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...Swing Shift starts at 12:50 a.m., runs until the daytime programs begin at 7 a.m. It is sold, at $475 an hour, to sponsors peddling beer, jewelry, insurance and pianos. Each night and dawning, televiewers see two feature films, two westerns and one episode of a serial (currently: Flash Gordon). Because "you can't call people up on a survey at 4 in the morning," Lund has no idea of the size of his audience, but there is no doubt that the show is going over. Swing Shift fan letters pour in at the rate...
Akron's Beacon Journal (circ. 146,410 last week started a serial which will take more than ten years to complete. The serial: the full text of the Bible, Old an New Testaments, which will run in daily 200-word installments...
...have to be so depressing, so frank about sex? Answered Hardy: "The crash of broken commandments is as necessary ... to the catastrophe of tragedy as the noise of drums and cymbals to a triumphal march." Not all his readers saw it so; when Tess came out as a serial, many of them wrote Hardy begging for a happy ending. He could not satisfy them, for life, as he felt it, has no happy endings...
Kent wants to be a good company commander, but when he is not panicky he is petty. Worse for him, capture and torture show him up as a coward. Kicked and loathsomely humiliated, Kent retches but refuses to reveal more than his name, rank and serial number. Then he is shown one of his enlisted men decapitated, and another strung up nude and bayoneted, "streamers of gut sticking to the bare legs." When the Japanese officer shouts, "You, now!" Kent blurts out everything he knows...
...outraged mothers saw: 13 murders and assorted killings, 14 sluggings, six kidnapings, five holdups, three explosions, three instances of blackmail and extortion, three thefts, two armed robberies, two cases of arson, one lynching, one torture scene and one miscarriage. One mother clocked 104 gunshots during a half-hour serial; another found sudden death "shudderingly described" 14 times in 20 minutes...