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...variation of the Amphitryon story. Jupiter (George Jongeyans) covets a young American girl on her honeymoon, while son Mercury (William Redfield) is under orders to snare her to Greece, and wife Juno (Charlotte Greenwood) is hot on Jupiter's trail down the slopes of Olympus. With its studious smut and clanging innuendoes, the whole thing is far more down-to-earth than even Jupiter's expedition would license. The librettists apparently fashioned their jests for audiences whose idea of sophistication is not believing in Santa Claus...
...also gives him a literary focus that few of his U.S. colleagues could control. Classics and Commercials is not for those who like to get comfortable with a detective story or a runaway bestseller, but if it were read seriously by those who flipped the pages for smut in Hecate County, U.S. literary taste might be raised a notch...
...never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
...Well, Mr. Markel," said Ochs, "if a tabloid prints it, it is smut; if the Times prints it, it is sociology...
...answer: Crosby failed to understand the "listener's ear." Crosby had another: NBC suffered from "broadcaster's ear." His conclusion: "If the broadcasters insist on censorship, a high form of discrimination is called for. Despite their vigilance, censors still are not keeping smut off the air. At the same time, unintelligent censorship is . . . driving radio writers into a sterile cynicism with no faith in themselves or their industry...