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...chronicle" is James Joyce's definition of his Ulysses, a book which many a critic considers the most important novel of its generation. Whether Ulysses is also "immoral and obscene" and therefore unfit for U. S. readers was the question which Manhattan's Federal Judge John M. Woolsey last week was ready to answer in the extraordinary case of "The U. S. vs. One Book Entitled Ulysses...
...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...
...other two prizes are presented by the Harvard Clubs of Chicago, and of Buffalo. The Chicago award is an additional scholarship to Robert D. Woolsey 1M, of Maquon, Illinois. Burton L. Olmsted '37, of Buffalo, is the recipient of the Buffalo Scholarship...