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...seven officers and 248 enlisted men who took part in the stage and the movie version will be assigned at once to operational units; those physically qualified will go to replacement centers overseas. Since opening in Boston a year and a half ago, Moss Hart's stage tribute to the Army Air Forces has played to nearly 900,000 people, earned nearly $1,500,000 for Army Emergency Relief...
...implication in Theater (TIME, March 12) is that Commissioner Paul Moss served a novitiate in censorship as a member of the National Board of Review, which you call "watchdog of cinemorality." For nearly 30 years the Board has been actively and outspokenly against censorship: its reviewers classify and recommend films on the basis of entertainment, not morals...
...York License Commissioner Paul Moss had gone the victory in his arbitrary closing of the Lesbian play Trio (TIME, March 12). But it may be the last such victory he and his successors ever have. Last week, after a session with representatives of 19 protesting organizations, Mayor LaGuardia agreed to support legislation preventing any license commissioner from closing a play without a prior jury conviction of its producers...
...Asked by TIME: "Do you want to make a statement on why you did not hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This...
Like many another businessman, 39-year-old Master Promoter Robert Lawver Smith scarcely knew a chrysanthemum from a moss rose. But he did know that flowers could be sold. With that information, plus $125,000 and the merchandising experience gained as general manager of the tabloid Los Angeles Daily News (a job he still holds), Smith charged last year into the flower business. It took him just seven months to become the No. 1 combination grower-wholesaler-retailer in the nation's $300,000,000 floral industry...