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Parker, F. T. "Word Portrayal of Events in the Life of a Living Person in a Work of Fiction as a Violation of the Right of Privacy." Rocky Mountain Law Review, 21:114-18, December 1948. P1
Regarding Toscani v. Hersey, 271 App. Div. 445, 65 N.Y.S. (2d) 814 (1946), involving John Hersey's A Bell for Adano.
Percy, H. R. "Literature and the Law." Chitty's Law Journal, 12(10):18-22, October 1964. P2
Suggests that an obscenity law should allow a publisher or author to prosecute those who level unproved charges.
Perrin, Noel. "Real Bowdler." Notes & Queries, 13(n.s.):141-42, April 1966. P3
The author offers evidence that Thomas Bowdler's sister, Henrietta, did the "Bowdlerizing" of the first edition of Family Shakespeare.
Perry, Stuart H. "The Courts, the Press, and the Public." Michigan Law Review, 30:228-37, December 1931. P4
"Trial by newspaper could be stopped tomorrow if judges would use the contempt powers that are in their hands." They do not do so for fear of the political power of the newspapers, and judges depend for re- election upon political support of the press. "The popular election of judges for fixed terms is the greatest single evil of our judicial system."
Peterson, H. C., and Gilbert C. Fite. Opponents of War, 1917-1918. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. 399p. P5
Chapter 9 deals with Purging the Movies and the Press. "The censorship exercised by the Postmaster General, Albert Sidney Burleson, was perhaps more effective than all of the other individuals and organizations combined." The author deals with Burleson's authority to withhold mailing privileges from publications under the Espionage Act.
Pew, Marlen E. Local Government and the Press; Address Delivered at the Twentieth Annual Journalism Week at the University of Missouri, May 5-11, 1929. Columbia, Mo., School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1929. 14p. (University of Missouri Bulletin, v. 29, no. 40; Journalism Series no. 55) P6
The first Don Mellett memorial lecture.
Pfeffer, Leo. "The Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights, I: Freedom of Expression." Nation, 203:315-18, 3 October 1966. P7
Phelps, Robert H., and E. Douglas Hamilton. Libel: Rights, Risks, Responsibilities. New York, Macmillan, 1966. 405p. P8
"What libel is - and what it is not - and how to communicate the maximum information with the minimum risk. With case histories illustrating potential danger areas." Cases include: Reynolds v. Pegler, The Saturday Evening Post's Story of a College Football Fix, The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, and action against various magazines and newspapers not generally reported in the public press. "The picture that emerges from this study of libel," the authors conclude, "is one that heartens and at the same time appalls the observer. He is heartened by the trend in the law toward more freedom to speak out on public affairs. He is appalled by the possible use of that freedom to wreck an innocent man's reputation." An alphabetical index of libel cases is appended.
Pierce, Samuel R., Jr. "Anatomy of an Historic Decision: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan." North Carolina Law Review, 43:315-63, February 1965. P9
"New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is
a landmark decision in the law of libel and in the field of civil liberties, because the United States Supreme Court, for the first time, determined `the extent to which the constitutional protections for speech and press limit a State's power to award damages in a libel action brought by a public official against critics of his official conduct."'
Pigot, Robert of Chetwynd. Liberty of the Press; A Letter Addressed to the National Assembly of France by Robert Pigot . . . and Published by their Order, with Notes and Supplement Afterwards Added; and Offered to the Consideration of Every English- man. London, Printed for the Booksellers, 1790. 32p. P10
Pische, Vail W. "How Far Will the Law of Privacy Extend In Radio?" Notre Dame Lawyer, 19:148-54, December 1944. P11
Porter, Katherine Anne. "A Wreath for the Gamekeeper." In Encounters; an Anthology from the First Ten Years of Encounter Magazine. New York, Basic Books, 1963, pp. 277-90. P12
In this devastating criticism of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover are numerous observations on censorship. While defending the loud protests of literary critics against censorship of the work, she objects to the defense of Lady Chatterley as a work of art, which it is not.
