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Articles & Columns (24 pp.)
p. 2	Letters:     J. Press     Alfred Newman     Kath.     Rick Herndon     John Kreidl     (Mrs.) Lilian Quinn     Dennis     Me, Norbert     Howie
p. 3	Wayne [Hansen]: WOMEN - God, how I hate 'em
p. 5	Skip Ascheim: the Great Cambridge Obscenity trial Wayne Hansen: "I had the feeling at the trial on Tuesday..."
p. 6	[Mel Lyman]: Diary of a Young Artist:    October, 1962, North Carolina [Mirror: October, 1962, North Carolina (longer version)] [Eben Given]: Journals of John the Wasted
p. 7	"A wisp of tangled angel hair..."
p. 8	Brian Keating: Antifreeze & Dropping Out
p. 9	John : cop-out of the century Charles Giuliano: Gallery - Tour
p.10	Charles Giuliano: Captain High was last seen in Panama looking for Red
p. 11	Mel [Lyman]: I am going to fuck the world
p. 14	Kydde Sisder: Patchwork: A crazy quilt of scraps and ends from the free papers and Liberation News Service Faith [Gude]: Good Grief!
p. 15	Mrs. Murphy's Chowder:     New on the Swami Front     Harrassment on the Lower East Side     What's Happening in the Media Dept.     Death of a Prime Minister "Balloon King has heard about the dying star."
p. 16	Wayne Hansen: Reply to Harry Duncan of The Blue Bus Barry Burns: On a Mother's Milk Faith [Gude]: "Every angel felt the fire leave..." Joey [Goldfarb]: "There is only one law in all of Gods creation..." Mel Lyman: Telling It Like It Is (When I was a boy growing up in the mountains) Faith [Gude]: "A lonely girl rolled over in her lonely sleep..."
p. 17	Joey Goldfarb: Using Astrology "He and She..." (from the Box Poems) [Mel Lyman](?): Jesus preached compassion
p. 18-19	[Mel Lyman]: Letters to Mel:     B.C.Y.M.S.     David Ames     C.T. Griggs     Nick Libra     Mrs. Monroe     Mulls     Ernie Bayar     J. MacMann     Cynthia Cooperman     A disciple     Dianne (for Shaggie)     Eric Nadel     L.A.S.     Vic Lapuszynski     Love     Carole
p. 20	Mel Lyman: To All Who Would Know (If a woman is really a woman)
p. 21	Pepper Lyman: My Dear Jessie [Benton] Lyman: "To be a Woman is supreme joy..."
p. 22	Christmas in Washington Baruh Sharmon: Paranoia's Playground [Masthead]
p. 23	Classified (ads)