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Despite its benevolent and highly public-spirited intentions, the Massachusetts Advisory Committee is an especially good example of a potentially serious threat to the free dissemination of artistic works. When the Committee declares a book "unfit" for juvenile consumption and notifies booksellers of this fact, it in effect bans the book from any public sale. If a dealer is warned of the obscenity of a specific publication, he will not in most cases make a distinction between an adult and a youth: he will simply lift the book and return it to the distributor, taking no chances...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

Although it is not a land-grant college, Davidson requires all students to participate in at least two years of the Army R.O.T.C. program. Exceptions are made only in cases where a student is physically unfit or is specifically excused by reason of approved parental request made in writing before registration. Graduates of the college's Infantry program achieved an especially fine record in World...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Davidson--Stress Conformity, Academic Rigor | 11/1/1952 | See Source »

Both the freshmean and varsity squad candidates not in other sports begin playing near the wind-swept Charles in the first week after College registration. Practice was discontinued last week only after the wintry weather made the courts unfit for play...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/21/1952 | See Source »

...statement came on the heels of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon's television broadcast Monday night, in which he accused Stevenson of being unfit to combat the Communist menace, because he "testified voluntarily" that Hiss' reputation was good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Men Behind Stevenson In Hiss Testimony | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

...tribunal's third judge, Carl W. Fulghum, held in his minority opinion that i) Yugoslavia's lack of free enterprise was beside the point; 2) no case had been made out to show that Ivan's real mother was unfit to give him a proper home; 3) "the former member-of the Nazi Party and SS trooper [should not] be considered more suitable for her child [than she] who suffered so much at the hands of the Nazi army and SS troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Two Mothers | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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