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to get letters from the man of her dreams in The Only Pure Love. Gold's
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NAKED NUDE—fiction 3 BERNARD MALAMUD 48
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THE ROOT OF X
Regardin
Playboy Inter-
view: Malcolm X, 1 certainly agree with
you that “knowledge and awareness” are
necessary elements of a democratic so-
ciety. Further, your interview is the first
that I have seen with a leading Black
Muslim. Since I feel that freedom of
expression is basic to unde the
racial problem, I think that every affected
and concerned group should be given the
opportunity to express its point of view.
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Oxford, Mississippi
I read your interview of Malcolm X
with only the passive interest one tenders
a nut. Since reading the article, however,
I have had the memorable experience of
hearing Malcolm X speak. And speak he
does. Fanatic or not, this man is very
impressive, and I am afraid that perhaps
those who have never seen him cannot
fully appreciate his dynamic magnetism,
Many of his claims arc exaggerated and
ven ridiculous, but at the same time,
much of what he says is painfully true.
The American Negro is dissatisfied, and
rightfully so. I fear that he might be an
all-too-willing recipient of what the Black
Muslims are offering.
Malcolm X is deadly serious, and his
is not without precedent. Natio
у strong emotion. Coupled
1 rel led by
such a strong personality, it is a move-
ment of staggering potential.
The Muslims are evidence that, in
spite of his "concern," the average Ameri-
сап is not mak able progres
toward racial equality. He must shake off
his complacency, his condescension. ‘The
present generation scems incapable of
revising its concepts, but I hope its blu
dering has struck sense into the younger
generation. It is up to us. I hope we
won't be too late.
Jon Hammersberg
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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The Playboy Interview with Malcolm
X (May 1963) reasserts the high quality
of your magazine. 1 am doubly happy that
rtavioy did not attempt to slug it out
with Malcolm X. The very nature of the
Black Muslim's point of view shatters
and undermines his position. To relate
café au lait and white bread to the
Caucasian race is actually funny. No
offense intended, but how would Mal
approach the dark spots on the human
tongue caused by the bubonic plague?
Enough. In my anger, I find myself sink-
ing to his level.
James C. Levie
Kings Point, New York
Your annual $1000 award for the best
fiction to appear in PLAYBOY can now be
presented for 1963, No one could pos-
sibly top Malcolm X.
Lanny R. Middin
Beverly Hills, California
After reading the interview with Mal-
colm X, it is clear to me that he is
certainly not а man to be ignored. There
is an ever-burgeoning possibility that
there may be a full-scale war between the
white and black races.
1 went to school for three years in the
South and have a fairly good idea of how
popular Malcolm X' philosophy would
be, once publicized down there. There is
а large number of rightly discontented
colored people in this country who would
follow him. To most, the possibility of
gaining their freedom would be all the
ducement necessary. So watch it
geddon is just around the corner.
Jeffrey В. Barr
New York, New York
Malcolm X has eloquently stated the
case for the Black Muslims and also for
many "sympathe oes who do not
hold formal membership in the move-
ment. Asa college student and social type
(the New Negro), I think I speak for a
large segment of my dark-hued brethren
when I state that we are "sympathetic"
with many of the basic tenets expounded
by Mr. Elijah Muhammad, while avoid-
ing some of the distasteful extremes,
obtaining several states.
Charles N. Storey
Chicago, Illinois
T was among reporters who interviewed
Malcolm X in Los А year just
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after the Muslim-police riot he
sider myself fortunate in meeting
because I saw first-hand the hysteria and
hatred in his eyes and heard the non
sequilurs and ugliness in his words. For
those, both black and white, who have
never met Malcolm. X, your interview
must have becn a revelation.
Boy depicted Malcolm X exactly
as he is—a fa dressed in black.
Ku Klux Klan robes. You asked exactly
the questions which lay Muslim
philosophy — a philosophy which contr:
dicts itself at every turn, From your intei
view, it is
philosophy rabidly anti-everytl
gro because it preaches to
о violence and hawed — sins for
which gods of almost all faiths coi
demn men.
bundantly clear that this is a
g dt is
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Los Angeles, Ca
fornia
As peculiar as the Negro's position is in
this country, as frustrating as it has been
and continues to be in many respects, as
“practical” as seem many of Malcolm X
viewpoints to large numbers of both
white and black, let no one be deceived:
we accept the challenges of the present
and future in spite of and because of
the past.
We were not kidnaped from our native
land and forced to wear the yoke of
slavery and lynched for the amusement of
some bored and restless few and humil
iated duri the time of war to be
now “several states here оп Am
soil
We want it all — the concrete and steel
of the big cities, the warm, fertile low-
land of the Mississippi Delta, and the
snow-covered ridges of the Rockies. We
want no less, deserve no Ie
settle for no Tess than an equ;
the privileges and responsil
Americans.
s, Í was both deeply
moved and distressed by the interview
with Malcolm X, published
63 issue. My distress wa
t, however, but the |
ion that Malcolm X is
intelligence and conviction.
merely an opportunist trad
Malcolm X demands our
because he refuses to be accepted as
thing but a man; по conc
по wait
ainful recog-
a man of
for the
llennium — he will accept nothing less
than his full rights. And for this idea
alone, he offers a valuable object lesson,
not only for Negroes, but for all men.
Until recently, the Negro has accepted
whatever happened, but now the Muslim
movement offers an alternative; and this
alternative may become the most power-
ience,
ful weapon of the integrationist move-
ment. At last integrationists have a tool
with which to cope with the inertia of
te. We shall point out
that, unless the situation
whites and Negroes improves
ally, th be all hell to
The Muslim movement h;
tion from a Negro hope
to a white necessity. And for this reason
alone, may the Muslim movement live a
Jong and useful life.
Don B. Ray, Minister of Music
First Methodist Church
San Fernando, California
FLEMING SWORD
ince | began reading PLAYBOY i
March of 1961, I have found much that
has been piquant, informative and сп
tertaining. So often has this been the
case that its normally my policy to read
PLAYBOY straight through — [rom Pla
bill to Next Month — and I enjoy it all
immensely. But this month, well, I coi
fess I sneaked а look at the James Bond
installment first — by far your most cip-
tivating fiction yet!
W. Lawrence Fellman
Dallas, Texas
Tam following James Bond's adventure
with Smirnoffian anticipation. Quite. Just
one thing, though — would you be good
enough to ask Fleming to soft-pedal the
action? At times it docs intrude upon
the list of brand names.
Dick Myers
Stillwater, Oklahoma
EXPATRIATE-ISM
There is no cause for anyone to be
perplexed after having read Americans
Go Home, by Leslie A. Fiedler. An aver-
age person, like myself, goes abroad in
order to find justification for, or to verify
the customs of his own
y. All other persons, both below
and above average. go abroad for ob
viously trivial reasons — such as intel-
lectual snobbery, escape from failure,
and social quant;
Erskine Caldwell
Rheem, €
to get mad at
s out that Fiedler and
Tare in the same boat, or rather raft. It is
true that some Americans panic quicker
in Europe than others and that there i:
hepatitis in all that, but as Fiedler says.
it's only the old cultural jaundice that
attacks us writers. Right now Тат strain-
ing at the leash to go to Europe, if only
to yell, “Come back to the raft, Leslie,
honey!”
Karl Shapiro, Department of English
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska
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GROVE-Y
I'd like to comment on the excellent
fiction by Walt Grove in your May 1963
issue. | know that writers like to make it
on their own names, as I'm sure Mr
Grove will, but do we W
another contemporary author like J. D.
Salinger?
Тһе reason that The Tie that Binds
impresses me so is that 1 have a very close
friend in a prep school in that р
vicinity of New England, and from what
he relates to me of his personal experi
ences and those of his friends, Mr. Grove
has hit the nail on its proverbial head.
Congratulations are in order.
Jon M. Westberg
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ
Rutherford, New Jersey
ave in him
neral
rsity
All right. All right. What's with that
so.b. who wrote The Tie that Binds, in
your May issue? I took his sound advice
and flatly asked five girls in a row — no
luck! However, I was promptly thrown
out of school. Obviously, something went
wrong — any suggestion:
R. B. Cyr
Durham, New Hampshire
Try another school.
LANGUAGE BARRIER
I have delighted myself in looking
at the "juicy" cartoons of Little Annic
Fanny. There is one thing, though, which
perplexes me: What does "Moffundzallo"
stand. for?
Federico Fellini
Rome, Italy
Moffundzallo — my-funds-ave-low — it's
an old gag, Signore.
MAX VS. MAXIMUM
1 enjoy your magazine, but I think in
one respect you are at present having a
bad effect on the taste of the urban
young man. It is good for him to sec
full bosomed nudes, but
to nudes 0
you
re running
re 100 full-bosomed. That
charming phrase reflects your own taste,
you know, not a universal predilection
А young girl's breasts should be firmly
molded, not lush and overripe. I don't
mean to lay down any dogmas about this,
but I do think you might give a thought
to the sculpture of the Greeks — the Ve-
nus of Cyrene, for instance, which is
just about perfection in the female form.
g from some of your recent
th;
mother complex rather than my sense
of beauty and adventure.
Max Eastman
New York, New York
Author Eastman evidenily prefers the
belles-lettres A and B to C and D.
L have to cultivate my
“From end to end, this set is a
charmer. It will make you rejoice
and it will make moist your eyes
now and then. . . . It is all person
to person to person, heart to heart
to heart” —JOHN M. CONLY
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR,
High Fidelity Magazine
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Joan Baez
Leon Bibb
The Deller Consort
Jimmy Driftwood
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Bob Gibson
Ronnie Gilbert
Cisco Houston
Ewan MacColl
Ed McCurdy
Tom Makem
Alan Mills
John Jacob Niles
Odetta
Pete Seeger
The Weavers
OME ‘TIME aco, The Classics
Record Library, a Division of
Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., set
out to assemble a representative
collection of folk music—American
and British — sung by the finest
folk artists of our day. The Van-
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carte blanche to select the best
performances available from their
wealth of recorded music. In addi-
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at which virtually every leading
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THE SONGS AND THE SINGERS
TRADITIONAL
BALLADS AND SONGS
OF THE BRITISH ISLES
SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
— THE DELLER CONSORT
HE THAT WILL AN ALEHOUSE KEEP
THE DELLER CONSORT
LANG-A-GROWING
EWAN MacCOLL
THE HANGMAN, OR THE MAID
FREED FROM THE GALLOWS
— JOHNJACOB NILES
JOHN RILEY ODETTA
WE BE SOLDIERS THREE
THE DELLER CONSORT
JOHNNY, 1 HARDLY KNEW YE
ТОМ MAKEM
THE WHISTUNG GYPSY
TOM MAKEM
WHEN COCKLE SHELLS TURN
SILVER BELLS — —ED NcCURDY
GREENSLEEVES
THE DELLER CONSORT
THE BOLD FISHERMAN
THE COBBLER'S SONG
TOM MAKEN
—THE WEAVERS
ED NCCURDY
EDDYSTONE LIGHT
BRITISH-AMERICAN
BALLADS AND SONGS
COME ALL YE FAIR AND
ENDER LADIES LEON BIBB
THE FOX —ОргттА
GO FROM MY WINDOW
—hONNIE GILBERT
THE GOLDEN VANITY
RONNIE GILBERT
JOHNNY IS GONE FOR A SOLDIER
— RONNIE GILBERT
THE STREETS OF LAREDO
—tisco HOUSTON
АМЕІСН, SANTY ANO
—IHE WEAVERS
GREENLAND WHALE FISHERIES
THE WEAVERS
THE AMERICAN
TRADITION
EAST VIRGINIA BLUES
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COTTON-EYED JOE —LEON МЕВ
POOR LOLETTE ton nmn.
SPANISH IS A LOVING TONGUE
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THE ERIE CANAL —THE WEAVERS
SARO JANE — ODETTA
JOHN HENRY ODETTA
VIRGIN MARY HAD ONE SON
—JOAN BAEZ & BOB GIBSON
WAYFARING STRANGER
—hon GIBSON
HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN
HIS HANDS -ODETTA
GOD'S A-GONNA CUT YOU DOWN
—ODETTA
ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES
—ODETTA
NO MORE AUCTION BLOCK FOR
— ODETTA
OLD DAN TUCKER
— CCO HOLSTON
SQUIRREL
‘LEON BIRD
WE'RE ALL DODGIN'
—THE WEAVERS
THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
— THE WEAVERS
OLD JOE CLARK
— JIMMY DRIFTWOOD
THE UNFORTUNATE MAN
Z JIMMY DRIFTWOOD
THE OX DRIVER — ODETTA
THE BUFFALO SKINNERS
— ASCO HOUSTON
GET ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES
-THE WEAVERS
MODERN MINSTRELSY
ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE
ODETTA
M GOING BACK TO THE RED CLAY
COUNTRY — ODETTA
NO MORE CANE ON THE BRAZOS
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DARIN" -LEON BIBB
I'VE BEEN DRIVING ON BALD
MOUNTAIN — ODETTA
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HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
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THE CAT CAME BACK
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MEET THE JOHNSON BOYS
—THE WEAVERS
‘TALKING GUITAR BLUES
-CISCO HOUSTON
1 KNOW AN OLD LADY
THE FOGGY DEW
THE SINKING OF THE REUBEN JAMES
— CSCO HOUSTON
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
—ED MCCURDY
WILD GOOSE GRASSES
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‘hen car cognoscenti gather for some
post-race reminiscing, the conversa-
ton often turns to such hallowed names
ol motordom the Moon and the
Marmon, the Essex and the Auburn, the
Thomas Flyer and the Wills Sainte
Claire. But what of the almost-3000 makes
ol American. automobiles
which met with. resoundin;
and trucks
public ap
thy toward their charms? The time
has come to salute the losers (and they
did exist, however briefly, so help
us) and to toast some of the һе
nighted knights of the road. We lift our
glass, then, to such flyers in the face
of euphony Bluffelimber, the
Schlotterback and the Luedinghaus-Es-
penschied. Aud we have
m our those
image evokers, the Anchor, the D'Olt,
the Duck, the Havoc. the Mock, the
Sphinx and the Static. How could we
ever forget those victims of man's
verbosity, the Hall Gasoline Trap, the
Plass Motor Sleigh, the Rigs-That-Run,
the Seven-Little- Buflaloes? And
what about the entomologically inclined
Auto Bug and Bugmobile, or the dia-
ly opposed philosophies of the
s Runabout and the
or that mechanized monu-
s the
spot reserved
heart for misbegotten
and
a modern-day Damon and
Pythias— the Munay-Max Six? For
the Cinemascopically attuned we offer
the Ben-Hur and the Robe, and for the
Mad Ave minions, the hard-sell-titled
Fool-Proof and the commuters very
own transport, the Club Car. We'll let
others argue over the relative merits of
the Fwick and the Wick, but we get
openly maudlin and dewy-orbed when
we conjure up visions of that splendid
example of nominal éclat — the Morris
and Salom Flectrobat.
‘Elizabeth Taylor's advisors,” reports
columnist Earl Wilson with an inad-
vertently acid Winchellism in the James-
town, New York, Sun, “suspect some
very shrew publicity manipulations
behind all the stories about her
romances."
We were taken a bit aback both by
the implication and the outspokenness
of a recent headline in the Anchorage,
Alaska, Daily Times — “QUEER NAMED
Lovce curr"— until we read in the
story below that the newly elected
president of the local American Federa-
tion of Government Employees is a
fellow named Al Qui
The Realist, Gotham Mly in the
face of journalistic convention, recently
offered the following idea "as а public
service" to readers interested in making
a quick commercial killing: Sell two
kinds of lapel buttons reading "ju"
and to onlookers con-
vened at the scene of would-be suicides
from lofty ledges
s
“DON'T Juwr"
Tt took them a few years, but Holly-
wood's hucksters have finally come up
with their own outspoken answer to
subliminal adv g lacing movie
scenarios with unabashed commercial
plugs—in gratitude for which (he
pluggees extol the films in question with
a saturation ad campaign. Among
abundant recent examples: James Cag-
ney portraying the hard-sell manager of
a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Billy
Wilders One, Two, Three; Karl
Malden beating the drum for Baby
Ruths as a traveling candy salesman
in and Debbie Reynolds’ pam-
pered pooch in My Six Loves holding
out for Red Heart Dog Food. The
release of Danny Kay est flick,
The Man from the Diners’ Club, por-
tends a blight of brand names not
merely studding scripts but emblazon-
ing the marquees themselves. И these
fears prove founded, future reissues
will undoubtedly include such box-office
orites as Mogen David and Bath-
sheba, The Chesterfield King and 1
How Green Was My Valley of the Giant,
The Maltese Days of
Wine and Four Roses, A Man Called
Peter Paul Mounds, The Longest Day-
Glo, Love-Pat Is а Many Splendored
Thing, The Count of Monte Crisco
and that epic sleeper, Long Day's Jour
ney into Nytol.
Ford Falcon,
We were pleas:
rewards of coeduc
ntly reminded of the
ional-college life by
the final paragraph in an otherwise
uninformative account of a local fashion
show, in the Columbus, Ohio, Booster
Proceeds from the event,” said the
paper, "help maintain two scholarship
houses at Ohio State University where
some 56 women students practice co-
operative loving. Tickets are available
at the door.”
Seductive offer from the For Sale col-
umn of The Houston Post: “Revere
pe recorder. New cost $179.50,
sacrifice 5140. HO 5-3007 after 5 т.м
Sign of the times seen in a Manhattan
store window: “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!
LAST DAY! MONEY-BACK GUARANTE
We wonder if Floyd Patterson planned.
to condition himself Гог his
match with Sonny Liston by resorting
to the same novel taining exercise he
employed in preparation for a 1961
title fight with Tom McNeeley. “Pat-
terson," reported the Miami Herald be-
fore that bout, “is using a broad slanted
return
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international ill will gocs to the unident
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THEATER
In the high-pressure world of musical
comedy, She Loves Ме comes as а gentle
nudge, It has no big product
bers, no va no chorus
y dancing at all. Th
changes of scene а
“Look,”
says
one character, as a handful of leaves
falls hom the eaves, “autumn! AL
though the book sounds sugary — it was
the creamy center of a Margaret Sulla-
van movie called The Shop Around the
Corner — the play is tart enough as her
presented. In a pinksatined. parfumerie
in a European city much like Budapest,
Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey (a boy
ish lookalike for father Raymond) sell
side by side. but are completely occupied
with pen pals whom they have never met
and address only as Dear Friend. It
doesn’t take a James Bond to deduce that
Dear Friend is really the clerk at the next
counter, but for the lovers the knowledge
is two acts in coming. While they dream,
a Fellow clerk schemes. Jack Cassidy. as а
shopworn dandy, cads about with the
impressionable Barbara Baxley, aud
dawdles on the sly with the proprictor's
sidy will, of course, lose Baxley
а little shop of his own by use of
his rakish resources. Baxley will find hap-
with an optometrist (by weari
es). And Cook and Massey will
ly discover that love by mail leaves
too much to the imagination. Whenever
things start to get sticky, composers
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock (Fio-
vello!) whisk in a fresh. tune. е
is а double-dip ditty in whid
oine writes of her love to her love, but
keeps thinking about the guy at the
shop. Hona is an ironic bit of romantic
deviltry in which Cassidy is more con-
cerned with posing than proposing. A
Romantic Atmosphere is a gypsy paean
to the шум. The tide song, like the
show, is a buoyant burst of innocence
At the Eugene O'Neill Theater, 930 West
49th Street.
Cream
the her
MOVIES
Marilyn is about Marilyn. 20th Century-
Fox, for whom she made most of her
films. has assembled clips from 15 of
her pictures, beginning with A Ticker
10 Tomahawk. m which she had 22nd
billing. to Something's Got to Give, her
last never-completed st The col
ure
rer.
lection, which runs as long as a Í
film, shows how the MM “character”
was developed by movie experts through
the years; more important, it shows how
she herself developed considerable com-
edic technique and the ability to belt
out a musical number, In their routines:
from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane
Russell, somechit herself.
simply fades when Marilyn. takes over.
The scenes from The Seven Year Meh
show a roundeyed rounded Marilyn who
manages to give hovand-dirty sex a good
name. The saddest she looks
her best in the make-up tests for her
Jast film. It’s а pity that nothing is
included from The Asphalt Jungle.
where her figure first started traffic, or
from her finest film. Some Like H Hat
— but these two came from other stu
dios. Despite Rock Hudson's app
marr Marilyn is well w
= ап almost-worthy tribute to a
who too soon became a myth.
of a looker
is tha
Mende Cone, an Italian documen
looks at the world through gross-colored
glasses. Gualtiero Jacopetti has searched
the globe for the weird and the мауош.
and has yhemestitched. his findings
into film whose title is idiomatic
Italian for “lousy world." Despii n
introductory blurb that states “AH the
scenes you will see in this film are true
and taken only from lite.” Mondo Cane
altogether-honest film. Several
of the segments were obviously faked
(Rossano Brazzi gett hi clothes
ripped olf by adoring female fans) от
wicked up (а burp inserted into the
sound track), but no matter. Care to
sec w Guin
is not a
а Can
imals apart and gobble the slightly
singed meat? Care to see Gurkha soldiers
decapitate young bulls with one stroke
the swe
the
al
peasants
1ı bloodily
we in а
sadena pet cemetery, complete with
caskets and headstones, is followed by a
Formosan restaurant scene where the cus
tomer selects his live puppy and sees it
killed and broiled. Prospective brides for
exercising at Vic Tanny’s. Also on view
is the painter Yves Klein at work in
— covering nude models with paint
and then, to mood music, directing
them as they press their bodies against
a huge canva action painting!
ha
Director John Huston isn't flying as
high as he was in his days of Maltese
falconry, but his latest, The List of Adrian
Messenger, has speed,
spellbinding if it had a spell to bind.
alleged suspense story, based on a Philip
MacDonald novel, is one long invest
tion by an English investigator; there's
not а real scare in a reel. Adrian’s list con-
tains the names of 11 men, all of whom
have been bumped off. The question is
what they had in common that made
them bumpworthy, and it leads George
C. Scott around Loi
hunting shires (actually photographed in
Ireland). Huston himself isa fox-hunt
nd would even be
his
lon and into the fox-
n
(there's one brief shot of him, mounted
and stuffy), and the sequences of riding
to houndsare what keep this picture from
going to the dogs. Scott is respectably
restrained in his role — but why cast an
American as а retired English general
alongside such thoroughbred Britons as
Gladys Cooper, Herbert Mars
Wynter, and even clarety old Ci
Scott simply can't cut the English mus-
tard. Further flapdoodle involves Tony
Curtis, Kirk Douglas. Burt Lancaster,
Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra play-
ing bit parts in rubber masks. They look
like five guys in rubber masks.
In Coll Me Bwana, Bob Hope explores
two vast continents — Africa and Anita
Ekberg. As in most Hope pictures, the
gags are often foreseeable but often fun-
пу. Hope is his customary cowardly self in
conditions demanding courage: this time
a fake adventure writer, who has never
left America, is sent by the U.S. to recover
a lost moon-probe missile i
territory. Anita is a Russian undercover
agent sent to waylay him, which, as far a
the Production Code permits, she doe:
lie Adams has the third lead as à CIA
agent bodyguarding Bob but her come-
dic talents are herein effectively hidden.
As the story keeps striving stoutly
nonsense, a queer feeling
all its
o, the scene is the
dangerous
. For
уе you qu
e-probe scen:
of Victorian vaudeville: a jungle
chief with comical speech and an ugly
daughter he wants to marry off: nonsense
anguage spoken to natives as if they were
feeble-minded children: and assorted
other patronizings. When Bob gets off the
plane in Africa, the porters start to carry
his bags, and he says, “Not that way! On
the head!" There's no malice in his meth-
od, but in the context of apartheid, Little
Rock and Birmingham, the attitudes
underlying this film can make an intelli-
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The Boulting brothers, whose Privates
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RECORDINGS
Although the title of Duke Ellington's
latest album is Afro-Bossa (Reprise), be
not misled into thinking that he and his
orchestra
Cootie Williams,
nderson cloud-
fine mus
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more meets the
ington originals, much
ar than Latin offshoots.
Judy Henske (Elektra) is at her best
(which is quite good, incidentally) when
she is wailing, be it gospel or зау Јол
blucs. Mi nt at-
tempts at humor, however, are often fey
and sometimes cphemeral, wasting LP
time which could be put to much better
use if Judy—a belting singer — simply
sar
Little Bird/The Pete Jolly Trio and Friends
(Ava) kicks off with Jolly's hit single and
continues on from there to provide a
fine showcase for Pete's crisply inventive
piano. Chuck Berghofers bass and
Howard Robers’ guitar help add luster
to such varied offerings as Toot Toot
Tootsie and Falling in Love with Love.
Richter in oly (Angel), was recorded
“live” during a concert tour of the Boot
by Sviatoslav n who
many consider the supreme piano artist
The recording of
turing the Sonata
No. 2 in G minor, lends credence to his
supporters’ claims. Richter is an un-
bashed romantic; his interpretation of
Hier romantic, Schumann, is defini-
in toto, moving, tender and
Stove 8 Eydie ot the Movies (Columbia) is
adio orchestra ticket to some of our
favorite flick themes. Except for the intro-
ductory bit of special material, To the
Movies We Go, husband Lawrence and
wife Gormé devote their attention to а
full bill of the sound track s nicest sounds.
"The cast includes Gigi, Days of Wine and
Roses, Love Is Here to Stay (from The
Goldwyn Follies) and The Second Time
Around (Irom High Time). With Steve
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1 ever.
Let us thank the permanence of vinyl
for having Gerry Mulligan ‘63/The Concert
Jazz Bend (Verve) on hand. The band,
a sometime thing, and a financial non
sequitur in this day and age, is imbued
with а cr fervor and a high polish,
1wo facets which normally preclude each
other. Working off charts supplied by
Mulligam, Bob Brookmeyer and Gary
McFarland, the band has a fluid drive in
its ensemble efforts, and sparkling solo
(Capitol) is а bit too arch for our taste —
what with snappy repartee, tonguc-in-
vocals and whimsical instrumental
gs peppering both sides of the
record, you ig the evergreens for
the corn.
4 te Go! (Columbia) brings together
André Previn, Shelly Manne, Ray Brown
and Herb Ellis for a session chock-full
ty. The boys break things
up performing a quintet of their own
compositions along with standard fare.
n arc, of course, old
musical partners, but Ellis and Brown
were nev-found recording friends. New
or old, everyone gets along famously.
Mavis Rivers Meets Shorty Rogers (Reprise),
and the pairing proves a salubrious one
with Mavis putting forth some of her
most unfettered efforts to date, as the
Rogers horn ranges behind her. Shorty
fronts an aggregation that shifts from a
brass tentet through two thirds of the
session to a string choir on the rem
numbers, The set is n
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Shelley Berman's New Sides (Verve) con-
tains moments of comedic eloquence that
approach anything Shelley has previously
recorded. Two routines alone are enough
ake the LP worth first has
phoning а Yellow Page of doc-
tors at 4 A.M. to get some advice on treat-
ment of a cut finger: he elicits no more
than aspirins and a hard time from most,
winds up recommending that the last
doctor he spe re of a bad
cough. The second concerns itself with a
former patient calling his psychiatrist to
tell his mind goes blank whenever
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«су, his effect is achieved by such
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x out of your cars, of gold, too, and
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THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
Мі... of your comments аге under-
standably directed to the cause of pre-
serving bachelors from gaucherie and
cloying alliances, but the question of
standards alfecting the young married set
seems also to need a definitive — or at
least an. honest — answer. My bride and
I, now in our carly 30s, have successfully
made our way through the threadbare
postcollege years, and with the kids in
school and a comfortable income assured,
are beginning to enjoy some leisure and
expand our horizons once again, Herein
lies the problem: one of the girls in our
crowd is a delightful creature with whom
1 coukl enjoy a relationship more pe
sonal d
the fecling is clearly reciprocated. Simi
larly, her husband and my wife are
developing an equally sympathetic rap-
port. Lately the four of us have been
talking about a weekend boating trip
together, and the tacit understanding
seems to be that the port and starboard
watches will be subject to an exchange
of personnel for the voyage, isolated
from the prying eyes of those with a
proclivity to gossip. The stumbling block,
of course, is the insistence by socalled
"experts" on. marital relations that this
sort of hanky-panky will rot the moral
fiber, cause ulcers, falling hair, and pre-
sumably, the gout. The illogic of this
position is that the alternative can only
be secret, hasty extramarital flings, with
n that of a bridge partner, and
all the guilt that such dishonesty pro-
duces. We are sophisticated, happily
married adults seeking an intelligent
answer to what must be a widespread
problem. Don't you think this is one
area where there is room for a fresh re-
appraisal of standards? Your magazine
scems to be the only source of healthy
thinking on the development of social
and sexual mores under today's condi
tions. — S. M., Galveston, Texas.
We seriously doubt that the arrange-
ment you suggest will produce a more
satisfying, healthy and happy marriage.
Wife swapping is not really an “alterna-
live" to the dishonesty of an illicit affair
— both are symptomatic of an inadequacy
in the marriage or in one of the mar-
riage partners. This sort of mixed doubles
may not cause ulcers, falling hair or
the gout, but only the most unemotional
and sophisticated of couples could sail
through such rough, uncharted waters
without any effect on their relationship.
We suggest that you stow the plans for
a switcheroo and concentrate on expand.
ing your horizons — both in and ош of
bed — together, rather than with some
outside party or pair.
Ws it ever proper to wear socks that are
lighter in color than one’s suit? — L. J.,
Dallas,
No.
[ГЭ uring the two years that I've been at
Harvard I've read PLAYBov faithfully
and have become both a devotee of
and an expert on living what may be
termed the “playboy life.” Only trouble
is, I'm rapidly losing my hair and am
likely to continue doing so. The embar-
rassment attendant to this situation
makes me ask for advice — or at least
wonder what your advice would be. How
about it: Can one live a rewarding college
social life while in the process of bald-
ing? Can this be accomplished through
some conversational gambit, or through
some attention-distracting or -manipulat-
ing technique? ЇЇ be grateful for what-
ever light you can shed on this problem.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
А man’s physical appearance — his face
and stalure, as separated from his groom-
ing and the way he dresses, which help
project his personality — is one of the
least-important factors in getting on well
either personally or professionally. What
counts ts the inner image that a man
has of himself and how he projects that
image to those around him. Premature
baldness will undoubtedly make you ap-
pear older than your years, but this can
actually be turned to your advantage:
The most desirable females these days
seem to strongly favor older, more-
mature males, so this gives you an added
edge over fellows of your same age, if
you develop the maturity to go along
with your appearance; similarly, in busi-
ness, the opinions of the olderlooking
man are more apt to be listened to and
taken seriously. As the years pass, of
course, the lack of hair will matter less
and less, for a number of your compatri-
ots will jom you in the Brynner brigade.
We have known many bald, short and
Physically unattractive men whose man-
ner, style and personality put them head
and shoulders above their contemporar-
ies, who had hair, height and good looks,
but very little else.
Ё have two questions: Is there a proper
way to open a champagne bottle (I be-
come all thumbs when called upon to
separate cork from bottle); and must a
towel be wrapped around the bottle in
order to serve it correctly? — W. White
Plains, New York.
Opening a champagne bottle is a fairly
simple operation. First, remove the wire
and foil; hold the cork with one hand, the
bottle with the other, Then (and here's
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discernible pop. The towel around the
bottle is partly functional, partly custom.
Years ago, when bottling was not nearly
the science it is today, there was a chance
that the bottle might explode in one's
hands as one tried 10 work the cork out;
the towel acted as a shield. Today, the
towel’s sole function is to absorb the
moisture picked up from the ice bucket,
Any opinion on wedding bands for
men? I contend they have a henpecked
bout them; a friend maintains that I
should be proud to wear onc — that is, if
Im h icd. 1 am, bur T still
ng on the finger is analogous
a ring through the пове. Н.К.
South Bend, Indiana.
The wearing of a wedding ring is
largely а matter of personal taste for
the male half of a marriage, but we tend
to share your prejudice and feel that a
gold band on the third finger, left hand
of a man suggests less a happy marriage
than a henpecked hubby, who wears it
to keep out of trouble at, and away from,
home; or else a guy so egocentric that he
considers himself irresistible to the oppo-
site sex and thinks he needs the wedding
band to fend off other hopeful females.
have to take exception to your March
Advisor answer, re the Danish airline
stewardess who smoked a cigar. It is a
ure to behold a woman who is an
individual and who doesn’t give a damn
about silly female convention. She de-
serves a pat on the back. Her friend may
not know it, but he is indeed a fortunate
fellow.— M. L., Beverly Hills, California.
We admit we were a mite hasty and
allinclusive in our answer. We don't dig
distaff cigar-smoking when it is merely
an affectation or attention-getter. But
since the female in question smoked ci-
gars as a natural part of her ethnic
background and upbringing, and since
the cigar's size and shape weren't gro-
tesquely unfeminine, we'll have to amend
our previous appraisal and concede that
the Danish stewardess was only doing
what came naturally.
Hs there really any wash-and-wear suit
an be worn alter i
fabric that
had
ans, Louisiana.
АП wash-andawear suils require some
touch-up ironing if they are lo be wrinkle-
free. However, the big plus of а wash-
and-wear suit is in the wearing — that is,
in its resistance to wrinkling and the
ability of trousers to hold a crease in hot,
humid weather. But if you want your
suit io be as smooth as your approach,
you'd better press on regardless.
ММ... speed records in everything from
jets to foot-racing falling like matchsticks
these days, my curiosity has been piqued
as to who and what hold the world's
landcspeed record? I wouldn't be sur-
prised if racing cars were approaching
the speed of sound by now. — S. M., New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Actually, the world’s land-speed record
has remained unbroken for over 15 years
Back in 1947, John Cobb streaked across
Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in the Rail-
ton Special streamliner to cover the mile
distance at a speed of 393.8 miles per
hour (average speed over a two-way run),
Mickey Thompson managed to hit 406.6
miles per hour in 1960 at the Flats, but
his Challenger 1 broke down before
Mickey could make his return run, so
his clocking could not be recognized
officially. They've still got a far piece to
go, however, before they reach the sound
barrier — 741.8 miles per hour at sea level.
SSome time ago you helped a reader
who asked for a list of recordings that
would come in handy on an evening
when the ts were low and he and his
e were alone. The list was a good one,
but largely in the popular vein. I am in
that samc situation, only this chick digs
classical music. Would it be too much
trouble for you to make up a list of
"sexy classical selections"? Sinatra doesn't
but Chopin might.— B. M..
New York.
These masters should help you strike
a responsive note with your highbrow
belle: Chopin's “Les Sylphides,” Ravel's
"Daphnis et Chloé” (or his more pat
“Boléro”), Respighi's “The Fountains of
Rome,” Beethoven's “Violin Concerto,"
and Tchaikovsky's “Romeo and Juliet.”
The git with whom I am currently
engaged (physically, that is) insists on
being in complete charge whenever we
become intimate. The first time we
dated, I was rewarded with ап unbut-
toned blouse (not of my doing) after
only a few kisses. But on the next date,
when I went for the buttons, I was set
back with a stern: “If you want me un-
dressed. ГИ do it myself.” Is she suffering
from some psychological disorder or is
she simply overly helpful? Any sugges-
tions? — В. W., Des Moines, lowa.
Ij her dominating attitude makes you
uncomfortable it might be well for you
to zip out of the relationship. Sex, at its
best, should be spontaneous — with no
inhibiting either partner. If
your girls desire to take the lead shows
up in other ways as well, chances are her
psyche requires her to undo her beaux
as well as her buttons.
“rules”
AA triend of mine claims that someth
called “Napoleon
g
brandy is the best in
the world. I claim there really is no such
thing, that the term “Napoleon” brandy
was made up by an advertising agency
and that it is not generic. Who's right?
— R. T., Dallas, Texas.
You're partially right. The phrase
“The Brandy of Napoleon” is registered
with the United States Patent Office by
Courvoisier for its cognac. One of the
early Courvoisier clan served in the
French Army under Napoleon, and it
wos through him that Bonaparte became
a Courvoisier fancier, thus giving the
firm the right to use the phrase. A re-
current myth to the effect that brandy
bottled in Napoleon’s time is still avail-
able is just that. There may be a bottle
or two tucked away in some forgotten
corner of a wine cellar but you wouldn't
want to drink it, because chances are air
would have seeped past the age-shriveled
cork. And, of course, the amount of time
a brandy spends in the bottle will en-
hance its flavor not one whit; it’s the
time in the cask that counts.
Past what length does а man's ciga-
rette holder become affected-looking? —
M. М., San Francisco, California.
Four inches.
Please forgive what I fear may be a
dreadful intrusion into the private mas-
culinity of your magazine. But I have a
problem that (alas) no woman's ma
would dare answer. My problem is simply
that I was foolish enough never to have
yone's playmate until my hus
ud І were married, and now I
feel the lack of experience is woefully
apparent. Could you please help me?—
L.R., Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hell no—your husband might walk
in! But he can — and should — help you
by (1) being patient, and (2) buying any
one of several good books on the subject
of sexual technique. (Among them: “The
Marriage Art” by Ру. John F. Fichen-
laub; “The Art of Love" by Dr. W. F.
Robie; "The Art and Science of Love" by
Dr. Albert Ellis; “Sex: Methods and
Manners” by Louis Berg and Robert
Street; and Havelock Ellis’ classic, “The
Dance of Life”)
АП reasonable questions — from fash-
ion, food and drink, hi-fi and sports cars
to dating dilemmas, taste and etiquette
—will be personally answered if the
writer includes a stamped, self-addressed
envelope. Send all letters to The Playboy
Advisor, Playboy Building, . Ohio
Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. The most
provocative, pertinent queries will be
presented on these pages each month.
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conclusion THE PLAYBOY PANEL:
1984 AND BEYOND
one of a series of provocative conversations about subjects of interest on the contemporary scene
PANELISTS
Sciencefiction-fantasy writers POUL AN-
DERSON, ISAAC ASIMOV, JAMES BLISH, RAY
BRADBURY, ALGIS BUDRYS, ARTHUR C. CLARKE,
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, FREDERIK POHL, ROD
SERLING, THEODORE STURGEON, WILLIAM
TENN and A. E. VAN VOGT. (€
raphies will be found at the beginning
of Part One in last month's issue.)
PLAYBOY: Last month we be
posium of prognostications life
in 1984 and beyond with the subject of
space exploration. Most of you pre-
dicted that the Russians will be the first
to reach the Moon, but that lu cal
c Venus
and the other planets, will ultimately
be explored and colonized under inter-
nai jurisdiction. With a dissen
view from Dr. Asimov, the rest of you
went on to prophesy that we are more
than likely t encounter many forms of
extraterrestrial life in space — possibly
including beings more advanced than
man both culturally and technologically,
though perhaps totally alien not only in
appearance but in psychology. society
and intellect. Discussing the one disastei
which you felt. might prevent these
prophecies from coming true, many of
you viewed nuclear war, triggered by
accident or miscalculation, аз а grim
probability — while conceding that
lization as we know it” might possibly
survive such a cataclysm. Barring war,
ion of competi
on the eco-
te, аз well as that of M
nomic fronts, but also
the possibility of a U.S-U.S.S.R. alliance
catalyzed. both bv coinciding cultures
and by the mutual threat of Red Chinese
belligerence. But perhaps even more
than potential,
you felt, is its proliferating population
wd that of the entire planet. You
predicted the exhaustion of available
living space and e food suppli
possibly within our lifetimes, if the pres-
ent annual inercase in world population
is allowed to continue at its present
geometric rate. You foresaw the neces-
sity of plankton farming, whale ranching
and extracting food from rock in orde
to feed the popu nd such me
ures as compulsory chemical contracep-
tion, abortion, infanticide, sterili
and genetic control in global practice
methods to stem the human tide. You
China's
war
ion;
iücipated also that genetic selection
and manipulation will be used to breed
human beings of exceptional intelli
gence, creative imagination, physical
strength and resistance to disease: but
you expressed grave doubts about our
pility to decide wisely who should be
empowered to select which individuals
will be allowed to breed — and for what
specific waits. In appraising the impact
of enforced genetic control on the func-
tion and status of the family in 1984,
opinio divided between those who
felt that marriage will become obsoles-
of testtube babies bred
aised by the state: and those who
convinced that the institution
were
would continue to flourish because the
family-secu
т and not of society.
discussion ended as we
subject of nonmatrimoni
ihe relationship between
Algis Budrys responded with the proph-
есу that "the concept of a social or sexual
norm will become nearly meaningle
in an age of unprecedented social free-
dom and permissiveness. Do you aj
gentlemen?
CLARKE: Todi revolu-
tion is an carthquake of the first magni-
tude in terms of its current and future
impact both on the foundation and su-
perstucture of human society. The arbi-
trary barriers between the sexes — along
with the arbitrary bonds of marriage —
are destined to dissolve.
POHL: I agree. When we're finally able to
jotics and
ty drive is in the nature of
Part One of our
nroduced. the
Sexes.
buy nonprescription o,
contraceptives over every dru
ter—which [ would guess will come to
pass within the next few years— bingo,
there goes the last surviving major threat
of venereal disease and pregnancy. Just
as the diminishing social and economic
need for the family is bound to remove
all but the moral and legal pressures to-
store cou!
ward mono
the v
nancy
but the mora
pre and extr
of u dollar from an u
id, even if we knew we
ay with it, But in practice,
e
ld get a
how long could dealers afford. to 1
guarded if it weren't fc
the general knowledge that there are
policemen? In practical effect, then, con-
waception, penicillin and the emancipa-
Asimov: Robots capable of performing
manual tasks more efficiently than hu-
man laborers will render the lower grades
of human being rather obsolete.
nupevs: Emancipation from death may
not become a reality in our generation,
but some of our children will live ac-
tively and usefully for perhaps 200 years.
f
AN “айй,
We will explore the possibilities
of sex multiplied by telepathy, so that
you experience not only your own sen-
sations but also those of your partner.
POUL
ing, maybe even smelling, the same old
small-screen slop blown up biliously on
wallsize screens in 3-D and living color. 31
PLAYBOY
32
YAN voct: A class of chemicals will af-
fect specific arcas of the brain, seck out
that tiny spot which is charged with rage
or [rar — and cancel out the charge
TENN: Í can think of no potentially
greal advance in technology or human
relations which man won't find a way to
subvert into а historic мер backward.
STURGEON: | can't help getting impatient
with this prognostication about how we
must continue to remain as stupid as we
ате. Ds just not going to be so.
When brain stimulation bi
comes possible without putting electrodes
through the skull, psychoelectronics will
be used not just for therapy but for kicks.
ANDERSON:
tion of women have abolished the sexual
police force. Hence only the social
bitions remain.
PLAYBOY: How potent will they remain?
POHL: In my opinion, not very. For | sug-
gest that the pulpits and the schoolbooks
and the editorials which preach the vir
tues of purity and monogamy are voices
which no longer speak for society. What
speaks for society, first and foremost —
thanks to the subliminal excavations of
onal research g- lt
xiom that sex sells. My corollary
to that axiom is that sex o sells sex.
When a commercial shows a luscious
babe racing out of the surf and flinging
herself dripping wet, in an attitude of
bandon, onto the sand beside a hand-
ahi-
idvert
some, virile guy who proceeds to thrust
a mentholated filtertip cigarette between
her pursed lips, its saying that smoking
mentholated filtertip cigarette equals
sex equals fun. Now please don't a
body say that nobody needs to be told
that sex is fun. Sensually speaking, of
course, it’s a truism; but in terms of so-
cial acceptability, it's still a pretty racy
notion, Nevertheless, day in and day out,
hour alter hour on the TV screen, iu ou
newspapers and magazines and ou bill-
boards, Madison Avenue is pounding
home the message that we should think
of sex in terms of fun and g
sort of evide: es to me that the
association o[ sex with sin is on the way
out in precept as well as in practice.
Hence 1 foresee extracurricular sex, that
is, sex for recreation rather than pro-
creation — continuing to become more
mes. This
ce indi
phenomenon — and without th
ant aftertaste of bitter recrimina-
tions and/or gravid consequences tradi-
nally attendant upon such
dangereuses.
CLARKE: ГІІ go further than that. In our
advertising and in our everyday lives, E
predict we shall be facing up — probabl
within our lifetim and without. the
present hysteria — to the elementary fact
of nature that men are not merely polyg-
amous but ambisexual, at least before
being brainwashed by society.
TENN: Man's multifarious sexual customs
have been described by a British zoolo-
ist as characteristic of « primate horde.
He studied the mating habits of a group
of gibbons and orangutans and con-
cluded that man has invented по new
perversions. If you put а bunch of |
mates of the same species into any given
enclosed area, sooner or later everybody
will do everything to everybody
POHL: Tru rried intercourse
becom 1 holding, we
can expect that group sex in every con-
ceivable permutation and combination
will become as commonplace as bridge
parties. [can even imagine a profitable
new field for some future Arthur Mur-
liaisons
y. Just as you now sign up to learn a
new dance step. you might register in
1981 for personal tuition in the tech
nique of sexual intercourse — an area in
which 1 venture to say that 99 out of 100
Americans consider themselves just a bit
under ; And [ don't think it will be
too many years before we begin to cx
plore the possibilities of sexual pleasure
multiplied by telepathy, so that you ex
perience not only your own sen
but
you're able to read his or her mind.
PLAYBOY: Do you forese
in the realm of enhancing sexual pleasure
chemically —in particular through the
development of the effective, nontoxic
phrodisiac man has always dreamed of
possessing?
BUDRYS: A technologie:
completely dissociated sexu,
from procreation will
mass-manufacture
countless drugs
scription for
and prolonging on
ANDERSON: | don't sce any reason, for
example, why we couldn't develop a safe
contraceptive-potency pill for men and
women which would absolutely
us from impregnation while making us all
as athletically and inexhaustibly potent
as we like to think we are. Paradoxically
this might lead to a deemphasis of sex —
in our thinking, if not in our daily liv
for beasts about virility would become
meaningless as our doubts about virility
disappeared. Thus — with the maximum
of ability combined with the maximum
of opportunity in a liberated society —
sex might begin to lose both its mystery
nd its obsessive importance.
