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...lawyers, the court voted 5 to 4 to up hold Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's $28,000 fine and five-year federal sentence for selling the now defunct magazine Eros and two other obscene publications through the mails. By a vote of 6 to 3, the court upheld Edward Mishkin's three-year New York sentence for planning and peddling 140 weird little "bondage" books (Screaming Flesh, House of Torture, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism and typically spiced with scenes of naked girls whipping each other. By another 6-to-3 vote, the court struck down Massachusetts...
...same time, the Court seemed to stiffin its obscenity sandarcs by upholding he convictions of Raiph Glnzburg, publisher of Eros magazine, and Edward Mishkin, a Yonkers, N.Y., book dealer, for violations of Federal and New York obscenity laws. The nine justices filed a total of 14 opinions in the three cases...
...Headaches. That job seemed even more unavoidable in the second case, in which Edward Mishkin appealed a three-year New York sentence for publishing 140 weird -little books (Sex Switch, Raw Dames, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism-typically spiced by scenes of naked girls whipping one another. Mishkin's New York lawyer, Emanuel Redfield, confronted the Supreme Court with a new headache: "Only obscene books can be proscribed. Are sadism and masochism synonyms for obscenity? If so, there is no end to the literature that may be prohibited...
...Clinton E. Knox 2G goes the Cutting fellowship for Research in Physics, while Arthur Y. Berger and Henry G. Mishkin 2G have been named to the Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music...
...revelations made. Observers wondered where Sobol had procured his material. He had borrowed old shots of Thaw and Nesbit from old newsreel libraries, had new ones made to order. Guy Loomis, an oil stock promoter who found that his land really contained an oil well; William ("Billy") Mishkin, who expects to inherit a fortune in a few years; and a Manhattan sport named John Walker, were easily persuaded to be revealed as Metropolitan spendthrifts. Mayor Walker was not at all averse to posing at the piano as a postlude to the portrait of his cobbler. Other items in the first...