Dear Sirs:

Frankly, I like your magazine, though there are a few features about it that give me pause to wonder. This blast against the book From Here to Eternity for example. Isn't the author being a bit hypocritical? After all why pick on that one book to blast? Don't 98% of the novels and stories that touch on the subject treat homosexualism in a bad light?

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA m Dear ONE:

Congratulations for your fine review of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. I think it's important that you review books which are read so widely, in a "true light" as regards the subject of homosexuality. Too many of today's writers do not realize how wrong they are in their portrayal of the invert. Give us more. reviews exposing erroneous treatment as well as reviews praising a fair report. WORCESTER, MASS. F

Dear Sirs:

I do not subscribe to ONE but am able to buy it from newsstands here in New York. If I had one criticism to make, it would be that the writing style in the articles, too often approaches the longworded double talk of scientific papers -the sort of thing where a writer wanting to say, "Big city cops often lay traps. for gay boys who don't keep their eyes open, says instead, "Police personnel in larger urban centers have recourse to entrapment procedures for unwary and unsophisticated homosexuals."

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In other words, the deliberative and cogent speculations of ONE's articles are couched in terms calculated to evoke respect for the writer's vocabulary and erudition. And too much of said erudition gets beastly dull.

Otherwise, I love you, I love you, I love you. There, I've said it and I'm glad. NEW YORK, N. Y. m

? for mr eliot by

michel ramsey

yes mr eliot i will prepare a face to meet

the faces that i meet

on 42nd st

the tired faces of the clan

of the exalted average man

one hand holding the sunday morning roast

the other clutching the sat eve post

but how prepare a face

for the unaverage of my race

i see strolling there

along the teeming square

how unaverage my face

in the suburban race

so he will know it is the face

he has prepared his face to meet on 42nd st

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