and local police who want to have life easy, without the complications of things like privacy. It reminds you of the thinking of the man in SMITH AND JONES, who found that he preferred the other country because his country's embassy and staff wouldn't give him cooperation unless he threatened to use his secret service position to threaten them personally, McCarthy-like. OF MANY THINGS, OF CABBAGES AND QUEENS

A TANGENT's fan from Baltimore suggests we warn anyone thinking of vacationing on The Riviera after reading the campy "Nice Is Nice For Nudes" in THE YOUNG PHYSIQUE to first see page 38 in the 8-63 CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE

An Episcopal

priest, Rev. David B. Wayne, at the Church of the Epiphany in N.Y. in a sermon said that homosexuals "must be accepted fully into the fellowship of the church" . . . Waldo Reesink, Jr., that former SF police sgt. who in 1960 pleaded guilty to receiving payoff (which the press dubbed "gayola") from a gay bar owner and who was sentenced to one year, is out after serving 9 months . . TIME's review of the new novel THE WHISTLING ZONE says its "superspectacular sexual fantasies. an underwater coupling, a 30-ft.-high phallic symbol, a necrophilic stripper, a mass rape of a midget" are "almost enough. to bring HETEROSEXUALITY into disrepute"

"Troy Harris," tough cigar-smoking bellhop in Asbury Park NJ, got arrested for robbing a hotel night clerk-and the police medical examination revealed 33-year-old Dorothy Wilson

The VS finally has been called into Yosemite to clamp down on the tearoom set . . . Psychiatrist Michael Miller claims he used hypnosis and turned four homosexuals into hetero's . . . Intourist,

the official travel bureau for foreign sightseers in Russia (which is so fierce against homosexuals that it hasn't even one homophile organization), announced it has arrested American Bernard Koten in Kiev for homosexual acts . . . CITY OF NIGHT is now number four on the bestseller list for the country . A rehabilitation leader, Rev. David Wilkerson, says Denver is the U.S.'s second largest center for homosexuals, behind behind only NYC, "because the climate is good for them here-and I don't mean weatherwise" . . . NY TIMES had a photo of famed playwright Edward Albee "at his summer home on Fire Island" working on his play version of Carson McCullers's "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL frontpaged a column on the boom in sales of men's cosmetics, so boomy that it is "clear their appeal isn't limited to males whose masculinity is open to question" .. TIME had a column on Anglican Historian Williamson's claiming homosexuality had nothing to do with the destruction of Sodom and that the misinterpretation is of the Hebrew word for "know" (yadoa)

That Samuel Barber Piano Concerto is due to be waxed when John Browning plays it with the Cleveland Symphony this winter

Can the remarkably high degree of masculine good looks among '64 presidential candidates. -Kenndy, Goldwater, Scranton, Romney, Hatfield & Rocky-be just concidence? . . That autobiographical gay bit by Dorothy Thompson in the Oct./63 HARPERS was a surprise . . . James Colton, whose popular short stories often appear in ONE Magazine, has a book coming out in January that will very much interest our readers. It is entitled, of all things, Lost on Twilight Road . . . -S.M.

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