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...American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series." The tabloid Daily Mirror complained of "four American filmed programmes from the BBC ... on an English Easter...
...drivers and editorial writers were saying last week that Egypt's Nasser was getting too big for his boots. In a suitably classical reference, the New York Times demanded: "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?" In characteristically unclassical American, the tabloid New York Daily News asked: "What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy other than, in a kiddie-sized pet, dump rusty boats and assorted kitchen stoves into the Suez Canal?" The fact was that no happy solution could be seen emerging in the Middle East...
...splenetic attacks on the British press lords (TIME, Dec. 26,1955). Churchill argues bitterly that a kind of journalistic Gresham's Law is at work; that honest newspapering is being drowned in a "deep and lush and fast-flowing river of pornography and crime." Williams disagrees. The average tabloid, says he, offers "neither worse nor better'' entertainment than many movies, TV shows or books; the "whole idea of what a free press ought to do and be" is constantly changing. What is the mid-century role of the press? Says Williams: "Not that of a judge...
THRILLS!'' trumpets the April cover of Dell's Modern Romances. Wails quarterly Secret Confessions' current cover line: "I COMMITTED ADULTERY!" Inside the slick color covers, the so-called "confession" or "romance" magazines come through with sagas of sex and suffering that make the most lurid tabloid story read like Mother Goose. In the current issue of Standard Magazines' True Life Stories, a teen-ager in 7,000 action-packed words recounts her father's suicide, her poverty-ridden childhood with a lunatic grandmother, rape by a giggling maniac, seduction by her boss...
...five millionaire sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the only one to win the name and tabloid fame of a moneyed playboy is big (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.), genial Winthrop Rockefeller, 44. The details of his life and marital woes-gleefully chronicled in the nation's press-have attracted as much public attention as the sober hard work of all his brothers combined. Four years ago, hoping to get away from it all, Winthrop forsook the cabarets of Manhattan for the hills of Arkansas. There, on a ridge 50 miles from Little Rock, he built a magnificent...