Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...herald the September addition of Hearst's lurid American Weekly to its Sunday edition (circ. 255,002), the Cincinnati Enquirer assigned a task force of staffers to whip up equally lurid blurbs. When her turn came, Columnist Mildred Miller offered readers an enticing sample of the Weekly's wares-stories about female chastity ("Voltaire has declared [it] man's greatest invention"), birth control ("Motherhood in many cases is a wrong against society"), and religion ("After 2,000 years of religious teachings our jails are crowded beyond capacity...
That was too much for Monsignor Edward A. Freking, editor of the official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Telegraph-Register. Cried Monsignor Freking: "I could take Mildred Miller's whole column, change 25 words, and prove that people descended from apes." In an editorial in the Telegraph-Register last week, he threatened a Catholic boycott of the Enquirer if the American Weekly ("literary trash and blasphemous views") lived up to its advance billing...
Portly Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, took no stand on the merit of giveaways but wondered "whether the commission has any authority to promulgate any rules." His wonder was shared by FCCommissioner Frieda B. Hennock. In her dissenting vote, Miss Hennock maintained that "without a specific mandate from Congress for us to curb the prevalence of this type of program, our action today is unwarranted." Even a contestant was heard from. Mrs. Elaine Smith of Dallas, recent winner on CBS' Winner Take All, pouted: "It's a shame the FCC should be so nasty...
Typical of the mushrooming new industry is Tennessee's Boot-ster Manufacturing Co. It puts out a plastic spatlike gadget that fits over a boy's shoe, thus "makes any shoe a cowboy boot." J. Z. Miller, part owner of two small department stores, got the idea for his Boot-ster when he overheard parents complaining of the high cost ($5 and up), high heels and narrow toes of boys' cowboy boots...
...faithful employees" who sold out to the Colonel after Cissy willed them the paper. She praised him for the way he was running the paper, and persuaded all seven to stay on for the present as hired hands. Cautiously refraining from throwing her 118 Ibs. around right away, Publisher Miller diplomatically announced that she planned to submit some of her columns to Editor Waldrop to "see if they're any good...