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Last week police raided one of the self-help movement's temples, the Women's Center in Los Angeles. They arrested two of its leaders for practicing medicine without a license. Carol Downer, one of the movement's founders, was accused of diagnosing a woman's illness as a vaginal infection and treating it with an application of yogurt (the lactic acid in yogurt is supposed to provide a hostile environment for some organisms; without laboratory tests it is difficult to determine whether the treatment is appropriate). Colleen Wilson was charged with performing a menstrual extraction...
Then, apparently, deciding that the survival of The Phoenix was more important than either of their individual jobs. Harper Barnes and Mike Pogodzinski--Richard Missner's hand-picked replacement for Barnes--both withdrew from contention for the editor's slot. The union returned to work, and Carol Eron, former Phoenix managing editor, took the position on a temporary basis. Missner praised the courage of Barnes and Pogodzinski, and said the settlement "could be a milestone in American journalism...
...Carol Eron's tenure as editor turned out to be more temporary then anyone had expected, however, as Missner marked another possible milestone in American journalism: In late July, only two months after the settlement, the Phoenix publisher dissolved his corporation and sold for $320,000 the name, subscription list and week's classified advertisements to its competitor BAD giving the Phoenix employees three hours' notice to pack up and leave...
Directed by CAROL REED...
...rights this wretched triangle by taking over the husband's tax business, lending him his supply of macaroons and hurrying him out to follow his wife around the streets of London and win her heart again. The film would be a laughable travesty were it not directed by Carol Reed, who made such superb films as The Third Man, Odd Man Out and Outcast of the Islands. That makes it a sad travesty...