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...Maxwell. If a hostess brought the garbage can in the living room and lifted the lid for all to admire and discuss the contents, we would be shocked. So what is so wrong with Host Maxwell's removal of the Garbage Can School of Literature from the Trib's parlor...
...tardily, we have become aware that some of the best sellers that have appeared on our lists were sewer-written by dirty-fingered authors for dirty-minded readers. We aren't going to further this game by giving publicity to such authors and their titles." This week the Trib printed a revised list of bestsellers from which two titles had been scrubbed. The missing works: Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's steamy bedroom-and-gutter account of his expatriate years in France; and The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins' blatantly biological study of Hollywood's seams...
...Trib's self-appointed censor was Editor William D. Maxwell, 61. Recently hospitalized, Maxwell waded selectively through his paper's bestseller list, was scandalized by The Carpetbaggers and Tropic of Cancer. "I found language in there that you wouldn't hear in a men's locker room," said Maxwell, whose father was a Methodist gospel singer. He fired an order to Book Editor Robert Cromie. Henceforth, said Maxwell, the Trib's bestseller list, which is based on sales reports from bookstores, will include only books that pass Maxwell's muster...
Curiosity Value. Under a new editor, former Newsweek Managing Editor John Denson, 55, the Trib is trying to find a level of its own. What that level may be is not readily discernible. Under Denson, the Trib's tidy front page, which used to win beauty prizes, has taken on the look of a parquet floor-all overblown pictures, klaxon headlines (THE LIBERTY...
...some observers, the new Trib seems more summary than news. Says the Times's Assistant Managing Editor Ted Bernstein wryly: "Today you can read the Trib only if you read another paper...