Word: censorable
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...Freshman Union Committee narrowly defeated a proposal to censor Smoker campaign signs at its meeting Tuesday...
Richard T. Cooper, a member of the Smoker Rules Committee, declared before the vote that if the rule passed the would refuse to censor any poster...
...Washington last week, the Army threw out its charges against Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, former Eighth Army chief censor and public-information officer (TIME, March 2, 1953). Reservist Voorhees, who had been ordered dismissed from the service without pay or allowances, had been convicted by a court-martial of failing to clear his book, Korean Tales, which criticized both the Army's handling of the Korean war and the newsmen who covered...
...Comics Magazine Association of America, created to combat public criticism of horror comics, last week announced its Comic Book Code, which will be enforced by Censor Charles F. Murphy, former New York City magistrate. Among the provisions: ¶ The words "horror" and "terror" are not permitted as comic-book titles, and no "scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism or masochism" are allowed. ¶ Sympathy for criminals, "unique details" of a crime, or any treatment that tends to "create disrespect for established authority" are banned. ¶ "Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, ridicule of racial or religious...
...Vanishing Prairie (Walt Disney), the second of Walt Disney's full-length nature films, was fortunate enough last week to have one of its scenes, in which the audience watches the birth of a buffalo calf, banned by the New York State Board of Censors. A week later the censor reconsidered, but the headlines had already had their effect. As a result of the publicity, the picture will probably do very well at the box office...