Word: satevepost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before the Satevepost reached U.S. newsstands, Muggeridge's studiously fair discussion of royalty blew up outraged headlines (A SHOCKING ATTACK ON THE QUEEN) and out-of-context quotes in London's dailies. British ' readers responded in highly un-British fashion by bombarding Muggeridge with hostile letters that ranged from the scurrilous ("your effeminate voice") to the scatological (one letter, reported Henry Fairlie in the London weekly Spectator, had been "rubbed in either animal or human excrement...
...Royal Soap Opera." Timed for the visit, major articles reflecting British criticism of the monarchy broke in the Satevepost ("Does England Really Need a Queen?") and Look (a tired rehash called "Queen Elizabeth . . . Her Poor Public Relations"). The Satevepost (that "notoriously conformist family magazine," pouted London's New Statesman) stirred up a stew in the British press, notably for its author, former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge, who got the assignment long before the Queen's visit was planned. He described the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace as characters in "a royal soap opera," urged that the institution be refurbished...
...famed Satevepost Glencannon stories by Guy Gilpatric...
...Steeves. 23, was taken in tow by Air Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around Dave Steeves's ears; the Satevepost announced that it was canceling its contract, and Steeves's wife Rita announced that she was considering a divorce...
...family breakup, explained Mrs. Steeves. "preceded the whole adventure in the mountains. The whole mess has been going on a long time." But the Post cancellation was a surprise. After a Satevepost writer had interviewed Steeves for three weeks and led him back along his High Sierra trail, the Post's writer found certain "discrepancies" in his story; e.g., his boots seemed to be in remarkably good shape; Steeves at first sturdily showed no knowledge of a small forest fire discovered in the area where he says he camped, later said that he started the fire...