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...telecasters have not yet got around to writing their own censorship code, but by last week several interested parties were ready and eager to do it for them...
Against these threats, the television industry had three main arguments: 1) no one has really done anything very objectionable on TV; 2) individual stations and networks are adhering to the National Association of Broadcasters' radio code; 3) anyway, television is interstate commerce, and thus not subject to state regulation...
...week's end, the telecasters of California were holding a meeting to draw up some sort of a code for TV behavior. Sixty members of the Television Producers' Association appointed a committee to look into such controversial matters as cleavage, the time permitted for a kiss, and the proposed editing of wrestling matches to eliminate "suggestive positions...
...Casey didn't get a chance to tell him. Next time down, the French sled careened high up the wall and was jerked down too suddenly: it crashed against the inside wall, and the public-address system blurted, "81, Shady . . . 81, Shady" (Lake Placid code for "send the ambulance"). The Frenchmen were rushed to the hospital for treatment of their injuries...
Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...