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Danna, Sammy R. Death of Broadcasting Option Time. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School ofJournalism, University of Missouri, 1965. 5 p. (Publication no. 50) D1
A history of the practice of broadcast networks requiring their affiliated stations to set aside certain hours for network programs, from the advent of television until the elimination of the practice in 1962.
Dash, Samuel, Richard F. Schwartz, and Robert E. Knowlton. The Eavesdropper. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1959. 484p. D2
A report on a nationwide fact- finding study of wiretapping, involving eavesdropping by county and state law enforcement, by private parties, and by the racketeers. The report is arranged in three parts: The Practice, by Samuel Dash; The Fools, by Richard F. Schwartz; and The Law, by Robert E. Knowlton.
Davidson, Donald. "Notes: Zona Gale, Censorship." In his The Spyglass; Views and Reviews, 19241930, edited by John T. Fain. Nashville, Tenn., Vanderbilt University Press, 1963, pp. 153-58. D3
Observations on the absurdity of censorship in the author's column, The Spyglass, in the Nashville Tennessean, 6 February 1927. "Censorship . . . gets nowhere, because nobody can decide with any sort of accuracy what really ought to be censored . . . I know of no person I would trust as a literary censor."
Davis, A. G. "Law of Defamation in New Zealand." University of Toronto Law Journal, 16:37-54, 1965. D4
Davis, Norris G. "Invasion of Privacy: A Study in Contradictions." Journalism Quarterly, 30:179-88, Spring 1953. D5
"Court decisions in right of privacy cases are completely contradictory and have seldom brought justice, contends the author after extensive study."
Day, J. Edward. "Mailing Lists and Pornography." American Bar Association Journal, 52:110-39, December 1966. D6
The author was Postmaster General in the Kennedy Administration.
"Defamation a Deux: Incidental Defamation and the Sullivan Doctrine." University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 114:241-48, December 1965. D7
"Does the qualified privilege to make defamatory remarks about a public official in his official capacity also immunize defamation of a private party incidental to that of a public official?"
"Defamation of the Public Official." Northwestern University Law Review, 61:614-39, September-October 1966. D8
Analysis of the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964).
de Graffenried, William R. "Torts - Invasion of Right of Privacy." Alabama Law Review, 1:124-27, Fall 1948. D9
The author explores the implications of Smith v. Doss, 37 So 2d 118 (1948), which relates to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving the radio broadcast of a 1905 story about the disappearance of the father of the plaintiff. The Court ruled that the subject matter was of legitimate public interest and that the passage of time did not give privacy to his acts which were "imbedded in the public record."
Del Porto, Joseph A. Thomas Erskine and Alexander Hamilton. Iowa City, Iowa, Association for Education in Journalism, 1966. 15p. mimeo. (Presented at convention of the Association, University of Iowa) D10
An account of the two eighteenth-century lawyers, Erskine in England and Hamilton in America, who challenged the existing laws of seditious libel.
De Mott, Robert. "The Right of Privacy in Relation to Radio Broadcasts." Rocky Mountain Law Review, 12:127-33, February 1940. D11
Regarding Mau v. Rio Grande Oil, Inc. 28 F. Supp. 845 (S.D.Cal. 1939), which recognizes that there can be an invasion of personal privacy by oral publication through the medium of radio.
Dempsey, David. "S.E.X. and the P.E.N." Saturday Review, 49(11):31, 12 March 1966. D12
Report of a frank discussion of pornography by a panel composed of authors Elizabeth Janeway and Marya Mannes, Professor Leslie Fiedler, and publisher Barney Rosset, given before the P.E.N. Club.
"Deprive and Corrupt, I and II." Times Literary Supplement, no. 3,393, 9 March 1967, p. 193; no. 3,394, 16 March 1967, p. 219. D13
In the first issue the reviewer discusses hidden public library censorship in England as referred to in an article by B.- H. Yemini in Censorship and reviews Pamela H. Johnson's book, On Iniquity, "an energetic and despondent meditation on the power of literature to deprave and corrupt." Part II deals with recent activities of the Lord Chamberlain in the censorship of plays and the possible outcome if this official were divested of his censorship duties.
