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Middletown Journal in Middletown, Ohio

20 May 1948

Page 11

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Middletown Journal

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Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 20, 1948

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11

Anti-Vice Crusader Marks 75 Years Of Moral Push

New York AP report on John Sumner and the Society for the Suppression of Vice now renamed to Public Decency Maintainers. It cites 5,524 arrests and 16,976,338 obscenity items seized over 75 years, noting ongoing growth in offensive literature and battles with publishers writers and theater figures.

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New York John Sumner Society For the Suppression of Vice Sumner Society Edmund Wilson Hegate County U. S. Supreme Court Arthur Schnitver Ragan Jim Tully Theodore Dreiser James Joyce Ulysses James Branch Cabell Jurgen Erskine Caldwell Radclyffe Hall James Farrell Calder Willingham Mae West Welfare Island
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War fiction postwar voices and anticipated new writers

The piece weighs English prose postwar realism against Dos Passos and Hemingway. It notes Look Homeward Angel and Farewell to Arms as late 1920s landmarks, predicts a fresh voice to immortalize future conflicts, possibly Robert Lowry or Burns, with a 1956 publication target under postwar schedules.

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Dos Passos Hemingway Remarque Wolfe Angel Robert Lowry Burns
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