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...month sentence for perjury, bribery and conspiracy in procuring military discharges; 3) Anthony De Angelis, 56, who has served seven years of a 20-year sentence for his $150 million financial swindle with nonexistent vegetable oil. No, said the board, to the application of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, 42, who has served two months of his three-year sentence for sending pornography through the mails in the promotion campaign he devised for his publications, notably the now defunct Eros...
Sir/The irony of Ralph Ginzburg's going to prison [Feb. 21] in 1972 for sending something as mild as Eros through the mail is obvious...
Prison for Ginzburg...
...full page advertisement in the New York Times playwright Arthur Miller declared. "If it is right that Ralph Ginzburg go to jail then in all justice the same court that sentenced him should proceed at once to close down 90 per cent of the movies now playing and the newspapers that carry their advertising. Compared to the usual run of entertainment in this country, Ginzburg's publications and his ads are on a par with the National Geographic." The fact that this decision comes in 1972 further points up the anachronism and foolishness of all laws abridging freedom...
...find intolerable the Court's total disregard for the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press. A free society cannot exist without a free press, and the American press can not be considered free with Ralph Ginzburg in prison...