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...Bulk. They believe it despite all the lingering aspects of show business. Resentful as TV newsmen are of the very word "show," the smell of grease paint still clings to their programs. Last week CBS announced that its newsmen would be making one-shot appearances on entertainment shows to publicize their election-night broadcasts. Thus Cronkite, among others, will soon make his debut on I've Got a Secret and Captain Kangaroo...
...major topic of Harvard cocktail party conversation--the smell of the Charles River--will be in jeopardy when a newly-announced sewage treatment plant on the Cambridge side of the Charles goes into operation...
Still, the major problem of overflow street wastes should be handled by the new plant and it should help eliminate the dominant manifestation of Charles pollution--the smell. The Charles strollers, lollers, and crews will be happy and the cocktail party goers will be out of luck...
...ready to "sink giggling into the sea." Author Michael Shanks (The Stagnant Society) says that "the hardheaded (and often hardhearted) millowners and steel masters of the North have bred the little flirts of Chelsea and Kensington. It is gay, it is madly amusing, and it carries with it the smell of death." Few would perhaps put Britain's malaise in such harsh terms, but even George Brown, when he was Labor's Economics Minister last May (he has since become Foreign Secretary), said that "fundamental changes are required in the industrial structure of Britain today...
...evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion on sex. Food has a soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream, now concentrates on the bowel: man's nature, he says, can be divined in "the color, the shape, the odor and the movement" of his stool...