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eral people within
the continental limits of the United
States who don't recognize the artfully
disguised sheik on our April cover as
Britain's cinematic clown prince, Peter
Sellers, but happily they don't read this
magazine. Peter's variation on the Valen
tino theme (with appropriate subtitle)
provides only a small inkling of what
brightens our pages within. His comedic
contribution, Sellers Mimes the Movie
Lovers, is a wildly mad and wonderfully
unclad (courtesy of a dishabilled cast of
leading ladies) take-off on an allstar
entourage that includes the title role in
his forthcoming flick, The World of
Henry Orient.

Starting in this issue: You Only Live
Twice, another Тап Fleming adventure
novel on the very public world of Secret
Agent 007 — the inimitable and appar-
ently indestructible Britisher, Tames
Bond, The novel will be available this
August їп а hard-cover edition under the
imprint of New Ame Library
(84.50). While pravnoy readers are delec-

tating his latest Bond brain child,
Fleming is busy in his Jamaica retreat
conjuring up even stickier wickets for
his death-defying alter ego. Daniel
Schwartz, illustrator of You Only Live
Twice, joins a long list of eminent artists
whose works have been featured on the
pages of raynoy. An amateur photog-
rapher and jazz pianist, and aspiring
pilot, Schwartz has exhibited in most of
the major museums and his works

induded in a who's who of private
collections.

A consummate practitioner in the art
ge, Jean Genet, the controver-

of langu
sial subject of this month's interview (the
only one he's ever given to a public
tion), is a self-prodaimed homosexual,
thief and traitor, Genet, author of the

obtuscly outspoken plays The Blacks and
The Balcony, and last year's literary sen-
sation, Our Lady of the Flowers, does
not have to proclaim his own literary
merits; he is recognized as one of
France’s truly great writers.

Frederik Pohl, creator of this issue's
taut fictive space probe, The Fiend, edi-
tor of Galaxy magazine and author of
close to 40 sci-fi books, became involved
both literally ively with the

nd figu
body politic this past year when he ran
for County Coroner of his New Jersey
home base. Pohl polled less than his op-
ponent, however, and so continues to
concern himself solely with lively science
fiction. An acerbic survey of todays
fiction scene, John W. Aldridge's High-
brow Authors and Middlebrow Books is

FLEMING

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about to be published by David McKay
as part of a work on the contemporary
American novel. Onetime Fulbright lec-
turer at the University of Copenhagen,
Aldridge is now a Yank at Oxford where
he is about to practice what he preaches,
embarking upon his own contemporary
American novel. A fictional departure
for eLAYBOY is John Keats’ shocker of a
vignette, You Could Always Hope. Nei-
ther entertainment in its usual context,
nor a story in the strict plot-structure
sense — two requisites for PLAYBOY fiction
— Keats’ war fragment, nevertheless, was
so compelling a portrait of a particular
kind of contemporary horror, to have

passed it up would have been a disserv-
ice to our readers. Keats’ most recent
hook, They Fought Alone, was a much-
praised nonfiction effort on guerrilla
warfare in the Philippines.

PLAynoy Fashion Director Robert L.
whose imprint is on our Spring
& Summer Fashion Forecast, is a well-
dressed man for all seasons, Scheduled
to be a commentator this month at the
London convention of the International
Association of Clothing Designers, he h
this year put in duty as а men's-fashion
authority at conventions, conferences,
and press previews in Grand Bahama,
Los Angeles, Philadelphia and the New
York World's Fair

Since making an easy dollar is always
in fashion, PLAYBOY readers would be
pound wise to pay more than passing
heed to Howard Margolis’ Sucker Bets
— an eye-opening primer on how to turn
man's irresistible игре to wager on a
"sure thing" to one's advantage. Going
from money-makers to monster-makers,
this issue finds PLAYBOY'S own misarthro-
pologist Gah

a Wilson turning his
auention from ghouls to pools for a
nly mirthful collection of car-
toons on the genus Carcharias, The
Sharks.

Add to this, Thomas Mario's mouth-
watering guide to the very special
attraction of Continental Comestibles,
another galaxy of former gatefold girls
in Playmates Revisited — 1956, Artist
LeRoy Neiman's Man at His Leisure
limning of England’s famed Epsom
De
wee Jeebies, Don Addis’ Symbolic Sex,
Playmate Ashlyn Martin and, after a
month's hiatus, another installment of
Editor-Publisher Hefner's Playboy Phi-
losophy.

mor

by, Shel Silverstein’s La Dolce Tee-

As our pantomimic Peter Sellers pre-
sages on the cover, our April issue is a
first-run, four-star production. Step right
in, the show's about to start.

vol. 11, no. 4 — april, 1964

PLAYBOY.

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CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE

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DEAR PLAYBOY... А Б — = 7
PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS.. 3 " 2 „358
THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR. .... ie xus — 39
PLAYBOY'S INTERNATIONAL DATESOOK—trovel... PATRICK CHASE 43
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: JEAN GENET—cendid conversation 22 45
THE PLAYBOY FORUM... - uo DW
THE PLAYBOY PHILOSOPHY—edi 6з

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE—novel..
PLAYBOY'S SPRING & SUMMER FASHION FORECAST—attire ROBERT L GREEN 77
YOU COULD ALWAYS HOPE—fiction...

IAN FLEMING 70

a JOHN KEATS 87

THE SHARKS—humor GAHAN WILSON вө
NEW GIRL IN TOWN—playbey's playmate of the month. 92
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor — . 98

CONTINENTAL COMESTIBLES—food.. 2 THOMAS MARIO 100

SUCKER BETS—arlicle. st HOWARD MARGOLIS 103
FREDERIK POHL 105

DON ADDIS 106‏ ي

THE FIEND—fiction

SYMBOLIC SEX—humor.............

SELLERS MIMES THE MOVIE LOVERS—pictorial. = - 109
HIGHEROW AUTHORS AND MIDDLEBROW BOOKS—opinion. JOHN W. ALDRIDGE 119
THE EPSOM DERBY—man at his leisure -LEROY NEIMAN 120
THE CRAFTY COUNSEL OF COLONEL BIONDI—ribold classic. ا سسس‎
PLAYMATES REVISITED—1956—pictorial NEN errr ey 1 2A:

LA DOLCE TEEVEE J:EBIES— satire. :
ON THE SCENE—personalities..........
CONVERSATION—h umor. JULES FEIFFER 146

LITTLE ANNIE FANNY—satire. HARVEY KURTZMAN ond WILL EIDER 185

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EJ ADDRESS PLAYBOY MAGAZINE + 232 E. OHIO ST., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611

TENTH ANNIVERSARY
First of all, I would like to wish you
the very best on your tenth birthday and
thank you for the ten years of pleasure
PLAYBOY has given me. Secondly, your
Tenth Anniversary Issue (January) was
something quite remarkable — even for
pravnoy. Lord Bertrand Russell, Ernest
Hemingway, James Baldwin, Ian Flem-
ing, Pablo Picasso, Р. С. Wodehouse,
Vance Packard, Philip Roth, Wolf Man-
kowitz, Vladimir Nabokov and Budd
Schulberg all in one issue must have set
some sort of magazine publishing record.
Charles Dickinson
New York, New York

I haye kept the January issue of
PLAynoy on my night stand since re
ceiving it, and have been reading ex
cerpts from the issue for the last week
or so. In my opinion it is the best value
ever given in one issue of any magazine.
Charles B. Bloch
Globe Photos
Hollywood, California

MM REMEMBERED

Reading your January salute to Mari-
lyn Monroe, and looking at it, 1 thought
that. Marilyn would have smiled happily
at the publicity and then confided to one
of her few intimates, “They didn't ех-
pose my secret.” Marilyn’s secret through-
out her life was the fact that she wa
innocent of sex. Her relationships with
men had been always emotional or
social, Sensuality was as foreign to her
as trigonometry. She once said to me,
"Maybe ГЇ find out sometime what
makes people so excited about sex, but
so far, it doesn’t seem to me any more
interesting than shoe polish.
in San Francisco a week before her mar-

‘This was

riage to Joe DiMaggio.
Ben Hecht
Nyack, New York

Marilyn could be and often was a
maddening girl during the shooting of
a picture and | doubt that I am the
only one who worked with her who was
occasionally provoked into impatience
and even bitterness by her behavior on

the set. I can’t remember having un-
burdened myself about her in the exact
words you attribute to me, but I can
hardly deny that there were many times
when I felt that way about her

But please let me correct the record
by bringing it nearer to date. It was
something like 12 years ago that 1 wrote
and produced two pictures in which she
appeared, We're Not Married and How
to Marry a Millionaire, and my irritation
with her at that time is now so far in
the past and so long forgotten that 1
was shocked when J read what I had
said. It took me a little time, in fact,
to remember the worry she had caused
many of us on those picture

It had disappeared so completely that
when, two years ago, I had occasion to
work with her again, in connection with
the screenplay of Something
Give, neither of us, I am sure, remem-
bered anything about it. She did at
first, I must admit, express to the pro-
ducer, Henry Weinstein, a doubt as to
the advisability of this professional re-
union, and on the grounds, too, that 1
didn't like her. (She put things as sim-
ply as that.) And why did she think I
didn't like her, Mr. Weinstein asked.
“Because 1 once turned down a script
of his,” she replied. But it didn’t take
long to straighten that one out. As I
explained to her at our first meeting, if
I nourished a disl
had turned down a script of mine I
would be on speaking terms with very
few people in Hollywood. This time I
found myself working with a young
woman so different from the one I had
known before that I won't even try
to describe it, except to say that I had
lived to regret anything I had ever said
about her that was not admiring and
affectio

ke for everyone who

Nunnally Johnson
London, England

arlyn Monroe's biographer, I
began reading your January essay and
looking at the photographs of MM with
a certain uneasiness — but this quickly
gave way to a warm pleasure. I must
compliment you on the good taste and

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loveliness of the text and the pictures,
among which were some of the most
beautiful photographs of this most
wonderfully photogenic of American
women. It was, I thought, the finest
tribute paid her since her untimely
death, and what made it so fine was the
feeling of love for MM that came
through. If only she could have known

how much she was loved.
Maurice Zolotow
Hastings on Hudson, New York
NABOKOV

The January interview with Vladimir
Nabokov was brilliant on both sides—
the interviewer thrusting open the
Nabokov not in the room: the
viewer rushing to the fire escape,
Nabokov scrambling over the roof: the
nterviewer finally cornering him with
a question and Nabokov stating exactly
what he wants to say, in response to a
question which Nabokov had been agi-
n his own space helmet. Please
tulate Alvin Lofller lor me.

Herbert. Gold

San Francisco, California

congi

Tread the interview with Mr. Nabokoy
with great interest, but I will confine my
comment to this: If I may use what
seems to be one of his own favorite
words, I find it "do hear
the author of Lolita exclaim, "Let us
skip sex.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Tucson, Arizona

LOVE LETTERS
The Very Acme of Romantic Love in
the January pLaynoy was an enthralling
example of the one-sidedness of the his-
toric encounter between boy and girl.
She remains the supreme aphrodisiac
nd egotist. He is still her favorite (and
most willing) pawn: so eager to please,
so oblivious to pain. Where else but in
an amocban society is the hunter so
dearly beloved — by the hunted
Edward Murrain
New York, New York

I wish to extend unqualified con-
gratulations to a master of allegorical
prose, Wolf Mankowitz. His story, one
be certain, was vividly symbolic of
the experiences of many incurably ro-
mantic men such as myself. Though for
allegory was not a cure, it was
at least a revelation of sorts that it
presented а dearer understan of
both the nature of man and the nature
of woma

me hi

Robert W. V
KSOO Radio
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

nCleve

RUSSELL
Noting on the cover of your January
issue that Bertrand Russell was among

your distinguished contributors, 1 im-
mediately turned to the article, read it,
and decided to write to you, secure in
the knowledge th:
friendly letters.

1 must first admit that I was disap-
pointed that the article was uncharac
teristically emotional. It was not, I am
sad to say. an appeal to reason as are
Lord Russell's other works. I was glad,
on the other hand, to see his work pre-
sented to such a large audicucc.

