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...Fake. By sprinkling grains of fact into a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction and plain smut, Confidential creates the illusion of reporting the "lowdown" on celebrities. Its standard method: dig up one sensational "fact" and embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not. Confidential has four libel suits pending against it (including two started by Cinemactors Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum). But few of its subjects are inclined to go to court over what the magazine prints. Said...
...huge "Ike" balloon they planned to float over Portland. John Roosevelt, barnstorming for the Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut, smear and slander." In California, Republican Nixon said Stevenson was "snide and snobbish...
...permitted as comic-book titles, and no "scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism or masochism" are allowed. ¶ Sympathy for criminals, "unique details" of a crime, or any treatment that tends to "create disrespect for established authority" are banned. ¶ "Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, ridicule of racial or religious groups" are not allowed, and "all characters shall be depicted in dress reasonably acceptable to society, [with] females drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities...
...Illinois State Library in Springfield launched a campaign "to make it impossible for our children to obtain smut." Among the first volumes marked with the words "This book is for adult readers": John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Needed for a youngster who wants to get any of them: a librarian's decision...