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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls to beware of their father fixations. It is in the domestic-advice columns telling the anxious mothers of bed-wetters that the children are resenting their "free-flowing" permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have become part of folklore. Pop-psych even appears on the sports page, as when a feature writer for New York's new World Journal Tribune gets a psychiatrist to describe baseball as a ritual performed in a crib (the diamond) and dominated by an elevated father figure (the pitcher on his mound...
More of the same can be expected for the daily, which has lost a lot of its old thunder, although circulation has increased 10% in the five months since it began putting news instead of agony ads on Page One. Hamilton plans to "crossbreed" his daily and Sunday staffs into a seven-day operation. The Times, he says, "needs a vast amount of money so we can increase coverage. It needs more pages and more correspondents, and that is what it will...
...opposite page is not made up for a Hollywood horror movie...
Significant Silence. In a 226-page report based on a study of crime reporting in cities from Newark to San Francisco, the committee concludes that the "preponderance of potentially prejudicial material" emanates from lawyers and law-enforcement agencies between arrest and trial. Wherever police and prosecutors have stopped talking, there has been a "significant decline" in overblown news stories-without any impairment of the vital role of the press in exposing crime and prodding lax law enforcement...
...reveals, among other things, that martinis don't come with cherries. Seems that when Rona was 13, she wrote a story in which a lonely lady dining at Schrafft's "stared morosely at the cherry in the martini." The book ends with the intelligence, given a whole page to itself, that "a martini has an olive"; although, to be more precise, it is more frequently encountered nowadays in the company of a twist of dry lemon peel, or probably just the stare of the lonely lady. The book remorselessly follows Rona's career from infancy...