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...London last week, the world's biggest daily, the tabloid Mirror (circ. 4,432,700) got out its three-inch type for a single banner headline: WOMEN. In smaller type, the Mirror added: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the World's No. 1 Sexo-analyst, Blows the Gaff Today on All About Eve. Indiana's Dr. Alfred Kinsey was not alone in blowing the gaff. K-day -the prearranged release date* for a summary of his book on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (TIME, Aug. 24)-set off the biggest and raciest commotion the world...
...political machine. Just what it does demand was outlined last week by young (34), brawny Sheriff George Wooton, who was a candidate for Leslie County Judge in the August 1 primary. Wrote Wooton in a campaign report to the county's only newspaper, the Thousandsticks (weekly circ...
...year-old wife Renée, who write as a team for Paris' handsome, perceptive monthly Réaltiés, had previously explored 58 countries, from Argentina to Zanzibar. Last week, in the August number of Réaltiés' French edition (circ. 135,000),* the Cossets told their story of life in the U.S., as seen "through fresh eyes" on their two-month, 27-state journey...
...There is also an English-language edition (circ. 30,000), which will carry the Gossets' story in September...
When should a newspaper print profanity? For 125 years the answer of the Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 56,266) had been: never. But when Alabama's Governor Gordon Persons publicly and profanely denounced the Advertiser's Political Writer Geoffrey Birt, it seemed to Editor Grover C. Hall Jr. that it was time for a change. For the first time, the Advertiser printed the words "son of a bitch" -and waited for a storm of protest from its readers. By last week the storm signals were down. Only five readers had written in, three of them criticizing the governor...