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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...
...Raymond Beecroft, general manager of the Warren Press, said he objected to material "which seemed to be substandard as far as morals are concerned" in the March issue, the first the company has handled. The firm does mainly religious work for the Adventist Christian Denomination with some outside commercial work...
...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...