Posted 12:16 PM by Gene

SI in His Vanity Fair has run an article proving Doris Day is a recluse. She has also been violently grief-stricken over her film career. Miss Day has known far too much tragedy in her life, so that's understandable at least; but we believe her private suffering is vastly overshadowed by the joy she has brought to people -- indeed how much we'd never have known if she hadn't broken her leg in that auto accident, and not forced herself to become a singer. Clearly the public pluses so monumentally outweigh the private minuses as to make it no contest.

P. S. One of her tragedies was the loss of her beloved Rock Hudson. We recall that well; the hacks tried to turn it into a health panic because Hudson was such a virile, healthy heterosexual. There is one way an earlier rollout of the Web would have done the public some good.