Word: kathleen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
BOSTON, MARCH 10-"Forever Amber" was freed to Massachusetts readers by Superior Court judge Francis J. Donahue who ruled the Kathleen Winzor novel "not obscene" but said it was "conducive to sleep...
...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...
...humane and intelligent policeman, but his motives are as implacably businesslike as his search. Johnny's fellow revolutionists try to rescue him (and are killed or captured in the attempt), not for his own sake but as a point of honor, because he is their leader. The girl (Kathleen Ryan) tries to help Johnny because she would rather die- and if need be kill him-than endure a loveless life without him. An old priest (W. G. Fay) negotiates subtly for Johnny, because he feels that his business-a dying man's soul-is the really important issue...
...Novelist Kathleen Norris is planning...