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...sick at all. Before she began her rounds as a special investigator working for the State Board of Medical Examiners, she had been checked by physicians from crown to toe, pronounced in excellent health. Last week Attorney General Will Wilson told her stories as he staged a Texas-style roundup, corralled 61 naturopaths in 29 counties. Wilson asked for court injunctions to restrain them from practicing. At his heels in what they called "Operation Quack Quack," district attorneys were proceeding against the 61 on criminal charges (unlawful practice of medicine), possibly graver felony charges because narcotics and barbiturates were found...
...Whitney Museum's annual roundup of contemporary American art may not accurately reflect the merits of modern American painting, but it is a jolting reminder of the power and influence of the new academy of abstract expressionism. Throughout most of the Whitney last week chaos reigned. More than a score of exhibitors seemed to feel that where there's a Willem (de Kooning) there's a way-through large and sticky briars of paint to a darkling goal...
...even if it was lost on Maggie, the standing committee could see the difference between a reporter who plies his trade before a television camera, sponsored or not (e.g., Meet the Press, Reporter's Roundup, Face the Nation), and a reporter who sells her byline over a commercial spiel printed in the guise of news. Last week the committee unanimously accepted Newshen Higgins' "withdrawal." Maggie said she was undisturbed at the loss of her congressional press credentials. Said she: "I depend upon personal contact...
Time was when Fulton Lewis Jr., radio's oracle of the far right, had sponsors on 250 of the Mutual stations that carry his nightly news roundup. Last week, pared down to 75 sponsors and detecting restlessness among some of the 300 stations that now carry him without sponsorship, Commentator Lewis awaited the results of a novel ploy...
...Eisenhower telecast with a 15-minute updating of the situation from Washington and Little Rock, NBC commanded higher ratings than the popular To Tell the Truth and Broken Arrow on the other networks. An hour later, CBS's news crew turned in the week's best TV roundup: a half-hour wrapping together of film clips of mob violence and barely dry shots of the arriving paratroopers and President Eisenhower's speech with a background summary by Walter Cronkite in Manhattan, on-the-spot interviewing by Howard K. Smith in Little Rock, and analysis by Eric Sevareid...