lingerie, corsetry and a lot of other things. Now they are handling TVia and the Wives and How To books also. As they have customers all over the world this will get the word to a lot of new sisters too. Some of you might like to write for her catalogue of things and if so her address is: COVER GIRL, 50 Westbourne Grove nr. Queensway, Bayswater, London W-2, England. She is a grand person and will do all she can to help you get what you want or need. Anyway the Playboy is qute swank and has a small Las Vegas on the top floor with all the usual gambling games.

I did a lot of wandering around London to various out of the way and interesting places including the National Archives where one can see the original Magna Carta and the famous Doomsday Book among other things. London's subway system is so superior to New York's that it is really pathetic. It's great fun to play "gopher" and go down one place and pop up some where else, explore that territory and pop down and up still elsewhere. It's all interesting.

On Friday the 24th Beaumont had its big annual banquet at which I was the guest of honor. Whereas in 1969 they managed to get together about 15 girls in a hotel room and in 1970 about 50, this year they had 125 reservations, got bold and reserved one of the big banquet halls in downtown London with the full knowledge of the caterers, waitresses, and proprieter, and really put on a bang up affair. The waitresses, when asked, agreed that they hadn't known quite what to expect but were most agreeably surprised by the dress, deportment and general quality of the group. We had several psychiatrists, sociologists and about 25 wives among the crowd. Marie Andre the founder of AMAHO in Paris, her attorney and Helene and another TV friend came all the way from France to attend. We were honored by the presence of one of the members who was 85 years old, and had been married 54 years and his wife has known the whole time. She was there too and they were a fine couple. One of the members who didn't dress had had too many double some- things at the bar beforehand and got kind of boisterous during the ban- quet and the speeches. About the time I got up to talk he reached the zenith and Jackie and a couple of other girls tried to get him to leave quietly which he refused to do, so the 3 girls just picked him up and car- ried him out. It was kind of a novelty to see 3 women carrying a drunken man from a banquet. But it was a very marvelous and successful party and Beaumont, Alga, Sylvia, Margaret, Jackie and Jacqueline in parti- cular deserve great praise for what they have done with Beaumont.

One evening we went over to the "South London Club" which is a flat that about 25 of the girls rent collectively in a residential working class district of south London. All the other residents of the building

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