Note increasing tendency of PostOffice to act as public censor, deciding what they will and what they won't mail. Unwarranted. Dept. Solicitor Abe Goff recently asked Congress for help in curbing increase of "immoral" publications.

Liberals missing badly when they ignore dangerous "mail cover" technique unearthed during McCarthy fracas. This needs spotlighting, even if McCarthy was first admitted victim.

Also worth watching is fuss surrounding discovery of NYC phone workers caught at wiretapping.

New Comics Code Authority has managed to shrivel bazooms, ban goshawful monsters and reduce gore so villains seldom now shoot where it hurts, instead, merely shoot guns from one another's hands. But stiff laws still in prospect from most legislatures and Congress (also in England) and not just on Comic Books.

RECOMMENDED READING Sterbe & Sterba study of Beethoven (Pantheon $5) attributing strong but unconscious homosexuality to composer.

Tennessee Williams' long-rare collection of short stories, ONE ARM, New Directions, $4.50.

James Barr Fugate's article on smalltown life and Silver item on California Lewd-Vag law in first issue of MATTACHINE REVIEW.

Not quite so UNUSUAL as title, but quite excellent is magazine of short stories by new authors. Glick and Katz stories of special interest, but all good. 50c for UNUSUAL from 111 East 26th St., N. Y. 10.

RIDDLE OF EMILY DICKINSON, Rebecca Patterson, Gollancz, 21s, about passionate but unconsumated love of poetess for Kate Anthon.

CHINESE GORDON: STUDY OF A HERO, $4, Funk & Wagnalls, Lawrence and Elizabeth Hanson's fine biography of "hero of Khartoum" with discussion of his homosexuality and his religious fanaticism.

And... GAME OF FOOLS, by James (Barr) Fugate (author, QUATREFOIL & DERRICKS), the first modern play to deal with homosexuality sympathetically, without prejudice or pussyfooting. Kafka-like drama of four trapped homosexuals. Soon to be published in limited edition by ONE.

TAFF OF ONE MAGAZINE

Managing Editor Associate Editors

Ann Carll Reid

Contributing Editors

Lyn Pedersen Research Robert Gregory Fiction Kay Reynard Womens' Dept. Armando Quezon International

James Barr

Donald Webster Cory

Eve Elloree

Art Director

Circulation Manager

David L. Freeman

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