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...tales about the stars. Many of the stories that blew up newspaper headlines had run in the scandalmags long ago, but the trial also began to pry loose one story that has never been told: how the gutter press scrapes up the dirt. From courtroom testimony and questioning of smut-smugglers from Manhattan to Hollywood. TIME describes this week how the top scandalmag operates. For Confidential's own inside story, see PRESS, Putting the Papers...
...skeletons in Hollywood's closet and even planted some hand-fabricated new ones, five-year-old Confidential (circ. 3,269,954) started blabbing its own secrets. In a green-and-gold Los Angeles courtroom, where bimonthly Confidential ("Tells the Facts and Names the Names") and its sister-in-smut Whisper ("The Stories Behind the Headlines") are being tried on charges of criminal libel and conspiracy to publish obscenity, prosecution witnesses gradually yielded answers to a question that has long vexed Hollywood and intrigued scandalmag readers. How do the bedroom-beat boys and girls get their stories...
...Smut Station. One result, testified lanky (6 ft. 4 in.) Howard Rushmore, 45, onetime Daily Worker movie critic, onetime New York Journal-American Redhunter and onetime (until October 1955) Confidential editor, was that "newspaper friends of mine" who had freelanced for the magazine were dropped by Harrison or scared off by his demands for "hot, inside material." Among the reporters named on the stand by Rushmore (but not in Los Angeles press accounts of the trial) was United Press Hollywood Reporter Aline Mosby, who was replaced in the press gallery (for reasons of "illness") after a defense attorney declared that...
...stag magazines, lewd and pornographic literature deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth, or is it our low morals and spiritual weaknesses that make obscenity and smut bestselling stuff...
...Cambridge anti-smut drive appeared doubtful today, in spite of a City Council order to the police department to remove "indecent and smutty" literature from local stores...