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...useful person to shrewd publishers is a book-censor. Sure as death & taxes, a guilty volume will be publicized, will sell widely thereafter, openly or 'legged. Such success would be repugnant to Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, who by purchasing Cosmopolitan Book Corp. last month jumped into the first rank of their trade (TIME, Oct. 5). Under their imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities...
...Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. W. & W. is now in serious financial difficulties. Boston's forces of righteousness are at present headed by slim, white-haired, horn-spectacled John Michael Casey, chief of the city's Licensing Di vision. For 27 years City Censor Casey, who is on record as having said, "Don't you know that Eugene O'Neill never wrote on a decent theme in his life?", has passed on every theatrical offering of the Boston stage. He also licenses peddlers and news boys...
...Associated Press dot-dashed the entire encyclical out of Rome last week, complained of no interference from the Italian censor. United Press, which carried the "young priest's" exploit exclusively, saved money by dot-dashing the encyclical from Paris, where it was released at the same time as in Vatican City. It was later said that the young priest traveled from Vatican City to Paris with Monsignor Francis J. Spellman of Whitman, Mass. Thus had the Monsignor's party been searched or subjected to indignity U. S. Catholic opinion would have mobilized with double force...
...mother says she could correct our newspaper work and censor it. Each week. But she does not. The reason: the Alaskan people and Sourdoughs all like it better just exactly the way we get it out. They say they don't want it changed from the way we make...
...Society's charter. One of the provisions in New York's penal laws allows the Society to collect 50% of the fines imposed in "vice" cases discovered by it. The Graphic, agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged as counsel Morris L. Ernst, defender of many a "liberal" cause...