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lature to make publishers as well as authors liable in obscenity pros¬
ecutions. The idea was to force publishers to take a more vigorous
position against censorship. The bill did not pass, but Henle always
defended his own books as if it had.
 

Novelist Pierre Boulle whose The Bridge Over the River Kwai was
one of Xanguard's surprise successes (Photograph b\' Pierre Boulat)
 

Some of the books that brought Vanguard problems dealt with
birth control and sex in marriage; these were presented as straight¬
forward, informational texts and were among the earliest of their
type. And Vanguard occasionally published novels that skirted the
then-tight line on descriptions of sexual matters. Through Henle's
career, he always defended these books in court, winning several
important cases (on books by James T. Farrell and Calder