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...were hogtied, it appeared, by equivocal court decisions on the public display of sexy literature. Producer Earl Carroll had been acquitted of his naked posters. Harper's had not been fined for publishing confessions of a whore. Since the Carroll acquittal undressed ladies had posed and posed for commercial photog- raphers?just a small group of them?and fly-by-night panderers had bought and bought the pictures, publishing them with greasy titles in cheap pamphlets that changed names from month to month. The public, including school children, who clipped out the lust-inciting ladies, and passed them around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panders | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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