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...Merwil Publishing Co., Nuregal Publishing Co. and Culture Publications, proprietors of eleven of the barred magazines, went to court for a different reason. They asked an injunction against the commissioner's order on the grounds that he was jeopardizing a thriving business. The smut business has boomed since the Depression because news dealers who once would not handle that sort of stuff will now sell anything which will put a few pennies in the till. It was revealed that of the average 50.000 circulation of the suspect magazines, 10% were sold in New York. Price: 25? a copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Smut Suppression | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Indignantly declared Merwil's Publisher Harry Donenfeld, whose line includes La Parce, Gay Parisienne, Spicy Stories, Pep: "Take books like God's Little Acre and Ulysses. The courts have maintained that there's nothing obscene in them. They really describe life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Smut Suppression | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Last week the new owner and the future of the Police Gazette were revealed. The owner is Merwil Publishing Co. consisting of Irving & Harry Donenfeld and Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey. Merwil Publishing Co. issues five of the smuttiest magazines on the newsstands-Snappy, Spicy, Gay Parisienne, La Paree, Pep. They consist of sleazy stories, drawings and "art study" photographs of undressed females. Mrs. Hersey edits them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Last week the new owner and the future of the Police Gazette were revealed. The owner is Merwil Publishing Co. consisting of Irving & Harry Donenfeld and Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey. Merwil Publishing Co. issues five of the smuttiest magazines on the newsstands-Snappy, Spicy, Gay Parisienne, La Paree, Pep. They consist of sleazy stories, drawings and "art study" photographs of undressed females. Mrs. Hersey edits them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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