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by sal mcintire

MRS. GRUNDY SAT ON AGAIN:

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In 1956 the Rhode Island legislature set up its Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth which snooped around newsstands and bookshops and when they saw something "objectionable" they sent a letter to the dealer asking for "your cooperation in removing" the material as that "will eliminate the necessity of our recommending prosecution," and in a few days a policeman showed up to see if the material had disappeared. This, they said, wasn't censorship just "educating the public" and "advising" dealers.

Three years ago, four paperback publishers started to fight. They lost in two State Courts, but they won in a whopping 8 to 1 recent U. S. Supreme Court decision that sets down on censorship like a ton of bricks with such noise that Mrs. Grundy groups in all the 50 states are paying attention.

In an analysis of this action by our nation's highest court, the N. Y. TIMES, after reviewing the Court's other anti-censorship decisions in the past few years, says it "is simply proof that the Court is not changing its course".

WE'RE ALL BRILLIANT SEXPOTS!

As reported in Baton Rouge's STATE-TIMES, "The twisted, weird, twilight world of homosexuality" was the subject at a special session of the "Sex Crimes School" at Louisiana State University, and the star speaker was a "special agent of the FBI, New Orleans" called Furman G. Boggan.

Twisted and weird were certainly Mr. Boggan's views. The most eyepopping is his stressing that "one rather definite index of homosexuality" is that "almost without fail, all of them, both male and female, are exceptionally brilliant people."

Not just brilliant. Exceptionally brilliant!

Is it possible Mr. Boggan has come across a special gay group, the entree to which is passing high on an IQ test? We've had contact personally and by correspondence with thousands, and the level and variance is the same as for hetero's -from just plain dumb to just plain

smart.

Could it be that since Mr. Boggan specializes in ferreting out homosexuals he wants to make out like he's got a real tough job?

Significant in Mr. Boggan's lec-

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