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Finally we have the old newsreel standby of bobsledding, strictly a spectator sport, of course; and sleighing, if there are any horses left over from racing...
Klieg lights threw a hot white glare over the green chamber in Canada's House of Commons last week. For the first time, newsreel cameramen were allowed into the crowded galleries to film the opening of a session of Parliament...
...jealousy. When he in turn gets buried in a sandstorm, Antinea is left to a pulsating game of chess with the household embalmer, whose tongue has been cut out-because he talked out of turn. For determined viewers who stick it out to the very end, the newsreel may still save...
Should the press submit to voluntary censorship in peacetime? When Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal put the question to a committee of press, radio and newsreel representatives last spring (TIME, March 15), he got a short no. The responsibility for keeping military secrets, the committee decided, rested on the armed services; they should not give out "secret" information...
Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...