of S.F. and the foibles of its citizens. "What might appear irrational, extravagant, or spectacular to others is the norm here. Remember the ancient parable about the man who asked another man why his city was called 'The Strange City. The reply was, 'i do not know, but I'll ask my wife-perhaps he knows.' (Hmmm . sounds more like Los Angeles.)

A similar clipping describes an incident alleged to have occurred in a waiting-line of visitors to the U.S. Senate:-

ELDERLY GENT (whispering to visitor behind) "Is that character in front with the poodle cut and jeans a boy or a girl?"

OTHER VISITOR (angrily) "It's a girl and she's my daughter!!''

E.G. "Forgive me, sir, I never dreamed you were her father."

O.V. (hiking blue Levi's) "I'm not! I'm her mother."

And did you hear the one about the gay young thing, frugging thing, frugging away with another one at a discotheque, who was overheard remarking:"It might not be much of a step, dearie, but it was good enough to keep me out of the Navy!"

Then there was the item from N.Y.'s NEWSDAY for 1/10, on the 9 members of "The Outlaws," one of Ye Olde Cycle Clubs, who tramped into traffic court "attired in old Wehrmacht helmets, gold earrings and coonskin caps, to support a fellow member who had been arrested the night before. Police also arrested 6 of the 9. Their belts, fashioned from motorcycle chains, could be used as clubs, police said. And two kissed while awaiting their turn in court. They explained, 'We kiss to shake people up!' But the police (shaken up??) decided it was disorderly conduct."'

EDWARD TO EDNA;

EDWIN TO YVONNE

Both of these cases, one of transvestism and the other of transsexualism, were reported in recent issues of the S.F. CHRONICLE. The first concerns now-deceased Edward Barge, father and grandfather who for the last twenty years of his life lived as matronly, wellto-do Edna Barge in a California city. The "deception" was discovered by examining physicians after her death in an auto accident. Miss Barge was said to "have lived quietly as a respected member of the community," and to have "had everyone completely fooled." The second describes a 34-yr.-old South African woman who not long ago broke the world gliding-speed record, and who, previous to 1961, was Edwin Leeman, nicknamed "Cat of Nine Lives Pilot" after a number of miraculous escapes from death in airplane crashes. Yvonne recently told the Johannesburg press that in 1961 she underwent an extensive series of operations after years of "fighting a hopeless battle against my femininity." SHOULD LESBIANS MARRY?

(From a girl to Joseph G. Molner, M.D., reported in FT. WAYNE, Ind., JOURNAL-GAZETTE, 2/10) "Dear Dr. Molner: I am 18 and baby-sit for a couple. The man's wife is 30-some years old. She said she was in love with me and made advances that I don't think are quite proper but I don't really know what she means." Dr. Molner's comment: "Obviously the woman is abnormal, meaning that she is attracted to her own sex instead of the opposite. Without going into a long discussion about the problem, all I can tell you is to have nothing to do with her. Get a job with someone else."