Word: putnam
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CANDY by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. 224 pages. Putnam...
...confident prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General John E. Sullivan, called but one witness in the effort to ban the book, while publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons enlisted the aid of five Boston-area English professors, including John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House...
Charles I. Rembar '35, counsel for Putnam's, based his defense of Fanny Hill on the contention that no work of art may be kept from the public as long as it has "social value." In Massachusetts' last major censorship case, involving Tropic of Cancer, the state's Supreme Judicial Court declared that "anything with literary attributes" or "redeeming social importance" cannot be banned...
Sullivan criticized Putnam's for calling witnesses "from only one walk of life." He suggested that the testimony of housewives might have been relevant
Walter J. Minton '45, president of Putnam's has spent the past three months attempting to gather expert witnesses in the Boston area. He indicated in March that a number of academic figures would assist in the case, possibly including some from Harvard...