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Serving time in Dartmoor Prison, Hume was frequently visited by Pic Assistant Editor Fred Redman, who suspected there was a bigger story still untold?" Redman was right. After leaving Dartmoor in February, Hume agreed to give the Pic a full confession. Pic Reporter Victor Sims took Hume to a country hotel overlooking the Thames estuary where the body was dropped. Hume lay on a bed, stared up at the ceiling, and calmly described how he killed and chopped up Setty. Recalls Sims: "It was the most terrifyingly bloody day of my life...
Last week, after Hubble and a reporter-photographer team drove 347 miles to investigate a 60-year-old woman's complaint that she had been bilked out of her $22.40 down payment on a prefabricated garage, a Pictorial story reported that a "Pic Watchdog" had tracked down the promoter, extracted refunds for 20 other victims. Another Pictorial expose, in last week's London edition, was based on readers' complaints that they had been shortchanged on a two-week tour of Italy promoted by a former Indian army brigadier named Jalawar Singh Garewal. The Page One headline: BALONEY...
...Next to feel the sting was the Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,466,255), whose blatant stories about a modern "virgin birth" created an uproar in the whole British press, until Journalist Churchill, under his frequent pen name, Pharos, in the weekly Spectator, exposed the fact that the hard-boiled Pic had been taken in by a prankster. Then Randolph needled the Kemsley Sunday Graphic for announcing, but never printing, a "revealing, exciting, touching" series called "Those Churchill Girls." The reason the series never saw print, suggested Randolph in the Spectator, lay in a telegram he had sent to Lord Kemsley...
...test Gold's theories, a University of Manchester research team will shortly spend three months at the Pic du Midi observatory in the Pyrenees, measuring variations in the brightness of light on a selected section of the lunar flats. The amount of variation and polarization that occurs at different times of the lunar day will indicate whether the sun's rays are being scattered by tiny dust particles or by solid surface. "Within two or three months we should know definitely," says Professor Zdenek Kopal, who will take charge of the experiment. Meantime, says Cosmologist Gold, spaceship pilots...
Planned Parenthood. Catherine's self-portrait is in demure contrast to the pic ture drawn by historians, who characterize her as a Messalina. with a reputed score of 55 lovers. She was the first to concede her womanly charms, admitted - in a passage expurgated from the 1907 Russian edition - that these were "the halfway house to temptation." But she intimates strongly that Peter never consummated their marriage, and that her first affairs during the years of waiting were instigated, apparently by the Empress, to perpetuate the dynasty...