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...night last week, 70 ft. from his cell and ten years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
...object of this indignation was a short (40-minute), 2½-year-old, second-rate Italian film called The Miracle. Thanks to court action, denunciations and counter-denunciations in the newspapers, picket lines and counter-picket lines outside the theater, the little movie was a sensation, a scandal and a box-office...
...license for The Miracle's showing be revoked by the New York State board of regents. If the board did not have the necessary power, he implied that U.S. Roman Catholics would go all out to change the censorship laws. Promptly, the Catholic War Veterans threw a vociferous picket line around the theater. A few counter-pickets picketed the pickets...
...pictures. "The Miracle," a movie which few people would have seen if such a rumpus had not been raised about it, was banned by the Regents. The Ozone Park theatre owner did not show "The Bicycle Thief" after local Knights of Columbus marched on the theater and threatened to picket unless the offending picture were withdrawn. The theatre owner fell ill with that same disease which has laid low radio and motion pictures and now infects television--he did not wish to offend any one. In recent years, various groups have also been offended by Walter Gieseking, Kirsten Flagstad...
Spellman's demand for more stringent censorship laws is the most ominous part of the campaign. Controversial pictures are bound to offend the sensibilities of certain groups; those who are so offended are free to stay away and save their money. They even have the right to picket theatres and hoot at those who attend. But they do not have the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for deciding what the public should or should not see. Such biased "purification" of public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship. The city...