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...France, where presumably anything goes in such matters, this was too much for the police. In court last week, charged with "outrage of morality through books," Pauvert was defended by France's most prominent criminal lawyer, Maurice Garçon. Morals are a function of a certain time and place, Garçon argued. Bigamy, once punishable by death, is now simply fined. Abortion is legal in some countries. Jean Cocteau sent a letter arguing: "To attack Sade is to attack Jean Jacques Rousseau. The slightest mystery story from puritanical America is just as nefarious." Concluded Gar...
Some 600 annual rodeos and horse shows pull in crowds from Madison Square Gar den to San Francisco's Cow Palace, to display the best in riders and animals...
Oldtime Speedboat King Gar Wood, 73, was still having the sort of woe that most romantic gentlemen his age only remember. Five years ago he tangled in court with a resolute young thing who claimed that she was "more than a secretary" to Wood in his $100,000 Miami home. After he learned that she was mar ried and threw her out of the mansion, she cried that it was hers as a gift, along with $25,000 in bonds and cash. Wood kept the house; she kept the negotiables. Last week spry old Wood had employee trouble again, this...
...Life and Death of Sylvia, by Ed gar Mittelholzer. A tragedy of shades of color in British Guiana (TIME...
...this week, nine months later, Gar-roway's Today was the most popular daytime news program on TV and a rousing success. During July it had more TViewers than the afternoon telecasts of the presidential conventions. While most other daytime TV shows drooped from a lack of summertime sponsors, Today sold a hatful of time to advertisers ranging from waxmakers to publishers. Garroway's salary rose to a high of $5,000 a week. Yet nothing much has changed on the program. Garroway and his 35 co-workers have just grown more expert in handling their equipment...