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"I thought that I knew of every conceivable form of wickedness," said a judge to a London jury in summing up a libel case in 1934. "I thought that everything which was vicious and bad had been produced at one time or another before me. I have learned in this...
At a Harvard Club lunch in Los Angeles MGM's Dore Schary decided to look on the bright side of the movie-TV battle: "Television actually is having a salutary effect on films. It is eliminating our potboilers, dreadful melodramas and other junk. In fact, television is inheriting most...
When Grand Union heard about the story, it ordered Wechsler banned from future programs, refused to discuss the matter with him. But last week other members of the panel had plenty to say. One of them was Alicia Patterson, publisher of Long Island's Newsday (circ. 138,957), daughter...
In Manhattan, asked whether she approved of a woman running for the presidency, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, replied: "I know I wouldn't want a woman captain of a ship I was on." Her second thought: "Now isn't that a dreadful thing for a woman...
In his weekly column in the London Sunday Dispatch, Britain's Professor Cyril E. M. Joad began by answering a simple question about the clothing of American children visiting England with the British war-bride mothers. But he soon dived into deeper issues: "[American fashions for children are] terrible...