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...called upon to utter such lines as "I might not be exactly what some people consider a virgin . . . but I've been chaste-chased by every man," and "What shall we do first-have a drink or go to bed?" Said the Distributors Corp. "We. hope that the Johnston office will realize that this is just part of a psychological study of a mixed-up girl and should be shown...
...Hollywood, Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, replied that while the movie industry welcomes criticism, it feels it is "doing a fine job" and does not contemplate making "concessions to anybody on anything." Johnston admitted that some recent films have portrayed excessive violence, but "there will be a different trend in films released this fall and winter...
...West Texan lawyer named William Kugle, who moved to Galveston in 1950 and was elected to the state legislature without being asked his views on vice, tried to shut down the city's notorious red-light district on Post Office Street. Mayor Cartwright's police commissioner. Walter Johnston, at first resisted. Then he calculated that the doxies would fan out into the residential neighborhoods, setting up a counter-Kugle pressure from the citizenry to restore Post Office Street to its old game. Johnston acted, he said, "with great reluctance," for, in following the prostitutes to the neighborhoods...
More pressing, however, was the problem of Police Commissioner Johnston, who was re-elected despite Herbie's defeat. (The only reform candidate for police commissioner ran sixth in a field of six.) In defiance of the new mayor, Johnston, onetime friend of segregated vice, declared: "The bawdyhouse district will never open again as long as I'm police commissioner." Retorted the new mayor: "I am going to order Johnston to get the girls back in the district...
...this year, a determined publicity campaign by Harvard's Hank Johnston, plus an interesting field, plus the meet's prominence on an uninteresting home schedule, all lead to the meet's unquestioned attraction...