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Vincent McHugh, formerly noted for prose (Sing Before Breakfast), became a notable poet overnight when veteran Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner got McHugh's publishers into a Manhattan court on an obscenity charge. The book under discussion: McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe...
...rather funny, inoffensive, and absolutely clean line which intimated, at least to the self-appointed censors of NBC, that radio's organizational set-up might not be completely perfect. Other programs, attempting to extract laughs from the incident, were likewise gagged. In New York this week one John Sumner, of the Society for Supression of Vice, led three detectives in a raid on the offices of Random House publishers. For reasons best known to himself he ordered confiscated all ten available copies of a widely unknown book of poems, "The Blue Hen's Chickens," and served a summons...
...Sumner Alpert, national president of the Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of America, and Elihu D. Stone, World Zionist Organization representative on the Jewish Agency, will be the principle speakers when the regional convention of I.Z.F.A. meets tonight at 7 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House...
Within a few minutes the Senate then confirmed the other AEC Commissioners: Robert F. Bacher, Lewis L. Strauss, William W. Waymack, Sumner T. Pike and General Manager Carroll L. Wilson. Next day, the Commission held a meeting of the entire staff in the auditorium of the Public Health building, into which the Commission had moved three weeks ago. The sense of the meeting: "Now we can get on with...
Nine people, four of them Law School students, scrambled out of a two-story frame dwelling on Sumner Road at dawn yesterday before a raging fire that killed 65-year old William C. Gardner, operator of the rooming house, and seriously damaged first floor rooms...