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...story of the workings of a police department by assigning a writer to the job of actual police work." Seamy Underside. It was also one of the most strenuous reportorial masquer ades since the New York World's Nellie Bly feigned madness for ten days in the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island. On Seltzer's instructions, Assistant Picture Editor Gordon, 25 and an exMarine, took the police civil-service test a year ago, quietly "quit" the Press last January to enter the police academy and begin a life of "applied schizophrenia." In re peated close calls...
...Communist for 26 of his 58 years, he fled before Hitler's conquering armies to safety in the U.S., returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile the country that had granted him asylum. "Kantor," as he was called, put out a highbrow Marxist review called Ost und West, and peddled the rest of his poison in the Soviets' German-language newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. The Tägliche Rundschau saluted Kantor, the saturnine lecturer on German literature at East Berlin's Humboldt University...
...friend Juan Perón, last week stepped up its drive to get Perón kicked out of his Venezuelan exile-and out of the hemisphere. The Argentine ambassador presented carefully documented proof that Perón was violating the rules of asylum, conducting an espionage and sabotage network from his Caracas apartment. Pérez Jiménez angrily rejected the Argentine protest, abruptly recalled his ambassador from Buenos Aires, and declared the Argentine ambassador persona non grata. Argentina responded by suspending diplomatic relations with Venezuela...
...drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved. What is clear is the fact that Harriet was put into an insane asylum. New York in the '90s was no place or time to go mad in. Harriet Hubbard Ayer had a terrible time of it for 14 months...
...returned to lecture about her experiences. Still a smasher in a low-cut evening gown, she would go offstage and return in her tattered asylum gown and bring the house down in tears of indignation. Eventually Harriet was reunited with her daughter Margaret, who, after a brief stint on the Ziegfeld stage, led a useful life as an editor and teacher, and now, in her 70s, is co-author of this book...