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...August 27, Postmaster General Arthur J. Summerfield's department issued a withhold-from-dispatch order to prevent Harrison from distributing his magazine to news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
After Confidential magazine was barred from the U.S. mails (TIME, Sept. 19), the American Civil Liberties Union accused Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield of violating freedom of the press. Last week Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl seemed to agree: he tossed out the post office ban against Confidential. The court told post office lawyers that in order to ban any publication in the future, they must first go into court with evidence of obscenity and get a temporary injunction, then give the publishers a formal hearing...
Four recent libel suits did not faze Confidential magazine (TIME. July 11) and caused no change in its up-from-the sewer journalistic formula of sex and sin. But in Washington last month, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield threw a scare into the magazine that rattled every skeleton in its closet; he barred Confidential from the mails after a "number of complaints." Post Office officials objected to among other things, a racy description of a stripteaser's gyrations and a "questionable cheesecake photograph of Hollywood Starlet Terry Moore. Hereafter each issue of Confidential must be cleared by the Post Office...
...Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis Lodge, Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff...
...House approved and sent to the White House a $3.3 billion Treasury-Post Office Department appropriation, $37.9 million less than the Administration had requested, with $33 million of the cut applied to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield's budget...