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...nation's press, the Confidential trial in Los Angeles last week opened the shutters for a display of undressed pictures and well-fleshed tales about the stars. Many of the stories that blew up newspaper headlines had run in the scandalmags long ago, but the trial also began to pry loose one story that has never been told: how the gutter press scrapes up the dirt. From courtroom testimony and questioning of smut-smugglers from Manhattan to Hollywood. TIME describes this week how the top scandalmag operates. For Confidential's own inside story, see PRESS, Putting the Papers...
...where bimonthly Confidential ("Tells the Facts and Names the Names") and its sister-in-smut Whisper ("The Stories Behind the Headlines") are being tried on charges of criminal libel and conspiracy to publish obscenity, prosecution witnesses gradually yielded answers to a question that has long vexed Hollywood and intrigued scandalmag readers. How do the bedroom-beat boys and girls get their stories...
...developed from snapshots of the couple that were filched by an acquaintance. The private files of detectives have been rifled for stories such as Confidential's account of Joe DiMaggio's famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick up a sigh at 60 paces...
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