Another contributing factor to Ginzburg's being indicted and found guilty was his appearance. When magazines are typically deemed as an extension of their editors, and editors would be considered as representatives of ideal readers of the magazines, the appearance of Ralph Ginzburg would only give out a bad impression for his magazine. especially when his magazines were about sex. He looked exactly like Central Casting's idea of a pornographer: "shady, you might say shifty, with a thin, sallow face and a small mustache". Paul Bender, former clerk for Justice Felix Frankfurter, who argued on behalf of the government in the case, described Ginzburg as "a smut peddler". Though unlike Hefner of Playboy, he wasn't selling himself as the face of his magazine, his appearance implicated that the magazines would be of lower interest, not the fact that it was more upscale with an artistic taste. On the other hand, His appearance also kept him from gaining more supporters during and after the trial. To borrow from Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the period of Ginzburg's case, Ginzburg lost because he was as unattractive a First Amendment claimant as possible.