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brilliant mind like yours standing behind us, then they can smile again. Many I know, cannot go out in public. The ability to do that, as we do, is a gift of God and I give thanks for it every night of my life. I could not help thinking about dear little Joyce at the beginning of this month, August 2, 1963, we put her to rest. I hope she is happy at last. Well I hope you have completely recovered from your surgery and will close with the sin- cere hope that I will be seeing you soon.

Sincerely, Joan

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Dear Virginia:

During the considerable time in which I have been a TV I have never thought to express any philosophy of life or to explain my tendencies. This is because my behaviour has seemed so natural to myself that I found no necessity for explanations.

In numerous parts of Oceania, the men wear earrings or necklaces and in other societies of the Pacific all the bright plumage is affected by the men. In many parts of Africa, dancing is the perogative of the males who are gaily decorated with feathers, powder and paint. In some Oriental areas the two sexes dress about like. Most primitive societies are noted for the artistry of the males which extends into jewelry and articles of clothing.

Western man, on the other hand, is a hard driving competitor who wants to build bridges and rockets, He has no time for frills. Once in a while he relaxes as in the early 1700s when European men were addicted to laces, perfumes, ribbons and wigs. Moreover, Western civilization, in it's desire to explain everything, to systematize everything, places us all in categories. If you are an American male of a certain age, in a certain economic bracket, you are supposed to act in a certain way and dress in a prescribed fashion. Finally this at- tempt to place every one in a behaviour strait-jacket is accentuated by the triumph of mass-man. The masses are now the arbiters of taste and fashion and you must conform to their models or they will turn on you with scorn and ridicule. We are not as individual as

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