Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Clyde Hissong, state film censor, was fretting because televised wrestling is "devaluating all the concepts of fair play, obedience to laws, and respect for ordinary, universally accepted ways of behaving." What upset Dr. Hissong was not so much the recent introduction on TV of women wrestlers and midget wrestlers as the conduct of referees, who "issue warnings without penalty and in such a manner that contestants and observers conclude that it pays to break the rules...
Hollywood was having a little trouble with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Incredible as it might seem, the life story of the late great Justice did not always conform to the censor's standard. Polishing up The Magnificent Yankee last week, Producer Armand (Ambush) Deutsch admitted that he had left out some of the great man's saltier habits "to avoid sidetracking our main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from...
...wartime, U.S. newspapers printed a useful warning to their readers on many dispatches from abroad: "Passed by Censor." That warning has now virtually vanished from the daily U.S. press, but censorship abroad has not. Most U.S. readers, when they stop to think about it at all, realize that the news from Russia is openly censored. Fewer may know that open or indirect censorship is smothering the news in nation after nation, including some which loudly insist that they alone have true "freedom of the press...
Last week the New York Times, which has a larger foreign staff and publishes more foreign dispatches than any other U.S. newspaper, editorially remarked that it was tempted to resume the use of "Censored." As a case in point, the Times took up the "small and dwindling" corps of U.S. correspondents (now five) still permitted to do business in Moscow, including the Times's own Harrison Salisbury (who last week was back in the U.S. for a brief Minnesota vacation). Said the Times: "When [the Moscow correspondent] has written his dispatch, with the best accuracy he can muster...
...Chastity Belts. Freedom is not losing out everywhere. The Supreme Court of India, in its first term under the new constitution, recently struck down government attempts to ban a pro-Communist weekly and pre-censor an extremist Hindu weekly. Ruled Justice Patanjali Sastri: "Criticism of government and exciting disaffection . . . toward government cannot be regarded as justifying [censorship] of the press...