Word: 8g
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine. The Guild and NBC spared no kopeks to give the telecast an opulent, St. Petersburg flavor. Czarina Lawrence had a star-emblazoned court (David Wayne, Joan McCracken, Erik Rhodes, Micheal MacLiammóir), required six sets in NBC's big, new Studio 8G (TIME, May 3). Actress Lawrence could have claimed to be making, as well as re-creating history: ten years ago, in a telecast of Susan and God, she was the first big star to try television...
Under the same law, Minister Westman confiscated onetime Nazi Hermann Rauschning's new book, The Voice of Destruction (see p. 8g), two hours after it came from the press. Exclaimed Publisher Johan Hansson, who had carefully expurgated the Swedish text before it appeared: "What a strange kind of democracy we now have in this country!" As last month ended, Minister Westman had permission from the Cabinet to draft a new and drastic law defining responsibilities of the press...