Word: avatars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Conflict between Avatar salesmen and the City of Cambridge broke out once again yesterday when eight Cambridge policemen picked up Brian Kelly '66 for selling the 20th issue of the magazine to a teenager in Harvard Square...
Judge Lawrence F. Feloney, who handed down the convictions, ruled that only issue 18, of the three issues for which arrests have been made, was obscene. He acquitted four other Avatar salesmen arrested selling issues 16 and 17 to minors on the grounds that those issues were not obscene...
...Feloney sentenced Gordon R. Foote, Jr. '70, the first Harvard student arrested for selling Avatar, to two months in the House of Correction. Foote, arrested while distributing the 17th issue, was found guilty of selling obscene literature to a minor. Foote's case is being appealed...
...only dismissal of a case involving the sale of issue 18 came after James E. Thomas, senior adviser to freshmen at Harvard, appeared as a character witness for one of the Avatar salesmen. John Shirley, 22, was acquitted after Thomas testified and after Shirley's own testimony that he was unaware of the newspaper's contents...
Feloney's objections to issue 18 were directed at a "obscene" letter printed at the top of page seven among the paper's classified ads. Both Crampton, chairman of the board for Avatar, and editor Wayne M. Hansen, who received one of the $300 fines, took the stand to defend the letter and the rest of Avatar's contents...