October 11, 1957: Just imagine if a few thousand people around L.A. decided all at once that they'd had it, that they wanted out of the rat race. And suppose they went down to the beach in a body and meditated upon the beautiful sunset or the elusive grunion and decided they just weren't going to pay attention to anything that commanded their attention.

October 11, 1957: Paul Coates profiles Bert Whitson, a clown who used to perform at Pershing Square before it was uprooted for a parking structure and taken over at night by "hoodlums."

October 11, 1907: John Bryson, self-made millionaire and developer of the Bryson Block, dies. He had separated from his wife and was almost constantly in the company of his longtime nurse, Gladys Lamberton. He was hurriedly buried in a secret ceremony at Rosedale Cemetery.

October 11, 1947: Pat and Gunner, 6-year-old Irish setters who were left a $30,000 estate by their late master, Carleton R. Bainbridge, retired attorney, yesterday were disinherited by a jury of eight men and four women.

October 11, 1944: Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge from the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda.

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October 10, 1959: Matt Weinstock is less than thrilled over the Dodgers' World Series victory. "Furthermore, I don't think the Dodgers are the greatest thing that ever happened to Los Angeles," he says.

October 9, 1947: (U.P.)—The Lebanese and Syrian governments have ordered various units of their armies to mass along the Palestine borders for a possible invasion of the Holy Land, and the first units already have started marching, it was announced tonight.

October 10, 1944: Now it is Carole Landis wealthy Al Vanderbilt is beauing to the nightspots. Apparently he and K.T. Stevens are no longer romancing, for he is seeing the ex-Mrs. Wallace every eve, Louella Parsons says.

October 10, 1907: George Sumi's Japanese Employment Agency. Most reliable in the city.

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October 9, 1994: A Q&A with photographer Julius Shulman, about to turn 84.

October 9, 1959: A reader sends Matt Weinstock clippings from her hometown paper, the Tri-City Herald of Kennewick, Wash.

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

October 9, 1947: The Sentinel reports on segregation in the Fire Department. Publisher Leon H. Washington Jr. said "There are a number of qualified Negro firemen on the list who must wait until one of the present firemen dies or retires before they will be appointed to jobs.”

October 9, 1944: Wendell Willkie* didn't know the real reason for his hospitalization. Intimates persuaded news and air reporters to "play it down." ... When the flash of his passing reached midtown spots at 2:30 Sunday ayem -- it sent many people home depressed, Walter Winchell says.

October 9, 1907: She was known as Trellis C. Harris or Trellis Blessing—or Edna Hall. But her method was always the same. She would commit some theft, then fake an epileptic fit, spitting up blood from a capsule hidden in her mouth.

October 8, 1959: Matt Weinstock profiles Eugene Vale, author of 'The Thirteenth Apostle.'

October 8, 1944: The first official visit Effie Klinker, Edgar Bergen’s new wooden spinster, made was to Louella Parsons.

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Note: This is an encore post from 2006. October 8, 1907Los AngelesHealth officials and a deputy district attorney have joined to urge the Board of Supervisors to ban fishing within a half-mile of the city’s Hyperion line that pours sewage into Santa Monica Bay.

In Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory looks at the history of David Siqueiros' mural "America Tropical."