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...manners and morals change. Today, the public expects damn and not darn when the hero mans damn. And the Johnson Office, carrying forward the late Hays Office white mantle of purity, has eased up along the line, permitting an occasional breath of life to creep into a picture. Unfortunately, Girl Scouts and ex-ward bosses have crawled back into the censorship field and take pot shots at anything coming out of Hollywood in a two piece bathing suit. Significantly, the old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies here. Witness "Duel in the Sun." Selnick's horse...
...been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
Your "People" [TIME, Aug. 26] about the illustrious, beautiful, "neat, sexy, appealing and clean" Anita Loos has caused rising blood pressure in many. You say she threw up her hands at the wild younger generation. She is darn lucky she can still throw up her hands and pad her tummy with steaks and martinis (as she did in the picture you ran), thanks to the "wild younger generation," the generation which spilled blood all over the world for her and others just like...
...disgruntled buyer put it more bluntly. Said he: "The only way the darn thing will write is under water...
...Reno Mrs. Malcolmson cried, "I'm speechless!" This was an exaggeration. "Pappy knows darn well what happened to his money. I spent a lot of my own taking care of his kids. And was kneeling in church with me to pray for the success of our marriage a 'by-mail' romance...