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...game of sex and a mockery of marriage; in a land where the vitality, or much of it, which made this country powerful has trickled down two generations to find itself running cloudily through the veins of foolish old men like Tommy Manville and foolish young pimps like Minot Jelke; where 22-year-old boys slip,cyanide into their parents' champagne; where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice...
...Ward is not the first to "drift horizontally" into café society, but smarter girls take jewels, avoiding income tax and naughty names. The real immoralists are her patrons, who have $100 to throw away on such prosaic entertainment. They, not Minot or his Patsy, should be tried. Other career girls also have started at the bottom. Pat's sin was not ambition but impatience...
Familiar to song and story down the ages is the wastrel scion of a fortune-making family. Minot Jelke does not quite fit the type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...
Vincent R. Larsen '56 of Adams House and Minot, N.D., was elected President of the Crimson Key Society for the coming year at a full meeting of the Society Wednesday night...
...York newsmen last week won the right to cover court trials whenever the defendant wants them there, even if the judge does not. In reviewing the conviction of Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke III for pimping for New York prostitutes, the State Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Jelke. The grounds: Manhattan General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente had no right to bar newsmen from the trial (TIME, May 31). Said the court's majority opinion: "Due regard for the defendant's right to a public trial demanded at the very least . . . that...