in bathing suits believing that the almost perpendi- cular lines from their rib cages through their waist- lines and down to their hips show up as a seductive capital "S"..when the effect is inevitably a perfect capital "H"....(I'm still tracing that one bathing suit shot of Susanna. She must have been crazy to pose like that. When I find it. It'll burn!)... TV's who, when at the dining room table, grab the salad dish and proceed to shovel into their plate 2 thirds of its total contents leaving the remainder to be divided among 5 or 6 other people....TV's who spend a whole week-end at the resort and (believe it or not) do not dress up! And with this note. I'll say bye...until next TVia.

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SUSANNA

The Laughing God

If there is a God, how He must chuckle at the connatations we put on 'uniforms'. We deem it a 'sin' for a man to express tenderness and love of beauty by donning a filmy negligee....but it is 'manly' and therefore a virtue to wear the garb of a paid killer...a soldier. He must shake His Cel- estial Head at our praise of the man who forecloses the widows mortgage...but condemn the man who gets close to a powder-puff. Red nail polish and a ruby ring on a mans finger...Never! Blood on his hands from smashing his opponent in a four-cornered ring.. Fine! If there is a God how He must wonder at our appreciation of the victory chortle from the man who has defeated another, and our condemnation for the tears of sympathy for the defeated. Yes, we can laugh at the man who, by means of a dress,'ex- presses the qualities within of cleanliness, love, tenderness, beauty, but if there is a God, and there is, He must laugh at the laughers.

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