PLAYBOY: Experiments with LSD, peyote
and the other hallucinatory drugs would
seem to have opened the door to many
new horizons in the dramatic expansion
of man’s sensory capacities. Do you fore
see the use of these psychochemicals as
а means of intensifying the pleasure of
sexual experience?
POHL: It's a damued-good guess that if in
1984 you feel depressed it will be because
you want to feel depressed: if you don't,
you'll need only open your medicine cabi
nct to feel just about any way you want —
including crotic to the nth power. I can
Iso those of your partner, because
any new frontiers
society which has
1 pleasure
nevitably devise,
and use with gusto
protect
envision, for example, a slightly de
natured variant оГ LSD which. would
"duce а state resembling paranoia — but
mful or lasting effects, and
without LSD's rather asexual properties
in order to perceive intense sensory
phenomena that the normal mind doesn’t
even notice, Add to this a few extra in
redients to produce just the proper
touch of schizophrenia
you to render yourself oblivious to every
thing not directly related to sex itself
Compress it all into a single pill — and
you'll be able to experience a transcen
dental orgasm that any Reichian would
which will enable
Sell his orgone box to attain. Of course,
we've had a pretty good primitive drug
for releasing sexual inhibitions on the
market for some time; we call it ио
But that’s kid stuff. Why should we limit
our ways of getting bombed to those
provided by the happenstance products
of fermented plant life? Let the chemists
cook up some new alcoholic libations
smoother, more palatable, odor- and
hangover-free. Or let's not bother with
alcohol at all. Other selective poisons
‚ like the toxins elaborated.
writing eters
got on a by incubating smallpox
Viruses: nice Hush, nice delirium, nice
sense of sp: d temporal disorier
tion; while at the sime time they dosed
themselves w antibiotics so that they
wouldn't get too sick to enjoy themselve
ANDERSON: I can think of less heady but
equally exciting possibilities for psycho-
chemicals in the cure and prevention of
mental illness, If schizophrenia, for ex-
ample, is really a metabolic disease, as
many experts believe, then a chemical
cure for it will probably be found rather
soon. I personally believe that neurosis
ad psychosis themselves will eventually
be matters for physic atment rather
than for psychoanalysis.
VAN VOGT: І look forward to a class of
psychochemical pills which w
off the body upset created by
of emotional disturbances. LSD and the
other current drugs of cher
aren't the answer, Im thinking of chemi-
cals which will affect only specific areas of
the brain, seek out that tiny spot which
is charged with е or fear or guilt —
and neatly cancel out the charge
ви! This would сусти:
course, to the extinction of all the “talk”
psychotherapies: and a society devoid of
Freudians, [и is and Adle з strikes,
me as Utopian almost by definition
ANDERSON: Allied with cyberneticsoriei
ed neurology, psychochemistry is on the
threshold of givi precise physical-
sc wderstanding of the human
psyche which may someday enable us to
explore and exploit the ultimate poten
tialities of the human organism. At pres-
cnt we just don't know what they are,
But we do know that a man can be tuned.
aud trained to a fantastic physical
mental pitch. Can we find chemical w:
10 endow every norm
with the physical coord
wire performer, the intellectual power of
an Einstein, the serenity of a Buddhist
м? Once we have a background of
1« comprehensive knowledge, I
can and will.
] think it would be relevant,
at this point, to suggest another line of
i research in this uncharted
t0 presage no less pro-
about the human mind.
For some ycars now, using a technique
ly lead, of
nce u
area which seem
found discoveri
alled stereotaxia, medical scientists have
been mapping brains. They damp the
head of à cat, a monkey or a hum:
rigidly in a frame and by manipula
three thumbscrews, one for each. dime:
sion, they can position an electrode pre-
ely where they want it deep in the
tissues of the brain. This way they can
stimulate tiny areas and chart the reac-
tions. Not only have they found out what
they
lual
fingers, Not only have they learned to
locate and operate the motor centers, but
they cin do the same with the sensories,
and with such higher functions as speech
Î memory, and such complex emotions
as pleasure and anger and fear.
ments like these, in the past two
have explored more deeply into the
brain, and through it. the labyrinth of
the mind, than humanity has probed in
the past two millennia. You just don't
make breakthroughs like that and expect
life l society to amble on as before,
ANDERSON: You certainly don't. Psycho
electronics has already gota lot of people
terribly fearful — and terribly hopeful for
the same reason. Rats wired up so that
they can turn on the current in their
cephalic pleasure centers will forgo
everything else day after day — sex, sleep,
nourishment — just to keep pushing that
peddle, some of them to the point of
exhaustion, others to starvation. And it
seems to have the same sort of effect on
humans. In one case I know of, a terminal
cancer patient was given a few minutes
of stimulation, and spent many hours
alterward happy, energetic and free of
ccessity of putti
electrodes through the skull, we can cx
wide-
pect to see psychoelectronics i
spread use not just for therapy bu
for kicks. There are dangers, of course,
but they don't seem any more risky tl
those of euphoric drugs. Electronics, in
fact, may olfer us the only euphoriac
with no unde: ide effects.
-philosophical
1 to be headed for — predi-
cated on the premise that man is а kind
of experimental organism in a laboratory
run by man—it seems to me that all
the fine pigeonhole distinctions between
good and evil, worth and worthlessness,
will be simplified down to the twin cri-
te a
rticipate in, therefore,
a | age of sensua
spawned and nurtured on eve
finements in the chemistry and electronics
which induce ıatory phenomena
— phenomena which in effect will move
the theater out of the TV set and into
the interior of the skull. This will be-
come | ly true when pleasure
ol nees to the point of
nd purpose to these
ad raw
cw re-
troducing
plot
hitherto random hallucinations a
CLARKE: Man will devise an electronic
horn of plenty which I call the Replica-
tor; it will be able to manufacture any
object from a coded matrix.
визи: It’s possible that some sort of
fasterthanlight interstellar propulsion
will be discovered before we get manned
rockets any farther out than Jupiter.
BRADBURY: The important thing is that
the race is on the move, and that we, as
writers, have long dreamt of this move-
ment and cannot help but be exhilarated.
1
ài
a
HEINLEIN: What will our children accom-
plish? Take the wildest speculation, square
it, cube the result, and the answer still
won't be big enough to match the truth.
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stimulations. We will soon be assaulted by
assorted Spansules which actively and
explicitly direct the course of dreams or
ack, and by low-voltage
fe for children —which weave
to soarü з of sensa-
tion. 1 have bec ga close parallel
to show business because I am positive
ion will greet these
nother appe
world. Some nations
ure monopolies
while others will reaffirm their faith in
the free-enterprise system with freelance
technic performer
ducers, directors, costumers, set desi
and scriptwrite
moth pleasure-drag m
Holly studios,
PLAYBOY: You foresee, then, an explosi
of technolo: clopments and dis
coveries which promises to enlarge and
- hopefully — e
lect, emotions,
edge. Do you ant
strides ii
draw
nder cont
tions.
ipate simila
h for complete compre-
ry of the human body
SERLING: Well. this may be pretty small
potatoes in the technological world of
1984, but | envision hly sophisti-
cated computing machine programed to
mptoms, conduct blind-
y known dises
k we can expect to see
even more spectacular advances in the
field of curing illnesses — such as major
breakthroughs in the п ion ol
whole оган». and less dra but more
important advances in the development
1 us drugs, includ «t long.
st. a cure for the common cold.
BUDRYS: By the turn. of the century. 1
anticipate that medical research will have
progressed at a ate which will
have ushered all il
ıo he
aids such sc
pe tinction.
PLAYBOY: The elimination of disease
п to bode well for the prospects
g the human lifespan dra
in years to come — if not of
ning man's immemorial drca
al life. What do you predict м
the longevity of th
the year 2000:
BUDRYS: | think that the first man to live
forever — or for two centuries, at the very
least — may already е been born. But
before we сап attain true. immortality.
we'll have to hurdle a few remaining ob-
stacles. Опсе w e disease
causative factor in fatality, we'll have to
to the task of expungi
m the species, [t's 1
: conceivably
we could instill everyone hypnotically,
chemically, or electronically with the
imina
sa
same general view of life, so tha
will be deprived of their
, racial, ideological, psycholog
sociological pretexts for destroying
other, There will then remain
our control only two principal factors:
the inhuman workings of the Universe —
which we will be able to harness to our
eds, for all practical purposes, with
only a slight extension of current tech-
nology: and the ability to restore life to
those who are temporarily inconver
nced by accidental death; this will be
accomplished within a matter ol years.
nutilative accidents are already
mized with radical new surgi-
cal techniques involving both regenera-
tion and replacement of limbs. Thus we
аге close to the point where the hum
body can be treated machine w
plug-in and screw-on replacement capa-
bilities. That leaves us with the simple
deterioration of old age. Some of this
will be subsumed by the attack on de-
Benerati by surgical organ
transplants, and by the development of
increasingly sophisticated artificial or-
ns, But these stopgaps will do little or
nothing to abate the slow decay of the
whole; and this you won't
isplanting the brain into a
resh body — because the brain. too, is
not immune to aging. But I think the
day is not far off when we can decelerate
even suspend the aging of all the in-
dividual cells of the body. We are al-
ready beginning to learn a great deal
about these processes, and their control is
the next logical step.
Well, imagine a synthetic
virus, tailored to the individual's genetic
раце h takes over the job of
chemist enewal as his
own cells become too old to handle the
job. A man so inoculated might poten-
tially be immortal, eternally young,
POHL: Recently I bought for Galaxy а
manuscript by a biologist named R. C. W.
Ettinger, called Prospects of Immortality
in which he explores the practical possi-
ities of alkbureternal Ше through
frozen sleep" —a process in which a
nan body is frozen in liquid helium at
people
1, econo-
and
ong
solve by tr
close to absolute zero so that he or she
will not decay or det 1y de-
ble way for essentially as long as the
ature is maintained — which could
be months, years, centuries, millennia
ı cons if you vi
body to that temperature without йтер-
able damage, All it will take is money
bout $8500 per person; we already
have the know-how. It's a pretty good
gamble, says Ettinger, that no matter
what you might die of today — heart at-
tack, stroke, cancer, T.B., a bullet in the
belly, or even such tissue w:
vation or senility — at some future date
this damage will be surgically, medically
ny cellular injury that might have been
inflicted on your body in the act of being
frozen to await resurrection i me
later age. Thus immortality of a kind
may very well be attainable for you and
ight now.
It seems to me that actual eman-
cipation from death may not become
reality within the next generation or
two, but lifetimes greatly extended
by biomedical techniques are а stror
probability for some of the children
tity wards. Aud I don't
a that this will be accomplished
with such evasions as deep-freezing for
decades, metabolic arrest, or any other
technique which increases chronological
age while doing nothing for the useful
| that some of our chil-
y and usefully for
perhaps 200 years. And after that gener-
ion, the figure will go up exponen-
ly. so that our grandchildren may
ti
live to a ripe old 1000, and our great
grandchildren essentially forever.
ANDERSON: There'd be à price to pay for
all this, of course: Very few children
could be allowed to be born, or the
planet would soon be packed solid with
human flesh: and а world with hardly
any children would be emotionally bar-
ren for a great many people. Then, too.
civilization of polygenarians is in-
cvitably going to become archconserva-
tive in thought and action. They would
be less likely to question or contradict
the comfortable established. order: thus
the world of the very long-lived would
probably be pretty маце and stagnant.
So we might at last weary of such a life.
POHL: If you think (агу bad, consider
the consequences of achieving immor
ity through freezing: What will happen,
for example, if you poison your rich
uncle for an inheritance, live out your
life and die in luxury, have yourself
Dozen — and wake up a century later to
find the old bastard standing there with
the police and the doctors who found
Suychnine in his stomach while re
him?
PLAYBOY: Well, there's another kind of
life extension which would seem to be
free of such perils: a period up to one-
third the length of an ordinary lifesp:
which many people wish could be added
to their life total of active waking hours
by redu ng the need lor
sleep. What do you gentlemen feel are
the prospects of fulfilling that wish?
BUDRYS: Well, there's a good deal of re-
search bein d
the data collected so far would seem to
t not merely sleeping but
‘aming is necessary to the mind. tha
dreams are not simply the images of an
idling brain but an actual function of
the self-restoring process which is nece
sary to rational thought during the
в
done on the subject, а
g hours. I would guess that it will
prove posible to take control of the
necessary dream process at least to the
extent of compressing its duration, and
to devise some kind of therapy or equip-
ment which will help the body to recu
perate fully from a day of mental and
physical exertion in far less time than
the natural process now consumes.
POHL: I'm afraid the Russians may have
beaten us to it. The other day I heard the
nique of sleep abbreviation which they
have developed and claim to have per-
fected. By the bi
sleeping subject and playi
to another man, they are reported to
have materially shortened the amount
of rest required by the second subject.
If my informa i с, they've
come uncannily close to duplicating one
of the hoariest and heretofo:
probable gimmicks in science
overflowing bag of tricks: Instant Sleep.
You put this shiny helmet on your head,
press a button, get up, stretch, yawn
and go back to work— completely re-
[reshed.
ANDERSON: I have my doubts that cither
we or the Russians will ever be able to
capsulize sleep quite so neatly, but I will
venture to predict that it should be pos
le inside of 20 years, with the help of
nontoxic drugs, to work or socialize for
several d: a stretch without geting
tired.
POHL: A promising line of research, I
should think, would be the possible use
of appropriate hormone treatments for
sleep reduction, since thyroid activity
seems to regulate the amount of rest we
But I don't really see why it
couldn't be possible to eliminate the need
for sleep entirely and permanently — con-
ceivably by surgical removal of the sleep
center from the brain; the dangers of d
turbing the metabolic balance
would se ible, for people
whose sleep centers have been accident-
ally damaged or destroyed lead what seem
to be essentially normal lives in every
way — except that they never sleep.
BUDRYS: Still, if we can possibly produce
the same results without resorting to such
drastic measures, T certainly think we
ought to. And 1 think we probably can
and will: by shortcircuiting the entire
natural process to recuperate mind and
body by artificial means
of consciousness or mobility — usiug an
sleep drugs which are not harsh stimu-
lants but specific
ed r
need,
nedications developed
nto the sleep
from de
h such medicines, how.
у have to pay a price. Any
сер potion intended to increase
alertness and efficiency must inevitably
ccelerate the total metabolism to the
point where it will mean an almostcer-
(continued on page 108)
process.
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THE PLAYBOY FORUM
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PRISON PHILOSOPHY
I work as a group counselor in a pris-
on, dealing with both men and women in
their respective units. I recently came
upon one of your Philosophy editorials
nd decided to use it in a group discus-
sion. It was a very gratifying experience
s nearly everyone in the group took part,
whereas ordinarily it is just one or two
who hold the floor. I was so encou
I used your Philosophy
the women's discussion gi
to use other installments of. The Playboy
Philosophy in future discussions with all
groups. I want to thank you and please
keep up the good work. We need some-
one like you to expound the important
ideas so necessary to our new generation.
1 see by your letters to the editor that
you have upset a lot of so-called "Chris-
Very good for you. It is about
time somconc did. We have been livi
too long in an era of “Ch
which we preach, but do not practice.
People are always afraid of new ideas
and want to cling to the “
which they find comfor
torials point out a new d
may help us to bri
our
edi-
that
our thoughts and
Your
ction
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THE UNCOMMON MAN
You have broken me down. Your state-
ments concerning “The Uncommon
Man" in your second installment of The
Playboy Philosophy have bolstered my
faith in journalism in the United States.
For 20 years now I have been sickened
to the point of almost hi
the Amcrican press, radio
I have bei ated as if 1 were a sloth
with no real ability to do for myself, to
think for myself or to prepare for my
future. Please continue your policy of
assuming that the individual can think.
Please continue your policy of present
ing beauty, whether it be the female
form or the written word.
Joseph W. Baker
Yuma, Arizona
б tre:
CENSORSHIP
I hope that your discussion of censor-
ship in The Playboy Philosophy, Part
Six (M
1963), lead to increased
action against those who force their own
arbitrary standards upon others. The cen-
sor will have no difficulty tossing you
Observations aside as the sacrilegious
rantings of a sex magazine. And those
under the censors control, who occa-
sionally sneak а peek at PrAvmov's cen-
terfold, will undoubtedly agree with
their master. But unless someone takes
you seriously, even greater liberties will
be taken with our basic freedoms. The
censors have made it clear that Supreme
Court rulings will not stop them. 1984
will not be returned to those empty
library shelves until censorship has been
eliminated. Why? Because the
reader would notice once that
Brother and the censor are one and the
same.
S. Richard Arber
"Thomas Y. Crowell Comp
New York, New York
апу
I would like to congratulate you оп
your etlort to freely explore and discuss
intelligently the issues concerning censo
ship and for your use of objective facts
and studies to support your position. As a
college teacher I intend to use The Play-
boy Philosophy in my classes as a means
of critically analyzing the assump-
tions concerning the various types of
censorship.
Edward D'Angclo
Asst. Professor of Philosophy
State University of New York
Buffalo, New York
Your editorial listing some of the
surdities of censorship was
cogent job. From where I sit,
critic of a London newspaper, there seem
nis of a slow thaw (the Lady Cha
to be si
). but in other areas, the ice
last The "X" certificate, coined
by the British Board of Film Gensors,
which restricts cinema admission to ticker
buyers of 18 and over, has let through a
few adult expressions of sex (watch out
for This Sporting Life). But the Board’s
comments on scripts submitted to them
by film makers, anxious to avoid censor-
ship problems before shooting, still show
an odd state of mind. The other day a
producer had his script returned. with
letter raising tia
lar scene, with the observation that “on
the whole, the Board is not in favor of
' eyebrow at one p:
саг nibbling.” It makes опе wonder
what they do for kicks.
Philip Oakes
Sunday Telegraph
London, England
Bravo! I cannot restrain my enthusi
asm over your Playboy Philosophy any
You have clearly and brilliantly
ted the hvpocrisies and sacred
cows of our society with your analysi:
and your May editorial alone is worth
the price of the May issue. The great
philosopher Wiugenstein defined phi-
losophy as activity,” which consists
in raising questions one isn't supposed
to raise and generally making oneself
obnoxious by asking, "Why?" and uot
ag any tired but time-honored
in response — in short, throwing
stones through sacred windows. This is
precisely what PLAYBOY is doing,
very few people outside the a
com y have had the courage and
ntestinal fortitude to do the same.
However, you fail (an oversight, 1
sure) to claborate on several aspecis of
Dcedom and individuality that deserve
attention. To wit:
(A) It is, of course, commonpl
point to Christ as a radical, but many of
our tradi nalists forget tl He had
the courage (as you do) to challenge the
social order and the accepted "truths" of
the day. (Incidentally, more "Chris-
tians” practiced what they, as Christians
and as citizens in а democratic society,
professed, the need for PLaytoy to
publish its Philosophy would be consid-
erably lessened.)
(B) Concerning censorship, the cen-
Sors are not, im, Шу [those]
least q ” They аге always least
qualified, because (1) they have no back-
ground i ature ог appre
2) they аге obsessed and
These True Believers are
ble of asserting themselves demo
nd legally for, suffering from
am
ce to
low level of self-esteem, they try to
" at society for some imagined
ht. To paraphrase: “Morality is the
ge of the scoundrel
ship. several recent instances are worth
gers The Catcher in the
Rye was recently banned by the princi-
pal of a midwest school following the
request of a patriotic, self-authorized
citizens’ group: a similar gang of good
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PLAYBOY
38
ens in California tried to get Edgar
Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books off the
children's library shelves on the grounds
that “Tarzan and Jane were never le-
gally married"; similar cases of recent
banning involve Orwell's 7987, Huxley's
ave New World, etc, ad nauseum.
And you/your readers might be inter-
ested in the fact that in several. states,
religious po pressure groups have
objected to tried to censor the
award-winning television series, The
ıs controversial
=, thought-com-
and
provocativ
g points of view.
produce the statements of
al eminent and highly qualified
authorities in making vour case against
censorship; however, when offered to
society as a whole, such intelli is
n). it must De considered subver-
sive. It threatens the institutions ana-
lyzed by stri their foundations.
(E) Finally, in your otherwise excel-
kent catalog of evils апа abuses in the
name of “Christianity” or "morality,"
you omitted three prominent and sig-
nificant case
(I) As you went to press, a Rever-
cnd Conran Schneider successfully (and
extralegally) banned Nikos Kazantzakis
excellent novel, The Last Temptation of
Christ, from а town li consin.
Freedom to know,” or “freedom to
read,” anyone?
(2) In 1940, Bertrand Russell was
denied a lectureship in philosophy in
this country due to some of his views on
sex, love and marriage. Again, it was the
“patriotic” groups and the True Be
lievers who did not want their children
“corrupted by his immoral views”
(3) Some of your readers outside the
New York area may not know of the
“Playboy scandal" in that city. The
New York Playboy Club was first black-
mailed and has since be irched.
ad slindered, while attempting to ob-
тай the liquor and cabaret licenses to
which it had every legal right. It is per-
aps significant that those individuals
who seem most opposed to the New York
besmi
Playboy Club belong to a religious de-
nomination that has proven most hos
tile to PLaYBoy magazine in the
Rumors from New York suggest that the
opposition comes from high up in the
church officialdom of tha
Howard А. Karte
Brown University
Providence, Rhode I
We've heard those rumors, too, How-
ard, but though religiously misdirected
pressures have been previously brought
to bear on both the Playboy Jazz Festival
and our nationally syndicated television
show, “Playboy's Penthouse,” in other
parts of the country, these have always
been jrom individuals or groups without
past.
any official church position or sanction,
and we find й difficult to believe that
any major religious leader in this free
America would attempt to promote or
direct a governmental atlack upon a Play
boy Club, as а means of gelling at the
less vulnerable magazine, which enjoys
the special protection guaranteed the
press by the Bill of Rights. Religious his-
tory is filled with this sort of church-state
coercion, however, and this month's
“Playboy Philosophy” considers that sub-
ject and also the origins of many of our
religious nolions about sex, virginity,
marriage and romantic love.
We mentioned several of the specific
book bannings and the Tarzan incident
in our February. editorial, but welcome
the additions. The attempt io ban the
Tarzan books was especially ironic, since
the California citizen-censors had clearly
never read them: the Edgar Rice Bur-
roughs characters actually were married
in the books—only in the movies is the
relationship between the Ape Man and
his mate open to question.
LIQUOR SCANDAL
What went wrong with The Playboy
Philosophy in the recent liquor scandals
in New York? Your acts seem out of step
with your views. But I'm sure the G
White Father Hefner will retort by say-
ing that all should be forgiven, that
PLAYBOY is doing penance for its "mis-
judgment act of a
bribe or will PLavnoy say that mens rea
was lacking?
Many people will be wa
anticipation for you to т;
justify your acts and then steep them in
some more of your profound philosophy
Wh L you should give us
some axioms to follow. such
in Rome do as the Ro:
I say, not as I do,” or °
the means.”
Now don't think I'm disappointed with
PLAYBOY or attempting to take a right-
cous position in your айап, lm. not.
Your magazine has brought me many
hours of relaxation and reading enjoy
but I lı one suggestion to
make. In your next portion of Philoro-
ply, where you
and critics alike — our guiding princ
ples and editorial credo," the byline
should read, fiction by Hugh M. Hefner."
John Colistra
Hastings College of Law
© you're а!
ment
ave ju:
Icoholic beverages in his night club. Sup-
pose further that in order to remedy this
situation the owner of the night club
iranges to bribe a member of the sta
liquor authority and thereby secu
license. Now suppose that this sa
pell out — for friends
nightclub owner is also something of a
philosopher — that his recent writings
have established him as an authority on
social ethics. When the nightclub owi
philosopher is asked to justily the
bribe withi own ethical system, his
reply may be structured. as:
Bentham: “The bribe resulted in the
st good for the greatest number.
“The goodness of the bribe
heres in its utility.
Nietzsche:
do as
they
[3
"There is а moral obligati
rectify an immoral situation
The Playboy Philosophy:
Would you please fill in the blank with
your usual candor and print at your
carliest convenience,
Douglas Shrader
New Haven, Connecticut
Answ
r if you can — does The Playboy
Philosophy include nents of bribes
to the New York State Liquor Authority?
Raymond Levites
New York University
New York, New Yor
The facts regarding The Playboy Club
and the New York Liquor Scandal are
not quite those reported in most of the
press, which is, sadly, no new experience
for cither the Club or the magazine.
None of our executives is perfect — they
ате all fallible men, quite capable of
making mistakes; we'll give the details
and let our readers decide who was at
fault and whether Playboy Club manage
ment did the right and proper thing.
When PLAYBOY first contemplated en-
tering the club business, Editor-Publisher
Hefner laid dawn some ground rules:
All Playboy Clubs were to be established
and operated in accordance with local
laws in the various cities and states, and
the fact that they were to be private key
clubs was never to be used as a means of
improperly circumventing local regula-
tions: no profits were to be hidden or si
phoned off to avoid the payment of th
often. prohibitive taxes leveled at the
nightclub and restasrant industry (а
nol uncommon practice); any attempt of
the hoodlum element, prominent in the
nightclub. business since Prohibition, to
cither buy or coerce its way into the op-
eration was to be firmly rejected. In
addition, Hefner emphasized that the
Playboy Clubs must be operated so fairly
and well— from the customers. point of
view (reasonable. prices, no “hiked” bar
checks, no watered food or drink) — and
so cleanly and properly — through over-
all supervision — that they would always
complement PLaywoy magazine and the
good reputation already built through a
long. uphill battle against forces in so
cicly that oppose much of what PLAYBOY
stands for. That ъълувоу had powerful
enemies could not be doubted (as does
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The New York and Chicago Playboy Clubs feature the fashionable
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апу patent liberal force in our society
that
today); and we were also certain
these enemies would be heard from
The problems began as soon as the
frst Playboy Club opened in Chicago in
February of 1960. Key clubs had been
popular in this city for 25 years, but the
week our first Club opened. the Chicago
Corporation Counsel announced то the
press that they were illegal. No law was
cited, because none existed, and no legal
action was taken against any key club far
the same reason; but this extralegal in-
timidation was calculated lo seriously
reduce interest in The Playboy Club and
the sale of membership keys, It had the
opposite effect, however, and the Chicago
Playboy Club quickly became the most
successful club operation in the city. In
addition. The Playboy Club brought suil
against the Chicago Corporation Counsel
to clarify the legality of its method of
operation, before proceeding further
with other Clubs in other cities. Playboy
won the suit; the Corporation Counsel
appealed the decision to the Illinois
Court oj Appeals and Playboy won
again; after which, the Corporation
Counscl gave up.
By the time we commenced construc-
tion of the $1 000000 Playboy Club in
New York, we had already established
Clubs in Miami and New Orleans and
had been warmly received in both cities.
Shortly after purchasing the site at 5
East 59th Street, in Manhattan, and con-
tracting for the construction, a Playboy
Club executive was approached by an
unofficial representative of the New York
State Liquor Authority, who informed
him that there would be по Playboy
Club in New York without the purchase
of influence at the proper State level.
This attempt (0 solicit money from The
Playboy Club was ignored, but it was
followed by more of the same, at which
point a pair of Club executives went to
New York (armed with the recent Ilinois
court decision) in the naive belief that
if they could show that the Playboy
Clubs were a legal and properly run
operation, that brought glamor and
excitement to every city in which they
were established, there would be no probi
lem. Although the New York laws gov-
erning such matters are substantially
the same as Illinois’, the Playboy appeal
was rejected; word was sent back that
the Club executives were “a pair of Boy
Scouts.” and the head of the SLA wanted
nothing more to do with them. Tt was
then decided that The Playboy Club
would proceed in New York exactly as it
had in Chicago and if it proved neces
sary. the Club's right to a license would
be [ought for in the courts as it had been
before.
Several months clapsed before The
Playboy Club was approached again, and
this time the man who indicated there
would be no New York Club without in-
fluence in the proper quarter was опе of
the most powerful political figures in the
State: Playboy Club management was
further disillusioned by the discovery
that no New York night club or bar ve-
ceived, or retained, its license without
similar political approval; specific exam-
ples were cited of clubs that had been
efjcctively put out of business, or never
allowed to open, because the politically
powerful had not deigned lo grant them
the “privilege.” Tt became clear that po-
litically chosen administrators had been
vested with the power of life ar death
over the clubs of thal city: as Life later
reported one SLA victim. saying. “In
New York you have to buy your rights.”
Playboy Club management decided to
pay the tribute demanded and once the
“lub was in operation, to see what legal
remedies, if any, might be available to
them. Shortly before The Playboy Club
opened in New York last December, a
Grand Jury began investigating the State
Liquor Authority and Governor Nelson
Rockefeller made a public plea for an
one with knowledge of SLA corruption to
come forward. The Playboy Club was
one of the first — and one of the very few
— to do so and our cooperation was in-
stumental in building the case that
eventually resulted in indictmenis of
several of the wrong-doers, including the
head of the SLA, and the representative
who originally approached the Playboy
Club executive, plus the resignation of
the powerful political figure who had
effectively coerced Playboy into making
the payment.
Two days before the New York Playboy
Club was scheduled to open, the SL
called in the Club's officers and forced
them to sign a specially prepared state-
ment that would make the Club open to
the general public instead of just to key-
holders, although it was this very point
that Playboy had won in its Ilinois court
case, and a number of other New York
clubs had long enjoyed a similar admis-
sion policy. Another administrator. re-
fused to grant the Club a cabaret lice:
which would permit Playboy to offer its
60,000 New York members and their
guests entertainment in its showrooms,
He objected 10 the general nature of the
Club, as an extension of the personality
of the magazine, and especially to the
Playboy Bunnies. This, in spite of the
fact that the Playboy Clubs had already
become the most important (raining
ground for new night-club talent m the
countey and that the high quality of the
Playboy Club operation had already been
established in [our cities across the US,
(the addition of the St. Louis Club in
October, added to Chicago. Miami and
New Orleans, brought the total number
to four, prior to the New York opening
in December); and girls in similarly ab-
breviated attire have long worked in a
number of other clubs in the City of New
York (Bunnies have also appeared, in
costume, on a great number of prime-time
network television shows that are viewed.
by family audiences throughout the land.
raising additional doubts about the im-
propriety of the Bunny bunting, or lack
of same); nor has il ever been satisfac-
lorily explained just how keeping per-
formers out of work would successfully
remove any prurient interest that the
Bunnies might arouse in keyholders — to
the contrary, the lack of any other enter
fainment might be expected to produce
greater, rather than lesser, interest in
Playboy's cottontailed covey, but there is
no accounting for the workings of the
administrative mind in such matters,
Because The Playboy Club's cooper
ation with the Grand Jury included a
pledge of silence during the invesi
lion, our part in it was nol understood,
and rumors began circulating that
were the instigators of civic corruption
rather than the victims of it. One Brook-
lyn newspaper — thal would have ordi-
marily received very little attention, but
enjoyed undeserved readership at the
time, because it was one of the few sources
of news available to New Yorkers during
the recent, prolonged newspaper strike —
continually referred to Playboy as the
“Show-All Club” in headlines and edi-
lorialized against us in so biased а man-
ner that they were charged with criminal
libel by a New York judge who found
himself the victim of their vitriol when
he reversed the cabaret-license cominis-
sioner's decision on Bunny costumes.
The first Grand Jury indictment was
publicized as а Playboy Club “bribe” —
though bribery was clearly not involved
in cither the literal or legal sense. A bribe
is defined by Webster's as “a price, re-
ward, gift. or favor bestowed or promised
with a view to pervert the judgment or
corrupt the conduct of a person in a posi-
tion of trust." (Emphasis added.) Legal
decisions confirm this definition of brib-
ery as being a perversion or corruption
of official conduct and not a payment
demanded for something to which a per-
son is legally entitled. This was a case of
criminal extortion, defined as the “act or
practice of taking anything from a per-
son by illegal use of fear: technically,
Law, the offense committed by an officer
who unlawfully, by color of his office,
claims and takes money or other thing of
value that is not his due," and The
Playboy Club was just one of а number
of innocent victims of this extensive cor-
ruption. It was Playboy alone, however,
that received the headline publicity, be-
cause we were the most prominent and
because we were one of the few wha
fully cooperated with the Grand Jury in
their investigation.
For this we received the praise of the
New York District Attorney's office, but
the SLA promptly announced that they
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THE PLAYBOY PHILOSOPHY
the ninth part of a statement in which playboy's editor-publisher spells out—for friends
and critics alike—our guiding principles and editorial credo
ONE OF THE MAJOR controversies in con-
temporary society concerns sex. The gap
between our supposed sexual morality
nd our actual behavior is extreme and
when an entire nation practices such
hypocrisy, the results сап be calamitous.
nce the behavior is based upon
ive that, when repressed, r
nce, frigidity
ngs of guilt and shame,
searching for a new morality
keeping with the newly recog-
nized “facts of life."
To better understand this Sexual Rev-
olution, it is worthwhile to explore the
origins of our present-day traditions and
taboos regarding sex. As we have seen,
our sexual mores sed. primarily
on religious teachings. But where did
our religions acquire their strong anti-
sexual n't always
nd his concepts of
varied
ough the centurics Where did the
1 of chastity come from? And the no-
tion that virginity is a virtue? Who
devised the idea of chaste
to replace natural sexuali
organized religion always bee!
ual in concept?
Histor
gion and sex always
Sex
terwoven.
tely
ant role in early reli-
gious beliefs and rites, and vestiges of its
celebration are apparent in many of our
contemporary religious rituals. The first
religions of primitive man deified sex and
fertility. In the quite complex, sophisti-
cated and intelectual societies of pre-
Christian Rome and Greece, the gods
were patterned alter men and they were
as sexually pote: ht expect a
god to be: Roman and Grecian mythol-
ogy are filled with
mpor
сеа of sex. The psychoanalytic might
also point out that the Chr
her figure, w
whom sex would be considered inces-
tuous: and it is certainly true that incest
and Oedipal fears played a major role in
the early history of Christendom.
"Though it is not generally recognized
today, the concept of virginity as a virtue
butes of a
editorial By Hugh M. Hefner
in women is actually antifemale in ori
gin, derived from a period when women
were thought of as property, owned first
by their fathers and later their husbands.
And as Dr. Roger W. Wescott wryly
observed: “. . . it is far from flattering to
x’ 00 treat its members as
salable commodities with only two pos-
sible labels —‘used’ or ‘unused.
The term “virgin” did not mean to
the Classical world what it means to us.
The e:
virgo —
rly Romans distinguished betwecn
unmarried wom
intacta — a woman who had never known
a man: the same distinction was made
by the Greeks. To them a virgin was a
woman who had retained her personal
autonomy by not submitting herself to
the restrictions of marriage. Virginity was
more a social and psychological state than
a physical one. It was the married woman,
who had lost her independence through
matrimony, who was no longer consid-
cred virgin. Indeed, it was believed that
sexual relations with a god magically
restored virginity.
In carly Rome and Greece, sexual be-
havior was largely
taste, though there were civil
tecting, ind
nd virg
ws pro-
iduals from abuse, such
rape. R. Rattray Taylor states, in his
book Sex in Histor ‘Husbands had
property rights in their wives: а wife's
adultery was severely punished by the
husband, partly because it made the
paternity of the children doubtful. A
nd, on the other hand, could have
ence outside of mar-
iked, subject only to the
that he would incur the wrath of another
husband if he seduced a married woman,
and might be killed for so doing, An un-
married man was equally free. . . . There
no admiration of virginity as a good
self [however] and among the popu-
an [unmarried] woman was fre
sleep with a man at her own discretion,
SEX IN EARLY JUDAISM
The early Je
"believed strongl
the. pleasures of life,
sex (see Deuteronomy 21:
some teachers held tl
ig those of
10-14) and
at the last day
one would have to account to God for
every pleasure that one had failed to
enjoy." Jewish law was derived from the
Babylonian code of Hammurabi and the
only sexual injunctions in the Ten Com-
mandments are against adultery and
coveting of a neighbor's wife. On this,
Taylor states; “It must be understood
that in this period, just as in Rome and
Greece, adultery was a property offense
and meant infringing the rights of an
other man. It did not mean that а man
hould restrict his attentions to his wife;
ndeed, when a wife proved barren, she
would often give one of her handmaidens
to her husband that she might be
dren for him.
al
Moreover, as the
often reminds us, men were free to ma
tain mistresses, in addition to their
wives; on the number of wives a man
might have there was no restriction.
any ban on premarital
it is seldom appreciated that no-
where in the Old Testament is there any
of noncommercial, unpre-
cash interest in a virgin. Once a girl had
reached the age of 121% years, she was
free to engage in sexual activity, unless
her father specifically forbade it. Prosti
tution, though frowned on, was com-
mon, and in J m the whores were
so numerous that they had thei
market place. Nor in preExilic days was
sodomy a crime, except when committed
as part of religious worship of non-
Jewish gods."
But in the postExilic period there was
a remarkable change in the. Jewish atti-
tude toward sex. There developed a
fecling that all pleasure, but especially
sexual pleasure, was wicked.
speaks of “the power
sexual intercourse with which, through
love of pleasure, sim enters in." In
Ecclesiastes, we find the blame for sin
being laid on women: "Women
overcome with the spirit of for
more than mer i
plot against m
As with ea nity, it is prob-
able that the persecution of the Jews
had a great deal to do with this increase
in sexual suppression and feelings of
guilt. Coupled also with this change in
a
own
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PLAYBOY
44
attitude, as seems always to be the case,
went a tightening of restrictions and a
loss of personal liberty. Whereas pre-
sly the sexes had mingled quite
freely, it now became a sin for a man to
speak to, or even look at, a woman un-
less
a Sex Laws and
irginity now be-
gan to De p ppy is the ba
that is undefiled . . . and happy
the eunuch” — whereas, previously, rab-
binical tradition had regarded celibacy
as a crime. Josephus reports of the
hey reject pl is an evil,
but. esteem continence and conquest of
the passions to be a virtue. They neglect
wedlock.” This period was marked with
afterlife and in-
ased feelings of guilt, shame
and suspicion. According to one teacher,
boys should not be allowed to play with
girls, and а mother-in-law should not
live with her married. daughter for fear
she might seduce the husband. Rab
Samuel Glasner writes, in his chapter on
Judaism and sex, in The Encyclopedia
of Sexual Behavior: “. . . The Talmud
prohibits a widow's keeping a pet dog,
[or fear of the suspicion of sexual abuse
(Abodah Zarah 22b; Baba Netiah 71a),
and in later times both Maimonides and
o advised against unchapcroned. as-
widespread —
h women considered the source of in-
fection: a mot permitted. to
ss within four ells of the house of a
prostitute for fear of disease
The attitude toward homosexu
changed markedly, as the warning
against young men being allowed 10-
gether unchaperoned suggests, and not
only was it made a capital crime, p
ishable by death, but the law was ap-
plied to non-Jews as well, The intensity
of these new homosexual anxieties is
perhaps best illustrated by the special
1 placed upon a father appearing
ked in front of his sons, although no
such specific prohibition was thought
necessary im the case of his daughters.
Ham, one of Noah's sons,
demned to slavery,
him, and his ch
the rati
the Negro race, for Ham was black. His
crime was that he entered the tent of
and found him lying there
runk and naked. In general,
Taylor reports, exposure of the sexual
s of the body was regarded
id within a family, а form of
- Complete nudity was considered
even more obscene and sinful. Homosex-
ual fears seem also to be suggested by
the rule that a mother might kiss her
sons, but not her daughters, and con-
versely for a fath
was con-
dren after
— hence
a
crime,
inc
Taboos against masturbation are cer-
tain to produce feelings of guilt in any
society, since masturbation is a nearly
universal sexual activity, ерес
among young males, and the post-E.
Jews laid tremendous stress on such pro-
called it the most
reports that one Talmudic authority
declared it to be a crime warranting
death. Clerical regulations on the subject
display an obsession with detail: for ex
ample, a Jew was forbidden to sleep on
his back, wear tight trousers, or touch
paris while urinating, for
il. Even
n rendered the
ly unclean and. required a
bath for purification (Leviticus 15
; Deuteronomy 23: 10-12).
SEX IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
In such a time, Christianity had great
appeal, as Taylor views it in his autho
tative and comprehensive Sex in History,
for “it allirmed the sense of guilt [so
prevalent among the people of that
time] and authorized sell-punishment to
relieve it.”
The officially favored
Rome at the end of the Second Century
AD. was Mithraism, which came from
Asia and spread throughout much of
Europe, including portions of England.
It was an aggressive, outgoing religion
Taylor writes, “Mithraism specifically
preached that good lay in action, in con-
quest, in grappling with the world. . . .”
As such, it had а considerable attraction
to the Roman emperors, to soldiers, ad-
ministrators and extroverts, but offered.
no place for women. In contrast, Christi-
anity, in its early stages, was primarily а
passive religion and it thus appealed to
women, introverts, slaves and many of
his sexual
the common people of lesser station. H a
psychoanalytic interpretation of Mithra-
ism reveals its sadistic nature, carly
Christianity may similarly be character-
ized y masochistic. Taylor
ism adopted as its symbol
the lifegiving sun, the source of energy.
c adopted as its symbol the
c instrument of torture and
death. ... The choice of Christianity in
preference to Mithiaism therefore not
only represents a choice of masochism as
nst sadism, aud a turning in of the
death instinct against the self, but also
a vietory for death instincts as
life instincts.”
А flood of Trani
cepts was sweeping
world, threatening to submerge the elab-
orate cultures erected. by Greece and
Rome, and early Christianity adopted
many of these beliels into its own rel
gion, In Social Control of Sex Expre:
sion, Geoffrey May states that Christian
m comes not so much from the
teachings of Jesus as from the element
of Oriental dualism, implying the anti-
thesis of the spiritual and the physical,
found in the teachings of St. Paul. Mor
over, under the persecutions of the Ro-
pire, ne to desire
suffering and revolted against the ses
ual excesses of the Romans.
As with the Jews, persecution of the
ns produced а masochism that
made deprivation, suffering and pain
virtue. In Loi Sex Emotions,
W. J. Fielding notes that adherents ol the
new religion soon developed an obses-
sional horror of sex and multiple meth-
ods of self-torture quite different from
the asceticism of earlier religions.
ical monks retired to the burning deseris
of North Africa to mortify their flesh:
nat
fasting, flagellating themselves, going
without sleep ai g to wash.
monius tortured his body with hot
until he was entirely covered with burns;
Macarius went naked in a mosquito-
ridden swamp and let himself be stung
nizable; St. Simcon
flesh with an belt;
nt a winter's night
in a fountain so that his flesh froze.
The association between these maso-
chistic practices and sexual desire is in-
dicated by the confessions of the fathers
themselves. Thus Jerome says: "How
often when I was living in the desert,
which affords to hermits a savage dwell-
ing place, parched by a burning sui
1 fancy myself amid the plea
Rome. I sought solitude, because I was
filled with bitterness, . . . I. who from
the fear of hell had consigned myself to
that prison where scorpions and wild
beasts were my companions, fancied my-
mong bevies of young girls. My
as pale and my frame chilled from
fasting, yet my mind was burning with
the cravings of desive, and the fires of
lust flared up from my flesh that was as
corpse. I do not blush to avow my
abject misery."
How closely the whole psychological
process depended upon the suppression
of se: desire is further indicated by
the preoccupation of these early Chri:
tians with the subject of cast
lor reports,
ulcerated
iron
ation.
s,
he tonsure of the priest is
а recognized symbol of castration, and
his adoption of a skirted cassock perpet-
uates the adoption of female clothes, in
just the same way as the priests of
Astarte, after castration, assumed female
The Jews had adopted circum-
nother symbolic castration — as
of a religious convention ui
made every m s able
to read the sacred books. But symbolic
castrations were not
сапу Christians. Thou
castrate themselves
sprang up so спи;
the practice that its m
rough for some
ands hastened to
wuth ... and a sect
ically addicted to
mbers castrated
not only themselves, but also
rash enough to stay under thi
Since the continuance of any religion de-
pends upon the dren usually
follow in the faith of their pa
which fails to reproduce itself is i
yer of dying out. The Church recognized
this simple truth and soon forbade the
practice.
MEDIEVAL SEX
‘The earliest Christians had sought to
їтапзсеп sex — to be above temptation;
but that didn't prove very successful, so
the Church abandoned this technique in
favor of repression. ‘The relative merits
of the two methods were not entirely re-
however, and debate over the
ive techniques was to arise nu-
ics in the centuries that fol-
eval Church was obsessed
with s reme degree, according
10 Taylor. al issues dominated. its
thinking manner which we should
regard as entircl
Christian code
"upon the convicti
was to be avoided uc, except
[or the bare minimum necessary to keep
the race in existence. Even when per-
formed for this purpose, it remained а
ble necessity. Those who could
were exhorted to avoid it entirely, even if
married. For those incapable of such
heroic self-denial, there was a great
spiders web of regulations whose over-
riding purpose was to make the sex
act as joyless as possible and to restrict
it to the minimum.” Taylor points out
that it was not the se itself which
was d any ple: e derived
from it—and this pleasure remained
damnable even when the act was per
formed for the purpose of procreation,
.” This idea reached its crudest expres-
sion with the invention of the chemise
cagoule, a sort of heavy nightshirt with a
suitably placed hole, through which a
husband could impregnate his wife while
iy other contact with her. The
at, even within marriage, the
sexual act should not be performed for
pleasure still persists in some Christian
seats to this day.
Not only was the pleasure of the sex-
l act held to be sinful, but also the
mere desire for а person of the opposite
sex, even when unconsummated. $i
the love of a man for a woman could be
conceived of as, at least partially, sexual
desire, this led to the concept that a man
should not love his wife too much, In
fact, Peter Lombard maintained, in his
apologetic De excusatione coitus, that
lor a man 10 love his wife too ardently
is a sin worse than adultery.
