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by w.e.g. mcintire

HOLLYWOOD, SAN DIEGO, MADRID, BERLIN

The U. S. Supreme Court now has the appeal of the Hollywood book dealer accused of selling Tropic of Cancer. The decision will affect censorship of future books. The major problem of enforcing censorship is the problem of who is to decide what is obscene. In San Diego it is suggested that a committee of churchmen should decide. Which churchmen? The Black Muslims? The Quakers? I notice that all the newspapers are quoting a report by the Quakers on sex. ONE reported the same thing years ago; where were the newspapers then?

What ONE can't print and others won't is often printed by The National Enquirer. For instance: Tallulah Bankhead's face turned crimson with anger when, at a social soiree, a nasty remark was made about her mannish voice. Tallulah answered with such tones and words that the Big Mouth couldn't make further reply. Cary Grant caused quite a furor when he and 3 young men with bleached hair, plucked eyebrows (2 were wearing

lipstick and makeup) and wiggles in their walk, made the rounds of the notorious bars on the left bank. While in Madrid, Laurence Harvey caused a stir in one spot when he and his young male escort hugged each other. In Berlin, Barbara Hutton's ex-husband, Baron Gottfried Von Gramm, was arresed in a raid on a late-night party at which several men were found in drag.

IN THE COLUMNS

Readers of Dear Abby saw a letter from a man whose wife went on a rampage when he and their son took a shower together (child, age 4). Abby replied that the wife should have a talk with her doctor about her unnatural ideas, which should be traded for some enlightened, healthy ones.

Dr. Crane, writing in the Akron Beacon Journal, claims to have talked a boy into curing himself of homosexuality. I have never seen the proof of such a claim. I hope Dr. Crane doesn't think that marriage is proof. . . . Up in Oregon they have what appears to be an insane female osteopathic physician: waving

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