THESE EVENTFUL YEARS

Leading Lady

Virginia 5-P-1 FPE

As this is the first issue of our eleventh year of publication I feel entitled to do something a little unusual. Transvestias No. 1 thru 4 had no cover girl, just a drawing. Starting with No. 5 on which my good and loyal friend of many years Annette 12-F-1 FPE appeared as our first cover girl, the magazine was graced with many a pretty face from No. 5 thru No. 48 (with the exception of No. 40). Starting with No. 49 we changed to a standard cover because of the incon- venience of trying to get cover girl stories and pictures on hand at the right time for the magazine. So the cover was standardized and the format changed to a Leading Lady story in which the heroine was honored by a large frontispiece picture of herself. We have had such Leading Lady stories in most of the issues but have missed several times for lack of any submitted stories and pictures.

Although requested to do so I did not make myself a cover girl except as part of a group back in issue No. 17 in which my own life story appeared. This was in October of 1962, and this issue has long been out of print. But it seems appropriate to award myself this honor this time for several reasons, 1) for my endurance I never expected

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to last for 10 years, 2) because these years have been rather eventful and need to be summarized, and 3) because many people have asked for a decent picture of me rather than the little snaps taken on my various trips. So I present here the story of my life in very brief sum- mary since I don't want to go back and reprint the original from No. 17. There are, however, a great many new readers since then and it may be of interest to them not only to know something of my life prior to TVia but also to be brought up to date on the important events of the last 10 years. Perhaps both will serve to put me in a better perspective for those of my readers that I have never met and

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