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Last week a Bronx court completely exonerated LIFE'S Publisher Roy Edward Larsen of the obscenity charge filed against him for selling a copy of LIFE containing pictures from the cinema The Birth of a Baby. Thus ended once & for all any legal objection to the way LIFE handled the facts of life...
Last week, in The Bronx, detectives haled before Magistrate Frank Oliver seven newsdealers, charged them with selling a magazine, For Men Only, containing three "obscene" words. When the defendants' lawyers showed that one or more of the words had also been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, some 20 books in the city's public library, Shakespeare and the Bible, the magistrate ruled the words were not obscene, dismissed the charge. The New York World-Telegram and Herald Tribune, carefully reporting to their readers that one of the words appeared in verse 7 of chapter...
LIFE's Publisher Roy E. Larsen had himself arrested last week in The Bronx, New York City, for selling "indecent literature"-a Bronx-banned copy of LIFE containing the "Birth of a Baby" pictures* (TIME, April 18). This week, as Publisher Larsen prepared to go on trial for the first time in his life, the American Institute of Public Opinion revealed that it had cut a quick cross-section of U. S. voters, of whom 17,000,000 (by Institute estimate) had seen the disputed pictures in LIFE...
...find out whether such facts of life could legally be kept from U. S. citizens, Publisher Roy E. Larsen this week agreed to a test arrest and trial in The Bronx. District Attorney Foley, who had told reporters he would personally arrest Publisher Larsen, passed responsibility to The Bronx grand jury when Mr. Larsen sold a copy of the banned LIFE to a detective while Mr. Foley looked...
That a boom in building would do much to break depression, everyone knows. That Government-financed low-cost housing will start the boom, Franklin Roosevelt's Administration sincerely hopes. Last week an announcement by Frederick Ecker, chairman of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., cheered The Bronx and indicated that private finance could do its part. Mr. Ecker's announcement: Metropolitan has signed contracts with builders to put up $35,000,000 worth of housing, covering 120 acres in The Bronx. This development will be by far the biggest housing project ever undertaken in the U. S. When completed three...