Derby, E. Stephen. "Section 315: Analysis and Proposal." Harvard Journal on Legislation, 3:257-321, February 1966. D14
The author considers four policy questions raised by Section 315 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 which relate to grants of broadcast time to candidates for public office: What is the proper definition of legally qualified candidate? To what uses of broadcast facilities should the section apply? What is the proper role for the concept of equal opportunities? How may rights created under this section be effectively enforced?
Deutsch, Eberhard P. "From Zenger to Garrison: A Tale of Two Centuries." New York State Bar Journal, 38:409-19, October 1966. D15
A comparison of the Zenger libel case of 1734 with the defamation case against New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1964.
Devereux, E. J. "Elizabeth Barton and Tudor Censorship." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 49:91-106, Autumn 1966. D16
In the affair of The Nun's Book in 1533 the author relates "what may be the first case of really successful suppression of books and ideas in England." In July of that year King Henry VIII ordered Cromwell to take action against a book, probably written by Edward Thwaites, recounting the revelations and miraculous cures of a nun of St. Sepulcre's, Elizabeth Barton. The book also contained criticism of Henry's divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn. Some 700 copies of the book printed by John Skot were seized and probably destroyed since no copies are extant, and the nun and five clerics were executed.
Devol, Kenneth S. "Libel and the Student Press." The Collegiate Journalist, 3(2):10, 12, Winter 1966. D17
Who would be involved in a libel suit against a student publication?
-------. Major Areas of Conflict in the Control of College and University Daily Student Newspapers in the United States. Los Angeles, University of Southern California, 1965. 294p. (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation) D18
Dibble, J. Rex. "Obscenity: A State Quarantine to Protect Children." Southern California Law Review, 39:345-77, 1966. D19
"It is the premise of this article that society today has the constitutional power to protect children from obscene materials within reasonable limitations of certainty and fairness, and that this power exists even though there may not be definite scientific proof of actual injury to children . . . The area of state power over obscenity and children is the subject of the present discussion . . . The principal purpose of this article is to suggest a possible statutory scheme, recognizing that some points in discussion, and several important Par,ts of the draft statute, are subject to argument.
Dilliard, Irving. "The Greatest Freedom of All." Grassroots Editor, 7(4):8-12, October 1966. D20
In this 1966 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Lecture at Southern Illinois University Dilliard pays tribute to four editors of "unusual courage and integrity and long devotion to journalism." Josiah William Gitt, editor and publisher of the York (Penn.) Gazette, John Theodore Evjue, editor and publisher of the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, John Netherland Heiskell, editor and publisher of the Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock), and Thomas More Starke, editor and publisher emeritus of the Santa Barbara News Press.
Disraeli, Isaac. "War against Books." In his Amenities ofLiterature . . . New York, Widdleton, 1874, pp. 425-46. (Also issued by Stratford Press, Cincinnati, 1942 as vol. 3 of A Trilogy on Printing) D21
An essay on the war waged against early English printers by Church and State, the Star Chamber, the Stationers' Office, and the Licensers of the Press. The essay was first published in 1841.
Doan, Edward N. "The Newspaper and the Right of Privacy." Journal of the Bar Association of Kansas, 5:203-14, February 1937. D22
A professor of law summarizes the existing legal situation in attempting to answer questions on the right of privacy raised by Lee A. White of the Detroit News in Editor and Publisher, 25 April 1936.
Dobbs, Kildare. "Eros on Yonge Street: Impressions of the Dorothy Cameron Trial." Saturday Night, 81:18-21, February 1966. D23
A Toronto art gallery owner is tried for exhibiting "obscene" pictures.
Dobyns, Frank L. Cigarette Advertising Code. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1967. 6p. (Report no. 179) D24
The story of the cigarette advertising code, imposed by the industry to forestall government regulation.
Donigan, Robert L., and Edward C. Fisher. "Fair Trial vs. Freedom of the Press." Traffic Digest and Review, 14(10):18-24, October 1966. D25
A discussion of the recent court rulings in the Sheppard and Estes cases.
Doubles, M. Ray "A Camera in the Courtroom." Washington and Lee Law Review, 22:1-16, Spring 1965. D26
"Giving the widest latitude to arguments on behalf of the television industry that what transpires in a courtroom is news, and that it should be televised under the right of freedom of the press . . . the overwhelming conclusion is that a Canon prohibiting such television is proper." But the Canon should not be based on television techniques detracting from the dignity of the court, but rather that knowledge of the telecasting may distract the witnesses.
