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...most recent issue of Avatar, the Cambridge-based "hippie" newspaper was declared obscene yesterday by Boston Municipal Court Judge Elijah Adlow...
...decision was made in a criminal proceeding against William McGuire, a 20 year old clerk at the Boston branch of the Paperback Booksmith. McGuire was fined two hundred dollars for selling the issue which was the tenth the Avatar has published. Marshall Smith, manager of the Booksmith chain, said that his lawyers would appeal the decision. In Massachusetts this means a new trial before the State Superior Court...
...editor of the Avatar said last night that a new issue of the newspaper will appear today, despite the decision. The forthcoming issue, he indicated, will be an intentional parody of the banned in Boston issue. "If No. 10 is considered obscene, then No. 11 is far more obscene. It will be a satire on people who think this way. It will be a statement which will determine just how much freedom of the press we have...
...decision, Adlow said, was based entirely on the contents of the "Diary of a Young Artist," a weekly column which appeared in the ill-fated Avatar issue. When Robert Poppio, attorney for the Booksmith, argued that the whole issue had to be considered, Adlow replied, "Suppose the printer made a mistake and put this column in the middle of the Old Testament. Wouldn't you still judge it as obscene?" Adlow admitted that he hadn't read the whole issue. "That would be cruel and abusive punishment," he said...
Citing favorable references to Avatar in the Boston Globe, New York Times, and Time, Poppio argued that the Free Press newspaper was "a responsible political magazine." "Politics in Boston is low enough," interrupted Adlow. "Unfortunately, I'm here, and Time...