clyffe Hall and found varied stories about her life. I know as well the Chase of the Wild Goose' and I can name you another library containing it: The Public Library of Cardiff, Wales-U.K. They possess as well books of Radclyffe Hall signed by her own hand.

"Madchen in Uniform' by Christa Winsloe (English title 'Children in Uniform') appeared as a play as well as a movie in Germany (1935) and now it will be remade with Lili Palmer as the teacher!

"Simone de Beauvoir, the French existentialist writer (pupil and partner of Jean Paul Sartre) gives a modern viewpoint on our problem in her book on women, 'The Second Sex'. Everyone of us needs to read this!! S. d. B. is perhaps the most intelligent woman of not only this continent. Even her enemies say this her intellect seems 'masculine'.

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"Transvestism does not me an homosexuality. know a male transvestite who has a couple of children. And some thing else: girls liking trousers, suits and sporty dresses are not transvestites. They just like comfortable dressing. And a sporty girl does not like to make up like a 'pin-up girl', of course. But a sporty girl is not always a Lesbian either! Nobody objects to this kind of dressing here and the line of mode 1958 is nonchalant."

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And here are some brief and to-the-point comments

on particular articles and writers appearing in

past issues of THE LADDER:

"You seem to want only 'happy-ends' in books, etc. Life is so and so.

"Dr. Baker bravo! She is a courageous and wonderful person."

"The letter of the Negro

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I love it really. What a mind!"

"I do not agree with many things 'Yes, I Am' writer says. Everybody who knows the diffi-

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