Post, Albert. Popular Freethought in America, 1825-1850. New York, Columbia University Press, 1943. 258p. (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, no. 497) P13
The development of religious radicalism in America from 1825 to 1850 and the freedom generally extended to its press by civil authorities. Opposition was largely in the form of counterattacks in press and pulpit, but Abner Kneeland and Charles Knowlton were brought to trial for their blasphemies and Dr. Thomas Cooper was forced to resign his presidency of South Carolina College because of his heterodoxy.
"Postal Privacy." Playboy, 13(8):39-44, August 1966; 13(12):89-93, December 1966. P14
A series of letters in the Playboy Forum citing experiences with postal censorship.
Potamkin, Harry A. The Eyes of the Movie. [New York, International Pamphlets, 1934]. 32p. (International Pamphlets, no. 38) P15
The author, one of the founders of the John Reed Club and member of the National Board of Review, charges the film industry with a bourgeois conspiracy to promote capitalist thought and suppress films that encourage social advancement.
[Pountney, E. R., et al.]. Citrine & others v. Pountney: The Daily Worker Libel Case. [London, Modern Books, 1940?]. 48p. P16
Summary of the six- day trial for libel action brought by Sir Walter Citrine and six other members of the Trades Union Congress against B. R. Pountney, proprietor of the Daily Worker. The court awarded for the plaintiff and granted an injunction to restrain the publishing of further libels. Mr. Justice Stable awarded damages of a sum that would not have the effect of putting the paper out of business, declaring that so long as the Daily Worker expounded its views and refrained from libeling other people it was desirable that it should be in a position to do so.
Powell, Lawrence C. You, John Milton. Norman, Okla., The Library, University of Oklahoma, 1966. 12p. P17
An address by the Dean of the School of Library Service, University of California, Los Angeles, on the occasion of the presentation of a copy of Milton's Areopagitica as the millionth volume at the University of Oklahoma.
Powell, Richard P. "Nobody Loves a Censor." Infantry Journal, 58:17-20, March 1946. P18
The chief news censor for the Southwest Pacific theater in World War II writes of the trials of a military censor.
Powsner, Robert H. "Libel in Limbo: Another Conquest for the Right of Privacy?" Los Angeles Bar Bulletin, 30:365-75, September 1955. P19
Reference to California's right of privacy law and the cases of Gill v. Curtis Puhlishing Co., 38 Cal. 2nd 273, and Gill v. Hearst, 40 Cal. 2nd 224.
Prasher, A. LaVonne. "The Censorship of Landor's Imaginary Conversations." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 49:427-63, Spring 1967. P20
The long and involved controversy over deletions in William S. Landor's manuscript that took place between the author and his publisher, John Taylor. Julius Hare, as negotiator, demonstrated the firmness of his dedication to freedom of expression; the poet, Robert Southey, assisted in the censoring.
Priestly, J. B. "Censor and Stage." New Statesman, 70:967, 17 December 1965. P21
Pringle, Henry F. " . . . Guard It, Cherish It and Work for It . . . " An Address Broadcast over the Columbia Network During National Journalism Week, October 6, 1941. [New York, Columbia Broadcasting Co., 1941?]. 16p. P22
"Publicity Controls Imposed on Newsmen in Murder Case." Editor & Publisher, 99(30):9-10, 44, 23 July 1966. P23
Relates to the Peoria, Ill., trial of People v. Richard Franklin Speck.
Pulitzer, Joseph, Jr. "The Press Lives by Disclosures." Nieman Reports, 15(3):7-9, July 1961. P24
A discussion of President Kennedy's proposal of voluntary censorship, occasioned by the ill- fated Cuban invasion. The editor of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch believes that "it would be better to conclude that maneuvers of this sort should not be undertaken by an open society than that our society should become less open."
[Pynchon, William]. The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption by William Pynchon, London, 1650 . . . 158p. (Facsimile reproduction of one of four known copies, made in June 1931 under the direction of Harry A. Wright, Springfield, Mass.) P25
Bound with the facsimile reproduction is a nine- page account of the action taken by the colonial authorities against the book, the first to be burned in the American colonies.
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