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Uneasy over the uproar about television's slipping moral standards, two stations last week ran for shelter to the bosom of the Motion Picture Production Code. President Theodore Streibert of Manhattan's WOR-TV hailed the code as a guide to "what is acceptable and in good taste." In Philadelphia, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg. of the Inquirer urged the manager of his station WFIL-TV to pay particular attention to code provisions dealing with "the depiction of crimes against the law, the use of obscenity and vulgarity, and restrictions as to costumes and dances...
Most Atlantans (as the Constitution calls them) and Atlantians (as the Journal calls them) were surprised at the merger; Atlanta Broker Richard W. Courts had kept the negotiations hush-hush by using code symbols instead of names. But they should not have been too surprised. In the ten years since spry old ex-Governor Cox took over the Journal, it has moved from neck & neck in circulation and advertising to undisputed first place in circulation, revenue and newspaper enterprise...
...Building Code. In Dallas, coeds at two Southern Methodist University dormitories were urged to stop sunbathing on house balconies because they were causing steelworkers to dawdle on the school's $8,000,000 building program...
...each entry in Walter Hastings Hall and from the first two floors of Perkins Hall have chosen delegates to a Law School Dormitory Council which will handle violations of the new code...
...devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...