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...freedom to read," said the declaration, "is essential to our democracy. It is under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove books from sale, to censor textbooks, to label 'controversial' books, to distribute lists of 'objectionable' books or authors, and to purge libraries...
...palace approval, there had been none; the Lord Chamberlain, as official censor, simply had found the revue fit for public view without considering its political content. As for South Africa's protests, the revue's producer said Don't Malign Malan would definitely stay on the program. Stops the show almost every night, he added...
With the feature at the Brattle is an excellent short on Moroccan dances which somehow escaped the eye of the Boston Censor...
...obscenity: "Literature offensive to chastity or modesty." Last week, when the three-man board took office, it became plain how right Editor McGill had been. Board Chairman James Wesberry, a Baptist minister, was asked whether works of art showing nude women would be banned by the board. Replied Censor Wesberry: "I don't discriminate between nude women whether they are art or not. It's all lustful to me." Editor Hubert Dyar of the weekly Royston Record (circ. 1,256), another censor, heartily agreed, and so did the third censor, William Boswell, a Greensboro theater owner...
...onetime chief censor and public-information officer of the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, 50, was determined to carry out a very unmilitary project. Despite the objections of his superiors, and while still on active duty, Reservist Voorhees insisted on publishing a book called Korean Tales, in which he rapped both the military brass and the press for what he thought were their shortcomings in Korea. As a result of ignoring the Army's orders, Colonel Voorhees, an ex-reporter and editor on the defunct Tacoma Times, was ordered to stand trial on charges...