C. F. Stephan
Myrde Beach, South Carolina

you receive many un

After years of pondering o er Ber
trind Russell, the meaning behind the
man and the man behind the meaning,
I was hit squarely in the face with it,
thanks to PLAYBOY, He's right; it’s just

the whole world that's all wrong.
W. Н. Trask

BLUES USED
After reading The Uses of the Blues
by James Baldwin in your January issue,
І was moved то write my fist letter to
the editor. I teach Negro children and
have taught them, and other racial mi-
norities, for nine years. | thought |
understood them; but after reading Mr.
Baldwin's fine article I'm sure I under-
stand them a lot better.
Wi

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m IL Smith
т, Colorado

HIGH-POWERED PACKARD
Vance Pac
ing clear his nonqualification for a posi-
tion in the upper reaches of indu:
agement, in January’s On Being a
Managerial Misfit, renders your readers
a worth-while service by revealing some
of the more gratuitous idiocies of man-
agement selection as practiced by many
large companies today.
Robert N. McMurry
"The McMurry Company
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Chicago. Illinois

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TOAST POST
Re January's A Short History of Toasts
and Toasting by William Iversen: Be
advised that the practice of shattering
the glass at traditional Jewish weddings
does not have anything to do with the
prevention of the use of the glass for
secular reasons. Rather it denotes that
even at the most joyous events Jews are
to remember the destruction of the Holy
Temple and the subsequent exile and
persecutions: so a glass is shattered by
the groom as a token of the common
sorrow and hope for the Messianic Era.
Fred Kesofsky
Pittsburgh, Pennsylva

GAMESMANSHIP

Was your inclusion of a Negro couple
in the group demonstrating for the Fun
and Games article (January 1964 issue)
merely part of today’s "let'sstart.being-
fair" wend in advertising, aimed mainly
at getting more of the Negro market, or
was there supposed to be an implicit
message in it for your readers? If the
later is the case, then I believe that
someone having a worthy comment to
make should speak up and not whisper.
On the surface, onc might get an impli-
Invite Negro friends to
your However, upon reading
your article, one discovers that the type
of party you suggest involves kissing,
bodily contact, and other such pleasur
able merrymaking. Can we then assume
that you haye put your stamp of ap-
proval on this type of interracial amo-
ss, which is very synonymous with
and quite a good beginning for
the muchfrowned-upon institution of
arriagez

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shallow puddle. But, if there was some
message to be derived from your action,

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I thought you might get a kick out of
Knowing that one of the scenes in Stan-
ley Kubrick’s brilliant film satire, Dr.
Strangelove: от How 1 Learned to Stop

Worrying and Lowe the Bomb, shows
the pilot of a SAC bomber perusing a
copy of rLaynoy.

Jonathan Thompson
Los Angeles, California

VOICE CHOICE

"The January issue was a fittingly fine
way to kick off your Tenth Anniversary
Year. May 1 offer an anniversary present
to PLAYBOY with this quote from John
Wilcock’s column in The Village Voice.

Says he: “As Esquire has become more
entangled in the roots of its
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are the furthest out. Hefner obviously
possesses the courage to stick his neck
out for some of his convictions
Fred Klein
New York, New York

uninh

BENNY DIGS BEN
1 read Ben Hechts "Noble" Experi-
ment [vtavsoy, December 1963] with
great interest, because, as you know, I
was a youngster playing in some of the
cafés at that time and remembered quite
vividly the mobs and people he was talk-
ing about. In retrospect, I had the same
feeling that he did about the gangsters
during that period. They did have their
private wars
ber, his point of view is quite correct
Benny Goodman
New York, New York

d as far as I can remem

PAN PAN
Perhaps in Mr. Broyard’s December
story, Conversation Over Moo Goo Gai

Pan, Milton gains 20 pounds to shield
himself from the wounds of bigoted anti.
Semites such as the author proved to be,
Maxwell Cohen
Roger Storey
New York, New York
Maybe you read a different story than
we did, fellas. How could you confuse
anticonformity with anti-Semitism?

BEWITCHED DOCTOR?

T am on my way back to Columbia
(working on a master's in finance) and
was compelled to write to compliment
you on the December issue and especi-
ally the. Albert. Schweitzer interview

Although I disagree with much of
Schweitzers philosophy, what amazed
me was your getting him to consent
to the interview.

John Jennings
Ithaca, New York

PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR

Since, in the January issue of rLAvnoy,
you've asked all men of good will to
nominate their favorite Playmate of the
Year, may T express my thoughts on the
subject. Jt is impossible to choose be
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Thomas. The t «d olf only
on the pages of your magazine. А fair,
firm and final decision can be arrived
at only when you present further photo-
graphic documentation of the respective
qualifications of two superb candidates
— as you did so well with the three final
ists last year.

can be ph

Rodolfo Rossi
New York, New York
Sorry, Rodolfo, but the editors have
already reached their decision and an 11-
page tribute to the new Playmate of
the Year will appear in the next issuc.

READERS’ CHOICE
rying to pick ten favorites from
among all of the beautiful Playmates
you have featured over the past ten у
ant, but nearly impossible
t my ten votes for
ne Mansfield (February 1955), Joyce
Nizari (December 1958), Elaine Rey-
nolds (October 1959), Stella Steve
(January 1960), B Ann Lawford
(February 1961), Heidi Becker (June
1961). Christa Speck (September 1961),
Laura Young (October 1962), Toni Ann
Thomas (February 1963) and Donna
Michelle (December 1963).

Harold Ken

Miami, і

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publish a portfolio of the most popular
in the December issue. Send your own
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She likes to blow her own horn.
And she's got the displacement
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PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS

от the interest of those amused by

the suggestive subtleties of that age-
old scmantic gambit known as the dou-
ble-entendre, we herewith open а
brand-new avenue of dual meanings that
ld an unexplored dimension to
Shakcspcare's hoary rhetoi
"Whats in a name?” We wonder if any-
one has thought of Norman Mailer as
the name of a medieval French armorer;
ог that Shepherd Mead should be a
kind of pastoral libation? Spiritually
spcaking, Bud Abbott sounds to us like
the name of a novitiate prior; Jim
Bishop like a prelate in charge of intra-
mural sports; Sydney Chaplin like an
Australian missionary; and Ivy Baker
Priest like the chaplain at an Eastern
cooking college.

In a more secular vein, Cole Porter
might refer to a fuel totcr, Billy Rose
to a nightstick adornment, Bill Stern
to a loan company’s nasty reminder,
Peggy Wood to antiqued lumber, Au-
gustus John to an imperial Roman bath-
room, Christian Herter to а sadistic
gladiator, and Geleste Holm to a haven
for chimes. Or consider the sinister con-
notations of Ransom Sherman as a
scheme to redeem a kidnaped gencral,
Ward Bond as a strap to immobilize
hospital patients, Lilli Palmer as a flower
thief and June Havoc as a springtime
catastrophe. More cheerfully, you may
wish to explore the gastronomic aspects
of Patti Page as а cookbook’s burger
section, Graham Greene as a moldy
cracker and Jo Van Fleet as an armada
of сойсе trucks.

Miscellancously, we suggest Tab Hunt-
er as an absent-minded waiter, Claude
Rains as the consequence of an eques

encounter iger, Noel
Coward as a man who couldn't face the

ical question,

trian's with a ti

Christmas rush, Bob Hope as the devout
wish of a hook-nosed plasticsurgery pa
tient, Red Barber as a Sovict tonsorial
artist, Victor Mature as a well-adjusted
winner, Stirling Moss as а topgrade
lichen, Gabriel Heater as а heavenly
furnace for a socko punch linc,
Mickey Mantle as a shelf for storing
knockout drops.

and,

It would seem, according to Dorothy
Kilgallen in her "Best of Broadway" col
umn in The Bangor (Maine) Daily
News, that the Russians’ latest feat of
space-race onc-upmanship is to outstrip
America in the field of missile minia-
turization. “Russia's newest nuclear
base,” reveals Miss Kilgallen, “is located
in a vase in Cuba's Punta Coguane, La:

Vill:

Engapingly candid classified ad from
the Brown (University) Daily Herald:
“59 Ford Country Sedan. Extremely
clean, new rubber, also snow tires, deluxe
radio. A veritable traveling brothel,
Contact Richter, SU 4-5398.'

On our last cruising pilgrimage to
that sailboatracing classic, the annual
Out Island Regatta, held on the pellucid
waters off George Town, Exuma, Baha:
mas, we picked up a copy of the printed
bulletin of events scheduled for the five
days of racing, rendezvousing, sunni
gaming, boat-hopping, dining, drinking,
and allied activities ashore and afloat
that attract yachts and. yachtsmen from
all over the saltwater Southern Racin
Circuit and beyond. We were particu-
larly pleased to note the delicacy with
which the program's authors made in-
direct
acts of piety—or

comment on yachtsmen's overt

k thereof. For the

„а Sunday, the bulletin
Divine Service on the
de Grounds. All Captains and their
crews are invited to attend. It is hoped
that all yachtsmen will, too.

Our man in Memphis reports the
recent and, we thought, poctically just
acquittal of one Banger Wright on a
charge of assault with intent to ravish.

Bah Humbug Department, Up Your
Chimney Division: While leafing through
an old copy of Life the other day — last
years December 13 found
ouself glancing idly at a full-page ad
showing an army of street-corner Santas
(375 ol them, according to the copy,
cach wearing a different model of Bulova
watch) standing with fists held aloft in
a mass display of timepieces. Unim-
pressed, we were about to turn the page

when wondering eyes
should appear, deep in the massed ranks
of woolly-chinned redcoats, but an up-
aised fist with the middle finger unmis-
takably extended upward in the age-old
gesture of insolent ill will. We can't help.
wondering if the touching sentiments
expressed reflect those of the sponsor.

issue — we

what to our

Unsettling sign of the times posted
in the shop of a Florida paint dealer:
NO CUSTOM COLORS MIXED FOR A HUSBAND
FROM HIS WIFE.

WITHOUT A NOTE

Questions we doubt ever got asked were
the following, which appeared as a blurb
on the cover of a book called For the
Love of Kate, by Henri Rochard — "How
many times have you awakened in the
middle of the night and said to yourself,
"E wonder what ever happened to Henri
Rochard — the male bride? Did

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As our contribution toward restoring
public confidence in the undertaking,
business — subjected in recent months to
widespread criticism for the exorbitant
rates and lugubrious solicitude of its
practitioners — we oiler, without charge,
the following medley of popular song
hits which we suggest they provide as
a soothing musical background for the
bereaved in the “meditori
mortuari Look for the Silken Lining,
Till the Shrouds Roll By, Oh, What a
Beautiful Mourning, You're the Cream
in My Goffin, A Tisket, a Gasket, Bier
Barrel Polka, Pall or Nothing at All,
You Go to My Headstone, The Girl
That I Bury, Í Bereave; and for your
friendly neighborhood crematory, such
old favorites as Put the Flame on Mame,
Scarlet Riddance, I See Your Vase Be-
fore Me and the ever-popular Heat Me
in St. Louis.

Desperate times call for desperate
measures. Manhattan's Hilton Hotel has
augurated a "jet ba
high-speed clevators, which it keeps at
Red Alert for supersonic service to the
room of any guest who dispatches an
urgent alcoholic summons.

Shades of Madison Avenue: Attempt-
ing to “conjure up evocative new names
for shirt colors"— a pr:
in itself — Eagle Shirt
town, Pennsylvani
and

worthy project
ers of Quaker-
conducted a contest
nnounced the front-running entries

est ad. Of the many tongue-in-
check tinctures listed, we herewith repro-
duce a few of the funniest — with our
congratulations to the winners: Parlor
Pink, Better-Dead-Than Red, Cost-of-
Living Rose, Whizzer White, Cyd С
God's Little Ocher, Robert Shaw Cora
Noblesso Beige, Willie Mai
Taupe e Booth Puce, Navel Orange,
Unshiink pio Carmine,

п, Holy Mac apphire, Come-
and-Get-Me Copper, and Statutory Grape
— followed, of course, by Freudian Gilt.

The knotty but nice panel of judges
at a recent Miss Forest Product
tition in Phoenix, Arizona, included
David Woodman, Ed Forester, Bob
Trimmer, Bill Cutter, Clarence Carpen-
ter and Jerry Sawyer.

compc-

A bachelor of our acquaintance tells
us that he has come to grips with the
s of life among small fry. During a

1 h his niece and
d six and five, respec
the little girl stated her pref
boy chocolate baby

a girl chocolate baby wouldn't do just as
well, she replied cannily, "No. With a
boy chocolate baby theres just that
much more chocolate,"

A restaurant we haven't gotten. up
enough courage to visit is the Caveat
Emptor, opened in the Merchants’ and
Manufacturers’ Club of Chicago's Mer-
chandise Mart.

We learned recently that the Cali-
fori General Assembly has decided to
classify indigenous olives by size, with
no less than a dozen designations. The
smallest varieties are prosaically called
Small, Medium and Large; but these are
followed by progressively more prodigi-
ous specimens dubbed Family, Extra
Large, Mammoth, Giant, King, Jumbo,
Royal, Colossal and Supercolossal. To
which we can only add Brobdingnagian
and Preposterous,

Hollywood Comes of Age Department:
A luncheon held to publicize American
International's teenage twist opus, Mus-
cle Beach Party, was marked by the
following: a 15-minute film starring Vin
cent Price, during which the lunchicon's
master of ceremonies, Morey Amst
popped out of a coffin borne by six
Gaslight girls and engaged the on-screen
Price in conversation. Fred
then introduced the
Mau," a new dance step devised espec-
ially for debut in Muscle Beach Party.
Door prizes were candy skyscrapers, and
сусту guest received a personal Muscle
Beach Party hat, “Monster Midgee Card"
— whatever that might be — and minia-
ture toy telescope.

structors

We'd be the last one to discourage
progressive-minded penology, but we
question the severity, if not tie nature,
of the sentence meted out to one Wel-
lington Windley, who escaped from the
Virginia state workhouse where he had
been committed, said the Arlington, Vir-
, Gazette, "for 210 lays.”

