Editorial Emanations

I. THANKS TO YOU: This being the first issue after Christmas it is my first chance to thank all you nice girls who so thoughtfully remembered Barbara and Virginia with Christmas Cards. It was nice to know that you "had us on your list". Then thanks are due again just from me, Virginia, for the many of you who expressed your con- cern and wishes for a speedy recovery. Actually it didn't turn out as had been expected. I did enter the hospital all primed for a knee operation but developed the virus the same day so no opera- tion. Then, when the Dr. got around to checking over the knee he found it so much better than the last time he saw it that he de- cided maybe no operation was necessary. So after 2 days in the hospital and 3 more at home in bed I had to go back to work, darn

it. I had myself all primed for about 2 weeks of enforced vacation which I was going to put in on all kinds of writing including the often delayed Wives Booklet. Ah well, you can't have everything and I do have the knee intact, so I'm, back with my nose to the grindstone, and quite a stone it is too, keeps Barbara and me busy. II. MY FACE IS RED: Really, I'm not a liar and a double crosser though for a time it looked as though I had been. I have previous- ly told you all in print that this magazine would not be sold in bookstores other than the one here in L.A. This had been my intent as well as my promise. So was I ever upset to get a long distance call from Sandy in N.Y. informing me that TVia was in 5 or 6 stores on 42nd St. For the moment I couldn't figure out how come, since I had done nothing to bring this about. It then dawned on me that my man in L.A. had probably made a trade with some distributor in N.Y. and that was the source of the books. I checked...it was.

I have also checked through Sandy with Susanna and several of the other girls in the N.Y. area and the consensus is that altho they would just as soon the leak had never happened that the damage if any, was already done and that I might just as well go ahead and capitalize on the thing before some chiseling reprinter comes along and steals the whole thing. (This has been done by 2 outfits al- ready who made photoreduction reprints of TVia #3-sold 'em for $5) So I guess now that the milk has been spilled as it were, we will

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