Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obscenity trial of 32 Avatar salesmen, including seven Harvard students, got underway yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court before the Hon. Samuel T. Tisdale. All defendants waived a jury...
...five cases, the defendants signed a stipulation admitting the sale of a particular copy of Avatar on a specific day. The five exceptions, which are being tried in full, involve the sale of obscenity to minors. Witnesses for the prosecution yesterday consisted of arresting officers and several minors, who were instructed by Cambridge policemen to purchase Avatar...
Harvard students involved in the trial are Jesse L. Kornbluth '67-4, Stephen D. Lerner '68, Jacob S. Egan '68, Gordon R. Foote Jr. '70, Jared Rossman '71, and Lewis S. W. Crampton, a graduate student on leave from GSAS, who is chairman of the Avatar Board. Two charges were also made against Wayne M. Hansen, who dropped out of Harvard three years ago to become editor of Avatar...
...Avatar is one of several irreverent, fuzzily written hippie newspapers that have sprung up in the U.S. It contains no more erotica than the rest; even its chief contributor, Mel Lyman, who claims to be God, is nothing out of the ordinary. Avatar differs only in that it is published in the Boston area, where such publications are traditionally frowned on. Soon after it first appeared last spring, city fathers grew restive. Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone by calling it the "filthiest junk I have ever laid eyes on." News dealers heard a warning in this...
That was no obstacle to Avatar. It promptly rounded up scores of sympathetic youngsters to hawk the paper on street corners. One by one, police picked them up. But as arrests mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest...