Transvestia

One of the calls after the show was from the wife of a TV who had been happily married for 25 years..

Since my return I was told by my friend Nikki who was handling the mail for me that she sent out about 125 requests for further information as a re- sult of these shows and more, I am sure, are still in the pile of as-yet-unopened mail that has accum- ulated. So the three appearances in Chicago did a lot of good. I want to give much credit at this point to Gisele (Cover Girl #32) acting as Gus for being a good public relations man and arranging all three of these appearances. Although he was just convalescing from a bout with Hepatitis he put in a lot of time and energy on these projects and we all owe him a vote of thanks for the effort.

We got back to his apartment after the Faye show in time to see the screening of the Kup show that had been taped the day before and so I was able for the first time to see myself on TV as a TV dis- cussing TV. The next nite was a nice get together at Gisele's place and the following day I flew to Detroit.

I took the tour out to Dearborn and the Ford Museum and also went thru the River Rouge steel plant. It was fun walking thru the plant as a woman asking a lot of intelligent questions (my brother is a chemist you know) that a woman wouldn't usually ask. I really kept the guide humping.

The afternoon of Aug. 19th I went down to the docks and boarded the SS South American for the boat trip to Montreal. This was a fascinating trip thru the locks of the St. Lawrence waterway, the 1000 Islands and a side trip to Niagara Falls by bus. Everything went off lovely on the boat--I was aboard 22 days and 3 nights. The ship's photographer got several shots of me which I am printing with this article. One was as we got off ship for a half hour stop at Ogdensburg N.Y. and the other two were during

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