W. Scudder and published by Broadman Press of Nashville, Tennessee at $3.50 is a manual for clergymen which deals with birth control, capital punishment, homosexuality, mercy killing, etc., from a narrow Christian standpoint and without comprehension, but with compassion. It asks for a more informed, intelligent ministry in dealing with "sin."

GET ON THE COUCH FOR THIS ONE, MARY

In the 2-11-65 NY REVIEW OF BOOKS, reviewer E. H. Gombrich has a ball on the re-issuance of Freud's book on Leonardo da Vinci. Freud made much homosexual ado about a childhood memory of Leonardo's concerning a vulture coming down and flapping his tail in Leonardo's mouth, and Freud went into a long dissertation of the homosexual significance through history of the "vulture"-and one of Freud's disciples even managed to find a "vulture" painted in the robes of Leonardo's St. Anne. Years later, it was discovered that Freud in his study had used a book that was mistranslated it had not been a vulture at all but an ordinary hawk-like bird called a kitewith no homosexual significance at all. Anti-Freudians hooted with laughter and Freudians vociferously defended The Master-and still do to this day.

Reviewer Gombrich quotes the following Jewish joke as applying to "the situation:" The famous Rabbi of Tarnopol awes his assembled followers one Friday evening by gazing into the distance and announcing that he can see the Synagogue of Lwow burning. A few days later a traveler arrives from Lwow and is told of the miracle. He is unimpressed; there was no fire. Consternation among the Rabbi's disciples soon gives

way to the consoling thought that it is not that little detail that matters. It was the fact that their Rabbi could see as far as Lwow at all that was the great miracle. SMUT DOESN'T PAY

A practical minded U. S. Bankruptcy Referee was severely criticized after he authorized the public sale of a million and a quarter dirty books and magazines to satisfy the claims of creditors last Jan.

The books and magazines were among the few "assets" of two bankrupt firms, Aerocolor Inc., and its subsidiary, Trans-National Magazine Dist., Inc. according to Referee Ronald Walker. We have never heard of anyone going broke selling pornography before. At least one of the titles had figured last year in the indictment of 14 men by smut-hunter, former Dist. Atty. of L.A. County, Manly Bowler. Referee Walker, however, before ordering the sale had invited the dist. atty's office to inspect the material to see whether they believed it was obscene or not. When the dist. atty's office made no complaints, Walker ordered the sale. He said he didn't "want to be responsible for flooding the market with dirty books," but he had to be practical. This, basically, was probably the attitude of the owners of the bankrupt firms when they started the business.

A restroom in Dallas got changed from MEN to LADIES and then back to MEN again, and after the last change a note was written on the wall: "I'd rather fight than switch" . . . . In an interview in the 1-23-65 Saturday Review, Hubert Selby, author of LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, says: "Someone suggested that I have a picture of myself with my wife put on the book jacket so people would know

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