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Manhattan Publisher Donald Friede, president of Covici-Friede Corp., was convicted in Boston last week for violation of the Massachusetts statute forbidding distribution of objectionable literature. The book: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Its theme: how U. S. conventions and his own limitations caused a young man to murder his sweetheart...
...U. S. is now sufficiently adult to study a book on connubial hygiene, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love, the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love...
Thus ended the greatest courtroom victory in many a year. Three years ago softspoken, wild-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson began his campaign to dispose of gangsters by jailing them for nonpayment of taxes. Said Mr. Johnson: "This is the beginning of the end of Chicago's gangs...
Death forms the background of Hemingway's tenth and latest book, his only novel with a U. S. background. But readers of previous love & death stories by Hemingway will find in To Have and Have Not a maturity which reflects the more serious turn his personal life has taken in the last year. For the queasy, it should be added that many of the killings (twelve) in To Have and Have Not are perpetrated with much goriness; for the straitlaced, that the book brings to naked print practically all the four-letter words extant, contains scenes in which copulation...
...quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers last week could reassure themselves that U. S. writers still have a front rank and that he is still...