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...close as Kirchhofer wants anyone to approach. Before long a flurry of blue memos pours from his desk to every department. Sensing the news possibilities in some current local development, Kirchhofer hands out the assignment. "I can't put my hands on the fish," he says, "but the smell is there." By two o'clock, with the help of 190 respectful and sometimes awe-struck editorial staffers, Editor Kirchhofer has produced an other issue of the newspaper that is as much a part of Buffalo as its 400,000 city-owned trees...
Scent of Mystery, the first picture made by Mike Todd Jr., son and heir of the late producer of Around the World in 80. Days, has been tagged by the Hollywood wisenheimers as "the first movie that ever smelled on purpose." Actually, it is the second smellie released in recent months. Behind the Great Wall (TIME, Dec. 21) beat Todd's picture to Broadway by a nose, partly because "amazing Aroma-Rama" (which breathes the "olfactory effects" in and out of a theater through its air-conditioning system) is simpler to in stall than Todd's "glorious Smell...
...olfactions" themselves - supplied from the "library of essences" compiled by "Osmologist" Hans Laube, who perfected the Smell-O-Vision process - are on the whole no more accurate or credible than those employed by AromaRama, but at least they don't stink so loud. Moreover, the gimmick is backed up by a witty script that at times owes as much to Don Miguel de Cervantes as it does to Scriptwriter William Roos. The Todd 70 Process camera is used to flashy effect, especially when it is mounted on a helicopter. And Hero Elliott is a remarkably sly and appealing comedian...
What did Joans ("My poems are American neo-Dadaism") have to say to such an audience? "I told them what the beats are really like," he explains. "Everybody thinks the beats always smoke pot, smell horrible, and all that jazz. I take a bath every day, man. People also think beat girls like free sex. Listen, some of these chicks are so far out that's the last thing they think of. One I know says, 'Sit across the room; just being near me should be sexy enough...
...Prime Minister. There is no tradition of lasting leadership in Japan, and the Liberal-Democratic Party is little more than a coalition of eight major factions, each with its own leader. "They are like a pack of wolves," says a Western observer. "If Kishi is hurt, the others smell blood, and will pile in, snarling, hoping to gain some advantage...