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Before the government got around to it, television men last week made a stab at drawing up a good-conduct code of their own. The 28-page document, presented at a Chicago meeting of the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters, began by congratulating the industry on making "available to the eyes and ears of the American people the finest programs of information, education, culture and entertainment." Then it came out foursquare against "profanity, obscenity, smut and vulgarity...
...code specifically bans a number of words and phrases, among them: bat (applied to a woman); nuts (except when meaning crazy); razzberry (the sound); torn cat (applied to a man). Also banned: jokes about traveling salesmen and farmers' daughters; suicide or divorce as an answer to human problems; fortunetelling, astrology, phrenology, palm-reading and numerology, if shown in a way that might "foster superstition or excite interest or belief...
Edging up to TV's responsibility toward children, the code argued that "crime, violence and sex are a part of the world they will be called upon to meet and a certain amount of proper presentation of such is helpful in orienting the child to his social surroundings." But it frowned on shows that are "excessively" violent or might cause "morbid" suspense...
...Kazan put it: "I--and for that matter the public--was presented with a finished fact. My picture had been cut to fit the specifications of a code which is not my code, is not the recognized code of the picture industry, and is not the code of the great majority of the audience...
...angry at delays in the passage of the new Hindu Code Bill (which he drew up), which forbids polygamy, liberalizes inheritance laws for women, and legalizes inter-caste marriage...