The Press: No Cause for Alarm

Few weeks ago the new quarterly You thought it had reached the acme of daring female magazine journalism when it told what to do for "Your Bosom" (TIME, Nov. 15). But last week Free Lancer Maxine Davis wrote in Pictorial Review a story on the prostate gland which made You's frankness read like Sunday-school talk. A year ago Hearst's Pictorial Review decided, after a survey, that its 25-year-old typical reader wants open discussion of problems not usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases....

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