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...dirty-situation comedy. Since about 40 million hard-a nd soft-cover copies of his 34 books have been snapped up by U.S. and foreign readers (God's Little Acre tops the list with more than 8,000,000 copies sold), the reader can only conclude that to leer is human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hillbilly Peyton Place | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...hillbilly Peyton Place called Claremore, Certain Women offers armchair Peeping Toms seven separate women to leer at. Vicki is a reformed prostitute, happily married to a filling-station owner named Jeff. Unfortunately, Jeff has to spend every other night at the filling station, so that when one of Vicki's pistol-packing admirers comes around looking for his "special baby," there is no one to protect her new-found honor. Louellen is an erstwhile tomboy who has budded into overnight femininity, but none of the local boys will give her a tumble until a traveling salesman plays hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hillbilly Peyton Place | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Confidential's first two years, ambitious, profit-hungry Publisher Robert Harrison blew up most of his stories out of news clips, police records, or from material supplied by columnists or reporters. But the King of Leer became increasingly insistent on boudoir reporting that, as one associate testified, "would make readers say. 'This was something I never knew until now.' " In 1954, testified Hollywood Prostitute Ronnie Quillan. Harrison told her: "The more lewd and lascivious the story, the more colorful for the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Putting the Papers to Bed | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Dressed in black with shinily greased black hair and slinking step, Richard Waring does a superbly hammy job of the treacherous Don John. When he enters with an about-to-foreclose-the-mortgage leer at the outset and proclaims, "I am a plain-dealing villain," obviously subtlety is wholly out of place. As soon as Beatrice gives him a rose and departs, he makes a big thing of dropping it on the ground and kicking it into a hole...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

...about slipping down to the Chuck?" suggested the crew-cut with a knowing leer...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

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