Letters

FALLOUT

Dear Sir:

I purchased your Magazine (August, 1961) as is my usual habit and was surprised to find that most of the space was devoted to an article concerning censorship by the U. S. Postoffice. I was at first annoyed but soon found that the half-dollar brought me more pleasure and knowledge than had any halfdollar before.

Mr. M. Brooklyn, New York

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO THE EDITORS FORWARD LETTERS FROM READERS TO OTHER PERSONS NOR DO THEY ANSWER CORRESPONDENCE MAKING SUCH REQUESTS.

Editor:

AND BECAUSE

"Philosophia," by Thomas Waugh (September, 1961) I think is one of the most enjoyable and brilliant pieces you've ever published.

As someone having studied and written on Gertrude Stein, I was excited to find her genius still sowing seeds. And Mr. Waugh's work is far from an imitation.

Stein believed the tools of literature words, sentences, punctuation and paragraphs can be used so as to strike the reader as new, fresh, so giving a sharper impact, analogous to to what has actually happened in modern music and cubistic and non-objective painting (Mr. Waugh's work reminded me of Modigliani). I've lived in "gay" Hollywood, and Mr. Waugh dazzled me with the sharpest, most perfect portrait of it I've ever seen.

It seems to me that Mr. Waugh is especially important because he has been able to do something that no other user of this style has done, including Stein herself-put heart into it. The passages on love are some of the most sincere and moving I've ever seen. A. E. Smith

Don:

Los Angeles, California

And dear. And well because.

I read. It. And again and again and I guess because. So now it has been again and again read and read because it seems. Well because it was read and read and again and again because. Too much. Of something very little. Of what? Oh of the void and sham and glamour and need and shame and love and all of what it was that could or might be of It. Of course. And what else. Hollywood. Yours. Truly!

Arkansas

Dear Sir:

I was living in Spain; had maid trouble; fired maid; hired houseboy; maid mad; had kept notes on my Spanish callers; turned notes over to police; Spain a police state; police obtained statements from callers; police descended within twenty-four hours; carted me off to jail; eighteen hours of solitary; carted off to prison; paid bail; resigned job; left Spain silently; returned to U. S.; got job for how long is anyone's guess.

Story of my life during last year and a half. Live quietly. Afraid to contact old friends might be harmful to them.

Dear ONE:

Mr. J.

San Diego, California

Bar

A friend and I stopped at the new in Tampa after a movie. Within fifteen minutes the place was raided. Three straight couples were not taken in the paddy wagon. The rest of us were. At the station we were warned to keep away. A second time caught and the sentence would be sixty days.

For what? How are they to legally assume the talent to distinguish a gay person, and even if correct what has been done wrong? I think part of California's population increase is the result of Florida activities.

Hi:

Mr. R.

St. Petersburg, Florida

Just returned from a week in New Orleans. "Things" seem to be OK there wtih no problems that I heard of, and I had a ball! Being over Labor Day weekend there were many visitors and lots of talk about a recent murder in Mobile, closing of bars in Dallas, more meat for your Tangents. Mr. L.

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Dear Friends:

Brooklyn, New York

I have been pondering the news from ONE Confidential (May, 1961) about the man