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...second largest department (after news) on either paper, Hubble's bureau boasts that it is the biggest of its kind in the world; with the combined weekly readership of 30,368,000 claimed by the Mirror and Pictorial, it undoubtedly also draws on the world's deepest reserves of untapped anguish. "Nothing," says Hubble, "is too large or too small for us to undertake to help." The bureau gives advice to unwed mothers, frigid wives and suspicious husbands, wrestles with material problems ranging from rent boosts to phony reducing pills, publishes scores of pictures and vital statistics...
...latest tally shows that the summer evening schedules of the three networks are clogged each week with no fewer than 65 programs that can prompt millions of viewers to mutter: "This is where I came in." Last week, because of the rerun deluge, New York's tabloid Mirror announced that the paper will simply stop reviewing TV for the summer...
Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...
...What the Mirror Shows. In the funny and sad love stories, the summer dresses seem to have faded a little. Then We Were Three flattens its triangle in the familiar way, with one of the lovers left out in the cold; In the French Style contains the despair of the aging bohemian as his last and best mistress takes refuge in marriage; Voyage Out, Voyage Home brings some fresh insights to that sturdy chestnut, the doomed romance between a healthy lover and a tubercular...
...studiously nonpolitical as he was formerly tumultuously partisan. His current work reflects his present detachment; it is blander than before, as accomplished as ever but less impassioned. But so are the times, and Author Shaw seems to argue between the lines that he still holds up a mirror to life, and cannot put more into his stories than his mirror shows...