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Pressure & Ads. The taboo against using the Negro label is the product of pressure groups and the conscientious efforts of newspapers to be fair to a minority. Once it was hardly a problem, since newspapers ran little news about Negroes. But now newspapers are running far more news about the Negro than ever before, partly because of his gradual rise in U.S. society, partly because they are wooing him as a reader since his improved economic status has interested advertisers in the Negro market...
...Slouch. At 17 Bertie was dubbed Knight of the Garter, and established in his own "household." His equerries were instructed never to permit "lounging ways, such [as] lolling in armchairs" or "slouching ... with hands in the pocket." All "satirical or bantering expressions" were taboo, and "a practical joke was never to be permitted." Bertie's leisure was to be spent "looking over drawings or engravings." On reading this memorandum, the Knight of the Garter burst into tears...
...Still taboo: all speculation that the Red army is nudging into power, reports of the public pot-tossing and private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating...
...Sitting as an appeals board in New York, presidents of the major movie companies upheld the Hollywood Production Code Administration and refused to give United Artists a code seal for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm because the movie deals with the taboo subject of dope addiction. U.A. promptly quit the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the code, went ahead with plans to release the movie, starring Frank Sinatra, in Manhattan this week, had high hopes that, like Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, also released without a code seal, it will make...
Safaris: "Men say much taboo, B'wana...