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...Buck Coulter, the "trail boss." Brings out the worst in Jennie by showing too much chest hair ("It's indecent"), eventually becomes her third mate...
...Questioned by TIME last week, Coulter admitted that the inspector refused a $5 bill, did not report Coulter to the authorities, as he could have, and gave him a license anyway...
Scramble for the Dollar. In sordid fact, according to Coulter, the average American is "up to his ears in debt," trades jobs "constantly in a frantic scramble for the extra dollar," and by all odds will wind up in jail, divorce court or the psychiatrist's clutches. "Every third or fourth person you meet," said Coulter, "is having psychiatric treatment. Each big apartment building has at least one resident psychiatrist, and some have four or five. It is the boomingest profession in town...
Older professions also thrive, Len Coulter warned would-be immigrants. Most New York girls who have left home, he said, "though highly paid by British standards," manage to get by only if they "have made themselves 'interesting' to the boss, or have found sugar-daddies to support them." Money-mad males survive by corruption. "Most of America's metropolitan areas are controlled by grafters and gangster elements," added Coulter, who in his seven years in the U.S. has done most of his traveling as a New Jersey-Manhattan commuter. Before taking a driver's test...
...Coulter, 53, a greying Londoner who has a degree in economics from the University of London, an apartment in Manhattan and a country place in New Jersey, allowed that "there are many aspects of American life which are excellent. The Americans' willingness to experiment and change is completely refreshing. Their generosity is fabulous." At his Rockefeller Center office, Coulter confided: "I enjoy living here. It would be a hardship to live anywhere else." Why, then, his disparaging article? "This is rather embarrassing," said he. "The piece was intended for British consumption. People without skills who think of coming...