Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What can a man do for kicks after he gets bored with wrestling alligators? Well, he can jump off bridges or jaywalk at Indy on Memorial Day or invite a cannibal in for lunch. Or, as ex-Alligator Wrestler Odell Lewis did, he can turn to powerboat racing.
Most papers tried to strike a balance, avoiding the we-are-all-guilty approach, but at the same time recognizing that American society as a whole could not be held totally free of responsibility for what had happened. Newsday Columnist Flora Lewis suggested that the violence in American life cannot...
The advertising industry has been attacked so often that it might scarcely have noticed one more critical book, but the Reader's Digest was not so sure. At the very last moment, it stopped publication of The Permissible Lie, by Samm Baker, on the grounds, as Digest President Hobart...
The book was scheduled to appear last week, and 5,000 copies had already been printed. But the Digest was adamant. "Reader's Digest has a point of view," declares Lewis, "and, it seems to me, has a right to its point of view. Funk & Wagnalls is not an...
To avoid accusations of censorship, the Digest gave Baker the 5,000 copies of his book and turned over the printing plates to him free of charge. He plans to sign a contract with another publisher this week; sales, prodded by the controversy, promise to be brisk. The Digest, meanwhile...