Word: exposer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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New Hampshire's Novelist Grace (Return to Peyton Place) Metalious blew into Manhattan, called a press conference, was soon berating Hollywood Producer Jerry Wald for more or less tricking her into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn...
Hersey's least satisfying piece of fiction. Rigged to the intellectual fashions of the day and noticeably unballasted with solid thought, the Herseyan exposé of war as psychoneurosis is about on a par with the fond illusion of the '30s that wars were made by munitions merchants...
The Splendid American (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A retort to The Ugly American, the fictionalized exposé of ineptitude in the U.S. foreign service. This dramatic documentary tells the accomplishments of Thomas Dooley, Ras Johnson and Clyde Searl in Red-menaced Laos. Narrated by John Daly.
One of the boys, Eugene, did get into trouble in 1947, when he slashed a rival body-trader with a razor, but he celebrated his release-after two years in prison -by buying a $16,000 black-and-cream Rolls. In 1950 Reporter Duncan Webb of the Sunday People ran...
But fantastic Congressman Harmon's business was obviously public business, and as such, it was the latest in a series of exposés on congressional nepotism, payroll high jinks and money-hungry Congressmen that have boiled out of Capitol Hill in the past two months. And the man...