Word: binford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Payoff. The twelve girls of the Cuautla Service Unit sign up for six to eight months, pay $35 a month for their board. They live in an unused patio of a public school under the easygoing supervision of the project's Quaker directors, Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Binford. Each morning, after a 20-minute period of Quakerly meditation, the group separates for its various duties - helping the Mexican nurses at the clinic, accompanying them on their rounds, supervising playground activities in the school...
...Memphis Board of Censors last week executed a strategic retreat. It lifted the ban on The Southerner, a movie depicting the lives of sharecroppers (TIME, Aug. 13). But this did not mean that 76-year-old Chief Censor Lloyd T. Binford had changed his mind. He still thought the movie "an infamous misrepresentation." His rationalization: folks were leaving town to see the movie, elsewhere, and that was "unfair to a tax-paying Memphis theater...
Since he became the dominant member of Memphis' censor board, Hollywood has quietly fumed at his autocratic czardom. Last week, David Loew, producer of The Southerner, mobilized for a court fight. Cried he: "Binford must have been sniffing too many magnolias...
Confederacy endorsed The Southerner as portraying "courage, stoutheartedness and love of the land." The Memphis Commercial Appeal editorialized: "Under Mr. Binford's reasoning, few of the great reformers of history would have been allowed to write and speak. Jesus Christ, Himself, on occasion shocked and shamed people to better things...
...Lloyd Binford was bothered not at all. Characters in The Southerner, he repeated, were "illiterate mendicants," and no one in Memphis (pop. 292,942) should see such people...