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...Received a report on employment of homosexuals in the U.S. Government after a Senate subcommittee heard the testimony of a Washington police lieutenant that 3,750 perverts hold Government jobs. Dr. R. H. Felix, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, informed Senators that perhaps 4% of the white U.S. male population were "confirmed homosexuals," so he did not think that Washington, D.C. was much worse than anywhere else. The appalled subcommittee thought an investigation should be made anyhow...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
...mind, and been dismally primitive. To Edmund Wilson, Mencken was, "the civilized consciousness of America . . . realzing the grossness of its manners and its mind, crying out in horror and chagrin . . ." His battles with the censors, one of which caused him to invade Boston and which also caused Felix Caragianes, the Square newsdealer, to be arrested for selling Mencken's "Mercury," are no less admirable today than yesterday. Mr. Kemler's recounting of the Boston incident and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (he contends that "perhaps" Scopes was influenced by Mencken's writing) makes lively reading...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri, and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...