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...mailing this letter from our neighboring country, for, if it were mailed here, it would fall into the hands of the censor...
During the 18 months he was chief censor and public information officer for the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, 50, had more than a military interest in the coverage of the war. A veteran newsman himself (during World War II left as editor of the now defunct Tacoma Times), Reservist Voorhees kept a file on how the correspondents were covering the war. He shipped his notes home to his wife, who passed them on to a publisher. This week, for his extracurricular writing, Voorhees 1) had a brand-new book, Korean Tales (Simon & Schuster...
Take today's case. The University showing of Birth had scarcely been announced when the rumble that terrorized the Boston City Censor last year, started again. City Hall got some phone calls. Just a few, but they were enough to stir spectres of domestic insurrection--or at least political repercussions--in the minds of civic authorities. As a result, the City Fathers say they must make sure opposition will not be violent before they license tonight's showing...
...certain books, states Lee M. Friedman, chairman of the library's board, you must convince the librarian that you will use them "properly." Such a set-up would give the librarian the absolute powers of a censor...
Triple Pressure. It is bad enough, says I.P.I., that the Moscow correspondents are forced to get their "news" from controlled Soviet newspapers. Still worse, correspondents tend in time to censor their own copy, in the interest of fast movement for stories they deem urgent. There is also a third pressure to keep correspondents in line. Of the six Western correspondents still in Russia-two from A.P., one each from U.P., Reuters and Agence France-Presse, plus the Times's own Harrison Salisbury-the majority are married to Russians. Since the correspondents' wives may not leave with them...