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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieutenant Frederick Marckini said he believed that police were requesting removal of the issue, but no newsstand operator in the Square has reported such a request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Identity' Ban Denied | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

...Marckini said yesterday afternoon that he believed there already is a police order to remove the magazine from newstands. "It is very likely that court action will occur" following the investigation of Identity now under way, he declared. Several other magazines are also being examined, he added...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Police Raise Issue of Obscenity Over Drawing on 'Identity' Cover | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

...latest issue of Identity Poetry may have run afoul of the city's censorship laws banning "publishing obscene and indecent pictures," according to Lieutenant Detective Frederick Marckini of the Cambridge police...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Police Raise Issue of Obscenity Over Drawing on 'Identity' Cover | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

Origin of the police investigation is somewhat of a mystery. Marckini reported that the police have received "a number of complaints--some by letter and some by telephone." He specifically mentioned the Watch and Ward Society as a group interested in and aiding the investigation with a view towards possible presentation to the District Attorney. Dwight W. Strong, however, stated categorically that the organization, which he formally headed, has had nothing to do with the matter and is now defunct. Furthermore, Daniel J. Brennan, chief of the Cambridge police, said that as far as he knew there have been...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Police Raise Issue of Obscenity Over Drawing on 'Identity' Cover | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

While the primary objection by police seems to be that Conde's cover is pornographic, Marckini said he is "checking into some of the language in it." Both he and Cleary emphasized that they regarded it as particularly obscene due to its possible effect on youths...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Police Raise Issue of Obscenity Over Drawing on 'Identity' Cover | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

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