Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief Censor. Probably the most influential voice in determining what is acceptable advertising is the New York Times, which has cut the basic pattern for many of its contemporaries. As "chief censor" of the Times for the past 18 years, Joseph W. Gannon, a graduate of Dartmouth and the N. W. Ayer ad agency, sets the standards for the Times-which he calls "the strictest in the field." Last year, redfaced, blue-nosed Censor Gannon and staff reworded, revised or rejected...
...describing underwear as "Naughty-but so nice . . ." read in the Gannonized version: "Paris-inspired-but so nice . . ." When a Manhattan nightclub boasted that it possessed "Fifty of the hottest girls this side of hell," Censor Gannon deftly made it "Fifty of the most alluring maidens this side of paradise...
...Visca committee was originally organized to investigate charges of police torture of prisoners. Ignoring such tiresome matters, Visca set himself up as unofficial national censor. At first he took the trouble to find some legalistic excuse for suspending publication of anti-Perón papers. The last six he shut down without explanation; ten more papers, deprived of newsprint, quietly ceased to appear. As long as President Perón continued to support Congressman Visca, Argentines would be entitled to only such press freedom as Visca cared to give them...