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...attempt to drive lurid 25-cent editions off State newsstande, Representative James D. Doncaster recommended the establishment of a decency review board to screen such literature. The board would have consisted of three members, one of them a clergyman and the other an educate...
Sponser Doncaster said the law would awaken people to the need for control over the lurid editions that feed the newsstands. Patrick A. Tompkins, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, supported:". . . there is a crying need for review and restriction of the publication and distribution of such obscene and lewd publication peddled in most corner stores...
...order without precedent in Manhattan, General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente, 47, banned the press from the trial, in the interests of "public decency." Said Valente: "I have watched with growing uneasiness the mushrooming public anticipation of lurid and salacious details . . . The press of three continents was on hand to report the trial . . . Frankly, the reaction to this symptom of social illness is revolting nausea...
...contralto; Julius Patzak, tenor; the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; London). These six songs were intended as Mahler's ninth symphony, but a personal superstition made him forgo the title. The dusky warmth of Ferrier's singing, the bright clarity of Patzak's, and the lurid orchestral colors run the gamut of gaiety and sadness. A definitive recording...
...tabloid warfare, Lord Kemsley's prim Daily Graphic (circ. 753,537) is no match for the racy, zestful Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), largest daily newspaper in the world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...