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...reporter for Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 175,000), young (25), law-abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing...
Aspirin Parties. Kellerman, an ex-G.I. started his assignment by getting a short haircut, putting away his horn-rimmed glasses, and dressing in a tattered lumber-jacket and an old pair of Army pants. Late one night he was driven to Riverhead (pop. 4,892), the county seat 60 miles away from the paper's office, where he would not be recognized, and dropped off near a bar. Kellerman hung around the bar, making an obvious show of casing the place, while the proprietor and his wife eyed him suspiciously. After closing time Kellerman went around...
...beat one another black & blue. Young prisoners staged "aspirin" parties to get "high" by grinding up aspirin and tobacco which they rolled into cigarettes. Not satisfied, they took a fling with dope, buying it through a "connection," a trusty who worked as a cleaning man in the courthouse. Kellerman bought one of the tiny capsules filled with white powder, smuggled it out to Newsday's Managing Editor Alan Hathaway. Next time Hathaway visited Kellerman, he whispered, "It's real, kid. It's time to see what we can do about...
...Newsday put up $500 bail and got its reporter out of jail. Then Kellerman and Hathaway went to the police. At first, the police could hardly believe their story or that anyone could buy heroin in sleepy Riverhead. But the evidence convinced them. To catch the dope peddlers, Kellerman agreed to go back to jail as a prisoner. But when Kellerman finally managed to make his second "buy," the "junk" turned out to be nothing but aspirin, epsom salts and barbiturates...
...Hollywood, Esther Williams, who has splashed her way to many an aquatic box-office hit, was in the swim again. This time it was the life story of Annette Kellerman, a pioneer of the one-piece bathing suit (with full-length tights), which caused her arrest in a shocked Boston 42 years ago when she introduced it. On hand as technical adviser was 64-year-old Annette herself to help with the facts and with Esther's 28-bathing-suit wardrobe, which includes fluffy bloomers and sleek, skintight numbers, but nothing in the Bikini line. Annette believes the Bikinis...