Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stag magazines, lewd and pornographic literature deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth, or is it our low morals and spiritual weaknesses that make obscenity and smut bestselling stuff...
...Cambridge anti-smut drive appeared doubtful today, in spite of a City Council order to the police department to remove "indecent and smutty" literature from local stores...
...heels of a California state senate investigation aimed at keeping Hollywood smut out of the scandal magazines (TIME, March 11), a federal grand jury in Chicago last week struck at the nation's best-selling scandal magazine for putting smut in the mail. In a six-count indictment, New York-based Confidential and its Mount Morris (Ill.) distributing agency, the Kable Printing Co., were charged with mailing "nonmailable matter . . . which gives . . . information on how and by what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill...
...Smut. The most significant tattle of the week came, however, straight out of journalism's dirty glass house. In Los Angeles, a parade of witnesses told a state senate investigating committee how Confidential magazine and its competitors (TIME, July 11, 1955) perform the keyhole-peeping routine that makes a heap of money out of homebreaking...
...libel and distribution of lewd material. There was good reason to doubt that the klieg-lit legislators would effectively police bedroom journalism, or indeed should. In fact, by emphasizing the zeal with which the leer-and-smear brigade sifts its dirt, the senate hearings lent some support to the smut-peddlers' argument that scurrility can be justified if it is accurate. Nevertheless, few responsible editors could agree with Publisher Harrison that "the truth never smears anybody." The issue that was largely ignored last week is whether truth a la Confidential is defensible in terms of the instincts it gratifies...