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...Page One. The astounding suggestion that British royalty was involved in the shameful mess was almost a guarantee that the paper would be bought and the story read to the last word. The trick was a familiar one to British readers, wise to the ways of the brazen innuendo, the veiled hints of Fleet Street's popular press. Hemmed in by archaic libel laws, the scandal sheets are almost always read for the information they do not actually print-the stories that are suggested by the juxtaposition of columns or a long headline that just happens to run across...
...Aren't others, as well, alarmed at his public debauch, at his joyous wallowing in the insensitive, at his brazen certainty that we all will join him, slapping our thighs as we screamingly laugh at his vulgar barbs? And for this poison to be lent an aura of legitimacy simply by its appearance in your pages...
...Morey's script bulges with literary goodies--deft word-play and shamelessly brazen puns--and merciless attacks on word-hawkers and discounters of good English. The advertising business, of course, gets hit hardest--I confess I am easily bored by anti-adman jokes--but Morey is at his best ridiculing Socratic sophistry, New Critics, and weary old critics. Unfortunately, Mr. Morey has made his towns folk tiresomely stock and sappy (the female romantic lead is called "the Romantic Lead"), perhaps for good reason, but with--as some weary old cur might say in the Trib--exceedingly mixed results. The players...
...racial peace in the nation, in the South or in the North, until segregation and inequality are gone." The Negro timetable calls for a speedup in the integration process, and the N.A.A.C.P. intends to expand and intensify its efforts on all fronts. "The slow pace heretofore and the brazen cheating that has gone on in schooling, voting and employment especially, have forced the Negro to demand acceleration and still more acceleration . . . Law-enforcement officers will have to bring extra measures of understanding and restraint to this situation...
Marshmallow & Mother. Defying Arvey, Daley jumped into a Democratic primary fight against Kennelley and beat him. Then, in the general election campaign, he turned on Republican Candidate Robert Merriam. Merriam charged scandal and corruption in Chicago's Democratic government. Daley, realizing that beneath the brazen Chicagoan exterior beats a heart of marshmallow, watered the citizens' eyes with sentimentality...