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Bridey Murphy-born A.D. 1798, died 1864-first appeared in print in the fall °f J954, soon after a chance remark by Robert Cast, an attorney of Pueblo (pop. 80,800). Said Cast to his brother-in-law, William J. ("Bark") Barker of the Denver Post's Sunday supplement Empire: "Do you think there might be a story in a guy who has discovered that a woman in Pueblo lived an earlier life in Ireland in the 1800s?" Replied Newsman Barker: "Hell, yes." He wrote the story. Empire ran it in three installments as "The Strange Search...
...large print on the posters for a current movie announces, "This movie was filmed on location . . . inside a woman's soul!" The compulsion to get inside people, to find out "just what makes them tick" is not a new thing. But The Search for Bridey Murphy has done the most successful job of exploring it since the Ouiji board. Besides tramping around inside a woman's consciousness, the energetic Mr. Bernstein also takes her on a trip "back across time and space...
Crafty Hand. But after he saw a few more chapters, Beaverbrook lost his enthusiasm and, finally, his temper. He charged inaccuracies, misinterpretations and libel. "There were threats of litigation about hundreds of passages," Driberg recalls. He modified a few passages, but substantially, he declares, the book went into print as he wrote...
...more Negro crime news under bigger headlines than ever before-even when it means going as far afield as Chicago. They spike occasional wire stories that show integration working, e.g., a recent A.P. dispatch about the acceptance of three Negroes at the University of North Carolina. They print and reprint testimonials by Negroes who say that they prefer segregation and ignore Negro leaders on the other side, except to quote them out of context to make them sound like wild radicals...
...Habits. Southern editors who try to call their shots as they see them must develop thick skins. Notable example: Hodding Carter, whose Greenville Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 11,980) delivers courageous coverage in the midst of hostile Mississippi. "We print anything about the controversy locally, regionally or nationally that we can get our hands on," says Editor Carter. Mrs. Carter often gets threatening telephone messages for "that damned nigger-lover husband of yours...