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When Cole Porter's new musical, Out of this World, opened in Boston, orders, went out to tidy up the lyrics and dress up the cast, particularly Venus, who wore only four white doves. The producers agreed, grumbling: "We regret that the Boston censor has found reason to be shocked by the authentic Greek bacchanalian atmosphere...
...censorship in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Latin America. In a committee report that pulled no punches, the countries where censorship exists and the degree of press repression were ticked off. Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and 13 other countries were all criticized for current or recent attempts to censor the press. But the chief and most persistent offender named by the editors was Argentina...
...Russians have been putting the same squeeze on Amerika, the Russian-language, LiFE-like monthly published by the U.S. Department of State (TIME, June 6, 1949), even though they have the right to pre-censor it. Circulation has dropped from 50,000 copies a month to 20,000. But the State Department has made no protests, will continue to publish Amerika unless it is officially banned...
...Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Clyde Hissong, state film censor, was fretting because televised wrestling is "devaluating all the concepts of fair play, obedience to laws, and respect for ordinary, universally accepted ways of behaving." What upset Dr. Hissong was not so much the recent introduction on TV of women wrestlers and midget wrestlers as the conduct of referees, who "issue warnings without penalty and in such a manner that contestants and observers conclude that it pays to break the rules...
Hollywood was having a little trouble with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Incredible as it might seem, the life story of the late great Justice did not always conform to the censor's standard. Polishing up The Magnificent Yankee last week, Producer Armand (Ambush) Deutsch admitted that he had left out some of the great man's saltier habits "to avoid sidetracking our main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from...