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...Lost Souls. But the bulk of Girodias' list consists of such works as Who Pushed Paula?, by "Akbar del Piombo," Houses of Joy, by "Wu Wu Meng," and Until She Screams, by "Faustino Perez." Girodias pays about $1,000 a book and chooses the pseudonyms himself-"Otherwise, they always pick something like J. Walter Thompson." He prints 5,000 copies of each standard pornographic novel in chaste green jackets labeled "The Traveler's Companion Series," and invariably sells out at 3.75 francs (75?) a copy. For bulk sales, he finds that the best markets are France...
...still simmering New Orleans, twelve Negro children entered six schools with no first-day disturbance. And there the Justice Department launched a new legal assault on Racist Leander Perez, political boss of neighboring St. Bernard parish. Last year St. Bernard set up a special school to handle white students boycotting integrated schools in New Orleans. If St. Bernard persists in this "evasive scheme,'' said the Justice Department in a suit to halt the practice, its own schools should be integrated by court order...
...Denah Lida, wife of Raimundo Lida, professor of Romanco Languages, plans to study the 19th century Spanish novelist, Benito Perez Galdos. The fourth Faculty wife, Mrs. Brita K. Stendahl, wife of Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, will write essays on contemporary Swedish literature...
...wholly temporal reason was that parochial schools, which enroll half the white pupils in New Orleans, get tax-paid books and supplies from the segregationist state legislature. The archbishop's flock also includes some of the South's most fervent racists, among them Boss Leander Perez, who threatened to withhold money and students if parochial schools even began to integrate...
...although he has seen to it that schools in St. Bernard's Parish have opened their classrooms to white "refugees" from New Orleans, the battle against integration is going against Leander Perez. Some Louisiana newsmen be lieve that his influence is waning. But those who know him best think he is just waiting for his next move. "I always take the offensive," Leander Perez once said, daintily flicking an ash from his omnipresent cigar. "The defensive ain't worth a damn...