Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death at Dartmouth
Congratulations on your courageous article concerning the untimely death of Ray Cirrotta of Dartmouth as a result of a brutal beating at the hands of Tom Doxsee and his seven friends [TIME, June...
...After World War I, Sophoulis joined the late Eleutherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, became its leader after Venizelos' death. Under Sophoulis' vacillating hand, it rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World...
Died. Sir James Purves-Stewart, 79, neurologist, author of the standard text Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases (nine editions, four translations); in London. An advocate of euthanasia, Sir James hinted in his autobiography (Sands of Time, 1939) that at the request of a mortally ill friend he had hastened her death...
Production Code to forestall harsher action by public censors. The pressure group it fears most is the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency ("a C rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more...