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...Recipe. From the start of the cold war, censorship was always ironhanded, often mysterious. In 1947, when Gilmore filed a light feature story on how Russian housewives cook shashlik and beef Stroganoff, the censor deleted everything in the story except the recipe, apparently because he thought the discussion of Russian eating habits was intended to make them look barbaric. Newsmen never set eyes on the censors or knew who they were. They simply took three copies of every story to entrance No. 10 at the Moscow Central Telegraph Office. If the story cleared quickly, newsmen got it back...
...fast-breaking news, correspondents often telephoned London at the same time that they cabled their censored dispatches. If they strayed a single word from the censored text, the telephone line always went abruptly dead. To warn deskmen in A.P.'s London bureau, Gilmore sometimes wrote at the end of a dispatch, "Please give this a careful reading; I had to write it in a hurry," which they knew meant "The censor's been hacking at this one; watch it closely...
...only kind of story that correspondents knew they could usually clear through censorship without a hitch was one taken directly from the Russian press. But even then, the censor would sometimes delete "Pravda says," making it sound like the correspondent's own opinion. Every phone the newsmen could use was tapped; there was always loud clicking on the line. Two English-speaking A. P. secretaries were mysteriously hauled off to jail and oblivion. In addition, correspondents were never given even elementary information by the Russians. "If they announced a new appointment," says Gilmore, "and you didn't have...
...film follows the book as closely as the censor would allow. A friend of Mike's is murdered, and the beer-swilling private eye goes barreling off in all directions after the killer. After 90 minutes of mashing the ladies and bashing the men, Mike ends up in the arms of the most gorgeous psychoanalyst (Peggie Castle) who ever used a couch after office hours...
...letter to pastors of churches in his archdiocese, denounced the picture as "an occasion of sin" and as violating "standards of morality and decency." Cardinal Spellman urged Catholics to boycott it when it opens at two Manhattan theaters on July 9. The movie industry's self-censoring agency-the Production Code Administration-has refused it a seal of approval, which has made it difficult in the past for a picture to play the large theater circuits.* On the other hand, the movie has been approved by the National Board of Review and four (New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Massachusetts...