be back. After all, what about the lesbian audience?

THE HOROBIN AFFAIR:

Sir Ian Horobin, 62, and Roy Roger Girard, 17, English schoolboy, pleaded guilty guilty to homosexual charges, and Sir lan started a 4-year sentence to Old Bailey.

Of Roy, Sir lan said "He is a boy to whom I have been virtually married for some time." However, he admitted to affairs with other boys (giving them two pounds a visit). He had plenty of opportunities as warden of Mansfield House University Settlement, which he took over in 1923 when it was just a hut and in debt, and because of his brilliant work the settlement now has assets of 500,000 pounds and a reputation as the finest in Europe.

Of his affairs with boys, Sir lan said "I saw nothing wrong with these relationships." To a friend he said "I see things through different eyes from you. Your relation with your wife is far worse than my relationship with the boys."

What triggered Sir lan's downfall was a holiday in Spain. He had so many boys coming and going that the housekeeper publicly complained. Investigations began and later he was asked to resign from the Settlement.

Sir lan's case got plenty of press coverage because he was so frank, but it has nothing to do with the famous report of the Wolfenden Committee. Sir lan's affairs were with minor males, and he would still be in Old Bailey even if the Wolfenden Committee's recommendations had been law, as they would make legal only acts between consenting adults (as do the new enlightened laws of our State of Illinois).

Many people think it rational to have absolute parity between laws on homosexuality and heterosexuality. If the object of 62-year-old Sir lan's affection had been a 17-yearold girl and if he had fathered illegitimate twins, the worst that could have happened to him would be to get stuck with child support -and he'd have been razzed for cradlerobbing and praised for good old heterosexual potency and fertility. Unluckily, it was a boy, and he ends up in Old Bailey. Different standards.

GUTSY SCHOLAR WITH A SHOVEL:

The heteros are still busy claiming great men and geniuses. They'll stoop to anything to boost up their pitiful pride. And if you think we're kidding, you just haven't read many biographies!

But once in a while an honest and honest-to-goodness scholar with guts comes along with a spade and publicly starts shoveling. Such is Prof. Robert J. Clements, Director of Comparative Lit at NYU, who in the 8/26/62 NY TIMES BOOK REVIEWS walks with spikes slowly over Irving Stone's I, Michelangelo, Sculptor, An Autobiography Through Letters. (Prof. Clements previously gave the same treatment to Stone's The Agony & The Ecstasy.)

Mr. Stone, he says, "still aspires to the toga of scholarship." But a "disturbing characteristic of the editing results from Stone's insistence on perpetuating his own image of Michelangelo." This is done by "removing any kind of pederasty." The "doctoring" occurs on letters to Febo di Poggio, Gherardo Perini, and the adolescent to whom Michelangelo wrote 51 poems, Cecchino Bracci and then examples of the unindicated cuts are quoted.