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KEEP OUT OF THE WOODS, BABES

Word is that Palmer Woods, long a popular hunting grounds for some Detroiters, is altogether too popular these days with Tilly Law. News of arrests and enticements come to ONE's offices with unpleasant frequency. A word to the wise should be sufficient, but there are many these days who call themselves wise who are neither wise nor discreet. But don't say ONE didn't warn you.

SHOULD RAVENS EAT CROW?

There are some who think so. Reliable information is that recent distinguished visitors from overseas. to Los Angeles were treated with such vulgar rudeness in the Red Raven, Los Angeles drinking spot, that the question arises if the joint should not be shunned by those who respect courtesy and good manners. The further question is, do those who profit from public patronage have no public obligations whatever? And how are the bars doing in your town these days?

OUR TENTH, THEY SAY

Curious news comes out from 1133 Broadway, New York, these

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days, something concerning "Our 10th." Tenth what? The Mattachine Society, Inc., a San Francisco organization, formerly maintained Area Councils in New York and a number of other cities around the country. Then, in March, 1961, for reasons of its own all of these Area Councils were dissolved by the parent organization. Since that date there has not been a Mattachine Society in New York City. The mystery about "Our 10th" therefore remains still a mystery.

THE VILLAGE NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE

Or such is the lament of some of its more permanent residents, according to William Borders, writing for N.Y. TIMES on 9/9. "MacDougal Street, which runs south from Washington Square, is populated largely by Italian families who have lived there for years," Borders notes, "but at night its coffee-houses and cafes

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throngs of tourists, college students and beatniks, as well as vagrants and flagrant sexual deviants." An elderly woman resident is quoted as saying, "We go inside and close our windows when the sun goes