Wladziu Valentino Liberace, as most readers must be aware, won his libel case against that waspish old woman of the British press, William Neill Connor, who goes under the pen-name of Cassandra, the Trojan lady who warned of impending doom. "Cassandra" had broadly intimated Liberace was homosexual, which the flamboyant pianist specifically denied in an English court. "Cassandra" made a mistake to which many homosexuals are also prone-assuming that colorful, flowery or even effeminate manner necessarily means a man is homosexual.

NYC Deputy Police Commissioner, Walter Arm, fuzz, but not so square, has called off his campaign to close or harass beatnik coffee houses in the Village. With a bit of doggerel self composed, he explained his new "let 'em alone" stand:

"Technically a beatnik spouting poetry is an entertainer under law,

But though in violation, to the cops he's just a bore.

He can talk throughout the night if he doesn't incite to riot We hope he keeps talking til his

audience yells for quiet."

And not even Chief Parker's lost Victorian culture could produce an egg like that. . . .

A Mulberry street tavern in Newark was closed down for 25 days. because ABC agents were offended at "obscene" language in the place, despite the defense plea that "Patrons served by our clients are not genteel ones, and their own particular mores are a fact of life that must be recognized. The language of this kind of patron might not be appropriate in a more exclusive bar, but generally it is of the type that these patrons are accustomed to and to them it is not offensive.'

The city by the Golden Gate now

has a "crack 'S' Squad" of 50 specially selected cops in mufti, who will sneak thru the city's 'trouble. spots' looking for 'crime before it starts'. The "Operation 'S' "' was initiated last October by incoming topcop Cahill. "They're not out to sweep vagrants off the streets or to harass citizens." I bet.

In what may be one of the first appeals of a homosexual case to the U.S. Supreme Court, Gordon Larsen, one of several men arrested early in 1957 in a Boise witch hunt against homosexuals, has an appeal now pending before the high court. The Idaho Supreme Court has ordered a stay of his five year prison sentence, for an alleged "infamous crime against nature", pending the action of the U.S. court.

READING

Tho criticizable on several points, the article on homosexuality by Gerald Walker in the July issue of Pageant Magazine is one of the best ever to appear in a large circulation national magazine. Tho he seems to take Bergler and Dr. Clara Thompson with equal authority, and accepts the unwarranted but common assumption that homosexuality is a disease, and is being regularly cured these days, he argues strongly that heterosexuals have to learn to live in the same world with homosexuals, should learn to do so gracefully, and without giving undue offense to the poor unfortunates. This is a fairly strong article to shove under the noses of your heterosexual friends, tho not a very good one for fledgling homosexuals to cut their eye teeth on. . .

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And from France, JUVENTUS, an elegant new homophile monthly, like ARCADIE (and unlike most homophile publications) very strong in their literary slant. . . .