People, Oct. 18, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Inspectors in the Beverly Hills, Calif, post office, raking through the mails for obscene material, triumphantly found a naughty volume sent from England to a local bookseller. The offending pornographer: Aristophanes. The intercepted work: Lysistrata, that gay old tale of how the wives of Athens, trying to force their menfolk into calling off a war, stage a mass boudoir lockout. At week's end, the post office hinted that it might let this lascivious matter pass, provided that the bookseller would produce an affidavit from...

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