Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merged. With an eye to small irritations, he cut down on -the private use of official automobiles. And to end intra-service wrangling in press and radio, he issued a directive "consolidating" the press faculties of the three services, a move which was immediately attacked as an attempt to censor the news that came from the Pentagon...
British exhibitors shrewdly let the critics see both versions. Last week the censored version opened at London's Odeon and broke all attendance records. From the critics it drew more compliments than quibbles. Sample from the Daily Express: ". . . The finest thing Hollywood has ever done . . . When the end came . . . I was crying." But The Snake Pit's finest tribute came in a censor-dictated line in the British foreword: "Remember-all the characters you see on the screen are played by actors and actresses...
...January, 1948, a faculty committee at the University of New Hampshire banned a proposed magazine of the student Liberal Club. Charging that the faculty was attempting to censor its political beliefs, the Club brought out the publication privately two months later...
...another, Shakespeare's King Lear, Wilde's Salome and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado-were taken for British playgoers by the Lord Chamberlain who, along with such ancient duties as escorting the king to & from the royal carriage, has acted as Britain's theatrical censor since 1737. Last week the House of Commons debated a bill to end the censor's long engagement...
...newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever since." Charlie Ross wasn't trying to censor anybody, the President said; it was just "a measure to make it safe for me to come home...