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...morals on trial under Massachusetts censorship law, "Forever Amber" found a stout defender yesterday in the person of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who stated that the book did not "corrupt or deprave" him. Appearing as star witness for the defense in the current trial of Kathleen Winsor's risque best-seller, Professor Jones testified that the book "bored" his wife, and left his own moral standards unsullied...
...Palm Beach, the Duke of Windsor made a remark that might just possibly foreshadow the biggest literary event since Forever Amber. He was thinking, said he, of writing his autobiography. But it might take a while: "I use the hunt-&-peck system of typing...
Kathleen Winsor became a banned author in Sheffield, England, but no prestige attached to it: the city fathers deplored Amber as utter rubbish...
...Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written in a horizontal line instead of vertically like the Chinese...
...bawdy Restoration heroine finally got back to her old tramping grounds-and was promptly put to work selling papers. Last week, in a frontpage box, Lord Rothermere's London Sunday Dispatch announced that it would share with its 1,600,000 readers an authorized, serialized version of Forever Amber...