Eros : Vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1962) [Love in the Bible; Jewel Box Revue; Letter From Allan Ginsberg; Was Shakespeare a Homosexual?; Long After Midnight Girl; Sexual Side of Anti-Semitism; My Life and Loves; President Harding's Second Lady; Male Chape

New York, NY : Eros Magazine, 1962., 1962. Very Good. 96 pp ; color illustrations ; photographic boards featuring scenes of Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer ; ISSN: 0425-2357 ; LCCN: 62-3170 ; sn 97-48172 ; 13" x 10" ; The fourth and final issue of the infamous sex periodical of the 60's, shut down after this the fourth issue ; as publisher Ralph Ginzberg himself writes concerning this scandalous publication : "Upon discharge from the Army I shifted into broadcasting and magazines (NBC, Reader's Digest, Collier's, LOOK and other pillars of communic ations industry respectability), then launched my own magazine, the artistic, cerebral, innovative and highly acclaimed hard-bound quarterly EROS. Writers and other intellectuals throughout the world celebrated it. Even the U.S. State Department bou ght copies to exhibit at USIA libraries overseas as exemplars of American periodical publishing. But bluenoses here at home railed against the publication and one, the New York smut-hunting Catholic priest Morton Hill, persuaded U.S. Attorney Genera l Robert Kennedy to have me indicted, as Father Hill later boasted, for distributing 'obscene' literature through the mails, a federal crime. The indictment sought punishment of $280,000 in fines and 280 years in prison. New York's newspapers gave p rominent play to Father Hill's and the Justice Department's attacks against me. They quoted -- straight-faced -- the remarks of Congresswoman Kathryn O'Hay Granahan who declared, on the floor of the House of Representatives, that my publication of E ROS was 'part of an international Communist plot.' But newspapers ignored my every attempt to defend myself against these moronic allegations. I announced press conferences at various sites around town: at the Benjamin Franklin statue on Newspaper R ow, at my magazine's offices, on the steps of the General Post Office. All were listed in the AP and UPI daybooks but nobody showed up -- with one exception: Gay Talese, then a star reporter for The New York Times, appeared at my Post Office press c onference where I presented an impassioned rebuttal of my attackers' charges and answered his few questions. I distinctly remember that he jotted down not a single word of my remarks. The Times ran no story the next day and Talese went onto become v ice president and a director of P.E.N., the international organization dedicated to combating censorship of authors and publishers. After a brief trial in June, 1963, I was convicted in U.S. District Court, Philadelphia." ; Contents: Love in the Bib le / Rufus Mott -- The Jewel Box Revue : A Photographic Essay / Raymond Jacobs -- A Letter From Allan Ginsberg -- Was Shakespeare a Homosexual? / John Erno Russell -- I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl -- The Long After Midnight Girl : A Short, Short Story / Ray Bradbury -- The Sexual Side of Anti-Semitism / Shepherd Raymond -- My Life and Loves / Frank Harris, introduction by Warren Boroson -- New Twists on 3 Great Trysts / Dan Greenburg -- President Harding's Second Lady / John Hejno -- Bawdy Limericks : The Folklore of the Intellectual -- The Natural Superiority of Women as Eroticists / Eberhard W and Phyllis C Kronhausen -- Memoirs of a Male Chaperon / John Sack -- Black and White in Color : A Photographic Tone Poem / Ralph M Hattersle y Jr. -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes, a free adaptation by Ivan Grazni ; artwork, Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, Heindrik Goltzius, Jost De Negker, Geller, Jerome Snyder, John Alcom, Charles B Slackman, Milton Glaser; Norman Lindsay, photos, C. White, Ray mond Jacobs ; other staff: James A. P. Melody, Norman Moskowitz, Rose "Moms" Mulvaney, Michael Panchak, Estelle Proce, Gerard A. Schneider, Linda Uyehara ; spine sunned, some scuff marks, else VG