masculine mannerisms, they emulate the masculine quality of control over their emotions as little children, considering emotional spontaneity to be "sissy". Or, it may mean anything the individual researcher's bias wants it to

mean.

Mrs. Virginia Armon, Ph.D., was very tired and she said, "It was a tremendous amount of work and all relatively meaningless!" This reporter was not so sure...the significance of insignificance is quite me aningful. She was also impressed at the number of preconceived ideas that Dr. Armon had discarded in the course of the study. Dr. Armon said that she should start all over with another group of women to see if she got similar results. But lacking the immediate possibility of that, she was concerned that her dissertation should be published and become available to all students in the field as there is no comparable study on a group of women available in the literature. "There is one case study on one Lesbian available," stated Dr. Armon.

NEW HOMOPHILE ORGANIZATION

The first Quarterly Report of the Wicker Research Studie s, a newly-formed homophile organization which now takes in the Southern states, was published in March, 1959.

The organization, which has applied for incorporation in Mississippi, has branches in Louisiana and Texas. Subscriptions for the quarterly newslettor may be obtained by sending a dollar along with your name and address to Wicker Research Studies, P.0. Box 7929, Austin, Texas.

While the Daughters of Bilitis as an organization is flattered that the Wicker group thinks so highly of our aims and purposes (as published on the inside front cover of THE LADDER) as to use the same credo verbatim in their publication, the DOB wishes to disclaim any direct connection with Wicker Research Studies. As the Wicker Quarterly points out, there are "other groups working toward the same onds but following diversified routes."

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