to strike over invasion of privacy. Management like a flash yanked it out and said it had been planted to catch whoever was defacing walls with obscene drawings and epithets. . . . Charlton Heston got the Michaelangelo role in the movie to be made of Irving Stone's THE AGONY & THE ECSTASYwhich figures, since his frame & face resemble the ugly looks of Michaelangelo (which all historians remark he was so bitter about) as much as Stone's story resembles proven facts. Wonder who will play "the wraiths", as Renaissance expert Prof. Clements dubbed all those beloved women Stone invented? . . . The LA County Grand Jury recommended an amendment to the Penal Code making it mandatory that if any school teacher charged with a sex offense wants to plead guilty to a lesser charge, the Court must be informed specifically the defendant is a schoolteacher. This grew out of a resolution adopted by the American Legion that urged that all grand juries be told of the State Board of Education's granting or restoring credentials to teachers accused of homosexuality. . . . One reviewer of THE WANTING SEED, new futuristic novel by English composerwriter Anthony Burgess, says he is baffled on how to treat "the homosexuality idealized as a means of limiting births." What baffles others, of course, is our society's in these times pushing HETEROSEXUALITY idealized as a means of PROMOTING births. ... Seattle is cracking down, and publicizing it muchly, on homosexual activity in their city parks and picked up 11 men to start with.. Homemade movies, said to be too much to ever be shown in a trial, were the downfall of a "huge male sex ring" in Portland. . . . A NYC fan of TANGENTS sent us a clipping of

an ad from the NY TIMES for a "Men's Hair Coloring, Men Only" shop on W 44th with the note that "The number of blonds is overwhelming in NYC these days!" . . . THE CHERRY LANE was tabbed one of the most flamboyant homosexual haunts in Greenwich Village and closed up after authorities up-after tried putting a police "Raided Premises" sign on display and found that that only increased the number of patrons, especially gawking tourists. .

RECOMMENDED READING

Mary McCarthy's The Group takes 8 girls fresh out of Vassar in 1933 and follows their lives for 7 years. Not until the very ending does the reader discover that the one girl of the group the rest all admire, Elinore Eastlake, "Lakey," is homosexual. That homosexuality is used as a surprise ending is interesting. More important, its presentation is unprejudiced.

The novel bubbles over with delicious, pinpricking, satiric portraits and some high farce. Don't miss this one.

Solution Nov. Campogram

S. M.

Mr. E. B. of Paris, France writes: November Campogram reads, "I wouldn't mind finding that male whorehouse I been hearing about. Out in Hollywood. Wouldn't that be a gassy kick? Even hustle chicks. for a change. Man, usually I don get no good buzz outta guys swinging on my joint. Mostly I fall asleep. Then I got no problem. I always sleep with a hardon. . . ."

John Rechy, City of Night

E. B. continues, "I so think you should choose texts which are more orthodox English-some of. your readers have difficulty in following your Americanisms!"

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