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She lifts her
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stove of a body, and she
orts with the chorus. The
1 » is onstage only ten minutes, and
what she does has nothing whatever to do
with anything before or after: but it is so
much beuer and more a
all the rest that the whole affair should
have been called The Tessie O'Shea
Show. Ви there's а plot — some-
thing to do with a stully prince regent
of Carpathia who is in London in 1911
for the coronation of George V, and lets
lus braid down long enough to dally
with an Am. showgirl from Mil
waukee. The showgirl falls for the prince,
and most of the evening is a matter of
when will he. José Ferrer plays the
pompous prince, and he has an annoy
ing habit of adding syllables: "In your
stunted and limited vocabula
no other word than love-va
Henderson is the showgirl,
cute, has a well-pitched voice and an
antic humor, but her part gives her no
opportunity to show much more than a
phony Midwest accent. The sets are
splashy, the production but except.
for Tessie’s turn, this musical merits
only the award the prince pins on the
showgirl, the Royal Carpathian Order
of Perseverance — Second. Class. At the
y, Broadway at 53rd Street.

Leighton in The Chinese Prime Minister. Miss
Leighton is playing a 70-year-old actress
during the first of her retirement;
she is the creation of 74-yearold pl
wright Enid Bagnold, who, thankfully,
is apparently nowhere near her retire
For the most part, her р
wry high comedy about the wonders and
woes of growing old, but probably she
should have left youth alone. Miss Bag-
nold's heroine, identified only as “She,”
is an imperious lady, who is impervious
to time. She insists that “the birthday
of a woman old and famous is sad and
important.” Her dream is to be revered
for her age and wisdom, like the legend-
ary Chinese prime ministers. The li
long butler, Bent (Alan Webb, looki
like a wizened Art Carney), snorts at the

thought. He is 30 rs her senior, and
doesn’t care what they say about him.
He even drops dead when he pleases,

which is twice, and both times dodders
back to life. The lady's long-lost hus-
band, Sir Gregory (John Williams), re-
turns to reclaim her. To him She is as
young as he feels, and he feels young
indeed. This trio of oldsters is delightful
company, but, sadly, also on the premises
(a London drawing room) are two sons
— опе pompous, the other sissified — and
their two wives, one pushy, the other
promiscuous. The latter is given to

ndy slogans like “I'm only the breath
that makes the flute play and I only
play for strangers." quartet is
cranky, creaky, and badly in need of re-
What a monstrous thing,
27 says Sir Gregory in а moment of
a monstrous thing, youth,
at least in the hands of talented old pls
wrights. At the Royale, 242 West 45th
Street.

Everybody loves himself in Nobody
Loves an Albatross. Ronald Alexander's
subver: comedy about television.
cuckoo country is a paean to self-interest,
enlightened and otherwise. As wisely di-
rected by Gene Saks, it is also a welcome.
wacky antidote to the usual domestic
pap on Broadway and оп television.
Chie ego is Nat Bentley (Robert Pres-
ton), a Hollywood television producer-
writer, who is incapable of writing even
a letter home for moncy. He produces
his scripts out of the coset, where he
confines helpless young hopefuls with the
remote promise that sometime, some-
where, he will let them write under their
own names (whatever they are). Preston
is a compleat heel who is completely
charming, "a man of five-minute loyalties
га man of great decision who can go
either way." “Get your grubby hands off
me,” he snaps at his preteen daughter,
some time before giving her a script to
read and analyze (she writes down а long
list of criticisms; he submits them as
own). Smiling warmly at his lovely new
secretary (Carol Rossen), he announces
the prerequisites for the job: “Abso-
lute loyalty and oc Е

sex.” В:
stabber Preston finally gets knifed. His
slaveys-are unable to come up with a
decent script for a new series about a
girl whose best pal is a gorilla, and he
is forced to sit down at his typewriter
and write his own, which he does by
aibbing from an old Shirley Temple
movie. Too low is not low enough for
Preston, or his cageful of co-workers, the
hoss of the studio,
the double-dealing
agent, the sadistic husband-and-wife gag
team (He: "The trouble with our chil-
dren is they have two fathers”). The
only oasis of honesty in this uproariously
amoral desert is a laugh machine wh
only laughs at good jokes. The machine
would laugh itself silly at Albatross. At
the Lyccum, 19 West 45th Street.

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money-mad matchmaker, Dolly Levi, is
still in the restaurant, still eating, hap-
pily stuffing her face with gobs of
giblets and dumplings, enough to choke
any six other leading ladies (and the
prop horse that figures prominently in
this show). There is action in the court,
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Dolly! was "suggested" by Thornton
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a mite for the rich, greedy feed merchant
of Yonkers (David Burns), knowing that
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graphing even the walkers and speeding
an army of waiters into a madcap gallop
round the orchestra (the stage goes
around the orchestra, too). Most of the
Wilder lines have been replaced by dul-
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Loving You.

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Sonny Meets Hawk! (Victor) —the new
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cally impeccable, and what he does to
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half his age.

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opener, F's a Good Day, are just three
exemplary examples out of the ten tunes
included here, any of which bears re-
peated playing.

Although Duke Ellington is many
things, he is not the world's greatest
Г t. But the Duke plays strictly out of
his own bag. which makes Duke Ellington/
Piano in the Foreground (Columbia) an
absorbing LP. Accompanied by bassist
won Bell and drummer Sam Wood-
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ds (/ Can't Get Started, Body and Soul
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Nancy Wilson/Yesterday's Love Songs . . .
Today's Blues (Capitol) reiterates the fact
that Miss Wilson has stepped over the
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rived. Here, aided by a big band led and
charted by Gerald Wilson (no relation
but a decidedly kindred spirit), Nancy
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ате mostly of an indigo hue. Transformed
by the magic Wilson touch: The Very
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Leigh casic The Best Is Yet to Соте,
and many others.

More/Clark Terry Sextet (Cameo) finds the
eminent trumpet Flügclhorn practitioner
in the good company of tenor titan Ben
Webster, a combination that has in the
past demonstrated its ability to produce
topllight. jazz. This outing is no excep-
tion. From the title tune out of Mondo
Cane through the jumping Gravy Waltz
through the delicately eiched bossa nova
Meditation, Terry. Webster & Co. have
the situation well in hand,

The Best of Woody Hermon (Everest) is, in
t we know to be a hard-
clectric aggregation, strangely
flaccid. Its reprising of past Herman fa-
vorites — Woedchopper's Ball, Caldonia,
Bijou, Northwest Passage — has a metal-
lic, mechanical quality which belies the
current Herd's renowned vitality.

For an all-star collection of also-rans,
dig Academy Award Losers / Steve Lawrence
(Columbia). Steve, with the Billy May
Orchestra, deftly delivers an Oscarless
array that indudes such illustrious com-
pany as /'ve Gor You Under My Shin,
I'll Remember April, Check to Cheek
and That Old Feeling — all superb se
ond bests. Another exceptional cinematic
songfest is Billy Eckstine Now Singing in 12
Great Movies (Mercury). Mr. B's Cinema-
scopic baritone unreels a fourstar com-
pendium of flick themes. On the bill are
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Black Orpheus, Days of Wine and Roses,

On Green Dolphin Street and The Good.
Life. Eckstine's highly charged handling
of them rates rave notices.

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Green &Tot (Command). The trombonist
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able trumpet, the alto of Walt Levinsky
and rhythm) offers ample aural vindica-
tion of the esteem in which he is held by
fellow musicians. Items on hand include
Body and Soul, Four Brothers, Royal
Gaiden Blues and the haunting title tune
from The Bad and the Beautiful.

Why the superlative talents of pianist
Bill Evans were thrown away on Bill
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is difficult to fathom, Accompanied by an
outsized orchestr: ms performs a ses-
sion of movie and TV themes (with the
exceptions of Hollywood and Sweet Sep-
tember). We know it’s Evans because his
name is on the LP: nothing else about
the recording would make us believe it.
The sound could have been produced
by any cocktaillounge pianist

Music of the Renaissance /Vocal Arts Ensemble
(Counterpoint / Esoteric) is a delight. The
cight voices, directed by Richard Levitt,
weave a pure sound perfectly in keeping

with the geometric constructions of Or-
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Drummin' Man/Gene Krupa (Columbia) is
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of Krupa's estimable stickwork. The two-
LP album is handsomely packaged with
an ге bio by George T. Simon.
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to 1949 and bear far from
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ional solo work by Roy Eldridge,
Ventura, Frank Rosolino and
gerquist, vocals by Anita O'Day
's own efforts, the band left

A brace of bravura guitarists ply the
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Pass, is straightforward and mellifluous
his rendering of a group of melodies
by such jazz stalwarts Jackson,
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Erroll Garner with full Orchestra Playing
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the train and on the ferry from Den-
mark, and by the time Sordi hits
Stockholm, he is fit to be untied, When
a friendly bit of blonde smorgasbord
accompanies him to his hotel room, he
s the northern lights are really
ing to blaze; but she proves amiably
distant, and half aloof (he finds) is not
better than none. Later. a weekend
hostess who seems really hospitable only
furthers his frustrations. And when still
another nifty takes him to a coed sauna,
the steam really builds. The last lap of
hi bbit chi is with a cutie in a car
race on the ice, and there's a helicopter

nish that ends the film h a lift.
Screenwriter Rodolfo Sonego sometimes
scems to be figuring out what to do next,
but what he comes up with is generally
jolly. Sweets to Swedes Barbro Wasten-
son and Gunilla Elm-Tornquist, and
bravos to Sordi, who pants skittishly
after the skirts.

The Easy Life is an Italian sleeper that
doesn’t quite wake up; still, it has a lot
going for it. Vittorio Gassman does a re-
run of his smooth-talking con man —
dynamic, deft, delightful — which would
all the more impressive if you'd never
n him do it before. Director Dino
Risi, who has dealt this hand with Gass-
man in the past, still misses few tricks;
and this stock-company Dolce Vita puts
a pretty good show on the road. On an
August holiday in Rome, Gassman, just
because he's bored, persuades a serious
young male student to go for a drive
with him. One thing leads to ап hour
nd 45 minutes of events that include
girl chasing, fights, a visit to
estranged wife and daughter,
rich man's yacht — all with a e decor
of formidably built babes. Scene after
scene is well done; trouble is, it is scene
after scene. The script lacks structure,
goes on too long, and ends so predict-
ably that it even makes its previous can-
dor seem corny. The sober young man
is seduced from seriousness and pays for
it dearly. Gassman walks away from it
all. saddened but — we know — only for
a while. n Louis Trintignant is inter-
esting as the intellectual; Luciana An-
giolillo and Catherine Spaak are paired
prettily as mother and daughter. But all
the surface reality never digs much
deeper; what the film has to say about
Modern Moral Madness is transparently

apparent from reel one.

Nowadays, McCarthy means a lady
novelist who scalpeled the Vassar class of
"33, Point of Order! reminds us that ten
years ago McCarthy meant a Senator
who came chillingly close to stilettoing
the Constitution of the United States. The
cap of his corrupt but clever caree
a series of Senate subcommittee hearings
to investigate charges and countercharges

between him and the Department of the
Army. Those hearings made it climacti-
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crusade was really a pro-]oe McCarthy
crusade; (b) his charges against the Army
were а lot less legitimate than vice
versa. Every moment of those momentous
hearings, which went on for weeks, was
televised; and the kinescopes have now
been excellently edited by Daniel Talbot
and Emile de Antonio into a knockout
97-minute documentary. Sce (as the cir-
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sec Joseph Welch, the Army's attorney,
answer a phony smear with one of the
most moving extemporancous utterances
ever recorded, A cast of dozens (induding
young Robert Kennedy, occasionally v
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counsel). Don't miss Point of Order! Its
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For six years now, English playwright
Harold Pinter has been a name to reckon
with, but films have ignored his consid-
crable talent. Now his best-known play
The Caretaker — an international crit-
ical sensation — reaches the screen as The
Guest, and. proves Pinter to be just what
theatergocrs have been saying he was
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something. Three characters and, mostly
onc cluttered room — that's all; but Pi
ter makes it plenty. Aston, a recluse who
lives in the attic o[ a shabby and other-
wise empty house in London, gives shel-
ter to a derelict. Aston's badgering
brother, Mick, baits the old man when
Aston plans to keep him on as caretaker.
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stubborn old coot and boots him. But
out of this slim story, by means of won-

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insistent detail. silences and hints, there
flows not only a steady stream of

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the deepest crises in. contemporary. life.
Pinter’s own screenplay is skillful, and
new director Clive Donner has feeling
and finesse. Robert Shaw is the quiet,
moody Aston, Alan Bates is Mick, and
(in one of the great performances of
our time) Donald Pleasence is the old
man. If the film did no more than pre-
serve their acting — they were the orig-
al trio — that would be plenty; but

