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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 28, 1977

Page

9

Hustler obscenity trial orders jurors to study 11 issues

Cincinnati AP reports the Hustler obscenity trial of publisher Larry Flynt his wife Althea his brother James and production manager Al Van Schaik begins. Jurors must study 11 issues cover to cover as prosecutors seek to ban Hustler nationwide and defendants argue free press.

Cincinnati Hustler Magazine Larry Flynt Althea James al van Schaik Hamilton County Aap Wirebota

Magnificent Catherine the Great review by Haslip

Book review covers Joan Haslip in a comprehensive portrait of Catherine II the Great and her era. It highlights her ascent from Sophie of Anhalt Zerbst to empress, her reforms and excesses, her lovers and influence on Russia, plus side notes on other contemporary reference works and titles in the same issue.

Catherine the Great Joan Hastip Putnam Catherine II Russia Sophie Anhalt-Zerbst Ireland Parnell Turkey Abdul Hamid I Peter I Peter III Catherine Grigori Orlov Peter Pugachev Poland Crimea Near East Joan Haslip Alaska Orlov Potemko Two Continents Frances M. Clapham

Whale edition sale sets fiction auction record

An American dealer paid 53000 for an 1851 London edition three volume set of The Whale later titled Moby Dick. Sotheby Parke Bennet called it a world record for fiction. The auction total for American books and letters reached 432165 with a Hemingway letter bringing 4600.

New York Herman Melville Sotheby Parke Bennet Melville London Henry Hubbard Nor'west Pittsfield Mass Ernest Hemingway William Smith

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