Word: censorable
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...blunting higher brain centers -dulls judgment, makes it difficult to discriminate between the loudness of two tones, brightness of two lights, truth of two ideas. The "brilliant conversation" induced by champagne is merely a flow of "superficial ideas" which are freed from the restraint of the brain's censor...
...Censor Byron Price congratulated the press on its "magnificent" performance in keeping mum about the six-day Washington visit of Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov—"news of very high importance . . . known to hundreds of newspapermen and broadcasters." (Only paper that talked was the tabloid Philadelphia News, which gossiped: "The talk in official Russian circles here is that Premier V. M. Molotov of Soviet Russia is in this country on a secret mission of vast importance.") Actually, while photographers waited at the White House to catch the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Molotov strolled slowly past them and not a camera clicked...
...crack Washington correspondents last week practically blew the roof on censorship. They had just finished a 24-day tour of leading war plants as guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Their wrath was aimed not at N.A.M. but at the six Army officers who accompanied them as censors (of the one Navy censor who went along they thought better...
Baseball fans in Portland, Ore. got a hot earful one night recently when they tuned in on little KWJJ ("The Voice From Broadway") for the nightly roundup of baseball scores. What they heard was an indignation meeting held in disregard of the U.S. Censor's caution against "man in the street" programs. Its purport: that Portland police are too bloody rough...
...talk will be the feature of an all day conference sponsored by the Nieman Foundation, in which war and post-war problems are being discussed by Archibald MacLeish, head of OFF; Byron Price, chief censor; and by Harvard professors and other experts. This meeting will be open to all students...