sex with Heatherly. . . .

There was James Jerome Seitz, nabbed in Miami for the murder of local exec. Chelcie Tidd, Jr., whose body was found floating in his suburban home's swimming pool. Police said Seitz, a handsome, slender blond drifter with 17 arrests, made a living rolling homosexuals. Seitz, with much jivejargon, claimed Tidd had approached him on the street, offered to help him find a job, took him to the house, then made improper advanceswhich Jimmyboy naturally didn't like, so he stabbed the man. After all, "it was him or me." Maybe he'll get off. Justice in Miami has been known to wink at murderers who call their victims homosexuals. . .

There was the Hertfordshire (England) farmhand who went to the coppers to complain that a male ballet dancer had ousted him from a poultry farmer's affections. The unsympathetic judge gave him 18 months, gave the farmer two years, and two years probation for the dancer. . . .

There was the pained outcry of Mr. Justice Elwes of Durham Assizes over a 17-yr.-old boy who hanged himself in jail after being held without bail a month on a charge of sex with a younger boy. "In a decent world, an adolescent would not be persecuted as a criminal arising out of a sexual offense. He would be handed over to some intelligent sympathetic persons who could help him out of his difficulties."

There was the vicar of Pately Bridge, Yorks, pleading guilty to exchanging "obscene" fotos and letters with servicemen in a Pen Pal club. Letters like: "I like hearing from men with the same interests as myself. I am a confirmed bachelor and enjoy the company of my own sex in every way. . . . The local lads at night used to come around and

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tuck me in bed. I am 5 ft. 8 in. in height, my chest is 40 and I have big biceps. I live on my own and I am interested in music and photography, especially physique photography. I also collect physique photographs. I hope I have not bored you. Write as you wish about anything you like. Everything is private here."" After some bellycrawling I-didn'tknow-what-l-was-saying talk, the vicar was discharged conditionally for 12 months. . . .

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A wee while back, an LA Times want ad asked for "College grad to share my 1 bdrm. furn. apt. Straight only." Eh?...

Herb Caen reports another: "Young man about to be married seeks older married man to dissuade him from the idea."

Dorothy Kilgallen sez a top flicker star was described in a syndicated yarn as being of "Swish-Welsh ancestry." Studio in a tiff. Dotty explained the writer meant Swiss...

Looking like a cow can be unfortunate. If you happen to be a bull, living in England, it can be downright hazardous. Weekend farmer Wm. Titcumb had a prize bull, whose head shape failed to conform to govt. standards-for bulls, that is. Gentle, and delicately shaped, the bull's head looked too cowlike for hardhearted govt. inspectors, who ordered him promptly destroyed! Wouldn't relent even when Titcumbs and their pretty bull appeared on TV to appeal for help. They're hoping the govt. will settle for exile, looking for a buyer in Ireland or America, where regulations about approved shapes for bull's heads might be less strict. . . .

See where after "Some Like It Hot," Tony Curtis got 30 fanmail proposals of marriage-from men. At recent National Barber show,