Court of Appeals and systematically force the officials to recognize homosexual rights or close every bar in New York City. Whenever a gay bar is closed, the patrons should immediately, but peacefully and with model behavior, take their patronage to the next bar down the street, and the next and the next. No bar can legally refuse to serve a customer, unless he misbehaves, because he is thought to be, or admits being, homosexual. But just as with the Negro students, homosexuals will have to be fairly brave to try such a program.

Walter Winchell, leading shrillbilly of the American press, recently described a tiff at the Brassierie, where a chap in a tight Italianstyle suit was paying his check. One of a group of troublemakers shouted, "Get that fag!" Mr. Italiansuit (a hairdresser) went over and asked, "What did you say?" "I said you're a fag!" Then the hairdresser busted a few of the troublemakers teeth, flattened 2 of his buddies, put a pointed toe in 4th man's groin and walked out, not much ruffled. The show-offs then demanded the manager call the cops.

Milton Bracken in NY Times feature, Mar. 14th, on "decay" of 42nd St.: "Homosexuality is an obvious problem on Forty-second Street. Homosexual males converge in the area and are most prevalent at the Eighth Avenue end of the block. The clergy, the police, merchants and business organizations generally agree that homosexuality has increased in the area over a period of several years.

"But the police report no increase in arrests for homosexual offenses over the same period. Such arrests are usually based on Section 722, sub-section 8, of the Penal Law. Known to police as 'D.C.8,' it makes a person guilty of disorderly conduct who 'frequents or loiters about

any public place soliciting men for the purpose of committing a crime. against nature or other lewdness.'

"It becomes swiftly apparent to an inquirer that even the neighborhood 'experts' are not of one mind as to who is a homosexual...

"One high police official held that although homosexuality appeared to have increased, the 'flagrant' deviates-those who wear make-up and a feminine hairdo, and walk with a 'swish'-had decreased."

SALT LAKE CITY: Mayor J. Bracken Lee, after much noise, suddenly fired Salt Lake's witchhunting topcop, W. Cleon Skousen, along with 3 assistant chiefs. Terrible tempered Bracken Lee, former Utah governor, who has survived feuds with the US Internal Revenue and with his own GOP, howled that the chief had been insubordinate and charged that police pressure was used to force tavern owners into a 'protective association.' Skousen on TV attacked the Mayor's budget-cutting predilections, charged Lee had urged him to play down his war on crime. The mayor wants an open city, he said. Skousen's fanatic campaign against homosexuals didn't seem to be at issue, although he claimed Lee had pressured him to go easy on vice and traffic arrests. Hecklers booed non-Mormon Lee in City Commission chambers, and he said his phone was flooded with vile calls, and his family subjected to Ku-Kluxish attacks . . .

ANN ARBOR, MICH.: Police announced just before Xmas that 3 plain-clothesmen had hid for 6 months in Univ. Michigan restrooms. Arrested were 26 men, including an associate prof., 14 students, a former public school teacher, several Univ. employees, and a number of townspeople. Further arrests followed. Prosecut-