By the Eighth Century, the Church һай
hegun to develop the strict system of
la which ruled the Middle Ages. A
/ pathological" The
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series of “penitential books” appeared
that explored the subject of sinful sex
inute id intimate det
misdeed was described at length
penalties were prescribed for
Celibacy was the ideal and for those
with priestly functions, it bet
tory. Since chastity was a virtue, it was
virtuous for wives to deny sex to their
husbands, which many apparently did.
T. every
nd
each.
ids were driven to exu
ions as a consequence, to
such a degree that the Church felt
obliged to intervene
Shame of the bod:
and a n
ar. patho-
ing emphasis on chastity
extended beyond the
tivity, as with a virgin named Gorgon
who "with all her body and members
thereof . . . bruised апа broken most
refused the attentions of a
- modesty would not
to be seen or touched by a
t was reported th
warded by God with a miraculous c
In some penitentials, fornication w
declared a worse crime than murder, At-
tempting to fornicate, ki think-
ing of fornication ll forbidden
ud called for pen 1 the Jast case,
the penance was 40 days. Nor was inten-
tion a necessary requisite for sin, for
involuntary nocturnal emissions we
considered sinful: the offender had to ri
at once and sing seven penitential
psalms, with an additional 30 in the
mort
gricvousl
doctor because h
t she was re
s also devoted a dispro-
portionately large amount of space to
s for homosexuality and besi
but the sin upon which the greatest
of all was placed was masturbation.
In Social Control of Sex Expression,
nd no lewe
men. plus a number. of others dealing
separately with masturbation by mem
bers of the clergy. According to Aquinas,
was а g
boos surroundini
ticularly t since this
is so common, they n to pro
of guilt. Taylor observes
1 psychiatric insights indicate
t sexual pleasure is wicked
ily from parental taboos
masturbation. Since the
too young
1e cer
infantile
on
child is punished whe
a
r of this specific pleasure becomes im-
bedded in the unconscious, which later
becomes generalized until it turns
a fear of pleasure in all of its forms.
is casy to understand why thc
Church seized upon this willingness of
parents to frow
tion as a m
concentrated a considerable amount of
attention on the matter.
The more general discouragement of
pleasure, of even а monsexual nature,
аз a part of earliest Christendom. In
the Third Century, Porphyry set the tone
by condemning pleasure in all its forms.
May comments, “Horse racing, the thea-
ter, danc ge and mutton chops
were equally accursed: those who in-
dulged in them were servants, not of
God, but of the Devil.” Augustine called
Porphyry the most learned of
philosophers and established this
tinc on a formal basis.
Most of us have at least a vague aware-
ness of the existence of the sexual prohi-
bitions of the medieval Chu; sincc
any of them are still maintained, if i
diminished strength, today. What is less
generally recognized is the extent to
which the Church attempted to limit
and control not only sex outside of mar
riage, but within it, too. The sexual act
could be performed in only опе pre
sctibed position, with the male above,
and penalties were prescribed for any
variance. This concept was derived from
the notion that other positions were
more sexually enjoyable, and
sistent with the idea that sex should be
kept as pleasureless as possible.
Not content with this, the Church
proceeded to reduce the number ol days
per year during which even man and
wile might legitimately perform the sex
act. First, sex was made illegal on Su
days, Wednesda and Fridays, which
con-
effectively removed the equivalent of
. Then
five months out of every twely
it was made illegal for 40 day:
Easter
for three days before
munion (and there wer
munion). Marital sex was also forbiddi
from the time of conception to 40 da
after birth. ]t was, of course, also for
bidden during penance
Th ave the principles from which
our modern Western sexual ideals have
been principally derived. Taylor points
out that the Christian attitude of anti-
xuality, even within wedlock, was in
ked contrast to that of the Moham-
medans, who held that there were
grounds for divorce if the sexual act
was not performed at least once a wee
It would be a mistake, however, to
imagine that the early Christian Church
prepared these codes of sexual conduct
with the brutal single-mindedness of the
Nazis preparing to pop another batch of
m
Rather, i
y promul,
into the ovens,
ta bei
human
case of these d
a pasion of despairing guilt by a group
of individual men like Augustine, Aqui-
Damiani and Bernard, who knew
nothing of the true sexual nature of m
and who were tormented by the virtual
certainty of eternal damnation [or all
who so much as thought about sexual
pleasure. All about them, they witnessed
sensuality and in a frantic attempt to
save the people from themselves, they
stituted and perpetuated ever more
rules of abstinence. Never mind the
cruelty, never mind the injustice, if only
this frightful and damning d could
be somehow prevented.
PIOUS FRAUDULENCE
That these ideas were pathological,
there can be no doubt. But the motives
were pure, even if the end results were
grotesque in the extreme. "Only real
desperation is enough (o explain th
thlessness with which the Church w
tedly distorted and even falsified the
al record in order to produce ju
tification for its laws,” says Taylor. For
such extreme antisexual sentiment is not
to be found the Bible and certainly
the New Testament. As W. H.
Lecky states, in The History of the Rise
and Influence of the Spirit of Rational-
ism in Europe, “The fathers laid down a
distinct’ proposition that pious frauds
were justifiable and even laudable . . .
[and] immediately, all ecclesiastical lites
ature became tainted with a spirit of the
most unblushing mendacity.”
‘The Church claimed tha
taboos on sex had be
м. Paul, but in
Paul had gone much fu
one before him in di
activity, he had never suggested anything
as radical as the sexual code of tl
medieval Church. Paul also made it clear
he was not propounding the official teach-
ings of Christ, but was simply giving his
personal opinion in reply to a number
of questions put to him by the Church at
Corinth
Autaching, as they did, so much impor-
tance to preventing masturbation, the
medieval churchmen sought Biblical justi
jon and finding none, evidenced no
great reluctance in twisting the Scriptures
to suit their purpose. Genesis 38 refers to
Onan's seed falling upon the ground
and his subsequently being put to death.
The idea was established —
widely believed — that this pass:
re
fers to masturbation, from which is de-
rived the word onanism as a synonym
for the practice. Actually, the Biblical
passage refers to coilus interruptus and
it had a property interest as its raisom
d'être rather than a sexual one; N. E.
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FIDELMAN LISTLESSLY DOODLED all over a sheet of
yellow paper. Odd indecipherable designs, ink-
spotted blotched words, esoteric ideographs, tor-
mented figures in a steaming sulphurous lake,
including a stylish nude rising newborn from the
water, Not bad at all, though more mannequin
than Cnidian Aphrodite. Scarpio, sharp-nosed on
the former art student's left, looking up from his
cards, inspected her with his good eye.
“Not bad, who is she?”
“Nobody I really know.”
“You must be hard up.”
“It happens in art.”
“Quiet,” rumbled Angelo, the padrone, on
Fidelman’s right, his two-chinned face molded in
lard. He flipped the top card.
Scarpio then turned up a deuce, making eight-
and-a-half and out. He cursed his Sainted Mother,
Angelo wheezing. Fidelman showed four and his
last hundred lire. He picked a cautious ace and
sighed. Angelo, with seven showing, chose that
passionate moment to get up and relieve himself.
“Wait for me,” he ordered. “Watch the money,
Scarpio."
"Who's that hanging?" Scarpio pointed to a
longcoated figure loosely dangling from a gal-
lows rope amid Fidelman’s other drawings.
Who but Susskind, surely, a figure out of the
far-off past.
“Just a friend.”
“Which one?"
“Nobody you know.”
“Tt better not be.”
Scarpio picked up the yellow paper for a closer
squint.
“But whose head?” he asked with interest. A
long nosed severed head bounced down the steps
of the guillotine platform.
A man's head or his sex? Fidelman wondered.
In either case, a terrible woun
"Looks a little like mine," he confessed. “At
least, the long jaw."
Scarpio pointed to a street scene. In front
of American Express, here's this starving white
Negro pursued by a hooting mob of cowboys
on horses. Embarrassed by the recent past,
Fidelman blushed.
It was long after midnight. They sat motion-
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alone with the venus he loved, he
painted with passion, for he had
swallowed lightning and he knew
it would strike what he touched
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less in Angelos stuffy office, a small
lit bulb hanging down over a square
wooden table on which lay a pack of
pully cards, Fidelman's naked hundred-
e note, and a green bottle of Munich
beer that the padrone of the Hotel du
Ville, Milano, swilled from, between
hands or games. Scarpio, his major-domo
and secretary-lover, sipped an espresso,
and Fidelman only watched, being with-
out privileges. Each night they played
sette e mezzo, jeenrummy or baccarat and.
Fidelman lost the day's earnings, the few
meager tips he had garnered from the
whores for little services rendered. Angelo
said nothing and took all.
Scarpio. snickering. understood the
street scene. Fidelman, adrift penniless in
the stony gray Milanese streets, had
picked his first pocket, of an American
tourist staring into a store window. ‘The
Texan, feeling the tug, and missing his
wallet, had bellowed murder. A carabin-
iere looked wildly at Fidelman, who
broke into a run, another well-dressed
carabiniere on a horse clattering after
him down the street, waving his sword.
Angelo, cleaning his fingernails with his
penknife in front of his hotel, saw Fidel-
man coming and ducked him around a
corner, through a cellar door, into the
Hotel du Ville, a joint for prostitutes who
split their fees with the padrone for the
use of a room. Angelo registered the
former art student, gave him a tiny dark
room and, pointing a gun, relieved him
of his passport, recently renewed, and
the contents of the Texan's wallet. He
warned him that if he so much as peeped
to anybody, he would at once report him
to the questura, where his brother pre-
sided, as a dangerous alien thief. The
former art student, desperate to escape,
needed money to travel, so he sneaked
into Angelos room one morning and
from the strapped suitcase under the bed,
extracted fistfuls of lire, stuffing all his
pockets. Scarpio, happening in, caught
him at it and held a pointed dagger to
elman's ribs— Fidelman fruitlessly
pleaded they could both make a living
from the suitcase — until the padrone
ed.
A hunchback is straight only in his
grave." Angelo slapped Fidelman's face
first with one fat hand, Шеп with the
other, till it turned red and the tears
freely flowed. He chained him to the bed
in his room for a week. When Fidelman
promised to behave he was released and
appointed mastro delle latrina, having to
dean 30 toilets every day with a stiff
brush, for room and board. He also
sisted Teresa, the asthmatic, hairy-
whores. The former art student hoped
to escape, but the portiere or his assistant
was at the door 24 hours a day. And
thanks to the card games and his impas-
sioned gambling, Fidelman was without
sufficient funds to go anywhere, if there
was anywhere to go. And without pass-
port, so he stayed put.
Scarpio secretly felt Fidelman’s thigh.
“Let go or I'll tell the padrone.”
Angelo returned and flipped up a card.
Queen. Seven-and-a-half on the button.
He pocketed Fidelman's last hundred
lire.
“Go to bed,” Angelo commanded. “It's
a long day tomorrow.”
Fidelman climbed up to his room on
the fifth floor and stared out the window
into the dark street to see how far down
was death. Too far, so he undressed for
bed. He looked every night and some-
times during the day. Teresa, screaming,
had once held onto both his legs as
Fidelman dangled half out of the window
until one of the girls’ naked customers, а
barrel-chested man, rushed into the room
and dragged him back. Sometimes Fidel-
man wept in his sleep.
He awoke, cringing. Angeloand Scarpio
had entered his room but nobody hit him.
“Search anywhere,” he offered, “you
won't find anything except maybe half a
р,” said Angelo. “We came to
make a proposition.”
Fidelman slowly sat up. Scarpio pro-
duced the yellow sheet he had doodled
on. “We notice you draw.” He pointed a
dirty fingernail at the nude figure.
"After a fashion," Fidelman said mod-
estly. “1 doodle and see what happens."
"Could you copy a painting?"
"What sort of painting?"
“A nude. "Tiziano's Venus of Urbino.
‘The one after Giorgione.”
“That one,” said Fidelman, "I doubt
that I could.
“Any fool can.”
"Shut up, Scarpio,” Angelo said. He sat
his bulk at the foot of Fidelmar's narrow
bed. Scarpio, with his good eye, moodily
inspected the cheerless view from the
low.
“On Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore,
about an hour from here,” said Angelo,
"there's a small castello full of lousy
paintings, except for one which is a
genuine Tiziano, authenticated by three
art experts, including a brother-in-law of
mine. It’s worth half-million dollars but
the owner is richer than Oliveti and
won't sell, though an American muscum
is breaking its head to get it.”
“Very interesting,” Fidelman said.
“Exactly,” said Angelo. "Anyway, it's
insured for at least $400,000. Of course if
anyone stole it it would be impossible
to sell.”
“Then why bother?”
“Bother what?”
“Whatever it is," Fidelman said lamely.
“You'll learn more by listening,” An-
gelo said, “Suppose it was stolen and held
for ransom. What do you think of that?”
“Ransom?” said Fidelman.
“Ransom,” said Scarpio.
“At least $300,000," said Angelo. “It
would be a n for Шет insurance соп
don
He outlined a plan. They had photo-
graphed the Titian on both sides, from
all angles and several distances and had
collected from art books the best color
plates. They also had the exact measure-
ments of the canvas and every figure on it.
If Fidelman could make a decent copy
they would duplicate the frame and on a
dark night sneak the reproduction into
the castello gallery and exit with the orig-
inal. The guards were stupid, and the
advantage of the plan — instead of just
slitting the canvas out of its frame — was
that nobody would recognize the substitu-
tion for days, possibly longer. In the
meantime they would row the picture
across the lake and truck it out of the
country down to the French Riviera, The
Italian police had fantastic luck in recov-
ering stolen paintings; one had a better
chance in France. Once the picture was
securely hidden, Angelo back at the hotel,
Scarpio would get in touch with the insur-
ance company. Imagine the sensation!
Recognizing the brilliance of the execu-
tion, the company would have to kick in
with the ransom money.
“If you make a good copy, you'll get
yours,” said Angelo.
“Mine? What would that be?” Fidel-
man asked.
“Your passport,” Angelo said cagily.
“Plus two hundred dollars in cash and a
quick goodbye.”
‘ive hundred dollars,” said Fidelman.
“Scarpio,” said the padrone patiently,
“show him what you have in your pants.”
Scarpio unbuttoned his jacket and
drew a long mean-looking dagger from a
sheath under his belt. Fidelman, without
trying, could feel the cold blade slowly
sinking into his ribs.
“Three-fifty,” he said. “I'll need plane
fare."
“Three-fifty,” said Angelo. “Payable
when you deliver the finished repro-
duction."
“Апа you pay for all supplies?"
“1 pay all expenses within reason. But
if you try any monkey tricks — snitch or
double cross you'll wake up your
head gone. or something worse.
“Tell me," Fidelman asked after a
minute of contemplation, "what if 1
tum down the proposition? I mean in a
friendly way?"
Angelo rose sternly from the creaking
bed, “Then you'll stay here for the rest of
your life. When you leave you leave in a
cofhn, very cheap wood.”
“I see,” said Fidelman.
“What do you say?”
“What more can I say?”
“Then its settled,” said Angelo.
“Take the morning off,” said Scarpio.
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“Thanks,” Fidelman said.
Angelo glared. "First finish the toilet
bowls."
Am 1 worthy? Fidelman thought. Can 1
do it? Do I dare? He had these and other
doubts, felt melancholy, and wasted time.
Angclo onc morning called him into his
office. "Have a Munich beer.”
“No, thanks."
“Cordial?”
“Nothing now.”
“What's the matter with you? You look
like you have just buried your mother.”
Fidelman set down his mop and pail
with a sigh and said nothing.
“Why don't you put those things away
and get started?” the padrone asked. “I've
had the portiere move six trunks and
some broken furniture out of the store-
room where you have two big windows.
Scarpio wheeled in an easel and he's
bought you brushes, colors and whatever
else you need.”
"It's west light, not very even.”
Angelo shrugged. "It's the best сап do.
‘This is our season and I can't spare any
rooms. If you'd rather work at night we
can set up some lamps. It's a waste of
electricity. but I'll make that concession
to your temperament if you work fast and
produce the goods.”
"What's more, I don't know the first
thing about forging paintings,” Fidelman
said. “All I might do is just about copy
the picture.”
“That’s all we ask. Leave the technical
business to us. First do а decent drawing.
When you're ready to paint I'll get you а
piece of 16th Century Belgian linen that's
been scraped clean of a former picture.
You prime it with white lead and when
its dry you sketch. Once you finish the
nude, Scarpio and I will bake it, put in
the cracks and age them with soot. We'll
even stipple in fly spots before we varnish
andglue. We'll do what's necessary. There
are books on these subjects and Scarpio
reads like a demon. It isn’t as complicated
as you think.”
“What about the truth of the colors?”
“I'll mix them for you. I've made a life
study of Tiziano’s work.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
But Fidelman's eyes still looked un-
happy.
“What's eating you now?” the padrone
asked.
“It’s stealing another painter's ideas
and work.”
The padrone wheezed. “Tiziano will
forgive you. Didn't he steal the figure
of the Urbino from Giorgione? Didn't
Rubens stcal the Andrian nude from
Tiziano? Art steals and so does everybody.
You stole a wallet and tried to steal my
lire. It’s the way of the world. We're
only human."
“Isn't it sort of a desecration?”
"Everybody desecrates. We live off the
dead and they live off us. Take, for in-
stance, religion."
“1 don't think I can do it without see-
ing the original," Fidelman said. "The
color plates you gave me aren't true."
"Neither is the original anymore. You
don't think Rembrandt painted in those
sfumato browns, do you? As for painting
the Venus, you'll have to do the job here.
If you copied it in the castello gallery. one
of those cretin guards might remember
your face and the next thing you know
you'd have trouble. So would we, prob-
ably, and we naturally wouldn't want
that"
“I still ought to see i
obstinately.
The padrone then, reluctantly, con
sented to a oneday excursion to Isola
Bella, assigning Scarpio to closely accom-
pany the copyist.
" Fidelman said
On the vaporetto to the island, Scarpio,
wearing dark glasses and a light straw hat,
turned to Fidelman.
"In all confidence, what do you think
of Angelo?"
"He's all right, I guess.”
"Do you think he's handsome?”
"] haven't given it a thought. Possibly
he was, once."
"You have many fine insights” said
Scarpio. He pointed in the distance where
the long blue lake disappeared amid
towering Alps. “Locarno, 60 kilometers.”
"You don't say." At the thought of
Switzerland so close by, freedom swelled
in Fidelman's heart but he did nothing
about it. Scarpio clung to him like a long-
lost brother and 60 kilometers was a long
swim with a knife in your back.
“That's the castello over there," the
major-domo said. “It looks like a joint."
"The castello was pink on a high ter-
raced hill amid tall trees in formal gar-
dens. It was full of tourists and bad
paintings. But in the last gallery, "infinite
riches in a little room," hung the Venus
of Urbino alone.
"What a miracle, thought Fidelman.
The golden-brown-haired Venus, a
woman of the real world, lay on her couch
in serene beauty, her hand lightly touch-
ing her intimate mystery, the other hold-
ing red flowers, her nude body her truest
accomplishment.
"I would have painted somebody in
bed with her," Scarpio said.
“Shut up," said Fidelman.
Scarpio, hurt, left the gallery.
Fidelman, alone with Venus wor-
shiped the painting. What magnificent
flesh tones, what extraordinary flesh that
can turn the body into spirit.
While Scarpio was out talking to the
guard, the copyist hastily sketched the
Venus, and with a Leica Angelo had bor-
rowed from a friend for the purpose, took
several new color shots.
Afterward he approached the picture
and kissed the lady's hands, thighs and
breasts, but as he was murmuring "I love
you,” a guard struck him hard on the
head with both fists.
That night as they returned on the
rapido to Milano, Scarpio fell asleep,
snoring. He awoke in a hurry, tugging at
his dagger, but Fidelman hadn't moved.
The copyist threw himself into his
work with passion. He had swallowed
lightning and hoped it would strike what
he touched. Yet he had nagging doubts
he could do the job right and feared he
would never escape alive from the Hotel
du le. He tried at once to paint the
‘Titian directly on canvas, but hurriedly
scraped it clean when he saw what a
garish mess he had made, The Venus was
insanely disproportionate and the maids
in the background foreshortened into
dwarfs He then took Angelo's advice
and made several drawings on paper to
master the composition before commit-
ting it again to canvas.
Angelo and Scarpio came up every
night and shook their heads over thc
drawings.
"Not even close," said the padrone.
“Far from it." said Scarpio.
“I'm trying," Fidelman said, an-
guished.
“Try harder," Angelo said grimly.
Fidelman had a sudden insight. “What
happened to the last guy who did?”
"He's still floating," Scarpio said.
“TI nced some practice,” the copyist
coughed. “My vision seems tight and the
arm tires easily. Td better go back to
some exercises to loosen up.”
“What kind of exercises?" Scarpio in-
quired.
“Don't overdo it,” Angelo said. “You've
got about a month, not much more.
"There's a certain advantage in making
the exchange of pictures during the tour-
ist season.”
“Only a month?”
The padrone nodded.
“Maybe you'd better trace it,” Scarpio
said.
“No.”
“TI tell you what,” said Angelo. “I
could get you an old reclining nude you
could paint over. You might get the
form of this one by altering the form of
another.”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“It's not honest. I mean to myself.”
Everyone tittered.
"Well, it's your headache,” Angelo
said,
Fidelman, unwilling to ask what hap-
pened if he failed, feverishly drew faster
after they had left.
Things went badly for the copyist.
Working all day and often into the very
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ENGLAND'S FAVORITE SON
stirling moss epitomizes the very model of a model british hero
article By KEN W. PURDY
THE EXTRAORDINARY CONCERN and affection the British people show for Stirling Moss cannot be explained by his eminence
as а sports figure. (My London housekeeper, who had never seen a motor race, and had never seen Moss excepting on
television, asked me to tell him to please shave off his beard, she didn't like it. Then she added, "He is very dear to us.”)
The British people have known many great sportsmen, and they have usually viewed them with comparative calm and
equanimity, but during the decade 1952-1963, let us say, Stirling Moss has been one of the most prominent figures in the
United Kingdom. Other formidable accomplishers, sportsmen, athletes, film stars, scientists, politicians have stepped upon
the stage, stayed a bit, and slipped away. But still today, and this is written nearly a full year after Goodwood, when
Stirling Moss comes down a jet ramp at London Airport, it’s news. Why?
I thought I knew, but I asked а more knowledgeable man, a Fleet Street editor who has seen page-one celebrities
come and go for 20-odd years.
“Its because he was а knight in armor," the editor said, “rushing out of the castle to do batde in foreign lands, and
coming back, sometimes with the prize and sometimes without it; sometimes bloody on his shicld (continued on page 78)
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“T can type, take shorthand, file, and Pm a pushover . . .”
THE IMP OF
THE IMPOSSIBLE
article BY J. PAUL GETTY
SUCCESS IN THE BUSINESS WORLD
OFTEN DEPENDS UPON THE ABILITY TO
DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE
DIFFICULT AND THE UNATTAINABLE
NOT LONG лсо, I was forced to demand the resignation of а top-level executive in
one of my companies. Although he was intelligent, hard-working and experienced,
this man had a signal weakness that proved fatal to his carcer — and which, in
time, might well have proved fatal to the company. He simply could not
distinguish between the possible and the impossible — and his myopia extended
to matters large and small.
‘Typical of his costly blunders was his tendency to undertake tasks which he
should have realized were patently impossible to fulfill. Also typical were his
ebullicntly optimistic—and completely unrealistic — estimates of the time it
would take to carry out an assignment or to complete a project.
"Yes, we can do it,” he'd promise with bland assurance — even though “it”
could not be done. “I'll have everything finished for you in three days,” he'd say
confidently — even though he must have known three weeks would be required to
perform the work in question.
Perhaps he was driven by some compulsive desire to impress people with
promises. Maybe he was afflicted with some rare form of sophomania or counted
on fortuitous miracles to achieve the impossibilities he was in the habit of
promising so rashly. Whatever the reasons, he gradually dragged himself — and
his associates, subordinates and superiors — down into a morass of totally imprac-
tical projects, backlogged work, canceled orders and programs that had to be
abandoned with consequent financial loss to the company.
This executive's inability to distinguish between the possible and the impossible
created chaos within the company and alienated its customers. Brought to book
for his shortcomings, he again demonstrated his fatal myopia by failing to realize
that one cannot indefinitely hide one's mistakes behind glib excuses or displays of
histrionics. He indulged freely in both in a futile effort to save the job he had
already proved he could not possibly handle.
I believe it was La Rochefoucauld who first argued that “nothing is impossible.”
In my opinion, this is sheer nonsense, and I flatly reject the theory, noting that
even La Rochefoucauld felt it advisable to later amend his adage to read: “Few
things are impossible in themselves.”
I'm inclined to cock a skeptical eye at even this revised version. However,
rather than further disparage the good Duc de La Rochefoucauld’s philosophies,
I'I assume that our definitions of the word "few" differ greatly and let it go at
that, In any event, he was referring to matters on a more esoteric plane — while I
am concerned with the hard-fact specifics of everyday living and particularly
of business.
It is my opinion — and it has been my experience — that there are vast numbers
of things which are impossible, and that one is very likely to encounter them
frequently in the business world. I firmly believe that one of the most valuable
assets а businessman or executive can possess is the ability to study and weigh all
the factors in a given situation and determine what is feasible and what is not —
in short, to distinguish between the possible and the impossible.
"The ability is seldom innate; rather, it is acquired and developed. With it, an
individual's chances of achieving success are greatly enhanced. Without it, he can
go only so far — ог fail altogether. Many an otherwise capable — or even great —
man has failed because he lacked this capacity.
A comparison between Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar indicates that Julius
was basically the more able and gifted of the two. But (continued on page 82)
OF THE INDIANS in the town square, it was
Miguel who first became aware of the little
drama on the side of the mountain, Faraway,
where the road was a rising scar on the barren
slope, the bus was to be seen, and close be-
hind it a big American sedan.
“The bus is pulling the automobile,”
Miguel said.
They all looked. “Indecd, it is so," one said.
"Why would such a car be uaveling on
our road?" asked another.
Figures were visible on the roof of the bus
and sitting on the hood of the automobile.
The two vehicles disappeared behind a spur
of the mountain; when they reappeared, the
road had begun its plunge to the village in
the valley, and they had separated. Minutes
later the bus arrived, loaded to capacity with
Indians — laughing, shouting, waving, twang-
ing on guitars — chickens, vegetables, a pig or
two, baskets, God knows what. The Indians
all piled out and joined the loafers in the
square.
A minute later the American automobile
coasted in and came to rest before the one
gas station. It was a 1948 Cadillac. From it
emerged an unusually fat and smiling Ameri-
can.
“Boy, what a ride,” he said. “Who's in
charge around here?"
None of the Indians from the bus under-
stood English, but all of them knew what he
wanted and all of them pointed at Pepe, who
stepped forward and indicated that he
proprietor of the gas station, The Am
whose name was Wilcox, asked hopefully,
“Usted habla inglés?” Pepe shrugged.
"El automóvil," Mr. Wilcox said, and made
a slicing motion across his throat. “Muerte.
Kaputt. No va. Comprende?"
Si!” Pepe said. He went around to the
front, opened the hood, and looked in. He
reached in and tugged on a few wires. This
was a rite, and he performed it with suitable
solemnity. It was perfectly obvious that he
had not the slightest notion what might be
wrong or what to do about it. Mr. Wilcox
gave out with a hearty laugh. “Well,” he
fiction By T. K. BROWN III
CAR ON THE MOUNTAIN
it was а game in which they all shared—
outwilting the authorities and
stealing the prize from under their noses
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58
said, “you take your time. When you
find out what the trouble is, ГЇЇ be over
there.” He went across the street to the
nearest bar and ordered a tequila,
though it was only 11 in the morning.
Miguel asked his friend Pepe, “What
is wrong with the Cadillac?”
“I do not know,” Pepe said, “but it
would be wrong to tell the gringo this
right away, or he would not respect me
and would not give me any money.”
“That is true,” Miguel said.
“You can speak English,” Pepe said.
“After about half-an-hour, we go over
and you tell him how difficult is the prob-
lem with the car.”
And this they did. Mr. Wilcox had
had two tequilas by then.
“Mi amigo, Miguel,”
“Habla un poco inglés.”
“Si, un poquito," Miguel said; and
then, to prove it: "I leesten more good
than I speach."
Nevertheless, he was an unusual per-
son. A backcountry Indian who can
as much as sign his name is a rarity; one
who can make himself understood in a
foreign tongue is almost unheard of.
And Miguel was not even a town Indian:
he lived with his wife and young son
three miles up the mountain, where he
grew maguey and corn.
"What is wrong with the car?" Mr.
ох asked.
‘Sefior,” Miguel said simply, "I not
know. Pepe not know. Een thees place
nobody know. Ees necessary Diosdado.”
“Diosdado?”
“Mecánico. Acapulco. Day after to-
morrow we tell bus. Day next, Diosdado
come from Acapulco. Ees only theeng.”
“Day after tomorrow?” Mr. Wilco
cried. "Why not today, or tomorrow?"
us one day to Acapulco,” Miguel
said. "Day next to Taxco. Today to
Acapulco, eet pull you, now gone. Ti
morrow, Taxco. Day next, Acapulc
“Isn't there any telephone?" Mr. Wil-
cox asked.
"Oh, si, señor,” Miguel said proudly.
ice" He added: "But eet no
Pepe said.
“Boys,” Mr. Wilcox said, “sit down
with me at this table and have a drink
while we ty to figure this thing out.
What'll it be?”
Miguel and Pepe looked at each other,
questioning cach other with their eyes.
One was not asked to sit down and
drink with the yanqui; this simply did
not happen. Cautiously they took chairs
and asked for beers. The owner of the
place served them with a face so expres
sionless that only another Indian could
have scen in it his amazement and dis-
approval.
"Now," Mr. Wilcox said. “Today is
Wednesday. Miércoles, right? The way
I understand it, on Saturday this fellow
Diosdado arrives and fixes the car."
Miguel said, "Who know?"
“I see what you mean,” Mr. Wilcox
said. "Maybe we need parts.” He tossed
off the rest of his third tequila and
waved for another. “OK. Diosdado takes
the bus back to Acapulco on Sunday —”
“Pardon, no bus on Sunday,” Miguel
said.
"On Monday he takes the bus back,"
Mr. Wilcox said. His good nature was
being put to a severe test. “Tuesday he
comes back with the parts. He fixes the
car and I take him back in it to Aca-
pulco.”
There was silence at the little table.
Mr. Wilcox took a sip of his drink and
a suck of lime. "It's an old car. I was
an idiot to take it into the mountains,
just to see what things are like back
here. I could've taken the highway
straight from Taxco to Acapulco — no
headaches Oh well Is there a hotel
here? A place to stay?" He looked around
at the shabby town square: the cracked
pavement, a few dusty trees, a fountain
without water, a couple of benches; and
around the edge the usual collection of
cantinas, a grocery, a hardware store,
the inevitable beatup church with the
creaky bell in its open espadafía that
would wake him up at five A-M., and
then at six, and at seven, and at eight.
"Si, señor,” Miguel said. "Thees res-
taurante have a room. Een back. Five
pesos.”
‘The price seemed to restore Mr. Wi
cox' good spirits. "Forty cents— can't
go wrong on that. Something tells me
I'll be spending a week here, and prob-
ably forever. Would one of you fellows
get my bag from the back seat?” To
their blank stares he said: “Bag — suit-
case — maleta,” and laughed uproari-
ously. “Boy, have I got this language
under control.”
While Miguel did so, he made his
wishes dear to the proprietor of the
establishment and was shown into a tiny,
bare room with a cot and a washstand —
nothing more — next to the men's (and
women's) room, from which a powerful
odor emerged.
"Well" he said, “Triple A should
certainly be told about this bargain
paradise." He waved goodbye to the two
Indians, who were hovering in the door-
way.
“The dog,” Pepe said as they left. "He
didn't give me a thing.”
“You didn't do a thing for him," Mi-
guel replied.
Miguel, of course, was busy in his
fields all day. In the evening he came
to town, because that was what everyone
did. On the third evening, Friday eve-
ning, he came up to Mr. Wilcox and
said courtcously, “We send message to-
day with bus. Diosdado here mañana,"
Mr. Wilcox was sitting at one of the
tables on the sidewalk in front of his
“hotel.” He had been drinking tequila
with Bohemia-ale chasers since noon,
having nothing better to do with his
time. As a consequence he was quite
drunk. “Sit down, buddy,” he said. “Let
me buy you a drink. Boy, do I need
someone to talk to.”
Miguel sat down with reluctance and
allowed a shot of tequila and a segment
of lime to be set before him, but did not
partake of them at on
“You're a smart Innian,” Mr. Wilcox
said. “You made a effort to improve
yourself. By God, I can tell a smart
Innian when I see one. An’ I'll tell you
another thing,” he said. “It's a damn
shame the way they keep you Innians
from getting a decent break in this god-
damn country. I never yet seen a Innian
have a chance, nor never heard of one
that had a chance.”
“El generalisimo,
Miguel inquired.
“That tyrannical old sonofabitch?"
Mr. Wilcox cried. “I'm talking about
the orinary guy—like you. You think
you got a chance?”
“Si, señor,” Miguel said with dignity.
Mr. Wilcox pounded the table. “No!
You got no chancel You work like a dog,
you improve yourself, you lam a
foreign language. But you come to town
barefoot. You think you even got a
chance to buy a decent pair of shoes and
wear “em into a decent restaurant and
order a orinary meal like anybody else
and pay for it and leave a tip and they
don't sneer at you for a goddamn back-
country Innian?”
Mr. Wilcox’ eye caught the glint of
the single streetlight on his car across
the square. “You work every day for 20
years,” he said. “You think you ever
get to own a car like that — even a lousy
1948 Cadillac?”
Miguel too Jooked across the square
and felt a surge of emotion that caused
him to drink his tequila in one head-
back, larynx-bobbing gulp. “No, sefior,”
he said sadly, “I never own a car like
that.”
“That's what I mean," Mr. Wilcox
said. “You Innians got no chance at all.”
Suddenly he seemed to lose all interest
in Miguel. He craned around toward
the interior of the restaurant and banged
on the table with the flat of his hand,
impatient for a refill. When no service
was forthcoming, he walked with great
caution into the depths of the building.
from which he did not re-emerge. Pre-
sumably he found his new tequila
within. Miguel left the table and joined
friends on the other side of the square.
Porfirio Diaz”
“The next day, Mr. Wilcox arose late
—in the afternoon, to be exact. Un-
steady of gait and bleary of сус, he
made his way to one of the sidewalk
tables and ordered a cup of coffee. Even
as he drank it he realized that this was
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by popular demand, a return engagement with fetching gillian tanner
PLAYBOY'S READERS responded with predict-
able enthusiasm when we presented, in
text and pictures, the remarkable Girls of
Africa last April. The lion’s share of praise
was dedicated to a comely South African
miss named Gillian Tanner.
“Bravo for enthroning this African
Queen,” wrote one admirer. “We have
never seen such a beautiful creature,” ech-
oed another. The recurring note in all the
plaudits was, “More, more, more of п
"Tanner," and so with bounding step and
boundless pleasure, our man in the Dark
Continent promptly fetched us a fresh
portfolio on this Johannesburg lass
Gill is currently working at a promising
Career as a commercial artist for a chain
department store, and she regards her
modeling activities (like her oil-painting
and jewelry-collecting) as strictly a week-
end pastime. But since her first appearance
in print, there has been such a demand
for Gill that her avocation may yet out-
shine her occupation.
The greater part of her leisure time is
spent in the company of one or another
of Johannesburg's young scions at an ele-
gant, suburban yacht club, or at home with
a Vivaldi concerto on her stereo rig and one
of her many pets at her feet. So far, she
owns four dogs, three bush babies, two
cats and one turtle.
“АП my collection lacks right now," says
Gill with a twinkle in her eye, “is a par-
tridge in a pear tree.
Gillian Tanner is graphic proof that lean, haunting beauty can generate an extraordinary degree of excitement
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. although not a professional model, Gill works in intimate and instinctive communion with the camera.
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Johannesburg-born Gill is unusually tall (5' TO" ), but carries herself gracefully . . . and knows how to adapt
herself to her surroundings, whether in the bright vivid outdoors or controlled indoor lighting.
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CAR ON THE MOUNTAIN
not what he needed. Calling on all his
resources in the Spanish language, he
brought forth the phrase, un pelo del
perro—a hair of the dog. That was it.
He slapped the table until the owner
appeared. “Un tequila,” he said, “por
favor. God, have I got a bun on” -
When it was brought, he said,
“Thanks, buddy,” and stood up with it.
(Tequila hangovers do this to people —
make them restless) With the glass in
his hand he strolled along his side of the
square and around the first corner; and
there, by the purest chance, he encoun-
tered Miguel. who was in town so early in
the day only by a fluke: it was the due
date for a debt of 10 pesos that he could
not pay, and he had to mollify his creditor.
"Miguel amigo!” Mr. Wilcox ex-
claimed, and immediately covered his
eyes with the crook of his arm. "Oh
Christ, never again!" Miguel waited pa-
tiently. "Miguel" he said, lowering his
arm, "I believe that the circumstances call
for us to sit down at a nearby table and
resume our conversation of last evening.
Will you join me in a small libationz"
Without waiting for a response he led
the way to a cantina that he saw half-a-
block off the main square. Seated with
Miguel, he drained his glass and ordered
tequilas for both.
"Buddy, I'll give it to you straight,"
he said. “I am going absolutely stir crazy
in this place. I don't see how 1 can hold
out much longer. Come on, drink up.
I mean, I feel like this town is dead.
Dead. Ywo hundred years ago it was just.
like it is today — dirty, squalid, full of
people who don't give a damn. Because
they haven't got a chance anyway — you
remember what I was saying yesterday?"
“Yes, І remember," Miguel said, who
was sitting politely—not drinking, not
enjoying himself, just being a decent
fellow.
“You feel it," Mr. Wilcox said. "I'm
not usually so serious about things but
what I mean is, goddamnit, you feel it.
The lack of self-respect, for instance.
Come on, son, pour that drink down
so we can have another. The women go
around town, I saw it myself, they walk
around suckling their babies, right out
in the open. And every doorway you
pass, excuse me for mentioning it, but
in every doorway there's the smell of
urine.”
Most of this was going too fast for
Miguel but he nodded and said, “Yes,
eet ces true.”
“Another thing,” Mr. Wilcox said,
pointing. “Look down this street. What
docs it look like in the next block? One
block from the center of town and what
have you got? Mud houses with one
room, no plumbing, naked boys and
girls in the yard. 1 walked down there
yesterday and they all crowded around
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me. All of them were begging except
one, and she was trying to sell me a live
iguana. Now, that's no way to bring up
children. Why aren't they in school?”
“Yes,” said Miguel.
Mr. Wilcox finished his drink and
ordered another. “Well,” he said with
his gusty laugh, “I believe the medicine
is taking effect. Come on, boy, drink
up.” Miguel took a sip and Mr. Wilcox
returned to his theme. "Now, you take
that ‘hotel’ of mine —"
And so it went. For 45 minutes Miguel
sat and listened civilly to Mr. Wilcox"
opinions, which were larded with many
invidious comparisons to the United
States of America and were lubricated
by several additional tequilas. Finally he
took occasion to say, “Señor, I theenk
Diosdado ees here now and we can go
see how ees car."
Mr. Wilcox arose at once, knocking
over the table. This brought the pro-
prietor, who was paid. Miguel noticed
that the American walked with great
care as they made their way back to the
plaza. His pace quickened when he saw
the crowd around the car. Diosdado was
waving his arms at Pepe, so that Pepe
should have a reason for waving his
arms at Diosdado. Mr. Wilcox pushed
his way through the group of Indians.
He took onc look and clapped his hand
to his forehead.
"My God!" he cried. "He's demolished
the car" He grabbed Miguel by the
arm. “Look!” — gesturing. "The carbu-
retor! The coill The generator! The
spark plugs! The fuel pump! All lying
in the dirt! This man has no idea what
he is doing."
Miguel said nothing.
“Oh my God!” Mr. Wilcox said, point-
ing. "He's taken off the cylinder head
and destroyed the head gasket. I'll never
find that gasket this side of Detroit."
Mr. Wilcox fell suddenly silent under
the gaze of all the Indians, including
Diosdado and Pepe. Miguel saw a deep
sadness take possession of him. "Come
with me, Miguel," Mr. Wilcox said, and
led him to the other side of the square,
to his “hotel,” where they sat at a table.
“The owner, who knew what was proper,
hastily tied on an apron, dirty beyond
belief, and approached. “Señor quiere?"
Here, perhaps, Mr. Wilcox made the
mistake that locked the door behind
him. "Mescal" he said. The owner-
waiter turned to go. "Una botella de
mescal.”
“Por supuesto,” the man said.
Now, tequila and mescal are both dis-
tilled from the maguey, that spiky cen-
tury plant that Miguel cultivated in the
hills, and which also provides pulque,
fiber, fodder, and other fundamentals
of the Mexican economy. Tequila is
relatively harmless — it just makes you
drunk. But mescal, double« lied in
the state of Oaxaca, reaches in deeper
and puts the whammy on the soul. It
glazes the eye and alters the personality.
And this was going to happen to Mr.
Wilcox before breakfast, on a stomach
full of tequila.
"]t doesn't matter what he does from
now on," Mr. Wilcox said. "He might
just as well tear the whole car to pieces."
He sat with his back to the scene and
seemed to be more involved with a tur-
moil within.
"Miguel," he said, with honest emo-
tion, "this is the first time in my eight
years in Mexico that this has really got
home to me.” He made a sweeping ges
ture that took in the car, the Indians
watching, the whole town and the whole
country. “This. This Four hundred
years of civilization and you still have
this wretched village with its onc strect-
light and its one telephone that won't
work, and the sewage running in the
gutters. and the mud hovels, and the
poverty and the illiteracy and the dis
He downed his mescal and poured
another, “And the worst thing of all is
these grown men like Diosdado and
Pepe with their wispy mustaches — chil
dren, children. Four hundred years after
the conquest and still this tragic nation
of ignorant, incompetent, destructive
children waving their arms at cach other
over their folly. And nothing anyone
can do about it—nothing, nothing,
nothing."
At this moment the bus blew its horn
to signal its intention to depart. Mr.
Wilcox turned in his chair to see what
was going on, just in time to watch Dios-
dado as he succeeded in removing — for
no conceivable reason — the pan from
the engine, while he was under it. It
and six quarts of oil fell on him. To
Miguel it seemed, later, that this final
senseless act was what pushed the ameri-
cano over the edge.
"Miguel," be said, "stay here."
With trancelike movements he went
back to his room and got his suitcase,
leaving behind whatever was not in it.
Back at the table he laid it on the side-
walk and opened it. From the pocket in
the lid he removed the title to the car.
He laid it face down on the table,
studied the printing on its back, took
out his pen, and made some marks on it.
They included his signature.
"Miguel, Mr. Wilcox said, "that
car was bought in this country, so it is
free and clear as to import duty. You
just put your name on this line when
you have a spare moment. That will
make the car yours. You said you would
never own such a car — well, by God, I
just made a liar of you, you poor help-
(continued. on page 131)
"I've told you not to do that!”
Four Fateful
Fables
For Today
By SLAWOMIR MROZEK
A Silent Hero
ONE AFTERNOON, when Í looked out of the
window, I saw a funeral moving down
the street. A simple coffin on an austere
hearse drawn only by one horse. Behind
the hearse walked the widow, clad in
black, and three other people, probably
relatives or friends of the deceased.
The modest cortege would not have
attracted my attention were it not for
the fact that the coffin was covered with
a red banner bearing the inscription
THREE CHEERS.
Intrigued, I left my flat and joined
the procession. Soon we reached the
cemetery. The deceased was buried in a
far corner among a group of birch trees. I
kept myself in the background during the
burial rites, but afterward Е approached
the widow to offer my condolences and
to inquire about the identity of the
deceased.
I learned that he had been a civil
servant. Moved by my interest in her
late husband, the widow volunteered
some information about his last days.
She complained that her husband had
exhausted himself by undertaking un-
usual voluntary work: he spent all his
free time writing memoranda and letters
describing new methods of propaganda.
Just before his death his sole aim seemed
to be to translate propaganda slogans
into action.
My curiosity was aroused and I asked
to be allowcd to see some of her hus-
band’s writings. She agreed readily and
gave me two sheets of yellowing paper,
covered with a precise, somewhat old-
fashioned handwriting. That is how I.
came to read his memorandum.
"Let us consider flies, for instance,"
was the opening sentence. "After dinner
I often watch flies circling round the
lamp and this stimulates various thoughts
in my head. Would it not be wonderful,
I think, if flies could share in our social
consciousness. Then, if you caught one
of them, pulled off its wings, dipped it
in ink and let it loose on a clean sheet
of paper, it would move about, writing
SUPPORT THE AIR FORCE or another
slogan.”
The spiritual profile of the deceased
became clearer to me as T read on. He
must have been a sincere man, deeply
concerned with the idea of placing slo-
gansand banners whenever and wherever
possible. Among his most original ideas
was the sowing of special clover.
“Through the cooperation of artists
and biologists,” he wrote, "it should be
possible to breed a special kind of
clover. At present, this plant has flowers
of one color, but if the seed were suit-
ably prepared, the flowers could grow in
the likeness of one of the leaders or a
hero of labor. Just imagine a whole field
of clover at flowering time! Of course,
one would have to guard against
takes. It would be most unfortunate
through the mixing up of seeds, a
leader's face, which is normally devoid of
mustache and spectacles, should appear
in flower form with both. The only
remedy would be to mow the whole field
and sow again,”
The ideas of the old man were more
and more intriguing. After having read
his memorandum I came to the conclu-
sion that the slogan THREE CHEERS had
been placed on his coffin at his own
expresscd wish. In this way, even during
his last journey, the selfless inventor and
fanatical propagandist wished to demon-
strate his enthusiasm.
