Letters to the Editor

Dear Virginia,

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Feeling broken-hearted and miserable over Christmas '60, I thought I wanted to be with a fellow TV, so I wrote to Susanna. Susanna replied in a very friendly manner and I went to visit her and her wife, Marie, in NYC. They are very charming and human people. Susanna told me that she knows you so that is how I am coming to look upon you as a friend. In NYC I had the opportun- ity to meet one or two other very open TVs. We talked freely and I had a very fine experience. Having been dressed up in front of only one or two people before in my life, I was rather nervous meeting TV strangers in dress. This nervousness, however, wore off and very soon I was just like the rest of the girls and was even singing and dancing and loving every minute of it. Somehow, now I don't feel so nervous and afraid of TV and will find it a lot easier to break it to a future wife.

Now I wouldn't mind it if you printed all or part of the following.

News to fellow TV 8:

especially to the nervous, inexperienced

ones. Everything depends on just what you're used to.

Let me give examples: Driving in a luxurious limosine may be a thrill for you, but if you owned one for 6 months, you'd be- gin to regard it as just a mode of transportation. Nude bodies may be disturbing to your composure, but swimming in the nude in a YMCA pool or spending a holiday at a nudist camp would prove to you that it doesn't mean a thing after a few hours. It's as if you had been doing it all your life.

Now I was rehearsing with a group of boys and girls for a show where I was to headline one act, impersonating a girl singer. I was willingly offered black spike-heeled shoes from one girl, a sheath dress from another, a black lacy slip from another, lipstick and gloves. With a hired blonde wig, my ensemble was completed.

When I first appeared, dressed up for the rehearsal, the kids

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