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...Magazine. Editor Ross, who owns 10% of the New Yorker stock and is paid $40,000 per year, tries to keep himself lashed into a rage to do his best work. He is full of phobias, fears crossing streets, is mortally terrified of earthquakes. He is surprisingly prudish, a fact which has kept out of The New Yorker all dirty jokes, except those which he cannot understand. This "really great editor" FORTUNE sums up as follows...
Even though it had censored "The Sizzlers" and their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...physical infirmities only makes a bad matter worse. There is no excuse for such writing. TIME, frankly, needs some lessons in good manners. It lacks the fundamental virtue of reverence. . DAVID P. GAINES Minister First Baptist Church Waterbury, Conn. Sirs: . . . Don't let TIME descend to the stilted, prudish, uninteresting style of so many news publications. It makes the readers' picture more accurate to know whether a man struts, or gallops, or limps or hobbles. What's the difference? RALPH P. STODDARD Cleveland, Ohio Please continue your use of truthfully descriptive words about those whom you present...
...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...
...Church of England, which discreetly approved the movement (TIME, July 14 & Aug. 25). Nonetheless there were several preachers of various denominations among the 200 delegates who attended the convention. Also-present were a few doctors. Conspicuously absent were women who revel in tales of their own childbearing, women too prudish to discuss procreation in any manner, Catholic women obedient to the Pope's denunciation of any hindrance to conception (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week's meeting lacked the vigor of previous conventions. Some speakers interpreted the Pope's denunciatory encyclical as favorable to birth control. "It paves...