Another LA crime landmark, the OJ Simpson case, heralded the convergence of crime and celebrity.
Another LA operative, Black Owl, suffered the ignominy of being collected from a psychiatric ward by his teenage daughter.
A quarter of a century later, in 1992, Christopher was called upon to defuse another LA race crisis, this one stemming from the police beating of the black motorist Rodney King.
Another Laing admirer – though with reservations – is Professor Anthony David, vice-dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London and consultant at the Maudsley Hospital NHS Trust, who also wrote the foreword to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Divided Self.
In Los Angeles, the figure often quoted is 85,000 but this, I discovered last year, was a number plucked from the air by another LA correspondent and is a pure guess.
At a time when most pediatricians encouraged formula and bottle-feeding and when there were few scientific studies demonstrating the health benefits of breast milk, Mrs. Froehlich chose to breast-feed all of her babies, said another La Leche founder, Mary White.
But we glimpsed another LA, one not consumed by automobiles, or turned into a strip mall, where nature and human optimism thrive in a watery realm, an ever so slightly mystic river.
Messi has continued to be prolific since being awarded the 2012 prize, leading Barcelona to another La Liga title with 45 goals and Argentina to a place at Brazil 2014.
"La Pietra del Paragone," a two-act comic opera composed for La Scala in Milan in 1812, has been given a new recording by Nuova Era (7132/3; two CD's), as has another La Scala opera, the serious "Aureliano in Palmira" from 1813 (7069/70; two CD's).
Another LA-based startup called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies HTTT) relies on volunteer labor.
Demand Media is another LA-based company, started by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt.
