fers men the promise of being pursued rather than successfully pursuing. . . . At the Savoy in London, Baron Nugent and "Barbara Ashton" threw an engagement party. Beamed "Barbara", who before a sex-change operation 6 weeks previously had served as a male British Army officer: "I enjoy being a girl".

Reviewers of Alice B. Toklas's new book, What Is Remembered, reminiscences of her long life with Gertrude Stein, are finding it has the unique charm of her Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. The Chicago Daily News reviewer was very frank in calling the author Gertrude Stein's "lover for almost 40 years" and saying that if it weren't for Stein's personality no one but "some old lesbian" would read the book, but he found it "fey and charming". . . . An English group wants to examine the coffin of Shakespeare for clues as to whether he or somebody else (mainly two other homosexuals, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher "All who don't love boys are fools" Marlowe) wrote the plays, but Stratford-onAvon people are objecting 'cause if something were found it would knock in the head their lucrative tourist business. . . . The L.A. TIMES carried a big ad from Statue Makers showing a 5-foot David with fig leaf -but in fine print it says "Fig Leaf Optional". . . . That big new historical novel, The Great Infidel, is about gay Frederic the Second (1194-1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily. . . . The sensational report of the English Quakers ("homosexual affection is not morally worse than heterosexual affection') has U. S. Quakers in a tizzy busy saying that's not THEIR view, and the firstest with the mostest squawks were the Quakers in our Bible Belt states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado.... To play Michelangelo, 20th Century is trying to snag Marlon Brando,

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who rode into fame on a Streetcar Named Desire via a plunging torn. undershirt (a male rear-view version of Marilyn Monroe's broken bra strap). They might make up the face to resemble Michelangelo's ugly mug with mutilated nose-but how could they dress THAT symmetrical hunk of beefcake to resemble the skinny and ungainly frame of Michelangelo? . . . That very expensive American hardback magazine, EROS, just out (their "Winter 1962" issue so you see even well-heeled magazines come out late!) is their gayest yet big color layouts on JEWEL BOX REVIEW, an article called "Was Shakespeare Homosexual?", and in another article on fabulous Frank Harris he is quoted as booming out at a party: "No, I know nothing of the joys of homosexuality! My friend Oscar Wilde can no doubt tell you about that!"

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and then after an awkward silence he added sheepishly "But I must say that if Shakespeare had asked me I should have had to submit".... With a straight face, we've been told there was once a popular song entitled WHAT DID ROBINSON CRUSOE DO TO FRIDAY ON A SATURDAY NIGHT? Can anybody verify this? Don't describe what you think went on just verify. . . .

SMITH & JONES by Nicholas Monsarrat (Sloane)

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In one pleasant afternoon you can read this excellent book. It will leave you a bit shocked at the end, but a little suspense is a good thing. The story of two diplomats who defect to the "other side" and the attempt at getting them back before they can give all of the country's secrets to the enemy, will remind you of the New Nazis article in the May issue of ONE Magazine.

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