Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rules." John Coughlin states his paper's policy bluntly: "You can't sell sex in the Hartford Courant." Loren Osborn, ad manager of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, takes a different stand. "I will allow just about anything in a movie ad. If the movie might offend anyone, let's show it like it is in the ad so they can find out beforehand and not be rudely surprised once they've taken a seat in the theater...
...Chronicle's Hoppe (pronounced Hoppy) has needled his way into the top ranks of U.S. newspaper humorists. Although a shade less consistent than the Washington Post's Art Buchwald, Hoppe at his best is unbeatable. His special talent is to hold a mirror to life and let the reverse image reflect the absurdity of it all. Gentle and easygoing, Hoppe, 44, disarms his prey with kindness and smothers it with laughter...
...been his discovery of "the perfect solution to absolutely everything" (which is also the title of a 1968 book of his best columns). His cure-all is "total birth control - it will solve all our problems in a single generation." His motto: "Think of the Generation Yet Unborn-Let's Keep Them That Way." The trouble now, argues Hoppe, is that "we all worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills, but was intrigued by an experimental pill...
Well, now. What Uncle Doc, who is captain of the guards at the Glory, W. Va., state penitentiary, is really doing is helping Johnny Jesus and two other let-out cons get aboard the evening train out of Glory. Johnny is a dreamy lad of 17 who has just served three years for a rape that he did not commit. Lee Cottrill, standing there beside him, is a daft bank robber. Then there...
Beyond this, what is unusual about Mattie is that he has a check in his pocket for $25,452.32-the accumulation with interest of his 47 years of prison wages. A large sum in a Depression year, and the good citizens of Glory aren't about to let a freshly pardoned convict walk off with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass...