Word: beecroft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Schorer, visiting lecturer in English, attacked charges made by Raymond Beecroft, general manager of the Warren Press, that material in the March issue of the Advocate was "obscens." Schorer said yesterday that "There is no issue of obscenity here, and no big news story, either. If a printer wishes to turn down a job, that is his business, but the blowing up of the story by the Boston press was ridiculous since no one need take a printer's judgment in the realm of literature or literary morality...
Meanwhile, George A. Kelly '53' president of the Advocate, announced that because Beecroft wished to impose certain censorship on the Advocate, if any future issues were printed at the Warren Press, the editors of the Advocate had no choice but to drop the Warren Press. "We don't intend to be censored by any printer," Kelly said in announcing the decision...
...Beecroft stated that one of the things he objected to was an advertisement entitled "There Is No God." He felt three other articles in the magazine were "obscene...
...told them that if they would bring the magazine up to our standards, we would continue printing the magazine," Beecroft said...
...articles for the recent Advocate were just as bad, according to Beecroft. "I was quite amazed that material like this would come out of Harvard," he held...