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...American A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (who had been trying to find out what happened to Clementis) in the same courtroom of Pankrac prison. The same judges, prosecutor and "defense attorney" who served in the Oatis case last week confronted Rudolf Slansky. So it goes in the Communist inferno...
...leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker and MacDougal Streets but no roofs over their weary souls. Plagued with guilt-edged insecurities, they have one fear, themselves; one foe, reality; one condition, despair; one refuge, dope. Charged...
Still another measure has been taken to preclude possible theft or loss of the books. The bottom shelves of the "Inferno" stacks are now completely bare. According to Haynes, "John Shea (superintendent of the stacks in Widener) and myself often used to find the aisles of the 'Inferno' strewn with books." There is a small space between the bottom of the stacks and the floor, and it seems that students studying on the fifth level directly below the Cage were inclined to reach up through this crevice, attempting to snare some erotic literature...
Perhaps one of the modern classics of autobiographical pornography, Frank Harris' "My Life and Loves," is on the "Inferno" shelves. The four volume affair is little more than a detailed chronicle of the author's sexual experiences, from the first grade on Benvenuto Cellini's "Autobiography." on the other hand, has a place in the "Inferno principally because of the fine edition...
Widener officials are, of course, sensitive to the rigid Massachusetts laws concerning obscene books, and are rather reluctant to discuss the whole matter. Circulation of the "Inferno" volumes is limited to those concerned with serious study such as research for a thesis...