Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enraged, though not particularly surprised, to read that some good Catholic fathers in the East have taken it upon themselves to dictate fashions for the American woman [June 27]. It does seem logical, however, that with the success their organization has had in the past in censoring our books, motion pictures and television programs, their next step would be to censor our fashions ... If left unchecked, Father Kunkel could very well turn this whole big beautiful country of ours into a virtual nunnery. Deliver...
...Wilson named R. (for Richard) Karl Honaman, 59, as his new information chief, newsmen were even more concerned. He had never been a newsman, and what press experience he had gained was as Director of Publication for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. His only recent Government experience was as a censor for the Department of Commerce. By last week, newsmen's complaints about Honaman and the news brownout at the Pentagon prompted the congressional probe...
...Atlanta, in the city's first test of movie censorship since the Supreme Court's ruling against New York and Ohio censors last year, Loew's Inc. asked an injunction against any future ban on Blackboard Jungle (currently ranking sixth in box office receipts-see above). Loew's also asked the court to rule that Atlanta Censor Mrs. Christine Smith Gilliam acted improperly in banning the film on grounds that it was "immoral, obscene, licentious and will adversely affect the peace, health, morals and good order of the city...
...Britain's film censor, Arthur T. L. Watkins, delivered an ultimatum to U.S. producers (whose movies last year grossed $109,992,000 in Britain): "Anyone who prolongs scenes of violence is only doing so to titillate a small unhealthy section of the audience." More broadminded about sex than U.S. censors, Watkins long ago abandoned the taboo on picturing husbands and wives in bed together by commenting: "Where else would you expect them to sleep nights...
...under the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. For the new job, he named R. Karl Honaman (on leave from Bell Telephone), who had gone to Washington six months ago to boss the Commerce Department's new Office of Strategic Information. There, he was primarily a censor, had set up a system for classifying technical information that reporters had once had access to. Thus, for the top information job at Defense, reporters were dismayed that Wilson had picked a man whose chief experience had been in withholding information rather than in giving...