correcting typo RE: col49 2 pt2

calbert at hslboxmaster.com calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Fri Aug 10 01:00:57 CDT 2001


Tim:

> Just because an article on LSD is published in Life, or Time, or
> Newsweek, all of which have a fairly substantial readership, does not
> automatically mean everyone within that readership will find enough
> interest in that article to read it and thus make it "common
> knowledge."  Few people read *every single word* of the publications
> they consume.  Can you honestly say you read every single word in
> every single publication you encounter?  Of course not.  As
> intelligent readers, we pick and choose the topics and articles that
> interest us, skim some, ignore others.  


I'm gonna hazard a guess that IF LSD was covered by one of those 
publications, it would likely have been in the service of 
sensationalism, probably a front page with some highly suggestive 
and alarming graphic......I doubt is was slipped into a "My Turn" 
column......but I'm due back to the Boston PL next week and will 
try to check on that as well as the excerpts in Cavalier and 
Esquire.....

love,
cfa



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