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...strong helped the weak whenever they could," said one young French paratrooper, "but every 500 meters someone fell to the ground." Said a German legionnaire: "Of 400 men in my squad when we left Dienbienphu . . . (twelve words deleted by French HQ censor)." Said a Spanish legionnaire: "There were . . . (three words censored) among 390 men in my squad." And a second Frenchman added: ". . . (two words censored) of 290 in my squad died...
Meanwhile, New York, fully aware of the censorship problem, was waiting for the story. A little after 6 o'clock that Saturday evening, Clara Applegate, in TIME'S Foreign News Bureau in New York, answered her phone. It was Rosenhouse on the line. A sympathetic censor had allowed his call to go through, and for the next four hours Rosenhouse dictated his story. "The same censor," said Rosenhouse, "began to help other correspondents, but he got careless. The police caught him, beat him with rubber hoses, shot him in the leg three times and fractured his skull...
...Meeting in Manhattan with New York's Censor Hugh Flick, censors representing six states discussed the Supreme Court ruling, concluded with the "determination to continue to bar objectionable films in terms of our respective state laws' The Supreme Court, they argued, did not dispute "the constitutional rights of the states to exercise preregulation of motion pictures...
...Flick developed an idea that would bring moviegoers into partnership with the censors. The plan would allow the censors to put all films into one of four categories: 1) "For the whole family"; 2) "A little less than entirely suitable"; 3) "For adults only''; 4) "To be shown under very restricted conditions." Classification, agreed Director George (Shane) Stevens, "would serve a wider audience w^ith greater definition . . . It's the British way. This should be the American way." Snorted Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler: "We can't be guardians of children...
...Ohio, Federal Judge James Mc-Namee set something of a precedent by barring the Youngstown police chief from setting himself up as a censor of "obscene literature." In New Jersey, a state judge slapped a prosecutor down for trying to ban books, ruled that he was violating the "constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press...