Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward Rabaul. The strain that night-the darkness, the tense waiting, the ban on talk, the weird jungle sounds-made the toughest leathernecks say they never wanted to go through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized...
Record collectors were last week beginning to find many of the most desirable disks harder & harder to get. Many albums of the highest musical value had disappeared entirely from the market. The reason for the shortage was not James Caesar Petrillo's recording ban (TIME, June 22, 1942). It was a combination of wartime circumstances hitting the recording industry a mighty wallop...
...influence of Boss Petrillo's ban was limited to the popular field, where the biggest producer, Decca, had already signed with the union. Capitalizing on its capitulation, Decca last week put out a bang-up album of all the songs from the Broadway smash Oklahoma!, sung by the original cast. Other records of the month...
...season of one-sided scores. Thanks to Navy and Marine transfers, 1943 football talent came in bunches or not at all. Because of Army's ban, more than 200 colleges had no teams. It was a season of poor kicking and few brilliant ends, and nobody could say why. It was a season in which spectators grew so dis gusted with out-of-bounds kickoffs that the Rules Committee may well make them illegal by next fall...
...ban applied only to the 2,500 copies of TIME's Air Express edition which were printed in Buenos Aires (from photographic negatives flown from the U.S.) for Argentine readers. Unaffected by the ban: 39,000-odd Air Express copies which go to other Latin American republics...