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With its front page still carrying stories about the Greenlease kidnaping case (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week printed a brief announcement on its comic page in place of two popular comic strips: "The Buz Sawyer and Steve Roper serial strips have been omitted. They will not be restored until after the kidnaping episodes in both strips, which may be offensive to many readers at this time . . ." After the announcement appeared, the paper was flooded with letters, many approving the P-D's move. But other readers were just as strong against dropping...
Names & Addresses. The U.N. position has been further compromised by a monumental U.N. blunder. The U.N. had apparently handed the Indian custodial force a complete list, in English and Chinese, not only of the names, ranks and serial numbers of the P.W.s (which is all they were required to do), but of their parents and home-town addresses as well. If this list passes from the Indian guards to the Polish and Czech members of the commission, the U.N.'s basic principle of "no forced repatriation" will look sick indeed: the Communists could simply tell the P.W.s, via explainers...
...interested in handing out thousands of dollars; we just want you to collect them. So we're going to help you . . . as a public service. And if that means letting you know where to pick up some $50,000 a week [by printing] the serial numbers of all those highly prized bills . . . why that's for us. Especially if it's somebody else's money...
...burst of publicity two months ago, Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 902,000) went to work to keep its summer circulation up by paying $25 to $1,000 every day for "Lucky Bucks" (dollar bills which have the same serial number as those printed in the paper-TIME, Aug. 17). Within a week, everyone from bank presidents to taxi drivers as far away as Florida and California was riffling through his dollar bills looking for Lucky Bucks. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, biggest daily in the U.S. (circ. 2,200,000), eyed the Mirror's stunt...
Life Can Be Beautiful (sponsor: Tide, a detergent) is not radio's oldest daytime serial,* but, if only for its title, it has often been taken as the epitome of the "kind of sandwich" once described by James Thurber: "Between thick slices of advertising, spread twelve minutes of dialogue, add predicament, villainy and female suffering in equal measure, throw in a dash of nobility, sprinkle with tears, season with organ music, cover with a rich announcer sauce, and serve five times a week." Actually, Elsie Beebe ranges less frequently over the tearstained world of suffering women than many...