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by dal mcintire

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James Dean, who deserves postARROW) appeared, 60-year-old auhumous Oscar for powerfully sensitive thor who'd been despondent, walked Caleb role in film of Steinbeck's mighty into Westlake Park here and drowned EAST OF EDEN, and who according to self... rumors had done as well in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and GIANT, reputedly wanted Bdwy. return before his sudden death. He'd gotten Bdwy. start in Gide's IMMORTALIST and was considering lead in Van Druten's new DANCING IN THE CHECKERED SHADE...

In Sadler's Wells repertoire recently: version of Greek Tiresias myth: man who changed to woman and back... Speaking of which, a Silver City, N.M. pet hen this year became a rooster, crowed so lustily and long owners gave it to Farmer's Market, which displayed it till noise complaints landed it "where most normal chickens goin the pot."

Bums' hero, Johnny Podres, after final game, on TV dolled up as Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher . . . Judge Luther Youngdahl recently squashed Postoffice censorship of CONFIDENTIAL, tho not giving mag clean bill of health. . . Dotty Kilgallen says Kinsey may sue over Dave Shefrin's filmcartoon REPORT ON LOVE. Could be DK planting publicity plugs, and not for Dr. K.?... Few days before MORE DEATHS THAN ONE, latest novel by Stuart Engstrond (SLING AND THE

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More than 40 sodomy arrests recently in Dallas (no one there sent us clippings) with usual press-pulpit noises. Arrests chiefly at Fox Burlesque Theatre and public rest rooms. Article 524 of Texas' Penal Code defines sodomy as felony-2 to 15 years . . . Galveston's Red Lights are out, despite high hopes of new "reform" mayor who'd promised to turn them up. But in Galveston, lot can go in dark. Town closed down with no arrests made

Wash D.C. man acquitted on assault charge after testifying "victim" drove by his house, saw him in Bermudas, shouted, 'Hey, there, who's the sissy wearing his mother's panties?" Teen-age girl charged with immoral soliciting of policewoman in D.C. nite club powder room...

No. Car. reader, quoting from state laws, notes homosexuality, bestiality and miscegenation characterized by adjectives like abominable, are felonies while fornication and adultery are misdemeanors . . . 18-year-old Negro airman executed in Parchman, Miss, gas chamber for alleged rape of white woman while white man begins two year sentence there for admitted rape of 13-year-old Negro girl . . . Miami

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