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...sections - the TIME Essay - begins its second year. From the very first one, examining the United Nations and its prospects, Essay has elicited a remarkable amount of public interest. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. distributed 10,000 reprints of No. 1 to college campuses and civic groups, and Harlan Cleveland, then Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, said of it: "Somehow your editors managed to squeeze into two fascinating pages the essence of the U.N.'s problems and prospects which have occupied our energies for the past several years...
Even more scathing were the usually restrained Justices John M. Harlan and Potter Stewart. Harlan called the new pandering rule "an astonishing piece of judicial improvisation" that may inspire new censorship attacks on long permissible classics. If an ad is now adjudged obscene, he suggested, the result could ban Joyce's Ulysses, which was cleared for U.S. sale 33 years ago. "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself," said Stewart. "The Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance. A book worthless to me may convey something of value...
...five to four decision upholding the conviction of Ralph Ginzberg, founder and publisher of Eros magazine. The right of the Supreme Court, or any other court for that matter, to enforce censorship is uncertain at best, but the indication of last week's decisions, as Justice John Harlan himself pointed out, "is that no stable approach to the obscenity problem has yet been devised by this Court...
Each has served as clerk to a U.S. Supreme Justice. Kaufman was clerk to Felix Frankfurter from 1955 to 1957. Michelson worked for William J. Brenman Jr. in 1961-62. Shapiro was clerk to John Harlan...
Worst Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: to Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...