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Pinter again. This time he has done
the sacenplay (from Robin Maugh.
novel) of The Servant, directed by Joseph
Losey, whose style is slick to the point
of slipperiness; but he gets the most
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weapons is his sister, who is good at do
ing what comes naturally and unnatu-
rally. The picture winds on past its point
— perhaps there's a bit too much madness
in Loseys method —but it helps to
document in drama the scandal scuttle
butt of the international set: that. Lon-
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Said as the sin center of the world. Dirk
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servant, James Fox achieves the right
noble platcau from which to slide, and
Sarah Miles is minxish as the monkey
wench her brother throws in the works.
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country-house episode — are pithy, pun-
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Dead Ringer is what happened to Bette
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Baby Jane? The success of that juicy
melodrama about two sisters (with Joan
Crawford) obviously led to this over
ripe successor; and Miss Davis, having
cleaned up by sharing the billing, de
cided to double the stakes this time as
twins. One sister, Edith, an L. A. cock-
taillounge owner, has been mulcted out
of the man she wanted to marry by her
twin, M et, who c ned she was
expecting an unblessed event. Years
later, after the husband's funeral, Edith
who had severed relations with her si
ling, learns that Margaret had only faked
the pregnancy. A bit miffed at thus being
stifled, Edith writes a suicide note, then
kills her richer twin and assumes her
identity. Complications, to put it mildly,
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garet had a lover. When the lover sus.
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for blackmail. Twisting away madly, the
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around as a detective swain and Peter
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lover

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son in their suite and goes out to find
a sweetie, The boy wanders through the
large deluxe hotel and encounters a
vaudeville troupe of dwarfs who befriend
him. An elderly bellboy tends the sick
Ester who is the emotionally cool oppo-
site of her sister. Yet she has a Lesbian
Iech for Anna, loves to hear details
her dalliance. When Ester le;
Anna is now in another room with a
man, she goes there and is invited in.
Esters presence while Anna goes about
her business forces their love-hate to flare,
At the end Anna and her son continue
their journey, leaving the sick sister in the
hotel. All the hoopla has been about
three heated scencs—a pair of sexual
irings and one of Ester’s on:

which have been clipped by the $
prior to export; the film, however, i
caloric. Much of Anna is abundantly in

evidence as she moves around her room.
But the film is principally a series of
metaphors on the subject of estrange-
ment: three travelers in a. place where
they understand not a word; the two
sisters separated from each other by tem-
perament and taboo; the dw

ted from the "normal" world
and her pickup making lurid love but
able to converse; the old bellboy try-
ing to tell his life story to the boy on
whom it is lost. Bergman has directed
with his customary colossal skill, creating
а suggestive, somber texture you can
almost touch; but for the first time with
him, we can ask whether the excellent
execution of symbols is enough. Ingrid
Thulin (Ester) and Gunnel Lindblom
(Anna) are so good that their acting
isappears," and every scene is superbly
done; but the picture may leave you less
with a feeling of being moved than with
a sense of having done a good job of
decoding.

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The techniques of the modern secret
agent are the subject of The Spy Who Came
in from the Cold (Coward-McCann, $1.50).
According to John le Carré (the nom de
plume of a British civil servant), the spy
of the Sixties is all business. Indeed, in
his unswerving concern for his job and
his disdain for ordinary pleasures, Lea-
mas, the British agenthero, lacks only a
gray-Hannel cloak to be a full-scale organ-
tion man. Leamas' immediate superior
is Control, his organization Circus, his
joboriented. Armed with only a
carefully written dossier and a few well-
chosen words, he sets ош to destroy a
al spy organization. The atmosphere
of high-level intrigue, set mainly in di-
vided Berlin, is authentically conspira-
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neatly limned. The author even weaves
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humanistic scruples in dealing with their
Communist counterparts. In the old ar-
gument of end versus means, the totali-
ta gents or bad guys have a distinct
advantage. The hero's ethical struggles
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the book from a superior spy story to a
real novel.

Alfred Sloan, Jr.'s My Years with Gen-
eral Motors (Doubleday, $7.95) is somc-
thing like the old LaSalle motorcar
— big, uninspired and easily forgotten.
Sloan, who ;M president and/or
chairman of the board for morc than
threc decades, traces the firm's history
from its early days as а middle-sized and
somewhat bumbling business to its pres-
ent position as the world's largest indus-
tial corporation, GM is strong, says
Sloan, bec was designed to be an
objective organization, as distinguished
from the type that gets lost in thc sub-
jectivity of persona But what's
good lor General Motors is not always
good for literature; the reader wants
personalities, subjective or not. What of
Louis Chevrolet, Walter P. Chrysler and
Charles W. Nash, all of whom Sloan
knew personally? His dryasdust prose
turns them into corporate mannequins.
And what, for that matter, of the bloody
UAW sitdown strike in 1957? We are
told only that President Roosevelt
erted steady pressure on the corporation,
па upon me personally, to negotiate
rs who had scized our
property .. "Мав did F.D.R. do? Were
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matters as the "coppercooled" е
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documentation — badly written.
office memos, wordy conference ti
scripts and the like. The gist of the book
is neatly, though inadvertently, summed
up when Sloan, with ¢ ingenu-
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obviously a successful corporation.”

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A porcine, lecherous, anti-Semitic Brit-
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academe, does some adulterous plucking,
occasionally finds himself out on a limb,
and ends up with purely conventional
knowledge of all things American. And
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Kingsley Amis’ One Fat Englishman (Har-
court, Brace & World, $3.95), a torpid
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a literary agent, the near-nympho wile
of a professor, the saturnine Je
novelist, the Peter De Vries-type clergy-
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figures that American writers have sati-
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who spent a year at Princeton lecturing
and observing American mores, app:
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new dimensions to the old portraits ex
cept for a funny line or two and an
attempt at a serious mess mmed up
in his fat man’s sexual aim —

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But why limit it to the
dition? Something is amiss
land.

Ray Bradbury's latest collection, The
Machineries of Joy (Simon & Schust
$4.50), is a virtuoso performance that
ranges from Martian fantasy to Mexican
s. Among the 21 offerings, many
of which (including the title story) ap-
ed in PLAYBOY, are: a sea story

that takes place 1000 miles inland: a
love story

bout a whalesized wife who
her husband loves to tattoo:
il War tale that’s as on target as
Stephen Crane ever wrote; a
d chilling fantasy concerning
ihe triumph of mushrooms over men:
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tedious squabble among a few priests

ends, with awful suddenne cligio-
vocketage testament to the Universe.
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Abyss, in which an old man, a survivor
of World V TH. risks pc arrest
by reminding the other survivors what
the world was like before the cataclysm,
“Coffee!” he says. “Twist the key!
Bright-red, yellow-letter can! Compressed
air. Hiss! Vacuum pack. Sst! Like a
snake!” The other stories are just as
worshipful in their loving recitation of
all the foolish details that we call living.
Bradbury obviously is very fond of a
world he'd hate to lose.

In The Relations Explosion (Macmillan,
51.95), William L. Safire tries to show
that the publicrelations boom is moving
ahead with vigor and any minute now
may win the recognition it so richly de-
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Another triumph for American diplo-
This book makes us yearn for the
days when the hidden persuaders had
the grace to stay hidden.

Samson Shillitoe, the antic antihero
of Elliot Baker's first novel, A Fine Mad-
ness (Putnam, $4.95), has the soul of a
poet and the instincts of a wounded
rhino. He shampoos rugs to feed his
stomach, creates poetry to feed his ego,
and does some overtime servicing of
distafl carpet-cleaning customers to feed
his loins. Shillitoe's attempts at being
his own man, guided by his own со
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acute awareness of the desperate circum-
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The hiss in Romain Gary's shortstory
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precisely his involvement as
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helps us absorb his pessimism. Romain
Garys self-therapy is plain: A hiss is
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Several years ago you indicated that
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We never said that marriage under
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Living first as an independent, single
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Wc noticed that your rainwear fashion
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my friend putting me on when he
says that one of my favorite drinks, akva-
vit, is made from potatoes? I can't bc-
lieve that such a delightful potable has
such a dreary source. — M. N., Cleveland,
Ohio.

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AA relationship with a former girlfriend
deteriorated from physical to fiscal, end-
ing shortly after she borrowed $350 from
me and signed a promissory note to repay
the face amount with interest at four
percent. That was three years ago, and
Since then she has married and moved to
another city. After some difficulty, I lo-
cated her and requested that she or her
husband make good on the debt. She
replied that her husband did not know
that the note (or our past relationship)
existed, and that any attempt to collect
‘on it would be outright blackmail on
my part. She claimed 1 received fair
value for my money, and perhaps I
did. Would you advise that I try to
collect on Ше debt?— J.P. Allston,
Massachusetts.

Yes. Your past relationship has noth-
ing whatever to do with the transaction,
and should be of mo concern to her
husband, though her desire that you
write off $350 against a few tumbles
should be a word to the wise, bespeak-
ing a commercial affection you can be
thankful you tuned out. If you lent her
the money in good faith, she should be
prepared to repay you in kind; see your
lawyer about collecting.

т planning a trip to London shortly,
and while there wish to have a suit made
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е been divorced for some years, and
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delightful young woman whom I met
while skiing last winter. She and I have
become quite close, and therein lies the
problem. For some reason, in our initial
dates I never got around to telling her
I'd been married previously, апа now 1
gather from the tone of some of our
conversations that she has a ue ob-
jection to divorce as an institution. (She's
never said as much, but has strongly im-
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been. toying with the idea of asking her
to marry me, At this late date,

hould 1
g our relationship by revealing
r marriage? — W. D., St. Louis,

risk endi;

Tell her, by all means— you should
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should certainly be apprised before you
even consider marriage. If her objections
still persist after you've thoroughly dis-
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forget those marriage thoughts, be-
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barrier would make any permanent un-
ion perilous.

В have a fine trench coat, replete with
straps and buttons. Lately I've seen
less and less of this model — except оп
the late show. Are trench coats going out
of style? Are any sort of belted outer-
coats still — С. G., San Francisco,
California.

Trench coats are not out, but over-
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the most obtrusive of the coat's accoute
ments. Belted outercoats, especially vi-
cuia, are very popular among the polo
set,

An ex-girlfriend recently showed up at
my pad — unexpected and a little hig
She entered the apartment (by means of
the key I had let her keep as a souvenir
oL happier days) and surprised me fia-
grante delicto with my latest flame, who
is now furious. I'm convinced this whole
sorry inddent was no fault of minc,
and would like to lk how I can
convince her of same.— L. W., Knoxville,
"Tennessee.

Bul it was your fault — for giving her
the key in the first place and for not
demanding that she turn it in when she
checked out of the club. Your move now
is to explain to your latest that the key
10 the problem was nothing more than a
memento. You should underscore your
words by changing your pad lock.
Chances she'll eventually come
round, because it's difficult jor girls to
resist the guy who has other chicks beat-
ing on his door— provided the lutter
can't get in.

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For more than а year I have been dat-
ng a young man st
give him a blazer for his birthday. My
parents think it's in poor taste for a girl
to give clothing to a man, unless the two
are married. Since I live with my parents,
I feel I should accede to their wishes, but
I would still like to hear your views. —
S. P., Brockton, Massachusetts.
The box of candy for sweetheart went
out with spats. Today it’s entirely ap-
propriate for a girl to gift sartorially.

МҮ/ їс touring Italy 1 enjoyed a
ne called Ale you tell me
something about й? G.C., Phoeni
Arizona.

Aleatico is a sweet тей wine made
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sweeter than its Continental counter-
part, Aleatico di Puglia. Both resemble
sweet rosé.

Which is more fashionable, a tie tack
or a dasp?— R.G., Washington, D. C.

Both are acceptable, but we person-
ally prefer the less obtrusive tack.

[ГЭ uring me past two years I've been
going with a lovely girl who has provid-
ed me with many delightful evenings.
Now I'm about to leave for / ii
perhaps permanently, on a business ven-
's splitsville for the two of us.
working girl, tied to aging parents
and not too well off, I'm the
ard sort, and want very
e her with a substantial cash

much to le
gift as a token of my sincere aflection
We delicately skirted the subject not too
long ago, and I got the distinct impres-
sion (though she never put it in words)
that this would not be appreciated. Sug-
gestions? — L. B.. Boston, Massachusetts.

Straightforwardness is fine in its place,
but it's often better tempered with tact.
No matter how needy the girl may be,
the gift of legal tender invariably sug-
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dered. The tactful tack is to select a
gift with a high trade-in value. You
might give common stock, with the
tongucin-checky explanation that it’s
taxfully advantageous for you to get rid
of the stuf]. Even more face-saving would
be a gift of jewelry, selected primarily
for the value of the stones rather than
for the setting. In both cases, the chick
has the option of not redeeming her
trifle, as well as the security of а nest
egg until she does.

Bim planning a Mediterranean cruise
carly this summer, and would like to get
in some skindiving in the Aegean. Can
you name a few of the better spots, and
tell me if l'Il have any trouble ge
equipment? — R. M., Detroit, M

The Cyclades islands are probably
your best bet, since they offer clear
Aegean waters and a desirable proximity
to Athens. You'll find the best accommo-
dations on Mykonos or Santorin. Crete
is becoming more and more a skindivers’
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PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: J EA М G E N ET

a candid conversation with the brazen, brilliant author of “the balcony"
and “the blacks,” self-proclaimed homosexual, coward, thief and traitor

In any competition for the one least
likely to succeed as a man of letters, Jean
Genet would almost certainly be the
runaway favorite. A balding, 53-year-old
homosexual, onetime male prostitute and
unregenerate ex-convict with a lengthy
record of convictions for burglary, coun-
terfeiting, bootlegging, dope smuggling
and desertion, he is the author of prose
no less emphatically antisocial. His works
have been reviled as “acts of vengeance”;
he himself has been called “the most
depraved author now writing for the
жанс” His highly publicized private life
notwithstanding, he has been hailed as
“the most important wriler to have ap-
peared in France since the end of World
War 11," and proclaimed as “probably
the greatest living playwright.”

