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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1949
Page
17
Hollywood observes that films face the strictest censorship among art forms. The critique notes operatic scenes from Rigoletto and stage chatter reflecting how screening boards would ban risqué lines and plot twists.
Police report Willie Coleman Negro was arrested Saturday by Officers Ollie Price and John Webb and charged with stealing a federal government automobile from a Huntsville garage. Coleman signed a confession stating he drove from Huntsville to Decatur and Athens and back to Decatur before arrest. He admitted knowing the car was federal property and said he was drinking at the time. He will be turned over to Huntsville authorities.
The piece laments blue penciling of Shakespeare for film and imagines censoring of key scenes from The Naked and The Dead and Forever Amber. It notes Amber’s dullness onscreen, mentions Rhett Butler and other strong language in Gone With The Wind and Long Voyage Home, and contrasts movie limits with radio and television.
Bears in temperate regions slow their metabolism to survive winter by hibernating. They reduce activity and do not feed, relying on fat reserves stored during the warmer months.
Decatur public library adds many titles including The Chain by Paul Wellman a tale of a clergyman in Jericho Kansas and revival. Other works include But the Morning Will Come by Cid Ricketts and The Girl on the Via Flamina by Alfred Hayes a war informed story.
Doctors explore a safe plantar wart therapy using wart filing plus 100 000 units of vitamin A daily. In a trial of 42 patients, 15 were cured and 6 showed marked improvement, with most cures occurring in six to eight weeks before considering possible X ray treatment.
The International Chiropractors Association designates May 1–7 as Good Posture Week. Dr Colbert of Decatur cites national health data showing over five million men unfit for service due to poor posture and emphasizes posture’s link to spine health and overall wellness.
A catalog highlights prominent titles and authors including Lincoln Barnett Sigmund Freud Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr Fred Reinfeld Ogden Nash and Adan Villiers. It showcases works on science psychology mystery chess verse sailing and autobiographical records.
Medieval armor varied from 25 to 100 pounds in weight. The U S frigate Constitution once bore a statue of Andrew Jackson as a figurehead.
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