October 1, 1943 to November 29, 1943

Dist Columbia, District of Columbia

Law, Censorship, Pin-up, Varga

This trial has everyone paying attention.  It is no wonder; the right to display pin-up art in men’s magazines is on trial.  Post Master General Walker is in Supreme Court against Arnold Gingrich and various brilliant lawyers of Esquire.  The prosecutor Walker assembles four assistant post masters to prove that Esquire’s Varga pin-ups “had gone too far in exploiting the female form”.  The...