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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1962
Page
3
The Life magazine August issue reveals Marilyn Monroe as a gifted yet fragile star trapped by fame. She sought obscurity but craved attention, struggled with shyness, and found show business a money-making trap that consumed her. Her death is portrayed as an accidental, somber end to a life of public scrutiny.
Senator Soaper labels the Renaissance man a moonlighter arguing that broad interests and breaks for calls to a broker shape success. Defenders claim television educates, yet hospital dramas omit enough brain operation detail for viewers to perform one.
A collage of aphorisms and pop culture riffs questions vanity in power and wealth. It notes a bank robbery becoming a constant crime, recalls Benny Goodman’s Russia trip as a Cold War footnote, and muses on television, sports, and politics with a wry, fragmentary tone.
The excerpt lists staff roles and offices for the Press-Telegram including publishers editors and advertising representatives. It mentions Ridder Co publishing and various names, with garbled addresses and locations in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
Virginia Kelly Morse surveys liberal tactics in the Kennedy satellite bill debate. The piece recalls past filibusters by Morse and Kefauver and notes Mansfield's moderate stance, while critics question party loyalty and leadership amid Senate tensions.
John J. Lelave of 1509 B Stanton Place defends mercy for murder, questions guilt proof and jury infallibility, notes killers may be unaffected by financial status, argues for prisons to prevent further crimes and contemplates the morality of execution.
Caspar W Weinberger surveys English election campaigning where Conservatives and Labour select candidates early, with a year round party apparatus. The article notes centralized Conservative control, independent candidates, party finance limits, and the prominent Young Conservatives as a force in mobilizing support and potential MPs. It also covers by election hopes and the rise of Liberal gains as a background to the long parliamentary cycle.
The piece notes that French youths mock parents with terms like les croulants and les amortis and describe festivals called son et lumiere that invoke past eras. It suggests a broad defiance of parental authority among the younger generation in Paris.
A reader Q A asks which country has a proverb that things improve with time. The answer notes time cures many ills in literature and proverbs. Euripides around 438 B C stated Time will bring healing. A Yiddish proverb says Time is the best doctor. Arabians say Time subdues all things.
A Brazil foreign minister notes that twenty free nations debated their differences and reached a democratic solution. He contrasts this with the misrepresentation of American life by movies and TV, which he calls a subtler danger than saboteurs. A United Church of Christ minister adds a warning about treasonous depictions abroad.
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