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Uneasy over the uproar about television's slipping moral standards, two stations last week ran for shelter to the bosom of the Motion Picture Production Code. President Theodore Streibert of Manhattan's WOR-TV hailed the code as a guide to "what is acceptable and in good taste." In Philadelphia, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg. of the Inquirer urged the manager of his station WFIL-TV to pay particular attention to code provisions dealing with "the depiction of crimes against the law, the use of obscenity and vulgarity, and restrictions as to costumes and dances...
...Times painted more clothing on Sally Rand, and airbrushed out the bare essentials of a model in a girdle ad. To those who complain that Times ads still show too much bosom, the Times has a stock reply: "Women's attire has come to be so scanty nowadays as to attract less & less attention." Censor Gannon occasionally nods. Once he passed double-meaning ads for Springs Mills's "Springmaid" fabrics (TIME, July 26, 1948). But the best-selling Kinsey report never made Gannon's grade...
...Cabinet was "an affront to the nation." California's Republican Senator William Knowland said he would move to withhold all State Department appropriations. Said Georgia's James C. Davis, a Democrat: "How long can Americans be expected to show respect for Acheson when he hugs to his bosom; those who have betrayed their country...
...fact that the Church would allow weaklings like Pascal to die in her bosom shows how charitable and maternal she is even to her most foolish children once they are sorry for their mistakes...
...long modern building on upper Madison Avenue, 20 blocks away from his old store adjoining 57th Street's famed antique shops. Over the galleries' door, to symbolize art and industry, is a 14-by-10-foot sculpture of Venus and Manhattan, a reclining male. (Because Venus' bosom protrudes more than the permissible 18 inches over the sidewalk, Parke-Bernet pays $25 a year to the city for the privilege...