Pershing Square . . . Some of the reviews of the French movie Les Abysses mentions lesbianism and some don't . . . In the Nov-Dec/64 FACT there is a silly article not even worth reading for laughs by a female concert manager screaming hysterically against the number of male homosexuals in the U.S. musical field. She says 10 of the 12 leading U.S. composers of serious music are homosexual-but doesn't add that U.S. music has never before been rated so high by the world. And what would it be rated WITHOUT the 10? And who in the hell are the 2 odd ones? Police and DA offices all over California are still fighting the rulings of the State Supreme Court in the Dorado and Escobedo cases last August which in effect held that police must inform a suspect of his right to REMAIN SILENT and to have his ATTORNEY PRESENT dur-

ing ANY questioning. Remember: Keep your big mouth shut except to phone your attorney and keep his number in your wallet. Better yet: Keep your fly shut in public; sex is a PRIVATE affair. . . In a freewheeling interview given the Chicago Daily News multimillionaire Aaron Scheinfeld sounded off on almost everything, including tabbing as plain silly the U.S. hysterical reaction to homosexuality

Nebraska legislators are frank in saying they won't follow other states in reviewing and modernizing sex laws-because of fear of not being re-elected. The head of their Bar Association said he'd not call for any review unless there was a real clamor from a legitimate social agency and not just some "crackpot reform group" . . . TIME for 12/25/64 ran two startling pictures of admittedly homosexual Max Doyle-one as a handsome man, one as an extremely at-

tractive woman. He got a whopping 20-year sentence in N.C. for a homosexual act after a trial during which he brazenly appeared in women's clothes. During the appeal trial, he wore subdued men's clothes and got acquitted . . . Nationally syndicated columnist Sydney Harris in discussing the Jenkins case said the only sensible solution for society was to do away with "security risk" attached to homosexuals by accepting their deviation openly . . . Mrs. R. V. Anderson, Legislative Chairman of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, spent two days reading confession, detective, and adventure magazines, trying to find smut, and when she answered some of the ads, she got results-finding she was on the list of a homosexual pen pal club. A call to the Post Office Department resulted in the quick arrest of one man and continuing tinuing investigation . . . In an English English court, a lawyer made an impassioned defense for male long hair in defending a Beatle-like client, saying "The Duke of Marlborough had much longer hair than my client and he won some famous battles. He powdered his hair, too, because of fleas. But my client has no fleas." . . . . In the Rentals To Share ads in the L.A. Times for 12/6/64, three of the ads asking for male roommates specified with the word STRAIGHT. All others did not. . . .

EASY READING

Stations by Burt Blechman (Random House) concerns itself among other things, with what goes on in in subway station tea-rooms. Nova Express by William Burroughs (Grove), is another Naked Lunch. Last Exit to Brooklyn is a remarkably good collection.