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...After twelve years on the Madison Avenue beat, Kaselow nonetheless manages to turn out consistently readable copy. So does the Times's Bart, a graduate of the Wall Street Journal, who took his business savvy with him to the Times. More often, though, the ad columns are pure navel-gazing, a catalogue of account changes and personnel promotions for a tiny fraternity of readers who supply the very items they read. In Philadelphia, 90% of the contents of A. Joseph Newman's ad column in the Bulletin is distilled from handouts, a proportion exceeded by the Boston Herald...
...same vein, the septuagenarian publisher described his experiences with such authors as Thomas Mann and Willa Cather. He told of a college professor who wrote about a Montana river that was "like a navel cord" and "waterways that really brought forth men and women." He talked about Kahill Gibran, who wrote The Prophet, Knopf's best-selling book, which only began to drop in sales when Knopf started advertising...
...inviting, bikini-clad blonde above the caption: "What to Show Your Wife in Scandinavia." But it clearly was not what to show your wife in Los Angeles. Before running the ad, the Times censor scrupulously amended the blonde's anatomy to conform to regulations. He removed her navel...
Wasn't Christendom once shaken by theological wrangling over the question of whether Eve had a navel? Those who maintained that navels, like noses, were indispensible anatomical particulars might have been disturbed by a Scandinavian Airlines advertisement in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times. Over the caption, "What to show your wife in Scandinavia," the ad pictured a strapping blonde with bikini but definitely without belly-button...
Difficult Choice. Tetanus bacteria lurk in sewage and soil, in dust and rust. They can enter the human body through any penetrating wound, through the unhealed navel of the newborn, and through drug addicts' contaminated dope. There is so little that even the best of medical centers can do once the disease has developed, Dr. Christensen insists prevention is the only reliable cure. Tetanus toxoid is cheap and safe; it rarely causes unwanted reactions. It should first be given in a course of three shots paced a month apart, he says. There should be a booster a year later...