Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manhattan, hard-driving Arlene hit pay dirt with a radio show called What's My Name?, which gave her the reputation of saying, as she does on CBS's What's My Line?, anything that pops into her heart-shaped head. Once she blurted, "Oh my God," then broke the studio's stunned silence with: "Oh my God, I can't say 'Oh my God' over...
...display of undressed pictures and well-fleshed tales about the stars. Many of the stories that blew up newspaper headlines had run in the scandalmags long ago, but the trial also began to pry loose one story that has never been told: how the gutter press scrapes up the dirt. From courtroom testimony and questioning of smut-smugglers from Manhattan to Hollywood. TIME describes this week how the top scandalmag operates. For Confidential's own inside story, see PRESS, Putting the Papers...
...prosecution testimony, sleek-haired Robert Harrison finally decided to mine his own lode of dirt for some 60 stories a year on show folks, and in 1955 set up a West Coast smut station called Hollywood Research Inc. (TIME, March 11.) Man-and-womaned by Harrison's niece, icy-faced, flame-haired Marjorie Meade and husband Fred.* H.R.I, handed out checks at the rate of $10,000 a month in one six-month period to keep pay dirt oozing into Harrison's shabby Manhattan headquarters...
...full-leshed story too gamy for a family newspaper. Regardless of the trial's outcome or of Confidential's eventual fate, daily press coverage of the case and the increase in newsstand sales seemed to indicate that millions of readers like to have a spade of dirt called a spade of dirt-as Dirt Spader Harrison has insisted all along...
...since the great purge of 1936-38 had so many big Kremlin names been dragged in the dirt. The charges against the first four ousted leaders had a Stalinist ring: they were accused of having "resorted to methods of intrigue and formed a collusion against the Central Committee"; i.e.,. they had opposed Boss Nikita, possibly attempted to ease him out of the key job of First Party Secretary. But Khrushchev had won out and, as is the Communist custom, was privileged to hurl the whole book of party crimes at the losers. As is also Communist custom...