I was curious to discover the exact
circumstances of his death and made in-
quiries, It was no surprise to be told that
he had fallen victim of his own eager-
nes. On the occasion of the National
Day he took off all his dothes and
painted his body in seven vertical stripes
of various colors. Then he went out on
his balcony, climbed on the balustrade
and tried to do what is known to some
physical-exercise enthusiasts as “the
crab"— a backbend in which the arched
body rests on the subject's hands and
feet. In this way he wished to create a
living picture of a rainbow—the symbol
of hope. Alas, the balcony was 30 feet
above ground level.
I went to the cemetery to have another
look at his last resting place. Though |
searched for a long time, I could not find
the group of birches among which he
had been buried. In the end. I decided to
follow a passing band returning from a
tattoo. It was playing a gay march.
A Trial
AT LONG LAST the aim has been achieved
and a tremendous amount of work and
effort has borne fruit. All the authors
have been put into uniform and awarded
suitable ranks and distinctions. In this
way chaos, lack of criteria, unhealthy
artistic tendencies and the obscurity and
ambiguity of art have been removed
once and for all.
The design of the uniforms had been
worked out centrally; the division into
districts and formations, as well as the
system of ranks to be awarded to indi-
vidual members, were the result of long
preparatory work in the Supreme Coun-
cil of the Writers’ Association. From
then on, every member had to weara uni
form consisting of wide mauve trousers
with piping of a different color, green
jacket, belt and peaked hat. Thus the
basic uniform was simple, but it allowed
for a great variety of rank. Members of
the Supreme Council wore two-peaked
hats with gold braid, but members of
regional councils were entitled only to
silver braid. Chairmen wore swords, vice-
chairmen stilettos.
All the writers were assigned to appro
priate formations according to their
genre. Two regiments of poets were set
up, three divisions of practitioners in
prose and one firing squad composed of
various elements. The greatest changes
took place among the literary critics;
some of them were banished to the salt
mines and the remainder incorporated
into the gendarmery.
Everybody was given a rank within a
scale ranging from private to marshal.
"The deciding factors were the number of
words published by each author during
his lifetime, the angle of his ideological
spine in relation to the floor, his age and
his position in local or national govern-
ment. Flashes of different colors dis-
tinguished the various ranks.
‘The advantages of this new order were
self-evident. First of all, it was clear to
everybody what he should think of any
author; a writer-general could not pos-
sibly write a bad novel and, obviously,
the best novels had to come from the
pen of a writer-marshal. A writer-colonel
might make mistakes but, even so, he
must be much more talented than a
writer-major.
‘The work of editorial offices was
greatly simplified; it was сау to calcu-
late quickly and accurately how much
more suitable for publication was the
work of a writer-brigadier than that of a
writer-lieutenant. In the same way the
question of fees was settled automatically.
It became impossible for a critic-writer-
captain to commit to paper any adverse
views on the work of anyone holding the
rank of writer-major or above and only
a criticwritergencral could find fault
with something coming from the pen of
a writer-colonel.
The advantages of the new order were
not confined to the literary profession.
Before the reform, processions and pub-
lic ceremonies were marred by the dreary
appearance of the writers who compared
unfavorably with the sportsmen. Now
the writers’ detachment presented а gay
and colorful spectacle. The glitter of
gold and silver braid, the multicolored
flashes and piping, the peaked hats, all
this appealed to the crowd and led to a
great increase in the popularity of the
writers among the people.
It must be admitted that certain diffi-
culties were encountered in connection
with the (continued on page 125)
from behind the
iron curtain comes
the new voice of a
polish fantasist whose
macabre miniatures
illuminate his world
little dipper
plollis sherwood makes a pretty
splash as our august playmate
PETITE PLAYMATE Phyllis Sherwood is an admirably grown-
up blend of the ingredients traditional to all little girls —
one third sugar, two thirds spice — and no male will deny
that in her case the combination has definitely improved
with age. Short (5/17) and shapely, with strawberry-blonde
hair and big brown eyes, plus a pert face and a glow of
health, Phyllis pleases by being her matural, more-than-
slightly mischievous self. Not in any manner a mixed-up
miss for whom everything's coming up neuroses, she brings
to day-by-day living an infectious esprit, a quality much in
evidence as she talks about her life and the things in it that
matter most to her — including men: "Unlike a lot of girls
I know, I'm totally unimpressed by bold, brash, dynamic
types —my dream man is a quiet, rather shy, attentive guy
who would always humor me and my quirks. For example,
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“ My friends all seem to have enormous appetites. Sometimes I
feel as though my apartment is really a one-girl restaurant.”
“Every six months or so, my mother and my aunt fly in from
Niagara Falls to see how poor Phyllis is getting on. I always
try lo snow them with my cooking, which really isn’t too bad,
as long as I stay in the spaghetti-steak-salad league.”
I have just about every silly superstition in the book, and
I hate to be laughed at when 1 refuse to walk under a
ladder or turn away at the sight of a black cat. Also, I'm
sensitive to being kidded about the big unfulfilled ambition
of my life, which has always been to become an archaeolo-
gist. I first became excited about archaeology while attend-
ing Niagara Falls High School —I was wild to travel to
Egypt to discover and explore ancient tombs — but my
father's death when I was 16 prevented my going on to
college to study the subject. I worked for a while in Niagara
Falls as a bookkeeper for a photo supplier before heading
out on my own to Chicago, where I now live alone — unless
you count one Siamese cat and one French poodie. I
support the three of us by working as a secretary in a textile
showroom. In my spare time, I'm a fierce reader — I average
at least two books a week, ranging from H. Allen Smith to
Margaret Mead to Frank Yerby. My other passions include
charcoal-broiled steaks, Vic Damone, emeralds, and Ingmar
Bergman movies, which usually leave me a complete
emotional wreck. My big weakness is a quick, flaring temper,
especially when І see any type of injustice — which is why
my friends have nicknamed me ‘Tiger.’ As for the future,
my plans include marriage, four children — three boys and
one girl, in that order—and a home in suburbia with a
huge Jawn and a huge swimming pool. But that seems a
long time from now.” For the present, Phyllis is well-content
to remain a foot-loose bachelor girl who, when she slips into
someone else's pool in suburbia, is a singular subject for
male admiration. For buoyant proof, consider the gatefold.
PLAYMATE PHOTOGRAPH BY POMPEO POSAR
“А swim in a pool on a very hot
summer day does wonders for my morale.
I like to stay in until Pm thoroughly
waterlogged, then lie in the sun at the
edge of the pool and bake myself dry.
And then maybe sip a cool daiquiri—
for me, this is the way to live?”
MISS AUGUST piavsor's PLAYWATE or me mont
a
“My mother likes to help me with fittings. In return, I point out
books or stories I think she'd enjoy reading. Almost every night, jusl before bedtime,
Рију and I listen to ballads and do some private dreaming.”
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES
Overheard at El Morocco: "She's the kind of
girl you could fall madly in bed with.”
Jennifer broke their engagement, but
Frank had a ready explanation:
"Would you marry someone who was habit-
ually unfaithful, who lied at every turn, who
was selfish and lazy and sarcastic?”
"Of course not,” said a sympathetic friend.
retorted Frank. “neither would
Jennifer:
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Divorce on grounds of incom;
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her patability.
ility usually
come or she
Conversation at the club had turned to sex
and the techniques thereof.
"But should I talk to my wife while making
love?" asked newly wed Fred.
“Certainly,” counseled an older member,
“if you happen to be near a phone.”
Discovering too late that a watermelon spiked
with vodka had accidentally been served to a
luncheon meeting of local ministers, the
restaurants owner waited nervously for the
clerics’ reacti
“Quick, man,” he whispered to his waiter,
“what did they say?"
"Nothing," said the waiter. “They were
all too busy slipping the seeds into their
pockets.”
Our Unabashed Dictionary defines strapless
evening gown as а bust truster.
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's
greatest lover. But she can never manage to
catch him at it.
Ап girls are born good. Experience makes
them better.
Harry constantly irritated his friends with his
optimism. No matter how bad the
he would always say, “It could have
been worse."
То cure him of this annoying habit, his
friends decided to invent a situation so com.
pletely black, so dreadful. that even Harry
could find no hope in it. Approaching
the club bar one day, one of them said,
ту! Did you hear what happened to
George? He came home last night, found his
wife in bed with another man, shot them
H
both, then turned the gun on himself!”
"Terrible" said Harry. "But it could have
been worse.
his dumfounded
friend, have been worse?”
“Well,” said Harry, it had happened
the night before, I'd be dead now."
If 1 refuse to go to bed with you,” she
whispercd, "will you really commit suicide?"
“That,” he said grandly, “has been my usual
procedure.”
Our Unabashed Dictionary defines lousy
bastard as a fellow who sits in church and
scratches while his parents get married.
It was а beautiful reception, but the mother
of the bride was worried that the newlyweds
wouldn't have time to change pack their
clothes in time to catch their honeymoon
flight to Rio. Secing that the party was no-
where near brea he finally approached
the groom and whispered: "Don't you children
think its time to go upstairs and get your
things together?”
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FAVORITE SON
and sometimes not—and always in a
hurry to go back and have another bash
at the heathen.” Exactly.
It is a cliché to say that people, in the
mass, sense sincerity, and sense true pur-
pose, but they do. It can be demonstrated
under rigid laboratory conditions that
mass judgment is more nearly accurate
than individual judgment; if people are
asked to estimate the weight of an ob-
ject by sight and touch, the trend
toward the correct answer will rise pre-
cisely in proportion to the size of the
group. The British people in the mass
have known that Stirling Moss has
driven to make money, and for personal
renown, but they have sensed that he
drove to show the flag as well. I think
that if he had been born very wealthy,
indifferent to the necessity of earning a
living, and able to build or buy any car,
he would have done the same thing with
his life that he has done. I think he has
wanted above all to show the world a
Briton winning. He has been fervently
patriotic, in big as well as in little ways:
Alf Francis has told, in his book, Racing
Mechanic, how Moss, when he first drove
a Maserati, wouldn't even take the car
out on the circuit, in its Italian racing
red, until two Union Jack transfers had
been put on it.
So have other men in racing done this.
Dick Scaman did it in the 1930s. Like
Moss, he drove for MercedesBenz, and
he was the first Englishman ever to win
the German Grand Prix (he won it in a
good year, too, 1988, and put Hitler into
a fury). But Seaman's career, unhappily,
was short. What of Raymond Mays and
Peter Berthon and the whole B.R.M.
staff, stoically soaking up a decade and
more of hard work and bitter disap-
pointment? And Graham Hill won the
championship of the world, and in a
British car, something that Moss never
did.
It is in no fashion disparaging of the
British drivers now dominating the
world’s Grand Prix circuits — Graham
Hill, Jimmy Clark, John Surtees — to say
that any one of them could be champion
of the world three years running and
not know the determined affection the
British people shower on Moss, who was
never champion and never will be. An
actor who is a devotee of motor racing
said to me, “When a man has that weird
and elusive star quality, whatever it is,
the thing that makes other men want
to stand him a drink, and women want to
take him in their arms, whether to
mother him or make love to him, then
his actual success-failure ratio doesn't
matter. Did you notice Orson Welles
pointing out the other day that Greta
Garbo, the greatest film star of all time,
film that made much
money? What about the way the Amer-
never had a
(continued from page 53)
icans have idolized Jack Dempsey for
nearly four decades? After all, Gene
Tunney beat Dempsey, not once but
twice — but Dempsey will still stop
trafic in the same street where Tunney
will go unnoticed. Moss never needed
to win the championship of the world,
strangely enough.”
The Dempsey-Tunney parallel is apt.
Tunney, "Gentleman Gene," amateur
Shakespearean scholar, friend of George
Bernard Shaw, came to the ring with
calm and measured tread, in the pink of
condition, his battle thought out as
much as a battle can be, prepared to ex-
tend himself if he had to, but carefully,
intelligently. Tunney fought as a sensi-
ble thinking man ought to fight, won the
heavyweight championship of the world,
made millions out of it, retired unde-
feated to a gracious private life.
Dempsey came into the ring just this
side of a dead run, black-jowled, jumpy,
scowling. Watching him, one felt that if
the referee came over and said, “Jack,
the other fellow wants to fight with these
double-bitted woodsman’s axes instead
of gloves,” Dempsey would have said,
“Right. Give me one of 'em and get the
hell out of the way!”
Watching Stirling Moss “rush out of
the castle,” as the Fleet Street man put
it, the people have had the sume fecling
about him. They thought of him as
going alone into France and Sweden
and Denmark and Portugal and Spain
and Germany, Italy, South Africa, Mo-
rocco, Monaco, Switzerland, the United
States, Canada, Ireland, the Argentine,
Cuba, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand,
Belgium and wherever not, for one pur-
pose: to fight. They felt that the repu-
tation of Great Britain was safe with
him, before the world. They were cer-
tain he'd win more times than he'd lose,
and that in any case, win or lose, 99
times in 100 he'd finish on his feet. 1
suspect that Moss’ fantastic comeback
after the 1960 accident at Spa excited
the pride of Britons as not many things
had since the war.
Reading over the last few hundred
words, a friend said to me, “I think
Stirling is more Tunney than Dempsey
— thinking, a planner, always in condi-
tion, always ready.”
I said no. "Dempsey was usually in
condition, too. But even if he wasn't, he
was ready. He'd go, condition or no con-
dition. He kept nothing back, and that's
why his name is magic. You could beat
Dempsey, but you couldn't make a loser
out of him, and you can't make a loser
out of Mos. Tunney had Dempsey flat
on the deck, but half the people who
saw thc fight refused to believe it.”
Stirling Moss’ personality is compli
cated, and he is competent at guarding
it. The man is not simple: the way to
the center of him makes Hampton Court
Maze look as open and straight as the
Mall. I don't claim to have been there,
in the years I've known him, but I do
know that under the urbanity, under the
good humor and politesse, under the
flat, bland, masked face that I have
watched as he walked silently away from
dry petrol tanks, flat batteries and
flawed gearboxes ("Few people can hide
their real feelings the way he can," Alf
Frands said), he carries the one thing
that distinguishes all the great com-
petitors from the also-rans, the spear
carriers: the thing the fight people call
killer instinct. Moss wouldn't rather be
dead than a loser, he doesn't want to die
to win— but he'll take the chance. A
man who is a spear carrier at heart can
be a famous competitor, husbanding
himself, watching his chances, thinking
of the future, of his career as a rounded
whole, and he can go a long, long way.
But the real competitor can only try that
line, halfheartedly and briefly, before
the thing that has made him takes over;
before, as drivers say, the power comes
in, and his foot goes down. (“Опе a
race driver, or one’s not.”) It is not a
matter of another few thousand pounds,
or another silver cup, the laurel wreath,
a kiss from a pretty girl, more starting
money next time, a better contract from
the tire company next year, none of that
nonsense, none of that mere careerist
bilge. It is nothing that can be shared
with a living soul; indeed many of the
bicter-end competitors, the killers, hold
it so secret they'll deny they have it. It
is a private thing, the dark, driving urge
man has known since he came creeping
out of the cave, the wish for identity, the
grinding need to lift one's face out of
the sea of the faces of the mob, to mark
oneself and what one stands for, because
that is worthwhile, that is immortality,
and the price to be paid for it is only a
transient thing. Some prime ministers
and presidents have known this, but not
all Some stonemasons have known it,
but not all, and some race drivers, but
not all.
Juan Manuel Fangio had so much
power, so much skill, so much intelli-
gence, so much of everything that some
people, hearing him speak, in a tired,
whispery monotone, watching him drive,
smooth as oil on glass, wholly undra
matic nearly all of the time, would say,
“Old Chucco is so good, he doesn’t need
to care, he doesn’t have to fight,” forget-
ting the years when he drove home-
crafted Ford and Chevrolet specials in
the ferocious trans-Andean road races
of South America, some of them 6000
miles! Then, in 1956 at Monaco, Moss
started to run away from him, and
Fangio went berserk. Amazed crowds
saw the most skillful car conserver since
Caracciola spin Ferrari, knocking
(continued on page 119)
E e THE
ms... MEASURE OF FASHION
HOW TO BUY A SUIT OFF THE PEG AND HAVE IT TAILORED FOR PERFECT FIT
attire By ROBERT L. GREEN
SLEEVES: For men with extro-lorge
frames ond average-length orms,
the sleeves of recdy-made jackets
may be cut too long, as ot for right;
they should be shortened to show
approximately Y2-inch of shirt cuff.
Guys with standard-size torsos and
extra-long orms, conversely, may
find sleeves cut too short; even
in extreme cases los seen at
centerl, most sleeves can be let
Out to the proper length. A cor-
rectly cut sleeve, shown in adjoin-
ing photo, will expose the specified
amount of shirt cuff both when arm
is bent or is hanging ot one's side.
COLAR: The mon with square
shoulders or o shorter-thon-
‘average neck may find that the
unaltered collar is cut too high,
as seen ot for left; it should be
recut and set lower to reveal a
bond of shirt coller. On the
mon with o longer, more-slender
neck, the collar is often cut too
low and too loose, as in center
photo; it should be shortened to
raise ond refit the collor closer
to the neck. Adjusted to individ-
vol measurements, shown ot neor
left, proper collar height ond
fit import custom-toilored look.
TROUSER LENGTH: Extremes
should be eschewed in de-
ciding where to draw the
line in trouser length. The
onkle-high style ot for left
awkwardly exoggerotes both
length of leg ond sire of
foot. The overlong trouser
leg seen ot center destroys
trimly tapered outline with
boggy-ponts silhouette.
Correctly tailored trousers
ovoid either extreme, sustain
the lean lines of the suit by
breaking cleanly ot the shoe
tops, os in nearest photo.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DON BRONSTEIN
JACKET FIT: At for left, too-tight coot
creates overstuffed look, unsightly
creases. At center left, oversized
jacket forms tantlike folds across
back With suitoble adjustment of
side and center seams, jacket will
drape naturally, as seen ot near left.
WAIST: On trousers overlorge in
the waist, excess material tends to
bunch up under belt, as shown upper
right. Token in along the back seam
to fit comfortably both sitting and
standing, trousers will be free of
waistline folds, as at lower right.
N” TOO MANY YEARS AGO, after generations
of second-class sartorial citizenship, the
ready-made suit began to come up in the world
of men's wear; at first envying, then emulating
the breeding and bearing of its custom-tailored
counterpart. Today, mingling at last as social
equals, they cannot always be distinguished
from each other either in quality or cut — as
evidenced by the elegantly attired gentleman
in the ready-made suit at left. In short, if he
masters a few of the finer points of appraisal
and alteration — explicated herein — there's no
reason why the fashion-wise male can't wear a
suit off the peg with complete satisfaction.
The best men’s outfitters stock ready-made
suits to cater to the most exacting tastes —
and in models and sizes to fit virtually every
frame. Since a suit made for one physique can-
not be recut satisfactorily to fit another, how-
ever, it is essential to resist any hard-sell efforts
to persuade you that the tailor can “take in” or
“Jet out” an incorrect size or model to fit you
properly. It is wise, therefore, to arrive fore-
armed with knowledge of your correct size in
the model best suited to your proportions—
both to apprise the salesman that you are a
man who knows precisely what he wants and
will accept nothing less, and to spare your-
self the time-consuming rigamarole of being
measured and then “trying one on for size.”
However, a certain degree of fitting is always
necessary since some suits (particularly the
more expensive ones) are cut more generously
than others, and what might be a size 40 in
one line will be a size 39 in another.
Subject the suit you select from the rack to
close scrutiny for several keys to quality in
cloth and tailoring. First, crumple a handful
of fabric from the lapel or jacket front; if the
material and manufacture are superior, the
coat will feel soft yet springy, and will resume
its original shape without wrinkling. Natu-
rally, you'll want to bear in mind that certain
fabrics (cashmere, for example) look great
but wear poorly. If you are buying a suit for
special occasions, then by all means consider an
elegant but fragile cloth. If, on the other hand,
you need a workaday garment, you'll be wise to
look for a rugged, hard-finish fabric. Next note
whether the suit pattern, if any, is carcfully
matched along the back scam, coat pockets, col-
Jar and jacket front; in the best suits the match-
ing is exact. Then examine the natural hang of
the sleeves; they should be carefully shaped
and rolled, devoid of pressed-in creases. And
finally, inspect the stitching along seams and
around the button- (concluded on page 130)
81
PLAYBOY
IMP OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Julius did not have the judgment and
sense of proportion to separate the wheat
of the possible from the chaff of the im-
possible — and this is what ultimately led
to his downfall and assassination.
Augustus Caesar, on the other hand,
recognized what were attainable goals,
aimed for them and accomplished them.
Consequently, he ruled much longer than
Julius. and his overall accomplishments
were much more constructive and lasting.
Napoleon Bonaparte was also an able
and gifted individual — but he, too, was
eventually destroyed by the malefic imp
of the impossible, Napoleon — like Julius
Caesar — was devoid of a sense of pro-
portion, as evidenced by his disastrous
ivasion of Russia. The Compleat Mega-
lomaniac, he blindly ignored the vast
distances involved, the Russian climate
and his own political weaknesses at home
— all fairly obvious factors which doomed
his campaign to failure long before his
troops began their march to the east.
Now, a businessman who fails because
he cannot distinguish between the pos-
sible and the impossible will not be
stabbed to death in the boardroom by
the company's directors at least, not
literally. Nor will he be exiled for the rest
of his days to an island in the South
Atlantic (unless, perhaps, the company
happens to have a subsidiary plant or
branch office there). Nonetheless, the
practice of biting off more than he can
chew properly will certainly prove calami-
tous to any executive's or businessman's
career — and business.
But the converse is equally true, for
the imp of the impossible is a perverse
demon. The individual who is able to
perceive the glint of the possible in a
situation which outwardly appears to be
fraught with insuperable obstacles is the
most likely to reap the richest rewards.
One does not have to look very far to find
proof of this.
In the 1920s, self-taught engineer
Robert G. LeTourneau’s ideas for build-
ing Gargantuan earth-moving machines
were widely considered to be impractical
pipe dreams. LeTourncau, however,
knew that he could actually produce the
ment his detractors predicted would
ss. He went on to build his giant
s and the nation's biggest carth-
moving. machinery company — and to rev-
olutionize the entire heavy-construction
industry.
Reaching 65 in 1953, LeTourneau sold
his business to Westinghouse Air Brake
for a reported $31,000,000. He also agreed
not to engage in manufacturing carth-
moving machinery for the next five years.
‘The consensus held that it would not
be possible for him to get back into busi-
not only because of his age,
(continued from page 55)
but also because hc gave most of his
money to a charitable foundation.
LeTourneau confounded the consen-
sus, however. By 1959—at the age of
71 —he was right back in business. He
produced a revolutionary electrically
powered, mobile offshore oildrilling
platform which, incidentally, the
acres had maintained “never could be
built and wouldn't work even if it was."
At last report, Robert LeTourneau's
sales were said to be running in the
neighborhood of $10,000,000 a year,
Few people, indeed, considered the
Depression-era year of 1983 an auspi-
cious one in which to start a new
business. Among those who thought
otherwise was young J. A. Ryder, who
turned a deaf ear to the calamity howlers’
warnings that any new business was
bound to fail.
Using $125 of his $155 “capital,”
Ryder bought a secondhand truck and
went into business for himself. With an
almost uncanny talent for perceiving
the possible in the most unpromising
times and situations, he went on to build
his business. Within 25 years, he had
created a trucking empire with an an-
nual gross revenuc that is said to exceed
$85,000,000.
Shortly before V-E Day, First Lieu-
tenant Melvin J. David was given a few
days’ leave from the front and sent to
an Army rest center in Belgium. One
afternoon, he noticed several Belgian
villagers industriously twisting and weld-
ing scraps of heavy wire into various
shapes. He saw that they were making
lamp bases, stands and other utilitarian
and decorative objects out of the wire
they'd salvaged from nearby battleficlds
and the junk heaps of Allied supply
dumps and depots.
The Belgians’ activity gave David an
idea. He saw the possibilities of using
wire to mass-produce a wide range of in-
dustrial and consumer items. Discharged
from the Army a year later, he went to
Southern California and sought to trans-
late his idea into commercially practical
reality. Told that his ideas were unreal-
istic and impossible, he used his slender
capital — $1500 — to design and build his
first machine and went into business.
"Today, Mel David's Melco Wire Prod-
ucts Company is a thriving enterprise.
"The company produces everything from
bosomsupporters for women's bathing
suits to vital parts for jet aircraft — all
made from wire. David's ability to recog-
nize the possible has paid off to the tune
of some $2,000,000 in ycarly gross sales.
"The annals of American business have
always been replete with such examples
which prove that businessmen can
achieve notable success by discerning the
possibility of things which others con-
sider impossible. The most significant in-
ventions and advancements have been
made — апа the most successful businesses
and largest fortunes have been created
— n precisely this way.
Is it possible — ог impossible?
Туе had to resolve this question very
often in my own business career. In so
doing, I've frequently allowed seeming
opportunities to go by because, on care-
ful examination, I saw that the outward
appearances were deceiving and the ob-
jectives toward which the “opportuni-
ties” pointed were actually unattainable.
At the same time, I've achieved some of
my most noteworthy successes by recog-
nizing that what seemed to be impossible
situations and challenges on the surface
were, in fact, entirely within the realm
of possibility.
Many years ago, when I was still a
tyro in the oil business, everyone consid-
ered it impossible to find oil in the "Red
Beds” area of Oklahoma. I made a careful
study of the region and came to the con-
clusion that the universally held theory
was entirely without basis. It seemed
quite possible to me that there was oil in
the "Red Beds." I obtained a lease on a
property in the area, drilled, struck oil —
and opened up a new producing arca.
When, in the 19305, I set out to build
an integrated oil business, I knew it
would be necessary to gain control of a
major oil company—in itself an ap-
parent impossibility. 1 was a compara-
tively small independent operator, a
wildcatter. For anyone of my relatively
puny business stature to tackle a “major”
was all but inconceivable. More than a
few of my friends ridiculed the idea,
freely citing the classic tale of the vain-
glorious flea ascending the clephant's
haunch.
Nonetheless, I believed in the feasibil-
ity of my plans. The next question was:
Which major oil company? There were
several from which to choose. Such giants
as Standard or Shell I did not even con-
sider; it was clearly impossible for me to
dent them. Others were less invulncrable,
but for various reasons did not fit my
plans. I finally set my sights on the Tide
Water Associated Oil Company, which
seemed ideally suited for the program I
had in mind.
Once I'd decided on Tide Water As-
sociated, it was necessary to decide yet
another question: Would it be possible
for me to obtain control of that particu-
lar company with the resources at my
disposal? Again, on the face of it, the
answer was a resounding negative; it
was “impossible.”
In the first place, I did not have suf.
ficient money to buy a controlling
interest outright. I also knew that as
(continued on page 136)
“Well, how do you like married life so far?”
83
CERTAINLY ONE OÍ the most strategic bases
of operations for the would-be chef at
this torrid time of the year is the spot
directly in front of a delicatessen's cold-
food display case piled high with thurin
ger, Genoa salami, prosciutto, smoked
cel, a dozen or so cheeses and a prodigal
assortment of salads and sealood. With a
little imagination, you can easily convert
these plain cold comestibles into cold
gourmandise. Cooked shelled shrimps re-
clining on beds of ice, for instance, are
ready not only for bottled cocktail sauce
but for subtle marinades and sumptuous
offbeat salads. Tissue-thin slices of Wi
phalian ham can lead a hand-tomouth
existence or be rolled into horns of
plenty filled with Dungeness crab meat,
Alsatian foie gras or smorgasbord salads.
In laying the groundwork for many
cold feasts, the first ingredients are oil
and vinegar. They're common denomi-
nators in French dressing, mayonnaise,
vinaigrette dressing, hors d'oeuvres, anti-
pasto and all the substantial and light
salads alike. Ever since Noah's dove re-
turned to the ark with an olive leaf,
the oil of the olive has been unchallenged
for festive cold fare. French olive oil
is lighter in body than the Italian or
Spanish. All three have positive per-
sonalities, in contrast to the relatively
tasteless corn and cottonseed oils of this
country. If you're not yet an olive-oil
addict, buy a bottle of artichoke hearts
in oil. Chill them, sample them, and your
conversion will be instantaneous. In the
vinegar department, red-wine vinegar,
white-wine vinegar and cider vinegar are
basic. For those who like to mix salads
at the table, sampler bottles of herb-
flavored vinegar are all useful for the
summersalad man. If you're а graduate
of the sourcream school, this clement,
THE COOL
APPROACH
refreshing comestibles to take
the simmer out of summer hosting
fooa By THOMAS MARIO
100, is used for converting plain dressings
into exhibition pieces. In place of the
usual Russian dressing — four parts may-
onnaise to one part chili sauce — try four
part chili sauce;
it’s especially delectable with all kinds of
cold fresh seafood.
Hying to the delicatessen for sliced
cooked meats follows a long, spirited
(continued on page 128)
parts sour cream to on
Пов л
NUDIST
CAMP
Playboy s roving cartoonist doffs his duds and
uncovers a new facet of his art
IN THE SIX YEARS that cartoonist Shel Silverstein has been
roaming the globe for PLAYBov, drawing funny conclusions
from Madrid to Moscow to Miami Beach, no assignment
has proven more challenging — ог more off the beaten
track — than his most recent: to depict the unabashed life
of a typical U. S. nudist camp. The site selected was Sunny
Rest Lodge of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, a well-regarded
buffer zone which graciously allowed Shel carte blanche
for a fortnight’s stay. When he arrived, with drawing pen
loaded for bare, embarrassment was his first reaction — but
inhibitions soon faded as our quick-change artist, now
birthday-suited, relaxed in his new environs. “These were
the most pleasant, relaxed two weeks of my life,” he
y recalls. “There was a great sense of freedom, of natural-
ness in the camp. Pretensions just vanished. Nobody,
| you might say, had anything to hide." His advice to the
amateur nudist on getting past the first awkward contron-
tation scene: "Look straight ahead. Don't look sideways,
"No...this is Sunny Hill Day Camp. don't look up and don't look down." Reflecting on what
You want the Sunny Rest Nudist Camp. it is like to live amidst a platoon of unclad females, he
That's about two miles up the notes, “They lose their sense of mystery. There's no ques-
tion about that. On the other hand, relationships between
the sexes seem much morc honest.” Here is the epidermal
essence of Shel’s excursion into a brave nude world.
road and turn right at the..."
PRIVATE PROPERTY
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ge PUY8OY's uncover agent Shel Silverstein pauses expectontly at the entrance of the Sunny Rest lodge nudist camp, then manages cn uneasy
smile os he is met an the way in by camp director Zelda Suplee, a friendly sort who arrives chicly dressed in bosic suntan.
"Hi, folks...What's nude?...
Ha-ha...Here I am, in the flesh!...
Ha-ha...Barely made it!...
Ha-ha...Gimme some skin!...
Ha-ha-ha ..."
"I know nobody ever gets one...
but what do you do
if you do get one?!!"
left: pondering the shape of things to come, Shel hos some dire second thoughts about the entire project before right) resolutely un-
girding his loins for the trek down the open road to the Sunny Rest recreotion area ond c beckoning world of sunshine ond health.
"Why don't be silly...
there's nothing to be ashamed of...
the human body is а
wonderful, natural,
beautiful thing!!"
"You'll love it here...
unashamedly exposed to life...
embracing the earth...
luxuriating in the life—
giving rays of the sun...
at peace with birds and sky
and plants and animals...
at one with nature!
And you also get
to see a lot
of naked
(x girisi!"
v m
g^
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"Sometimes I don't
think this goddamn
account is worth it!"
Getting his borings in the unlomilior informality of the Sunny Rest camping
grounds, Shel chats with the directress ond another companionable buff buff.
88
"Why I'd love to go for a walk
in the woods! And I have the
loveliest blue-denim
jumper to wear...with а
red polka—dot blouse...
and a matching
bandanna and..."
"You see, it's clothing that
stimulates the imagination.
Now if I were wearing lace panties,
you'd probably be all excited,
but instead you see me completely
natural and that's the reason
you're not in the
least affected, Mr. Silverstein...
Mr. Silverstein..."
Cought up in the spirit of comp life, our borefao! boy
with cheek odmires the form of o fellow shuffleboorder.
89
"I don't know how
to ask you this, Laura,
but could I...er...
would you let me...
uh...could I take
a peek under
that Band-Aid?"
"Well the next time
anyone calls me up to
come out for a part
in the filming
of a 'Naked City'...!"
"After a while you'll get the hang of it
You put your money inside your watch band.
You put your cigarettes behind your ear.
You put your driver's license
inside your shoe.
But that
fountain
"...And I never have to
worry about my
Shoulder straps falling down..."
The apprentice ou noturelist tokes time out from
ап olternoon swim to chat with o comely comrade.
"Well, my goodness...
what's so bad
about a little sunburn...?"
Now on enthusiastic convert to the spirit of oltogetherness, Shel goes skinny-dipping in the comp pool with other disciples, ОЙ 91
sons suits; then hoppily whiles oway the late afternoon by feeding o pretty рой of girl-type nudists on artful line—while admiring theirs.
"You see, my dear,
if any other cartoonist
tried to draw a man
and woman completely
nude like this —
front view —
no magazine would
print it.
But I draw it —
and they print it!!"
( f o
"I think he
must be
& famous movie star...
I'm sure I've seen
him in films,
but I just "You know, nudism is such a
ony t remember wonderful institution, it's a
his name..."
shame that it has to be confined
to summer camps! Now I have this
big apartment back in the city and..."
"Listen, Shel, we've been out here for two weeks now—
when аге you going to start drawing ...?"
"Why is it you don't like
me, Barbara?...Is it because I don't
have as much money as
these other guys?...Is it
because I don't have
as much experience?...
a CX t4
Reloxed ond really in the swim of things o! lost, Shel disports himself with cool aplomb, enjoying himself thoroughly cs o clutch of girls as
pool their talents. “Beauty may be only skin deep," he reports thoughtfully, "but there ore times when thot seems deep enough."
"The great thing about a nudist
camp is that here, without
your clothes, everyone is equal!
For instance, you'd never know
that I am the president of
a large corporation!
You'd never know that I
am worth over $2,000,000!!
You'd never know that I own
a $100,000 home in Philadelphia,
three cars, and..."
"Please, Shel...
I've already put on my shoes...
and I've put on my bra...!
Don't ask me
to put on any more...!"
94 left: sportsman Silverstein plays Ping-Pong, tries manfully to keep his eye on the ball. "Winning," he says, "never seemed less important."
Right: al eventide, һАҮВОҮЗ vagabond cartoonist amuses his new-found Sunny Rest friends with clad tidings from the outside world.
"...Апа very few men used to ask me out, so I thought
it was because I was flat-chested, so I began
wearing falsies and a lot of men began asking me out,
but I realized they just liked me for my large chest,
so I began telling them I was wearing falsies
and then not very many of them asked me out, so I came
to this nudist camp and lost my self-consciousness
about my figure, but not very many of the men
here asked me out, so I went back to the city and told
everyone where I'd been and a lot of men began
asking me out, but I realized ro
it was just because
they associated nudism
with promiscuity,
i у so I began telling
б Я them first that
I was definitely
E not going
to sleep with
them... and
now nobody
asks me
Out. I"
GEM "They ask me to take off
my coat, so OK! Then they ask
me to take off my shirt and
pants, so I go along with them!
Then they ask me to take off
my Shorts and shoes and socks,
so all right. I cooperate!
So then they tell me to..."
"Now here is the way I figure it...Sally leaned against the poison ivy and
Eot it on her leg...the dog brushed up against her leg and got it on
his back...Mrs. Hansen petted the dog and got it on her
hand...then she slapped Mr. Heinrich on the back and gave it to him...
Mr. Heinrich scratched his back and then shook hands with Bob Coogan...
who patted Jeanie on the behind...and then..."
bi “Mal tata mu LATE
96
PLAYBOY'S PATIO-TERRACE high above the city or tucked away behind а
town house, a private shangri-la adds extra dimensions to your urban scene
NO COSMOPOLITE 15 IMMUNE to an occasional longing for some parcel of sky-domed greensward to offset the concrete,
chrome, glass and steel chat may make city living elegant and convenient — but decidedly nonpastoral. For the
young man on the way up to his penthouse or about to turn into the driveway of his town house, a sky-high terrace
or ground-level patio offers the perfect on-the-spot answer for hours in the sun or evenings of unconfined entertain-
ment. An urban oasis which delightfully avoids the crawl through country-bound city traffic, the patio-errace offers
the man-about-town expanded horizons for after-office-hours hosting, and a corner for simply getting away from it
all without having to go away from it all.
While pLaysoy’s patio-terrace has been laid out as a luxurious 40’ x 34’ adjunct to a penthouse apartment, its
basic design and principal features can be converted to grace the rear-lawn arca of a town house (the main design change
would involve treating the penthouse's cantilevered sundeck as а second-story balcony). PLAYBOY herein presents an
exemplary island in the metropolitan sun; it is also replete with elements and details that can readily be adapted
left: An overhead shot of the potio-terroce shows the imaginative use of limited space
to serve many purposes, with sundeck, cining-drinking island, tête-à-tête corner, pool and
intimate hideaway leading uncrowded lives of their own. Above: The sundeck (with dining
огеа below it, pool and revolving TV in the foreground) provides secluded sunning.
Above: Dining-drinking island, as seen
from preparation side of the counter,
allows the host conversational con-
tact with his guests. Awning overhead
hes slots which con be avtomatically
retracted to put the island in the sun.
Everything, including grill and sauce
table in foregraund, is within easy
reach of the chef. At his commond ore
infrared worming cobinet, ice moker,
two-burner hot plate, master-contral
panel, stainless-steel sink, chapping
board, dish-glossware-ond-cutlery
storage. left: C ast-aluminum-and-
Nougahyde bor stool, by Kogon-Drey-
fuss, $399. Right: Grill, in stainless or
coated steel, rotates ta take одусп-
tage of breezes, by Eclipse, $69.95.
HHI |
Above: The romantic advantages of ће potio in a nighttime setting are attractively apparent. Looking south, we see the eastern half's richiy fur-
bished relaxing area in foreground bathed by a soft light reflecting off the pool's fountain. The plantings beyond the pool provide seclusion ond an
air of intimacy for the southeast corner, shown below right. Below left: Sundeck's colorful chaise, with adjustable back, by Van Keppel-Green, $311.
Above: A lote-hour borbecue sends wisps of smoke twisting skyword from the grill, while sundeck's telescope stands ot the ready for star-sconning.
Revolving-retracting TV at poolside con be turned, raised, lowered ond tuned by remote control. Below right: Outdoor speakers trimmed in bross
‘end covered in cane are two-feet high, lightweight, provide 340-degree sound, can be plugged into potio's outlets, by Leonhardt, $85 each.
to individual preferences determined by available space and finances.
In our patio-terrace, we've incorporated the latest designs for
leisurely living, using as our yardstick the same desiderata we applied
in creating Playboy's Penthouse Apartment (September 1956),
Playboy's Weekend Hideaway (April 1959) and The Playboy Town
House (May 1962), to wit, a warmly personalized, largely self-sustain-
ing living unit requiring a minimum of the bachelor's much.in-
demand attentions, and offering a maximum of contemporary
convenience and comfort.
The patio-terrace provides the perfect warm-weather sctting for a
host of hosting endeavors. It is the sine qua non for such sociabilities
as an expansive cocktail party, or пос (concluded on page 102)
“They told me the ratio of
men to women was nine-to-one |
on these cruises—but what
am I supposed to do
the rest of the time?”
young lancelot and the foresters daughter
Ribald Classic
WHEN LANCELOT
beardless, he had
earned him both censure а
and
med for
daughter and an evi
the custom at the castle that guests always
fared badly if they offended against chas-
tity to the slightest degree whatever, and
ny were the good knights who had
n foully murdered for adn ng the
aghter. She was a virgin. and
her's vow — though bı
ans her own — that she should rema
so until his death.
Lancelot and his friends were fore-
ned, however, and resolved to avoid
the old ma wrath at all costs. They
got through the meal safely, and were
escorted to bed by the old warrior him-
self, who exhorted them. in a ranting
speech, to be demure in all things and
to sleep chaste no matter what the prov-
ocation. And so they lay down to pre-
pare their bodies for an early arising.
No sooner had they settled. comfort-
ably between the sheets, however, d
the door opened and the forester’s daugh-
ter entered, bearing a candle, and ap-
ched the bed of Orphilet the
the handsomest of knights in those days.
T have heard a great deal of love and
its swee she said to him in a whis-
“I have heard that these are its
ipons: much doing and little sleep-
h some regret. "I am
es you chaste as well as
me.” And resolutely he turned away and
closed his eyes.
from the 13th Century chronicles of Ulrich von Zawikhoven
The angry lady stepped away from his
bed, and in so doing she stumbled
against the couch of Kuraus of the Brave
Heart. Since love longing still pained
her more than she could bear, she dis-
posed herself to woo him
sir” said she to Kuraus, "
be a knight: never fainthearted with a
lady. but ever strong and stout
I have been welkregaled with
your prowess as a lover, and I can make
known to you that if you prove your
mettle with me you will not be disap-
pointed in my responses.”
Kuraus considered the m
length he spoke to the 1
“Your father has charged me to behave
demurely in his castle, and 1 have heard
that he deals h
disobey him.” s
to bed.
and, squari
the door
"Lady!" came
so that she turned
her direction
a soft voice behind hi
l saw outreached
arms of young
the
one spoke haughtily in her
What is it, beardless boy?
. "It is true I
he said. "but 1 feel so
nothing for your
rude threats. You are the pret
x in that nightdress that Т ere
beardless,”
amorous that 1 care
am
father
tiest thi
did see.”
"You ha
gin
maiden.
"E have more," he said, and led her
joyously to his bed. He lay her dow
beside him, oblivious to the urgent ob-
jections of his companions, who called
him a fool, lacking in demureness. With
gente care he touched her and she
him touch for touch, Bodics did then
what bodies know best to do and old
poets ^s to describe —
except to sty that Lancelot and the lady
knew that night the best love, perhaps,
that ever came to two lovers.
For his indiscretion, he was much cen-
sured in the following months by his
companions, Orphilet the Fair and Ki
aus of the Brave Heart. But it is surely
a sad thing when blame falls upon the
mere act of loving, or when praise can
be purchased at the hard cost of
woman's loneliness.
Retold by James Ranson Kl
e cinnamon lips, and sweet
in your tongue,” admitted the
ave
ave no busi
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PLAYBOY'S PATIO-TERRACE
turnal merrymaking — all made more fes-
tive by virtue of being enjoyed alfresco.
rceilinged ballroom
time you'd normally
peting
les the
joys
covers your digs' floors. It prov
natural setting for the gourmand
of a ba
Its striking cantilevered sundeck may
be used for secluded allover sun wor-
shiping and permits other terrace ac
tivities of a lesssedentary nature to go
on unimpeded, The deck itself acts as a
it who prefer
hip to fresh
air. But most importantly, the patio-ter-
ace provides a тезү
from the hurly x
Our penthouse terrace occupies the
south end ol a luxury
cycanresting vistas of the
puts the pictur lowed, glass-doored
living room to its north and is serviced
becue.
burly of city
through the kitchen facing on its north-
west corner. Food preparation for group
galas or tête-à-tête dining is handled in
the apartments kitchen, with easy access
to the terrace's food-and-drink bar.
A good place to commence our guided
is the dining-drinking promontory
from whence so many good things flow.
lis guest counter is standard bar height
ıd made of polished Italian marble,
witha footrail gleaming at its base. Around
the counter ате four sleckly comfortable
Kagan-Dreyfu: The bar
tending host can here keep in conversa-
tional contact with his guests while
playing master mixologist or short-order
chef. The whit nd-drink-
preparation counter is thrce-feet high
with cabinets basc faced in Formi
It is equipped with a Trak Gourmet
nge electric two-burner hot plate, a
lesssteel sink and a Whirlpool Ice
ice maker, which produces ice
cubes with a rapidity that will keep up
with the thirstslaking demands of any
balmy-weather revel. When not in use,
the counter's work area can be completely
g-loaded cover. The
entire bar is suspended over the floor by
a metal post which extends through the
counter top to act as a support for the
awning framework overhead.
Forming an ell with the bar is a storage
counter that extends “through” the ріс.
ture windows into the kitchen and is
topped by a wood chopping board for
over half its length; beneath the board is
a hopper for liquor and wine bottles
stored at room temperatures, and а те
frigerated hopper below that for storing
I sorts. Next to the
awer for dish storage
о the kitchen for r
keeps chin п steady supply.
tour
chilled potables of
hoppers: a rack d
that pulls out
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An upper cabinet against the kitchen
wall boasts a stepsaving master-control
panel, from which the host can operate a
varied assortment of electronic gear — the
ТУ set at the other end of the cabinet, all
of the terrace’s ing, the hi-fi; whose
portable wdrical speakers may be
placed. in wea of the terrace where
stereo is desired, utilizing the concealed
outlets. The control p:
lates the terrace pool's fount:
varicolored lights
rainbowlike profusion. It operates the
counter's awning, which, covering the
entire island, is made up of interlock-
ing porcelain-enameled aluminum slats
equipped on each end with steel plates.
То extend or withdraw the awning, two
ets, one on each side, travel along
the tapering framework, picking up or
depositing cach slat in the desired place.
