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theless such tests will help in the establishing some sort of guidelines and basic information about the subject--something that has not been available before.

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III. MY QUESTIONAIRE: While we are on the subject of tests etc. there is the matter of my own research questionaire which formed the basis of my Hawaiian paper 2 years ago to the psychiatrists. That has not been published yet primarily because I would like to have 500 or more subjects in it to report This is a nice round, fat, impressive number of cases. I had 390 in the Hawaiian paper and have gotten in about 60 since, but I need about 50 more. If some of you still have them around please do your bit by filling them out and returning them. If other, newer readers have not received a copy and are willing to contribute please ask me for one. But make it clear that it is the Chevalier question- aire and not the UCLA test you are asking for. When I get the necessary 500 or more and other tasks are cleared up I will prepare the paper for publication. It ought to knock their eyes out. You will be in- terested to know that the National Inst. of Mental Health--the source of most research funds--refused a grant to the Inst. of Sex Research (the Kinsey Inst.) to do a job on TVism on the grounds that there weren't enough TVs to make it worth while. This is the attitude we've got to change and this paper will help, so do your part.

IV. PLEASING EVERYBODY: Well, you cant win! Some readers complain that one TVia is too much like an- other and then we run in the Nature vs Nurture de- bate and get hit in the head by some because it was too theoretical, too long, and took space that could be better devoted to fictional material where they could live their vicarious lives. In the beginning, TVia, myself as Editor, and all my readers were, so to speak in grammar school as far as the subject and open expressions of it in print were concerned. But today we are a split community with some newcomers