U.S. Bans D.H. Lawrence Novel

"I Feel Terribly Different."

The Farmers Market ad pokes gentle fun at Times columnist Hedda Hopper. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield defends his decision to ban "Lady Chatterly's Lover" from the U.S. mails. Times book columnist Robert R. Kirsch says Summerfield's ban is "shockingly like the kind of literary criticism issuing recently from the Kremlin." What's on the bestseller list? Why, it's "Lady Chatterly's Lover"!     Even the Republicans have beauty contests!

A drive-in church designed by Richard Neutra? And get this: The minister is some fellow named the Rev. Robert Schuller. Joe Hyams interviews Sophia Loren. Audio excerpts from the Elizabeth Ann "Ma" Duncan trial.   At left, George Reeves' mother hires Jerry Giesler to investigate his apparent suicide. Above, Richard Ingledue kills Charles De Long in a fight over Dolores Mayfield. The judge sentenced Ingledue to a year in jail, calling him a "spoiled brat."   Abe Ben Fisher kills one man and wounds two others before committing suicide. "He just put the gun to his head and fired," says Donald T. Giertz, who was shot in the mouth.

Newspapers in the 1950s often ran contests featuring peculiar puzzles -- like this one.  Ballet is like baseball -- except I don't think dancers spit nearly as often.    Don Drysdale leads the Dodgers to a 9-2 win over the Reds, bringing the Dodgers within 2 1/2 games of first-place Milwaukee.

Comments

[JScott]

The answer to the puzzle is "architect."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus

[Carol Gwenn]

You're right : the years between the wars produced some of the most creative & attractive print ads ever seen. The last vestige of the era was Bullock's Wilshire, whose ads used to appear on the back page of the Times' Metro section. If you recall, they were haute deco in style, as if they'd simply been moved from 1935. Am sure you recall those ads as fondly as many of the rest of us do.