Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sporting News (circ. 219,545), the baseball fan's bible, took a mighty cut at the ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...
Italy's prizewinning The Bicycle Thief (TIME, Dec. 12), one of the screen's most widely acclaimed films, has been called honest, moving and classic. It remained for sharp-eyed Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen, who administers the industry's production code, to call it indecent and unacceptable for the bulk of U.S. moviegoers. Last week the picture's sponsors were fighting Breen's edict that the movie must be cut before it can go from the art theaters into most U.S. cinemansions...
Only one unqualified superlative regularly passes the blue pencils of Gannon & Co. In full-page ads in the Times, the Chicago Tribune is permitted to call itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper." Explains Censor Gannon: "The Times can afford to be magnanimous...
...Rand, and airbrushed out the bare essentials of a model in a girdle ad. To those who complain that Times ads still show too much bosom, the Times has a stock reply: "Women's attire has come to be so scanty nowadays as to attract less & less attention." Censor Gannon occasionally nods. Once he passed double-meaning ads for Springs Mills's "Springmaid" fabrics (TIME, July 26, 1948). But the best-selling Kinsey report never made Gannon's grade...
...Only Colleen Townsend, the starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures. "She is a disgrace . . . to American women," he fumed. "I'm glad she's a foreigner...