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Last month Manhattan's small, exclusive Dial Press announced that it would soon publish the original version of one of the century's most blush-provoking literary works. This hitherto unpublished draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the late David Herbert Lawrence's distinguished novel about a titled lady who deserted her aristocratic but impotent husband for the family gamekeeper, will be issued next month in a first printing of 15,000 copies at $2.75 the copy...
...Clayton Act, shall be construed to apply to the business of insurance." The Senate Judiciary Committee is getting ready to report out an identical bill, introduced by Indiana's bespectacled, hard-shelled Frederick Van Nuys and North Carolina's implacable Old Democrat Josiah Bailey. At first blush, the two bills look like a bold-faced -and well-lobbied-attempt to anticipate a pending decision of the highest court in the land. But the Congressmen had an issue far loftier than lobbies. They were in full cry over States' rights...
Bill Armstrong is in the fighting first, Harry Browne in the scintillating second, your correspondent (blush blush) in the thundering third. All four of us went to high school together, and all but Mr. Browne were spending our ration points in South Bend B.H. (before Harvard...
...over six months Chicago has supported a hillbilly horror which advertises that it "Makes Tobacco Road Blush." Maid in the Ozarks, written by housewifey, Ozark-born Claire Parrish, is no spoof, but a serious mountaineerful. Though the management plays it up as "Bawdy! Lusty! Unashamed!" its real stock in trade is not sex but unsavoriness -bedbugs and bedroom crockery, belches and body scratching, hogcalls and outhouses, a halfwit boy who picks his toes on the breakfast table and rubs his face with worms...
...Morocca, through the efforts of the stars and bang-up plot, the picture holds a good deal of entertainment value. Mumphrey Bograt at the callous, but secretly sentimental tough guy finally becomes a martyred lover. As for Miss Bergman, she makes every other publicity photo out of Hollywood blush for shame...