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...subject with which Zarubin has more than the average diplomat's experience. Georgi Zarubin was the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador to Canada when Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko fled the Russian embassy and, turning himself over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, laid bare the workings of the Soviet Union's atomic spy ring in Canada, Britain and the U.S. Soon after Gouzenko told his story, Ambassador Zarubin abruptly left the country; he never returned...
...troublesome Motion Picture Production Code was originally designed, in 1930, to clean up Hollywood, which in those days was making such hot-blooded pictures as Luring Lips and Flame of Youth. But in recent years, moviemakers aiming for pictures with an adult appeal, and others frankly bent on box-office excitement, have rejected censorship, turn ing the resultant publicity to their advantage. Samples...
...Moon .Is Blue (TIME, July 6) was denied the code seal because of its lighthearted approach to sex (the script contains such words as "virgin," "pregnant," "seduction," "mistress"). The picture is making a fine profit (see above), despite the fact that 1) local censorship groups have banned it from dozens of theaters around the U.S., and 2) it has been condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, a censoring body of greater rigidity than the code and infinitely greater power over the box office...
...French Line (RKO Radio), starring Cinemactress Jane Russell, opened last week in St. Louis after the code seal was denied. In one scene, Jane, scantily dressed, does a dance that the Johnston Office regards as "overly suggestive." Even Jane said later that she disapproved of the scene. Last week Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis forbade Catholics in his archdiocese to see the picture "under penalty of mortal...
...M.P.A.A. come across with some sensible easing of the code? This month the organization plans to discuss a few changes, dealing mostly with some outdated restrictions on miscegenation and the use of liquor...