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...precautionary phone call to his head clerk. Plainclothes cops, the loyal employee reported, had been riffling through the store's ample stock of pornographic novels and postcards, and were awaiting the owner's arrival. The owner, however, hastened to a district judge and got a magic writ called an amparo. When he walked into the store soon afterward and the detectives tried to arrest him, he produced the amparo. With a sigh of frustration, the cops shut the books and went away. The bookseller could be reasonably sure that they would not bother him again for another three...
...Moving Finger. Victorian ladies sneaked the poems upstairs and hid them under their pillows. Lovers read them aloud, and young men quoted sadly that "The Moving Finger Writes; and, having writ, Moves on . . ." Far into the 20th Century, the contagion persisted, and Journalist-Historian Mark Sullivan, in Our Times, felt himself obliged to record that Omar's bibulous philosophy had had the "effect of sapping and undermining" U.S. morals...
...72nd birthday while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...
...morning last week, Nathuram Vinayak Godse, the young fanatic who shot Gandhi (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948), drank his last cup of prison coffee. While jailers waited, Godse and his accomplice, Narayan Dattatraya Apte, recited from the Hindu Holy Writ, the Bhagavad-Gita ("Fight, and have no fear. The foe is yours to conquer"). They walked to the scaffold, clutching their Gitas between the palms of their tied hands...
Cutting his way through the murky gloom of the Sanctum Sanctorum, he stumbled over the wizened oriental as he approached his Ouija board, and he watched the stylus as the message of the gods poured through it. The moving finger wrote thus and having writ, moved...