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absent elsewhere in this complex, starworshipping and ladder-climbing nation.
In few other places can a public name long have a home before becoming the gawking object of tour bus cameras and local newspaper reports of everything they do.
For the county newspaper, for us, this raises tough judgment calls. Because of our daily work with the police blotter, and the neighbor’s human tendency to “tip off’ the newspaper, we are extraordinarily aware of the best “star gossip.”
Some recent examples—Item: the nationally known industrialist who has moved to another house on the farm with his secretary; Item: the military hero who, blind drunk, decked a certain Master of Foxhounds at a large hunt party * not long ago; Item: the prominent judge whose photo we have in a highly compromising position with a lovely young lady behind a gravestone in a local cemetery (sent us by a disinterested party); Item: and then there is the blow by blow attorney’s memo of a famed horseman being physically evicted, shoe by shirt, by his equally prominent wife, with armed help.
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