Word: putnam
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Another member of the English Department, who refused to testify for Fanny Hill when he was asked, said yesterday that he and other professors, including Bullitt, had received letters from G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher of the book, requesting their assistance. The mimeographed letter suggested that the book would be defended as being inferior to Henry Fielding's works, but better than those of Samuel Richardson...
...next stage in the Massachusetts battle against Fanny Hill comes Thursday in Suffolk County Superior Court, when Judge Eugene A. Hudson's older of notice, which says he considers the book "obscene, impure, and indecent," is returnable. At Thursday's hearing Putnam's will file a formal petition stating its objection to a permanent ban on the book in the Commonweath...
Walter J. Minton '45, president of Putnam's, said this week that "a number of people have expressed a willingness to testify. This includes faculty members at M.I.T., Boston University, Wellesley, and Tufts, as well as at Harvard...
...Putnam's Sons, which published Fanny Hill in June, 1963, was reported yesterday to have retained counsel in Boston to defend the book. Putnam's has said that it will seek experts to defend Fanny Hill's "literary and historic merit...
Prepublication endorsements, incidentally, are a neglected art form, and Putnam's collection for Baker's dust jacket is one of the better samplings: > "God almighty what a cool book! This baby is red hot!"-Richard Bissell, The Pajama Game man. Translation: "They'll know I'm kidding...