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Mystery Photo
The Daily MirrorIsnât this a great photo? Thereâs a little story that goes with it. Update: As everybody realized, this is an extremely casual Otis Chandler in one of the few pictures Iâve ever seen of him in which heâs not wearing a suit â and notice the... -
Movie Star Mystery Photo [Update]
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo Itâs Friday, which means itâs time to identify our âmysteryâ guest. As everyone knows, sheâs Lucille Ball. I have to say I enjoyed going through her photos so much that I have another weekâs worth of photos. Thatâ... -
Movie Star Mystery Photo
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo Iâm calling this series of mystery photos âLucille Ball and Friends.â In going through The Timesâ files of Ball photos, I was struck by the number of unfamiliar images. Weâve all seen the stills of Lucy and Ethel... -
Voices -- Jerry Clark, 1940 – 2010
The Daily MirrorKTLAâs Stan Chambers, left, Times reporter Nieson Himmel, center, and Jerry Clark. Note: Jerry Clark, who died Tuesday, was a longtime newsman who ran an informal group of retirees called the âOld Farts of The Timesâ (or in polite company, the OFS,... -
Why History Must Be Saved, Even When Nobody Wants It
The Daily MirrorThe death of Ernest Fleischmann, former executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, offers a nice point of departure for a few musings about how casually we treat the past. About a year ago, I noticed a trash cart full of files next to a freight... -
Best in show: see the world's priciest car
Brand XIt's just a used car sitting in an Oxnard business park, but it's got low, low mileage and a great paint job. It's also the world's most expensive automobile, fetching a reported $30 million to $40 million at auction earlier this year. Continue reading... -
Otis Chandler Named Publisher of The Times
The Daily MirrorPhotograph by Frank Q. Brown / Los Angeles Times Norman Chandler, left, during the luncheon to announce that his son, Otis, was the new publisher of The Times. April 12, 1960: Otis Chandler is named publisher of the Los Angeles Times. In a speech to... -
George Randolph Hearst Jr. dies at 84; L.A. Herald-Examiner publisher
The demise of the Hearst newspaper empire in Los Angeles began in 1962 when publisher George Randolph Hearst Jr. abandoned the morning newspaper market.
Hearst and the company that owned the Los Angeles Times made what some viewed as a back-room deal: At...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, International Military Interventions, Television Stations, Advertising, Cancer
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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Book, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos, Apple iPhone
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Amazon's purchase of Goodreads panned -- on Goodreads
Over at the social reading website Goodreads, people take pleasure in writing reviews. Usually, they write about the books they’re reading. But in the last 24 hours, many have taken to reviewing Goodreads itself, and its sale to the book behemoth...
Tags: Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
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Amazon goes social, acquires Goodreads
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring social reading website Goodreads. The deal, which will be finalized in a few weeks, is the most prominent acquisition of a major book-focused startup in recent years. On Thursday afternoon, Goodreads...
Tags: Steve Jobs, Book, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Science and Technology
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NRA enemies list: Britney, Hallmark and the YWCA
Boy, the National Rifle Assn. sure is thorough. And thin-skinned. Richard Nixon’s renowned enemies list had 823 names of people and organizations, but as president, Nixon had scores of issues to grapple with and an entire world to be mad about...
Tags: Levi Strauss & Co., Geraldo Rivera, Kansas City Royals, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ronald Reagan
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