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...awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...people have been put aside. Although many Western observers expected a rise in living standards to follow the end of the civil war, the opposite has happened. Living standards in most of China have fallen since Mao took over, largely because of the disruption and liquidation of the merchant (distributor) class. Railroads and other public services are much more efficiently managed than during the civil war. Inflation has been checked, largely because taxes are more ruthlessly collected. Official bribery has undoubtedly decreased (because Communists are by nature more susceptible to the corruption of power than to corruption by money...
Last week, though apparently not quite ready for a full-scale U.S. release, Oliver Twist was heading for exhibition in the neighboring and friendly state of Texas. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, announced that a first-run booking had been set for Jan. 19 in seven Texas cities (plus Albuquerque, N.M.). The prospect: moviegoers throughout the U.S. may eventually get a chance to see the picture...
While Edgar Baker, general manager of TIME-LIFE International, was in Tokyo last month on business, he heard from our Korean distributor J. H. Song for the first time since the Korean war began. Song and his family had survived "the Communist nightmare" by hiding in the outskirts of Seoul during the Communist occupation. Luckily the office of his company, the International Publicity League, had escaped destruction and pillage...
George Frederick Gundelfinger, Yale '06, distributor of pamphlets decrying Yale as a den of iniquity, has become as much a legend in New Haven as Rinehart in Cambridge--but in a different way. Gundelfinger has been a very real and present figure to 30 years of Yalies...