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When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...
...little odd," thought the President. Then, glancing to see that Mamie was out of earshot, he blurted, "I guess I like that one on Mrs. McKinley." Ida Saxton McKinley was indeed handsome in high-necked, ivory-hued satin with flowing train. Not pretty oldfashioned? asked a newshen. "Well, I guess so," Ike admitted, reluctant to be pinned down any more on the sensitive subject of feminine fashion. To escape, he scanned the room for Mamie and, not seeing her, fled, exclaiming, "Hey, I've lost a wife...
...Soviet Union's lissome Galina Ulanova, 44, a celebrated ballerina who also nimbly toes the political line, gave an audience to the New York Herald Tribune's comely Newshen Marguerite Higgins, who opened the conversation by asking: "Has your career . . . brought you happiness...
White House, was pinned down by a newshen, cajoled into admitting that next spring he will marry (his second) ex-Model Ruth Sublette, 27, an editor of Glamour magazine...
...airwaves crackled with the promise of choice entertainment; but, as usual, the promise was mostly unfulfilled. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith returned from a brief trip to Russia and checked in with Ed Murrow and See It Now (CBS-TV). Ex-Newshen Smith reported little that was new, concluded: "The Soviet leaders smile only with their faces-never with their hearts; the little people smile with their hearts-when they get a chance to do so." Historian Arnold Toynbee showed up on the usually exhilarating radio show Conversation (NBC) to discuss "My Favorite Era," but offered nothing...