Dowd, Donald W., et al. "Free Press and a Fair Trial - A Symposium." Villanova Law Review, 11:677-741, Summer 1966. D27
Introduction by Donald W. Dowd, A Newspaperman's View by Fred Graham, A Radio and Television Newsman's View by WilliamB. Monroe, A Prosecutor's View by Arlen Specter, A Defense Attorney's View by Percy Foreman, A Bar Association View by Robert L. Trescher, A Judicial View by Judge William F. Smith, and An Academic View by Robert B. McKay. Comments on Sheppard v. Maxwell,384 U.S. 333, are given by McKay and Graham.
Doyle, Henry G. "Censorship and Student Publications." School and Society, 28 :78-80, 21 July 1928. D28
"The ideal system, my inquiries seem to indicate, is one of complete editorial control by students, with strict accountability for the exercise of that control both as members of the college community and as citizens."
[Drennan, William]. A Full Report of the Trial at Bar, in the Court of King's Bench, of William Drennan, M. D. upon an Indictment, Charging Him with Having Written and Published a Seditious Libel . . . Dublin, J. Rea, G. Johnson, 1794. 96p. D29
Dr. Drennan was brought to trial along with Archibald H. Rowan for having written the Address to the Volunteers by the Dublin United Irish men, published in the Northern Star.
Driver, Tom F. "Obscenity and the Court." Christianity and Crisis, 26:81-83, 2 May 1966. D30
Criticism of the Supreme Court decisions in the Ginzhurg, Mishkin, and Fanny Hill cases. Fanny Hill was freed, but for the wrong reasons. The jailing of Ginzburg and Mishkin "does not seem to be part of any process that protects the freedom and order of the rest of society." While holding no brief for their motives, they should not be considered criminals. "We believe that this hypocrisy [allowing Fanny Hill on the basis of its redeeming social value] has a worse moral effect than does the free distribution of erotic literature."
Dumbauld, Edward. "State Precedents for the Bill of Rights." Journal of Public Law, 7:323-44, Fall 1958. D31
A table (p. 343) indicates topics including freedom of press and freedom of debate, appearing in state constitutions.
Dunn, Robert H. "The Right to Read." New Jersey Libraries, 4:13-16, March 1966. (Reply by P. J. Hayes appears in the June 1966 issue) D32
An account of the work of the New Jersey Committee for the Right to Read in combating extralegal censorship in that state. The same issue contains Governor Richard J. Hughes's veto message of an antiobscenity bill (pp. 9-12) and the opposition to the bill by the New Jersey School Library Association (pp. 30-31).
Durgnat, Raymond. "Horror, Violence and Catharsis." Censorship, 2:51-54, Spring 1965. D33
Discusses the paradox in the motion picture viewing theory that must accommodate the concepts of both "catharsis" and "reinforcement."
Du Shane, Graham. "Their (Un) Appointed Rounds." Saturday Review, 44(13):47, 1 April 1961. (Reprinted from Science, 24 February 1961) D34
The story of a censorship that harrassed science for 20 years - impounding of mail deemed to be foreign political propaganda - a practice ordered ended by President Kennedy.
Dutch Treat Club. Censored: The Dutch Treat Blue Book, 1940. New York, The Club, 1940. 82p. D35
The theme of the 1940 yearbook of the famous New York club of writers, artists, publishers, producers, etc. (established in 1905) was censorship. In mock seriousness the ribald cartoons, articles, and poetry that usually appear in the club's yearbook are subjected to a form of censorship.
Dworkin, Gerald. "Privacy and the Press." Modern Law Review, 24:185-89, January 1961. D36
Regarding Williams v. Settle, a British case involving the unauthorized publication of a wedding group photograph.
Dyson, Richard B. "Looking- glass Law: An Analysis of the Ginzburg Case." University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 28:1-18, October 1966. D37
"The recent case of Ginzburg v. United States has reawakened the continuing legal dispute around obscene publications and the first amendment. In the course of a critical and exposing analysis of the decision, Professor Dyson arrives at the novel interpretation that the familiar doctrine of estoppel lies behind the Ginzhurg rationale."
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