Word: reade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Harold James Meriwether. While the jury trial was in progress, both papers ran stories that dipped into Meriwether's extensive criminal past. This long-accepted U.S. newspaper practice was unacceptable to Judge Pye. He called the stories to the attention of Defense Counsel Frank Hester: "Have you read these accounts...
...exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years you will be a poet") and William Carlos Williams ("The total impression is of great beauty"). Three months ago he returned from Paris, where he had read poetry in Left Bank squares and cafes with Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, soon had all of Manhattan's beatniks digging it. Sample: "i want to hear once more the bedspring music of your kiss...
...Dean Martin: "She's also a great audience. She loves to laugh. I'd be the biggest hit in the world if I only had 500 like her in every audience." Adds Sinatra: "We have a kind of trust in each other. If Shirley tells me to read a book, I read it. I trust her taste and knowledge, and I think she trusts mine. She is kind of a kook, * but very warm...
Died. Dr. Grantly Dick Read. 69, champion of natural childbirth, who argued that labor pains are largely caused by fear, reported (No Time for Fear) from a trip to Africa that 95% of the unafraid primitive women he examined had painless deliveries; in Wroxham, England...
...lady of the manor, pointed out its philosophical overtones (nature v. civilization), granted its explicit language on sex (mild by the standards of many a modern bestseller), but professed to see not even a quiver of prurience in the book. As for the Postmaster General, he sat down to read the novel himself, concluded: "The book is replete with descriptions in minute detail of sexual acts, utilizing filthy, offensive and degrading words and terms. Any literary merit the book may have is far outweighed by the pornographic and smutty passages and words." Summerfield leaned heavily on a 1953 decision (concerning...