Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the "editorial assistance" of prolific Stephen (High Button Shoes) Longstreet, Mae makes a determined effort at total autobiography. The list of her male conquests seems to stretch to infinity: lawyers, politicians, theatrical agents, Wall Street brokers, film magnates, judges, operatic tenors, Mexican wrestlers, French importers, chorus boys, casual diners in a restaurant. Readers may get the impression that lovers lurk under every bed, in every closet, behind every curtain. Some of them showered Mae with diamonds, emeralds and furs. Others gave more of themselves. Of a fellow named Ted, Mae sighs: "I had experienced other men who performed...
...Mexico, there was little reason for Columnist Baroni to be deeply disturbed by the exposure. He was following an established custom, a journalistic practice common in many places in Latin America. Many a Mexican newsman is for sale; a chief duty of government press officers is to disburse igualas (fees) to reporters...
Truth Can Pay. Many Mexican publishers tolerate these practices; some sell news space themselves. Advertising income is low-a full page in Excelsior (circ. 95,000) sells for $504-but the editorial columns command a fat price: one Mexico City magazine makes more from that source than from...
...Mexican voices deplore journalistic corruption, sometimes with mild effect. Some reporters and editors are scrupulously honest. Mexican President López Mateos, who personally endorsed the Reporters Union's announced cleanup campaign, also ordered a cut in government handouts to reporters. But none of the solutions proposed-more pay, stringent rules of conduct for reporters-are steadfastly based in the simple, workable journalistic premise that truth pays...
...three months in international agencies. Montana's ten graduate students (tuition: $500) are not only sharpening their specialties in the classroom. Next month they will put them to grass-roots work by living among the state's Cheyenne Indians and next winter in a Mexican village. The most ambitious scheme of all is planned by Manhattan's Committee for an International Institute: a three-month language and culture course for as many as 300 executives and their wives at a time. No campus could be more symbolic than the one the committee is trying...