After listening attentively to the songs from Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided that some of the Cole Porter lyrics were not fit for Aussie ears, banned the playing of I Hate Men, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
Uncle Tom made news behind the Iron Curtain. A new edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the classic anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, went on sale in Budapest as the newspaper Magyar Nemzet assured its readers that "in Truman's America they try to hide...
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