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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pepsi-Cola Co., Encyclopaedia Britannica and Container Corp. of America (TIME, Apr. 30, 1945 et seq.) had all tested and proved the publicity value of fine art. Last week a Manhattan liquor importing firm, Renfield Ltd., was preparing to enter the same field in a small way with a traveling exhibition of twelve oils by the late, lusty, American-scene Painter George Luks...
Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, who once asked the U.S. Government to police movieland's morals (TIME, March 21 et seq.), was still pitching rocks at Hollywood. Brushing aside the problems of the Korean War last week, Johnson stepped onto the Senate floor and heaved another: a resolution warning exhibitors against showing "motion pictures produced or directed by Nazis, Fascists or Communists." The resolution, approved unanimously by the Senate, has no legal effect. But its purpose, said Big Ed bluntly, "is to put the industry on notice. If ... they do not heed the thing-then...
Johnson thought his not-so-subtle attempt at backdoor censorship would do the trick. In his resolution he had even lined up some examples of the men he was talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...
...change," echoed the Daily Mail, "it was not a Hollywood star who had the fans in a frenzy. It was an ex-painter's laborer from South Wales." Last week, after ten straight months of raising the roof over the U.S.'s Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, et al., London's fickle fans were going wild over a crooner of their...
...Thus tying the record of Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery, who lost eleven senior officers and directors within a year (TIME, April 25, 1949 et...