The Press: Saved from Obscenity

Editing, the late, Adlai Stevenson once observed, consists of separating the wheat from the chaff—and printing the chaff. Something like that, only worse, seems to have happened at TV Guide when it received a program listing for a now defunct local talk show on San Francisco-Oakland's KTVU. The notice said that guests for the show on Sept. 20,1968, would include Pat Montandon, a well-known Bay Area hostess who had written a book about giving imaginative parties on lean budgets, and an unnamed masked prostitute. TV Guide's condensed version: "From party girl to call...

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