Word: censor
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...Atlantic torpedoing of the Empress of India. What Horry did not know was that Mary Eileen's parents knew he had never left Auckland. One of the letters which he had arranged to have posted back from Australia had been opened by the New Zealand wartime censor of outgoing mail, who thus accidentally gave police a vital clue. Confronted by the cops, Horry had a new story: Mary Eileen had paid him to marry her, he said, then eloped with an American G.I. Police found clothes belonging to Mary Eileen in the possession of a woman Horry was living...
David and Bathsheba (20th Century-Fox), apparently inspired by the phenomenal box-office take ($11 million in its first year) of Samson and Delilah, sends Hollywood back to the Bible for another censor-proof tale of a strong man's weakness for a beautiful woman. Like the Cecil B. DeMille opus, the new epic is a Technicolored potion concocted from equal parts of sex, spectacle and religion. But Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's mixture, neither so rich nor so heady as its predecessor, comes dangerously close to serving as a sleeping potion...
...turned up to cover the first Battle of Bull Run. Wrote Raymond of the Union retreat there: "The crowd in the rear became absolutely frenzied with fear, and an immense mass of wagons, horses, men on foot, and flying soldiers came dashing down the hill." But a censor held up his account so long that the Herald beat him on the streets...
...Then as Chief U.N. Representative Colonel Andrew J. Kinney confirmed that the Communist press was represented at Kaesong, the session broke into a tumult of charge and countercharge. Why couldn't U.N. reporters go? When Kinney admitted that .Kaesong was really a Communist-held city, an Army censor broke in to warn correspondents not to use the information. Snapped Chicago Daily Newsman Fred Sparks: "I regard this information as so important that I will not abide by your censorship." The censor's ruling was reversed...
Well, Oliver Twist has been finally released [TIME, May 14], although in abridged form . . . The power of the movie industry to censor, so well demonstrated in this case ... is contrary to the traditions of this country . . . The people who do such things in the name of tolerance and understanding spread anti-Semitism rather than diminish...