Matt Weinstock, March 31, 1961, Matt Weinstock
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March 30, 1961: The Scottish Daily Express quotes Caltech seismologist Hugo Benioff (d. 1968) as saying that a devastating earthquake is set to hit Los Angeles. The reporter apparently misquoted or distorted what Benioff said, according to Matt Weinstock, who adds: The old Caltech lullaby remains unchanged: "All we know about earthquakes is that the farther we are from the last one the closer we are to the next one." |
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March 27, 1961: Matt Weinstock has a story about a penniless drunk who gets a bottle from a liquor store in the era when credit cards were a novelty. His father used to beat his mother up so bad she would land in the hospital. He has a brother who slaps his wife around too. Is this a sickness that runs in their family? I never thought I could put up with the beatings I have taken (and over absolutely nothing). I don't want to raise our three children in a fatherless home, but what is a wife supposed to do when she is afraid to open her mouth for fear she'll get her teeth knocked out? |
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DEAR ABBY: Where we live, it is the custom for parents to give their children $5 for every A and $2 for every B on their report cards. I am 13 and got two A's and four Bs and I didn't get anything. Do you think that is fair? |
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March 23, 1961: Matt Weinstock has an item on an animated billboard for Dristan showing a man’s sinus cavities. Is it TV movie villain Skip Homeier? |
| In the highly advanced future, people will still use file cabinets! |
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March 22, 1961: Are truck drivers really articulate? Matt Weinstock thinks one fellow is … and a woman calling the Philharmonic for tickets doesn’t know much about music but she knows what she wants to hear: Roger and Wagner. |
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Paul Coates interviews a woman whose husband was charged with abusing the couple’s young daughters after he inflicted second-degree burns by holding their hands over the flame on a gas stove. The girls’ crime? They “messed up” clothing in dresser drawers. DEAR ABBY: Your advice to "OFF MY SCHEDULE" should have been framed. Thanks, Abby, for having a kind paper shoulder for so many to cry on. Like "OFF MY SCHEDULE" I, too, had a young neighbor who would come to my home too often and stay too long. She had two little children and there were times when she kept me from my work. I became weary of her company. When she moved, she thanked me for my kindness in letting her come. She confessed she had been on the verge of becoming an alcoholic and when she felt she needed a drink she would come to my house instead. My only regret now is that I became weary at all. |
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