End of ADS-L Digest - 24 Aug 1997 to 25 Aug 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 25 Aug 1997 to 26 Aug 1997
There are 6 messages totalling 183 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. "Gay Head" in Scholastic Magazine
 2. Money Talks (movie title) (2)
 3. Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard
 4. Wash. Post article on DARE
 5. squires

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Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:00:38 +0000
From:  David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Gay Head" in Scholastic Magazine

Barry A. Popik wrote:
>
>   I'm in the last stages of selling my parent's house, and all of my
> college textbooks and other old books are being tossed or donated. I came
> across a book in my sister's room that was, well, queer:
>
> DEAR GAY HEAD (Questions from the Mail Box answered by GAY HEAD), Scholastic
> Book Services, NY, 1958. Cover illustration--a mailbox with letters
> addressed "GAY HEAD, N. Y. C."
>
>   "Gay Head" gave teen dating advice in the Scholastic Magazines (which
> were then very popular). The intro reads:
>
>   "Letters--We Get Letters!"
>   Yes, we get bags and bags of letters, asking questions about all the
> things that bother young people today.

The "Letters--We Get Letters!" is an allusion to the Perry Como tv show
which was on in the mid-to-late '50s.
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