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...Pallid Pap. Lately, Muzak's message has begun to drift around the world, always with the same serene results it has accomplished in America. Women workers in an Argentine flour mill who used to fight and scream at each other on sight, now go to work peaceably to music's soft accompaniment. Passengers on the Trans-Siberian Railroad suffer the trip to the tune of Cossack songs and band music, and a brothel in Stuttgart has applied for the "Light Industrial" program local Muzak men offer...
From the White House down, general reaction to What's Going On Here? was so positive that Metropolitan Broadcasting's President Bennet Korn intends to keep it on the air. A danger is that viewers, accustomed to soaking up all the bottled pap that TV offers without thinking, may soon be taking for gospel such flawless modern history as this: "Premier Souvanna Diem came to power in 1958 when his halfbrother, Prince Song Phoami, was assassinated by his uncle, Prince Phim Dim, who mistook him for his son, Prince Stant Phoami...
...American Cancer Society, Dr. Ravdin hastened to add that the news is not all bad. Death from cancer of the uterus, he reported, declined by 29% during the past ten years because of the widespread and successful campaign for annual physical checkups among women and because of the Pap test, which permits early detection. Mortality from cancer of the stomach dropped sharply (32% in men, 36% in women), perhaps as a result of changed diet...
...short-tempered about the cutups in the Salinger kindergarten. London's New Statesman has muttered about "Zenny & Phooey." and Critic Mary McCarthy has brought her severe forensic intelligence to bear on Salinger and files a contemptuous brief which indicts him for attempting to feed the young the poisoned pap of a false religiosity...
...Howard's biggest newspaper, New York's World-Telegram and Sun, is a pale and lackluster product of three mergers that fails to give the chain an effective New York voice. Running in an afternoon field of second-rate competition, the World-Telegram features such Page One pap as a series of blurbs about the paper's rejiggering of its comic page ("We want to know what you think"). From the circulation ground lost by Manhattan's three evening papers after going to a dime in 1957, the World-Telegram has made the poorest recovery. Present...