‘The framework is of anodized aluminum;
its support holds a bar lamp. ‘The panel
also holds phone and intercom unit
Next to the master-control nel is a
Rangemaster Hot Serve infrared warm-
ass doors open onto
nd the kitchen. Beneath
ming cabinet is a shelf for stowing
nal glassware for festivities of
major proportions. Nearby, just a turn-
around from the host, is the Eclipse
al grill, which swivels 860 degrees
to keep the smoke away from the gill
tender; equipped with electric rotisserie,
it can turn out burgers or a rare roast
se. Its companion. piece
is a bast auce-and-coudiment table;
both fit into the terrace's floor sockets
and are removable for stor:
The floor around the bar a
poured concrete. Farther out on
‚ the flooring is ten
ooth for dancing. Other
of beef with ea
a is of
the ter-
ло ground
reas are
surfaced with white cement, or pravel
and paving stones with moss and grass
growing between. The perimeter of our
penthouse terrace has а four-foothigh
brick parapet, which provides safety
without obscuring the panoramic vi
On the living-room side of the terrace,
opposite the foodiun-drink bar, is
1
ately appointed corner, formed by
of chairs and а couch from V;
1. a corner table containing
another mastercontro] panel, and a
round coffee table. South of this, a
concrete. basin houses а two-footdeep.
decorative pool, dramatized by a coolly
splashing fountain and varicolored light-
ing (worked musically through the hi-fi by
a Colorsound 3500 Translator) which can
be put to evocative use in the evening
The basin is formed by a sloping, ccc
trically shaped ring of dark voleanic-rock
n
segments which have porous surfa
hold air m ses and pillow:
absorb moisture from the feet of wading
terrace-i At the outer edge of the ring
is a recessed lighting strip which illumi-
nates the ground around the perimeter.
he ring is broken on one side by a
large planting tub, and on the other by
a metal cylinder contains
a color set: when not in use, the TV can
be lowered into the well u its metal
top (which 1 shield for day-
time view thertight seal
with the
d to viewing height, the sc
be rotated 460 degrees by remote control.
Beyond the pool, in the terrace's south-
eastern corner, is a romantically seques
tered nook, perfect for à deux moments.
Trecs and shrubs form a verdant curtain
well's
circumference,
w
that sereens ofl the Van Keppel-Green
control |
appropriate mood
music, Rocks
polished horizontal tops hold drinks,
ashtrays, and any third party thought-
less enough to make it a crowd. The
parapet in this corner is pierced by verti
cal slots, through which seated. viewers
can enjoy the dramatic cityscape.
The southwest corner ol the terrace
sports the boldly conceived free-form
sundeck shelter Petal table and а
quartet of Beroia Diamond chairs.
The underside of the reinforced-concrete
sundeck hou infrared heating tubes
to take the chill from the evening
recessed lights and speaker jacks.
base of the sundeck holds a sem
upholstered bench in hollow that's
shtened | ngi
A steel spiral staircase extends cight feet
up to the sundeck which is surrounded
by a steel guardrail laced with i
striped canvas uU
breeze control plus complete privacy for
sunning sans suits. The deck, embla
zoned with mosaic inlay, holds a pair
of Van KeppelG reclining chaise
longues, speaker jacks and a low table
housing another control unit A tele-
scope is mounted at the narrow end of
the sundeck to bring penthouse habi-
tants even closer to the stars. А 16-inch-
high fieldstone retaining wall, which
encompasses the sundeck area and sem
cirdes around to the bar, is wide enou
to hold cushions for additional scati
It is backed with plantings which con-
ceal the outer parapet.
No ephemeral phantom of del
PLAYBOY's patio-terrace is a refres
feasible answer to the city squirc's quest
for a touch of outdoor livi; Whole or
in part, it points the urb to the
romantic joys of warm-weather welkin
ringing.
ig a
icircu
ar Only kime yore
SALLY DENNIS Was a very pretty young
small face and a
matron, with a nc;
iance of hair, sleek, healthy,
le. In corduroy pedal
great lu
most rem
ad the ca
pushers bel n the super.
market at the corner of Columbus and
T
for somebody's te
а few minutes before the
oddity — pale small
lor in San Francisco, she could pass
sc daughter. Then,
abruptly, af
mirror, her g
face framed by that
sformed for the ¢
— might be
into the
eam ol
ng mystery of the girl in a
ation. She had teeth for bi
g- In
she sometimes lost consciousness
: in the darkness,
g with those u
"You bit me,” her husband said. “It's
going to show
a lot, but Sally? 1 like it."
“Where was P Who are you?" she
1. "Oh,
‘ou tease, you
They tease me about
always teas
said.
She came awake. “It's Bill, it's just
plain Bill. Yes. What did we do tonight
t fun for you, just
ally honey.
Many thought her beautiful, she even
y sl
thought herself beautiful, her husband
1 her, the days stretched out smooth
and easy on a sumy slope of Telegraph
Hill, and she was ready to blow her life
to splinters. Sick with boredoi k with
spite, she bi ved that her husband loved
worse that way. She did not know how to
‚ but did not love her enough It was
quarrel with him. She had the idea that
aig
fiction By HERBERT GOLD she would receive 6/ letter; 4 love letter from the man
or whom, down the dark corridor within herself, she had always been intended
vy
PLAYBOY
she could do better than Bill Dennis. big
ghs and day-to-d
pride in the rending
eth and nails when she fell protestingly
into unconsciousness under his beefy
heft. She did not know how to leave
him. She now how to punish
him enough for failing to be the man
of her secret. intention
Bill just put her to sleep, it seemed.
She lacked terribly the promises which
lile was supposed to keep. She missed
ty. Life had faulted her. She missed
feeling — suffering, hatred, de-
sire and pleasure. Someone, somehow,
must penetrate the dim corridors of
feeling and lead her out into the light.
Beneath the yellow-gray sky of San
Francisco, on the crumpled slope of
Telegraph Hill leading down toward
North Beach, within a shingled wooden
apariment house painted battleship gray,
Sally passed her days doing noth
and waiting for pure love to find her.
Loved by her husband, Sally crouched
within Sully, waiting.
Naturally, for a case like this, tradi-
tion has provided many solutions. The
Чу is ready for the enthusiasm and
gratitude of the misunderstood husband
down the block, the college sweetheart
now living in Sausalito, the visiting en-
tertainer taking his breakfast at two in
the afternoon on the terrace at Enrico's
(blinking in the sun, smiling at the
sulky litle Indy, explaining that per-
or
television and that’s why
amiliar); a lady looking
сазе,
marks of her
not
laps she had caught his act at the
seen him on
is face looks
for th
repairman or a delivery boy, bless-
his luck.
No. Not Sally. She had a horror of
dirt, of excess, of the slime of lovem:
‚ of the violation of her physic
fection. She would not be filthied.
She would not be ridiculous. She could
not accept the banal relicf with which
other women made do. Eyen the idea
seemed to dirty her—unclean. Pure love
would take her unawares, would sur-
prise her and sweep away the debris of
Bill's steak-and-laughs term on earth.
Was there anything she could do
meanwhile? She could wait and be per-
fect. She could make herself read,
ld disappear into unconsc
when Bill made love on her,
co
' her,
through her; she could just hide and
wait.
Nevertheless, one day while jittery
from too much smoking, too much black
collee — Bill was away on one of h
frequent sales trips — she had like a little
104 idea. Like many good ideas, it repre-
ited а compromise. She would receive
a letter, a love letter, from the man of
whom she dreamed — the brilliant and.
passionate man for whom the Sally
down the long corridor within Sally had
intended, She knew his
habits and his very gestures as well as
if he really existed. He was her slave —
and she belonged to him utterly. It
would be her art to create him. Just as
the Sally withii
п Bill's wife, so her lover was only
waiting to be called forth. She would
invent him in pure silence and hope.
Like her, he would be a solitary dreamer.
And like her, he would long for perfec-
tion. She even had a sense for the quirks
of his literary style. (She blushed for
him. He was a bit gauche with words
he w an of long silences and sudden
longing rushes of talk; and there was
the delicate touching of a quick and
always been
patient desire, very quick and light,
patient and searching . . . )
She asked for stationery from the desk
at the Sheraton-Palaee Hotel. She
thanked the clerk, who was impressed
by the hectic flush of her cheeks and
the dark, brilliant, rigorously brushed
hair. He smiled at her, but she did not
smile back. He wished he were more
of ar Other men have all the luck.
She used a rented typewriter in the
lobby. She made a very pretty picture
of pensiveness — a lovely you
with delicate coloring in her
ing hard, with a pencil just tip-touching
her lips, writing, then copying with the
typewriter. Then she mailed the letter
and went home,
The next morning she went for the
mail with a quickened heartbeat and a
strong flush at her checks. She knew
there would be something important for
her; she had an intuition. Deceived! No
letter for her. Even the best of men
have a harsh streak of cruelty in them.
What was he trying to do to her? What
was he trying to prove She peered
through the w ight down the
slope of Vallejo at the retreating gray
back of the postman. She went back in-
side, thought of hotting-up the collec,
thought of going out to see an exhibit of
old music bo: nt Street ga
lery. She sat id. brushed
her hair with long, practiced, soothing
strokes.
The letter
t the mirror
тїтєй the next day. Men
do such things to women — Sally under-
stood the species — they keep
ing, they tempt
to her in the d
nd tease, they come
k when she can feel
nothing. But this was not a surprise.
vaiting was worth it.
She smiled at her own trembling as shc
slit open the envelope.
SHERATON-PALACE HOTEL
Dearest darling
Meeting you was exactly the good
m. I never knew such
things were possible—a dream,
reality. The first time always
dangerous between man and woman,
but perhaps just once in a lifetime
we have the right to absolute per
perfect starry night
idow and that cur
tain blowing. You were all for me
as I am for you, for you only.
ГИ call уо as Te
back to tow
luck of a di
as soon n set
Diou
а bit too emotion
He was
decided, overcome, se not
quite manly. That cliché the
v night, f
awfully, awfully nice. She felt sorry for
him and pleased because he wrote with
so little thought to effect. He just poured
out his full h She flushed. Of
course he thought about his effect on
her. Then she stood, hot and delighted.
and read the letter in by the light
of the day on Telegraph Hill at he
window. She had
had a life elsewher
had that name — Di
Then she put the letter in the upper
di dresser. Bill som
looked into that drawer for а handker
chief.
As luck would have it. Bill came k
from his trip with a cold. But either he
did not find the letter or, too bewildered
to react, unwilling to face the facts of
his life, he said nothing.
In a few weeks, when Bill w
called away for a sales meeting, a pretty
young woman again appeared at the
desk of the Sheraton-Palace, asking for
stationery, The desk clerk remembered.
her; delicate, rlish-look: women
made him feel manly: but this time he
did not risk a smile. She thanked him
coolly for the pap:
This time she worked on the letter
a schoolgirl doing her Friday compo-
ion. It w: graceful. She put th
idearments in French, She was improv-
Dion's style —“ es celte femme
dont on
nuis'—and it
jored
wer of her
loute une vie, lous les
that he had
French in college. He had
also traveled in Europe. He had seen
much. done much, but only in th
uniquely European of American cities
had he found Sally, that creature, who,
cruel, radiant — well, Sally had a taste
for the bizarre and knew that this must
be put in French. She was beginning to
catch glimpses of the darker side of
Dion's nature.
When the letter
with a catch of de
réve
seemed.
ved, she read it
ight in her throat.
“Tm warnin' y'all, neighbor — y'all better quit
pesterin my Ellie May...”
PLAYBOY
106 Sally pl
She propped it up near her third cup
of cofice on the d oom table and
gain, If only every bored and
kened young wife could find a
п like Dion! Patient, steady, and
willing to search out her impulse!
Most women lead lives of still con-
ment. They block up the passage to
ity. All women hope for better. But
1 the courage to grasp pe
fect purity in love when it offered itself.
She would not settle for less. There wa
по reason to settle. She put the letter
with some unpaid bills in the drawer
of the desk.
‘That afternoon she again dressed in
her best silk frock, her hair brushed
tight and rolled in a knot, gl
H its health, and returned to the
lace.
‘There were a few more letters before
the matter came up between Sally and
Bill. He raged and weptand even slapped
1 Brute, jealous brute. She denied
everything, of course, Dion was just...
was just... just a friend. But he was
lonely, unhappy, burdened by feeling
d unable to spend it in casual love
Allairs. He too sought purity in love.
He believed that Sally had been marked
out for him from the beginning of time.
Bill couldn't understand this kind of
beautiful emotion in a man. She hadn't
said anything to him about Dion bc-
cause it would only make him angry,
she knew it — just plain Bill would grow
just plain suspicious; but there wa»
nothing like that between Dion and her.
He ought to know his wife better than
that. Really, there was another interpre
tation to everything Dion said. He was
lonely was all. He would come through
town and they would have a cocktail
together was all. Did Bill, just plain
dear sweet Bill, expect her to sit home
cocheting pillow slips on Telegraph
Hill while he went off on expense-
«count trips to Seattle and Los А
This was merely a harmless distrac-
Girls are like that. They seek a
cles:
шей to believe her. He paused.
ve a little secret smile, showing
the tips of teeth. She shrugged. “Whi
do you want from ше?”
Пу, 1 love уоп...
There w reconciliation, there
were promises. Poor ВШ, he thought
dinner by candlelight in a lite Talian
North Beach would prove
ant i
he too was romantic and had
Spaghetti, red wine,
e. A
d then home to th
old Bill's unquenchable
Ith. He plunged at her. and
ged into unconsciousness. It
same
mere he;
was as if nothing had happened to her,
or rather, as if she were sent back down
the corridor to her own dream of love.
fterward, exhausted, shaking with
fatigue, quenched despite his crude
health, Bill stared at her in the dark
nds at are you thin
ly? Ave you thin
"Oh. nothing. I think | was
Go to sleep now, Billy. It's
Bill wanted to find Dion and con-
front him, but the man traveled con-
stantly, he had no permanent. address,
it was no use. Best just to forget about
. Bill tried to master his feelings and
believe Sally. Just drinks was all.
letters were mere smoke, the vain pos-
turing of a silly spoiled boy. Flushed
asure of Bill's
ally stroked
him, comforted him. There was a slight
He had learn
ng about,
ng about me?
n in feel
her.
The next time Bill w у
wip, he suggested that Sally come with
him. It would be pleasant to drive
through the desert, spend a night in
Carmel, and kind
‘Oh Га really love to, darling,"
said, “but we really can't afford it. And.
my class——" She was studying ceramics.
You should have thought of this two
years ago, Sally was thinking. But on
the other h
not have ch
wi
id, just plain Bill, it would
ged things deep and dark
in.
When he returned on a Thursday
morning, he found another letter i
the mailbox. Apparently Sally had slept
nd not gotten to the postman in
JC was clear that Dion 1
mics class
tim
for her at her ce
and put the top down —
he wrote, as if the word
He
'dècapolable,”
onverüble" wasn't good enough for
him—and they had driven across the
Golden Gate Bridge to a country inn,
the Mountain View Tavern, above the
mists over Muir Woods. His refere
to the end of the eveni
ysically ill,
n the spleen.
There was
now. They about the
although Sally went on im:
it was all Bills
mistake, Dion
they were just friends and he helped
amuse her in her lonely moments; it
wasn't her fault if he fell in love and
wouldn't stop writing those letters. It
as just words, words. How silly of just
ted about
nore hope for them
divorce
ive him up if
“Then why can't you
he means so little to you? Why do you
keep lying? Why won't he ever face me
like a man?” Bill demanded in a last
furious effort to hold her.
“You have no right
ood at the
‚ à Doctor Bermai
there was no use dis
im in his present mood.
` id, "I suppose Dion is
embarrassed at the idea of mecting you,
man
He's afraid of you. Not afraid, Bill, but
you the unpleasantness. After
what d you would do to him
— naturally I've told him
And so they were divorced. They
agreed that Bill would be charged w
mental cruelty. He balked for а day
t this label, but both lawyers expl.
that a divorce fs a legal
which a series of
to peace and freedom. He
whatever they asked, At the h
fore the judge, Sally's eyes bu
buried her head in her hands; but sud.
denly the Sally within Бе to laugh
and the tears which were so close dis-
peared before her eyes had even begun
to glisten. She kept her head in her
hands to contain the laughter. A lawyer
ly patted her shoulde
up and smiled gratefully and
at the lawyer, at the judge,
Denni:
A year passed. A delicate little d
like Sally is seldom lonely long.
even heard that Bill was still
the torch for her. Vulgar phrase,
g the torch" — she would never think
of using it It was a friend of Bill's
observation. He had met
ket Street bar.
of course, sometimes felt me
nd blue; that’s only human; but
She looked
mpartially
ad ac Bill
тү
tions ollered themselves
by telephone and cocktail party, by
friends and friends of friends. Everyone
Imired how she had ridden proud and
sweet through this distressing experience.
She took good care of herself. Her pos-
ture was good. She still looked like some-
one’s teenage daughter dressed up for a
aturday night at the hungry i or for a
Sunday alte from the yacht
in Sausalito.
She chose wiscl t time. She
knew that she needed а man of more
exciting and im ive temperament
than stolid, stubborn Bill. Peter Rollins
was . perhaps the best your
painter in the Bay Arca, with i
ational repui
he said, “I p:
call me "best
plenty of distra
owing
rative paint
nt things. Anyway, don't
There is no best. There
kind of un
but best is only
ches to
are appre some
icd. ideal, a word.
de
Sally
Yes she
said submissively, and
folded her hands.
Was she putting him on? He studied
her à moment and then gave it up to go
growling in her hair. He liked teaching
her things, but he liked even more the
lish stubbornness with which she fol
lowed her She
fresh as the fields. And yet she did try
to listen to him. She stroked his face and
stared into his eyes and asked with a
desperation that was more than girlish
She
She had been
line. seemed as
own
to be penctrated by another sou
had been alone all her life
А by her husband. She had had
to be self-sullicient
selfish, but now she wanted to
up for him.
When she said Yes to him, she was
yearning for him
No, she was not putting him on.
They were happy to
gether. Sally blushed when she recalled
her girlish foolishness: it seemed as if
another creature had donc it to her;
but she was grateful to that other wicked
Sally, anyway. Thanks to her, her life
had Thy tui d bright and for real.
Sometimes dre
self-generating, even
cit
marvelously
ms come true, [or dream-
ing is a way of planning. Peter was
He filled
she believed in happi-
tender, ardent and possessive
out her fantasy
ness once more. She cut her thick hair
and wore it with a wild. tawny look.
More grown-up. anir pleasured
Peter liked to look at her hair, thick
and mussed against the sheets, and when
he kissed her. he said. "Don't close your
eves. Look at me,"
“Dm here, darlin
Look. I'm with you. See. I'm with
yo
That foolishness of hur an ideal
was over. Peter cared. for her utterly.
After he made love to her, he sat looking
at her, and after he looked at her, he
painted her, and after he painted her, he
made love to her. She was caught in a
At last the secret Sally
dark
perfect circle
within, down the corridor, was
appeased.
But then, on the occasion of Peter's
wip to UCLA to 8
give a lecture, the first
one came, almost lost among the miscel
laneous Monday circulars and bills:
My only darling Sally,
you again after all this time
€ a dream come true. And
that the fires still burn as high and
bright as ever is much more, per-
haps, than two such cheaters in life
deserve — tricheurs nés — but can we
not accept the brand defiantly and
make our way according to our own
design... ?
A chill spot of numbness spread
through the hand which held this first
new letter
writing it
She did not even remember
Could Bill have written it?
No. He was not capable of such fri
understanding. Only one peron
life could be so deceitful. She went to
bath
looked
the blank white-tile wall of the
room and. for a long moment
straight into horror. She saw no reflec-
Чоп, only a dull shadow over tile, The
mirror was behind her for only a moment.
If she could not remember writing the
letter, how then could she мор those
which would follow
surely as empti-
ness follows pleasure, as surely as dis-
appointment follows hope?
Nothing delicate Sally could do.
Now she smiled into the mirror
teeth were a
Her
good feature. Seeing them
helped her think, Mixed with the horror
and dread, she felt a subte lift of pride.
Why on earth did Dion always insist on
Why did
he follow her so closely, so insistently?
Oh, there
tion. Dion's little girl knew the answer.
He must love her very
this flowery style in his letter
аз but one possible expla
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108 the ship's calendar to reach the ne:
PLAYBOY PANEL
tain diminution of the user's cdirono-
logical lifespan in exchange for height
ened perday efficiency. This, in tur
means that the high-metabolism antisleep
drugs will have to be taken as part of a
therapeutic program which includes life-
extension techniques such as those we
кеа about
PLAYBOY: Do you foresee other pos-
sible fields for prolonging human life?
BUDRYS: 1 c k of one which will
the norms
single day.
Thanks to a с "s rela-
tivity theo: arned that the pas-
sage of time on interstellar rocket flights
1 slow down appreciably rel
the astronauts on board.
ly age more slowly than they would
tion in time rate
and greater as the
ases, until, at
close to the speed of light, both the aging
process and the passage of time would
tually to a halt — thus extending
lifetimes indefinitely by Earthly
time scales, though they would continue
10 age normally by the spaceship's clock
and calendar.
ASIMOV: On returning to Earth from a
seven-year voyage to Veg;
they would lind their wives, Газаев and
friends 30 years older than when they
parted. H the flight had been a longer
опе, say to Andromeda, they would re-
turn. home to find not only their loved
‘ones long since turned to dust, but very
probably also civilization as they knew it,
ıd possibly even Homo sapiens himself;
lor in the quarter-century of their alb-
sence, some two-million years will have
passed on Earth,
POHL: So apart from the supreme adv
ture of being an eyewitness to evolution,
the price of immortality, in terms of long
and lonely isolation from mankind, may
be very dear indeed.
ANDERSON: It will be worth it, though, T
think: for they will be man's torchbearer
to the
PLAYBOY: Will it ever be possible to at-
vin —or perha d.— the speed
ol light i igantic distances
between ad even the nearest stars?
ANDERSON: It may very well be possible to
travel s ht and still get to
the stars In case anybody cares. I've
looked into the matter mathematically
and have reached the conclu
percent of light speed can be
That's on the basis of some fairly con-
servative assumptions; other men have
suggested that by using interstellar hy
gen in a sort of ramjet, a spaceship may
be able to travel faster vet. maybe up to
9 percent of the speed of light, but it
would still take more than four years by
actua
at home. This decele
for example,
(continued from page 35)
star, Obviously this will limit both the
rate and the extent of expansion into
space. It will also cut down the amount
of communication between our explorers
and the home world.
BUDRYS: If my own arithmetic is right. we
are going to need speeds of one light-year
per day — roughly 68 million miles per
second; or around 360 times the speed of
light — belore we can make any signifi-
more within 100 light-years, and none of
them are known 10 have pla the
sense that our Sun has planets on which
intelligent lile can exist. But the problem
isn't опе of propulsive systems, just as the
sound barrier wasn't broken by usin
essentially more powerful engines; it was
matter of vehicle design. The
barrier” is a theoretical limit arrived at
se Einstein calculated that as the
speed of a vehicle approaches the speed
of light, the mass of that vehicle ap-
proaches infinity — in practical terms, the
faster you go. the more you have to push,
until finally your most powerful спеву
source cannot move you any faster, But
if we can find some way to control mass,
we can crack 186,000 mps u; pres-
surized insect bombs, roman candles, o
simply by heaving bricks back over our
shoulders — provided we bring
enough bii
POHL: While writers and any number of
physicists speculate if light speed is ever
going to be possible, there me other
physicists right now measuring speeds
exceeding light, as in the case of certain
ets
beca
along
radiations produced in linear acceler-
ators.
BUSH: A number of eminent men have al-
ready voiced dissatisfaction with the
Einstein scholium. 1 think its quite pos-
sible that some sort of faster-ihan-light
imterstellar propulsion will be discovered
get manned rockets any farther
out than Jupiter. Now I don't think this
is probable, but I do think it's possible.
If it docs happen, our range of places to
go will be vastly broadened, and the hu-
man race will be able to 9o on in sp
and in time, essentially, forever.
PLAYBOY: Meanwhile, back on E
ted by aeronautics authorities
at 9000-m n-hour commer
liners will be in service within five years.
What speeds do you estimate will be
possible for Earthbound travel by 19842
POHL: Except for sightseeing orbital flights
by commercial rocketlines which I expect
to be in regularly scheduled service by
1984, 1 think we'll find that travel within
the Earth's atmosphere will become im-
practical at speeds higher than about
3000 miles an hour.
CLARKE: 1 suspect that's about right, Fr
— unless there isa new breakthrough such
before we
been est
as matter transmission, which I wrote
about for PLAYBOY last August in World
Without Distance. By this | mean virtually
instantaneous transportation achieved by
sending the essential pattern
objects, includi selves, by radio or
other telecommunications devices. If this
is ever achieved, it will depend on tech-
nologies as far beyond radio as radio is
beyond smoke signal:
in a few centuries it may actually happe
PLAYBOY: What new departures do you
iticipate in the realm of more-conven-
tional transportation such as the
mobile?
CLARKE: By 1981 pr
of solid
4 ol
te cars will
probability be steered from a centra
trol rather than driven by their owners.
It may even become a serious offense [or
a human being to attempt to dri
We can also expect that gasoline vehicles
will be replaced by electrically powered
autos, not only because the Earth's re-
x supply of gas will be virtually
exhausted, but because
the atmosphere will be more widely
lized.
BLISH: | rather expect that we will even-
tually see the utter extinction of the
private motorcar in any form. It’s too
wasteful of energy. too wastelul of spac
both inside and outside. And 1 thi
of the major effects will be to wi
the highway system. We are going to nced
that land badly for much more important
things. Heavy hauling, much of which is
done by trucks now, is
go, too. 1 think it will go b:
ilroad. 1 think that passen
its toxic eflecis
ге;
er u
el beca
me largely
aircraft never
did become the boom envisioned by sci-
ence fiction,
BUDRYS: Even without са
communal, since private
and highways,
that the increasingly con-
ed urban glut of human beings and
ig to force us to decen-
іле our culture. ve
POHL: In the m I think we
<pect that more and more high-rent
residential skyscrapers with smaller and
smaller apartments and lower and lower
ceilings will continue to be built higher
and higher over a larger and larger area
of our cities. The millions of lower-in-
families thus displaced will simp!
have to dig A few will die,
and some will move out of town — along
ands of better-heeled neighbors
у iuing exodus to
the hinterlands which will eventually
urbanize the suburbs, suburbanize the
exurbs, and ext d
outpost
far as 200
of tow
throngs, 1 suspect, will be t up mole
like residence in windowless multiple-
(continued on page 112,
зоо!
awhile,
com
But most of these uprooted
Will n
с
The timid father
happy hours.
s many
the straight dope on succeeding with women without really trying
"SHOULD I ADOPT A CHILD?"
SO MANY ASR. "Should I adopt a child?
The answer is cle no, not if you can
have one of your own. By all means uy
first. Conceiving can be fun, and is under-
taken by many for ifs own sake.
A word ol warning, however: Though
you will run few risks during conception,
you will enter rapidly into the period of
pregnancy. which is fraught with danger.
How
ТО GUARD YOUR HEA
DURING PREGNANCY
ice long ago solved the
during pregnancy
Put your wife in the hands of a good
ian and she will be well cared for
acy in the woman is normal and
They often. develop. even in
their faces, a ruddy, full-blown, vigorous
appearance.
Unfortunately. little thought has been
given, either by medical science or by
to the father d
won
obsteti
whole.
society as
pregnancy
This isa critic
and during thes
suffer damage, both menta
that may last a lifetime.
Guard Against Colds. The expec
father soon learns that the pregu
woman has an overabundance of natural
body heat. If in her normal condition she
oom temperature of 72°, during
ng
land dangerous period,
nine months you
id physic
ney (and especially in the later
and warm at 55°.
pregi
stages) she will be snus
“Davie
here?"
“Hadn't noticed it, pet.”
(The inside thermometer reads
57°, and a 12-knot gale is blowing in
through three open windows. But
never complain.)
"Maybe you could open one more
window
“They're all open, pet, but I could
knock out a wall."
doesn't it feel. stuffy
Humor her, but preserve your own del
cate system. Take these steps: (1) dress
warmly, (2) keep your wife outof«loors
much as possible, and (3) plan your
jods of pregnancy. This last is best.
g babies in the fall can add years to
the father's life expectancy. and will im-
prove his disposition. This may be done
either by the accidental, or "Oops—
type of conception so common to
te planning.
Keep Up Your Strength, Keep yourself
in trim physically, hard-muscled and well-
азу as it sounds,
icy your wife will be on a
htreducing diet, combined
and unrez g desires [or
pe
During prega
rigorous wei;
with pecu
food.
Few men c
ido
hard day's work on
diet of cottage cheese, pickles and grape-
fruit.
Eat well, have plenty of rest, fresh a
and light exercise. You will be ready for
the little one when he arrives.
GUARD YOUR MENTAL HEAL
Pregnancy, especially the first preg-
nancy. is a time of adjustment. Once you
realize that by the simple act of conce
tion you have committed yourself i
vocably to a series of events over which
you will have virtually no control for the
next 30 years, you become mentally a
mass of quivering jelly.
If you are the schizophrenic type you
may be found alone in dimly lit rooms
your fingernails. If you veer t
vard the manic-depressive you may alter-
g cribs and
muttering
"
е between orgies of buy
ds of
plavpens— and ре
brokenly over old check stubs.
Too often weaklings turn to alcohol
for relief, Avoid this pitfall if you can.
The solution — if there is one — mu:
come from our women. The keynote will
be patience and understanding, The
cheerful smile and the gentle phrase can
make the difference betwe k mind
and a well one.
Avoid Superstition. There is no truth.
whatever to the old wives’ tale that stro
mental i
on the father during 109
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110
the child, for either
і;
good or evil.
No need, therefore, to guard the purity
of your thoughts. Your opportunities to
mold. your children's characters will be
legion, but they will come later.
Don't Believe Delivery Dates. Your
obstetrician will give your wife a date on
i; . This means
1 forecast the
d or the Farmer's Almanac.
Try to outguess the stork, It will be a
pleasant game that both you and you
wile can play.
PLAN YOUR DELIVERY DATE
The day of delivery is considered
holiday for the father in all civilized bus
ss circles, Some skillful chaps can even
stretch it to two.
For this reason, the well-trained wife
never has children on weekends. She tries,
too, to have them at a convenient hour.
Persuade her to feel the first pangs of.
childbirth at about 7:30 or 8 A.M., оп any
day from Monday through
take а [ew babies to acquire the proper
ill, but you will find it worth the effort.
You avoid interrup P.
catch yourself before leaving — and pref-
bly before dressing — for the office.
If you do have time to choose your
clothes, dress simply. No need to be elab-
orate. A sports coat, llannel slacks of good
dark gray and loafers or tassel oxfords
€ best. A tic is optional if you we:
sport shirt. Better not shave. This cre
an impr i confusion
sion of boyi
WHAT TO DO TILL THE DOCTOR COMES
One has only to obi
number ol gray heads among r
youthful fathers. How many of
overnight needlessly!
Your first childbirth need not be the
shattering experience it is for so many.
Too often, as the date approaches, the
these
father becomes a trembling hulk, paci
nervously from room to room, checking
the for high-speed st g. and
i runs to the hospital.
No need for all this, no need to lea
your motor runni
ve
ng or to sleep with your
boots on. It takes longer than you can
imagine to have a baby. Even if you
dawdle in getting your wife to the hos-
pital, she will be the:
anything happens.
Once you have put your wife in the
hospital’s hands, you will be treated as
though you had no part in the enterpri
regardless of all you have been through in
the past nine months.
Go home, nurse your wounds. You will
be telepho baby arrive:
e for hours befor
d when the
BRACE YOURSELF.
The first sight of your child may be
something of a shock. You will expect
that he, or she, will be a mirror of your
own fine qualities and that this will be
apparent from the start.
No matter what you look like, this will
not be the case. Regardless of what en
thusiastic relatives will say, during thc
or so babies do not look like
first wee
nybody.
However, he (or she) will be all yours —
and so will all the joys and all the prob-
lems that go with him. Prepare yourself.
You are entering a dangerous period.
WELCOME THE
TILE STRANGER
Tn а few days the baby will come home
from the hospital. What a different place
house will be
one! H will be
ence for everyone.
The
you when it contains a
нше
expe
Get acquainted.
а new and unus
hful or mid
father will miss many happy hours with
his children. Get to know your baby, and
the sooner the bette
You will find ii
a 10-minute period following each bath
during which уо by will smell fresh.
па clean. Take advantage of this. Dandle
Golden Time,
“Will the real condemned murderer please sit down . . ”
him, both on the knee
little dandling will go a long
Get to know your baby and — equally
importan; — let your baby know you.
AVOID
PER клм
your role as a
idance. You will be
From the begi
father is one of
and again, however, you will be
timentality
away by a wave of se
tempted to enter into the physical. or
boutle-and-diaper side, of parenthood.
Control these impulses. Your duty is to
the mind.
No need to be timid. It is perfectly safe
10 touch babies, preferably above the
waist. An occasional pat on the head will
do no harm whatever and is appreciated
by the child. You will run small risk of
infection as long as the child is kept cl
It is casy to convince your wife that you
are acting in the best interests of the
family as a whole.
“David, wa
Ik the baby’
Ummmmm. yes pet. Looking for-
ward to it. Oops!”
(Letany heavy bedside object crash
to the floor.
"David!"
“It's nothing, pet. Just my fingers.
Keep opening, you know. No need to
worry. Just can't seem to hold things
firmly.”
“David. maybe you shouldn't —
“WI be all right. No problem to
hold the little devil, if he doesn't.
move.”
up. it’s your turn to
If this does not have the r
take the next easy step.
Funniest thing |
Little rascal just slipped through my
fingers.
"Oh, no!"
Bed was right there. Lucky, wasn't
it? Guess there must be some kind.
Providence that watches over clums
daddies, huh?
BABIES ARE STURDIER
AN
IEY LOOK
Actually, you will find that babies are
made of а tough, cartilaginous mate
and are far sturdier than they look
Babies will bend. but seldom break. It.
is not good to drop babies purposely, but
falls from moderate heights seem to do
them small harm.
These facts, howevei
from your wife. Keep alive the fiction that
ll child is as fragile as Dresden china.
you will, though, it is dilhcult to
continue this tactic to the second. and.
third child. You may run into this re-
action:
‚ аге һем to hide
“Gosh, pet, I just dropped the
k the bottle, did
At this stage it is best to use а dillerent
approach:
. what are you doing
ust putting diapers on the baby.
Did have to rummage through the
closet а bit."
(The entire contents of the closet
will be on the floor.)
“Oh, my!”
"Couldn't find the talcum.”
"It was tight there!"
“Oh, stupid of me, Was messy,
wasn't D”
her a lovable lopsided smile.)
easier for me
Soon she will see the wisdom of this last
remark. But your attitude must still be
опе of cheerful cooperation.
DON'T PUSH. YOUR CHILD
Time and again we find
attempt to push their children ahead. to
make them walk, talk or perform other
feats beyond their years. This is а serious
mistake. It can cause physical and psycho-
logical damage not only to the child, but
to the father as well.
No sooner will your child begin to walk
than you will look back to the quiet
peaceful days when he sat in a happy
parents who
little lump, cooing and gurgling.
The child who learns to walk belore
the reason is like an
amy,
struction wherever it moves, Everything
that can be torn, broken or chewed must
be moved to a high level. Soon the child
will learn to climb and all will be lost.
The Case for the Backward Child. И
your baby shows any sign of being back-
ward, encourage him, The backward child
is quiet, easily managed and far less de-
structive, He will be a real joy to you, and
that this will
age of
bringing chaos and de-
there is no reason to worr
harm him in later life. Thousands of our
nation’s leaders business and govern-
ment were backward child ol
them a source of needless worry to their
parents.
FEEDING THE BABY
‘Try to lighten your wife's load when-
ever possible. One fine way is to help her
feed the baby, as long the
bottle sta
Boule [ceding can be performed by the
father without any risk of physical strain.
can usually be done in a feet-up position.
sav in font of the television set. The
baby should be burped about once every
commercial.
Other feeding, such as giving Pablum,
had best be done by more skillful hands.
as he is
с.
Your first attempt at this will be enough
to convince your wife.
"Isn't it cute, dear, how he goes
for ii
"What did you do, pour it into the
electric fan?
(This can be done, of course, but
is seldom necessary if you have a
healthy, vigorous child.)
No. he did it all by himself! Show
Mommy how we cat it all by our-
selves!
It is best to we:
other impervious garment for this demon-
stration.
r a plastic raincoat or
ENJOY YOUR BABY
Once the dreary. time-consumis
unsanitary duties are handled, babies
be a real pleasure, To sce their merry
little smiles, to hear their bubbling baby
laughter and to feel them put their litle
arms around Dadd neck — these alone
will m: all your sacrifices worthwhile.
Let the children think of you as thc
fun-loving member of the family.
always ready for a laugh. a romp or a
game. You will have many happy hours
together.
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family warrens which will almost certain-
ly be built beneath the subways and water
mains when every inch of land and
above ground is finally occupied to over-
BUDRYS: Another way to alleviate the con-
gestion of our densest population nude
would be to reduce the heavy flow of
traffic to, from, between and w our
overcrowded cities — by developing and
marketing highly sophisticated person-to-
person communication devices which,
versally used, could eliminare the
need for most urban travel.
PLAYBOY: What other advances do you
foresee in the field of commun jons?
HEINLEIN: Well, its interesting to note
that the futuristic communication devices
which Algis Budrys just predicted have
Iready been invented: things like a port-
able telephone small enough for a man’s
coat pocket or a lady's purse: and a home
telephone that records messages, has two-
way vision, and сип be set for automatic
ny other number. Either of
5 will be commercially avail-
able anytime Western Electric sees а ma
ket for it,
SERLING: The dreary record of commercial
televisi ment med
А one to wish that this particu-
Jar commu device had neve; been
nvented. But 1 think there may be some
on to hope that its effectiveness as an
ational and reportorial medium
aprove manyfold in the next 20
y Thanks to a skyful of Telstars, live
telecasts from everywhere in the world —
s well as from the Moon and Mars — will
im
have an impact and immediacy which
promises to make news programing the
most compelling and informative on
television. Surprisingly, we may also find
that the quality of the socalled "enter-
tainment” shows will actually improve to
some degree, not through any awak
sense of public responsibility on the part
of its entrepreneurs, certainly, but simply
because of the vora ¢ of the
medium — which wi се have
reached the saturation. point i
Haging and rereading all che st
hés. So there is some hope th
nd scriptw finally be
forced to look elsewhere — perhaps even
in the musty attic of their ima
for new kinds of entertainment
ideas for story lines. It’s entirely possible,
even probable, however, that these yet
unexplored veins of entertainment ore
will themselves be mined out and burned
huy worse
у — since we'll
and maybe even smelling,
the same old smallscreen slop blown up
biliously on wall-size screens in 3-D and
living color.
1 think we can expect no less
dram dvancements in the technology
of publishing — happily. in a social eli-
mate of unprecedented freedom of c
pression on the printed page, Would-be
censors will find it physically impossible
to bottleneck the pipeline from publisher
to reader by seizing shipments and boy-
couing newsstands — thanks to
tion which promises to climinate
need either lor newsstands ог distri
home facsimile receive
ation dup!
stand which will print and
pers and magazines right
1 your living room. We've been writing
pout this sort of thing Tor years in
science fiction, but just lately 1 read an
item in The Gallagher Report — a highly
spected communicationsmedia news-
letter — which officially predicts the same
thing
PLAYBOY: How and in wh: veas of
future life, beyond publishing, do you
expect such revolutionary automation to
ess, and with what consequences?
We have seen the automation of
so many industries that human workers
are already almost a luxury in the man
c
tion: thi
ol coml.
parlor new
deliver news
facturing part of our economy,
may soon be a luxury in white-collar
work. By 1084 wage-carning itself m
no longer be important. It may not be
impor to have a job: it may be
possible for a person to do his chosen
as he sees fit at a time he likes. I'm
not sure if it would be a Utopia, but it's
quite easy to imagine a world
1 of these immemorial pressu
humanity are no longer the
ANDERSON: But even the prospect of libe
ation from labor has ominous potentiali-
ties: the probability that it w
new pressure of
boredom
here
nt eve
1 which
ше
America than we know what to
do with. Too many people lack the inner
resources to get very much out of their
free time. Look how miserable most men
become alter they retire. If we are to
avoid ending up supporting most of the
popukition in а meaningless idleness
which will breed misery, crime and pos-
sibly revolution, we will simply have to
find some genuine contribution for them
to make. Even the gi | suffer
from a sense of ennui and purposcless-
ness — unless a tremendous development
in human personality takes pla
such a development won't happen of its
own accord: it will require something
unprecedented in the way of both uni-
versal educa < cultural
influences.
BUDRYS: If we have a world in which no-
body needs to work, I agree with eve
thing you've said. But Í think we m
find that one of the more parados
effects of automation will be to increase
ws wil
ion and pervasi
ather than decrease work,
large numbers of. people, as the distinc
tion between working and nonworki
hours — which are already blurring — all
n а sense, Гог
conducting informal business or thinking
about it: and many purported recrea
tional pursuits are in reality status hol»
bics useful in business. By 1984, a New
York shop Toren y be runn
automated production. facili
shirt-pocket contol instru
Bahama beach.
тапа
nent on a
PLAYBOY: What other such laborsaving
devices do you envision?
CLARKE: Well, within the next ce
so, man will dev
plenty which Ic
be able to
tury or
electronic horn of
I the Replicator; it will
ufacture any object from a
rix, just as a hi-fi set reproduces
a symphony from a record. When d
1 be just as casy to d
lor ol
It w . of
course, the end of all present production
techniques and may make every indi
vidual household almost entirely self-
sufhcient. А
TENN: The only trouble with your Repli-
Arthur, is that it undoubtedly
ilable like an ordinary appli
ance to every household that wants and
can айога onc. It will probably be a piece
of rented equipment. like a telephone,
supplied fora monthly fee by а big utility
outfit which will call itself something like
General Everything, Inc. You
kind of payment ca
everythin
ably, mone
"t be ava
wol
— can be made by the Repli-
Well, where there's a will, avarice
will find a w;
= possibly so many hours
of manual labor in return for cach use of
the instrumen our automated
future, objects made by human hands —
even an orange-crate scooter — will have
enormous prestige value and w
ably be accompan
grees, If we're living in a socialist society
time, of course, there will be none
of these sordid financial problems. All
ign up our children
for a Replicator on the day they're born
ана the e will be delivered
promptly on their 65th birthday. The
model they finally get may have one or
two bugs in it, of course: perhaps metal
s trees and plastic display fruit
will come out real: but these impertec-
tions will eventually be ironed out.
HEINLEIN: Ev
field of household appliances
g devices is destined to be an era of
tremendous breakthrough in thc near fu-
ture, simply because it is so retarded,
woefully underdeveloped today. Contem-
porary domestic living — particularly the
continuing burden of cooking and cle
ing duties — lingers lamentably behind
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mach:
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the times. There's just no valid tech-
nological reason why anyone today
should be squandering his precious time
and energy on these age-old chores — un-
less he happens to enjoy them. We will
home food processing machine
which will prepare meals by following
a coded tape and thereby reproduce ex-
actly all the best recipes of the greatest
chefs. And we'll need a housecleaning
robot which will perform swiftly and efh-
cicntly all the tedious dirtywork we now
inflict on wives and cleaning wome
Both of these gadgets are completely
feasible, and there's no doubt that some-
y we will have them.
PLAYBOY: Will these
master chefs, di
ners be made —
nble the gleaming robots trad
horror movies and on pulp-
igned
along the lines of such conventional ap-
aces as vacuum cleaners and electric
need
ous electronic
1 family
re-
sc
depicted
ASIMOV: 1 think we will want them in
humanoid form, despite the that
they would pi jobs far more
efficiently in various nonanthropomor-
phic forms better fitted functionally to
cach specialized task. There will be a
certain comfort, I think, in having robots
look vaguely human, so that we can deal
with them as we would human beings.
And this, I think, will d itself at
the point where a machine becomes so
human that it can be treated, for all
ctical purposes. like a faithful family
retainer of flesh and blood. While no one
would confuse them with human beings,
there would still be strong fee!
ection for them — and vice ver:
would like to sce them become intelli
for it seems to me that a fairly intelli,
robot which has been divested ol such
traits as selfishness, coi
nd oncupmanship would ma
friend indeed. 1 wouldn't. w; to make
them completely human, of course, even
il we could. It would be
keep them on an intellect
would make them content with dull wor
PLAYBOY: Docsn't it seem unlikely that
ihe working masses of
protestingly accept the possible prospect
of replacement by a race of robots?
ASIMOV: It seems to me that robots capa-
ble of pe most manual
more speedily and efficiently than hum
borers will quickly render the lowest
grades of human being rather obsolete,
So Т sincerely hope that robot develop-
ment will be accompanied by advance-
ments in genetic knowledge which will
eventually breed the inferior grade of
people out of humani
throu:
fibbery
Hitleria
As to when we can expect to share our
course, h any policie
id our lives with humanoids: the
miniaturi n of
compute
tion and sophisticati
s is moving ahead so rapidly
that I don't think it will take more than
ry to pack the circuitry essential
to a fairly complex computer in
е of the human skull.
PLAYBOY: Turning from subhuman to
superhuman robots, what would you
re the prospects of creati;
super жее nt metal men and women
ıgs so perfect in design and
that they eventually make
the human race obsolet
BUDRYS: The notion that so-called “think-
ing machines” may someday surpass and
subdue man is based on the fallacy that
computers represent a form of intelli
gence independent of man. Though the
combine facts much more rapidly than a
man could, and will reach conclusions
that could not be reached by every man
unaided,
what m
they will always know only
п tells them. And unlike n
ies don't care. 1 don't doubt that man
and machine together will be able to take
giant creative strides that neither could
take alone; but only man will be able to
'ecognize the significance of those strides,
to act оп them, and to enlarge upon
them, and above all, to be exalted and
aspired by them.
think man and machine may
eventually merge in a rather profound
nd startling envision direct
way 1
hookups between human and
computer brains. This is no Kafkaesque
htmare, but an entirely practical and
exciting possibility. д
temporary and mig
wires or any other material contacts at
all; electromagnetic induction might do
the job. A union like this would, in effect,
multiply by many times the number of
brain cells available to you, and these
extra cells would enable you to conduct
every mental process, particularly those
involving logic, reasoning and memory,
with a speed, certainty and brilliance of
which gray matter alone — anyone's gray
matter — would otherwise be totally in.
apable.
