Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dreary Chore. With a sigh, Earl Warren called for arguments in the third case: Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons' appeal from Massachusetts' ban on Fanny Hill, the enduring (1749) erotic bestseller that has been ruled non-obscene in New York. For the publisher, Lawyer Charles Rembar breezily announced: "I bring you a case in which it is not necessary to read the book." Commented Justice John M. Harlan: "Maybe I wasted my time reading it in advance." Undaunted, Rembar argued that all sorts of experts have long since attested to Fanny's social importance...
...Putnam's Sons, Fanny's New York publisher, appealed the April decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts that Fanny Hill is "obscene, impure, and indecent...
...Fanny's original trial, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, testified in Suffolk Superior Court that the book is of literary and historic merit. Bullitt was one of a series of professors brought into court in May, 1964 by Putnam's expert censorship lawyers. Charles I. Rembar '35 and Reuben Goodman...
...GREAT MUTINY by James Dugan. 511 pages. Putnam...
...SPRING THE WAR ENDED by Steven Linakis. 380 pages. Putnam...