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...sawdust trail. Just to indicate how faulty is my scheme of reference in general, may I point out that some 15 years ago I resided in a charming hotel at the head of the Spanish Steps in Rome and did not know for two weeks that it was a brothel. A man such as that is capable of any mistake...
BRANDY FOR HEROES-Jack Kofoed-Button ($3). Picturesque biography, in the beery-teared Gene Fowler tradition, of a forgotten fighting Irishman of Manhattan's roaring '60s, one John Morrissey, who rose from a brothel bouncer to underworld boss to heavyweight champion to Tammany State senator, founded Saratoga Springs' famed Casino...
...That Glitters is a waggish yarn about the peccadillos of Manhattan bluebloods and, according to rumor, based on fact. Playboy Muggy Williams swears to nail Mrs. Townsend's hide to his barn door because she insulted his fiancée. He hires a senorita from a Park Avenue brothel to pose as a Spanish countess. Promptly, Mrs. Townsend plans a dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces...
Making its way around U. S. campuses like the spark in a sputtering fuse, the venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts...
...rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons out to give Rene "a good scare...