PLAYBOY: So far we've bi
future life тай ly and imper
sonally. Can we attempt now to bring this
» a more personal way for the
ing you to draw together
ions with
discussing
genera
era to life
reader by
and claborate these varied v
your conception of an average day
the life of an afluent ‘dwelling bach-
elor at the turn of the coming century?
ANDERSON: Well, assuming that he bothers
O sleep at all, our bachelor will be awak-
ened more gently than by а yammering
alarm clock. He'll get soft music oll a tape
piped into his pillow. His bed, which
rocked him to sleep and fell quiet when
his regular breathing told it he'd dropped
off, now gives him a mild sh;
orders it to stop, and then rises at the
head to become a chaise longue.
POHL: п a timed mech
offers him freshly brewed coffee, may
with a touch of amphetamine.
ANDERSON: And while he sips it, he dials
for his breakfast, choosing from a menu
that flashes onto a panel.
Pout: Next a recorded voice reminds him:
Today is August ‘th, You have
pointment with Esterhazy
dinner date with Rosemary at 7, a
your vacation begins the day after
When he steps out of bed the
Шоо: med with radiant heat. His
shower cubicle is preset to sluice him
with gentle floods of water just warm
enough to be relaxing, followed by a wash
пе detergent shampoo, then
of cold
а]
dusting from a pleasantly scented, de-
odor: aerosol.
ANDERSON: He uses an electric massager
on his gums, not a toothbrush; cavities
are a thing of the past. And he won't have
to shave this morning, because his last
depilation, which included a beard.
ng hormone, is good for another
week.
POHL: Or if even that’s too much trouble,
а facial electrolysis at the barber shop can
free him permanently from the surgery
of scraping the beard off his chin. He
will dress in clothes which have been
cleaned and pressed overnight by a robot
valet.
ANDERSON: All of his suits, incidentally,
will be entirely synthetic, designed more
sensibly and comfortably than the con-
temporary business suit, and tailormade
by an automaton which takes his measure-
ments and follows his specifications about
cut, color, pattern and material, all ас
very little cost.
POHL: So little cost, in fact, that they will
be as disposable as Kleenex.
BUDRYS: Or he may decide to slip into
something even more comfortable: а
diriproof, stainproof, rainproof, shrink-
proof, tearproof, wrinkleproof suit
synthetic fiber which never requires cle:
ing, pressing or repair. Its also wired for
sight and sound with such optional acce:
sories as a self-contained heating a
g system for comfortable all-weather
we matchbook-size FM-AM receiver
with cordless stereo earplug speakers; а
dictaphone machine no larger than a
cigarette case; and а transistorized two-
ay audio-visual pocket communicator
with direct-dial to any place in the world.
ANDERSON: At any rate, when he finishes
dressing, our man presses a bution to
inform the robot chef that he's ready for
breakfast. In the minute or two he ha
to wait, he checks his television phone to
see if it visitaped any messages for him
during the night, then punches up the
па
nd cool-
of course.”
t, Darling! To myself,
just talking about you
“I was
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116
on the wall screen in three-
dimensional color. The machine-made
comes up the delivery shaft and
s tray to his table is typically
morning news
us. Afterward he smokes his first
rette of the day: the tobacco contains
a mild euphoriac to put him in a cheerful
mood. As he leaves. the front door slides
tomatically open before him and locks
self behind him: the apartment, detect-
ing his departure. activates the house-
keeping robots. He lives im a gigantic
urban complex of interwoven” build-
ings that forms a city within the city.
Almost all of his material needs can be
fulfilled without leaving the premises,
d from his wall-windows — when they
aren't opaqued for privacy or sleeping
spectacular view of the
суе Gin see. But his job is elsewhere, so
he catches the highspeed elevator down
from the 100th toor to street level.
POHL: On his way down he orders tı
portation ove
ns-
his wrist communicator,
and by the time he is at the curb the robot
doorman has electronically flagged a
robot cab, the door is open and the dest
nation already set. He gets in and goes —
his route preset and his progress guided
by an electronic highway-conuol system
which —like an automatic pilot — take
over the job of starting, steering and
braking for all vehicular trallic — thus
climinat
The only thing miss-
aickie’s Conversation
— though Cyril Kornbluh and 1 once
wrote a story in which auro-abs were
programed to discuss baseball. politics,
weather and women by means of a library
of selected tapes.
BUDRYS: Or o might spend the
time in transit getting a start on the day's
work, dictating memoranda imo his
pocket recorder. and phoning ahead (o
his office on his w
icator to get
POHL: Meanwhil
continuously n
or playback of
fo run, any ollice
be ready foi
of course, he is bei
aded by his commu
any errands he needs
problems he needs to
etc. Carrying this a litle
further, he might even have a n
machine like the one Fritz Leibe
wrote a story about: in addition to rou-
tine reminders, it dispensed advice. re;
surance and morale-building suggestions.
PLAYBOY: He's on his wav to work. but
you haven't told us yet what kind of job
he lı
E
once
young, white-collar
executive; whatever his field, hell have
10 possess a commodity in great demand
bor market of the 21st Century
origi ` freshness of thought.
There won't be many dull, routine jobs
available anymore: machines will be do-
ng most of them, There will really be
nd
only three major fields open to a youn
man just out of college: He can become
cybemeticist — a sort of glorified repair
1 and machine tender: he can go
al research: or he can try his 1
that imm
m
tech
t "communications,
thing from personnel. management. and
sales to covering football games and w
ing sonnets. Let's say our man has elected
communications. It pays handsomely
— perhaps 530,000
because. of
income keeps going up every уса
neveasing rate of production creates
more and more riches for
In any event. our man needn't worry
whether he can afford a sportscopter or
a Black Sea cruise. He can айога any-
thing — а 90-foor yacht, a 12-room pent-
house, a castle in Sp not to buy
m, then surely to lease them or rent
m on his all-purpose credit card wher
ever he likes and for as long as he likes.
ANDERSON: But toca
to the office for
works four days à
months’ paid vacation; unlimited p:
sick leave, too — of which he uses very
little, thanks to modern medicine.
POHL: He's greeted at his desk by a mound
ges and mail. which he deals with
ans of an automatic stenographer.
‚ of course,
but hc won't waste her on mechanical
chores like typing or running out for col-
He'll dict letters to the ma
chine, which will type them out in any
mber of copies indicated, using m
netic ribbon inks like those now used
check forms, so that other machines —
well as the human recipient — can scan
and read them for automatic classific
tion and filing.
ANDERSON: И one of his letters is goi
10 à 1 country, its automatically
translated, then dispatched immediately
by wire or radio directly to the address
given. Hell also have face-to-face com-
ion via visual telephone with
ound the world. Of course
spondence so easy, there'll be
n unholy lot of unnecessary calls
mos, but at least. people will fir
equired enough regard for he:
d sanity to take an hour off at lunch
nd not spend it talking business. He
dines in an excellent restaurant near his
ollice.
POH Brother picks up the check, be-
use such thing till on the almighty
expense account. So is the men’s club he
repairs to afterw a dip in the pool,
i т the electronically
muscle exercisers, then the
ultraviolet lamp, a mechanical massage
and back to the office at 3 or 3:30 for
another hour or two of work.
ANDERSON: At the end of the workday,
our man hops a robot cab and relaxes
everyone.
eh
fee
fore
with a dri
trallic to the apartment of the young lady
with whom he's planning to spend the
ev . Of course she isn't ready yet:
some things will never change. Hcr door
scans him as he appre
his picture to her in the dressing room,
and lets him in when she says OK. Over
the intercom she invites him to pour
himself a drink while he's waiting. Не
presses the autobar button for a vodka
martini, very dry, with a twist of lemon.
ches it, transmits
While he sips it he lights up another
cupho
1 watches the three
c color proj
which covers one wall of the li
— a live television view of the Swiss Al
its a Dit overcast tonight. He dials for a
view of Maui, where they've made reser
vations for dinner, to check on the
nd the surf: the Moon is full,
no more |
der, but like most peopl
few books, special edi When
she wants to read something apart from
alls the central library, which
has everything in print filed on micro-
‚ ready to screen directly for her on
able home monitor equipped with
a button she presses to have the pages
turned. There's a small charge for this,
out of which the
most other ch it's sent directly (o
her automatic bank, which pays the bill
and sends her a monthly accounting
When she's finally ready, they take the
elevator up to the roof heliport and
shuule ош to the city's vast aerospace
port. They board the rocket and take
their seats with the 200 other passengers.
The liftofl is а bit violent, but the cush-
joncd contour seats and anti-acceleration
pills make it rather fun. Once up in the
stratosphere at $000 miles an hour, the
ship goes into a jormous glide. The
passengers gather at the bar and look out
the huge picture ports at a sky turned
dark and starry, and at the planet rolling
green and blue and brown below them.
In an hour or so they're in Hawaii, Of
course they've gained hours of daylight.
but a fatigue-chasing drug with no harm-
ful aftereffects makes it unnecessary to
sleep. "They have a swim in
lounge around on the beach awhile, and
finally enter a communal re
where they share а shower and the:
ito more-formal clothes.
Then they catch a submarine to а se
food restaurant famous for its spectacula
view of coral reefs and flitung fish Irom
within the giant plastic hemisphere which
encloses it on the ocean floor, Afterward
ck topside for g of
island hopping. First stop is a new club
which has been built cantilevered directly
over Mauna Loa crater, where they ca
watch the lava bubble bencath the tans-
luminous:
е
the su
resher house.
sup
ın even
parent dance floor and the smoke fume
up past the sealed windows,
POHL: The robot waiters will be pro-
gramed for super efficiency and against
rudeness, and to know after being told
once exactly how many drops of angos:
tura and what sort of pickled artichoke
you like in your drink, though I seriously
doubt that human technology will ever
ad
be able to improve on the function
decorative design of today's Playboy Club
Bunnies. Anyway. before the evening
over, our man will suggest that they get
together again the following weekend —
perhaps for а champagneservice rocket
flight to Pago Pago, or a hydroplane-liner
cruise to Cap d'Antibes.
ANDERSON: Or if things are really going
well, he may even invite her to join him
оп a summer vacation in space. 105 as
expensive as hell, but well worth the
cost — offering such amusements as swim-
ming in and out of a floating globe of
water in a zero-gravity orbital station,
and riding (-mile-an-hour monorail
across the mountains of the Moon. Let's
hope she's duly impressed, and that he
docsn't have to return to his apartment
alonc.
POHL He can always invite her up to sce
his etchings —in this case, perhaps, a
g stamps from
the 1960s. His door key turning in the
lock, of course, dims the lights inside and
flips on a continuous tape of the latest
electronic mood music. The divertisse.
ments which ensue, unfortunately, can't
be programed so predictably; nor are
they likely to be conducted any diller- fortie American) Scenes
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al. We
wildly imaginative, inordinately
credibly persistent, hopelessly
curably corrupt species, and no
tter what we do we always seem to
wind up somehow or other in the sume
ition on the tree, except that occa-
ly it's a different tree. Tomorrow
we'll be looking for the mechanical ba-
nanas in а nickckplated jungle.
STURGEON: When we talk about hum;
ty's far future through the skies, I
couldn't agree more. But 1 can't help
getting a bit impatient with all this
prognostication about how we must con-
uc to be as stupid as we arc. Bill Tenn
insists that we are going to continue
to behave the way we do and remain what
we are in the midst of an immense push-
button society, but its just not going
to be so because we're not going to be
the same kind of pcople after it happens.
TENN: Ted, you have faith, and it's some-
thing I respect. But when it comes to
the human race, I firmly believe that
th is what keeps mountains firmly in
place. With all my pessimism about our
species, 1 do believe we're going places
— Lut we're going places in a small way,
but on another step of the s
are
a few fumbling steps at a timc. If we're
going to progress either on Earth or in
space, we will have to understand. one
basic fact about progress: that every ad-
vance that we might make is an advance
that can be prostituted to vicious and.
vulgar ends, exactly as other advances —
technological I—have been
prostituted in the past. This will continue
to be truc as Jong as man remains what he
is And I don't see man changing. I see
him slowly evolving, getting hurt, burn-
ng himself again and again and ag;
and then one day in the Гат future, learn-
ing to dread the fire — nothing morc.
HEINLEIN: | agree chat mankind is still
barbarous and ignorant. But 1 disagree
with you, Bill, that we're destined to re-
this ignorant. 1 expect our descend-
to exceed our grandest achievements
at least as much as we exceed the cavemen.
We have been “civilized” for only an
instant in our long history, it's truc; but
what will our children accomplish? Take
the wildest speculation you can imagine,
then square it and cube the result, and
the answer still won't be big enough to
match the truth, They will go out to the
stus and bcyond, to the other island
MARTY MUI
“Beddie-bye time, sweetheart.”
Galaxies. And they will flourish by the
billions, by the willions, by numbers too
high to guess. They will meet many other
intelligent species, make friends with
some, fight with others, be enriched by
both. They will gain knowledge and
power beyond our antediluvian ability
to imagine. And in time, of which there
will be plenty, they will unravel all chat
is mysterious to us. They will number
the billion nes of God.
BUDRYS: You make our destiny sound al-
most too golden to be true, Bob — but T
don't doubt for a minute that it will all
come to pass more or less as you predict.
This ag. which 60 years have carried
us from Kitty Hawk to Venus, will some-
day seem a stagnant time to most men of
the future age — though there's no need
cspatiating on the fact that we are going
to have what appear to be tragic setbacks,
that men and causes which have been en-
usted with the popular vision of the fu-
ture will prove false. But the future — not
just a fresh page in the calendar, but a
ime when things are ally different,
nd basically better — is constantly a
ing, at voracious speed, whether we like
it or not, whether we wish we hadn't
wished for it or not. We will never be
ready for it— but it will most certainly
come.
BRADBURY: I think that what we have been
leading up to is the fact that we are part
of a miraculous explosion of the senses.
The Universe has come alive, through us,
and we go in search of ourselves. We go to
put together yet more pieces of a puzzle
we will be jiggering with for the next 10
ion billion ycars. Any tool that comes
to па we will use. We will construct
technologies and rend them asunder, we
will build philosophies and wreck them
by the wayside, we will use and dis-
card, try and fail try and succeed
— but always remain in constant mo-
ion outward from this explosion point.
It will be a terrifying struggle; the
human agony that must go into it
ble at this time. But how
can we expect less agor
future than we have known
The important thi
is immeasu
from our
n our past?
ng is that the race is
on the move, and that we, selfishly, as
writers, have long dreamt of this move-
ment and cannot help but be exhilarated.
nvolvement in this voyage of
ery. We know so very little. But
this we know irrevocably: We love life
and living, wc hatc death and darkness.
rcaturcs of the Sun, we will take the Sun
with us, in our blood, to warm the great
night, to light our way in the darkness
beyond our system. Love of day and mo-
tion, fear of dark and immotion is all we
need know now. The rest will come. We
will find it along the w
PLAYBOY: Thank you, gentlemen,
FAVORITE SON
two other cars out of the race, and then
bounce it off a curl a wheel.
He left that onc and took Peter Collins'
саг, but still couldn't catch Moss, though
he broke the course record trying. At
the Nürburgring in 1957, «
Mike Hawthor Peter
rounded on them like a baited bear,
the process of giving both of them a
thorough beating, broke the lap record
10 times.
Fangio was Moss’ model, his teacher in
the more esoteric, advanced techniques
of driving, but he had nothing to teach
sang-froid, in covering over, with
civility and urbanity, the bone-decp will
- (“We are all friends,” Moss s
ing of the other drivers,
but once the race starts, no one expects
to hear anyone say, After you, m'lord." I
was reminded of Wilbur Shaw, a charm-
ing gentleman, who might give another
driver the shirt off his back before a race
and buy him a drink afterward, but dur-
ing it would run the man into a concrete
all at 140 mph, if he wouldn't move
over.)
At В; in 1950," Stirling told me.
"soon after Pd joined H.W.M., I man-
aged to lead from Fangio for a bit, and
Farina. They were both in Alfas, I had
a Formula II H.W.M. Fangio was third,
was just behind me, and 1 think
oycd: after all I was а new
boy and he was a very important figure.
In any case, he came alongside me going
tO a corner and just stayed there; he
shut the gate on me, as the Americans
say. He gave me the alternative of slow-
ing down or going into a wall. But I
slowed right down, I got round his tail,
and then, because what he'd done had
put him on the wrong line, | went
through just ahead of him. I looked back
and Fangio, just behind us, was laugh-
ing his head off."
The roughest thing Moss remembers
doing on a uit? "At Roskilde one
time there was a chap in a Ferrari, a
Swede, who would mot let me past. I
took it for two or three laps, even people
in the crowd were shaking their fists at
him. Finally, just before a slow corner
I laid the front of my car into his wil
and spun him off the road into the
bushes. He wasn't hurt.”
Stirling once told me that when h
d lost a race, he could put it out of his
4 and sleep like a baby, but that the
night after he'd won was likely to be
sleepless. This is the competitor's typical
reaction, For the ordinary man, the
situation would be exactly reversed.
Losing, he would be full of fury and
frustration, no more able to sleep than to
fly by flapping his arms. 1 have seen men
in this case stay wide awake under a dose
of Seconal that would stun a Shetland
pony. But, winning, they feel fulfilled,
(continued from page 78)
content and they sleep in peace. The
real competitor looks at losing, loathing
it, shoves it savagely out of his mind and
goes to sleep. He must, or he'll unhinge
himself, It is winning that keeps him
awake, because it means so much to hi
it is fulfillment, and raison d'étre, and
though he conceals it under however
much urbanity and ritual sportsmai
ship, it shakes him through and through;
it stirs him to his soul.
Someone said recently, with an air of
discovery, that the British people are at
their best in war, and have always bee
that they like figh that they like
bucking the odds, nd that however
savagely and bitterly they fight, they are
sustained by observance of the pro-
prieties, by maintenance at all cost of an
air of calm, civilized good temper.
The two things do not always go
together. 1 think the people quietly ad-
mire the hard fighter, and they admire
the man who shows grace under pres
sure, even if it is only mild pressure, But
they reserve their hearts for the man
who their instincts tell them is a killei
a bitter-ender, and a man capable of w
ning all he wants in the world, or losing
everything he owns, in such fashion that
one can't tell, watching him, which has
happened. This, they feel, is British
g Moss is British.
One did not watch Stirling Moss drive
for long without noticing that he almost
invariably waved as he passed another
car. This wave was pleasant to see, a kind.
of salute, given with the hand held verti-
cally, graceful without excessive move-
ment, imperious as well as po
I was standing at the bottom of thi
straight at Sebring one hot moi
place where one can almost look into
the cars. A photographer was with me.
Stirling, coming out of the U-turn faster
than most, as was his wont, ate up а
Porsche as he went by us, giving the man
his patented wave.
“Have you ever noticed.” the photog:
rapher said, “that Moss always thanks
another driver for letting him pas
"Yes," 1 said, “I've noticed
that. Of course in this case he was thank-
ing the man for nothing, wasn't he, be-
cause the only way C could hı
rev s passing would h
been to shoot him.”
“Oh, I don't know,” the photographer
said. "He didn't have to move ov
“The rules say he did," I said. “They'd
have hit him with a blue flag halfway
down the straight, if he hadn't. Anyway,
it's wide here, Moss would have run
around him."
“I still think it’s a pleasant gesture,"
my friend said. “It shows the car
vers, and [ like to see hi T
'Camaraderie, my foot," 1 said. AIR
that pig he's driving holds together all
day, you'll get to see him wave to every-
body out there, and I daresay you'll like
it better than they will, to
"Why
Us not all he's doing.”
"You fascinate me," my friend said.
“Tell me, what else is he doing?"
"He's waving goodbye to them," I said.
No stronger competitive instinct than
Moss’ has ever appeared in sports, I am
convinced, and 1 have outraged a lot of
people by saying so. That motoring en-
thusiasts сап be annoyed by the picture
Moss as a brutal competitor is
€ of the fantastic discipline the
imposed on himself, and of the
skill with which he has originated and
erected his public character.
“Watching Stirling Moss before a race,
the absolute
to me about five years ago,
stand real sportsmanship. For him, the
game is everything, form is everything,
and winning or losing is of not the
slightest importance."
I won't quote my reply. It was both
rude and profane.
That Stirling Moss wi
before a race is truc.
Belmonte used to say, “°
the соп
there would bc по one in the ring whe
the bulls came out." I had a conversation
with a well-known driver just before a
race, and when 1 took it up again that
ht I discovered that he not only didn't
recall what we'd ed about, he couldn't
remember our speaking at all! Nothing
of that sort ever happened to Moss. I
remember almost burn nto him just
off a starting grid or before I knew
him well, and 1 smiled and kept on.
having learned from the experience 1
wtioned above that it was best not to
talk to drivers just before the off. But
Moss had something he nted to tell
me, he took my arm and walked along
with me for three or four minutes. Th
сизе me. Ke I must find
and went off for hi
If we had to sign
racts an hour before the corrida
“I don't mind anyone's talking to me
before a start," he has said to me. “I don't
care in the least. If I'm sitting in the car,
a boy can ask me for an autograph. Im
happy to talk about anything, a play I
saw the night before, a girl: up to the
moment 1 start the engine, I couldn't
care less. I've done my practice, 1 reckon
to know the course, I reckon the car to
be ready, 1 can't make a plan, I can
foresee what's to happen when 15 of us
pile into the first corner, so why should
I bother thi g about it? Ti
for that when we get there, I was giving
a chap a radio interview one day,
States, sitting on the starting grid:
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were chatting away, and suddenly I
realized the race was going to start in 60
seconds. 1 had almost forgot about it!
It would be interesting to be able to
look into Moss’ head as he switches off
his urbane, gay, smiling self, to switch on
Moss the competitor and the engine at
the same time. (I know a veteran airli
captain who does the same thing,
slightly different fashion. Sitting
front end of a transatlantic jet,
perhaps, for a delayed load of passengers,
he's amusing, witty, relaxed; he and his
crew are just old nds killing time to-
gether. With him the change-over comcs
when
fly. When the gloves go on, the tempera-
ture in the cockpit drops about 10 de-
grecs, and thereafter anyone sale е “aks
to him had best have a “cap ora
the end of the шыны: аз well
аз а good reason for speaking at all)
The reason the competitive attitude so
intrigues us is that it's a distillate of life.
And di ance of a really
strong competiti act in one of the
four elementary games — fighting, moun-
tain climbing, the anda and motor
racing — is more compelling, naturally,
than its appearance in, say, swimming or
pole vaulting or one of the stick-and-ball
Knowing how the great moun-
Albert Frederick Mummery of
t up the Chamonix. Aiguilles
or how Edward Whymper did the Mat-
terhorn or how Stirling Moss the
Mille Miglia, we know something of how
life may be lived, and perhaps should be
lived, and we have seen this thing i
minutes instead of years.
This is not to denigrate the great
spirits who appear in the lesser games.
The American baseball player Harold
“Pete” Reiser, held by many to have
been the most competitive player of
modern times, was carried off the field
itated or unconscious 11 times i
14 years of play, five times because, run-
ning to get under a high ball, he had
refused to take his eyes off it, lest he lose
it in the sun or the field lights, and went
full tilt into the concrete wall that bor-
ders the perimeters of most major-league
baseball parks.
It isa peculiarity of the real competitor
that he is indifferent to being hurt. The
intellectual, the spiritual aspect of ck
mental competit "st other men
has become so weighty that it transcends
consideration of the corporeal: he no
longer cares about being hurt except
that injury keeps him out of the game.
(Left to himself, he will invariably go
back before he's fit) A peculiarity of the
real competitor who has a major talent —
the two things do not necessarily go to-
gether — is that he likes to handicap him-
self, to make the game harder. Thus
Mummery would not use pitons: he
120 thought them base, a thing for cheaters,
although many mountaineers will hardl
go up a flight of stairs without а sackful
of pitons mmer to drive them.
Moss’ addiction to nonfactory cars is
illustrative.
The real competitor, if he lives long
enough, comes inevitably to the realiza
tion that the ultimate victory is the
victory over self: when the years of self-
discipline and self-denial are past, the
years of study and training and practice
to exhaustion are over, the man under-
stands, suddenly or slowly as the case
may be, that the being able to win is
what таце that the formal
itself, the laurel wreath,
statistic, a thing of no со
he no longer even wants it
The real competitor sees no
victory
s then only a
qu
imita-
tions, He wants to bear the whole world.
li
If he's a simple man, like John L.
van, the legendary heavyweight figi
he'll say so. Sullivan used to an
from th n a [air fight, E will whip
any man born of woman. Yours truly,
John L. Sullivan.” He handicapped 1
Self with brandy. In the course of a long
fight, Sullivan would empty a bottle of
cognac. He was much admired. In 1887 a
crowd, trying to get near him, broke up
the carriage in which he was riding down
the Haymarket,
A complex personality behaves with
morc civility, although he may wish to
beat every other man in the world, and
at everything. (Wilbur Shaw was so
d by the fact that other men
could drive railway engines, whilst he
could not, that he badgered a
ag him.)
ating onc of the most compe!
lcavors man knows, for more than
a decade, entering more races than any:
one else had ever done, and winning
more of them, was not enough for Stirling
Moss. He started so many ancillary activi-
tics that they would occupy most people
through an eighthour da
thr
ready to start another. He has the obses-
with details that so often
n who can't find enough to
do. 1 am almost surprised that Stirling
doesn't type his own letters. (Come to
think of it, I number of letters
from him that he did type —at least
some amateur did them"
‘The real competitor is not easy to live
h. when he is on the way up, and
when he is at the top, because he is driven
to compete with everybody; he wants to
do everything better; he wants to do
nate everyone around him, his friends,
his associates, his employees, his wife.
This is the deepest need in his nature,
and allowance must be made for it. It
has made him what he is; without it we
would never have heard of him.
wi
When he knew how badly he had been
hurt at Goodwood, how severely his brain
had been damaged, when he found th
he couldn't even open a door without giv-
ing himself step-by-step instructions —
shall take the knob in my right hand,
now I shall turn it sharply to the right,
now PH pull it"— Stirling Moss knew
that he simply could not wait until the
broken bones had mended and then go
back to racing, as he had after the
t least to normal, he could not drive a
racing ca Further, he knew that
if the doctors were correct in saying that
whilst his reaction time might improve
rapidly, his vision would probably not
be normal for two years or more, then
there would be no point in it. He would
be terribly out of practice and he would
come wholly unprepared to the 1965
. having missed the 1962, 1963 and
1964 models. He decided that he must
give himself a practical test, that as soon
as he felt reasonably well, reasonably
strong, he would take а race car to an
isolated, completely closed circuit, and
there, in privacy, try himself, and, on the
basis of what he observed, make the
decision, to go on or not, yes or no, then
and there. As soon as he had settled о
this plan, he announced it. He could set
no date.
When he went to Nassai
after be
immediately
wr discharged from Atkinson
Hospital he drove a Mini-
and he found that the island
speed limit of 30 miles an. hour suited
him very well. When he returned to Eng-
nd he drove other cars, more quickly,
but his retraining program was inter-
rupted by two long stays in St. Thomas’
for surgery. By January 1963, his left eye
now ollcring him correct focus as long аз
he looked straight ahead, he felt secure
at 90-100 n п hour on the road in
iles
his Lotus Elite, and it was impossible,
riding with him, to detect slowness or
lack of acuity. Everything seemed to be
as before. He had the car completely in
hand; he could drift it at will, he could
do anything he pleased with it. But Moss
allowed himself no enthusiasm, repeating
what he had often said, that 100 on th
road in а Lotus Elite has nothing what
ever to do with 160 on a Grand Prix
a Lotus 25.
He flew around the world. He had
s in South Africa,
nd and Australia and. Hong
Kong; he wanted to visit Tokyo; he
had obligations in Daytor ad Nassau
Whilst he was away, he had asked Vale
Pirie to see to renewing his competition
license. He was back in England on
February 26th, for 10 days before going
to the United States to fulfill a contract
at Sebring. There was not enough time
to engage a circuit and set up a car.
At noon on the First of May, Moss
left London for Goodwood, where Ke
d Tony Robinson were w
ing for him with a Lotus 27. He drove
the 50-odd miles in а Mini-Cooper, two
friends with him, and he went flat-out
the whole way, constantly remarking the
behavior of the car under the various
stresses he put on it, obviously sceing the
tip as a mild warmup for what
ahead of him. It had rained all morning,
but the circ was drying when Moss
came to it, drying in some places, deeply
puddled in others. The loudspeakers were
but there must have been armies
him; the mild May must
have гш th their shouts a
howl of engines ripping across the flat
ıd under the pale lemon-colored su
The first significant British race meetii
after the war had been at Goodwood,
1918, and Moss had won the 500-cc even
in his first Cooper. He was 19 then, How
many times he'd run at Goodwood since,
how many nights at the Fleece Inn, he
couldn't begin to remember.
He dropped himself into the car. It
had occurred to him that, coming out of
Fordwater into St Mary's for the first
time, running fast, some vagrant memory,
the thin wedge of a clue might come to
him, something that would explain the
accident. No. It was just a bit of wet
road. He felt nothing.
He was alone on the course. The little
knot of people who had known of his
plan — Gregory, the mechanics, a private
photographer, three friends — could hear
the engine scream across the circuit; they
could follow the car by noting the shift
points. Back in sight, he hit a pool of
water, lost the car, recovered it quickly —
but not as quickly as he once would
have donc.
He lapped the circuit for half-an-hour
and more, running fast but, at his own
rating, at only around eight tenths. At the
quickest, he said afterward. he was three
seconds over what he would consider
competitive tiny
He had suspected what he would find,
I
the rev counter. without. taking
my eyes off the road: not only that, I
could sce the rev counter and the r
and a friend waving to me, all at the sa
ите... I've lost that, tl gone.
He drove back to London. Ken Gregory
called the press, the bulletin went on the
i e decided to retire. I will not
in.” It was 15 years, almost
up
Prescott, in the Bugatti Owners Club
event which had been his first oficial
competition.
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NAKED NUDE (continued from page 52)
early morning hours, he tried everything
he could think of. Since he always dis-
torted the figure of Venus, though he
carried it perfectly in his mind, he went
back to а study of Greek statuary with
ruler and compasses to compute the
mathematical proportions of the ideal
nude. Scarpio accompanied him to one
or two museums. Fidelman also worked
with the Vitravian squ: re in the circle,
experimented with Dürer's intersecting
circles and triangles and studied Leo-
nardo's schema heads and bodies.
Nothing doing. He drew paper dolls, not
women, certainly not Venus. He drew
girls who would not grow up. He then
tried sketching every Venus he could lay
eyes on in the art books Scarpio brought
him from the library, from the Esquiline
goddess to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Fidelman copied, not badly, many figures
from classical statuary and modern paint-
ing, but when he returned to his Venus,
with something of a laugh she cluded
him. What am I, bewitched, the copyist.
asked himself, and if so by what? Its
only a copy job. so what's taking so long?
He couldn't even guess until һе hap-
pened to sec a naked whore cross the
hall and. enter a. friend's room. Maybe
the ideal is cold and I like it hot? Nature
over art? Inspiration — the live model?
Fidelman knocked on the door and tied
to persuade the girl to pose for him,
but she wouldn't for economic reasons.
Neither would any of the others there
were four girls in the room.
A redhead among them called out to
Fidelman, "Shame on you, Arturo, are
you too good to bring up pizzas and cof-
fcc anymore?"
"I'm busy on a job for Angelo."
The girls laughed.
“Painting a picture, that is. A business
proposition.
They laughed louder.
Their laughter further depressed his
spirits. No inspiration from whores.
Maybe too ma a
made it impossible to
he'd better try a live model, hav
everything else i
In desperation, practically on the
verge of panic because time was going so
fast, he thought of Teresa, the chambe
ag tried
inine beauty, but the imagination could
enhance anything. Fidelman asked her
to pose for him, and Teresa, after a shy
ugh, consented.
body.
Fidelman promised.
She got undressed, а meager, bony girl,
breathing heavily, and he drew her with
flat chest, distended belly, thin hips and
айу legs unable to alter а single de
tail. Van Eyck would have loved her.
When Teresa saw the drawing she wept
t you would make me beau-
“I had that in mind.”
“Then why didn't vou?”
"It's hard to say,” said Fidelman.
“I'm not in the least bit sexy," she
wept.
Considering her body with half-open
eyes, Fidelma
long slip.
Get one from onc of the girls
make you sexy.”
She теш
looked so attr:
n told her to go borrow a
icd
throat, got her to lie down with him on
a dusty mattress in the room. Clasping
her slip-encased form, the copyist shut
both eyes and concentrated on his elu-
sive Venus. He felt about to rccapture
а rapturous experience and was looking
forward to it with pleasure, but at the
last minute it turned into a Limerick he
didn't know he kne
Whilst Titian was
madder,
His model was crouched on a ladder;
Her position to Titian
Suggested. сойіоп
So he stopped mi:
had 'er.
mixing rose
ng madder and
Angelo, entering the storeroom just
then, let out a furious bellow. He fired
Teresa, on her naked knees pleading
with not to, and Fidelman had to
go back to latrine duty the rest of the
d:
“You m
this ре
ht just as well keep me doing
Fidelman, disheart-
ened, told the padrone in his office
fterward. "Il never finish that cursed
picture."
"Why not? What's cating
treated you like а son.
"I'm blocked, that's what.”
"Get to work, you'll feel better.
"I just can't pa
“For what reason?
"I don't know
se you've had it too good her
йу struck Fide
the copyist turned
booted him hard in the r
manendy
you? Гуе
an across
nd
wept, he
That night Fidelman went on a hun-
ger strike but the padrone, hearing of it,
threatened force-feeding.
After midnight Fidelman stole some
clothes from a sleeping whore, dressed
quickly, tied on a kerchief, made up his
eyes and lips, and walked out through
the door past Scarpio sitting on а bar
stool, enjoying the night breeze. Ha
gone a block. fearing he would be chased,
» broke into a high-heeled run,
but it was too late. Scarpio had recog-
nized him in aftermath and called the
portiere. Fidelman kicked olf his slippers
nd ran furiously, but the skirt impeded
him. jor-domo and the portie
sht up with him and dragged him,
kicking and struggling, back to the hotel.
А carabiniere, hearing the commotion,
bur seeing how
ared on the scene,
n was dressed, would do nothing
for him. In the cellar, Angelo hit him
th a short rubber hose he col-
psed.
idelman lay in bed three days, re-
fu:
4 ло cat or get up.
“What'll we do now?" Angelo, wor-
ried. whispered. "What about a fortune-
teller? Either that or let's bury him."
strology is better,” Scarpio advised.
doesn’t
"H check his planets. If u
we'll try psychology.
Well, make it fast," said Angelo.
The next morning Scarpio entered
Fidelman's room with an American
breakfast on
under his Fidelman w
bed, smoking a butt. He wouldn't
Scarpio set down his books and took
ir close to the bed.
Whats your birthday, Arturo?" he
ly, feeling Fidelman’s pulse.
nan told him, also the hour of
md the place Newark, New
ad two thick books
1
tray
rm. as st
Jersey.
Scarpio, consulting the zodi
of paper and studied it thoroughly with
his good сус. After a few minutes he
ad. “It's no wonder."
Fidelman
sat
up
"My Venus?
She r He studied the
' ш. Venus afflicted.
ts why you're blocked
Afflicted by what?”
“Uranus, in the 12th house.
What's she doing there?"
les your fate.
Shh,” said Scarpio. "Im checking
your Mercury."
"Concentrate on. Venus, when will she
be beter?
Scipio consulted the tabl
down some nui
turned pale. He searched through a few
more pages of tables, then got up and
red out the dirty window.
ls hard to tell. Do you believe in
psych i
‘Sort of
"Maybe we'd better try that. Don't
get up.
idelmai
jotted
nd signs and slowly
bers
head fell
back on the
pio opened a thick book to its first
chapter. “The thing to do is associate
Ireely.”
"IF T don't get out of this whorchouse
soon I'll surely die," said Fidelman.
“Do you have any memories of your
mother? pio asked. “For instance,
did you ever see her naked?”
“She died at my birth,” Fidelman an-
swered, on the verge of tears. “I was
d by my sister Bessie
"Go on, I'm listening,” said Scarpio.
"I can't. My mind goes blank
Scarpio turned to the next chapter,
flipped through several pages, then rose
with a sigh.
“It might be a medical matter. Take a
physic tonight.”
“I already have.
The majordomo shrugged. “Life is
complicated. Anyway, keep track of your
dreams. Write them down as soon as you
have them.’
Fidelman puffed his butt.
t night he dreamed of Bessie about
to bathe. He was pecking at her through
the bathroom keyhole аз she was prepar-
g her bath. Openmouthed, he watched
her remove her robe and step into the
tub. Her hefty well-proportioned body
then young and full in the right
places; and in the dream Fidelman, then
14, looked at her with longi
amounted to anguish. The older
man, the dreamer, considered doing a
La Baigneuse right then and there, but
when Bessie began to soap herself with
Ivory soap, the boy slipped away into
her room, opened her poor purse, filched
50 cents for the movies, and went on tip-
toe down the s!
He was shutt the vestibule door
with great relief when Arthur Fidelman
awoke with a headache. As he scrib-
bling down this dream he suddenly
remembered what Angelo had sai
verybody steals. We're all human.
A stupendous thought occurred to
him: Suppose he personally were to ste;
the picture?
rvelous idca all
heartily ate that morning's
the picture he had to paint
one. V another day the copyist suc-
cessfully sketched ‘Titian’s painting and
then began to work in oils on an old
piece of Flemish linen that Angelo had
tily supplied him with after se
the successful sketch. Fidelman under-
painted the canvas and after it was dry
began the figure of Venus as the conspi,
on, sucking their breaths,
ed,” beg lo, sw
ing. "Don't spoil it now. Remember
you're р the appearance of a pic
ture. The original has already been
idel-
z
around. Fidelman
breakfast.
painted. Give us a decent copy and we'll
do the rest with chemistr
“I'm worried about the brush strok
“Nobody will notice them. Just keep
in your mind that Tiziano painted res-
olutely with few strokes, his brush
loaded with color. In the end he would
paint with his fingers. Don't worry about
that, We don't ask for perfection, just a
good copy.”
He rubbed his fat hands nervously.
But Fidelman painted as though he
were painting the original. He worked
alone la ight, when the conspira-
tors were snoring, and he painted with
what w left of his heart. He had
caught the figure of the Venus, but when
it came to her flesh, her thighs and
bre ht he would make
it. Ashe painted, he seemed to remember
every nude that ever had been done,
Fidelm: yr, with Silenus beard and
goat legs dancing among them, piping
nd peeking , Irontside, or
at the. Rokeby Venus, Bathsheba,
Suzanna, Venus Anadyomcne, Olympia,
kers in dress or undress, bathers
s or Truth, Niobe or Leda,
in chase or embrace, Hausfrau or whore
amorous ladies modest or brazen, single
or in crowds at the Turkish bath,
every conceivable shape or position,
while he sported or disported until a
trio of macnads pulled his curly beard
id he galloped after them through the
dusky woods. He was, at the sa
choked by remembered lust for all the
women he had ever desired, from Bessie
to Annamaria Oliovino, and for their
garters, underpants, slips or half-slips,
d stockings. Although thus
ted, Fidelman felt himself falling
in love with the one he painted, every
s, he never thou;
ing the ring on her 123
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pinky, bracelet on arm, the flowers she
touched with her fingers, and the bright
green carring that dangled from her
atable саг, He would have prayed her
alive if he weren't certain she would fall
in love, not with her famished creator,
but surely with the first Apollo Belvedere
she laid eyes on. Is there,
work! where love endur
isfving? He answered in the
, she was his as he painted,
ating, planning never
ppy as he was in loving
himself,
always s:
negative. Stil
so he went on pai
to finish, to be
her, thus forever happy.
But he finished the picture on Satur-
day night, Angelo’s gun pressed to his
head. Then the Venus was taken from
1 Scarpio and Angelo baked,
smoked, pled, varnished and framed
Fidelm work as the artist lay on
his bed in his room in a state of collapse.
“The Venus of Urbino, c'est à moi.
п and
maste
“What about my threc hundred and
fifty?" Fidelman asked Angelo during a
card game in the padrone’s stully ollice
Several days later. After completing the
painting the copyist was again back on
janitorial duty.
“You'll collect when we've got the
Tiziano.”
“I did my part
“Don't questio
“What y passport?
“Give it to him, Scarpio.
Scarpio handed him the passport.
Fidelman flipped through (he booklet
and saw the pages were intact.
“If you skiddoo now,” Angelo wa
him, “you'll get spit.”
"Who's skiddooingz"
“So the plan is this: You and Scarpio
will row out to the castello alter mid-
night. The care and
halfdeaf. You hang our picture and
breeze off with the othe
H you wish," Fidelman suggested,
‘Il gladly do the job myself. Alone,
that is.
“Why
ciously.
Don't be foolish," Angelo said. "With
the frame it weighs ton. Now
listen to directions and don't try to give
any. One reason 1 detest Americans is
that they never know their place.”
Fidelman apologized.
“I'I follow in the puteputt and wait
for you halfway between Isola Bella and
Suresa in case it should happen we need
a little extra speed at the last minut
"Do you expect trouble?
“Not a bit. И there's any trouble it'll
be your fault. In that case, witch out,
‘Olt with his head, 1 Scarpio. He
played a deuce and took the pot.
"idelman laughed politely.
The next night, Scarpio rowed a huge
decisions.”
bout
rned
п old man
alone?” said Scarpio suspi-
weather-beaten rowboat, both од
fled. It was a moonless
touches of Alpine lig!
Fidelman n the stem,
holding with both 1 id balancing
his knees the large framed
avily wrapped in monk's
c, and tied around.
cloth and cellopha
with rope.
At the island, the majordomo decked
the boat and securely ued it. Fidelm
peering around in the dark, tried to
memorize where they were, They carried
the picture up 200 steps, both puffing
when they got to the formal gardens on
top.
The castello was black except for a
square of yellow light from the c
ers turret window high above. As
Scarpio snapped the lock of an embossed
heavy wooden door with a strip of Cellu-
loid, the yellow window slowly opened
nd an old man peered down. They
froze against the wall until the window
drawn shut.
st,” Scarpio hissed. “H anyone sees
us they'll wake the whole island.
Push
open the are
quickly carried the pa
heavier as they hurried, thr
mous room cluttered with chea
and by the light of Ше majordomo's
flashlight, ascended a narrow flight of
spiral stairs, They hastened in sneakers
down a deep-shadowed, tapestried hall
into the picture gallery, Fidelman stop-
ping in his tracks when he beheld the
Venus, the true and magnificent image
of his counterfeit creation.
"Lets get to work.” Scarpio quickly
unknotted the rope and they unwrapped
Fidelman’s painting and leaned it against
the wall, They were taking down the
Titian when footsteps sounded unmis-
the hall. Scarpio's Hashlight
g door, they
ng,
growing
went out.
"Shh, its the careta
Ill have to conk him.
“That'll destroy Angelo's plan — de-
ceit, not force.”
“PH think of that when we're out of
here.
They pressed their backs to the wall,
Fidelman's Cammy, as the old man's
steps drew nearer. The copyist had
guishing visions of losing the picture
and made helter-skelter plans somehow
to reclaim it. Then the footsteps faltered,
me to a stop. and alter a moment of
intense hesitation, moved in another di-
rection. A door slammed and the sound
Was gone.
Tt took Fidelman several seconds to
breathe, They waited in the dark with-
out moving until Scarpio shone his light.
Both Venuses were resting against the
same wall. The majordomo closely in-
spected each canvas with one eye shut,
then signaled the painting on the left.
“That's the опе, let's wrap it up.”
If he comes in,
n-
Fidelman broke into a profuse swe
"Are you crazy? That's m
you know a work of art whei
He pointed to the oth
"An" said Scarpio, removing his hat
and turning pale. "Are you sure?” He
peered at the painting.
‘Without a doubt.”
“Don't try to confuse me,” He tapped
the dagger under his coat.
“The lighter one is the Titian,” Fidel-
man said through a dry throat. "You
smoked mine a shade darker.”
“L could have sworn yours was the
lighter.
No.
Its a historical fac
"Of course.” Scarpio mopped his brow
with a soiled handkerchief, “The trouble
is with my eyes, On 1 bad shape and
1 overuse the other.”
‘Tsk-tsk,” said Fidelman.
‘Anyway, hurry up. Angclo's
on the lake. Remember, if there's
mistake he'll cut your throat first
They hung the darker painting on the
wall, quickly wrapped the lighter and
hastily carried it through the long ball
and down
the way with Sc
At the dock the majordomo nervously
turned to Fidelman. “Are you absolutely
sure we have the right onc?"
“I give you my word."
“I accept it, but under the circum-
stances Td better have another look.
Shine the flashlight through your fin-
gers
Scarpio knelt to undo the wrapping
more, and Fidelman, trembling,
brought the flashlight down h
Scarpio's straw. hat, the light sh
in his hand. The majordomo, pulli
his dagger, collapsed.
Fidelman had trouble loading the
painting into the rowboat but finally got
it in and settled, and quickly took olf. In
10 minutes he had rowed out of sight of
the dark, casted island. Not long alter-
ward he thought he heard Angelo's putt
Titian's. He u:
а light varnishes.
aiting
y
the stai
once
ard on
tering
putt behind him, and his heart beat
erratically, but the padrone did not ap-
pear. He rowed as the waves deepened.
Locarno, 60 kilometers
A wavering flash of lightning pierced
the broken sky, lighting the agitated
€ all the way to the Alps, as a dread
ful thought led elman: Had he
the right painting, after all? After a
minute he pulled in his oars, listened
once more for Angelo, and hearing noth-
ing, stepped to the stern of the rowboat,
letting it drift frantically un
wrapped the Venus.
