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Those eager to know the decision in the Boston trial of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer are in for something of a wait. Usually reliable courthouse sources say that it will probably be another two weeks before Judge Lewis Goldberg of the Suffolk Country Superior Court rules on the novel's obscenity...
Judge Lewis Goldberg '11 refused to grant London's request, saying that the lawyer could not withdraw in the middle of a trial. So, for the rest of the proceedings, the New York counsel will represent--as before--both Grove Press and Miller...
...Judy L. Rosenblith, a social psychologist connected with the University, testified briefly. The defense had wanted her to talk about a study she made of books and magazines sold in the Boston area. Judge Goldberg, however, ruled that the state of contemporary community standards in such matters was not subject for expert testimony...
Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...
...Here he was stopped by Judge Goldberg an old man tart towards lawyers, genial towards witnesses, and given to aphorisms like: "One should have an opinion without thinking about it." The Judge wanted to know did purity mean simply faithfulness of literary reproduction? Or did religion mean simply spontaneity? Discussion followed, but the questions are still very much unanswered, in this trial, at least...