HEARINGS POSTPONED IN TUTORING SCHOOL CASE

Attempting to reach an out-of-court settlement in the contempt proceedings brought by the Macmillan Company, publishers, against the College Tutoring Bureau, attorneys for both sides yesterday secured a week's postponement of the preliminary hearings which had been scheduled to be held before the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts yesterday afternoon.

In a motion filed Tuesday, the publishing firm asked the Federal Court in Boston to held the College Tutoring Bureau's proprietors. Joseph R. Hurvitz and Abraham Segel, in contempt of court for violating an injunction obtained in 1933 against the Bureau for copyright infractions.

Proposal For Settlement

Attorneys for Hurvitz and Segel recently advanced proposals for a settlement with the Macmillan Company. Court hearings, the first of which were to have been held yesterday, were postponed in order that both sides would have time to go into the proposals thoroughly.

The court order which the Macmillan Company charges is being violated by Hurvitz and Segel was issued May 24, 1988 by District Judge Elisha H. Brewster in answer to complaints by four publishing houses that their books were being pirated in the notes and outlines issued by the Bureau.