WEDNESDAY: SEPT 15: Off to London to be met at Heathrow by Sylvia and Margaret, 2 top officers of the Beaumont Society. Sylvia, of course, I'd met over here when she was working in Philadelphia and was a member of the Delta FPE group in Ohio. We met at one of their meetings in Columbus about 5 years ago. Sylvia had taken her vacation to coincide with my visit and had come up from Southhampton and ta- ken a flat in London which provided me a home during my 2 weeks in London. It was certainly appreciated, helped me out considerably finan- cially and gave us a base of operations in our forays around town as well as an opportunity to get to know each other better.

I won't take the space to itemize each day of the two weeks I spent there, but will relate the highlights. Sylvia provided the space so I tried to carry some of the load by providing a good part of the food. Learning that there was a Safeway a few miles from our place, I took my little shopping satchel like any good English housewife and caught the bus up to it. Once inside I began to react as I do when shopping at home, namely "buying out the store." Everything is in microcosm there, the store size, the shopping cart's about 1⁄2 size, the packaged items smaller such as 1 pint packages of milk, etc. So I went to town with a full cart and ended up with insufficient English money at the checkstand which required an exchange of a $20 bill. The rest of my enthusiastic troubles came when I tried to pack the whole business into my shopping bag and carry the rest and ride a bus, too. Next time I was smarter.

Sylvia had arranged a press conference which we duly had and write ups appeared in the Sunday Times, the London Observer and the York- shire Post, a provincial paper. It was publicity like this that helped find so many new girls last time so I hope it is as successful this time. I also gave a couple of magazine interviews which should help too. I spent several days at the Science;Museum which is marvelous, the Geological Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Even so one only scrat- ches the surface. Also took in the Imperial War Museum rather hurriedly one day. That has a marvelous collection of war relics not only from the 2 WWs but from the Crimean War too. Very interesting. I took a trip out to see the Book Distributor that I'd opened when I was there in '69 and who had sort of fallen away. Got him started again and took a walk through Soho the "Main Street" section of London where all the "Adult" bookshops are and was glad to see TVia in about 5 of them so we are getting exposure that way too.

Sylvia and I were taken to dinner at the London Playboy club by Pauline Keith and her husband Ivan. They run COVER GIRL - a store originally dealing in high heeled shoes for men and then branching into

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