found to have been a woman . . . Group of housewives attacking Marine Corps headman, Gen. Pate, for his year-old order shipping. them home from Japan. Their presence, he said, interfered with the Corps' combat-readiness. They claim he also said something to effect that if the men got real hardup, local gals could handle that. "Encouraging adultery," howl the irate wives. Like we say some guys just shouldn't get married. . . On complaints of some wellheeled chippies, charging that British bachelors (outnumbered by aggressive females) let their dates foot the bill, some members of Parliament are considering a tax levy on bachelors-who "have it too easy." One French film starlet who complained that in two months, not a single Englishman had offered to wine-and-dine her, said that about the only way to get one of these free-loading males to marry a gal would be for the gal to do the proposing. Tsk. Guess it's just a buyer's market, gals. Or maybe, what with such atrocities as "the sack," the British boys just don't find the female very appealing. Reported that Norway is already lightening the tax load on married couples with children, and laying it on the bachelors. Using

taxation as a device to enforce conformity? In these days, when overpopulation is such a critical problem, and when every new child born adds to the cost of government, those who refrain from this mad production mania should get a bonus, instead off being penalized for NOT making things worse. I'm dreaming . .

D'ja hear Jack Paar's crack on TONIGHT "I went to a ballet last night we can't all be Marlboro men"?

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Has anyone seen the French film, RAZZIA, or the Herman Wouk play, NATURE'S WAY? Homo bits in each . . .

Syndicate headed by Ilya Lopert has paid 30 G's for rights to German film, THE THIRD SEX. Made by Veit Harlan, starring Paula Wessely, the film showed in Germany (after considerable interference by the Board of Censors) in an altered form under the title, DIFFERENT FROM YOU AND ME-ARTICLE NO. 175 (referring to the anti-homosexual paragraph of the German penal code.) It describes a mother who arranges an affair with her son and a housekeeper in order to break up his apparent homosexual relation with another boy. The film has shown in many countries. It isn't yet known who will distribute it here . . .

Case against L. A.'s Vagabond Theatre (2 vicecops acted on "citizen's complaint" that French film, FIRE UNDER THE SKIN, was obscene, and raided theatre, ousted patrons, seized film and arrested managers) collapsed in court. After seeing film and hearing some testimony, judge halted trial and said not guilty. Coronet Theatre, similarly raided for showing the stark experimental film about homosexuality, FIREWORKS, got reversal of guilty verdict, and new trial when Judge Shepherd finally recognized Atty. Stanley Fleishman's argument that conviction was based on section of municipal code that does NOT apply to films . . .

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PORTLAND, ORE.: Police arrest 2 men after long surveillance of parties at home of one. 26 minors (aged 14-20) including nine girls present at one time or another at

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