Vertu

American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", June 1961, Volume XCII No. 448 - Is Censorship On The Way? / Blueprint for World Government / Deluge of Filth

1961 — 128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book