Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscenity: "Literature offensive to chastity or modesty." Last week, when the three-man board took office, it became plain how right Editor McGill had been. Board Chairman James Wesberry, a Baptist minister, was asked whether works of art showing nude women would be banned by the board. Replied Censor Wesberry: "I don't discriminate between nude women whether they are art or not. It's all lustful to me." Editor Hubert Dyar of the weekly Royston Record (circ. 1,256), another censor, heartily agreed, and so did the third censor, William Boswell, a Greensboro theater owner...
...onetime chief censor and public-information officer of the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, 50, was determined to carry out a very unmilitary project. Despite the objections of his superiors, and while still on active duty, Reservist Voorhees insisted on publishing a book called Korean Tales, in which he rapped both the military brass and the press for what he thought were their shortcomings in Korea. As a result of ignoring the Army's orders, Colonel Voorhees, an ex-reporter and editor on the defunct Tacoma Times, was ordered to stand trial on charges...
...course, Jack Kirkland's script did not land here intact. Moral mutilation by the Boston censor cut some choice lines but did not truly serve the ends of prudery. Sacrificing a good show for a bawdy one, the actors uniformly overplayed their parts, accenting suggestive leers, to turn a fairly mature comedy into a long smutty joke...
Back in the days when Farouk was Egypt's king, almost any reference in TIME to Egyptian politics became an automatic candidate for the censor's scissors. TIME was banned in Egypt for half of 1948 and most issues in 1949 had stories snipped out. The cover story on Farouk (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951) was not allowed to enterEgypt and stories in subsequent issues were cut out of the magazines before TIME was released for distribution...
...this changed abruptly with last July's military coup, which resulted in Farouk's exile. General Mohammed Naguib showed himself to be just as sensitive to criticism as his predecessor, but less determined to censor criticism from abroad. After Naguib became a cover subject himself (TIME, Sept. 8), Correspondent Dave Richardson brought him a copy of the story. Entitled "A Good Man," the story told of the start of Naguib's rise to power...