Genet’s theatrical credentials ате im-
pressive: “The Balcony,” which suggests,
as one reviewer pul it, that “the world
is a brothel patronized by fetishists with
illusions of grandeur,
best off Broadway production of 1960,
and has since been made into a movie.
Another Genet award winner, “The
Blacks.” features an all-Negro casi sav-
agely enacting the vitual rape of a white
woman. Both plays have racked up rec-
ord-breaking runs from London to Los
Angeles. His first novel, “Our Lady of
the Flowers,” recently published without

was named the

“As for being homosexual, 1 can't tell
you why I am. Docs anyone know why
onc is a homosexual? Homosexuality
was, so lo speak, thrust upon me, like the
color of my eyes, the number of my feet."

expurgation in the U.S., is an explicit
and exhaustive depiction of depravity
and despair among society's untouch
ables. It has been acclaimed as “a work
of prismatic brilliance.”

Genct's documents of social disintegra-
tion have been a-borning through a life
that reads like an embroidery on Gorky's
“The Lower Depths.” Abandoned at
birth by his unwed mother, Genet spent
his childhood years in the stern charge
of peasant foster parents who tolerated
his presence only for the fee paid them
by the government. Unloved and un-
schooled, he began to steal trinkets from
neighbors, perhaps in an unconscious bid
for parental attention. He got it: They
caught him in the act and cast him out
of their home —at the age of ten. The
twice-abandoned bastard — now branded
publicly as a thief, and faced with the
necessity of fending entirely for himself
— found that he could survive only by
continuing 10 steal. Since he could not
escape the stigma of the outlaw, he de-
woted all his energies to a life “beyond
the social pale” Trafficking in stolen
goods, narcotics and homosexuality, he
spent the next twenty-eight years — seven
of them in prison—as a defiant exile
from society.

It was while serving time in 1942 that
Genet began to chronicle the autoerotic

“The act of stealing obliges you to hide.
When you hide what you do, you always
do it ineptly. In my case, there was a great
urge to make my thefts known, to pub-
them, out of vanity or pride.”

fantasies which coentually became “Our
Lady of the Flowers.” He was stirred by
the sense of power he discovered he was
able to inject into and derive from the
written word. Forthwith he vowed to
forsake the religion of vice for the art
of prose.

The five plays he's written since then
have been electrifying Grand Guignols
on man's inhumanity to man. Two of
the plays were written behind bars: “The
Maids,” in which а pair of female serv-
anis express and finally act ош! their
hostilities against the lady of the house;
and “Deathwatch.” in which three im-
prisoned criminals wallow in wishful-
fillment fantasies of atrocity which
suddenly become real. The remaining
three —“The Balcony,” “The Blacks"
and his latest play, “The Screens” (on
the relationship between the Algerian
Arabs and the French colons), have been
written since his release from prison in
191%, brought about by a presidential
pardon at the behest of such eminent
fellow literati as Cocteau, Gide and
Sartre.

Despite freedom, fame and fortune,
Genet remains a spiritual castaway, a
man outside the mainstream: officially
cul off from his criminal past, yet still
violently anti-establishment. He has few
possessions and no permanent address,

“I have a feeling of fellowship with Os-
wald. Not that I was hostile to President
Kennedy. I simply wasn’t interested in
him. But I'm with the lone individual
who opposes any society that damus evil.”

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rarely sees friends or circulates socially,
and —we were warned — refuses to be
interviewed by anyone, But we decided
to try anyway. and were delighted to
learn that he had been prevailed upon
by a persuasive confrere to grant his first
interview 10 PLAYBOY.

A ruddy, round-faced man with a bald-
ing pate and a deceptively cherubic
smile, he received our interviewer in the
small, sparsely furnished hotel room
which he currently occupies in one of
Paris’ least fashionable neighborhoods.
In five sessions, he spoke to us with dis-
arming candor about his life of crime,
his reconciliation with society, his crea-
tive works, censorship — and oblivion.

PLAYBOY: Alter ye:
alienation from society
how does it feel to be both a success
and a celebrity?
GENI f I am either, then I'm certainly
odd onc.

PLAYBOY: Odd or not.
becn remarkable — p
United State

our success has
icularly in the
where The Balcony and
The Blacks have become the biggest
commer hits in off-Broadway hi:
How do you feel about u
GENET: | can't get over it. Fm. quite
amazed. Perhaps the United States
what 1 ined it to be. Anythin:
happen in America. Even a little human-
ity can appear there.
PLAYBOY. Has this happ
spired you to consider a visit?

GENI have a visa to enter the United
States, a visa that’s good for four years,
but I think the consul gave it to
me by accident. І was refused the right
to use it when it became known who —
and what— 1 am.

PLAYBOY: If you're referring to your self-
advertised identity as а homosexual,
traitor, thief and coward, it can hardly
be said that you've made a secret of your
character. As a matter of fact, you've
been accused of turning this admission
into а public boast for purposes of self-
promotion. Do you think there may be
some truth in the accusation?

GENET: It's true that in my autobiographi-
cal writings — bear in mind that they
were written twenty years Гуе em
phasized the qualities you've just men-
tioned, and I did so for reasons that were
not always very pure; I mean that they
were not always of a poctic nature. So
there was, I suppose, an clement of pub-
licity. Without being consciously
of the fact, I was building myself up.

discovery in-

put n The act of re-
vealing myself to be a homosexual, thief,
traitor and coward put me in a situation
that wasn't exactly safe, а situation that
made it impossible for me to write works
that socicty could easily digest. In short,

by seeming to show off, 1 put myself ar
the very beginning in a situation of such
a kind that I was immediately out of
reach; I put myself beyond the pale.
PLAYBOY: Did you set out deliberately to
become a homosexual, traitor, thief and
coward — in the same way that you de-
cided to publicize yourself as such?
GENET: I didn't "set out to.” T
decision. If ] began to steal, it was be-
cause 1 was hungry. Then 1 had to jus-
tify my act, I had to accept it. As for
being homosexual, [ can't tell you why
I am. I know nothing about it. Does
anyone know why one is a homosexual?
Does anyone know how a man chooses
a certain position in bed for making
love? Homosexuality was, so to speak,
thrust upon me, like the color of my
eyes, the number of my fect. As a child,
I was aware that I was attracted by boys.
їз only after experiencing that attrac-
tion that I "decided," that I freely chose
my homosexuality, in the Sartrian sense
of the word "choose." То put it more
simply: I had to put up with it, to come
to terms with it, even though 1 knew
that it was damned by society.
PLAYBOY: Have you ever been interested
in women?

GENET: Yes, four women have interested
me: the Holy Virgin, Joan of Arc, Maric
Antoinette and Madame Curie.
PLAYBOY: We mean sexually.

GENET: No, never.

PLAYBOY: Do you mind discussing this?
GENET: No, I'm perfectly willing. I |
the subject. I'm а that homosexual-
ity is looked upon favorably at the pres-
ent time in pseudoartistic circles. But
it's still reproved by the bourgeoisie. I
personally owe a great deal to it. If you
want to regard it as а curse, that's your
affair, but I regard it as a blessing.
PLAYBOY: In what way?

GENET: It made a writer of me and en-
abled me to understand hum beings.
I don’t mean to was entirely that,
but perhaps if I hadn't gone to bed
with Algerians I might not have been
favor of the F.L. №. That's not so; I
probably would have sided with them
anyway. But perhaps it was homosex:
uality that made me realize Algerians
are no different from other men
PLAYBOY: What role does homosexuality
play in your life at the present time?
GENET: I'd like to say something abo
its pedagogic aspect. I need hardly say
I've been to bed with all the boys I've
looked after for any length of time. But
I haven't been concerned only with sex.
Гуе tried to relive with them the adven
ture I lived alone — of which the symbols
are bastardy, betrayal, the rejection. of
society, and lastly writing; that is, the
return to society, but by other means
Homosexuality puts the homosexual be.
yond the pale, and for that reason obliges
him to challenge social values. If he de-
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sexless and insignificant. "Those who
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PLAYBOY: Do you fee! that homosexua'itv
is contributing to the well-publicized

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at being manly. I also
who adopted manly
manliness is a quality
for protecting the female and not for
deflowering her. But I'm obviously in a
bad position to judge. In rejecting the
usual pose, the man breaks his shell and
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PLAYBOY: In the sixteen years since you
were pardoned from a life sentence for
repeated burglaries and released from
prison for the last time, have you gone
straight —or arc you still a thief?
GENET: Are you?
PLAYBOY: We'd prefer to ask the ques-
tions, if we may.
GENET: АП right. 1 don't steal the same
way the average person docs. In any case.
I don't steal the way I used to. I receive
big royalties from my books and plays —
at least they seem big to me —and the
royalties are the result of my early thefts.
I continue to steal, in the sense that I
continue 10 be dishonest with regard to
society, which pretends that I'm not
PLAYBOY: For your actual crimes you
spent seven years behind bars. Did you
consider yourself skillful at your trade?
GENET: I wasn't unskillful. There's an
clement of hypocrisy in the operation of
stealing. . . . But I'm bothered by your
microphone. It interferes with my think-
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ght to be courteous toward the tape
that's unrolling silently, all by itself. But
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PLAYBOY: Do you have any feeling of kin-
ship with fellow criminals?

GENET: No, nonc at all, for the very
imple reason that if I did I'd be head-
ing for morality, hence toward good. If,
for example, there was loyalty betw
two or three criminals, it would me:
the beginning of a moral convention.
hence the beginning of good.

PLAYBOY: How do уоп feel about crimes
such as that of which Lee Harvey Os
wald been accused? Did you find
him boring — or subtle and sensitive?
GENET: I have а feeling of fellowship
with Oswald. Not that I was hostile to
President Kennedy. I simply wasn't in-

terested in him. But I feel that I'm with
idual who opposes such

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society: neither more пог less. Tm with
any lone man. But even though Im —
how shall 1 put it? — morally with a man
who is alone, men who are alone remain
alone. Even though I may be with Os-
wald when he commits his crime — if he
did commit it— he was alone. Even
though I'm with Rembrandt when he
paints his pictures, he, too, is alone.
PLAYBOY: Didn't you find, when you
began to write in prison, that the soli-
tude of creativity was preferable to the
loneliness of your previous alienation
from society as a thief?

GENET: No, because what I was writing
made me even lonelier.

PLAYBOY: What was it, then, that made
you begin to write?

GENET: 1 don't know. I don't know what
the deeper reasons were. The first time
I became aware of the power of writing
n
jend who м; t the time.
The side of the card on which I was to
write was white and crinkly, somewhat
nd it was that surface which
пом and Christmas.
Instead of writing some commonplace
sentiment, I wrote about the quality of
the paper. That was what got me started.
This doesn't explain my motive, but it
did give me my first taste of freedom.
PLAYBOY: [t was in prison that you wrote
Our Lady of the Flowers, your first
novel. How did the authorities feel about
literary efforts by inmates? Did they sup-
ply you with writing mate
GENET: Certainly not. We were given
paper with which to make paper bags.
It was on that brown paper that I wrote
the beginning of the book. | never
thought it would be read. I thought Га
never get out of prison. I wrote sincerely.
with fire and rage, and all the more
freely because 1 w: п the book
would never be read. One day we went
from the Santé Prison to the Paris Law
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manuscript was gone. I was called down
to the warden's office and was punished:
three days in solitary confinement, and
ad and water for having used paper
“that wasn't intended for literary mas-
terpieces." I felt belittled by the ward-
en's robbery. I ordered some notebooks
at the canteen. got into bed. pulled the
covers over my head and tried to remem-
ber, word for word, the fifty pages I
had written. T think I succeeded
PLAYBOY: Although a few have hailed it
as an erotic masterpiece, many critics
have refused to concede that Our Lady
of the Flowers is a literary achieve-
ment. Were you gratified that its publi-
cation was greeted by such a storm of
ad protest?
Yes. but I'd have liked the pub-
lisher to bring the book out with a very
innocent-looking cover and in а very
small edition, about three or four hun-
dred copies, and to have made sure that
it fell into the hands of Catholic bankers
and people like that.

PLAYBOY: Are you as indifferent to accept-
ance by the literati as you seem to be to
critical and public appro:
GENET: I never tried to be part of French
literature. To say nothing of the fact
that French literature would hardly have
welcomed me.

