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...politics and civic affairs, but has only a nodding acquaintance with business. (Her broker husband was a onetime governor and treasurer of the New York Security Dealers Association.) Nevertheless, she feels at home in the telegraph business. "I was brought up on it," she says. "I learned the Morse code when I was eight; my father taught it to me. When my brother Charles* and I had scarlet fever we rigged up a line from room to room...
Suicide & Sex. Most of Hollywood's taboos center around the self-imposed Industry Production Code. Just as Melanesians have elaborate taboos against incest (punishable by death), so does Hollywood have an equally important taboo against "any reference to the biological nature of man or other animals." Violators are not killed, but are refused the Code's seal of approval, "a form of business suicide." Moviemakers continually revolve in a vicious circle with the Code office minutely censoring "dialogue for suggestions of sex while the studios continue to accent the sexiness of their stars...
Second, that the University has discovered the secrets of an absolute moral code; and that, being in loco parentis, it is therefore obliged to impose the observance of this code upon its students...
...green-tinted pages ("easier on the eyes") of the first issue were crammed with puzzles, games ("Make Your Own Secret Code"), color comics ("The Story of America" by Historian David S. Muzzey) and reprints of such children's classics as Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump and Stevenson's Escape at Bedtime. Like everything sober-minded George Hecht has published, it looked like a nice mixture of his zeal for child welfare-and profits...
...year Queen Elizabeth died and a new code of canons was drawn up under church-conscious James I (King James translation of the Bible...