Able and avid to censor books and plays within its city limits, Boston tries also to censor magazines. In 1926 it impeded sales of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack." Last spring it pounced on Scribner's for the serial instalments of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms." Last week magazine readers watched to see what Boston would do about the January number of Plain Talk, which contained a sizzling article about Boston itself.
Results were speedy. The city's clergy unanimously voted an investigation. Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson issued broad denials. Massachusetts' Governor...
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