Word: soho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black appealed to London Magistrate Leo Gradwell, whose Marlborough Street court has jurisdiction over the Soho restaurant district and the offices of Exit's British publishers, Calder & Boyars. Black charged the publishers with violating the 1959 Obscene Publications Act by having "obscene articles in their possession for publication for gain." For his part, the magistrate cooperated by issuing a search warrant. The police seized three copies from the publishers and the prosecution was on -with no jury trial...
Firmly ruling that Exit "has a tendency to deprave and corrupt," Magistrate Gradwell ordered his three copies destroyed and in effect banned all future sales-a decision that actually applies only to his own Soho district. Despite that limitation, said one alarmed British publisher, Gradwell's precedent invites "any crank to start proceedings against a book he does not like. All you need is a friendly magistrate." As a result, the publishers are now practically begging the government to prosecute-with a jury. Their hope is obviously to give the book nationwide legal approval. Watchdog Black...
...broken in at his favorite London whorehouse. Meanwhile, his two daughters, aged five and 15, are kidnaped and sold to a Paris bordello, after which a band of reformers, led by Lenton's wife and the Salvation Army, cleans up Great Britain-never envisioning that Piccadilly and Soho would one day witness the blossoming of newer and gamier sex-traffic jams...
...police were everywhere. Detectives mingled with sunbathers beside Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake, barged into Soho nightclubs, shone lights on the faces of couples necking in cars. Police search parties combed the London docks, held up the departure of two boat trains at Victoria Station, boarded freighters in three ports, and closely examined departing passengers at London Airport. Army helicopters hovered over 200 policemen fanning through the fields of Berkshire. Led by Alsatian dogs, hundreds of armed officers tramped for days through the forests of Epping, Savernake and Watford. A police patrol boat even picked up a vacationing German...
...press release put it, "Mr. Graham is not going to Soho to condemn, but to show his concern for all people." Indeed, Billy Graham, 47, aroused considerable concern when he showed up in London's fleshpotty parish. Swinging through a third week of his crusade in Blighty, the evangelist had planned an hour's walk through Soho, but a mob of 2,000 zealots swarmed all over him just across the way from the Old Compton Street Cinema (current attraction: Orgy at Lil's Place). A stripper named Brigitte St. John screamed: "Billy, what do you think...