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Another aspect of Bert's effectiveness is the lifetime of technical perfection that he can bring to bear on the small problems that matter in crew. The "lifetime" is almost literal, for when he was born in Winsor, England, his father and three uncles, all champion punters, were waiting to impart to him all their love. Bert's father impressed the principles of coxing on him at nine by cracking his knuckles when he made a miscalculation. This is one teaching device that Bert has not found it expedient to carry over to the Harvard scene...
...Boston, Forever Amber went on trial for obscenity under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
...morals on trial under Massachusetts censorship law, "Forever Amber" found a stout defender yesterday in the person of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who stated that the book did not "corrupt or deprave" him. Appearing as star witness for the defense in the current trial of Kathleen Winsor's risque best-seller, Professor Jones testified that the book "bored" his wife, and left his own moral standards unsullied...
...Kathleen Winsor became a banned author in Sheffield, England, but no prestige attached to it: the city fathers deplored Amber as utter rubbish...
...Miss Winsor's brummagem novel, glowed the Dispatch, is "the most famous book of modern times. ... It has been banned in more countries and in more places than any other novel ever published...