In the pitch black, on the lakes
choppy waters, he saw she was indeed
his, and by the light of numerous
matches adored his handiwork.
as he
Four Fateful Fables
classification of one eccentric writer.
"Though he wrote prose, his works were
too short to be described as novels
and too long lor short stories. Могеоу‹
rumor had it that his prose had a poc
quality and a satirical bent, and that he
wrote which were indistingui
able from stories and also bore the
characteristics of critical essays. It w
thought improper to assign this writer
cither to a prose or to a poctry detach-
ment and it was clearly impracticable to
create a special formation for опе man
only. There were suggestions that he
would be expelled, buc in the end а
compromise was reached: he was given
orange-colored trousers, the rank of a
ıd was left to his own devices.
ole country could thus see that
he was really a blot on the profession.
Had he been expelled, this would not
ve been without precedent. At an
er stage several writers who. because
of their build. did not look well in
uniform had been removed from the
Within a short time the country dis-
covered that leaving the eccentric in the
s had been a serious mis-
take. Tt was he who was the cause of a
scandalous aflair which undermined the
beautifully simple principles of authority.
One day, a well-known and respected
writer-gencral was taking a walk along a
boulevard in the capital city. Approach-
ing him from the opposite direction was
the eccentric writer-private in orange
trousers. The writergeneral threw him a
contemptuous glance and waited for the
privates salute. Suddenly he noticed on
the private's hat the of
highest rank. a small red beetle, wi
only writer-marshals were entitled to
wear. Respect for authority was so deeply
embedded in the writer-general that,
without pausing to consider the unusual
nature of his discovery, he immediately
adopted а most respectful attitude and
saluted first. The astonished writer-
private returned the salute, and as his
hand went up to his hat, the large lady-
bird that had been sitting there opened
its wings and flew away. Gripped by
se of this humiliation, th
cr-general immediately summoned а
olling critic who took away the
private’s fountain pen and escorted him
to the guardroom
Literature,
‘The trial took place in the marble hall
of the Palace of the Arts. Judges and othe
ignitaries sat behind
r glisten
rellected
e surface.
The eccentric writer-private was ac
cused of illegally w
which he was not е
However, luck was о
tled by his т
his side. On the
(continued from page 67)
eve of the trial. dur ing of the
Council for Culture, strong criticism had
been voiced of the soulless attitude to
the artist and of the way art was being
Iministered. Echoes of this debate could
be heard the following day when the
ter-marshal himself rose to speak
during the trial.
“We must on no account,” he pro-
claimed, “adopt a bureaucratic attitude
to this case. Our task is to get to the very
bottom of this alfair. Without doubt the
case we are trying here today concerns
the ion of those rules which, in
Jed to an
of our litera-
question we must ask, howe
‘Is the accused а conscious and
active criminal?” We must probe deeply
in search of the answer, we must expose
jot only the effects of this act but
its causes, Let's consider first of all who
brought the accused to his present sorry
condition, Who has depraved him, who
has exploited h ial lack of social
consciousness? What sort of creative
mosphere could have led to this crisi
“To whom must we mete out punishm
so as to prevent similar trials
future?
"No, comrades. Irs not
ily responsible. He was only
the hands of the ladybird.
be no doubt wha
of
spite of some mistakes, hav
са flower
n
the
the accused
crite
and by the perfect organization
of our association . . . the ladybird with
treacherous deliberation alighted on the
hat of the accused and imitated а mar-
shal's iem I's the ladybird who has
tried to undermine our hierarchy. Lets
and and not the blind tool.
The specch was grected as a profound
explo п of the very roots of evil. The
writer-private was rehabilitated and a
proper indictment was prepared against
the ladybird.
A platoon of critics found the ladybird
a a garden, sitting on a lila
plotting. When the ladybird те
that it 1 been um кей, it offered no
resistance.
The new trial took place in the same
marble hall. All those present
straining their eyes to see th
spot on the shiny tall
iucer, which prevented its
were
liule red.
crime, preserving а disdainful silence to
the very end.
The execution took place at dawn the
following moi Four thick and we
bound volu test novel by
the writer-marshal of literature were the
chosen instrument. They were dropped
one by one from the height of four feet.
It is reported that the condemned did
not suller long.
When the writerprivate in orange
trousers heard about the verdict, he cried
and asked that the ladybird be set free in
а garden. This brought him under suspi-
ion once more of having been at |
an accomplice in this crime; his а
“Get lost? I am lost?”
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126
ment to the ladybird was thought to be
highly suggestive,
A Drummer's Adventure
1 LOVED MY DRUM. T carried it suspended
from a wide strap across my shoulders. It
was a big drum. I used oak sticks to
strike its matte, yellow membrane, With
time the drumsticks had acquired a
polish from my fingers, testifying to my
zeal and diligence. I carried the drum
along roads white with dust or black
with mud: the world on cither side was
gre . brown or white accord
to the season. Wherever I went the land-
scape reverberated with a r:
for my hands did not belong to me but
to the drum and when the drum was
lent I felt ill. Thus one night 1 was
drumming gaily when the General came
up to me. He was incompletely dressed
in his uniform jacket, which was unbut-
toned, and his long underpants. He
ted me, hemmed and hawed a little,
aised the Government and the State,
па at last said casually: “And you just
ҷо on drumm Y
“Yes, sir," I shouted, striking the drum.
with redoubled force. “To the glory of
our country.
“Quite right,” he agreed, but somchow
his voice sounded a little sad. “And how
long will you go on?
“As long as my strength lasts, sir,
shouted back g
"Good boy," he said. "And will your
strength last much longer?'
“To the very end. sir," I said proudly.
“Well, well . . ." The General sounded
surprised, For a while he seemed to be
deep in thought and then he went off on
a tangent.
“It's late,” he said.
“It’s late for the enemy, never for us,”
I shouted back. “The future belongs
to us!”
“Very good, very good . . ."
General, but he sou
meant that the hour w
said the
“The hour of battle has struck! Fire the
guns, ring the bells!" 1 shouted with the
enthusiasm becoming a true drummer.
not he said
» let the bells ring, but
no,
qui
only from time to
“Quite right, le General" 1
agreed. with 'We don't need
bells if we have our drums. Let the roll
of my drum silence the bells!" To under-
line my point ] struck a loud roll.
Never the other way round? What?”
asked the General. He sounded uncer-
tain of himself and he was covering hi:
mouth with his hand.
Never, sir," 1 shouted back.
rely on your drummer. He'll never
allow his drum to go
carried away by a burning wave of zeal.
my сап be proud of you,” the
al said without enthusiasm. A cold
1 come down on our camp and he
S. АП P could sec in the
gray mist was the top of the General's
tent. "Yes, proud," he went on. "We
shall never stop, even if we have to
march day and night, even if... Yes.
cach step
“Each step will be a
roll,” 1 interjected, drummi
was worth.
“Well, well,” murmured the General.
fes, just that..." and he went toward
his tent. I was left alone. Solitude stimu-
lated my desire for self-sacrifice and my
sense of responsibility as а drummer.
You've gone, General, I thought, but
your faithful drummer is alert. With you
brow furrowed you're working on your
strategic plans, placing little flags on the
map to mark the road to our joint vic-
tory. Together, you and I shall conquer
the future and I shall announce the
tory with a roll of drums.
I was overcome with tenderness toward.
the General, and with such a will to
give myself to the cause that, if it were
possible, 1 would have drummed even
louder. In the depth of the night, fired
by my youthful enthusiasm, animated by
endless victory
re
vic-
m a TV producer. My dreams are
having summer repeats.”
our great ideal, I devoted myself to my
honorable task. From time to time, in
between diumbeats, 1 could hear from
i of the General's tent the
ing of mattress springs as if some-
Ме to sleep, were tossing in
t, about midnight, a white
figure loomed in the mist by the tent. Tt.
was the General his nightshirt. His
voice was ho;
so you're going to continue
‚ ате you?" he asked. 1 was
noved that he should come
to me in th ght. A ише
father to his soldi.
sir. Neither cold nor sleep will
ady to go on as long as
my strength lasts, obedient to the
mv duty and the cause we're figh
My honor dictates it. So help me God!"
vated by a desire to appear as a stickler
for my duty or by a wish to suck up to
the Gene
on my part, calculated to bring promo-
tion or any other reward. It never even
crossed my mind that such an inte
tation could have been put upon my
attitude. I have always been a
straightforward and, damnit, let me say
it, a good drummer.
The General gnashed his teeth. I
thought he was cold. Then he sa
“Good, very good,” and went away.
A few minutes later I was arrester
The patrol assigned to this task sur-
rounded me silently. They took my drum
away, they removed the drumsticks from
my cold and tired fingers. Silence filled
the valley. I could not talk to my com-
des who surrounded me with their rifles
pointing at me, that was not allowed by
regulations. They led me out of the
camp. On the way one of them whispered
that I had been arrested on the Gi
orders. The charge was treason. T
awn was breaking. A few pink clouds
floated in the sky. They were greeted by
healthy snoring which 1 heard as we
al. This was no empty boast
pre-
сеге,
passed the General's tent.
^
A Citizen's Fate
LET US BE FRANK. In thc remote corner
of the country with which this story is
concerned, they have thc same weather
as in the capital Seasons follow one
nother, rain falls, winds blow, the su
s in the big city. From
the point of view of the climate you
could not tell the one from the other
the more surprising, even frighte
was the initiative of the authorities. In
the full knowledge of the circumstances,
they decided to set up a meteorological
station in this remote corner. It was not
а big affair, just a small rectangle of
ground surrounded by a white fence,
with a box of instruments in the middle,
standing on thin long legs.
Next to the station was the manager's
house. Apart from looking after the in-
struments, his job consisted of writing
accurate reports on the state of the
weather so that, should questions be
а, the authorit ies would have the
гу at hand.
The manager was a most conscientious
young man. He wrote his reports in a
id always truthfully.
sined he would ot rest until he
bed the rain from every pos
when, how much, for how
If it
had descri
sible angl
long . . . If the sun was shining he would
also spare mo elfort to describe
accurately. He was quite
knew that the State was wor
get the money for his salary and he felt
that he had to apply himself to his job.
There was never any shortage of work
because in his district there was always
ther of one kind or another.
Toward the end of the summer, storms
became frequent and they brought rain
with them. Truthfully he described them
in detail and sent his reports to the head
иса.
1 a visit from an old
nced colleague who. having
watched him at work, remarked casually:
“I wonder, my friend, if your reports
aren't a bit on the depressing side.”
“What do you mean?" The manager
was surprised. "You can see with your
own eyes that it's pouring with rain.
“Yes, yes. Of course, everybody can sce
that, But you do understand, don't you,
that we must approach the problem
consciously.
ione of my business. I just mentioned it
out of [ri
The old meteorologist. put on his
galoshes and went away, still shaking his
head. The young manager was left alone
and continued compiling his reports. He
gazed at the sky with some anxiety, but
he went on writing.
bout that time he received an un-
expected summons from his higher
authority. Not the highest опе, but still
thority. He took his umbrella and
went to the town. The authority received
him in a lovely house. Rain was drum-
ming on the roof.
“We have summoned you,” announced
the authority, “because we are surprised
by the one-sided nature of your reports.
For some time now they've been domi
nated by a pessimistic note. The harve:
оп the way and you keep on
about rain. Don't you understand the
responsible nature of your work?"
“But it keeps on raining .. ." said the
manager.
"Don't prevaricate.” The author
looked angry and his fist landed with a
bang on a pile of papers on his desk.
'We have here all your recent. reports.
You can't deny them. You are a good
worker but you are spineless. I want you
to understand that we shan't tolerate
office. The storms conti
One day he h
and exper
an ai
any defeatism!"
After the interview, the meteorologi
returned to his station with the folded
umbrella under his arm. In spite of this
show of good will he was soaked to the
skin, caught a cold and had to stay i
bed. However, he would not admit that
thi because of the ra
Тһе following day the weather im-
proved. He was delighted and immedi-
ately wrote his report:
“The rain has stopped completely and
it has to be admitted that it has never
rained very much. Just a few drops now
and again. But now, what sunshin
Indeed, the sun had broken through
the clouds, it became warm and thc
earth was g- Humming gaily,
the manager went about his duties. In
the afternoon, clouds began to gather
once more, driven by a cold wind. He
went inside, afraid of catching flu. The
time for his next report came and he
wrote: “The sun behaves аз usual.
ready Copernicus has demonstr
the setting of the sun is only
In reality it always shines, only .. .
Atul g very
unhappy. When the first lightning struck,
he shook off his opportunism and wrote
simply: “17.00 hours. Thunderstorms.
Next day brought another storm. He
reported it. The day after, no storm, but
hail. He reported it, A strange calm,
even a feeling of satisfaction, came over
It lasted until the postman brought
nother summons. This time it was
from the Central Authority.
When he returned from the capital
there were no doubts in his mind. For
several days running he reported bright,
sunny weather. Occasionally his reports
struck a dialectical tone. For instance
“Occasional showers of short du:
have caused certain flooding, but nou
can break the fighting spirit of the sap-
pers and rescue detachments.”
More reports followed with descrip-
tions of fine weather. Some of them were
even written in verse. However, some two
months later he wrote a report which
must have puzzled the authority. It
said: “Blasted cloudburst.” Underneath,
hastily written in pencil, was the follow-
ing sentence: “But the baby boy who was
born to the widow in the village is doing
well. though. nobody thought he would
last long."
An investigation disclosed that he had
written the report while under the in-
fluence of alcohol purchased with money
obtained from the sale of his meteoro-
logical instruments.
Thereafter nothing disturbed the sunny
weather in his district. He was killed by
lightning while walking round the fields,
with a miraculous bell from Lourdes in
his hand, trying to dispel the clouds.
Basically he was an honest man.
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tradition. Cold pressed boar's loaf served
with a honey-flavored mustard was the
pride of ancient Roman gastronomy. In
the Middle Ages, the French charcutiers,
alists in pork, as well as the rélisseurs
Or roast-meat specialists, were offering
ready-to-eat meats in public cook houses.
То this day the French and French-
American shops, featuring charcuterie,
display not only elaborate cold pork
products but the whole confraternity of
galantine, game pies and pütés of the
finest meats and poultries extant.
When you're deploying cold cuts on a
r the cold meats obviously the
from the Gallic cold-food specialist who
knows that the main theme becomes the
center of attraction only with the help of
an accent or a garnish, If, asa complement
10 the mcat, you place à mound of cold
vinaigrette on the plater, a
simple-cnough task, you are moving in the
ht direction toward cold cuisine in the
grand manner. Put your cold glazed ham
on a prechilled silver platter, carve a
dozen or so slices as à frame for the ham,
garnish it with lettuce cups filled with
chowchow, deviled eggs or quail eggs,
watercress or tiny two-inch cars of corn
in tarragon vinegar — all, of themselves,
minor gestures — and your cold ham be-
comes a fine frigid fancy.
All wines compatible with hot foods
are equally pleasant with their cold ver-
sions. For informal summertime cating,
it would be hard to find better all-
purpose wines than the Alsatian. The best
of them on the shelves now is the 1959
Gewuerz Ti r, a distinctive white
wine with a pleasant, cool bouquet.
A platter of cheese is always a rich
epilog for a cold dinner or supper
followed with a dark coffee. In sum-
mer, a special word must be put in for
the delicate cheeses of the camembert
and brie types with their thin yellow
ige crust, In their id,
soft but not flowing. Although they're
stored in the refrigerator, they
should be removed about an hour before
ng to let their bouquet ripen at room
temperature. Triple creme parfait, the
richest and finest of all, is excellent with
a dark mellow port or iced kirsch. Here
again, cheese is typical of the foods which,
with Tittle effort, can easily be tr
formed into rich classical desserts, as in
Italian ricotta-filled liqueur-soaked cakes.
ng order,
ase they're
or sea. Cold beef-
tomatoes, cold Kennebec salmon
and cold northern lobsters must always
bc models of perfect freshness. Don't
assume, however, that the whole art of
cold cookery depends upon freshness per
se. Smoked boneless pork loin, in its
min
ns-
128 canned version, is often superior to the
run-of-the-mill fresh offering. A really
fine canned pûtê of liver often outranks
а pûlê maison that’s been sojourning on
the refrigerator shelyes for a week or so.
Air-cured hams like prosciutto or Smith-
field are usually a year or two old before
they've reached their prime. But once the
slicing starts, they should be eaten within
Cooked seafoods like shrimp or
should be eaten the same day
they're boiled, although an additional
day in their own stock in a very cold
refrige not harm. them. Even
with all the summer fruits now in their
full tide, it’s doubtful if a peach melba
made from fresh peaches and fresh rasp-
berries equals the bliss of ice cream rest-
ng on big canned elberta peaches topped
with imported melba sauce.
Lastminute dishes are often notorious
for stretching those last minutes into
hours In the fare which follows there
are sometimes s s ted by
long intervals, for m or ripen
flavors. But the total effort in
is designed for the freewheeling host who
wants enough time to cat, drink and be
merry along with his guests.
CLAM JUICE Co
(Serves four)
TAIL
2 Boz. bottles clam juice
14 cup catchup
14 cup heavy cream
1 cup cracked ice
Salt, celery salt, pepper
2 teaspoons horsera
Juice of 1 lemon
f dashes "Tabasco sauce
1⁄4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Pour clam juice, catchup and cream
into blender. Add ice and several dashes
each of salt, celery salt and pepper. Add
horseradish, lemon juice, Tabasco and
Worcestershire. Run blender at high
speed for 10 seconds. Pour into prechilled
old-lashioned glasses, cach with a large
ice cube.
BAGNA CAUDA
(Serves six to cight)
1 size bunch celery
1 large cucumber
green peppers
'
1 bunch thin scalli
1 pkg. small bread sticks
1⁄4 lb. sweet butter
4 large garlic cloves, crushed
2 tablespoons anchovy paste
1⁄4 pint heavy cream
Lor. can whole white truffles, finely
minced
ns
Pepper
Trim leaves from celery. Cut off root
end and separate bunch into pieces.
Run a vegetable peeler along outside of
celery pieces to remove tough strings. Cut
cucumber into pieces the same size as
celery. Cut peppers in half through stem
ends. Discard seeds and stem ends of pep-
pers. Cut peppers lengthwise into
ces. Separate endive into pieces for
pping. Cut root end off scallions, allow-
ing about 1 in. of green part to remain.
1 ables on top of ice in a large
salad. bowl. Place bread sticks near chaf-
ing dish. In the chafing dish, over a low
flame, melt butter. Add garlic. Sauté until
garlic turns brown. Remove garlic and
discard. Add anchovy paste. Mix well.
Add cream and truffles. Add a generous
dash of freshly ground pepper. Let liquid
simmer about 5 minutes before guests
dip vegetables and. bread sticks into the
bagna cauda (hot dip).
COLD CREME VICHYSSOISE
(Serves. six)
314-07. pkg. instant potato flakes
1 quart milk
2 cups
1 сир |
4 packets instant light broth
1 teaspoon salt
14 teaspoon white рерре
14 teaspoon MSG seasoning
1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
Chopped chives
In a large saucepan heat 14 cups milk
only until bubbles appear around edge
of pan. Add potatoes, Remove at once
from flame. Stir until well-blended.
balance of milk slowh i
stant broth, salt, pepper, )
lic powder. Pour hall of ingredien
well of blender. Blending must usually
be done in two steps since most blenders
will not hold all of liquid. Blend for 20
seconds, or until ice dissolves. Add more
milk or cream if lighter soup is desired.
Pour in chilled cups. Sprinkle with chives.
CRAB MEAT AND AVOC.
DO COQUILLE
(Serves. four)
1 Ib. fresh or canned crab meat
1 medium-size ri
1⁄4 cup mayonnaise
1% cup celery, finely minced
2 tablespoons green pepper, finely
minced
1 teaspoon Dijon
1 hard-boiled egg,
2 teaspoons chives, finely minced
2 tablespoons lime juice or lemon j
Salt. peppe
2 large canned pimientos
8 large ripe olives
fully remove any pieces of tendon
or shell from crab meat. In a mixing bowl
combine crab meat, mayonnaise, celery,
pepper, mustard, egg, chives and
ice. Remove avocado from shell.
Cut into
wire strainer over bowl. Force avocado
gh strainer into bowl. Міх with
ingredients in bowl. Season to taste
е avocado
nustard
ninced
age dice. Place a large fine-
with salt, pepper and MSG. Pile crab
meat into 4 coquille shells, smoothing
mounds with a table knife. Cut pimientos
crosswise into 1j-in. rings. Place overlap-
ping rings on top of crab meat. Garnish
with ripe olives.
MARINATED SHRIMP, SOUR
CREAM DRESSING
(Serves four)
134 Ibs. cooked shelled shrimps
М cup olive o
14 cup cider vinegar
1 mediumsize onion, diced
1⁄4 cup celery, diced
2 tablespoons fresh thyme, minced,
or 1⁄4 teaspoon dried thyme
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced
Salt, pepper
1 pint sour c
1⁄4 cup chili sauce
Dash Tabasco sauce
1 head Boston lettuce
In a deep bow! place shrimps, oil, vin-
egar, onion, celery, thyme and parsley.
Sprinkle generously with salt and peppei
Mix well. Cover bowl, and let mixtu
marinate
In a separate bowl соті
chili sauce and Tabasco
sour-cream mixture
or large old-fashioned glass Place
center of round or oval platter. P
lettuce leaves around platter. Remove
shrimp from marinade and arrange on
lettuce leaves. (H raw shrimps in shells
are used, buy 3 Ibs)
m
e
ne sour cream,
се. Spoon
10 glass dessert dish
SWEDISH POTATO AND KRAUT SALAD
(Serves four)
6 mediumsize potatocs
1 cup Ild
1⁄4 cup salad oil
5 tablespoons white-w
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons aquavit
1 tablespoon parsley, minced
Salt. pepper
Boil potatoes in
about 1⁄4 hour. Di
ackets until tender,
When cool enough
to
about gin. thick. I
combine scallions, sugar,
aquavit and parsley. Add potatoes and
sauerkraut. Toss thoroughly. Add salt
and pepper to taste, Chill thoroughly.
CURRIED MUSHROOM AND
ASPARAGUS SALAD
(Serves four)
2 Goz cans whole mushrooms, dr:
10-02. pkg. frozen aspa
% cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sour сг
1 teaspoon curry powder
1⁄4 teaspoon lemon juice
1⁄4 teaspoon sugar
1⁄4 teaspoon onion, grated
Salt, pepper
Cook asparagus until tende
Chill well. In a mixing bowl combi
mayonnaise, sour cream, curry, lemon
juice, sugar and onion. Add mushrooms
and asparagus, and salt and pepper to
taste. Toss carefully until blended. Serve
well-chilled.
FRESH ASPARAGUS VINAIGRETTE
(Serves six)
Ibs. fresh asparagus, jumbo-size stalks
tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons red-wine vinegar
1 hard-boiled egg yolk
9
teaspoons parsley, minced
sand. Run a vegetable pecler over aspara-
gus. starting about 1 in. from
remove scales and stringy outer portion.
Cut about 114 in. from ends of aspara-
gus. removing tough woody parts. Tic
paragus ch with butcher
cord. Lower asparagus into boiling salted
water and cook until just tender. Don't
overcook. Remove from water and chill
thoroughly. Combine all other ingredi-
ents in blender. Blend 15 seconds. Add
into a bu
salt if desired; ch
enough to season dressing. Pour dressing
over chilled asparagus on platter or pass
dressing in sauceboat.
ese is usually salty
NESSELRODE CHEST
(Serves six)
3⁄4 cup bottled Nesselrode sauce
8-07. sponge loaf cake
6 oz. ricotta cheese
4 oz. triple sec
2 oz. light rum
Confectioners’ sugar
Drain Nesselrode sauce, reserving juice.
Combine juice with triple sec and rum,
mixing well. Cut off top layer of cake
about 1⁄4-in. thick. Set aside. Hollow out
center of cake, leaving chest with 14
k wall all around. Sprinkle half of
juice on bottom of cake. Sprinkle balance
of juice on inside of top slice. Mix ricotta
with Nesselrode fruit. Pile into cake.
Place top laver on cake, dry side up.
Sprinkle generously with confectioners’
sugar, using a flour sifter.
STRAWBERRIES IN LIQUEU!
(Serves. four)
1 quart strawberrics, hulled
1⁄4 cup strawberry jelly
1⁄4 cup heavy sweet c
2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 oz. strawberry liqueur
Tf clear strawberry jelly isn't obtain-
pple jelly or red-
ıt jelly may be substituted. Beat
jelly in bowl until soft. Mix strawber-
ries with jelly, coating thoroi Ina
chilled bowl, beat cream until thick.
Fold in sugar lla extract. Spoon
strawberries into prechilled glass dessert
dishes. Spoon whipped cream on straw-
berries. Pour strawberry liqueur on top.
Summer, it need not be pointed out, is
the season for self-indulgent indolence.
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PLAYBOY
MEASURE OF FASHION
holes; it should be firm, closely spaced and
inconspicuous — an unmistakable sign of
excellence in a ready-made sui
Only if it passes muster with top
grades should you allow yourself to be
coaxed into a tryon. Once inside the
dressing room, it should be a matter of
habit to transfer to the new suit your
belt and all articles normally carried in
your pockets. If you don't, the altered
coat and uouser measurements will be
in unsightly bulges.
With billfold, handkerchief, comb, keys
ıd pocket change in place, you may
find that the suit feels a bit too snug or
п the shoulders,
too roomy, especially
chest, waist or seat. If so, it’s possible
that the particular label or model you've
chosen is cut to somewhat different pro-
portions for your size than that to which
you're accustomed. Or it may be simply
that you've gained or lost a few pounds
since your 1 her
event, it would be advisable to try the
next size lager or smaller rather than
attempt to alter an ill-fitting suit.
These preliminaries past, the time has
come for a few moments of reflection in
the three-way mirror. It is a sad fact that
many men, otherwise quite knowledge-
able, become putty in the hands of the
fitter. Without points of reference, the
gentleman is lost as to what he should
look for, be critical of, or be firm
about. The illustrations accompanying
this article will act as your guideposts.
Your stance during the fitting should
be completely natural: forget about that
rigid posture instinctively adopted by so
ny men, or the result will be a suit
which looks well only when you're stand.
ing süflly at attention (and how often is
that). Unless you resist also the selt-
conscious urge to pull in your stomach,
the trousers will be uncomfortably and
unattractively tight after alteration.
Though the tailor might prefer you to
conveniently stationary through-
out the fitting, it is import
t suit purchase. In ei
(continued from page 81)
mal activity you would expect to assume
while wearing it. Reassure yourself,
therefore, that it will look and feel
equally well while walking, bending and
sitting with your legs crossed. Lift your
arms: If excessive folds appear at the
shoulder and along the sleeves, as well as
the expected creases at the elbow, the
arm holes are cut too low and must be
raised. Observe also whether the sleeves
remain at the proper length, with arms
both bent and extended, to display the
requisite one-half inch of shirt cuff, as
shown on page 80. Allowing for variable
shirt dimensions, you can replace the
rule of shirtslecve length with the more
accurate “rule of thumb": When stand-
ing with your hands held naturally at
your sides, the jacket cuff should be pre-
ely 414” from your thumb.
In addition to the other
check points,
hang of the jacket. If it appears to dr
unevenly, with one side slightly low
than the other and possibly a bulging
lapel when buttoned, it may be that one
shoulder is slightly lower than the other.
This can be remedied by padding the
lower shoulder back into balance; the
resultant wrinkling of the material over
the pad should then be corrected by
taking in the shoulder seam. For those
with broad shoulders and small waists,
it’s strictly S.O.P. to find that most read:
made jackets large cenou
e thi shoulders will be overfull in
the body: the fitter should be advised to
take in the back and/or side seams as
much as necessary to create а more fitted
ne showing a sliver of light between
sleeves and coat body. If you spot a
taut horizontal crease on the back of the
jacket just below the collar, it can mea
that the collar or shoulder points s
h the fitter can ea:
ng in the appropriate s
or simply that the jacket is cut too narrow
across the shoulders (in which case the
next larger size is recommended). Once
gain it should be pointed out that the
tailor is merely a craftsman, not an al
illustrated
ls as the
pe
h to accommo-
chemist, and there is a limit to the
changes he can make. Most suit sizes are
designated, in ad m to their shoulder
measurement, as short, regular or long,
and in spite of the salesman's blandish-
not bc made to fit a short-
sted man without something being
distorted elsewhere in the garment. Simi-
larly, if you allow the tailor to adjust a
gapping collar, you may find the skirt
of the jacket shortened, and it will hang
lower in front than in back. Where
there isa vest, it should be cut — taking
n or letting out. the shoulder seams as
required — just to cover the trouser top,
covering the belt as well as the shirt
in front.
In fitting trousers,
bad fit at the outset by unwitti
thi
many men ensure a
ly hiking
ir pants highcr than they normally
r them in overcompensation for the
olten-overlarge waistline before
‚ This common error, which
will disrupt all the measurements from
waist to cuff, can be avoided by the
simple expedient of wearing your belt
and cinching it to the accustomed notch.
The hips should be cut full enough to
allow for easy access to and normal use of
pockets without breaking the clean verti-
cal trouser line with unsightly bulges or
partially exposed pocket linings, but they
shouldn't be so full that the pants hang
loose and baggy. Suitable adjustment of
the side seams is the answer. The simpler
single operation of only ta
back seam should not be permitted, as
the side pockets may be pulled out of
position, giving the hips a deceptively
wide appearance. If the seat either sags
or hugs, it should be altered accordingly
along the back seam— with all your
usual pocket articles in place — to pro-
duce a snug (but not tight) fit. As you
walk before the mirror, note whether
the trouser legs appear to move with
you or
of
around you; if surplus folds
fabric flap against your call, the legs
cut too full for your proportions
— particularly if your feet are small — and.
should be ti in along the side seams
to crcate a tapered line from knee to culf.
If they're too snug, on the other hand,
the seams should be let out enough to
accommodate unusually muscular calves
or thighs without outlining their con-
tours.
As you stand, finally, with your weight
on both feet, make sure that the wim
tiloring of the trousers makes а clean
break at the shoe tops When you return
to pick up your purchase, you'll be ready,
1 тузоп to verify that every
s been ma specified, to
step out in high sartorial style.
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CAR ON THE MOUNTAIN
(continued from page 64)
ble Indian sonofa-
is yours!
лосей that the person who
1 suffers no (іске
1 aches before he
less mise!
bitch. Th
(Let it be
has drunk mex
of his speech, His h
is even drunk, and he does not stop
drinking the stuff until it is too late, but
his speech remains lucid till the end.)
"phat car is yours!” Mr. Wilcox те
peated, “What th is left of it” He
burst into tears. Sobbing, he folded his
D together and started across the
square toward the bus. Three steps later
he fell over the curb on his lace.
Though the muscles of speech enjoy an
immunity from the effects of mescal,
those of locomotion do not. Mr. Wilcox
needed help; Miguel. provided he
got him onto the bus. The proprietor
of the Alvarez rushed out wav the
Cuenta: Mr. Wilcox threw some bills
out the window, and the bus took off.
‘The Indians in the square and around
the car watched his departure with as-
tonishment; and well they might, since
it was the last any of them ever saw of
him.
Miguel felt as if he 1 been having
if he, and not. Mr
the one who was drunk.
Yet there was the paper in his h . He
took it over to the Cadillac and k it
the fender, the better to study it.
lo was around back, taking off
his clothes, but all the loafers were still
d
on
asking cach other what had happened
to the gringo. Miguel said in a loud
м is my antomobi
They did not have to look at him
closely to ascertain that he was dr
it was self-evident. They con
speculations about M
did not press the matter: he
i
ued their
Wilcox. Miguel
new what
an impossible thing he was saying. He
left the squ
Ime
and the town, and an
hour he was among
guey and could see his son ru
about in the dirt yard of his hut.
His wife met him at the doorway, his
Estrella: tall, skinny, fiercely proud of
man who could read and write and
down on the stone
nd told her everything.
“So we own the automobile,” he said.
“Iu is worth more than you с;
We could wo 1 our lives
have the wealth of that automobile.”
“Why did he give it to you?” his wife
asked. She did not believe for one mo-
ment that he really owned it.
“Because he was drunk and discour-
And because I was
the
able to talk to him.
“What will we do with this treasure?”
Estrella asked, and Miguel's eyes lighted
up.
"We will use it to lift ourselves to
better things. After we get it to run
again and I have 1 cd how to drive
it, I will carn much money with it and
then in time I will sell it and with thi
money I will go to school and become
an educated person. In this way we will
break away from this life.”
Estella let her eyes move over the
parched red earth with its harsh crop:
over the barren yard with its fence of
cactus and its few mangy chickens;
then back to her husl
we will never leave this place.”
The next morning Miguel went down
the mountain to lay claim to his automo-
bile. Diosdado had gone back to Acapulco
when it became dear that the gringo
had left for an unknown period of time.
Pepe of the filling station was sitting on
the ground, 1 iust the pump.
car was where it had always been,
with many parts scattered about. Miguel
sat down beside him,
"Fell me, Pep he said. "If you
owned that car, if the rich. American
gave it to you — what would you have
to do to be able to use it?”
"Are you ary?" Pepe asked.
“No, Í mean just suppose — if he gave
it to you.”
ned and spat. “That Diosdado
ic, he is a butcher.
It will take six months to put the eng
back together."
"But the papers, the documents.
“Well, 1 do not have a license to drive,
so I would go to Taxco, to the oficina
de trinsito, to get the license апа also
the paper that says 1 own the car."
"What docs that cost iguel asked.
Pepe shrugged. Miguel took the title
from e his shirt. "He gave me th.
car. Here is the 5
Pepe took the paper and pretended
he could read it. As he did so, his
pression changed from apathy to ange
“IE this is the truth," he said, “then I
u to get your accursed automobile
у place of business.” He got to
to make gestures; he
spok nched teeth, "You
damned maguey farmer — you and you
patch of rocks! WI right have you to
get this automobile? / was the one who
Iped him. / took all the trouble to
get the mechanic. / gave him the use
ol my yard.” He spat again, turned, and
went into his filling station.
el took the next bus to Taxco.
h the fare was only six pesos, it
was an expense to reckon with. In Taxco
he sat down on a bench in the sq
and put on his shoes. Then he inquired
as to the location of the oficina de tran-
sito. It was an imposing building near the
pei
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cathedral. Miguel took off his hat as he
entered.
He was directed to a waiting room.
In the immemorial way of persons il
authority, and because he was a nothing,
they let him wait for an hour, hat in
hand. Eventually he was shown into a
room with a fat man behind a desk, who
asked him his business Miguel pro-
duced his assignment of title and asked
to have the necessary papers issued in
his name. The fat man looked at the
document, and then at him, with amaze-
ment.
"Absolutely impossible," he said.
“But no, señor, it is true.”
'A forgery. Clearly a forgery.
Miguel said no, it was true and au-
thentic. There was more argu back
and forth. Obviously the offi
not believe it possible for such a miser-
able peasant to own so fabulous а pos-
session; there was no place for such a
thing in his reality. At last, nonetheless,
he gave Miguel some forms to fill out in
triplicate,
It was late in the afternoon before the
task was done. Just before closing time
he took them to the official. The official
made some notations, asked some fur-
ther questions. He was still angry about
the whole thing. “Forty pesos,” he
Miguel faltered. “Señor,” he sai
do not have 40 pesos.
"Aha!" the fat man cricd, slamming
the lat of his hand down on the forms.
mpossible and now we
s impossible.” He sat back in his
bracing himself with both pud,
hands ag , and
swept the room with a gaze of triumph,
though, as it happened, the room was
otherwise empty. “This rich man, this
fellow wlio owns an automobile worth
big man without
even 40 pesos in his pocket." Contemptu-
ously he dropped the papers into the
wastebasket.
Miguel left the building and spent
the night on a bench in the square. In
the morning he took the bus back to his
village. They had thrown the parts of
the motor into the back seat and had
pushed the Cadillac out of the filling
station and into the street. Miguel
climbed into the front seat and sat be-
hind the wheel, placing his hands on it
nd staring through the windshield. The
s, handles, pedals and buttons were
ll a mystery to him; yet he saw himself
s the master of this vehicle, driving it
skillfully over the mountains and through
the steep streets of Taxco and Acapulco
and— who could tell?— Mexico, D.F.,
itself. Full of hope and strong resolve he
set off up the mountain to his home, and
on the way he made up his mind to sell
the burro for the funds he would need.
He explained this to Estrella that eve-
ist the edge of the desk
10,000 pesos— tl
ing while she was grinding the corn for
the tortillas. She kneeled at the stone
metale and as he spoke she said from
time to time, "Yes," or, "Ah, the burro,"
or, "I see.” Once, when he paused, she
asked, "What do you thi
for the burro?"
"Oh," he said, "200 pesos at least.”
Pause. "Well, maybe only 150. Anyway,
plenty."
"Surely," she said. "And we can carry
the maguey down to the mill on our
backs— it will not be difficult.” Pause.
“There is also the license to operate the
automobile, no? But that is probably
fice."
‘Well, no, but it
nk"
“That is good," she said. "And your
friend Pepe will not ask any pay for
ing you how to drive
uel thought of Pepe's animosity
and of the fact that he did not know
how to drive anyway, and said nothi
She worked a few moments in silence.
‘One good thing," she said. “The dam-
age to the motor — Diosdado did that,
so he will have to put it back together.
At least that will not cost anything."
Ha!" said Miguel. He got up and
walked to the cactus fence and stared
out a long while across the hills. After
a while he came back and stood by the
door. "I think it is not so important 10
sell the burro right y," he said indif-
ferently. “That can wait unti
s not expensive, I
w:
The next day, in the village, he dis-
covered that his automobile had made
enemies of his friends, Not only Pepe
but all the Indians in the square looked
at him with silent hostility as he made
his way to the car. He had come down
the mount the hope of borrowing
the 40 pesos, a peso here and a peso
there; now he realized there was no
point even in trying.
He discovered. something else:
asleep in the front seat. C s the
brothe w ol the mayor and there-
fore the local policia. He was greed
powerful, and a bully — nobody to fool
with. His presence in the car meant that
trouble lay ahe: uel found out
what it was when César, with much heav-
ing and belching, awoke.
Aha!" he said. "You. You keep me
ting all morning” He got heavily
and ominously out of the car. “You eve
keep me up all night”
"How is that so?” said Miguel,
César kicked the front. wheel. “How
long you think that tire stay on the
when you leave it here in the public
street all night?”
“But 1 cannot move it," Miguel sa
César
zar wa
id.
"There is something wrong with the en-
gine."
“Yes,” César said. "But 1 have the re
sponsibility to prevent crime. АП night
I spent in this car, to keep the tires
from being stolen.”
Miguel knew that this was a lie, If
César had spent any time near the car
at all, it was in the hope that he might
steal the tires undetected. However, one
does not express such a thought to the
policeman whose sister is married to the
mayor. Miguel said nothin;
“And also the responsibility," César
said portentously, “to punish crime. 1
therefore place you under arrest.
° Miguel said. “What have I
ıl parking and obstructing traffic
1 the town square.
“But there is no regulation here about
parking,” Miguel said, “and there is no
obstruction, Sec?”
For the bus had just a
pulco and had drive
Cadillac, Both men watched Diosdado,
in the company of а city-dressed Mex-
ican with a brief case, get out of the bu
and enter Pepe's gas statior
“Why is he here with that city pi
César asked.
“1 will soon find out,” Miguel an-
swered.
César's tone changed, became more
conciliatory and at the same time more
urgent. “Well, we do not like to be too
severe. No. You have broken the law
and you should go to jail, but that would
be foolish. After all, who would il
you were put in jail?” — and here his voice
took on rich organ tones — “However, a
ty of some sort must be paid.”
There is no jail in this town," Miguel
said. He was frightened, but he had the
sort of m
ıd that made him say that sort
stepped closer. "Fool!" he hissed.
"Get smart! We could make things very
tough for you. Do you want me to con-
fiscate the car, or do you want to listen
to a sensible proposition?”
Miguel said nothing.
“The mayor and I have talked th
over, We agreed that it would be gener
ous not to put you in jail or levy а large
fine that you could not pay
would have to take the car. Instead, when
you get the d are using it to
make money. you will pay us 20 pesos а
week for all our trouble with you
“That is indeed generous" M
said. “That is 1000 pesos a у
want from me."
“Better than losing the car" César
said harshly. “Think it over. Think it
over very carefully, my friend." And he
slouched off across the square to spend
the rest of the day playing cards with
his brother-in-law.
and we
r to run
Dios
ado and the city Mexican must
have been watching from the gas sta-
tion, for now they came out to where
he was standing, and Diosdado said with-
out preamble, “This is Señor Lopi
from Acapulco. He is a lawyer. We wish
to speak with you about the automo-
Yes," said Miguel. “Everyone is now
ing to me about my automob
It concerns the bill for my work on
the vehicle.” Diosdado said. He handed
over a paper, which Miguel looked at.
“Three hundred pesos. This is a bill
you might give to a rich American who
docs not know what things are worth.
sp
whole
ied from.
dado said, his voice rising. "Oni
day of work, and my clothes ru
the o
"You arc ridiculous,” Miguel said.
“You did not fix the car, you tore it to
pieces. Moreover, the car was not mine
when you did the age: it belonged
to Señor Wilcox. id your bill to him.
And I will give you my bill [or 300
pesos’ damage to my car.”
Now the lawyer spoke. "Let me
n to you a point of law. When а
c does work on a car, the owner
If it is a new owner, never-
must p
theless he must ра
^p assure you, señor;
“that I will not pay."
“IL the owner does not pay," the Iaw-
went on,
Miguel said,
уе he сап be prevented from
using the car until the bill is settled.
X done with a mechani п." He
opened his brief case and took from it
a document and a tube of glue. "The
law allows me to attach this lien to your
vehide. If you remove the per, or
make any use of the vehicle, you w
most assuredly go to jail."
“I have heard а lot about jail this
morning," Miguel said.
With a few swift motions the lawyer
per to the windshield.
sure you wil ish to settle
this claim," he said.
The whole affair had ta
еп on a fan-
ucl
m sure, señor,” he
said, “that I do not have this money
and that you have a sensible and gen-
us proposit
s а matter of fact, yes” the lawyer
said. “Señor Diosdado is willing, if you
are not able to pav, to cancel the debt and
give you in
1000 pesos for th
from the brief сазе and displayed them.
Miguel laughed harder. "For a mo-
I thought T was in trouble, but
now I see that it will all work out for
the best.” He stopped laughing abruptly.
“AIL T have to do is sell you my car for
a tiny fraction of what it is worth and
all will be well.” He spat in the dust.
“That is in the milk of your mother,”
he said.
The lawyer flushed. “I was told. you
were an intelligent man,” he said, “but
I find that you are the worst sort of
fool.”
“АП those who are trying to cheat me
say I am a fool,” Miguel said, “and per-
haps Lam. But I am not such a [ool as
to let you do me out of my c
The insult was almost more than they
could bear; but the two city men, alter
Tiguel’s powerful body, bore i
wyer said. “We will
get nowhere w diot.”
“You mean we can't make him sell us
the car?” Diosdado cried in anguish,
"Come on, let's go," the lawyer said,
and went back gas station.
Miguel made a second trip to Taxco,
where there was a dea automobiles.
This time he did not bring along hi
shoes. and therefor told to leave
when he entered the showroom. At last,
however, he succeeded in
n of the manager.
now it is dificult
to believe,
said, “but I am the owner
of a Cadillac of 1948, and I wish to
sell it.
The nager looked at him with the
ne amazement as the fat man in the
oficina de tránsito. “How did you get
this ca he asked.
iguel said, “This is even morc dilli
” He took out the certifies
ıd showed it As the m
‚ Miguel saw the cupidity spread over
his face.
There is something very much wrong
with that the manager sud, "if the
gringo gave it to you.”
“It had a little engine trouble, and the
mechanic in our village could not fix it.”
“And where is that"
Miguel told him.
“Nombre de Dios, it would take a
day to get there and back. A
trouble, you say? What trouble? Burne
out bearings, perhaps, or a thrown rod?"
“I do not Miguel. re
plied. "I do not know very much about
motors."
“It is surely something very serious.
know, seno
“Tve been trying to tell you all week—'m
not Anthony, I’m his messenger .
m
133
PLAYBOY
134
What else is wrong about the vehicle?”
Tell me — what do you th
did car is worth?”
In the newspaper I saw an advertise-
ment for a Cad of 1948,” Miguel
this splen-
s voice began to harden
for the kill. “That, my friend, was for
car in Mexico С excellent con-
newly polished and ready to drive
лу. I asked what you thought your
car was worth."
Miguel said, “I know that my car is
not the equal of the car in the adver-
tisement. I would make great
ances. Still, I would like to get perhaps
5000 pesos for my car."
The pity in the manager's expres
was cloquent, but his voice was pitiless.
“My friend, do you realize what you arc
asking me to do? You are asking me to
spend all day going to look at а car that
is probably worthless. If it should prove
to have some value, I must come back
with a truck and tow this car over the
mountains — two more da
xcuse me," Miguel said, "but you
could go out in the truck on the first trip."
"]t costs more to take the truck," the
manager said crossly. "In any event, I
must then repair the car, and believe
me, this will cost thousands — thousands.
In conclusion 1 must pay the lien on the
car, with all the expense of a lawyer.
And still 1 must sell the car before 1 see
centavo of my money. Why, this deal
could ruin me completely. And for this
you want me to pay you 5000 peso:
1 am deeply moved, señor,” Miguel
said coldly. "Perhaps you will tell me
how much you might be prepared to
рау”
The manager shrugged and seemed en-
irely indifferent. He turned to his desk
and began searching through some
papers. “It really is not of much interest.
