Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SECRET LIFE WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, shrilled the red headlines across the front page of the evening New York Post (circ. 351,700). On Page 3, beneath a black version of the same incendiary invitation, were pictures of the principals involved: the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a bachelor and a pudgy 64, and four-times-wed Post Publisher Dorothy Scruff, a slim 56. But anyone who swallowed the Post's heavily scented lure last week in the hope of finding a spicy journalistic feast was doomed to disappointment. The flavor was all in the hook...
...from exposing her secret life with J. Edgar-whom she has never met-Dolly Schiff revealed nothing more sensational than her own insinuation that the No. 1 G-man had stopped at practically nothing in an effort to kill a series of stories on the FBI about to begin in the Post. Banking mostly on intuition, Publisher Schiff charged that she was placed under surveillance ("Apparently the FBI was indeed watching me") ; she insinuated -without any shred of evidence-that her hotel rooms were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post...
From there, Writer Schiff went on to more innuendo: "I wondered why Hoover had lost his head. Why was he so scared? Drawing upon my knowledge of psychology, I decided he must be afraid that something damaging about his private life would be revealed in the series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...
INDIVIDUAL SAVINGS will rise to $300 billion by early 1960, from $288.5 billion at end of last June. Long-term savings in life insurance, banks and Government bonds now average $5,500 for each U.S. household, v. $4,000 in 1950, only...
Barr's transformation has also wrought changes in his personal life. He has less time to spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...