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...series of nine books published by Harvard University Press, Vernon and his colleagues will relate the findings of the three-year survey. The first, Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Vernon and Edgar M. Hoover '28, professor of Economics at University of Pittsburgh, was published last Monday...
After exploring the reasons for growing "grey areas" and decreasing population in the nation's old cities, the book examines the causes and results of the general factory "flight to the suburbs." The chief result, according to Vernon and Hoover, is the appearance of suburban slums...
...SECRET LIFE WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, shrilled the red headlines across the front page of the evening New York Post (circ. 351,700). On Page 3, beneath a black version of the same incendiary invitation, were pictures of the principals involved: the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a bachelor and a pudgy 64, and four-times-wed Post Publisher Dorothy Scruff, a slim 56. But anyone who swallowed the Post's heavily scented lure last week in the hope of finding a spicy journalistic feast was doomed to disappointment. The flavor was all in the hook...
Dolly charged that Hoover had discussed the impending series with one of her advertisers in an attempt to bring pressure on the Post to kill the story. Hoover told the advertiser, said Dolly, that the Post was angry because the FBI had once forced the dismissal of Nancy Wechsler, wife of Post Editor James Wechsler, from a Washington job. Indignantly, and at exhaustive length that spared neither the reader nor Nancy, Publisher Schiff reported that Mrs. Wechsler had belonged to the Young Communist League for a short time years ago but had never been fired from a Government...
From there, Writer Schiff went on to more innuendo: "I wondered why Hoover had lost his head. Why was he so scared? Drawing upon my knowledge of psychology, I decided he must be afraid that something damaging about his private life would be revealed in the series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...