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First Whitman and now Plato and Socrates...! I'm sick and tired of your "he was 'one' too!! approach to the thinkers artists of history. After all, does it really matter...? Lexington, Ky. f

Dear Friends:

Please be sure to put me on the list for a copy of James Barr's "Game of Fools" to be published June 20th. I'm glad to see that your magazine is becoming progressively better and better. The only thing I missed in this issue was some "comedy-relief." "Gaylord Pedestrian" and "The Gay Menagerie" are the only two issues which I've refused to part with. How about more? After all, who are we if we can't laugh at ourselves occasionally? Columbus, Ohio m

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Enjoyed sample copy so much that am sending money for a year subscription. I sure think it is the most interesting magazine I have read in many a day. Keep up the good work and bring light to so many who deserve to be helped, and release the loneliness of so many.

Dear Friends:

Quebec, Canada m

The indifference manifested by many homosexuals, not only to their own kind but to humanity in general, is lamentable. It tends to support Proust's general contention, voiced in SODOME & GOMORRHE, that homosexuals, as a class, are incapable of basic human sympathies. I am struck by the small number of actual subscribers to ONE, com pared to the potential market. I hope that those who are subscribers are steadfast. I would like to see Proust's generalization proved wrong.

Butte, Mont. m

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"I REMEMBER," in your excellent February issue, moved me greatly calling forth some almost-forgotten recollections from my own earlier years. The principal in this brief story (and I have many like him) is indeed to be pitied. As for myself, I revolt so drastically against. tradition as to believe that in this modern age not even women need to be "kept" by men, even when the men happen to be their husbands. So you can judge my reactions to the spectacle of a man being kept by a man, or a woman by a woman. With Twentieth Century educational advantages, and with all professional and most non-professional occupations open to either sex, it seems incredible that any person could be so wanting in pride and a sense of personal freedom as to be unwilling to stand on his own two feet, in economic matters. Evidently something is seriously lacking in our social leadership.

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Norman Mailer's piece. ... highly commendable.

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Your announcement of the new book, "Game of Fools," by James (Barr) Fugate arrived this morning. Please accept my check for a copy to be mailed as soon as you can.

The February issue of ONE was as interesting as usual. I'm glad to be a subscriber and will subscribe to any books which are recommended by your Book Department. It's nice to see ONE growing up. The story of ONE's birth was interesting, and my admiration and thanks to those stalwarts who made it all possible.

San Francisco, Calif. m

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