Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, England...
General Ike was talking at a Manhattan luncheon given to raise money for the U.S. delegation to the International Congress on Mental Health, to be held in London next August. The world's mental health, the lunchers had heard, is not good. Said Dr. (formerly Brigadier General) William C. Menninger, head of Army psychiatry during World War II: "We had become aware that in the Army one out of eight men who came before the draft boards had to be rejected for mental illness . .'-. 62% in the veterans' hospitals are psychiatric problems. Half of our hospital beds...
...London film critics and similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...
...plug him in the guts." Most of the sequences involved fairly normal business like gun battles, kidnapings, dopings, and Miss Blandish's suicide. But there was one scene (where Miss Blandish's fiance is being kicked to death just out of camera sight) that brought gasps from London audiences...
...Edith Summerskill, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food, shrilled that the film was "likely to pervert the minds of the British people." The Bishop of London, as chairman of the Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...