PLAYBOY: Now that you've achieved in-
ternational eminence as an author,
however. haven't you become, at least,
a sought-after guest at literary teas?
GENET: Not at all! Society knows what
it’s doing. People don't invite me, be
e they sense very quickly that I'm
not one of them. But the truth of the
matter is that I don't like to go out.
PLAYBOY: You say you're "not one of
them." Do you mingle socially, then,
with ex-cellmates and criminal associat
GENET: Certainly not. Consider the siti
tion. I receive royalties from all over
the world. You come to interview me
for rLaynoy. Whe they're sull in
prison. How do you expect us to main-
n relations? For them I'm simply а
man who has betrayed. I had to betray
theft, which is an individual action, in
the interest of a more universal opera-

tion, namely poetry, I had to betray the
thief that I was in order to become the
poet that I hope Туе become. But this

“legality” hasn't made me more cheerful.
PLAYBOY: You seem to feel that you are
regarded as а pariah both by society
nd by the underworld. How do you feel
bout living in this state of general
reprobation?

GENET: | don't mind, but it's a matter of
temperament. I like being an outcast
just as, with all due respect, Lucifer
liked being cast out by God. But it's out.
of pride, and thats not my good side,
It’s a bit stupid. It’s a naive romantic
attitude. I oughn't to stop there.
PLAYBOY: There are those who у
don't stop there. Sarue, in fact, has

quoted you as saying that you intend to
“live evil to the very end." What did
you mcan by that?
GENET: [ meant living evil in such a w
that you're not salvaged by the social
forces that symbolize good. I don't m.
to live evil until my own death. but to
live it in such a way that ГЇЇ be led to
take refuge, if ever I have to, only in
evil — never in good.
Some critics have branded
blasphemer for dubbing you
" in his six-hundred-page
nd your work. How do
literary canonization?
GENET: My detractors wouldn't. protest
against a Saint Camus. Why do they
object to a Saint Genet? When J was a
child, it was hard for me in my rcvcrics
—unless there was an element of will,
of deers n — to see myself as pres
dent of the republic or as general or
anything else of that kind. 1 was a
illegitimate child. Т was outside the soc
order. What could I wish for, if not for
a special destiny? If I wanted to mı
the fullest use of my freedom, my possi
bilities, my gifts — I was not yet aware
of my literary talent — the only thing left
for me was to want to be j
th n other words, а neg
PLAYBOY: You have wriuen of
eternal couple of the crimin:
saint.” What is the connection?
GENET: They both live in solitude. Do
you have the impression, if you examine
the matter closely, that the greatest saints
resemble criminals? "There's no visible
link between society and the saint. Saint-
Jiness is frighte
PLAYBOY: Several critics have taken you
10 task for not only viewing sainüiness
ав you do, but for presuming even to
use the word. How would you reply?
My detractors shudder at my usin
any word, even a comma. Francois Mau-
с once wrote an article about me in
ed that I stop writing. Good
ad particularly my dei
е proprietors of the word “
liness" and won't allow me to use it.
PLAYBOY: You once wrote that poetry is
“the art of using excrement and making
the reader Did you mean thi
definition to justily your celebrated pen-
chant for socially unacceptable language
in your books and р
GENET: As for the so-called obscene words,
the fact is that these words exist. If they
exist, they have to be used. Otherwise,
they shouldn't have been invented. If I
didn't use them, these words would exist
in a state of apathy. The role of an artist
is to impart value to words. You referred
to the definition I once gave of poetry.
I would no longer define it in that way.
If one wants to gain even a slight under-
standing of the world, one to get
rid of resentment. I still feel some re-
sentment toward society, but less and
les, and I hope that before long itll

appraisal of you
you feel about d

all be gone. At bottom, I don't give a
damn. But when J wrote those words
1 was in a state of resentment, and pocuy
consisted in transforming, by means of
language, reputedly base matter into
what was regarded as noble matter. The
problem is now quite different. You —
that is, society — no longer interest me
as an enemy, Ten or fifteen years ago 1
against you. At the present time I'm
neither for nor against you. We both
and my problem
is no longer to oppose you, but to do
something in which we're involved to:
gether, you and I alike. I now think
that if my books arouse readers sexually.
they're badly written, because the poetic
emotion should be so strong that no
reader is moved sexually. In so far as my
books are pornographic, 1 don't reject
them. I simply say that I lacked grace
PLAYBOY: Evotically speaking. what do
you think of the works of D. H. Law
rence and Vladimir Nabokov?

GENET: I've never read either of them.
PLAYBOY: How about Henry Miller?
GENET: I don't know much about Miller's
work, but what I do know doesn't inter
est me. It’s chatter. He's а man who
never stops talking.

PLAYBOY: How would you appraise Sartre?
GENET: Sartre repeats himself. He has à
few major ideas and has exploited them
in various forms. When I read him. |
go faster than hc. But 1 was surprised
by his recent autobiography, in which
he shows his will to free himself from
the bourgeois world. In a world where
everyone is trying to be a respectful pros
titute, it’s nice to meet someone who
knows he's a bit whorish but doesn’t
want to be respectful. I like Sartre per
sonally because he's amusing to be with
and be he understands everything
laughingly and without passing judg-
ment. He doesn't accept everything about
me, but he enjoys it when we don't
. He's an extremely sensitive man.
PLAYBOY: Were you pleased with his
unique literary psychoanalysis of you?
GENET: It filled me with a kind of disgust,
because 1 saw myself stripped naked —
by someone other than myself. I strip
myself in all my books, but at the same
time I disguise myself with words, with
attitudes, with certain choices, by me:
of a certain magic. 1 manage not to get
too damaged. But I was stripped bv
Sartre unceremoniously. My first im-
pulse was to burn the book; Sartre had
given me the manuscript to read. 1 let
him publish it because my chief con-
cern has always been to be responsible
for my acts. It took me some time to get
over my reading of his book. 1 was
almost unable to continue writing. I
could have continued turning out a cer-
tain type of novel mechanically. 1 could
have tried to write pornographic books
mechanically. Sartre's book created а
void which made for a kind of psycho

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PLAYBOY: How long did you remain in
this void

GENET: I remained in that awful state for
six years, six years of the imbecility that’s
the basic stuff of life: opening a door,
lighting a cigarette. There are only a
few gleams in a man's life, All the rest
is grayness. But this period of deteriora-
tion made for a meditation that led me
finally to the theate
PLAYBOY: But weren't Deathwatch
The Maids written and produced before
Sartre’s book was published?

GENET: Thats right. But Sartre’s book
made for the exploitation of something
that was already familiar.

ır something, in the
opinion of some reviewers, is the plight
of those minority groups about whom
your plays are written, and with whose
alienation from socicty you identily pe
sonally as a homosexual and onetime
Are they right?

GENET: І write plays in order to crystallize
a theatrical, a dramatic emotion. I'm
not concerned about whether, for ex-
ample, The Blacks serves the Negroes
Besides, I don’t think it does. I think
that direct action, the fight against co-
lism, does more for the Negroes
y play. T tried in these plays to
give voice to something deeply buried,
something that Negrocs and other
alicnated people were unable to express.
Sp of The Maids, a critic once
said that maids "don't talk like that."
Well, they do — but only to me, alone,
at midnight. If anyone said to me that
Negroes don't talk like that, I'd. answer
that if he put his against their heart,
that’s pretty much what he'd hear.
You've got to be able to hear what's
unformulated

PLAYBOY: Then your sympathy is with
the downtrodden and underprivileged
classes in your plays?

GENET: It may be that I've written these
plays against myself. It may be that Гт
the Whites, the Employer. the Clergy,
—and that I'm trying to isolate the
tic elements in those qualities
PLAYBOY: Your critics have accused you
of attempting not merely to isolate but
to exterminate these “idiotic elements,"
you call them; they assert that you
advocate the violent of so-
ciety's ruling classes and conventions.
Are they exaggerating your intention?
GENET: | certainly would like to free
myself from conventional morality, the
kind that has crystallized, that prevents
development, that prevents life. But an
artist is never completely destructive.
The very concern with shaping a fine
phrase, a harmonious sentence, pre-
supposes an ethic — that is, a relation
ship between the author and a possible
reader. Every aesthetic contains an ethic.
e the impresion that your
notion of me is based on work written

and

overthrow

twenty years ago. These days Pm not
trying to give a di:
or acceptable

usting or ting
age of myself. I'm simply

GENET: From time to time I work on my
plays—not every day, but in spurts.
mple, I may do an opera
with the great musician Pierre Boulez,
who directed Alban Berg's admirable
ck at the Paris Opera this winter.

state of.
PLAYBOY: Do you continue writing be-
cause you want to, or has it become

simply a way to make
GENET: ] feel responsible for the time
accorded me. I want to do something
with it, and the best thing I can do with
it is to write. It’s not that I'm responsible
to others. l'm not even responsible to
myself. Perhaps I'm responsible to God,
about Whom I can't speak, since I don't.
know much about Him.
PLAYBOY: Then despite the fact that
you've consecrated your life to “evil,”
you believe in God?
GENET: I believe that I believe in Him. I
don't much believe in the mythology of
the catechism. But why do I feel I must
nt for the time I live by affirming
s to me most precious?
ag obliges me to do it; nothing
visible forces me. "Then why do | feel
so strongly that I have to? In the past,
the question was resolved by the act of
writing. My childhood rebellion, my
adolescent rebellion, was а revolt а aga
my state of humi!
my deepest ;
PLAYBOY: Some of vour friends feel tl
you're still rebelling — but now ag;
the blandishments of у late succe:
rather than the humiliation of vour early
deprivation. You tell us you have sub-
stantial royalties coming all over
the world: vet vou appear to be. and are
said to be, nearly penniless. What do
you do with all your income?
GENET: That's none of your business.
PLAYBOY: Well, here in this sparse room,
1 from а few pieces of secondhand
iture, we see only seven books, an
rm clock, a valise, a suit and three
rts—in addition to the clothes on
your back. Is this all you own?
GENET: Yes. Why should I have more?
Mine is the poverty of the angels. I just
t give a damn about possessions and
c. When I go to London, my agent
sometimes reserves a room for me at the
Ritz. But what nees е 1 for objects
and luxury? 1 write, and that's enough.
PLAYBOY: Toward wh: ny, are
you directing your life?
GENET: Toward oblivion. Most of our
tivities have the v
ness of a tramp's existence. We very
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THE PLAYBOY FORUM

an interchange of ideas between veader and editor
on subjects raised by the playboy philosophy”

A RATIONAL SOCIETY

The December installment of The
Playboy Philosophy cxpresscs the very
causes for which our beloved 35th Presi
dent, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, gave hi
life. As he had written in а speech never
delivered: “In a world of complex and
continuing problems, in a world full of
frustrations and irritations, America's
leadership must be guided by the lights
of learning and т
carth, good will toward men. . . must
always be our goal — and the righteous-
ness of our cause must always underlie
our strength."

The only worthy and fitting tribute
to the memory of this great “uncommon
man" is to transform these ideals into
reality — that he will not have died in
vain. Praynoy is to be commended for
its part in helping to accomplish this
goal.

I feel that a philosophy so b;
reason, and therefore so compatible to
the human nature of man, will surely
preva

ason. . . . Peace on

Richard A.
"Tacoma, Wash

CONFORMITY AND LOVE

Originally, my plaudit to your Philos-
ophy was going to be limited to the act.
of ordering three new subscriptions for
friends. However, after the events in
Dallas, 1 feel compelled to take advan-
tage of The Playboy Forum and express
my views.

Certainly, I love America — my adopt-
ed country — but, I cannot refrain much
longer from criticizing what I find flawed
he
of powerful machines
People who a

à 1 see is composed
ıd tired. people.
losing their identity at
а fast pace, and are running the risk of
becoming depersonalized automatons.
My stomach turns at the thought that
—а5 you wrote—my “social-security
number is more important” than my
name. 1 feel sick to know that (to my
friends the Bay Area) 1
known as — “complete with area code” —
115-154-1718, though 1, too, be damned if
1 “feel like" 415-454-4718. There is some-
thing
in which sex is of passing interest while
automobiles arouse great community
concern. We have made the horrendous
error of implanting in the minds of our
people the notion that conformity is the

outside

herendy wrong with a culture

ultimate virtue, and nonconformity a
sin. Moreover, the margin of freedom
allowed the individual, within the con
fines of these two Brave New World-type
concepts. is so limited that it puts any
person who is different at the mercy of
а tyrannical society: a society which has
по qualms about ostricizing J. Robert
Oppenheimer one day, and heralding
him with a Fermi Award the next.

My headlong plunge into the Ameri-
can way of life, upon my arrival here ten
years ago, has convinced me that the
relation between the sexes here is a farce.
The illusion of. bei fall
love" with someone whom you have just
met is so strongly inculcaied in the
minds of our people that it has debased
the meaning of the word "love," Un-
fortunately, the pellucid English lan-
guage has only this word to express a
spectrum of varied emotions and feclings.
You “love” the girl whose beautiful
breasts leave you breathless; you "lov
your mother, your brother, your wif

nd you “love” the Flag, God, Freedom,
Liberty.

