by the Max Planck Institute for Behavior Studies, these experiments are being conducted in order to better understand how animals communicate and react to each other. Several psychiatrists are speculating as to whether sexual imprinting could be effected upon human babies. Schulz refuses to say one way or another. Meanwhile, another scientist, Dr. Robert C. Nichols, of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, is trying to prove that human beings are more influenced by heredity than by environment. He has bred rats that are either stupid or brilliant. The smart rats produce smart offspring, and the dumb rats produce dumb offspring. He's awfully excited about this.

BOYS TO BE COIFFED, NOT CUT

Barber Darrell Wilde, of Beverly Hills, predicts that in seven years American men will be having their hair "done" rather than cut. Wilde states that more and more men are going in for custom-made hair styles, and claims that hand-tailored hairdos are good for the health and ego. (At $5 to $25 a clip, they would certainly be good for Wilde's health and ego.)

AN OLD PROFESSION GETS A YOUNG SUPPORT

Fred Cherry, of P.O. Box 1017, Brooklyn 2, New York, is forming a committee to urge the legalizing of prostitution. He and a gang of young fellow-crusaders picketed before the Women's House of Detention at Sixth and Greenwich Avenues in New York, circulating a petition requesting that prostitutes be left alone by the law. The gals in the pokey (not knowing what the gents were up to on the street below) screamed imprecations from the windows. The meeting was finally adjourned when

Cherry was presented a summons. for blocking the sidewalk. The heckling hookers never knew they were berating their champions. COUPLE LOSE TOT

A married couple in New York was recently called before District Attorney William Cahn of Nassau County, and forced to surrender their three month old adopted son. It seems that the groom was actually a woman. The couple is instituting a court battle to regain custody. The adoptive mother is a 31 year old divorcee who can not bear children, and her spouse is a 40 year old woman who wears her hair short and works as a house painter. The couple has lived together for four years as man and wife without arousing the suspicion of their neighbors. THE LITERARY SCENE

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Joe Orton, a young playwright, has a play running in London titled "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," which is about a brother and sister who fight for the sexual favors of their boarder, handsome, young Mr. Sloane. (Our informant didn't say who won.) . . . "Queer People," by W. H. Allen, is a ho-hum expose, published in England Edmund Bergler, dead since 1961 in more ways than one, has a thoroughly horrid article in the October 1964 Coronet, titled "Twilight Love." (What else?) It is a reprint from Bergler's book "Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life?" which was written in 1956. "Twilight Love" consists of Bergler's bitching about the great number of homosexual book reviewers (Maybe the ones that booed his books?) and reiterating the tired old saw about homosexuals being sick, but darn it they just wouldn't admit it.

POTPOURRI

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