, flying a kite. I don’t know the story behind this picture, but I’m sure there … Continue reading →

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Nov. 17, 1957

Posted on November 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

 

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A Times legacy

Posted on November 5, 2007 by lmharnisch

Fifty years–almost to the day–that Jack Smith went to the Mediterranean for The Times, his son Doug is on assignment in the Middle East .

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Foreign correspondent

Posted on October 30, 2007 by lmharnisch

Oct. 31, 1957

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Grauman confidential

Posted on August 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 17, 1957 Los Angeles BY JACK SMITH Actress Maureen O’Hara’s alleged love scene with a Latin in three rear seats of Grauman’s Chinese Theater was re-enacted before a spellbound audience here yesterday at the Confidential libel trial. A … Continue reading →

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Jack Smith

Posted on May 16, 2007 by lmharnisch

Jack Smith sets the scene for South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem’s visit to Los Angeles.

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