Have you tackled this problem in your
Perhaps PLAYROY will utilize
l,

able to

new words expressing these varied and
diverse feeli

Fairfa ifornia
We welcome your accord with Hefner's
protest against creeping numeralism, and
share your feeling that the English lan-
guage is sometimes inadequate to the
tasks imposed upon it. The word “love,”
as you point ont, is called on to do yeo-
man duty and often falls short of the
mark. In its original Greek, the New
Testament used three different words for
lon апа not
necessarily sexual desire; “philia” mean
ing friendship; and “agape,” the love of
God for His creatures, flowing spontane-
ously forth, unprovoked by any of the
objects of His affection. In modern Eng-
lish the single word “love” has so many
meanings it sometimes seems to have
almost no meaning at all. Ij you missed
it, we urge on you an article we pub-
lished in March 1962: “The Love Cult,”
by Alfred Kazin, in which its abuse is
brilliantly documented.
We're sure you'll concur that, with all

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its faults, America has astonishing
strengths — including the ability to take
criticism, the freedom to publish “The
Playboy Philosophy” and such “Forum”
comments as your own; the capacity to
right wrongs, as in the case of Robert
Oppenheimer; and the ability of its
people to submerge differences, and
mourn as one, when a great President is
assassinated,

WORLD GOVERNMENT
1 must take issue with statements made
in the December installment of The
Playboy Philosophy. Mr. Hefner sitys that
the only solution to the problem of the
specter of war is the establishment of a
isa

view held by many in our country today,
to expect the rest of the

aphs later,
Hefner emphasizes the inherent individ-
uality of man along with the idea that
society should serve man, not vice versa.
These views are not compatible. If such
an all-powerful international govern-
ment were set up, it would stille individ-

ual initiative. In shor ı would still
be a slave to society, only on a larger

scale than he is now.
Joseph A. Snyder
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania

Shame on you, Mr. Hefner. You, of all
people, а one-worlder. ГЇ bet you don't
mean it. Very few of PLAYBoY's readers
will buy page 214 im your December
issue, but Adlai Stevenson will surely
love you, and it will be interesting to
see your readers’ reactions to the incon-
gruity of the subheading "A United
World” following as it does others like
A Rational Society," “A Free Society.”
Enlightened SelI-Interest;" “The mi
vidual vs. the Group,” and finally, “Free
Enterprise in а Free Society.

California
Editor-Publisher Hefner considers the
concept of a single world government,
democratically conceived. and adminis-
tered, entirely consistent with the other
major principles of “The Playboy Philos-
ophy.” Whether or not the major govern-
ments of our world are ready to take
this step yet, we suspect the majority
of thinking people everywhere would
welcome such a sane solution 10 the ever-
lusting threat of atomic annihilation.
To answer your second point, Mr.
Snyder. the individual's freedom in so-
ciety is not inversely proportionate to the
sizeof the state in which he lives,as you've
suggested; just the opposite is quite
offen the case. Did our own forefathers
lose, or further secure, their liberty when
the separate independent colonies joined
together to become the United States of
America? Why must the results be any
different with a United World?

What bothers a number of Americans
about the concept of world government
is the vague but disquieting feeling that
they might be somehow selling out their
own country in the process. This is non-
sense — unless you think you are selling
out your city or state when you vote in a
national election or obey a Federal law.

As Americans, we would be giving up
virtually nothing, but we would be gain-
ing a great deal. A Congress of Nations
is simply the next logical step in the
ever-increasing international association
of all the countries of the earth. The
United Nations is a significant beginning
in the vight direction, but the veto power
of the major countries makes the UN
impotent when it is needed most. А gov-
ernment of nations should be able to
pass international laws, democratically,
and then see that they are enforced —
otherwise it would be reduced, as the
UN too often is, to little more than a
debating society. Debate can be worth-
while, 100, bul more positive action is
required if international disputes are to
ever be resolved by reason rather than
warfare. If this makes us a “one-worlder,”
Mr. Trask, then make the most of it; for
in truth—in 1964 —we live in one
world. And a mighty small one at that.

Many of the most important problems
of today are world-wide in their implica-
tions; they should logically be considered.
and resolved on a world-wide basis. The
Common Market is a single economic ex-
ample of what international cooperation
in trade can mean 10 the prosperity of
all involved. And, as Hefner pointed out,
if international government could put
an end to the arms race — and il could,
and would, if its own deterrent force was
formidable enough —then the money
wasted on weaponry we dare not use
could be spent on improving man’s life
on this carth instead of threatening it
with extinction.

Of this much we are certain: The pres-
ent possibility of global atomic holocaust
is not the figment of someone's overactive
imagination; the present overkill capac-
ity of both the United States and Russia
slaggers the imagination. The threat of
mutual annihilation is real and it does
not diminish when we decline to think
about it; indeed, the passage of lime
only increases the danger of —among
other things —additional nations pro-
ducing their own stockpiles of atomic
weaponry and joining the present two-
handed game of brinkmanship.

The alternatives in an atomic world
are few: Either the people on this planet
learn to live together, or most assuredly
they will die together. In our freest,
most individualistic, enlightened and
self-interested manner, Mr. Trask, we
choose the former.

At the very heart of our philosophy,
gentlemen, is the belief that life is for

living and that it can—and should —
be a great adventure. In order to assure
the good life that тілүвоү is always
editorializing about in its pages — [or
ourselves and for the dear ones who
come affer —uc've got to make reason-
ably certain that both we and old mother
earth stick mound awhile. And that's
about as rational a conclusion as a ra-
tional society is ever going to reach.

RATIONAL MAN, PAST AND FUTURE
Even the most harebrained (по pun
intended) of readers should be expected
to question a treatise which fails to rec-
oncile the very contradiction it indicts:
that man, a rational being, has created
for himself a society predicated

plate our pathetic nuclear predicament
to be impressed with i

But the question of wh
veloped along lines contrary to what we
believe his true nature to be must first
be answered if we are to formulate an
te picture of the ideal soc

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conclu escapable. Ei
mot a rational being, or his r
ics are dedicated to a cause other
than what he perceives to be the welfare
of mankind.

Richard Allen Repp
Norfolk, Vir
We agree with your observation that
“the question of why man has developed
along lines contrary to what we believe
his true nature to be must first be
answered if we are to formulate an
accurate picture of the ideal societ
That's precisely what we have attempted
to do in the early installments of
“The Playboy Philosophy.” In future
installments, we hope to "formulate an
accurate picture of the ideal society"
which, as we have repeatedly stated, is
one based on the assumption that man
is, indeed, capable of creating and living
in a rational society.

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ARGUMENTUM PRO PHILOSOPHY

The most prevalent error 1 have de-
tected in lettes of The Playboy
Philosophy is called, among logicians,
the informal fallacy of argumentum ad
hominem. The opening letter of the
ry Forum is a good example: a
reader accuses you of hypocrisy because,
he says, some of the other material
conflicts with the заа

criti

logical structure. which ТУНЫ;
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its originator, In an extended argument,
The Playboy Philosophy is free of Hef-
ner and jor his researchers, free of chang-
ing individual lues, and free of the
context in which it is presented. In-
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SOCRATES AND THE SCHOLAR-LECHER

Because the sexual data of your other-
wise admirable presentation of The
Playboy Philosophy are incomplete, its
conclusions are not compelling. You
have neglected to consider the plight of
noteworthy figure: the scholarlecher.
One undergraduate afternoon, he
came upon John Stuart Mill's apology
for the scholarly life: it is better to be a
Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
For ensuing years, this motto sustained
him as he observed others wallowing in
gross sexual action into which he
could not even dip his fingers. Socrates
is better. than these pigs, he assured him-
self, and went on Socratizing to the B.A.,
the M.A., the Ph.D. fellowship at one
university, an assistant professorship at
another, an associate professorship at
still another.

When he asked
axiom, the thing disintegrated.
classroom, while out of his mouth issued
the usual pious platitudes about the
grandeur of the Periclean Age, he won-
dered in his mind about the skirt-hidden
mysteries of his girl students, He found
himself growing more interested in Sap-
pho's ics than in Socrates! dialectics,
more in Byron's romantic sport with his
Italian countess th roman-
tic support of Greek independence, and
finally more in the lingerie advertisc-
ments of the Sunday Times than in its
book reviews.
cry for a life tion rather than a
life of thought, and as his students dili.
gently took notes, so did he.

He has now reached the point where
he misrcads words like bullock,”
and “beast,” and he discovers off-color
puns in Ezra Taft Benson. The farm
surpluses and the vast wasteland, birth
control and the arms race, Belsen and
Birmingham, these serve only to inten-
sify his private horror; and he gazes
longingly at his coeds while they stare
carnivorously at their boyfriends.

The real world is not the Abbey of
‘Théléme—nor its modern counterpart
the Playboy Penthouse — writ large. In
this world, particularly in that part of
it which sprouts ivy and term papers,
women do not open themselves to Sam-
my to see how he runs. For some, the
great ideals of mankind dwindle into
insignificance as the phallic urge pollutes
the channels of the cerebral cortex.
There is no room to breathe, only to
dream, and the more pleasant the dream,
the more nightmarish; for the rational
mind — still, surprisingly, functioning —
reminds: Thou shalt not.

I applaud your hedor
ment.

“Why?” to Mills
In the

istic comi
For you that is not only a

philosophy, but a practice. But what of
him? W of the scholarlecher who
walks the groves of the academy with
cheeks and throat tightened at the app
ion of beauty? He has tried antidotes:
liquor; scholarship: a hobby; Eros;
marriage; the ACLU; Burton's recom-
mendation to look deep until by seeing
the twisti ега of his unobtainable
ideal, he is cured of satyriasis. But these
cannot withstand the impress of Jayne
Mansfield's flesh.

He has not concluded yet that it is
better to be a pig satisfied than a Socrates
dissatisfied, but гае
results from the up-and-down mobility
between the sensual and the intellect
h by itself is insufficient and offensive.
Yet the knowledge of this truth is more
a provocation than а sedation.

This, I suggest, you have neglected in
your presentation of The Playboy Philos-
ophy. C. P. Snow addressed himself to the
problem, and we may well conclude with
а quotation from the cultivated prose of
The New Men 1 observed what
others had observed before, I could not
recall of those who had known more than
their share of the erotic life, one who,
when the end came, did not think that
his time had been tolerably well spent."

(Name withheld on request)
Crawfordsville, Indiana

We applaud the wisdom that leads you
to conclude that “success in life results
from the up-and-down mobility between
the sensual and the intellectual; each by
itself is insufficient and offensive.” And
we agree with Sir Charles that the erotic
life is “tolerably well spent” Our only
practical suggestion for your scholar-
lecher's conflict is that he make sure the
next coed is both sexy and intelligent,
then proceed to spend at least some of
his time with her tolerably well.

CALVIN'S ERRING DAUGHTER

In a recent installment of The Playboy
Philosophy, which was largely concerned
with a history of the status of women,
you made this reference to John Calvi
“His sister-in-law gave herself in adultery
in 1557 daughter did the same
five years later."

I would like very much to use this bit
of inform an article I am writ-
ing, pleading for a more sensible attitude
toward sex. It would make an excellent
anecdote to prove my point. Could you
give me your source of information?

J. J. Biegenwald
Monroe. Louisiana

Our reference source was G. Rattray
Taylor's "Sex in History.” You can also
find substantiation of the immorality of
Calvin's daughter in George Cutlin's
"The Story of the Political Philosophers.”

THE MORMON VIEW
I have been struck with the similarities
between your Philosophy and the philos-

ophy of the Mormon prophet Joseph
Smith. With a few minor exceptions the
basic premises are the same. Hi
came at a time (1830-1844) when pe
secution, bigotry, narrowness and hate
were even more pronounced than they
1 for his ad-

Joseph believed that the human р
sonality is the most precious thing i
the universe. He that “the
glory of God is intelligence” and “no
опе can be saved in ignorance." He i
structed that both spirit and body be
developed to their highest capabilit

I am sure that were Joseph Smith
alive today he would be a regular sub-
scriber to PLAYBOY and possibly a cor
tributor, since yours is "as a voice crying.
out of the wilder of bigotry and
ignorance. Your m: е epitomizes one
of his major tenets, "eternal progres-
sion." For you have grown not only
the more mundane з of size, sub-
scription and advertising, but also, and
most notably, in quality. I believe that
he would approve of this growth be-
cause it gives you the means to express
itellectual and moral feelings and
les you and your employees
a greater opportunity to enjoy the good
things of this life.

“Man is that he might have joy.” Thi

belief in man's bas
individual freedom and free agency,
comprises the backbone of Mormon

theology. Joseph regarded sex in much
the same way as you do, except that
he even went a litde further. The act
of procreation is probably the most
spiritual of all man's activities. At this
time man comes closest to being a "crea-
tor” of human life.

"There is an interesting story about
the do-gooders and moral uplifters who
went to Utah for the purpose of
"emancipating" the plural wives of those
“heathen” Mormons. They built a large
building, which is still standing, to pro-
vide a refuge for the poor women re-
leased from the “bondage” of polygamy.
They waited several months for it to
fill up with these poor wretches of soci-
ety, but no one applied. In fact, that
Y.W.C.A. for misguided women had only
one occupant, a whore, who was unable
to make a living in enlightened Salt
Lake City.

