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...Streetcar Named Desire is the latest picture to suggest that Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen has been stretching the Production Code to let more of the facts of life reach the screen. The reason, according to Hollywood observers: to help producers strengthen their movies for the competition with TV. Other recent examples: A Place in the Sun, in which a character tries to get an abortion; People Will Talk, whose broad-minded hero marries a girl pregnant, out of wedlock, by another man; The Prowler, which turns on a wedding-night discovery that the bride is an expectant mother...
...chain called off its plans to show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...largest felony, a theft of $1,000 from the safe of the oxford Grill, is the only one which showed signs of professional polish. It occurred after the restaurant had closed, and Lt. Joseph Breen, who is conducting the police investigation, has put forward the theory that the thief hid himself in the basement, making his way to the office after everyone had left...
...safe was opened by combination, indicating that the burglar was either a professional operative or "on the inside," according to Lt. Breen...
...Sierra Nevada on their way to California in 1846. These people, say the authors, were "fairly ordinary folk, inexperienced in the ways of explorers but courageous and resourceful . . . [though] lacking effective leadership." Virtually all the groups into which the party split up practiced cannibalism. "Mr. and Mrs. Breen, left in ... camp with five children of their own and four others, turned to the unburied dead to save those who were still living ... At the main camp . . . only one adult remained alive. He had sustained life by cannibalism and was suspected of having murdered the two remaining women...