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...Communist Hungary now neared the 700 mark. Among the forbidden authors: Louis Bromfield, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand, P. G. Wodehouse, Marcel Proust. Specifically mentioned as objectionable: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...prevalent attitude is summed up by a Rochester critic who says that people will watch anything good, bad or indifferent." The result is a flood of amateur hours, quizzes, shopping talks, gabby interviews, ear-numbing commercials. Local shows tend to be pale reflections of network programs. In Bob Dale, Cleveland has a "skinny Arthur Godfrey." Washington features puppets, girls pretending to be elves, a disc jockey who silently mouths the words his records play. Memphis boasts an unhandy Handy Man named Peter Thomas who convulses viewers by spilling paste on his sponsor and gravy on his guests. Louisville applauds...
...thought a minister had no call to go riding around on elephants and making a holy show of himself. They remembered that he was once a nightclub master of ceremonies, that he had dressed up in a clawhammer coat and cowboy boots to marry Roy Rogers and Movie Actress Dale Evans. They didn't like his cross-country jaunting in a private plane to speak at women's clubs and businessmen's conventions, an activity that gave him a tidy $40,000-a-year income in lecturing fees. Alexander paid no attention...
...tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have a Go! features a quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial Groucho Marx; on such comedy shows as Educating Archie, Ray's a Laugh and Take It from Here...
Most striking was Dr. Tobin's evidence on the disputed question of whether American Indians, long before Columbus launched a transatlantic traffic in diseases, suffered from syphilis and tuberculosis. Two shinbones, found in Arkansas and Illinois, showed changes characteristic of syphilis. Dr. Tobin and Anthropologist T. Dale Stewart, who worked with him, admit the difficulty of dating these bones precisely, but they are sure that no white man had reached the area when these Indians died...