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...tabloid editors last week, every day was good nudes day. At the Wilma Montesi manslaughter trial in Venice, a black-haired beauty known as the Black Swan said that in her set, boys and girls always stripped for tea. Jayne Mansfield dropped her shoulder straps to show photographers considerable acreage of a "head-to-toe" poison-ivy rash. And a New York censor ruled that an art-movie producer would have to banish his surrealist Muse or put some clothes...
...Spicy tabloid headlines and the senators own publicity-minded staging almost obscured the inquiry's intent: for the first time steps are under consideration to impose curbs on the salacious magazines. The senators were hoping to build a case for legislation that would dam the gutter press at its principal source-the Hollywood bedroom-by making it illegal for private eyes to hawk their dirty discoveries to publishers (for prices as high as $1,500 a story...
Beyond Reason. The man of science, Psychiatrist Robert Vossmenge, and the man of God, Pastor Kurt Degenbrück, are both attached to a mental clinic in pre-Hitler Germany. Their cases have the garish intimacy of tabloid headlines-an old woman who believes her son is being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free...
Chunks in the Casserole. The fact was that there has been a hum of gossip in Britain for years about the Duke's high jinks, particularly at parties given by his bohemian cronies of the Thursday Club, which included Parker. U.S. tabloid correspondents dug up "palace sources" who said that the royal household was disturbed about rip-roaring stag parties at the club, and had dropped Mike Parker so he would not be around to encourage the Duke to go Thursdaying. Other correspondents, however, found sources who said that the real trouble involved parties that were not always stag...
Civilianizing. "What a way to treat the navy!" cried London's jingoist tabloid Daily Sketch. A Daily Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...