CALL-GIRLS IN NEW YORK
Social Worker’s Corroboration NEW YORK, January 27, A New York social worker said last night that the call-girl racked alleged by Edward R. Murrow in a radio programme last week to be used by big business to influence customers, was “absolutely true.” Miss Sara Harris, the author of a book based on her interview with a prostitute, said she found only one mistake in the programme that became an overnight sensation in this country She said Murrow had given a wrong impression of the callgirls when he presented them as “so self-sufficient, so able to stand on their own feet.” Miss Harris said in a television programme last night: “Believe me, there is nothing more untruthful.
“You have never seen a more pitiful bunch of women—and I’m talking about your high-priced call-girls. They are sick, stunted, miserable.”
Miss Harris said the police had information on call-girls used by corporations for business purposes, but could not act upon it, because it was covered up too well.
She added: “I don’t know whether there are 30,000 prostitutes in New York who work for big business, or whether there are 3000, but I do know that this is a very definite procedure.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28805, 28 January 1959, Page 11
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