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...Freud. Ronald Colman has gentle grace in the title role; Edna Best as his wife and Percy Waram as a brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry, suggests an early Janet Gaynor or a younger Ingrid Bergman...
...Boston, Forever Amber went on trial for obscenity under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
BOSTON, MARCH 10-"Forever Amber" was freed to Massachusetts readers by Superior Court judge Francis J. Donahue who ruled the Kathleen Winzor novel "not obscene" but said it was "conducive to sleep...
...were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last a lifetime...
Professor Jones was called by attorney Alexander Lindey, publishers' counsel, and after the Professor said he had read "Forever Amber," Lindey asked...