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Marvin began his tour in Houston looking trim and hickory-hard, striding through the airport like a drill sergeant in Dacron. Trailing behind were his large pressagent, his little manager, Meyer Mishkin, and local studio men handing out photographs and toting bags. "Hey!" shouted a cab driver, clapping an arm around Marvin's shoulder. "Where's your horse...
...officers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for 1968 are: David O. Lehman '69, president; Louise A. Lerner '70, vice president; Lois A. Pike '70, secretary; Jonathan Berman '70, treasurer; John Mayne '70, manager; Kirsten E. Mishkin '70, librarian; Charles Hefling Jr. '71, publicity chairman; and David Chavolla '71, program chairman...
...consider 491 purely a pitch to prurient interest. Speaking for the majority, though, Judge Leonard Moore saw "redeeming social importance" in the fact that 491 professes "constructive ideas" even while it purveys seamy sex. Moreover, he noted a vital effect of last term's Supreme Court decision in Mishkin v. New York, which apparently discarded the "average person" test of prurient interest. Now the yardstick is "the probable recipient group"-which seems to mean that judges must determine whom the material is aimed at and how it appeals to that particular group-an effect that Moore believes "can never...
...Rules. In the second case, New York Pornographer Edward Mishkin argued that his books were not legally obscene because they excited only sick rather than normal people. Brennan agreed-and duly "adjusted" Roth's prurient-appeal standard from the "average adult" to the average members of any "probable recipient group," including sadists and masochists...
...decisions last week in three obscenity cases, the Supreme Court showed itself to be divided and sorely confused over the delicate question of censorship. It reversed the Massachusetts ban on Fanny Hill in a 6 to 3 decision and affirmed the conviction of Edward Mishkin, a publisher of "obscene" material, in another six to three vote. But the key case was a 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...