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...crime books. Publisher (Entertaining Comics Group) William Gaines opposed any censorship, on the ground that the publishers themselves are best qualified to decide what is "good taste." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver drily asked whether Publisher Gaines considered "good taste" a comic-book cover showing an ax-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blonde. Answered Gaines: "Yes, I do-for the cover of a horror comic. I think it would be in bad taste if the head were held a little higher so the neck would show with the blood dripping out." Said Senator Kefauver...
...office wall, a framed anonymous quotation says: "Oh, God, don't let me weaken. Help me to continue on. And when I go down, let me go down like an oak tree felled by a woodsman's ax...
...ax that will cut down McCarthy's power will have to be a lot sharper than those in the hands of Stevens & Co. last week. That mighty oak must be approached with caution; it is covered with Toxicodendron radicans, i.e., poison...
...only would Roussel be paid in gold for an honest day's slaughter. There was always the chance that he could hack away a chunk of territory from the Turk and rule it himself under the Emperor. Roussel's wife Matilda, a forceful battle-ax from Lombardy, endorsed the idea. Like most mothers, she was thinking of her children's future and her own too, and there was not much future with a hus band who fought...
Double Jeopardy. In Quebec, a month after her husband was locked up for threatening her with an ax, Mrs. Armand Beland asked a city judge to send him home, added: "Would it be possible to have the ax back? The St. Vincent de Paul Society has given us some wood and we have no ax to split...