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Jack Lait, editor of the New York Daily Mirror, and his nightclub columnist Lee Mortimer are old hands at libel. In their first three "Confidential" books they picked up no fewer than six libel suits.* By last week their latest slapdash gutter-side view of America, U.S.A. Confidential (TIME, March 17), was well on its way to outstripping the other three. A $1,000,000 suit brough by Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, for bringing her into "scandals as an associate of and sympathizer with Communists," was the sixth in three months. The others...
Malan lasted only a few weeks in his first pastorate because his wine-growing parishioners failed to understand his urgent demands for prohibition. In his next parish, Graaff Reinet, a wool-growing town, he encountered a group of Boer children playing in the gutter with a gang of colored kids. Forty-two years later, as Prime Minister, he told the House of Assembly: "It was thus that the seeds of apartheid were planted in my mind...
...TIME goes to press, a short may turn into a parmark (only to be outspaced later), a twin-bed position may be dummied, a stringer queried for a checking poin't, a widow picked up near the NA researchers' bullpen, and double trucks left bleeding in the gutter...
...mothers concluded: "The gun, the gat, the rod, the six-shooter is the prime motivator of most children's TV programs. Life ... is cheaper than a cigarette butt in a gutter. Not one episode, not one character, not one emotion did we see evoked that the children might emulate to their gain." Their recommendation: "If we had our way, we would make it compulsory for every TV official to sit down and take four hours of the punishment we have just taken, but every week...
...cooking the groceries, and cried indignantly that he was unable to eat the voucher itself. He was reported dying of tuberculosis, and 50 Greenwich Village poets and painters organized a fund drive to send him West. They raised $12. Two months later he was picked out of a gutter, rushed to Bellevue Hospital. His illness was diagnosed as alcoholism...