Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Nov. 23, 1959
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| Nov. 20, 1909: An unidentified woman, deranged over the death of her brother, is taken to a hospital after the school nurse finds her undressing in front of her class. |
| Clare Briggs on the day after Halloween. |
Nov. 14, 1919: Here’s one of the problems of research – a story about the sale of Mercantile Place, which is so well known that the reporter doesn’t say where it is. June 12, 1904: Aha! It was between Broadway and Spring Street, and 5th and 6th streets. Sept. 3, 1906: The Board of Education closes the Broadway and Spring Street entrances to Mercantile Place. Feb. 15. 1924: The remodeled Mercantile Place opens as the Mercantile Arcade Building—an indoor shopping center. View Larger Map Voila! The Broadway Arcade via Google maps’ street view. |
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”That is the most extraordinary question that I have ever had put to me,” says Emmeline Pankhurst. History students in a class at Brown University cannot name the U.S. presidents, and none can give the full name of even one Supreme Court justice. And there’s no blaming texting! |
| Nov. 6, 1909: The University of Wisconsin faculty bans flirting. “No student of the university shall pay marked attention to any person of the opposite sex.” |
| Shoes on sale for $3.50 ($82.86 USD 2008). |
| Nov. 2, 1909: A neighbor becomes infatuated with a young woman after borrowing chickenfeed from her. Eventually her stepfather complains to authorities … Abbie Sheehan, 17, is sent to the Door of Hope after being arrested in a Japanese rooming house, where she was living with a Chinese ... And drivers accused of speeding say their speedometers weren't working properly. |
| Elgin watches are the timepieces of choice for job-seekers. Aug. 1, 1947: U.S. Webb dies at the age of 82. |
| Oct. 30, 1909: California Atty. Gen. Ulysses S. Webb says: “When we force our citizens to pay for and send their children to public schools, where the Bible of another faith is read to them, I believe we come dangerously near intruding upon freedom of conscience.” |
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| Oct. 23, 1909: The editor of the Antelope Valley Gazette is cleared on charges of pulling a gun on the editor of the Antelope Valley Ledger. It’s a nasty dispute involving a woman with a horsewhip who has bad aim … and Gaddy Munford, 12, runs away from home rather than sit next to African Americans in school. |
| Oct. 8, 1959: The Mirror celebrates the Dodgers’ victory! And NBC suspends Charles Van Doren. USC students protest new regulations imposed after the death of Richard Swanson during a fraternity hazing. |
| Elvis says of being in the Army: "It was quite a change, of course. But for me, it was a test to prove to other people that you're a man who can take it. I didn't want anybody to think that this is the man who had it easy. I was determined to go to any limits to make this clear. I hope I have." |
| Sept. 25, 1969: A typical screamer headline we put on the late final edition, which was for street sales. The front page of the home delivery edition didn't look like this. The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence says: "We daily permit our children during their formative years to enter a world of police interrogations, of gangsters beating enemies, of spies performing fatal brain surgery and of routine demonstrations of all kinds of killing and maiming."
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| Al Capp had a long run with "Li'l Abner," but at the end of his career, he became extremely conservative, alienating many of his longtime readers. Above, Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything -- or SWINE.
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The Times sent New York correspondent John J. Goldman to discover
the New York Mets, once baseball's joke but now the champions of the
National League East. Sending a correspondent to do a sports story can be as tricky as asking a sportswriter to cover the United Nations. "The hunger for victory in the nation's largest city perhaps was matched only by that of the old Romans who watched gladiators in the Colosseum," Goldman wrote. "Everyone expected the Chicago Cubs to be lions. But in the end, they were pussycats, finishing second." Romans? What league did they play in? I preferred the view of Manhattan advertising executive and Mets fans Roger Yager, who told Goldman: "We had to get something to replace the Dodgers." --Keith Thursby |
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