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Hermione Gingold's & Sybil Burton's visit to Cherry Grove reportedly "livened up things" there. They also had a police raid, but it wasn't very effective cause a guy spotted the police boats in the harbor and ran around giving the alarm and he's now known as Pauline Revere . . . Sweden, famous for a healthy liberality regarding sex, has a film censorship board, and the majority of the films they've banned or cut were U.S.but for violence and torture, not sex. "Spartacus" and "Cape Fear" got whacked... At a bar on Rush Street in Chicago's north side, cops arrested the bartender and a male customer after the customer "kissed and fondled" one of the cops . . . Columnist Sterling Slappey says "A brief walk through London is indication enough of spreading homosexuality" but "Cases of lesbians are rarely found here". Must be that he's one of those who can't recognize a gay lass from a hole in the ground . . . A U.S. District Court in Philadelphia found Ralph Ginzburg guilty of mailing

obscene material, mainly because of the ten-bucks-a-copy magazine "Eros", making him liable to fines up to $140,000 and 140 years in the pen. Part of the government's gripe was that publicist Ginzburg was mailing his stuff from towns like Intercourse, Pa., Middlesex, N.J., and Blueballs, Pa. . . . In Seattle, a judge really threw the book at a 38-year-old man up for the fifth time in 20 years, for molesting a 13-year-old boy. He sentenced him to not more than 30 years in the pen but recommended the State Board set the minimum at 29 years and 11 months. . . In Oahu, Hawaii, a group of businessmen complaining about police being soft on homosexuals, said there were at least 14,000 there, but a Lt. Barrett of the Vice Squad said that was "absolutely inaccurate," that there may be as many as 500 overt homosexuals on Oahu . . . England's Western Theater Ballet has a shocker

"The Wedding Present", a ballet of a marriage crackup due to the husband preferring a boy, with a

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