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Died. Diana Barrymore, 38, John ("The Great Profile") Barrymore's daughter, who made a promising start on the stage in the best Barrymore tradition, but was soon sidetracked by drink and a series of freeloading friends and lovers while juicy tabloid stories and a ghosted autobiography (Too Much, Too Soon) celebrated the events in her decline; in Manhattan. Diana hoped for another comeback in a production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, hoped also, she told friends, to marry Williams. Fittingly, Friend Williams delivered a realistic eulogy: "She had great talent but no control. Without control...
...life of the daily newspaper, the break of the news seemed to dramatize the human scene at less lofty levels, to bring into focus the old, old fact that with the wise must come the foolish, the weak, the greedy and the evil. In terms of journalism, it was tabloid week. Two great universities were rocked to their foundations by campus scandals. Eleven students resigned from Yale after a 14-year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others) in a dormitory sex orgy. And the respected dean...
Neither the trust of public office nor compassion for fellow men stemmed the tabloid flow of the news. In New York City, Hulan Jack, borough president of Manhattan, suspended himself from office after his indictment for criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. Eight Chicago policemen, technically guardians of the law and justice, were arrested as the leaders of a brazen, multithousand-dollar burglary ring. In the case of two airline crashes in which 76 hapless passengers lost their lives, fingers of suspicion pointed to Julian Frank, a heavily insured lawyer who died in one crash, and to Robert Spears, a convicted...
With these restrictions in mind, a horde of tipped-off tabloid photographers descended on Club 84 and Father Gussoni, who panicked and fled. Trailed by the flashbulb boys to another nightspot, Gussoni and his friends sent out a waiter "disguised" as the priest to lead them off the scent, but one alert photographer simply followed raincoated Father Gussoni home and snapped another picture...
...other Western powers--particularly the British--are quite sincerely committed to the prospect of an early summit conference. The British tabloid press has reacted to de Gaulle's actions with a vitriolic fury that prompted the French weekly L'Express (not exactly part of the regime's cheering section) to point out that Anglo-French amity is far from traditional and that perhaps the two nations really are natural enemies...