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...final official farewell gesture, the President honored Humphrey with a black-tie White House stag dinner, attended by the Cabinet and other top Government leaders, e.g., Vice President Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Later, Treasury officials put up the cost of a new black leather chair ($116.50) for Humphrey's hand-picked successor, Lawyer-Financier Robert Anderson, 47, onetime (1954-55) Deputy Defense Secretary. The next black-chair souvenir, Washington suspected, will go to another businessman turned Administration stalwart, outgoing, outspoken Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson-as soon as the Administration can find a good and willing...
...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...
TIME's report of stag magazines [April 29] recalls memories of my high-school days 66 years ago in a small Hoosier town. We had no b. & b. magazines, so we turned to literature, both sacred and profane, to find the double-entendre and other glimpses of mysteries of man and woman. We found plenty...
Last week the stag mags* were in the midst of a censorship battle that raged all the way from Boston to Los Angeles, from suburban mothers' clubs to the Supreme Court. In New York, where police in the past six months have seized some 2,000 copies of 15 different magazines under city obscenity laws, a publishing newsletter protested: "Never in the history of the magazine industry have the newsstands been flooded with so many borderline, semi-obscene and actually pornographic periodicals." Legislatures in ten states were considering bills that would make it illegal to distribute or sell...
Literary Chloroform. But the stags lave yet to be brought to bay. The trouble with attempts to ban them is that most legal definitions of obscenity ineviably trap serious-intentioned publishers and writers in the censor's net. Last month district attorneys from 38 Pennsylvania counties met to "discuss new methods of combatting the obscene literature pouring into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches...