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Toning Leads. In his bestselling novel, Advise and Consent, former New York Timesman Allen Drury expertly tells what a fascinating story Washington can be for these men who cover it. But Drury also paints a devastating picture of a majority of the Washington press corps (which is heavily liberal Democratic) toning its leads and its emphasis to sway opinion for the people it considers "liberal" and against those it looks upon as not liberal enough. Many of the Washington corps, including Drury's former boss, Scotty Reston, think that Drury's broad brush is unfair, but it covers...
FICTION 1 . Hawaii, Michener ( 1 )* Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. The Devil's Advocate, West (4) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3) 5. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 6. Exodus, Uris (9) 7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (5) 8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 9. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10) NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers...
...Advise and Consent...
...Consent. White slavery, says Author Terrot, was no problem in Britain before the 19th century. The French started the trouble. In 1804 the Code Napoléon, a writ that ran through Western Europe, raised the age of consent to 21, and any man who had sexual relations with a minor could be brought to trial (penalty: two years' imprisonment). Suddenly the Continental whoremongers found it convenient to get their fresh recruits from foreign fields, notably England, where, as Author Terrot puts it, "any child of twelve was legally competent to consent to her own seduction." (Exception...
...expressed his approval of the Faculty-student committee for having "the best interests of College drama in mind." Selection of plays, he noted, will not be made by a technical vote, with each student and Faculty member having one ballot. The committee will seek instead to reach a common consent...