"Have you, too, been bamboozled by American ballyhoo?" asked London's left-wing People under the headline: TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE REAL AMERICA ! With this lead the Sunday People (circ. 4,948,215), which wallows weekly in a rich home-brew of slaughter, society scandal and police-court sex, last week decanted a bottle of sour-mash bamboozlement imported from the old colony across the Atlantic.
"The letters I get from home," wrote People's New York Correspondent Len Coulter, "reveal that thousands of people in Britain have swallowed the old bunk about the American Way of Life—swish homes, big cars, gleaming refrigerators, 21-inch TV sets and...
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