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...TIME, Nov. 1). Now the Post Office Department had its inning. To the witness chair in Washington trooped a psychiatrist, clergymen, an educator, a clubwoman, all Washingtonians. Gum-chewing, spectacled P.O. Attorney William C. O'Brien put them through their paces. Esquire's attorney, quick-witted Bruce Bromley, thoughtfully tripped them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Blushed | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman studied a magazine illustration (of a nude) handed him by Attorney Bromley, found it "sexually stimulating." Bromley promptly turned the magazine's cover, showed that the picture was in the Ladies' Home Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Blushed | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...John K. Cartwright, a Catholic priest, contended that Esquire has a tendency to encourage low ideas of women. When Attorney Bromley brought out the fact that the Catholic Digest has carried reprints from Esquire and that Father Flanagan, of Boys' Town fame, has contributed articles to Esquire, Witness Cartwright countered: "Bad judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Blushed | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...Rabbi Solomon Metz, Bromley read a series of borderline gags. One involved two London charwomen discussing the inconveniences of a blackout. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Blushed | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Rabbi Metz called these gags objectionable. Attorney Bromley revealed they had all been culled from Reader's Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Blushed | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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