Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hiding, garbed in new and respectable garments. Ever since 1922, when the first edition of Ulysses was published in Paris, hundreds of U. S. citizens have smuggled copies through the customs or bought them from bookleggers. But this week, on the strength of Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey's decision that Ulysses is not obscene (TIME, Dec. 18), Random House was able to publish the first edition of the book ever legally printed in any English-speaking country...
...ever shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in the penumbral zone residua of past impressions" cannot reasonably be dismissed as obscenity. If Judge Woolsey never brandishes a gavel again, he will, notwithstanding, have amply justified by this decision alone whatever salary New York has been placing in his Christmas stocking...
...single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses an obscene book." Fat, bald-headed Judge Woolsey who spent his vacation last summer on Ulysses, puffed a cigaret in a long holder, admitted that "reading parts of that book almost drove me frantic," ended up by saying "I must take a little more time to make up my mind." Last week, Judge Woolsey's mind...
Last week's opinion was not the first of its kind for Judge Woolsey. A shy, scholarly, ponderous, blunt devotee of literature, the law, and what he calls "the art of small delights," he has been concerned with the legal nature of obscenity since 1931. In that year he ruled in favor of Dr. Marie Stope's Married Love. Three months later he rendered a favorable decision on her Contraception. He was the judge in famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned...
Born in Aiken, S. C., 56 years ago, John Munro Woolsey went to Phillips Andover, Yale, Columbia Law School. For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks. He plays mediocre golf, wearing a peculiar oriental cap to keep the sun from shining into his spectacles...