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Return to Peyton Place (20th Century-Fox) is a recrawl of the New England gutters so noisomely celebrated by Author Grace Metalious in Peyton Place. Fortunately, much that lies hidden between hard covers cannot decently be put on film; Producer Jerry Wald has had to wash that smut right out of his script. That means there just isn't anything left...
Through all this she remains a bit of a square and a bit naive; according to her friend and neighbor, Walter Slezak. "A certain line of smut goes past her." She is still awed by some occasions. Before a television appearance,, she had the shakes so badly that Jack Paar had to wrap her in his bathrobe, like a Channel swimmer. But most of the time, she is unshakable and very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through...
...Illustrated. "Like Playboy, it will offer status, romance, and girls-all that a guy works for in our society." Will S.B.I, be collecting plenty of sex? Down, playboy. "If girls were the only motivation for buying our magazines," says Hefner, "they wouldn't sell. People would buy sheer smut. We, on the other hand, are Taste City." Fundamental Things. Taste City has many flavors, and they can all be savored at Hefner's Playboy Club. All the customers have membership keys, the closest thing to a Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, and no one except an occasional sick...
...point of fact, Arthur Summerfield's antismut cause is a good one; the mailing of pornography, especially to school-age youngsters, has become a serious problem. But by seeing smut where none existed, Summerfield had once more become an unwitting promotion man for professional publicists. Sighed a Summerfield aide: "We are just the fall guys in a publicity campaign...
...theory that sex builds circulation, the Chronicle, under Publisher Charles Thieriot and Executive Editor Scott Newhall, has moved toward the top spot among San Francisco newspapers with an unequaled array of columnists specializing in sophisticated spice (TIME, April 13). But the danger of sex becoming mere smut is sharply illustrated in the case of Count Marco, newest member of the Chronicle's stable of columnists...