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...scandal magazines (TIME, March 11), a federal grand jury in Chicago last week struck at the nation's best-selling scandal magazine for putting smut in the mail. In a six-count indictment, New York-based Confidential and its Mount Morris (Ill.) distributing agency, the Kable Printing Co., were charged with mailing "nonmailable matter . . . which gives . . . information on how and by what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill That Ends Unwanted Pregnancy." Though written in the magazine's characteristically pious style ("Beware...
Divorced. Frank Loesser, 46, famed words-and-musicman (Guys and Dolls) and indefatigable (1,500 songs) tunesmith (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Jingle-Jangle-Jingle, etc.); by Mary Alice ("Lynn") Loesser, 41, tall, blonde co-producer of Loesser's current Broadway hit, The Most Happy Fella; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica...
Died. Percy Wyndham Lewis,* 72, irascible and erratic novelist, artist and critic-of-mankind; of a brain tumor; in London. A self-styled "Renaissance Man" and professional dissenter, Lewis launched a lifelong guerrilla warfare on convention in 1914 with Blast, a magazine (co-edited with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr...
Today everybody expects to live longer. But the man who can give the best longevity estimate, at least for one out of every five Americans, is Carrol Meteer Shanks, president of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, which has 33.2 million carefully analyzed policyholders. By charting a man's age, background, diseases, job, habits, even his morals, the Pru can chart the odds on the death age down to the last decimal. The Pru's tables show that a male policyholder aged 21 will probably live to be 73 years old, one aged 30 will live...
...nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...