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...most recent issue of Avatar, the Cambridge-based "hippie" newspaper was declared obscene yesterday by Boston Municipal Court Judge Elijah Adlow...
...delivering his verdict Adlow rapped recent United States Supreme Court decisions regarding obscentity. "The test of obscentity," the white-haired Judge said, pacing back and forth behind his bench, "has been obscured by the casuistry of the higher courts...
...decision, Adlow said, was based entirely on the contents of the "Diary of a Young Artist," a weekly column which appeared in the ill-fated Avatar issue. When Robert Poppio, attorney for the Booksmith, argued that the whole issue had to be considered, Adlow replied, "Suppose the printer made a mistake and put this column in the middle of the Old Testament. Wouldn't you still judge it as obscene?" Adlow admitted that he hadn't read the whole issue. "That would be cruel and abusive punishment," he said...
Forty sit-in demonstrators arrested Saturday night on the steps of the Federal Building walked out of Boston Municipal Court yesterday morning when Chief Justice Eiijah Adlow refused to issue complaints against them...
After conferring with five lawyers for the demonstrators, Adlow issued a statement saying. "I don't believe the public interest would be served in any way by granting these complaints. There is an element of exhibitionism in all of this and I do not want to give them (the demonstrators) another stage...