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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, Hollywood fired back in all directions. Sounding as if any criticism amounted to outright censorship, Columbia Vice President Sam Briskin pulled the trigger before he even saw the enemy. No individual or group, he cried, has a right to censor the industry. "The public will soon enough tell us what they want and don't want...
...moviemakers did not have long to wait for an example. No sooner was Augustana Lutheran Heimrich's charge made public than up stepped the Rev. H. K. Rasbach, American Lutheran and a member of the Film Board Committee, to say: "It is decidedly unChristian, after a man has put millions of dollars into a picture, to tell people not to see it. We want the industry to police itself." To that, Hollywood said a loud "Amen," and waited to see what happens next...
Goodie Knight's new job as newscaster (five minutes a day, five days a week) marks his first sustained public appearance since he lost out in his bid for the U.S. Senate last fall. Enforced leisure-and particularly, enforced silence-bore heavily on a man who, in top form, could reel off 250 speeches a month. Knight sunned awhile at Palm Springs, caught up on years of neglected reading ("I had never read Whittaker Chambers' book,*and I found it fascinating"), rented a Los Angeles apartment and bought into an insurance firm. When KCOP-TV proposed the commentator...
...barely too young to enter school. The cutoff age may be as high as 6½ (in Des Moines) or as low as 5 years 3 months (in Norwich, N.Y.), but thousands of children are bound to miss out by a few days or weeks. In 77% of U.S. public schools, the rules are inflexible; the child simply has to wait another year...
...social and emotional maturity. Schools are not generally equipped to handle such exhaustive testing, but proud parents would probably be happy to foot the bill for a private psychologist. Over the country, many youngsters who miss the cutoff point attend private schools for a year and then go public in the second grade. In Houston, where the whole matter has been put on a cash basis, eager mothers gladly shell out a special head tax of $90 to break the cutoff rule...