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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...
Police charged the 24-year-old Kelly, who also writes for Avatar, with "selling obscene material to a minor...
According to the stipulations of a three-week-old "truce" between the magazine and Cambridge police, Avatar agreed not to sell any issues to minors. The police, in turn, pledged no more arrests unless they notified the magazine that the City Solicitor judged a particular issue "obscene...
...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...