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...complaining Mgr. Gassier; 2) that Dr. Uhler (and three others) won a libel suit a year ago against one Kemble Kenneth Kennedy, 29, friend and protege of Governor Long who had published an obscene, yawping edition of the University Whangdoodle, calling Dr. Uhler a narcotic addict and a lecher. For this Protege Kennedy was sentenced to a year in jail, was at once reprieved by Governor Long...
Average Reader pictures Henry VIII as a fat lecher who married many wives. He was, he did. But there was more in his marrying than lechery. An autocrat surrounded by lovely "maids of doubtful honor," he had no need to marry multitudinously. He needed a legitimate son for the sake of his pride, his dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer...
Jealousy avoids being entirely a tour de force because its theme is one in which suggestion is more powerful than presentation. Maurice Theulot suspects his wife, Valerie, of intrigues with an old lecher, Lambertier...
Thus, with the frank grin of a degenerate, did the most abnormal sheet in U. S. journalism, Publisher Bernarr ("BodyLove") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, last week embrace the divorce hearings of a pawky lecher and his fleshy girl-wife. There are thousands of Edward West Brownings in the U. S., but never before had one sprawled forth whose pathological condition included lust for publicity. The pornoGraphic, closely followed by its loose-lipped fellow-tabloids, the Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities...
...tabloids have squeezed the last bit of sensation out of the Rhinelander case, for example, their public would then be bored with another spectacle dealing with miscegenation; that after the Browning case their public will for a time be immunized against further interest in the psychopathology of an old lecher. But what is the consequence of that boredom and immunity? It means simply Chat in order to maintain their circulation the publishers of the tabloids have to look around for a new case which has seme hitherto unexplored variation of the sexual theme. . . .* This new journalism is like the procurer...