Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout, as the old meanie cops his bye-bye tablets, and the hero rides off unscathed on some of the ickiest two-beat ever taped, there is room to wonder if justice was really done...
...Congress to give it a stronger hand as referee. SEChairman J. Sinclair Armstrong will ask for authority to require all proxy solicitors to 1) identify themselves and their backers, 2) refrain from making character attacks on opponents or predictions about earnings and dividends. SEC also wants more power to censor proxy letters, newspaper ads, press handouts, etc., before release...
...proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...ruled that the state's censorship law (part of the Puritans' 300-year-old Sunday blue laws) is unconstitutional, "void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press." The decision resulted from a suit by Brattle Films, Inc. when state censors refused to allow Sunday showings of Sweden's Miss Julie. ("The girl in it is illegitimate; how would you like for your sister to see a film about an illegitimate girl?" a censor asked a theater manager...
...District Court in Atlanta ruled that City Censor Christine Gilliam overstepped her authority when she banned The Blackboard Jungle apparently because the film depicted white and Negro students attending the same school...