ISSUE DATE: January 5-12, 1963; Volume 236, Number 1, 1/5/63, 1/12/63

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COVER: Painting of the Wollman Rink in New York's Central Park is by FRANK MULLINS.

ARTICLES:
In Defense of Gambling (Speaking Out) By Jimmy Breslin.
Quack Marriage Counselors By Bill Davidson.
"King" of the U.S. Senate By Joseph Kraft. (Robert S. Kerr)
Basketball's Bullies By Al Lightner as told to Al Stump.
Making the "Best-Dressed" List By Eugenia Sheppard.
New Science That Copies Life By Ruth Sheldon Knowles.
The Fateful Dive of the Atlantis (A Special Post Report). (Atlantis and divers Peter Small and Hannes Keller) [See notes below]

FICTION: The Hungry Ones (A Condensed Novel) By Paul Gallico. Illustrated by Bill Whittingham.

DEPARTMENTS: Letters; Post Scripts; Hazel; Editorials.

QUACKS, bunglers and incompetents infest the field of marriage counseling. They number in the tens of thousands, and no state has passed regulatory laws to stop them from bilking the unsuspecting public of almost a half billion dollars each year. To gauge the extent of this multimillion- dollar trade in human misery, contributing editor Bill Davidson and a team of Post reporters con- ducted a coast-to-coast, 10-city survey. They encountered legitimate counselors and community- service agencies, but far more numerous were the self-styled "marriage experts" who victimize the despairing clients who come to them for help. Davidson discovered plumbers, taxi drivers, bartenders, gypsy fortunetellers and junk dealers dispensing advice which they were totally unqualified to give. Their toll in ruined lives and wrecked marriages is impossible to estimate. So far no state except California, where the problem is severe, has shown much interest in stamping out charlatanism. The Post believes that now is the time to put the quacks and unlicensed bunglers out of business. It is plain that the public needs the protection which only new legislation can provide.

OTHER BYLINES. Former newspaperman Joseph Kraft is now Washington correspondent for Harper's . . . Basketball Refferee Al Lightner is also a sports editor of he Salem, Oregon Statesman. His collaborator, free-lance sports writer Al Stump, has known Lightner for 25 years amd claims thayt Lightner has more guts than any official I've ever seen." . . . Paul Gallico's success as a novelist permits him to divide his time between a summer home in the Devonshire countryside of England and his permanent residence at Antibes, France. His latest book, to be published later this year by Doubleday and Company, appears complete in this issue in condensed form . . . . Eugenia Sheppard is women's feature editor of the New York Herald Tribune and writes a four-times- weekly fashion column which is syndicated to about 150 papers. She sees new styles a season earlier than most women, but has never been on the best-dressed list herself. "The sad story of my life," she says, "is that I always plan to order dresses but hardly ever get around to it before the next season comes along." . . . While doing research for her article on bionics -- a term only three years old -- Ruth Sheldon Knowles contacted a professor who had delivered a paper on blue- bird calls at a bionics symposium. To her question asking what bluebirds have to do with bionics, the scientist replied: "I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me. I still don't know why I was there or even what bionics is." . . . Our report on the deepest dive ever made, 1,000 feet to the ocean floor, was written after extensive interviews with Hannes Keller, one of two men who made the record descent -- and the lone survivor. Our exclusive photographs of the dive and its tragic aftermath is by Lawrence Schiller and Peter Stackpole, whose eyewitness account accompanies the text.
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