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Daniel J. Brennan Jr., son of the late Cambridge police chief, organized and headed the winning slate. He has worked in City Hall and knew just what kind of tactics would win in this part of Cambridge. A sophomore at Boston University, Brennan got three of his former Little League teammates to join him on the ballot: Anthony McI. Glavin '68, Roger O'Sullivan, a junior at Boston State, and Brendon Synnott, a senior at Boston State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge...
...under New York's new juvenile obscenity law; he appealed. His contention was that the right of a person to read or see material "cannot be made to depend upon whether the citizen is an adult or a minor." But the contention does not wash, said Justice William Brennan, who is frequently the author of the court's opinions on obscenity...
...thing, the court held 24 years ago in Prince v. Massachusetts, a child-labor-law case, that "the power of the state to control the conduct of children reaches beyond the scope of its authority over adults." And Brennan added last week that "the well-being of its children is of course a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." He also pointed out that New York's "prohibition does not bar parents who so desire from purchasing the magazines for their children." As to whether or not girlie magazines and similar material actually impair...
...course, Grandpa picks up his baton, and it's choke-up time again, bringin' tears to the eyes and a lump to the studio. That family band is somethin', but that grandpa -he's somethin' else. Matter of fact, he's Walter Brennan and that means his creaky voice is goin' to turn all s's to slush. "Be sheein' ya shometime," he threatens. If it's in this kind of shtuff, nineteen-sheventy-eight would be too shoon...
Challenges to both laws have now reached the Supreme Court, and last week the nine Justices listened while lawyers for both sides presented oral arguments. The New York case involved the conviction of a store owner for selling four girlie publications, and when Justice Brennan pointed out that two of the magazines-Sir and Escapade-had previously been ruled non-obscene, Prosecutor William Cahn responded that while they may not be obscene to adults, they are to children...