Word: reprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spokesman for the paper said last night that he hoped another issue would soon be printed, with the passage about "queers," omitted, and the tutor story completely rewritten. A shortage of funds, however, may force cancellation of the reprint...
...Such reprint titles as James T. Farrel's "A World I Never Made" and Mickey Spillane's "I, the Jury" disappeared from drug-stores and book counters in the Harvard Square area, after the Advisory Committee recommendations...
Squatters on the other side of the fence are inclined to think the Committee's functioning vague and inconsistent. Writers, critics, publishers and various literati most frequently fall in this camp. They question the value of banning a 25 cent reprint edition of a work, while allowing the two or three dollar hard cover edition to go scot free, for instance. On the other tack, when one publisher's book came under the prohibitory advice of the Committee, he claimed that the entire group was set up on the "perilous presumption" that 29 individuals can act as censors...
...From this conversation grew a plan to combine uranium production with gold production (both from the same ore). In his Atomic Energy Act, Smuts put a clamp (20 years in prison, $15,000 fine) on all discussion of the project, so that South African newspapers did not dare even reprint articles from overseas newspapers...
Even those who do not read TIME seemed amazingly familiar with TIME'S stories. A possible explanation suggested by Alberse: the common practice of many newspapers which reprint something from the magazine each week, "whether it has any local importance or not." Many editors also use TIME as their own source of much background information. An executive of Colombia's El Tiempo told Alberse: "We read in TIME things that we can find nowhere else, and that we couldn't print ourselves...