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...newspapers draw the line between what is fit to print and what isn't? That question was worrying the St. Louis Star-Times. It had reported the death of a teen-age girl as an "aftermath of tavern-hopping and sex orgy." Would it have been better to suppress this sordid story? In publishing such news, were newspapers themselves helping to make-more...
...legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...
Tightening the Screws. Justly or not, some Britons suspect a connection between Cripps's austere appearance, his cold baths, his raw carrots, and the increasing national austerity. Said the Economist: "However right Sir Stafford is at present, it is difficult to suppress the suspicion that he is right because he is in his element, because he positively prefers an austere, restricted, controlled economy, because, like the tympanist in an orchestra, his instinct, when he has nothing else to do, is to go around tightening up all the screws...
...Bucharest's Alea Elisa Filipescu, where she raised white turkeys. She was violently hated in the country (manifestoes attacked "this red-haired witch who exercises such an occult influence over our King"). When Edward VIII abdicated for Wally Simpson's sake, Carol thought it prudent to suppress the news in Rumania for a while-lest his subjects get ideas. But he refused to give Magda up. Said he: "She is the other half of my being, the other half of my brain...
Iraq's rulers had never spent much energy in improving the lot of their people. But in a burst of zeal remarkable in the Baghdad summer, they tried to suppress Iraqi Communists whose appeal for support is based on Iraq's mass misery...