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...George C. Scott promptly pulls some ranky-pranky: he sends Tony off on rest cure and then merrily moves in for the kill. Tony in retaliation tells Virna that Scott has "grabbed the Big Knob" in combat over Korea, and then merrily marries the girl before his rival can edit the obit. Scott in reprisal busts up the formation again. Tony is shipped off to arctic survival school, where the poor twerp shaves in leftover coffee, sleeps with a nice warm sled dog and sits miserably slurping puree of blubber in the path of a polar blizzard. Scott meanwhile reclines...
...birth control clinics of France and Scotland, she listened, watched, learned, then returned to publish, write and edit a magazine called Woman Rebel. Its motto: "No Gods, No Masters." Her first editorial promised subsequent stories on birth control; postal inspectors grabbed up copies, and she was indicted on nine counts of sending birth control information through the mails. Deciding she needed time to prepare her defense, she left her three children with a nurse. Without court permission, without a passport, and under the alias "Bertha Watson," she left on a midnight train for Montreal and thence to Europe...
...W.J.T. is still searching for a critic. The job was offered to Judith Crist, who turned it down in favor of films. "That's where the action is," she says. "The snob appeal of theater reviewing is lost on me." The Trib's Eugenia Sheppard will edit the woman's page; her staff will boast Hearst's wry society columnist, Suzy Knickerbocker...
Conniff himself will edit the editorial page. "We will have editorial writers from all three papers, and if anything goes sour, I'm to blame." Under an unusual arrangement, any of the three publishers-Bill Hearst, Jack Howard, Jock Whitney-will be given space to reply if they disagree with an editorial. "It should make for a pretty lively page," says Conniff. Leslie Gould from the Journal-American will boss the financial page; Maurice Dolbier from the Trib and John Barkham from the Saturday Review will review books; the Trib's Walter Terry, dance; John Gruen and Emily...
...ransacks the scholarly journals and attends all the social-science conventions in a constant search for ideas that can be turned into Transaction articles. Since social scientists have a habit of talking in professional jargon and burying their leads somewhere in the middle of their stories, Zweig has to edit heavily. But there are few complaints. Wrote Raoul Naroll, professor of anthropology, sociology and political science at Northwestern University: "It is startling to see some of my thoughts coming back to me in plain English...