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...pages" cover everything from world news to criticism of the arts, call in some well-known name droppers. Tex McCrary interviews celebrities, and Jinx runs a woman's page, Mel Allen talks sports, Elmo Roper talks trends, Florabel Muir (see PRESS) gushes from Hollywood, Earl Wilson gives Broadway lowdown. Weekend is almost overwhelming in its volume and variety, but a generally relaxed manner and skillful transitions make it well worth hearing...
...Social Welfare Council of the Oranges and Maplewood, N.J. finally got the lowdown on how teen-agers spend their leisure time: 81% watch TV 11.3 hours a week; 77.6% listen to the radio 9.7 hours a week; 47.5% spend about 8.2 hours on dates; 83.8 spend 9.2 hours on homework; 61% spend 4.4 hours talking on the telephone; 46.3% spend 8 hours doing nothing...
...other "hogbear" (real thing) magazines for them (TIME, Feb. 19, 1951). Early last fall Publisher Petersen and his top staff cartoonist, Tom Medley, 31, got an idea: since rodders seem to like their music as hot as their hopped-up engines, why not give them some with real "lowdown, George-gone-all-the-way" hot-rod lyrics...
...those lowdown Red betrayers...
...week went a book which its publishers trumpeted as an alltime bestseller. There was a seed of truth in the claim. The first printing of 125,000 had been snapped up by booksellers in advance of publication date. The book, U.S.A. Confidential (Crown; $3.50), was blurbed as the real "lowdown" on sex, crime and politics in the U.S. But for newsmen, politicos and other early readers of the book, it was more sharply described by the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, which called it the most "scurrilous . . . outrageous and libelous collection of garbage we have ever seen in print...