warm trousers lower fertility and radically increase danger of defective children-more so even than most dangerous radiations. So sexual taboos and modesty seriously harm the race . . .

Recent studies of Paris youth, reported in London SUNDAY TIMES, show vast majority conservative, conformist and dully moralistic. Few dissatisfied with their condition, very few felt they could have any influence on political events, or that it mattered whether they lived under democracy, communism or what. Only one in 50 or less said they would risk their lives for peace or freedom, faith or heroism, for science or in struggle against communism. Their tastes in arts were almost unanimously pedestrian, and though most rated love as very important, almost all frowned on ideas of greater sexual freedom and strongly resisted birth control, legal abortion, homosexuality and prostitution, and expressed indifference to sex education for children . . .

From John Rolls' column in London DAILY MIRROR: "Into London's Savoy Hotel yesterday trotted M. ANDRE BARDOT, the King of the French male fashion. He is a flaccidfaced fifty-year-old bachelor with pudgy hands and features. He was wearing a beaver fur-lined coat and carried a black, oblong handbag. He's in London on business. With him came France's No. 1 male model pin-up, tall, dashing ROBERT CLAUSSE, aged twenty-nine, also a bachelor. He was wearing a shiny marmot fur coat. In his suite M. Bardot smoothed out his beaver coat on the bed, then turned out his handbag for me. He explained: 'See, it has compartments for money, papers, toilette requisites, and even a pipe. I'm a tailor, and the wives of my clients demand

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that I make suits without pockets which can't bulge hence the handbag. M. Bardot fingered a gold bracelet round his right wrist and added: 'Fur coats and handbags for men are so practical. For handbags I prefer crocodile skin." Prettysissy I thought. And said so. 'Oh, no, declared M. Bardot. 'masculine men will always look masculine. Feminine-looking men will always look feminine."

CONFIDENTIAL HALO

Confidential magazine, after getting roughed-up in courts, has had face-lifting. New format, for time being at least, isn't just tame. It's insipid. Much space devoted to pish-tushing those "nasty" people who hurt other people's reputations. One fair item in April issue: Miami topcop Walter Headley's warning about shakedown racket going on regularly in public men's restrooms, where men are "accused by bogus cops of making sexual advances, then given chance to buy their way out of the arrest. Good, tho Chief didn't mention that many "legit" cops also find this racket lucrative such as entire Pittsburgh vice squad, convicted of this vicious practice in 1952. Former Lt. Morgan, head of that vice squad, convicted of perjury and forgery ($20,000 "missing" from his Police Credit Union), fined and sentenced to 31⁄2 years in County workhouse (he served 4 months, and fines recently were lifted.) Alan Tanser, one of his former boys, has been fighting in Courts to stay out of jail, on same perjury charge, also on assault and battery charge of a man he allegedly beat up in an off-duty traffic fracas. That charge was recently suddenly and mysteriously dropped.

In Cleveland last month, a man

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