SAN FRANCISCO BALL; To BALL Is To Live...To Live Is To BALL: No. 054

San Francisco, CA: Jaundice Press, Inc, 1972. Tabloid newspaper. Light shelfwear. Very good.. 32 pp. The underground sex paper. A combination of fiction, edgy softcore photos, serious writing and drawings with plenty of socially redeeming context. Ads for local sex places, comics, features and photos on attractive young women, reader submissions, a gay column, and personal ads. Staff: Wilton Place, Ziggy Black, Paul Helms, Byron Sterngelt, Candi Wilson, DeDe Masswell, C. Dexter Ward, Thea Simon, Mother Iconoclasta, Lee Carvel, Bill Loki, Mike Underwood, Don Grant, Sandi Powers, Jackie Wells, Becky Morris, Joe Gordon, Jeff Gold, Joe Longo, Anne Rago, and Kathy Linstrong. This issue has: an editorial about a former SF Ball advertiser busted for taking photos of young girls. A bunch of punch lines, asking readers to write in with the jokes. Lee Carvel comic, Green Latrine. Review of bondage film, Slaves in Cages, "by far one of the worst films I've ever seen." Astrology. Strange Bedfellows, by Morton Fowler. Interview with Lady Godiva. Mother Iconoclasta minority report, with photo of kissing and mutual masturbation. Illustrated limerick: There was a young man of Tibet, and this is the strangest one yet, his prong was so long, and pointed and strong, he could bugger six greeks en brochette.