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...times before testifying that a strip-tease dancer had "turned her back . . . and rotated her buttocks." Gossipist Hedda Hopper noted that he was "the guy who made trouble for practically every studio in town" two years ago as the temporary head of the industry's self-censoring production code office. Sniffed Daily Variety: COOL RECEPTION ACCORDED PEEKER AT H'D MORALS...
...Capetains and Plantagenets were amateur gangsters; they were land-grabbers and money-grubbers, they ignored the sterling principles of the feudal code, and they were usually in trouble with the Church. "I would sell London," said Richard, "if I could find a purchaser." Richard's atrocities get objective reporting, as do the incidents which have become legend, such as the meeting between Richard and Robin Hood...
...next spring, the Department of Defense announced last week, he would be six. Chosen by lot and code number from among the unidentified dead of each war theater, he would be brought to the U.S. by air and sea in sealed steel, and then secretly moved about so that none could know whether he had come from west or east. In Philadelphia's Independence Hall he would be chosen one. Four days later, on Memorial Day, 1951, the U.S.'s symbolic warrior of World War II would be enshrined. Unlike the Unknown Soldier of World War I, near...
...intended to remain on Procida until the government recognized the principle of voluntary substitutions. His movement, he predicted, would spread until all war prisoners had been liberated. But his Franciscan superiors gave him no encouragement. "The custom of voluntary substitution,""said one of them, "was never in our code." A Vatican aide brushed off Blandino as "an esaltato [fanatic] who defied discipline. To preserve the peace of Saint Francis it is best to ignore a mistaken effort to bring the peace of Saint Francis to others...
...industry leaders decided that a program of self-regulation was needed, formed a subcommittee of the National Association of Securities Dealers to do the job. Last week, the N.A.S.D. started work on a mutual fund policing code, backed up with the power to levy fines and to suspend or revoke N.A.S.D. membership...