Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed Massachusetts censorship board yesterday gained initial approval from a legislative committee...
...stands, the censorship bill does not affect films...
...most wants is a male heir. His first Queen and childhood sweetheart, Farida, failed him: after three children, all girls, he divorced her. Last spring, Farouk married a teen-age cutie, 18-year-old Narriman Sadek, a commoner. Last week the Cairo newspaper Al Balagh, talking coyly to avoid censorship, announced that "the happy event anxiously awaited by the people of Egypt is expected to take place towards the end of this month or early in February...
...under a barrage of protests, ranging from charges that the show "set back the education of retarded children by ten years," to complaints about "unpleasant realism." One critic demanded that CBS send a kinescope to New York's Governor Dewey as Exhibit A in an argument for TV censorship. Nor were network executives and admen comforted by the fact that they got as many compliments as brickbats. In the complex world of commercial television, one boo means far more than 100 bravos, because it may represent someone who is so mad he'll refuse to buy the sponsor...
...Abolition by law of chain newspapers might have some merit," Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, agreed. The other speaker, John H. Thomson, vice-president of the New England Newspaper Guild, said that harmful press censorship could also arise from business and advertising interests of the newspapers...