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Massachusetts will have its last opportunity--for a while anyway--to pass judgment on this eighteenth century novel when its Supreme Judicial Court opens the January, 1965 term this week. On the docket will be the appeal of G. P. Putnam's Sons, publisher of the contested edition, in Edward W. Brooke (Attorney General) v. A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Commonly Known as Fanny Hill). Justice Donald M. Macaulay of the Massachusetts Superior Court finally ruled on Sept. 22 that "this book is utterly without redeeming social importance in the fields...
...banned. But it didn't take much work to convince the Courts; Justice Eugene A. Hudson of Suffolk County Superior Court read Fanny and promptly issued an "order of notice" that "there is reasonable cause to believe that (Fanny Hill) is obscene, indecent, and impure." On March 19, Putnam's answered the order and made it clear that it intended to fight Massachusetts on the issue. Putnam's president Walter J. Minton '45 retained Reuben Goodman '35, a prominent figure in the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and Charles I.Rombar '35, a New York lawyer who is well-known...
Rombar and Goodman will take their case to the Supreme Judicial Court this week, with basically the same appeal brief that Putnam's has used on countless other occasions. It contends that Fanny cannot be denied the protection of free expression under the First Amendment when any of these tests established by the United States Supreme Court for it are applied...
...Putnam's Sons, had asked Judge Pashman to enjoin the county prosecutor from blocking sale of the book in New Jersey under a law that bars distribution of "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" material. The usual parade of witnesses-psychiatrists as well as literary critics-argued that Fanny Hill contained not a single four-letter word. But Judge Pashman was not impressed...
...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...