Word: mabley
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Lately so many great daily journals have dared call syphilis and gonorrhea by their right names that University of Illinois Daily Illini Editor John Mabley fortnight ago saw no reason why the fight against social disease should not be carried forward by the college papers. Especially did he think a crusade timely when he discovered that the university town of Champaign had one of the highest venereal disease rates in Illinois...
...groundwork for his drive, Editor Mabley, a 22-year-old Beta Theta Pi, assigned reporters to cover eight Champaign vice resorts. They interviewed inmates, photographed a brothel façade with the madame in the doorway, a college student "planted" on the porch. Fortnight ago the Illini opened its pack of revelations, drew forth these...