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rich's costumes at least not this hysterically. Nor have we heard that "As You Like It" and several other vulgar blackout skits by that certain Elizabethan, offended with their characters exchanging clothes and genders. He also claims that Ann Baxter in "All About Eve" was portraying a "thinly veiled lesbian character" because she first appeared in a male trench coat and pork pie hat. What there is of Mr. Towne's mind is alarmingly lascivious. It must be fun for him though; think of all the filthy thoughts the rest of us miss by not looking askance at such seemingly harmless things as trench-coats and pork-pie hats. Sex, sex, everywhere! Even Milton Berle is among the depraved as well as Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and Danny Thomas. Having included all the most beloved comedians of our day, he concludes this back-handed tribute to deviates with a tear for the good old days of Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Ring Lardner. Apparently he hasn't heard what I heard just the other day about that Tom Sawyer. It seems . . . .

People Today

PEOPLE TODAY, a bi-weekly vest-pocket size, devoted six whole pages of its March 26, 1952 issue to give "Inside Report on Homosexuality in America." The. report was tempted to explain causes of deviation by quoting the woes of patients who had enlisted of patients who had enlisted psychiatric aid. This common error can be easily seen when like methods are used to discover why a patient, unhappy in the same way, is attracted to the OPPOSITE sex. When two persons with similar backgrounds and almost identical parent problems, become inexplicably homosexual in one instance and firmly heterosexual in the other, the researcher concludes that environment is not the whole answer. The psychologist from whom PEOPLE TODAY got much of its material, himself agrees that assigning deviation to one cause is probably erroneous. The little magazine adds to this many meaty data such as the curtain of silence lowered on Cory's "Homosexual in America" (Greenberg, New York City) by many papers which refused to review it or accept ads, the fact that homosexuals are accepted in the armed services but denied benefits if discovered, the usual Kinsey statistics, the unspecified California State study which describes deviates as "no social menace" and that groups are forming which demand rights for this "persecuted minority." While this report was extremely brief, it did contain facts usually suppressed or perverted in the average mag. Its attitude seemed sincere, however there is a difference between a desire to launch a crusade and a desire to sell a single issue with a flashy title. This writer has seen no other article in PEOPLE TODAY on further news on the subject since March of last year. However we must not be ungrateful although it is a question why anyone should be grateful for having the truth spoken of them.

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