If the car is no worse than I think it is,
1000 pesos would be the very most I
could соп
Miguel turned without a word and
went out. Surprisingly, the man
vied after him. “Of course,” he
is possible that the damage
Severe. In that case the value mi
as much as 1500
Miguel faced him. "Senor," he said,
with dignity and hatred, “I will not deny
that 1000 pesos is а lot of money to me.
It is more money than 1 have ever
owned at onc time in my life. Neverthe-
less, 1 will burn up the car before I sell
it to you.
Again
ах
le:
he spent the night in the
square. During the many hours of that
night he tried to imagine what other
attempts he might make to sell the car
fairly, at something like its true value,
aged condition, so far out in
the country, and with the lien on it; and
he realized that anyone he approached
— anyone — even if he went all the way
~ would insist on cheat-
he got back to his town the
ternoon, he went one by one to
‚чш ly ndolent
who had looked
such hostility two da
wanted to explai
the
posture!
me
He
something to them,
and to enlist their assistance.
before.
That night, around 11, while the
town slept, a dozen of them gathered
quietly around the car. Each had his
burro with him, and a length of rope.
Miguel was there too, with six bottles
of tequila. Quietly they made the ropes
t to the [ront bumper and to the
quietly they urged the burros
m the car. It
nd
and with th
was not until they were out of town
well along the road up the moun
anyone spoke.
sar," one of them said. “He is stay-
up all night in the automobile, so
that no one should steal the tires,
And at last, with howls of glec, they
could give vent to their joy at the deed
they were doing. It was а game now in
which they all shared: outwitting the
corrupt Authority and the City Thief;
stealing the prize from under their
noses, nullifying it, turning it into a
t with a superb disregard of the
n
cost. The first bottles of tequila began
to make the rounds.
“The thi anothe M
is not allowed to use this automobile
until he pays the 300 pesos. Therefore,
he is placing it in safekeeping, to pro-
tect Diosdado.”
Моге laughter. Pushing,
shouting encouragement to the
and resorting frequently to the bottles,
they made happy way up the
mou The first part of the trip,
along the ma
they turned. off it to the left
the narrow
t road, was easy. Later
nd took
led
more
time а motor vehicle had ever traveled
here, and the
the burros by push
n were obliged to help
g it over the larger
boulders and lifting it out of the pot-
holes. After about hall-a-mile of this,
оне of the men, looking down the hill-
side, which was almost too steep for a
toboggan run, said:
“IL Miguel docs not pay the 300 pesos,
the lawyer is at liberty to come and take
the car away.
This called for another round of te-
quila, amid renewed shouts of laughter
ind а showering of epithets on all who
had power, and on all who wore city
clothes, and on the steepness of all
mountains, particularly this one. The
thereupon set themselves to defeat it,
and the car lurched upward toward the
most difficult part of the task, where the
cart tracks went off in the wrong direc-
tion and only a donkey trail marked the
few hundred yards. Here it
necessary actually to carry the machine
most of the way. Finally it stood before
its destination.
“On the rise behind the house,” M.
guel commanded, “Facing the sunset.”
They tore a hole in the cactus fence,
and the car was hauled through. Estrella
and the little boy came out to watch.
The men, all magnificently drunk by
now, heaved, shouted, nd grunted.
The castern sky had begun to light up
before they were done, pleased with their
work and very tired from it. They un-
hitched their animals
circle around the car, stroking it with
affection, still delighted with the fabulous
nd improbable feat they had pulled off.
Miguel, hombre,” one of them said, “I
never thought I would know a man who,
with a treasure of 10,000 pesos, would
drag it up to the top of his mountain
Where no one will take it from me.
Miguel said.
"You might use it a
other said, "but then you would ha
to pay César 20 pesos а жее
"Aud Diosdado would put you i
J
wa
last
sang
and stood in a
а henhouse,” an-
ve
There was a last round of laughter.
Each ol the men, passing before Miguel,
reached out and shook his hand; he was,
and would remain, a giant in their eyes.
Then they faded into the dusk of the
hillside,
Miguel did not use it as a henhouse.
He did not us ай, in the practical
sense of the word. He admired the way
it dominated the landscape, facing silent
and useless the huge valley below. Some-
times Indians from faraway would climb
the hill to sce the marvelous car on the
mountain; often, when they did so, they
would find Miguel sitting in the front
seat with his hands on the wheel, enjoy
ing а moment of calm as the sun went
down after his days work, At times,
Estrella would join him there, and оп
ns they sometimes occupied
His next two children,
\ ncisquito, were begotten,
with joy and pride, in the back seat of
the Cadillac of 1948 of Señor Wilcox, i
the glory of the setting sun.
PLAYBOY FORUM
intended to review The Playboy Club's
license status, with a view to revoking it.
Hefner got off an immediate letter of
protest to Governor Rockefeller concern-
ing this sceming attempt al reprisal by
the SLA and he made his first public
statement to the press on the matter, after
the long months of silence necessary dur-
ing the investigation
Under a headline, “ROCKEFELLER BACKS
PLAYBOY CLUD, the New York Times
stated that the Governor had announced
he would not permit any attempt to re-
voke The Playboy Club's liquor license.
Variety stated, at week's end, “Playboy
(mag and clubs) entrepreneur Hugh М.
Hefner may yet emerge a hero as result of
the spotlight on corruption within New
York's State Liquor Authority. He said
it well that, what should have been the
legal right of any applicant for a SLA
license, became an intrigue. because of
the chicanery within the agency.
“Those in the know in metropolitan
New York circles, and presumably the
cvil extended throughout the state, had
complete awareness of the absolute life-
and-death powers of this agency over
anything and anybody having to do with
liquor licensing.”
During all these New York high jinks,
the Mayor of St. Louis gave the Playboy
Club prexy a key to the city (in exchange
for a Playboy Club key, just as the Mayor
of New Orleans had done before him)
and the St. Louis Variety Club voted
Hefner “Showman of the Year.” Playboy
prepared to open Club number six in
Phoenix and the Arizona State Liquor
Commission voted approval of a license.
Then the head of the commission, in-
vested with the power to make the final
decision in such matters, unexpectedly
and unexplainably rejected the license
request. Playboy went to court the very
next day, and the judge found that the
Club would be “in the public interes”
and granted the license.
Back in New York, Playboy filed two
separate suits to require the SLA to with-
draw ils objection lo the Manhattan
Playboy Club operating as a private key
club, and to require the cabaret com-
missioner to grant the Club a cabaret
license. New York justice moves more
slowly than Arizona’s, and these cases are
still pending; in the meantime, the lack
of a cabaret license has deprived New
Yorkers of live entertainment in their
Playboy Club for тоте than half а year,
deprived several dozen performers of the
opportunity 10 work in the Club's mag-
nificent showrooms, and соч Playboy
more than $800,000 in additional rev-
enue, Despite these problems, and the
obvious expectation of the cabaret com-
mission that the lack of an entertainment
license would mean certain disaster for
the enterprise and the loss of Playboy's
(continued from page 10)
$4,000,000 investment (a nice little pen-
айу for a difference of opinion over the
Club's concept and the Bunny's cos-
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Manhattan Playboy Club the most suc-
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The veal culprit in all of this is the
political system that puts such staggering
power into the hands of a single city or
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too often administered capriciously; al its
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Did Playboy Club executives do the
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and the final outcome of each situation,
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occur and to learn from them, too. Taken
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as the magazine is in publishing, and
we're equally proud of each of them.
Each has established a record of honesty
and integrity that any big business would
have every reason to be pleased with.
As for “The Playboy Philosophy,” it is
quite obviously a highly subjective view
of the society in which we live, and of
PLAYBOY'S part in it, but it honestly
represents Editor-Publisher Hugh M.
Hefners own attitudes, ideas and ideals,
which have affected every aspect of the
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135
PLAYBOY
136 my proposal impossible were le
IMP OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
soon as the incumbent directors learned
what 1 was trying to do, they would
spare liule effort to stop n
Impossible? Yes — at first
the other hand. I [elt my program for
building an integrated. self-contained
mployees
the general public. 1 believed 1 could
prove this to other stockholders, z
their confidence and thus their voting
y campa;
lide Water Assoc
In the end, I had
set out to do — and owned enough shan
10 hold nume
pany. Obviously, my original plan was
possible, despite all surface indications
to the contrary, 1 might add that the
company — and its thousands of stock-
benefited fron
control of the com-
holders — have
$890,000,000 in value.
1 encountered — or perhaps 1 should.
1 stumbled into— another poten-
lly possible "impossible" situation in
940. My cousin, the late Hal Seymour,
and 1 w ioning in Mexico
stopped off in Acapulco. The dim
s one of my
sports — we decided to stay awhil
One day— and. purely. by accident —
I met another tourist who exuberantly
dedared he'd discovered “the world's
most I " and asked me if
Га care to see it. E agreed that 1 would,
almost backing out at the last minute
when I dIcaricd we'd have to take a truck
through some 15 miles of tropical forest
10 reach the spot. But 1 went anyway,
mly to the side of ancient
truck that jounced and bumped alon
а crude dirt trail which looked as though
it had been unused since the day it had
been blazed by some wandering bronto-
saur
My first glimpse of Revolcadero Beach
was ample compensation for the dis
comfort of the journey and balm for my
bruises. My tourist friend hadn't е
gerated. It was the world's most b
lul beach. After a few more visits, I
made up my mind to buy several hun-
dred acres of the property and build а
luxury resort hotel on the site.
Now, most people 1 know generally
gree about most things, but when I
punced my intentions to buy and
build at Revolcadero Beach, their re-
іон were uniquely una
“Impossible!
‘The reasons they
"mous.
e Гог considering
n-
(continued. from page 82)
and, 1 must admit, ostensibly reasonable.
The land I wanted to buy was com-
pletely undeveloped: it would cost a
fortune merely to clear it, There were
no roads and no utilities; these would
have to be built and provided at s
gering cost. Revoleadero Beach was ui
known and olf the beaten path: people
would not pay luxury-hotel rates in а
resort that wasn’t situated in a "fashio
able" location. The type of resort T en-
visioned would need boat landings and
another fortune would be
to build and them
Europe was already at war — it was fool-
hardy to invest large sums in any fore
country
So the objections ran—on and on.
They varied in nature, but they all
added up to a one-wovd total: "Impos-
sibl
1 thought — 1 knew — the project. was
entirely possible. Development of the
land alone would increase its value. The
natural beauty of Revokadero Beach
and the construction of the type of hotel
I envisioned there would be enough to
make the resort "fashionable." Lower
г and material costs in Mexico
would at least. Шу offset the added
from scratch on
ions cor
ht the land. Pearl
Harbor was attacked shortly alterward,
and the United States entered World
War П. My plans for Revoleadero Beach
were shelved for the duration.
Jt wasn't until 1956 that the Hotel
Pierre Marques fins Revol-
cadero Beach. When it did, the luxu-
rious resort hotel proved. to be all Га
anticipated, and its instant success cs
ceeded all hopes — another “impossible”
project that was 10-percent possible
from the begin
many others — la
and after.
Back in the 1920s, a drilling bit that
twisted off in a hole generally was a
ng. There have been
nd. small — before
serious, expensive headache. Days, even
weeks, were spent fruitlessly "fishing"
for the bit. Meanwhile, the hole could
not be drilled deeper, costs continued to
mount up and frequently the oil [or
which one was drilling would be drained
ой by nearby wells.
ng" was accepted as
possible remedy for
seemed to be no feasible alternative.
Then, in 1927, a company in which I
held an interest had а тїзї on a
Santa prings, California, drilling
site. Several weeks were wasted while the
crew “fished” for the bit. Thinki
ch better than none,
d by the near-
possible new app
1 went to a stoneyard
est cemetery, where 1 bought a six-foot-
Jong marble shaft and had one end cut
per. Returning with it to the drill-
ing site, 1 told the drillers to throw it
down the hole — which they did.
The simple expedient worked. The
heavy te shaft slammed the bit out
te whipstocks have
been used successfully in similar situ
i able occasion се
then. In the oil industry, they're called
“Paul Getty Specials.
In the 1940s, it was considered impos-
sible to drill horizontally in the oil
пех. 1 was from convinced. that it
couldnt be done by a newly developed
technique utilizing flexible curved tub-
ng and а mud pump. Shortly after
World War H ended, I had experiments
carried out on one of my properties.
The technique was improved and re-
fined in the course of these experiments
nd soon proved entirely practical and
eficient. As а result, horizontal drilling
is now fairly commonplace. Many once-
difficult
can be solved quickly a
Even six y до. many experts
observers in the oil indust
rounded even its de-
signers by its trouble-free efficiency ever
since it went into operation in 1957.
In very recent years, various "authori-
ties” have held that the oil-tanker market
is glutted, making it impossible to oper-
tanker fleet profitably. Getty i
terests m а large tanke
ate
find it quite possible to operate it at a
supcr-
tidy profit—and have more
tankers on order and a-building.
~ > but there i
ny need to continue
along thes: li
Every successful businessman has
y similar ones.
АШ top
made the
id
n 1 know have
west strides up the success
adder because they were able to see the
possible in what others rejected or ig-
nored as the impossible. Aud, 1
hastily and emphatically, they mana
to avoid taking large steps backward
because they generally were able to rec
gnize the impossible and give it a wide
berth.
1 empl
businessm
€ the word "generally" be-
cause everyone makes some mi No
one's record is perfect.
Tve spent more than one large sum
drilling thousands of fect into the
ground in the belief it was possible 1
would strike oil—only to bring in a
bone-dry hole,
I've sold more than one lease because
I thought it imposible to find oil on
the proper 4 then learned to my
sorrow that the n
otherwise, drilled а well and brought in
a producer.
I'v le many other mistakes and
miscalculations — more of them than I'd
to remember on days when Im
ag а tight collar. There aren't any
1.000 batters. If there were, baseball
wouldn't be much of a game —and if
businessmen always made the right de-
ions, business wouldn't be business.
The point I'm driving at is that the
successful businessman is the опе who
makes the right choice between the
possible and the impossible more often
than not. The seaso
vc at such deci
guesswork. Nor docs he decide one way
or another because he has a hunch or a
clairvoyant p ion. A great deal of
careful. thought and consideration goes
to resolving the problem of the pos
sible versus the impossible whenever it
arise:
No, there aren't any inflexible rules or
money-back-guaranteed formulae for de-
termining whether something is Icasible
or not. If there were, the question would
come up. However, there is
ordered, logical method by which any
given business situation can be studied
and weighed — and. by the use of which
the of error ly reduced.
Confronted by the perverse imp of
the impossible, the 1 businessman
organizes his thinking s all
aspects of the situation with meticulous
objectivity. He does this by ask
care
uot a
emon
neve
s gr
tant of which follow
1. What — precisely
is the situation, proposition or issue un-
der consideration?
is at stake — what are the costs,
ihe minimum and maximum
the company stands to gain and lose?
3. Arc there any precedents, and if so,
be considered valid and ap-
instance?
arties — buyers or
sellers, brokers, competitors, customers,
nd to gain or lose cither way?
5. What are the known obstacles and
difiiculties the company faces if it goes
they be
nd in detail —
overcom
6. What other difficulties are likely to
—and if they do, what resources
ble and what steps may be
en to cope with them?
7. Are all the facts. known — could
there be any additional, hidden pit-
falls?
8. How long will it take to accomplish
the objectives or goals in question
is decided to proceed?
9. Would the company stand to
more by devoting equal time and effort
to something else?
10, Are the personnel who would be
responsible for handling the matter fully
qualified and dependable?
Once he has the answers to these
questions, the businessman weighs them
in the balance to determine whether
the undertaking is possible or imposs
ble. If the scales tip heavily in one
direction another, his choice is not
hard to make. П, on the other hand,
the plus and minus factors tend to bal-
ance, then he must use his judgment,
sense of proportion — and even his busi-
эз intu t a decision.
The vetera
goes through this check list of questions
automatically wh there
ever are any
doubts about the practicality of a busi-
ness situation.
The young executive or beginner in
business would do well under such cir-
stances to sit down with pencil and
per and actually list the questions and
his debicand-credit answers to them. The
tyro is likely to obtain a clear— and
sometimes entirely new and dillerent —
view ol the problem confron im if
he sees the pro-and-con arguments and
the various pertinent factors spelled out
in black and white. He'll thus have be
fore him a detailed inventory of the
advantages disadvantages. the po-
tential rewards and potential d:
all the elements forming the complete
desi
the overall picture, the
ble to see les and
aspects, Haws and strengths, expedients
and alternatives, and potentials and pit-
falls, which had previously eluded him
or which he hadn't given much thought
to before
Once it's all in front of him, he is
like a chess player who studies his own
pieces and those of his opponent on the
board, then gocs on to plan his tactics
and strategy and anticipates the oppo-
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ception, confirms that the reason Onan
was put to death was that he had violated
the law of the levirate, by which a man
must provide his deceased brother's wife
with offspring, so that the family's pos-
sessions could be handed down to direct
descendants. The Catholic writer Canon
E. de Smet, in his book Betrothment and
Marriage, also comments upon thi
тош the text and context, however, it
would seem that the blame of the sacred
w s directly to the wrongful
frustration of the law of the levirate,
ntended by Onan, rather than the spill-
ng of the seed.”
It was as part of its comprehensive at-
tempt to make the sexual act as difficult
as possible,” observes Taylor, “that the
Church devised laws against the practice
of abortion.” The Romans, Jews and
Greeks had not opposed abortion, but
Tertullian, following an inaccurate
translation of Exodus 21: 22, which re-
fers to punishing а man who injures а
pregnant woman, popularized the notion
that the Bible held abortion to be a
crime. Rabbi Glasner states, “The Bible
itself does not mention it at all. .. . One
might argue that therapeutic abortion,
least, would not be considered objec-
tionable, since the embryo was consid-
ered a part of the mother (like a limb),
id пог a separate entity. ylor
ates that though the error in transla-
ice been recognized, the
ns its position op-
nd this opposition
become incorporated into secular
Which nicely demonstrates tha
moral laws may not as often be derived
from Biblical authority, as Biblical au-
thority is sought to justify the particular
prejudices and predilections of the time.
The Church's interpretation of the
story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden provides an even more striking
ple of construing Scripture in ways
posing all abortioi
has
law.
the story wa
the "forbidden
' Adam tasted in the Garden w
s, with Eve cust in the role of the
temptress. Thus the Original Sin that
Adam handed down to all of us w
sexual in nature. But the Bible makes
no such statement: the Book of Genesis
indicates that Adam ate from the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil and
it is for acquiring this knowledge, which
made him godlike, that he was ex-
pelled from Eden. No reference is made
to sex in connection with Adam's fall
from Divine favor. (It should be noted
that in the story of the Garden of Eden,
the female is once again viewed in an
avorable light—uot only is she
ated [rom one of Adam's ribs, placing
i his possession,
(continued. from page 16)
but Eve is also the one who t
Adam into breaking God's comm
ment, thus causing his downfall. 1
variation of the story, menstruation was
explained as а "curse" imposed upon
women for Eye's treachery in seducing
Adam)
SEXUAL CONTAMINATION
IN WOMEN
ions of th
mpts
ad-
a
Church
were especially hard on women, Pre
Chri »cieties had treated women
as property: the medieval Church per-
petuated this belief and considered them
the source of all sexual evil as well. One
philosopher of the period stated, “A
Good Woman is but like one Fle put
in a bagge amongst 500 Snakes, and if
a man should have the luck to grope out
one Ele from all the Snakes, yet he
best but a wet Ele by the Тайе."
Taylor points out that the Church's
was derived from earlier
n superstitions, It preserved the
nitive belief in the power of sex to
contaminate. It was for this reason that
ied couples w
from intercourse for three nights after
marriage — the socalled Tobias nights —
and once having perform:d the sexual
act, they were not allowed to enter a
church for 30 days, and then only on
condition of doing 40 days of penance
and bringing an offering. Theodore fur-
ther extended the belief in sexual con-
tam on when he ruled th was a
sin for a menstruating woman to enter
a church and imposed à penance for any
infraction of (his dictum.
We remarked earlier on the incest
fears that pervaded early Christianity and
lurther emphasize the superstitious
nature of the Church's attitude toward
sex. Many cultures, though by no means
ll, have regarded it as incestuous to
par bling. But in the
llth Century, the Church bec
creasingly obsessed with incest fe nd
extended the ban to first. then to second,
and finally to third cousins, But this
was not all, So strongly was the notion
of sympathetic contagion embedded in
the collective psyche, so intense were
i at god-
fathers and godmothers were included
in the ban; next, even the relatives of
the priests who had baptized or con-
frmed an individual included;
finally, even the two adults who had
been sponsors to the same child in bap-
usm or confirmation. we
from ever marrying one
some small villages, it is not too
fetched to imagine that these regulations
soni nes cli wd см able
candidate and condemned individuals to
re required to abstain
ET
were
itetime of celibacy in the same way.
as Taylor points out, as the complicated
ic regulations of the Australian
blackfellow.
As a further restriction on marriage,
Christians were forbidden to marry Jews,
or the followers of any other religios
In fact, copulation with a Jew was re-
garded as a form of bestiality and carried
the same penalties. And in this there is
a certain irony, since it was from the
as derived their
to complicate and hinder the perform-
ance of the sexual act, but there is
yet one more: the Church proclaimed
that no one could marry for a second
time, even if the first partner had died
—a doctrine which was allegedly sup-
ported by the Pauline text stating that
а man who puts away his wife and mar-
ries another commits adultery: even
though St, Paul had made it clear that in
this he referred to putting away a living
It was as a
gram that the medieval Church opposed
polygamy, though the Jews had bee
polygamous, and (he carly
fathers did not object to mul
© either. Even the strict St. Augustine
considered it permissible to take a sec-
ond w f the first was I
Because it considered marriage a con-
tamin g process, the Church at first
refused to perlorm the marriage cere-
mony, but later — as a part of its compr
hensive attempt to control all se
matters — it urged couples to take their
ge vows i
в:
ma
its m
the church; because of
we position regarding the mi
ried state, however, it did not
that a civil marriage w alid, for to do
so might have indirectly implied a greater
pproval of the marital state than they
were then willing to accord. It was the
‘Tudor monarchs, untroubled by such
questions of theology, who first pro-
claimed church marriage compulsory.
The Church then refused to perform
marri: п times of
the y t one
point © were only 25 weeks in the
year when marriages were legal, . .
The Church also restricted the hours
i h the marriage vows could
first declaring that such an
occurrence should be done openly, "it
established that marriages must take
place in daylight, but later defined day-
light as eight л.м. to noon.”
nce it was the intent of the Chu
to reduce sexual opportunity to the min
mum, it recognized no justification for
divorce. The early Church had recog-
ed divorce for a limited number of
includi barrenness and rc-
y and the pi
reports tha
h
tial books allowed divorce in ts of
prolonged absence, or capture by the
enemy in wartime, but the fully devel-
oped medieval code conceded only es
pecially granted Church annulments and
ns (the latter allowing for no
y of marriage to another).
It is from the Church's superstitious or
agical view of the sex act that we
get our idea that a mar has not
been truly consummated until coitus has
been performed. By “logical” extension
of this premise, it was considered big
mous for a woman to marry if she had
previously committed fornication with
someone else; it was also considered
mous for a husband to continue to sleep
with his wife after she had slept with
nother, The performance of the sex act
was thus believed capable of crc
some new relationship betwe
als and could ev
a previously licit re
Tt was felt that se: ly dwelt
within woman, since she tempted man,
who would otherwise remain pure. Thus,
not only sexual intercourse, but the
very presence of a woman was Чоман ©
attract evil and conta
plague it was conside
to sleep with women or ev
beds, as this increased the risk of
"plying that the spread of
disease is a uniquely heterosexual phe-
nomenon.
This degradation of the female and
the lowering of her status was very dif
ferent from the position she held
с; n times. In i
Rome, women had enjoyed a status nea
equal to that of men; they had been
allowed to preach, to cure, to exorci
All these rights had
adually taken away, and by the
Middle Ages married women ceased even
to have leg: tence. Blackstone com-
ented: “The very being or legal exist
ence of the woman is suspended during
the marriage . . . for this reason a m
cannot grant anything to his wife or
enter into any covenant with her: for
the grant would be to presuppose her
pirate existence, and to covenant with
her would be only to covenant with
тазе."
Because a wife was her husba
erty, to seduce her remained
inst property (even as in ¢
times), and a
the husband's first recourse was to bring
civil action for damages against a wile's
lover. A husband had the right to inflict
“moderate chastisement" upon a wife
who did not obey him and il law
allowed him to "beat her violently with
whips and sticks." J. C. Jeaflerson, in
Brides and Bridals. notes that it was
permissible to thrash a woman with a
cudgel, but Mes to knock her down with
ad's prop-
ROMANTIC LOVE
A quite different attitude toward
women also began to develop during the
Middle Ages, and from it we derive many
love. A school of poets sprang up, who
called themselves troubadours, and who
extolled the virtues of a relationship be-
tween a man and woman, in which the
woman was placed upon a pedestal and
the man sought to win her favor. The
rules governing “courtly love,” as it was
called, were elaborately worked out and
were written down about 1186 by Andrew
of the Court of Queen
Trealise oj Love was soon
ated into the principal foreign
ges and became a standard work
throughout Europe.
The Church opposed the troub
because they elevated the position of
women, but the concept of courtly love
was not a sexual one; it was the prelimi-
nary wooing that was the
thing. and the underl
nature of these romantic relationships
(which is responsible for some of today’s
most persistent notions about с
mance) indicates that this was simply one
attempt to sublimate the treme
3s of guilt, about any m
tion, that Church-perpeti
sions had produced. Andrew's
Treatise listed a number of reasons for
not bringing a romantic allair to any
physical conclusion. and listed as the
dours
“worst” of crimes, “engaging in the work
of Venus.” A majority of the trouba-
dours’ poems were actually rife with re-
ligious references and they did much to
glorify the Virgin Mary
h troubadour extolled the virtues
woman who he both loved
and obeyed — who he wooed, but hoped
never to win, who he considered superior
to himself in every way. Taylor comments
that it would probably be a good psychia-
tric guess that the troubadours were, or
would € been, troubled with impo-
tence if finally faced with their n
this is consistent with the observation af
Rilke to the effect that the troubadours
feared nothing so much as the success of
their wooing. Many were probably p
sive homosexuals. Thus the troubadour
Rambout of Orange says that if you wish
to win women, you should “punch them
in the nose" and force them, as this is
what they like. “I behave differently,” he
adds, "because 1 do not care about lov-
ing. I do not want to be put to trouble
for the sake of women, any more than if
they were my sisters: and so with a
I am humble. obliging, f
and gentle, fond, respectful. and faith-
ful. . . ." In Dame's Purgatorio, two
woubadours are found in the sodomites*
circle of Hell.
L'amour courtois of the Middle Ages
„ according to Morton H. Hunt,
ithor of The Natural History of Love,
in his chapter in Julian Huxley's The
Humanist Frame, ". . . a compelling rela-
tionship which could exist only between
a man and woman not married to cach
other, and which the man was the
pleading, humble servitor and the woman
the disdainful, c com-
pounded of quasi-religious exaltation,
much public discussion of aesthetic mat-
ters and of etiquette, ‘purified’ and often
unconsummated sex play, and the queer
fusion of chi
good character
istresse
ic ideals and concepts of
with the practice of
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secrecy, deception and illicit relation-
ships. . . .” Hunt says in addition:
“[Courtly love's] proto-romantic quali-
ties of sadness, suffering, distance from
the beloved, difficulty of attainment of
desire, secrecy, and the like can all be
explained in psychological terms, but
they would never have been admired
and idealized had love not been forced
by... religious asceticism, and the sub-
servient status of the wife, to remain
outside and alongside marriage.
^... Courtly love, during its carly
centuries, was ideally functional for both
the individual courtier and the courtly
class. But for the bourgeois of the Refor-
ion, it was disfunctional in that,
mong other things, it required more
ime, moncy, and cultivation of taste
than the middle class possessed; more-
over, it was in conflict with their gencral
sense of morality. When, however. it was
modified enough to be
sfunctions disappeared.
fter, antic love leading to
marriage ally suited the
] and business с m |:
commerci
is in this modified form that romantic
lov
found its way down to the present
time, reaching its apex in the 19th Ce
tury. Of this period. Hunt says: “. . . The
19th Century — that high-water mark of
romantic and sentimental feeling — was
a time when many men were made im-
potent or masochistic by the prevailing
love mores and many women were
varped by frigidity and frustration,"
In The Medicval Manichec, S. Runci-
n reports that the very same area
which gave birth to Courtly Love (Prov-
ence and the Languedoc) developed а
related religious movement known as
Catharism. Though soon declared by the
Church to be heresy, it became so popular
that it was openly preached, was sup-
ported by many nobles, and seems to have
replaced, to a large extent, the orthodox
Church until the savage persecutions of
Simon de Montfort wiped it out, and
most of the troubadours, too.
stressed sexual abstinence:
ted members were required
not to sleep with their wives. They felt it
was desirable to forgo all fleshly pleasure,
was “wicked,” but because
wiped ou
they believed it slowed up the attainment
of enlightenment. A number of similar
sects sprang up, which were related to the
chaste romanticism of the period. In
these, women were accorded a higher
status than they enjoyed within the ortho-
dox Church, but chastity was stressed,
even between man and wife.
"The notion that man should, and
could, rise above sexual temptatio:
was not a new one, by any means, and
we have mentioned that the carliest
Christians first sought to transcend sex
and, f: g in that, turned to repres-
sion, which the Church found worked
far better. The orthodox Church vigor-
ously attacked all of these sects as heresy,
but it was, in time, itself affected. by
the ideals of this romanticism
Taylor observes that in the hands of
the saints, the notion of transcending
sex “was twisted into a more athletic
and masochistic form, becoming the
famous ‘trial by chastity,’ in which one
sought to demonstrate one’s sell-control
by finding the greatest extremes of
temptation. .. .” It is said that St. Swithin
constantly slept in one bed with two
beautiful virgins, which led fellow dergy-
men to rebuke him for the risk he was
incurring. St. Brendan attempted a simi
lar feat, but found that. though he could
resist the temptation, he was unable to
get off to sleep, and returned (o his
monastery discomfited.
SEX AND THE CHURCH COURTS
The ecclesiastical courts had the ex-
dusive right t0 uy a
the Church, which
matters of religion, but quest
morality and sex, as well. The system
and content of canon law which grad-
ually developed was completely differ-
ent from the common law, which was
used by the civil courts. Whereas. the
common law was primarily concerned
with the protection of the rights, person
d property of the individual, canon
law frequently regarded as offenses ac-
tions which harmed no one. Thus they
proceeded against individuals for "im-
pure thoughts,” in exacly the same
manner as modern dictatorships practice
“thought control” The Church at-
tempted to prescribe behavior in not
only the major matters of life, but in
many minor matters also, such as enjoy-
ing the sight of a priest in trouble, refus-
ing to sing in church, sitting in the wrong
pew, and even for passively encouraging
or favoring such “crimes.”
One of the most rem: ble laws
evolved by the Church court used mar-
ge as a punishment for fornication.
In 1308 the Archbishop Winchelsey de-
veloped a procedure whereby a contract
was drawn up at the time of the first
offense stating that, in the ev
third offense, the parties were to be
considered as having been man and
wile from the time of the first offense.
Nor it be argued u such laws
were established for any logical or
ethical reason, or to foster lasting per-
sonal relationships, for the Church also
held that it was а worse crime for a
st to marry than to keep a mistress,
ad to keep a mistress was worse than to
ge random fornication. In A
History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the
Christian Church, H. C. Lea writes that
when a priest was accused of being
married, it was a good defense to reply
that he was simply engaged in indis-
criminate seduction, since this carried
light penalty, whereas the former
volve total suspension.
The Church courts had at their dis-
posal the ultimate penalty of excom-
muni i
Чоп which, in
„ could include the
ghts, and imprisonment, if the offender
persisted In time the Church
so influenced public opinion that the
secular courts began to support and re-
force the ecclesiastical courts and, with-
out the protections of te church
more
loss of civil
n his
and sta xtraordi-
nary prohibitions eventually became em-
bodied in the civil law (where some of
th
a still persist today
Nonetheless, it was apparent that no
mere phys system of supervision
could hope to regulate the most private
behavior of men even their very
thoughts — only а more subtle psycho-
logical control, based upon terror, could
do that. The Church had coni
emphasized afterlife — thc a
hi the disadvan:
But now an additional стр
placed upon the horrors of eternal
damnation and what it would mean to
spend an eternity roasting in hellfire.
Jt must be recognized also that the
continually increa repression of sex
by the Church might be expected to |
produced a greater interest in fanta:
of sadistic horror in both the cler
and the general public, since modern
psychiatric preception has revealed the
nimate link that exists between sex
and pain and how a repression of the
sex urge tends to produce sado-maso-
chistic and other abnormal ir i
av and
уе
s
It is not surprising. therefore, that Tay-
lor reports: “By the beginning of the
12th Century. some of the predictable
results of sexual repression had begui
о appea to perversion,
and heresy
bounded. . . .
A great number of Christian ascetics
have described how they were unable
10 escape all feeling of sexual desire
and how they tormented themselves and
subjected their bodies to excruciating
tortures in the vain attempt. Taylor
writes, “In this unenviable state, men
quick to find sexual overtones in
every object, every action of ой
And it was just these men — restless,
эру. obsessed, driven by the ener-
of their bottledup libidos— who
pt to attain positions of power
id stamp it with their
men ol God at-
born sexual
erse they became;
mor
these
tempted to deny the
nature, the more ре
the more perverse, th
they were with sexual sin: greater con-
cern led to greater repression; perversity
became perversion and still more re
pression was thought necessary. The
Church's obse
sell-perpetua
continued to increase through. the. cen-
turies until it finally burst in the holo-
сайм of the inquisiti
bloody corpses spread
of Europe.
SEX AND WITCHCRAFT
Near the end of the Middle Ages,
Pope Innocent УШ issued the Bull
Summa desiderantes, most often re-
ferred to as a bull against witchcraft, but
the sexual nature of its content indi-
cates that it was something more than
that. h ly pr
isuing the dedaration by
subordi Sprenger and Kramer, who
returned from Germany with wild tales
of sexual excesses chery; the
churchmen and people of the community
violently denied the charges, but the
ration was issued just the same, and
| Kramer were appointed
itors. Soon after, they pre-
pared and had published a famous hand
book on the subject, Malleus Mallefi-
stated: “АШ witcheraft
Hust, which in women
° With perfect logic. it then
adds that the primary source of witch-
s the quarreling of young women
aud their lovers. This small volume might
dered today a near-classic casc-
book of sexual psychopathy, The popu-
larity of the Mallens, which rapidly w
Unough 10 editions, gives some inc
tion of the perverted preoccupation the
m such matters at the
time. The three main subjeds of
more
concerned
осети WHS acti dded
to
two ol his
te
and wi
carum, which
eral public had
he book
were impotence, conversion hysterias and
sexual fantasies: all of these were said to
be caused by witchcraft. And since th
incidence of impotence, hysteria and
sexual fantasy in such a sexually re-
pressed society must have been stagger
ing. it is not surprising that the witch
hunters had no difficulty in finding a
ample number of “victims” as evidence
of witch magic.
Once they had found a "victim."
finding the witch was a relatively sim-
ple matter. The techniques used by the
Inquisitors guaranteed results: The vie
first asked to name whomever
wht might have cast the spell
upon him: f in hbors
were interrogated and me
the witch: the Int
lect a likely prospect or
the general public was some sked
to pick a candidate. The suspect wa
then arrested; tortured until he “con-
lesse." and then burned at the stake,
or otherwise disposed. of.
Persons of both sexes and all ages—
from small children to the most elderly
— were accused, though the biggest
the:
ету.
group consisted of young girly i
teens. Both the accused and the ac
came [rom every stratum of society and
many prominent persons were involved.
To cite a single example fom C. Wil-
liams’ book, Witchcraft: In the mass
persecutions in Bamberg between 1609
and 1633, when 900 persons were
bumed to death, one of those executed
was Johannes Ju bu aster of
the city. Under to he confessed to
witchcraft; asked to name his accom-
plices, he denied havi but
tortured again, 4 Shortly
before his execution, he was permitted
to write to his daughter. He told her
not to believe what he had confessed —
“It is all falsehood and invention. . . .
They never cease the torture until one
says something,”
lu his article, The Sabbats of Salan,
in last months rLavwoy, E. V. Grillith
described some of the rituals purported-
ly practiced by witches of the time and
doubtedly tue that in a period
of such extreme sexual. repression some
Devil worship really did exist. It was
during the Mth Century that the Black
Mass was born, in which the holy
sacrament of the Church was tumed
into a ritual honoring Lucifer, and the
nude body of a y 1 was used
as an altar, from which were read the
Devil's Commandments. with the “Thou
shalt nots” of the Ten Commandments
changed to “Thou shahs.” But it is
doubtful that these practices. were as
common as is generally assumed. The
actual number of Devil worshipers will
never be known, but it is certain that
only a small percentage of those ex
cuted for witcheraft were actually guilty
of any crime. whatex
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Torture was not always required to
elicit confessions, however. Many came
forward of their own free will and ad-
mitted such sins, even though they
knew that such admissions virtually as-
d their deaths. If this seems strai
one necd only be reminded that even
today any major murder brings forth
mber of "false confessor" who
ad
(see The False Confessor, PLAYBOY,
January 1958). Psychiatry would explain
п overwhelming need for punish-
ment that some deranged indivi
experience because of an inner fe
guilt that is completely unrelated to the
act that they confess. In а time when
ety was so thoroughly gu
it is easy to understand why so
any willingly came forward with con-
s that were pure fanta
gh the inquisitions sp
include other forms of heresy, the pre-
dominantly sexual nature of the trials
continued to the end. In fact, the very
term “witchcraft trials” is а misleadi
the
Church wished to suppress and the inqui-
misnomer, since it was sex that
sitions were a means of suppressing
It was a basic assumption, during the
trials, that all witches (of both sexes)
had had sexual relations with the Devil.
АШ inquisitors worked with an estab-
ished manual of questions, and since
these were almost wholly sexual, they
were usually successful (with the help
of a little torture) in producing sexual
E
ly Christianity, the Devil had
played a relatively minor role. But
early in the Hth Century, Satan became
а very definite and prominent figure in
religious dogma, with detailed app
nce, habits and intentions. He
viewed as the immortal enemy of God,
was
exclusively occupied in trying to mis-
lead men into denying or perverting
Christian morals and. practices. Various
lesser demons were described as the
members of the Devil's staff of subor-
dinates, all organized in a hierarchy
very similar to that of the Church.
Not only were Satan's chief lieutenants
given names, the exact number of his
rmy of demons was calculated: 7,105,
б. The Devil frequently engaged in
those forbidden sexual acts that were
prohibited to man and in some ac
counts he is described as having a forked
penis, so that he could commit for
tion and sodomy at the same time. The
Devil was both insatiable and sadistic,
sometimes demanding intercouise 50 and
60 times a night. Though he lives in
the bowels of the earth, mid fire and
brimstone, he was often described as
icy cold to the touch — especially his
sexual parts, The clergy had an expla-
for this i if
s cle, ingenious: “Having no
їса-
ation that w
noth;
ess
semen of his own, he gathers up that
of mortal men
ed in their night
ions, storing it up
1 abhorred body for later
usage." The Devil's demons were either
male (incubus) or female (succubus),
and could change from one to the other
at will, Griffith writes, “Practicing this
quidechange artistry was, t a
favorite trick of the hellish visitors:
often a man would be locked in amorous
embrace with a succubus . . . when the
devil would transform [herself] to a
male incubus, with attendant complica-
tions which the demon found hilariou
The reverse also took place, when the
witch, at
female the height of h
t, found her hell-
ish gallant had. gone aglimmering, le:
ing her in the arms of a succubus.
The subconscious fears of homosexuality
in such imaginings is obvious. The
Devil, who was "Prince of the Air" as
well as of the Darkness, could also
make himself invisible and thus have
intercourse with his converts in the very
presence of the godly.
In order for the Church to underta
these “witch hu, necessary
to reverse a position held for several
centuries: the Church had previously
declared that witchcraft was a baseless
superstition. In 785 the Synod of Pader-
horn had ordered death to anyone who
killed another for being a witch; Charle-
e
ts it
was
magne confirmed this ruling and the
Canon of Episcopi ordered bishops to
combat the belief in witchcraft and to
ехсоц
in such
municate anyone who persisted
beliefs, An Irish Council had
ruled, “Whoever, deceived by the
Devil, belie the fashion of the
then that anyone can be a witch
on this account is to
undergo punishment of death.” John of
Salisbury, Archbishop of Canterbury,
displayed remarkable psychiatric per-
ception for his time when, in the 12th
Century, he stated that “some falsely
ppens are poor women or simple
d credulous people.
The change from this enlightened
view started with John XXII, who—
gathering together all the wildest fı
ments of superstit
Super illius specula, which [or
the new auitude. His quite
camp gainst the new sin helped to
develop in the people a paralyzing sex
of dread and danger. A papal bull issued
by Pope Lucius I instructed the bishops
to investigate heretics, forcing persons
"found marked by suspicion alone” to
prove their innocence or be punished.
Officers of the law who did not cooperate
were excommunicated. Further enact-
ments followed in 1374, 1409, 1418, 1437,
1445 and 1451, and the witch-hunting
craze became a dominant reality through-
out Europe.
Prominent theologians wrote fervent
appeals to the public (Sprenger and
Kramer actually coerced the Senate of
the University of Cologne into endorsing
th Malleus Malleficarum).
It was finally asserted that to deny the
reality of witchcraft was heresy. The
ecclesiastical courts elicited the coopers
tion of the civil courts, for the Church
did not wish the responsibility of shed-
ding blood itself; the religious court
turned the hapless persons accused over
to the civil authorities with the sanc
monious recommendation to avoid the
shedding of blood, and the state then
sually hanged or burned the victims,
nce this did no: ‘olve bloodletting, in
the strictly literal sens
It was during this period that the civil
courts consented to recognize сори].
with the Devil as a capital crime. The
proposition that witches engaged in night
flights became dogma in 1450: this made
it possible to argue that accused persons
committed sinful witchcraft many miles
away without being seen en route or hav-
ng to rely on more customary means of
e into which many of
those who made the accusations and
cks managed to work themselves
can only be understood by recognizing
the subconscious sexual pleasure that
was undoubtedly linked to much of the
dism of the inquisitions. Only a society
as sexually repressed, and consequently
perverted, as the one we have described
could have produced such an appaili
spectacl
all ages, [rom 5 to 75, were often stripped.
ed during the questioning. Their
bodies were poked and prodded, espe-
cially the genitals, for it was believed
that witches could be identified by the
existence of insensitive spots on their
anatomy. A long needle was sometimes
sed for this purpose — the inquisitors
pricking every inch of skin to the bone;
this was considered a form of examina-
ion, incidentally, and. not torture. If a
was found in the
victim's cell, while he was being held
prisoner before or during the trial, this
was recognized to be a demon in disguise,
come to visit the accused, and. provided
additional evidence of guilt.
“Trial by Water" w потег tech-
nique for determining guilt. The accused
trussed and tossed into a river. If he
floated, he was believed to be a witch and
was put to death; if he sank and drowned,
his innocence was established.
In The Sabbats of Satan, F. V. Griffith
describes the trial and execution of a
comely young woman of 24, a Hildur
Loher of Würzburg, who was typical of
the many who were put to death in th;
period. She was а bride of a few months;
her husband had been the chief witness
spider, louse or Пу
w.
record is still
al
against her and the co
intact; her crime was having had ses
relations with the Devil.
The owner of a brothel
n Bologna
was condemned in 1468 for keeping а
fed exclusively with succubi. He
torn from
house st
was sentenced to have his flesh
his bones by red-hot pincers,
he was burned and his ashe:
In the German community of Lind-
m. which in 1664 had a population of
600, 30 persons were executed. In 1589 at
burg in Saxony, a town of some
phabitants, 133 were burned in
Toulouse the number
п one day was 400. It was claimed.
towns there were more
ig to H. C.
is said to have
ithin three months,
hop of Bamberg 600, a Bishop of
Würzburg 900." Eight hundred were con-
demned. apparendy body, by the
Senate of Savoy. Pa his History of
the Inquisition, boasts that in a century-
anda-half. from 1404, the Holy Office
had burned at least 30,000 witches.
Nicholas Remy (1530-1612), an inquisi-
ne with 800 executions to
stated, “So good. justice
that last year there were no less than
16 killed. themsel rather than pass
through Н. Williams, in The
he
tor from Lor
in Spain, Torqu
10.290 persons to the stake
to prison.
No one knows the total number of
human be
па est
few
ada personally sent
па 97.371
єз range from а conserva-
hundred thousand to several
be safely assumed, how-
more persons were put to death
for religious reasons by our Christian
icestors than were killed in all of the
European wars fought up to 1914.
The blame, of course, does not attach
itself only to the
Protestant reformers were, i
even more ical and they persecuted
“witches” with even greater ferocity.
Iu Scotland, the church porches were
equipped with a box built there espe-
cially to receive anonymous denuncia-
tions. Taylor reports that “Calv
Geneva,
punction, burned h
Luther
De
The records include numerous confles-
sions that were denied after the torture
the accused
th. In Spain and England, i
vestigations into some of the trials were
instituted and some real attempts were
ade to arrive at the truth. James I was
so distressed by much of the typical *
he completely altered
previous attitude in favor of witch hunt
ing. insisted on fair trials for the accused,
exposed false confessions and accusa-
with crocodile tears of
cs of all
ed, but this did not sa
dence" d
tions, and saved the lives of five women
charged by a hyste
when Sa
wave of accusations in 1611, he reported.
that among 1300 persons accused, there
was not a single genuine case. After he
made his report, the preaching of ser-
mons on witchcraft was prohibited and
from that time forward, little more was
with is not that of
from hon
gradual emergence
st error to enlightenment, so
much as a sudden awareness of the mass
madness that had. dominated. Europea
life for so long and that stands as a hoi
fying monument to the effect extreme
sexual repression can have upon a society
d the form that it с
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