Wife Stabs Bob Crosby

Nov. 10, 1959: June Crosby stabs her husband, Bob, with a 10-inch letter opener during a fight. She tells Beverly Hills police that she grabbed the letter opener to fight him off after he pushed her down during a violent argument. Her husband says she fell when they were struggling over the letter opener. "We've had family arguments before," the bandleader says. "I guess this one just exploded. She seemed to go into a rage. She was so hysterical. The first thing I knew she came at me with both her fists." The Times says most marijuana and 50% to 75% of the heroin coming into Southern California is from Mexico.

Sheriff Peter Pitchess says authorities are hampered in fighting drugs by the exclusionary rule -- limiting officers' authority to search a person and seize evidence based on probable cause -- and the requirement that narcotics informants be named in open court.

Simone Signoret visits Los Angeles with her husband, Yves Montand. She is "small and plump and charming and intelligent," The Times' Philip K. Scheuer says.

Heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson poses with Times sports writer Jeane Hoffman.

Comments

[Chris Morales]

Is there a way of determining who reported on the story on Mexico's role in narcotics trafficing? The late Ruben Salazar
reported on this subject early in his career at the Times.

I noted that many of the stories from earlier times carried no byline; today it seems that stories are routinely bylined, unless they come from a wire service.