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...should like publicly to correct the malicious gossip that the censers are attempting one of the following: 1) to drive the restless from wholesome entertainment on a day of boredom in order to encourage desperate amusements; 2) to entice disbelievers into the moviehouses on weekdays by banning harmless moral productions on Sundays; 3) to promote a Christian revival by a mild martyrdom of Christian art . . .; or 4) to annoy moviegoers by being arbitrary and inconsistent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DESIRES" AND THE CENSORS | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

...tons of the sealed drums on an ammunition ship and sank them in the atomic dump off Land's End. There they will be safe from the deepest trawling nets, and long before their skins have corroded away, the radioactive stuff inside them will have become harmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Dump | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

When the bombs begin popping, Graves promised. AEC representatives will be in radio contact with the Nevada test site and will tell the public when each bomb is scheduled. If a harmless sound wave hits the region, Graves hopes that panic will not sweep the gulches again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Take It Easy | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, a syndicated film series shown locally across the nation, should be perfect for all ardent Cantor fans. Eddie sings his old songs, pats his hands, rolls his banjo eyes, bounces on tiptoe and mixes large doses of sentimentality with a succession of harmless jokes. On the opening show, Brian Aherne labored through a too-cute skit dealing with a talking dog and an equally gabby child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

While alarming to your friends, these rowdyisms are harmless and will pass quickly, leaving you a bit miffed at the return to vapidity and positively wrathful at westerns for the next few months because they do not nearly measure up to The Gunfighter...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Gunfighter | 2/3/1955 | See Source »

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