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...Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known as The Macomber Affair. ¶ Britain's Producer Sydney Box, after buying a current London stage play, hastily registered the title, Dear Murderer, and notified the Johnston Office. Hollywood has regretfully informed Producer Box that Dear Murderer conflicts with a well-known title long since staked out by a Hollywood studio: The Deerslayer...
...title, on the theory that Americans might mistake the picture for a documentary on gardening (TIME, Aug. 5). U.S. censors demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...
Howard Hughes, one month out of a Los Angeles hospital where his plane crash put him, and still looking like a stretcher case (see cut), took to the air again, flew to Manhattan. His errand: pursuit of his $5 million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
After World War I, big-time tennis counted its blessings and found them many. They were headed by "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston, about to begin their famous battles, and behind them were other tennis greats: Kumagae, the lefthanded Jap; Australia's Norman E. Brookes, Vinnie Richards. On the distaff side Suzanne Lenglen, the greatest girl player ever to swing a racket, had just gained control of her strokes, if not her temper. Helen Wills, a poker-faced youngster, was on her way up, copped the U.S. Nationals in 1923. In the tournament lists were names like...
...Eric Johnston (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). The Motion Picture Association president stands in for Drew Pearson...