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...inquiring reporter, once a bright star of U.S. journalism, today is being outglittered by a new performer: the inquiring headline writer. On the theory that no question is too complex for a headline-and no answer too lame for the text-the quiz kid rose swiftly from keyhole-peeping sheets such as Confidential (WHAT WAS PRIME MINISTER NEHRU...
...they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked out in disgust at the speaker's lame explanations of events in Hungary. Simultaneously, there appeared in the capital anonymous mimeographed "newspapers," which were obviously written by intellectuals, and which charged that the Soviet government was not telling the people the truth about Hungary...
Windsor Castle, beamed to Marilyn, lightly wrapped in gold lame: "We're neighbors!" Also on hand to meet the Queen was beautiful-hunk-of-man Cinemactor Victor (I Wake Up Screaming) Mature, so edgy that he later could not remember a word that Her Majesty uttered...
...sexsational New York Evening Graphic. Quickly dubbed the 'PornoGraphic, the paper assaulted the town with scandal, reported what nobody else would dream of printing, invented what it could not report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor made him managing editor of the conservative old Hartford Courant at the age of 26. But the Courant was too slow for Gauvreau's new ideas. After...
...Outmanned, outgunned and outfought, a lame and lackluster collection of American League All-Stars took an embarrassing beating from their National League rivals in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 7-3. With a line-up heavily larded with Cincinnati Redlegs (five of the starting nine), superb pitching by Pittsburgh's Bob Friend and New York's Johnny Antonelli and some acrobatic fielding by St. Louis' Third Baseman Ken Boyer, the National Leaguers led all the way to win their sixth of the last seven games...