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Last week a Bronx court completely exonerated LIFE'S Publisher Roy Edward Larsen of the obscenity charge filed against him for selling a copy of LIFE containing pictures from the cinema The Birth of a Baby. Thus ended once & for all any legal objection to the way LIFE handled the facts of life...
...union money. Just before Hod Carrier Moreschi complained to State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney last fortnight. Hoagland & Allum Vice President Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three surviving officers. President George F. Allum, Vice President Olaf Andrew Larsen and Secretary & Treasurer Henry Adolph Engel, went to jail for lack of bail. Few days later the Chicago Stock Exchange took the unprecedented step of advertising "An Open Letter to the Public . . . INVESTIGATE -BEFORE YOU INVEST...
LIFE's Publisher Roy E. Larsen had himself arrested last week in The Bronx, New York City, for selling "indecent literature"-a Bronx-banned copy of LIFE containing the "Birth of a Baby" pictures* (TIME, April 18). This week, as Publisher Larsen prepared to go on trial for the first time in his life, the American Institute of Public Opinion revealed that it had cut a quick cross-section of U. S. voters, of whom 17,000,000 (by Institute estimate) had seen the disputed pictures in LIFE...
...find out whether such facts of life could legally be kept from U. S. citizens, Publisher Roy E. Larsen this week agreed to a test arrest and trial in The Bronx. District Attorney Foley, who had told reporters he would personally arrest Publisher Larsen, passed responsibility to The Bronx grand jury when Mr. Larsen sold a copy of the banned LIFE to a detective while Mr. Foley looked...
Ingersoll and Eric Hodgins, became respectively the publishers of TIME and FORTUNE; Roy E. Larsen became publisher of LIFE. For himself Luce still cherishes, as he and Brit Hadden did from the beginning, no title or occupation more than that of Editor of TIME...