Paul Coates, Feb. 15, 1961

 

Feb. 15, 1961: Paul Coates writes about a house for rent, “an ornate, slightly garish Mediterranean-style home on a hill overlooking Hollywood” built in the ‘20s by a movie star. “Never heard of her,” says one prospective tenant.  And Groucho Marx writes a letter to syndicated columnist Al Capp, setting him straight about the Marx Bros. movies.  "Our audience didn't drop us. We dropped them," Groucho says. "The pictures just became physically too tough to do and we decided to retired to greener and more comfortable pastures."

Comments

[Ronald Emmis]

I happened to read the story about this horrific plane crash. Take a good look at it - I always find it a human interest story when people from different walks of life, just headed to a place, wind up dead because the plane they are on crashes.

The woman mentioned near the top of the story, Maribel Owen, would have been 100 years old this year; she and her daughters were returned to the US, and buried in Massachusetts. Someone put up memorials to all three of them on Find-a-Grave:

For the mother: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Owen&GSfn=Maribel&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1961&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=5601&df=all&

and the daughters, Maribel: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Owen&GSfn=Maribel&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1961&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=10341076&df=all&

and to the daughter Laurence, who died shy of her 16th birthday: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5599&pt=Laurence%20Owen

Sad...very sad.