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...Trouble." Last week the Justices all but begged for mercy during the oral arguments in three obscenity cases involving no fewer than 144 publications. How could the court rule without reading all of them? "If the final burden is on this court," groaned Chief Justice Earl Warren, who dissented in Jacobellis, "then it looks to me as though we're in trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife...
Dreary Chore. With a sigh, Earl Warren called for arguments in the third case: Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons' appeal from Massachusetts' ban on Fanny Hill, the enduring (1749) erotic bestseller that has been ruled non-obscene in New York. For the publisher, Lawyer Charles Rembar breezily announced: "I bring you a case in which it is not necessary to read the book." Commented Justice John M. Harlan: "Maybe I wasted my time reading it in advance." Undaunted, Rembar argued that all sorts of experts have long since attested to Fanny's social importance...
...size and strength on defense, the A.F.L. refuses to take a back seat to anybody. The defensive line of the champion Buffalo Bills averages 275 Ibs. per man-18 Ibs. per man more than the N.F.L.'s champion Browns. Then there are the San Diego Chargers. Defensive End Earl Faison, at 280 Ibs., would be a big man on anybody's ballclub, but he looks like an underfed schoolboy next to Tackle Ernie Ladd, who stands 6 ft. 9 in., weighs...
California's politics, too, have tended to anticipate events throughout the nation. For example, in 1942 the state elected one of the first "liberal Republican" Governors, Earl Warren. Since then, California has been a sort of laboratory for the Republican Party's attempts to cast off its minority status. California Republicans have alternately emphasized liberal and conservative political strategies, always seeking increasingly evanescent majorities...
Against Navy, the outcome was never in doubt. Todd Wilkinson, Harvard's number four player, started things off by humbling Navy's Bob Earl, 15-5, 15-3, 15-3, in less than 20 minutes...