The Press: Doctor & Duke

In Bridgeton, N. J., last week Editor Isadore Levine of the Bridgeton Record wrote in his weekly gossip-column: "A number of physicians' cars have been seen parked near a Burlington Avenue home. It must be an interesting 'case'." When

Dr. Leslie E. Myatt saw the item, he marched to the Record's office with a horsewhip. When Editor Levine came out, he cracked him twice. Editor Levine scuttled to a magistrate where he got a warrant for Dr. Myatt's arrest, planned to sue for $50,000.

Meanwhile in Britain where it takes much less impudence by the...

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