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Last week a Bronx court completely exonerated LIFE'S Publisher Roy Edward Larsen of the obscenity charge filed against him for selling a copy of LIFE containing pictures from the cinema The Birth of a Baby. Thus ended once & for all any legal objection to the way LIFE handled the facts of life...
Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
LIFE's Publisher Roy E. Larsen had himself arrested last week in The Bronx, New York City, for selling "indecent literature"-a Bronx-banned copy of LIFE containing the "Birth of a Baby" pictures* (TIME, April 18). This week, as Publisher Larsen prepared to go on trial for the first time in his life, the American Institute of Public Opinion revealed that it had cut a quick cross-section of U. S. voters, of whom 17,000,000 (by Institute estimate) had seen the disputed pictures in LIFE...
...find out whether such facts of life could legally be kept from U. S. citizens, Publisher Roy E. Larsen this week agreed to a test arrest and trial in The Bronx. District Attorney Foley, who had told reporters he would personally arrest Publisher Larsen, passed responsibility to The Bronx grand jury when Mr. Larsen sold a copy of the banned LIFE to a detective while Mr. Foley looked...
Leader Leuthold noticed that Mrs. Dorothy Clark, one of the party's two women, and Roy Varney, a veteran climber from Oregon City, were lagging, staggering. Varney said he could hardly see. Two Mazamas, themselves weak, were assigned to support each of them. Then Leader Leuthold broke a climbing rule-that an expedition's leader, like a sea captain, must follow all others out of trouble. He donned skis, tumbled, slid, rolled down to Timberline to fetch the snow tractor. At the lodge he found that the driver was miles away, the key lost...