Dutch censors banned Picasso's odd and only play, DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL (Printed in Mentor's 2nd NEW WORLD WRITING.)

Critic Harry Schein, in AMERICAN SCHOLAR, psychoanalyzing trends in Westerns, says of Hughes' OUTLAW: "In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol." (What isn't?)

FOURTH ESTATE

From Wiggam psych column: "Are tomboys more masculine than other girls? According to Johns Hopkins Psychologist Knight Dunlap, tomboys are most feminine of girls. The Stanford research team found the same. thing. This apparently is an expression of their femininity not masculinity — their desire to be with the opposite sex and create a good impression. They are less conscious of sex than other girls. The notion that tomboyishness is a cause of later sex perversions Dr. Dunlap calls

nonsense.

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James Fugate in WICHITA BEACON letter answering lady who wanted to ban "degrading" films like STREETCAR and WATERFRONT

"If Mrs. Young cannot appreciate the artistic merits of realistic movie treatment, let her at least admit that the knowledge of evils they expose makes us more understanding and capable of protecting ourselves when we meet them on the streets of our own cities . . ."

Columnist George Crane, still giving trite analyses of homosexual "cases" recently answered a mother worried at son's atheism by explaining son had guilt feelings because of masturbation or something, sent her

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a booklet (you can get it for a dime) which cured Horace's atheism and presumably his masturbation as well.

A MOTHER'S ORDEAL WITH HOMOSEXUALITY, True Confessions-type yarn in PAGEANT, 6-55: a mother goes on warpath when very-romantic neighbor shows interest for son, not her. Angry at end to find she couldn't get him long enough jail term to mollify her vindictiveness.

Who was original "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi?" Song's composer, in Sig centennial newsletter, says "There was none. The sweetheart is the symbol for the spiritual ingredient in brotherhood."

Not unusual for Westbrook Pegler to go off on weird kicks. I sometimes find his narrative style hard to dig, so the following may have gone awry somewhere between his account and mine: A Mrs. Miller of Vermont indicted for draft violation because she hated Jews, even tho G. Sokolsky, who is one, didn't mind. So Attorney General Brownell gassed her home one night, snatched her away from husband and kids and put her into "St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a terrible old fire trap where she is compelled to associate with terrible people." Columnist Dorothy Thompson wanted to investigate but Pegler vetoed it since subject already defies all efforts of science, since a reporter recently showed a McCarthy-drawn doodle to a psychiatrist who said it was like Hitler, and another psychiatrist (Pegler says they're pro-Communist) told the Democrats in 1952 McCarthy was effeminate because he was so markedly masculine, which means late Gen. Hugh Johnson "must have been a prinking patsy and Patton an old-fashioned Broadway chorus-boy." ... You follow?

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