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...years. When I was assigned to G-2 in 1941, I was asked to take charge of a new section that had been organized to cover everything from Afghanistan right through southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. The materials available to me consisted of a tourist handbook on India and Ceylon, a 1924 military attache's report from London on the Indian army, and a drawer full of clippings from the New York Times gathered since World War I. That was literally the resources of G-2 on that vast part of the world a year after...
Besides Eros, Ginzburg also published a scatological newsletter called Liaison and a book, The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, written by a promiscuous housewife. U.S. District Attorney Drew J. T. O'Keefe agreed with the defense contention that Ginzburg was not the ordinary, back-alley sort of smut-peddler. "He's worse," said O'Keefe, and asked the court for "the most substantial sentence it possibly can give." Ginzburg said he would appeal...
Tension and discontent characterize the Park Avenue "campus," a rather amusing word to most students. A college handbook describes the tall building which comprises "Hunter downtown" as a "vertical campus." Students are franker: "this is like going to school in an office building...
...Western and Japanese threats to Russian power. Decimated by Chiang, the ragged Chinese Communists survived in the caves of Yenan and eventually went on to conquer China, despite Stalin's warning that they were backward and not ready for revolution. After the war, Stalin sent Mao a Russian handbook of partisan strategy against the Nazis; Mao passed it to an aide who snorted: "If we had this as our textbook we would have been annihilated ten years...
Ginzburg marshaled 65 psychologists, sexologists and assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found inoffensive a "photographic tone poem" in Eros showing a nude Negro man and a nude white woman in eight pages of assorted full-color embraces. But when it came to Liaison and The Housewife's Handbook, even Macdonald drew the line. They were, he said, "vulgar...