fancy, why cannot we human beings be a bit odd at times without having suffered an Oedipus complex?"

ODD BITS

Longtime female impersonator Rae (formerly Ray) Bourbon, surgically feminized recently, arrested at Sunset Strip nightspot for impersonating woman, LA County Public Welfare Commission said act" does not comport with the public welfare." No female im-

personator in recent years has collected raves like T. C Jones, hit of NEW FACES OF 1956. Likened to Julian Eltinge, Karyl Norman and Francis Renault of old, and twice seen nationwide (courtesy of Ed Sullivan) he does rare takeoffs on Davis, Bankhead, Hepburn. .... Husky voiced, crew cut "James" Wadell nabbed on stolen car charge, mentioned being engaged to Indianapolis minister's daughter, later clammed up when found to be a woman. FBI said, "We're only concerned with the auto rap we're not interested in her love life." Trouble with trousers came even to Marlene Dietrich, bounced at Monte Carlo for improper attire.

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Judge in Chardon, Ohio, refuses to hear cases of youngsters wearing leather jackets, levis, engineer boots, ducktail haircuts or any other "defiant" manners of dress ....... Merle Marlow, 25, Denver bricklayer, in six-year prison term at Canon City for wandering streets at night in stolen women's clothes ....... Newscolumnist Syd Harris, criticizing Cecil Beaton costumes for MY FAIR LADY, opined that most designers of female fashions are woman-haters "men in only a technical sense" who express resentment against women in their work, "Even the women designers are agressive and defeminized personalities who dislike their own sex." ....... Werner Szcepanek, a postman in Hamburg, Germany, lost appeal for right to wear skirts on duty, based on constitutional provision of equal rights for men and women. ....... East German Communists banned nudist societies to protect working class from disturbance during vacations ....... Navy brass has sadly abandoned attempt to drop tight pants that many

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