A Christmas redemption tale
The copy boys at the Los Angeles Times at Christmas in 1962 were around my age — I was 21 and like me they were eager to learn the news business. My closest friend was Lance Brisson, also a Times copy boy. His mother was the movie star Rosalind Russell, famous particularly as Auntie Mame on Broadway and in the successful film of that title. Lance’s father, Freddie Brisson, was a producer of Hollywood movies and Broadway plays and at that time president of Columbia Studios. Ho