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...venerable and properly famous New England leaf will reach its teleological end this weekend as it matures into fully accredited autumnal foliage. Photographers, scientists, artists, and people will turn out en masse to view its many colored, translucent success...
Along the rural highways of Massachusetts, accordingly, paper placards have been posted by the state Department of Public Works. The "Leaf Tour" system--with its country signs like "Leaf Tour No. 6, 41 miles"--is very complex and elaborately worked...
...apparent notice had been taken of some very respectable and highly pedigreed foliage in the Cambridge area. We spent most of Monday morning investigating, and we must report that neither the proud Department of Buildings and Grounds, nor the shining-haired City Council has mapped out a single local Leaf Tour...
...weighty problems the film posed. Is the U.S. moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality? Is it decent to suggest that there are worse things than adultery? The answer to both questions was a resounding no, and the studio applied the fig leaf to the offending parts. As usual in such cases, the drama has been seriously damaged (Playwright Robert Anderson wrote the script), but the sex is still fully in evidence. Indeed, the censor seems in most instances to have used the fig leaf as his own eye patch...
...CHINESE TOBACCO is threatening U.S. overseas markets. Communists have hiked production almost 200% since prewar days, are currently exporting 100 million Ibs. annually of flue-cured leaf, more than 20% of U.S. total...