Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold on U.S. and Canadian newsstands every month will soon have a new "Dior Look." Under the new voluntary Comic Book Code adopted by the industry to avoid state and community censorship (TIME, Nov. 8), heroines have been redrawn with less obvious curves and more obvious clothes. Comic Book Censor Charles F. Murphy, a former New York City magistrate, announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have been converted into subtler harpies...
...Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some swell songs and dances...
...Freshman Union Committee narrowly defeated a proposal to censor Smoker campaign signs at its meeting Tuesday...
Richard T. Cooper, a member of the Smoker Rules Committee, declared before the vote that if the rule passed the would refuse to censor any poster...
...Washington last week, the Army threw out its charges against Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, former Eighth Army chief censor and public-information officer (TIME, March 2, 1953). Reservist Voorhees, who had been ordered dismissed from the service without pay or allowances, had been convicted by a court-martial of failing to clear his book, Korean Tales, which criticized both the Army's handling of the Korean war and the newsmen who covered...