Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain books, states Lee M. Friedman, chairman of the library's board, you must convince the librarian that you will use them "properly." Such a set-up would give the librarian the absolute powers of a censor...
Triple Pressure. It is bad enough, says I.P.I., that the Moscow correspondents are forced to get their "news" from controlled Soviet newspapers. Still worse, correspondents tend in time to censor their own copy, in the interest of fast movement for stories they deem urgent. There is also a third pressure to keep correspondents in line. Of the six Western correspondents still in Russia-two from A.P., one each from U.P., Reuters and Agence France-Presse, plus the Times's own Harrison Salisbury-the majority are married to Russians. Since the correspondents' wives may not leave with them...
After that, a comedy of errors and bureaucratic snafus began. While the Navy in Tokyo sat on the censor's copies of the stories for twelve days, A.P., using its uncensored copy, succeeded in getting it okayed in Washington with just three major deletions. Stricken out were the use of "TV eyes," the fact that the "missiles" were actually obsolete airplanes and carried 2,000-lb. bombs. Last week A.P. sent out the story for release to the morning papers. When U.P. got word of the release, it asked its Tokyo office why its own story was not being...
...seeking to apply the broad and all-inclusive definition of 'sacrilegious' given by the New York courts, the censor is set adrift upon a boundless sea amid a myriad of conflicting currents of religious views, with no charts but those provided by the most vocal and powerful orthodoxies. New York cannot vest such unlimited restraining control over motion pictures in a censor...
...Birth of a Nation" has happily been buried by Boston's censor. It's the first decent or sane thing he has ever done. At least give him credit for doing the right thing, if for the wrong reason. You can always see "My Son John.".... Franklin T. Laskin, Yale Law School...