People, Jul. 8, 1957

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Informed of the Supreme Court's decision upholding state laws against obscenity (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Author Philip (Generation of Vipers') Wylie, 55, declared himself unimpressed, fired off a Wylian philippic at the Great American Gaminess: "Are we going to stop publication of the bust measurements of movie stars? Perhaps we should stop using pictures of women at all. The idea that we can purge the American people by censorship is ridiculous. The favorite pastime of the American people is dirty jokes. The American people are...

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