Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born Lady Astor, trying to raise ?400,000 in London for a settlement for international university women, denounced Hollywood's preoccupation with sex in "this modern striptease age." Said she: "I think it's terrible the way women are used for glamour ... Educated women are far more important to the world...
Horseback & Hospital. When a star combines high sex appeal with low resistance to the demands of press-agents, she works all the harder. For The Girl from Jones Beach, Virginia Mayo put in appearances at ten towns on Long Island's south shore, with receptions by civic dignitaries at every stop. For the opening of Colorado Territory in Denver, she had to ride horseback to the theater through a heavy downpour. ("How," pleaded Virginia, "do you put the top up on a horse?") On the way to Denver, press-agents stopped her train so that she could leave...
...also turned sex into sales with its own Kinsey report on John Bull's private life (headline: 450 VERY FRANK MEN AND WOMEN). Last summer, when cameramen pursued Princess Margaret (see below) into an Italian grotto and peered into her bedroom, the Pic loudly protested this invasion of her privacy. Naturally, it had to run pictures to show how unprincipled the invasion had been...
...teaching readers how to cook, dance, cure athlete's foot, play the horses and read the stars.* But 58-year-old Editor Harry Ainsworth, who has raised The People's circulation from 300,000 to 4,958,000 in 24 years, also puts crime and sex stories in their place-generally on Page One. Last week The People's eager readers were being filled in on THE WORST MEN IN THE WORLD (the inmates of Alcatraz) and how HYENAS EAT 90 BABIES...
...QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases. Sample, from last week's report of how BOY AGED 15 ACCUSES A MARRIED WOMAN: "The 15-year-old boy said in evidence that he often visited the house and played cards with [a married couple]. One night in the summer of 1948 he found [the wife] alone...