announcing his readiness to impregnate the women of America! That preposterous old humbug with his pickled butterfly on a ring for photographic purposes and George Sand drag!" Such anti-homosexual tirades probably hurt the reputation of the ones making them more than anything else. At least they clear the air -and it certainly sounds as if Mr. Muggeridge is relieved to get a pentup hatred off his supposedly manly breast. It is amusing to conjecture how many of Mr. Muggeridge's friends are, unbeknownst to him, homosexual and are laughing at his childish tirade.

AND HE CALLED IT AN INSULT!

In Tauton, England, an 18-year-old boy was given three months in jail for pinching a policeman on the nose and saying, "You are the handsomest man in the force today!" Police Constable Tom Clarke said he felt he had to bring charges because he felt "this physical insult was really beneath my dignity to suffer in silence." No photograph of Constable Tom was published alongside the clipping sent us-which we think a great pity. Do we have any friends around Tauton who might sneak a photo of Constable Tom? We usually don't print pictures of heteros, but we think poetic justice might be served in this case by paying him the compliment of having thousands of homophiles viewing and admiring the face and figure of Handsome Constable Tom, for the beauty of whom one of our brethren is now in stir.

DETACHABLE FIGLEAF TICKLES PLAYBOY

The April Playboy said: "Fruits of Technology, Peekaboo Division: An An advertisement in ONE, a magazine for homosexuals, offers 9-inch replicas of THE SLEEPING SATYR, classic

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Greek statue of a young chap snoozing au naturel. The ad tells us that the figure is a precise replica of the 2,200-year-old original. 'Only the magnetized, detachable fig leaf is new,' adds the copywriter coyly." That same issue of Playboy has a less campy answer to a student asking if he and his roommate should stop having sex.

OF MANY THINGS,

OF CABBAGES AND QUEENS

One of our correspondents claims Pamela Mason on the radio said one of 1964 Harper's Bazaar cover girls was actually a man. . . All of Dublin and thousands more viewed the bier of Roger Casement, whose body was finally returned from England where he was hanged in 1916 as a traitor. What purports to be his diary is probably the most luridly homosexual diary ever published-England refused the formal request to return the original diary also. . . . The owner of the L. A. theatre where The Toilet was being rehearsed was so shocked at some of the language that he said he'd surrender his license to operate the theatre rather than stick to his contract, so rehearsals moved to another theatre.... The ACLU and Authors League of America petitioned U.S. Supreme Court to review the conviction of Ralph of Ralph Ginzburg, editor of Eros, for distributing obscene material. A post office clerk in Texas writes that a little old lady who sent her maid for stamps and got the new issue, "Centennial of the Sokols," sent her maid right back for refund with a hot note about stamps showing a naked man-it's a fine reproduction of "The Discus Thrower. . . . Variety for 2-24-65 had a full-page ad from an English TV network pushing their film on prisons headed PUTTING A HOMOSEXUAL IN PRISON IS LIKE PUTTING AN ALCOHOLIC TO WORK IN A BREWERY... The Unitarian Universalist Churches