I wonder how women have put up with them except for necessity for the last several thousand years. Any- way the bike ride was great fun but very perspiring in the heat.
The swimming incidentally needs a word of ex- planation. No bathing cap really keeps the water out and water will of course ruin the set of a wig. My solution was to take an old wig that didn't have much life left in it, put it on and pin it on well and then put the bathing cap on before leaving the room. With the ear flaps up there was considerable hair showing which was appropriate for on the beach wear. But when going in the water with the flaps down most of the hair is tucked in like you intended to but a few wisps are left out just for effect. Don't take the cap off when you come out, just turn the flaps up. Any decent cap fits too tight to be able to take it off without removing the wig too.
Finally came the beginning of the home trip which meant going back to Honolulu. That night I was picked up by my minister friend and his wife and we went to the TV studio. At this point we had a kind of first, a "TV on TV". Others may have talked about it in the masculine role, but I was there as Virginia and was interviewed for about 20 minutes before I was asked what personal interest I had in the field--it had all been professional before that-- and I dropped to my masculine voice and confessed all. I learned later that the engineer who had been monitering it in the control room nearly blew his mind when I revealed myself. We covered the subject rather completely starting with my Hawaiian paper for the psychiatrists last year and going thru the mag- azine, the philosophy, FPE, and my personal experi- ences and feelings after my own TVism had been re- vealed. The tape will be shown on both commercial and educational stations in Honolulu. It's a begin- ning and a good place to start, because it is some- what disconcerting to have that mike around your neck (it obscured my nice cleavage-darn it) and having
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