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...competitor to the big-city daily Stars & Stripes. His analysis of his readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over, has been mentioned only twice since...
Censor's Guide. As a guide to the new policy, Censor Price relaxed some of censorship's 250-odd specifications, so that newspapers, magazines and radio may now carry stories about such previously taboo matters as war production figures (on a national scale), merchant marine operations, diplomatic negotiations not connected with military operations...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
...holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding the force saw to it that only healthy soldiers went ashore. Life is pleasant, with plenty of tropical fruits and vegetables; wild pigs occasionally provide fresh meat. Love is taboo until after sundown, then the unattached girls doff their tapa-cloth shirts, shake out their grass skirts and smile fondly about them...
There is no marrying in Chungking this month and no becoming engaged. Open enjoyment of amusements is taboo and flags are at half-mast. Black arm bands mark all members of the Government, the Army and the Kuomintang. For 30 days the war-racked capital mourns the passing (TIME, Aug. 9) of gentle Lin Sen, President of China...