Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taylor: (DELETED BY CENSOR...
...full-page ad that had already appeared in other newspapers and magazines. It showed an inviting, bikini-clad blonde above the caption: "What to Show Your Wife in Scandinavia." But it clearly was not what to show your wife in Los Angeles. Before running the ad, the Times censor scrupulously amended the blonde's anatomy to conform to regulations. He removed her navel...
This Ripleyesque state of affairs was not, alas, an act of God. A Times censor, presumably convinced that bare belly-buttons are titillating in Los Angeles, painted the offending detail out of the photograph. Surely, censorship in California has reached the end of its umbilical cord...
...Tinian on Aug. 5, 1945, to ride over Hiroshima with the crew of the Enola Gay, Laurence was bumped off the plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
...squarely on Mr. Dooley. It has been more than 30 years since this genial bartender with the rich Irish brogue dispensed his political wisdom in the nation's newspapers, but it still has a round, rich taste. In those days, Mr. Dooley was called the "wit and censor of the nation"; and his creator, that hard-drinking, fun-loving Chicago newspaperman, Finley Peter Dunne was the best political satirist the U.S. has ever produced...