Three days after the election, Sidney Feinberg, North Coast area Alcoholic Beverage Control administrator took up the witchhunt where Wolden dropped it. Feinberg announced a new try to root out homosexuals and suspend licenses of bars catering to them. He mentioned that "lower courts" have held that mere patronage of a bar by homosexuals is not sufficient grounds for revocation of a license. What does he mean lower courts? The rulings (involving Feinberg's A.B.C.) were by the top Calif. Court of Appeals and the state Supreme Court. The same day, Ronald Kaehler, 36year-old son of S.F. Stock Exchange prexy, was jailed on "contributing to the delinquency" of 2 boys, aged 16 and 17, who cops found sitting in his car 2 hours after curfew. No evidence reported of serious contributions to their delinquency. But this isn't first trouble for Kaehler. He served 20 months in San Quentin a decade ago for manslaughter shooting of a 25-year-old Coast Guard vet, and a year later in an auto wreck he was unable to explain the accident, or to identify his dead companion, an Omaha man. THE HOMOSEXUAL VILLAIN

NEWSWEEK (Nov. 9) came unusually close to mentioning this publication, in a review of Norman Mailer's new book ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF ($5): "Back in the early 1950's, when Norman Mailer was still warming in the success of 'The Naked and the Dead,' an agent for a magazine explicitly edited for homosexuals conned him into contributing an article. The lure was indeed eye-catching. If Mailer would write for their trade [sic] journal, he was told, the nation's inverts

-described to him as a lobby 10 million strong and hopeful of electing its own congressman-might make Mailer their man. Although

not of their party, Mailer bit. 'Mate the absurd with the apocalyptic,' he says, 'and I was a captive.'

In the new book (an occasionally brilliant collection of Mailer's assorted writings and his descriptions of how they came about) Mailer gives a 21⁄2 page account of how he came to write "The Homosexual Villain" for ONE. The account is not very flattering to Mr. Mailer. The young man whom Mailer describes as the "New York secretary of the organization," who contacted Mailer and asked him to do an article for ONE, was not our secretary, tho he handled some New York business for us. Mailer's report of their conversations is cute, but not entirely convincing: "You would, Mr. Mailer? Listen, I must tell you, by the most conservative statistics, we estimate there are ten million homosexuals in this country. We intend to get a lobby and in a few years we expect to be able to elect our own Congressman. If you write an article for us, Mr. Mailer, why then you might become our first Congressman!"

Could Mailer really have believed that if we'd had such a prize to bargain away, we would sell it for a single article? This, Mailer says, was the clincher, and on this "bait" he agreed to write the article, which he calls, "beyond a doubt the worst article I have ever written, conventional, empty, pious, the quintessence of the Square."

We don't know whether our New York "secretary" ever made such a ridiculous statement. We are as surprised at the claim that such an inducement was offered, as at the admission that Mailer fell for it. Mailer does himself a disservice by calling "The Homosexual Villain" the dullest article he has ever written, and those who wade through this long Continued Page 28

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