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Spread the Word. In St. Joseph, Mo., a woman phoned the News-Press to ask if it would reprint the story about her divorce because "there's a fellow I think wants a date with me ... He must have missed the first notice." Invitation Accepted. In Milwaukee, citizens who were invited to help themselves to the kindling wood left over from the dismantling of Borchert Field also carried off the main gate, 118 benches, two tool sheds, $105 worth of tools...
...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...