Word: exposer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wesley Shrader looks at the ministry from a different perspective: he is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. His slim book, Dear Charles (Macmillan; $2.50), is a light but merciless exposé of the rituals of tinkling cymbalism. It is more disturbing than Gantry because it could...
"What is really disturbing," Inez Robb went on, "is the discovery that the [U.S.], despite free public education and a high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will support these gamey magazines. Teenagers are abandoning comic books in favor of this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb...
When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called '...
In the Tennessean news columns, as distinctively flavored as Tennessee sour mash bourbon, heavy local coverage is liberally laced with national and international news and brightly written features. Evans, who always considered reporting "the most important and best job on a newspaper," was never happier than when his staffers were...
A MOST CONTAGIOUS GAME, by Samuel Grafton (256 pp.; Doubleday; $3.75), is a fast, offbeat little yarn about a magazine reporter who is handed a money belt with $5,000 and told to sink into the New York City underworld in order to write an exposé. Both the underworld...