Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phone calls were unmonitored. and most newsmen dodged the censor by phoning their stories at the top of their lungs to colleagues in London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt. Said the A.P.'s Relman Morin, a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner and topflight combat correspondent of World War II and Korea: "If any A.P. man is invalided out of Beirut, it likely will be because he lost his voice...
...midafternoon, Reuters agency announced that its Moscow correspondent had been cut off as he was telephoning his account of the rioting mobs before the West German embassy (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most Fleet Street editors sighed resignedly and sat back to wait until the Russian censor lifted the blackout. But in a cluttered, dingy office in the Manchester Guardian's London bureau, rumpled, high-domed Victor Zorza grabbed a street map of Moscow, picked out the police stations nearest the German embassy. Minutes later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded...
...schools. In Lakewood, Ohio, when the school did not offer enough language and science courses, parents stepped in and taught them themselves; in Scarsdale, N. Y., a group of citizens organized several years ago, the now-defunct Committee of Ten to investigate Communism in the school system, and censor the books in the school libraries. In one community in Texas, a group of parents got together and demanded that European History no longer be taught in the public schools; their demand was heeded. The Lakewood experience worked for good, the others worked for ill; but nonetheless they...
...Censor's Scoop. Some of the censors helped. One agency, blessed with an ex-newsman as a censor, put him to work calling ministries for check points. The first news the Associated Press got of trouble on Corsica came when a censor declared that any mention of the uprising there was forbidden. The Paris A.P. desk got a call through to its stringer on the island before communications were cut off, put the story on the U.S. wire (which was not censored) for a solid 15-minute beat...
...Aurore cried in boldface headlines: LET THE ELYSEE PALACE DESIGNATE DE GAULLE, and the Communist daily L'Humanité ran a frontpage cartoon of De Gaulle holding the dead body of Marianne, symbol of the French nation, with the appeal: "Bar the Route Against Military Dictatorship." Explained one censor: "De Gaulle's name is too much of a national symbol to tamper with." Translated from the French, that seemed to mean that the falling government, fearful of appearing either to embrace or offend the incoming Premier, found De Gaulle too hot to censor...