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...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
...newsman's right to evaluate events is incontestable, and it is not being contested this year. Many observers regard such interpretive reporting as well-nigh indispensable. "Newspapers are beaten in the reporting of the news by radio and television," says Mortimer J. Adler, director of Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research. "Thus they have become, more and more, journals of opinion...
...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
...House Is Not a Home. Polly Adler was a flashy flesh-peddler who flourished in Manhattan during the '20s and '30s and liked to think her establishment was the Versailles of vice. It was indeed a fancy whorehouse. Her furnishings were French antiques. Her customers were bankers, bluebloods, politicians, policemen, racketeers. Her girls were class. Her prices ($20) were competitive. And along with everything else there was Polly, a short, swart woman with crocodilian charm and a heart of ill-got gold...