ing"... At Federal prisons, convicts. volunteer as human guinea pigs for cancer and drug testing and get paid well for it, and one research. psychiatrist thinks this has cut down on homosexuality cause if a convict has money to buy cigarettes and other extras, then "you don't have to barter with your body" . . . A bunch of Mrs. Grundys in St. Louis tried to set up a Decent Literature Commission, but the experts in psychiatry, law and literature appointed to look into it came out against it and said "No proof exists that allegedly obscene literature causes juvenile delinquency," and the child psychiatrist said censorship would be a waste of time as "the typical delinquent is an actor or doer, he does not read" . . . In Minnesota, 22-year-old Robert Chapman was sentenced to not less than 30 nor more than 80 years at hard labor for murdering 42-year-old Berner Nyjordet, a Lutheran Church pastor. Chapman's defense was claiming the pastor made an indecent proposal to him . . . Mary McCarthy's new novel, THE GROUP, about Vassar girls, has a cultivated lesbian called Elinor Eastlake . . The coveted Pulitzer Award for music went to Samuel Barber for his Piano Concerto. Famed pianist John Browning recently flew to play it at Spoleto. Barber won also in 1958 for VANESSA, to a libretto by friend Menotti (and between them they now have four Pulitzer Awards as Menotti won in 1950 and 1955)

The English are really carrying on about their Profumo thing. Could it be that subconsciously they're tickled pink to have a hetero scandal for a change?

ONE learns that Aldo A. Giannecchini, declaring himself to be an FBI agent, has been interested in the whereabouts of Floyd Albert Davis and Gary Francis Miller.

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