Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside News, a flamboyant tabloid with a prurient fixture of horror ("He Tickled Her to Death") and sex, told its readers that "The Undergrads Are Oversexed" at Harvard and other Ivy schools. The current number of Whisper, a slick covered bi-monthly what promises "The Stories Behind the Headlines," Harries a lengthy account of "Harvard's Special Night course...
Both stories are attractively illustrated, although the News' pic of a girl draped only with two Harvard tennants beats Whisper's shot of a book- laden boy with his arm around a co-ed. The News has staged a come with two men (looking about 30 years old) removing the blouse of a very non-collegiate chick...
Playboy Packs. She came onstage trembling, spoke in a whisper, and apologized that in her 19 years she had never used a microphone or appeared before a crowd. Facing the wigged high judges of Britain had failed to dent her brassbound confidence, but facing this crowd was something else. "Because my name is Mandy Rice-Davies," she had told the avid reporters a few hours earlier, "I have to start at the top. It's twice as hard...
Already world leaders have expressed their congratulations. In Rome Madame Nhu called the book "a dramatic coup." The editors of Confidential and Whisper asked for "enough copies for everyone on our staff." Barry Goldwater said "I have always had great admiration for the youth of America...
Steirman first tested the proposition in 1958, when he bought two exposé magazines, Whisper and Confidential, from their former publisher, Robert Harrison, who had been fined $10,000 for publishing obscenity. Under Steirman, the magazines have become about as racy as racing programs, and combined newsstand sales have dropped to 510,000 from a peak of 4,100,000. But Steirman claims that both are in the black. In 1961, he resurrected Blue Book, a man's magazine dropped by McCall Corp. five years earlier as a bad job. Steirman's Bluebook for Men has a newsstand...