one

a mystic bond

of brotherhood

makes all men one."

Carlyle

magazine

Volume VII

Number 7

July 1959

4 EDITORIAL William Lambert

5 THE HOMOSEXUAL AND THE BEAT GENERATION

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Wallace de Ortega Maxey

THE LAST OF THE MASKS WITH PROFUSE

APOLOGIES TO OREN BOYTON AND A COUPLE OF

OTHER CATS WHO MAY BE HIDING UNDER LOCAL PIANOS Lou McLean

14 TANGENTS News & Views by Dal McIntire

17 THE FORCE Fiction by Jess Luther

21 OTHER PEOPLE A Poem by Willis Eberman

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BOOKS

24 REPORT FROM NEW YORK Alden Kirby

25 TOWARD UNDERSTANDING Blanche M. Baker, M.D., Ph.D.

29 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

COVER PHOTO: Courtesy Alger Gallery, 7453 Melrose,

Los Angeles 46, California.

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