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...satisfy oculists who wanted sunglasses made darker, and to meet the Army-Navy Vision Committee's preference for glasses that do not distort colors, the L. J. Houze Convex Glass Co. announced an all-purpose "Natural View" lens. The result of years of testing chemical combinations to get the right color, the glass can be made into drugstore models or ground into prescription lenses...
Alfred E. Velluci, who last year tried to pull obscene books and magazines off the newsstands, charged that statements in the textbook "The Story of Nations" tended to "praise, elevate, and distort the truth about the Communist form of government...
Secularism. "[There is the] constant temptation for this country to turn away from God and to become immersed in material pursuits . . . Widespread yielding to this temptation has given rise to an even greater danger-the way of life we call secularism. Those who follow this way of life distort and blot out our religious traditions, and seek to remove all influence of religion from public life. Their main efforts are centered on the divorce of religion from education...
...from participation in the education of American youth is no less than a betrayal of the chief inspiration of Western culture. To rear American youth in the belief that religion is on the periphery of life, and in no way connected with the other aspects of society, is to distort history and to deny human experience...
...jittery Comic Danny Kaye. The Copenhagen newspaper Politiken quickly added its support: "Reports from Hollywood indicate that the cobbler's son from Odense, Denmark, shall now be known to history as the singing and dancing hero from a $4,000,000 Technicolor show. Is it really permitted to distort the life of great men in such reckless manner?" Danny's considered opinion: "I think the people of Denmark will like the picture. I don't do any scat singing...