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...Memphis' famed 88-year-old Movie Censor Lloyd T. Binford announced that his 27-year reign will end when his term expires on Jan. 1. Binford banned Ingrid Bergman films after she married Roberto Rosselini, all Chaplin movies, any picture he thought had too much sex in it, almost any film portraying Negroes in other than servile roles, any movie depicting a railroad robber (he was once on a train that was robbed). "The way it looks, there may not be any censor boards soon," he said morosely. "We try to do what the public demands, and the public...
...starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures. "She is a disgrace . . . to American women," he fumed. "I'm glad she's a foreigner...
...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...
...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...