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LEAHY CLAMPS DOWN ON SEX, BANS "INDECENT" MAGAZINE

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Censorship's heavy hand descended on Cambridge news merchants yesterday when Police Chief Leahy, objecting to a picture entitled "Nude" in the current issue of Popular Photography, banned the sale of that magazine on all newsstands.

The semi-profile view of a nude model, by Carlisle Blackwell, Jr., leaves little to the imagination. Leahy described it as "indecent" and "tending to corrupt the morals of youth" in his complaint to the New England News Company.

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