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genderal parties--are not nearly as spontaneous or as genuine because all the men are trying to be their "true masculine" selves and the wives are equally putting on a good feminine show and unless the part- icipants are very old and good friends the strain shows. This is, of course why alcohol is almost a must at such gatherings as it relieves the strains. that get set up by the artificial posturings and image projections that go on.

Sunday nite I drove to Chicago with Gisele, her wife and sister-in-law. While Gisele's brother went to work on Monday I called up station WBBM in Chicago that one of the group in Madison had told me about and ended up with an invitation to appear on the Jerry Williams show the following Friday. Monday afternoon I flew to Bloomington Indiana to the Inst. for Sex. Research and spent the next 3 days there, talking with staff and graduate students about out subject. They are all very swell people and I had a fine time. Arrangements were made whereby I will be able to use the Library facilities to do a book on TVism someday when I get my numerous other projects cleared up. So that was time well spent. The In- stitute has tried to get grants to do a regular study of the field of TVism, but were turned down--get this-- because the field was too small, not enough people were involved. can ever work out a poll of incidence in the population I am sure it is going to surprise a lot of people. I have the mech- anism all worked out to do this but it will require raising several thousand dollars to cover just the printing and postal expenses since the poll would mean nothing unless done on a large initial popula- tion. Do we have any well-to-do readers that would like to donate the Foundation some money for such a project? --Not to me or to Chevalier but to the Found- ation. I don't mean all from one person but dona- tions earmarked for this particular project.

If we

From Bloomington I flew to Indianapolis for about 3 hours just to do a tape for possible TV

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