'Sex Books' Gone; Cambridge Drops Threatened Suits

Cambridge officials have dropped their plans for court prosecutions of the distributors of allegedly obscene pocket sized reprints which police have removed from local news-stands during the current drive on "sex books," the CRIMSON learned yesterday.

City detectives said their campaign has met with complete cooperation so far from newsdealers and distributors and that the blacklisted titles, among them John O'Hara's "A Rags to Live," are no longer available locally in cheap editions.

"If the distributors of books like that don't follow our instructions," one officer said, "we'll take them to court, but no one has given us any trouble." He added that the police have found no new objectionable titles since the ban on the O'Hara noval.