Facts of LIFE (.Finis)

Last week a Bronx court completely exonerated LIFE'S Publisher Roy Edward Larsen of the obscenity charge filed against him for selling a copy of LIFE containing pictures from the cinema The Birth of a Baby. Thus ended once & for all any legal objection to the way LIFE handled the facts of life.

Because Eleanor Roosevelt approves The Birth of a Baby and because she approves divorce under some circumstances, she was taken to task in Boston last week by Mrs. Charles Feehan, president of Boston's League of Catholic Women. Declared Mrs. Feehan: "It is most unfortunate, unfair and dangerous for the wife of the President of the United States to make apodictical [absolutely certain] pronouncements that give offense to a large part of our citizens."

Three days later Mrs. Roosevelt was in Boston to tell the sociologist alumnae of Simmons College about the "Problems of Youth," to whom "after all, divorce isn't a problem. All they want to do is get married." Baited for a retort to Mrs. Feehan, tactful Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "Everyone has a right to his opinions, and to say them."

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