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by w.e.g. mcintire

TOOTING ONE'S OWN HORN

ONE Magazine has been getting its share of attention lately, both favorable and unfavorable. The television program (OFF THE CUFF, ABC-TV, Chicago) which was originally shown February 24th, was repeated April 19th by popular demand. Norman Ross and WBKB-TV report that most mail was favorable. Variety, in reporting on the program said: "Most interesting of the panel members were Father James Jones [a speaker at ONE'S 1963 MidWinter Institute] who articulately fielded the tricky question of sin, and W. Dorr Legg of the homosexual 'lobby' known as ONE Institute, whose position was that sexual deviation is a social rather than a psychological phenomenon and who seemed to be seeking recognition of the 'third sex' as a minority group. . . . But the most astonishing thing said was by attorney Paul R. Goldman, experienced in the defense of deviates in the law courts . . . (who) `often went to great lengths to obtain change of venue when a case came up before a judge who was latently homosexual and therefore prejudiced against the breed.'"'

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Playboy Magazine mentioned this tv program favorably in an editor's article, May of this year. The month before, Nugget Magazine had an article on homosexuals in New York which mentioned ONE (April). And in its June issue Esquire Magazine had an article on the Supreme Court and sex (and censorship) which discussed, among other cases, the lawsuit against the Post Office won in the U.S. Supreme Court by ONE, Incorporated.

ONE was also mentioned, unfavorably, on another television show, the Ben Hunter show in Los Angeles. On the panel there was a man from the Committee for Decent Literature (sic), who held several magazines, which he considered obscene, before the camera. With the exception of ONE Magazine all of those shown were "hard core pornography" publications. The man said, as he had on a previous tv show, that he was not asking for censorship or banning of publications which have been cleared by the courts. He was asked whether he had contacted ONE for information so that he would speak from knowledge and not hearsay or personal opinion. He replied

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