Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Censor Binford banned The Southerner, which critics call one of the best movies of many a year (TIME, May 21). His reason: it portrays Southerners as "common, lowdown, ignorant white trash...
...Censor Binford was making Memphis as famed for prudery and intolerance as Boston. The son of a Southern infantry colonel, he left school after learning long division, became a railway postal clerk at 16. He went to Memphis, became an insurance company president, and also a staunch Baptist, Mason, champion of Southern womanhood and white supremacy...
Since he became the dominant member of Memphis' censor board, Hollywood has quietly fumed at his autocratic czardom. Last week, David Loew, producer of The Southerner, mobilized for a court fight. Cried he: "Binford must have been sniffing too many magnolias...
...years ago Casey wrote a book that disappeared in the censor's office. This year he wrote another. And when the censor finally decided to release the first one, his publishers decided to bring out both at once...
Last week Printer-Editor Hollands became the first German permitted to publish in the British and American occupation zones. No U.S. censor will see the Narhrichten (circ. 50,000) before it goes to press...