I am not saying that some narrow-
ness does not exist in the. Church. of.
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It does,
but in every case it is the work of
nehed-minded men and not the church
I do believe that it is the опе or-
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professes and practices the basic freedoms
of man

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Merced, California

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It is interesting to note that our sex-
suppressed (and hence sex-obsessed)
society knows virtually nothing of Mor-
monism except that it condones polyg-
amy. It is typical of those who accuse
others of being preoccupied with sex
that they themselves seem unable to
think about anything else.

CONVICTION IN CLEVELAND

After reading the last few installments
of The Playboy Philosophy, Y have sud-
denly become conscious of insidious
forces at work in my own community.
Last week it was the banning of a Jayne
Mansfield motion picture by a small
group of self-righteous city police offi-
cials, ostensibly because they didn’t con-
sider the picture “art.” Now a mother
has been convicted for advising her
16-year-old daughter of birth-control
methods — the daughter has had three
illegitimate children!

It is regrettable that some of our own
fellow citizens actually think they have
the right to force the rest of us to adopt
their own beliefs, at the cost of our con-
stitutional liberties.

David Roberts
Case Institute of Technology
Cleveland. Ohio

The Cleveland birth-control incident
referred to involved a 33-year-old mother,
Mrs. Virginia McLaughlin, who was
found guilty of contributing to the delin-
quency of her 16-year-old daughter by
advising her of birth-control methods.
Mrs. McLaughlin, who received а sus-
pended $200 fine and workhouse
sentence, testified she had told her
daughter to use contraceptives if she was
going to continue to have sexual relu-
tions with men. The daughter had given
birth to three illegitimate children in as
many years.

TRUTH AND MORALITY

I admire your frankness in setting
forth a new philosophy, but I am afr:
І cannot agree with it. You call your
philosophy one of reason. You attempt
to reason out many of the outstanding
problems of our society, both political
and moral. You are trying to eliminate
hypocrisy from our society, but you are
doing it in a manner with which 1 can-
not agree. Instead of attempting 10
elevate man to a level where he is able
to follow existing moral codes, you are
trying to establish new codes which he
can follow. In itself, this does not sound
altogether cvil; however, it eludes the
n of truth,
re are two types of truth: objective
and subjective. In my opinion, you do

not stress objective truth with enough
emphasis (if at all). Your philosophy
scems to be based on the subjective idea

of truth "This is truc because I
believe it is true.” Objective truth, on

the other hand, does not depend on the
consent of the mind. It is true whether
one believes it or not. For those who
belicve in God this objective truth is
God's law. For those who do not believe,
it can be classified under the heading of
natural law.

To become more specific, the natural
law states that the primary purpose of
sex is for the procreation of the species.
Whether or not we subscribe to, or even
like this idea, does not make
of difference. Man, of course, will try
to modify nature and his environment to
suit his own ideas. This is something
that he has been doing since history
began, and although on the surface he
has been successful, 1 wonder has
made man a nobler and happier species.

Roy R. Stoecker
Bayside, New York

Why should we attempt to “elevate”
man to a “level where he is able to fol-
low existing moral codes" if, in fact,
these codes ате false or unrealistic? To
us this is debasing man, not elevating
him.

As we stated in the December install-
ment of “The Playboy Philosophy": "We
believe in the existence of absolute truth
—not in a mystical or religious sense, but
in the certainty that the true nature of
man and the universe is knowable, and
the conviction that the acquisition of
such truth should be one of the major
goals of mankind”

We certainly do think that man’s
attempt “to modify nature and his envi-
ronment to suit his own ideas" can make
him “a nobler and happier species,” but
whether it has or hasn't so far does not
affect — in our opinion — the validity of
the acquisition of truth as a goal in itself.

PHILOSOPHY PLAUDITS

Hugh Hefner is the founder of the
“Humanistic Rebellion," the emanci-
pator of the night people, and the man
who has been instrumental in throwing
off the shackles that had tied millions
of human beings to a pillar of ludicrous
and stifling anonymity. For all of us, he
has reclaimed a vast oasis of human vege-
tation, and replanted it in an ocean of
sunshine, where it may indeed blossom
and grow.

Tommy Dolan
St. Marys, Ontario

Congratulations on your fine scrics,
The Playboy Philosophy. It is one of the
most courageous collections of thought I
have ever read. Despite negative criti-
sm, you are giving young America a
direction and an honest approach to
morality.

Youth has been imbued with the idea
that sex equals sin, and has at the same
ime been subjected to the world’s
strongest barrage of sex. Rather than

leave youth divided as the supposedly
adult guides have done, you are provid-
ing an honest and sensible set of ideas.
You have brought religious ideas into
the open to be judged for what they are.
In the past, religion has been seen only
through the cloudy haze of the zealot's
love or the heretic’s hate. It can now be
seen objectively.
Keep up this wonderful series. It is
one of the things our society most necds.
Randolph E. Schmid
Auburn, New York

GET THE MESSAGE?

I think you're mistaken in the belief
that television and movies of today
mirror a more liberal attitude toward
sex. It may be true that a bit more thigh
is exposed on the screen or a couple
more "Damns" and “Hells” are muttered,
but the message is still the same: the guy
who tries to score without the formality
of the band of gold is always foiled, or,
the young female wanton runs into the
dark night and gets done in by a speed-
ing truck. You guys know dam well the
current rash of adult movies featu
Rock Hudsons of various types who, on
failing to make it with a chick, link arms
with the gitl, wink out at the audience,

and exclaim while walking out to the
sound of the title song, “You know, thi

marriage bit might be nice after all"
Just once I'd like to sce 90 minutes of
Doris Day shacking with a guy, loving
every second of it, and exclaiming at the
end, "Boy, what I've been missing all
these pictures

Stuart Schwartzberg
Paterson, New Jerscy
If you confine your viewing to Doris
Day flicks we agree that you may never
see conventional morality flouted. How-
ever, domestic movies such as “Two for
the Seesaw," “Tea and Sympathy,” “Irma
la Douce" and “Bonjour Tristesse” did
show characters breaking conventional
moral codes and not suffering the cliché
consequences. And among foreign pro-
ductions the examples are legion. A few:
“Never on Sunday,’ “The Five-Day
Lover,” “The Cousins}? "L'Avventura
and “Doctor No.”

SEX VS. GLUTTONY

Your philosophy on sex is taken from
a subjective standpoint. You advocate
sexual freedom and you base your advo-
cacy on the fact chat the sex act Culfills
a desire and accomplishes pleasure. "This
is analogous to advocating gluttony,
since gluttony fulfills a desire and gives
pleasure.

Looking at the matter objectively, sex
is the means of keeping the human race
from dying out, just as eating is the
means of keeping the individual from
dying.

If you will adyocate complete sexual
freedom (with the use of contracep-

tives), 1 will advocate complete gluttony
(with the use of a feather)
Ralph Gemig
arks College
East Saint Louis, Illinois
You do that. But with analogies like
yours, who needs a feather? Meanwhile,
there will be people who enjoy a healthy
appetite and take pleasure in satisfying
it with delicious foods, They are called
gourmets, to distinguish them from
those who couldn’t care less what they
cat, and from the insatiable gluttons who
cram themselves hoggishly with any ed.
ible they can lay a tooth to.

SERIOUSNESS VS, FUN

You guys at рілувоу are fu
In the December i:
a reader that your
meant to suggest that
editorially playful, frisky, and
You suggest that your ap
parent" is a fundoving beast — а "bunny
vivant."

Then a few pages later the big bunny
upstairs (that playful, frisky crite
spells out the 13th part of his editorial
credo. You kids really take your fun
seriously — part 13 runs 25 columns!

Could it be that the editorial credo
is no longer guiding the magazine, and
that the “dirty” pictures have become
just the sugar coating for a correspond.
ence course in Phughlosophy?

Robert E. Perrin
Monterey Park, California

PLaynoy’s editorial credo continues to
guide the magazine, in much the same
way now as it did ten years ago. We have
said earlier and will say again that we
construe our role as the leading men’s
entertainment magazine as a mandate to
provide “entertainment” in the broadest
sense of the word. By attempting to
balance ephemera with food for hard
thought we try to be the integrated
magazine for the integrated man. We
have never expected all our features to
appeal equally to all readers, and would
be sorely distressed if ever they did. We
trust that persons like yourself who
don't wish to consider the “Philosophy”
seriously will find ample other entertain
ment in our pages. In the December
issue to which you refer, for example,
there is a total of 648 editorial columns,
of which — as you observe — just 25 are
devoted to “Philosophy.”

“The Playboy Forum” offers the oppor
tunity for an extended dialog between
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on subjects and issues raised in our con
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the sixteenth part of a statement in which playboy’s editor-publisher spells out—for friends
and critics alike—our guiding principles and editorial credo

IN OUR CONTINUING consideration of the
rights of the individual in а free society,
we discussed in the last installment of
this editorial series (February) the extent
to which a person's private s behav
ior is the subject of governmental con-
trol іп America.

This nation was founded on the prem-
ise that each one of us is entitled to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness: our
democratic government was established
to protect these rights and our Constitu-
n guarantees them. Yet every state has
statutes specifically designed to control
the most personal, intimate acts of its
citizen:

America is presumably the land of the
free and the home of the brave. But our
legislators, our judges and our officers
of law enforcement are allowed to enter
our most private inner sanctuaries — our
bedrooms — and dictate the activity that
takes place there.

We аге [ree in a voting booth, in a
stockholders’ meeting, a union hall, or a
house of worship, but we are not free in
bed. Our democracy, which prides itself
on its permissiveness in almost every arca.
of indi а! endeavor, has proven intol-
erably restrictive in matters of sex.

Our society's repressive and suppres-
sive antisexualism is derived from
twisted theological concepts that became
firmly imbedded in Christianity during
the Dark Ages, several hundred years
after the crucifixion of Christ, and
spread and became more severe with Cal-
vinist Puritanism after the Reformation,
In the Old World, the people suffered
under totalitarian church-state controls
of both Catholic and Protestant origin
and many of the early colonists in Amer-
ica came here in search of the religious
freedom denied them in Europe. Our
own founding fathers, well aware of the
history of religious tyranny in other
countries, established with the Constitu-
tion of the United States the concept of
a separate church and state as the best
ns of assuring that both our reli
and government would remain free, thus
teeing the freedom of the people.

Unfortunately, the sceds of religious
antisexualism were already planted in
the people themselves, however; in addi-
tion, through the centuries, a certain
amount of ecclesiastical law had found

editorial By Hugh M. Hefner

its way into the common law of Europe,
and then into American law as well. As а
result, not even the guarantees of the
Constitution itself were cnough to keep
our religion and government apart.

19TH CENTURY ANTISEXUALISM.

Puritan antiscxualism increasingly in-
fected both England and America and
reached its climax in the 19th Century.
We are not suggesting that the period
was noted for its purity or sexual absti-
nence — quite the contrary; as always
occurs, the repression merely produced
an uncommon amount of perversion and
sexual aberration.

We have commented previously on the
extent to which Victorian England was
obsessed with sex, with ап excessive
modesty in speech, manners and dress
that only accented matters sexual (The
Playboy Philosophy — Part X, September
1963). The pre- n Celts and Sa
ons were a virile, vigorous. outgoing
people; Britain has paid a heavy price
for its religious heritage, for the tradi-
tional reserve and lack of spontaneity of
the Englishman are as much a result of
his Puritan past as is his taste for the
sado-masochistic pleasures of the whip
(flagellation is such a common accommo-
dation of the English prostitute. that
revelations on the price paid for such
services — one pound per stroke — during
the Dr. Stephen Ward-Christine Kecler
-Mandy Rice-Davies trial raised hardly
an eyebrow among blasé Britishers).

In America the antisexual bent of the
1800s was mixed with excessive sentimen-
tal and romanticism; women were
placed upon pedestals, virginity and
chastity were prized most highly, and the
notion that a "nice girl" might experi-
ence anything akin to sexual yearning, or
take pleasure in the sex act, was unthink-
able. Morton М. Hunt, author of The
Natural History of Love, comments in
his chapter for Julian Huxley's The Hu-
manist Frame: “.. Тһе 19th Century —
that high-water mark of romantic and
sentimental feeling — was a time when
many men were made impotent or mas-
ochistic by the prevailing love mores and
many women were warped by frigidity
and frustration.

It was also early in the last century

that the censor first raised his ugly blue

snout in America. Our founding fathers
had spoken out most forcefully on the
subject: In 1814 Thomas Jefferson stated
that he was “mortified” to learn th
sale of a book should ever become a sub.
ject of inquiry in these United States.
"Are we to have a censor whose impri-
matur shall say what books may be sold
what we buy?” Jefferson
demanded. “Whose foot is to be the
measure to which ours are all to be cut
or stretched?”

“For the first hundred years" reports
Morris L. Ernst in The Best Is Yet, “the
United States was unafraid of sex. It was
frec of literary taboos, except for a rem-
nant of blasphemy.... These men who
drafted our Federal Constitution
signed our Declaration of Independence
bulged their cheeks with naughty giggles
when reading the works of Fielding and
Smolleu. The plays of Congreve were
presented without expurgation. And
there was no substantial demand in 0
land for the importation of a Master of
Revels who, since the days of Fielding's
attack on Walpole, had been using his
shears on the drama of Great Britain...”

But in the beginning of the I9th Cen-
tury we have what is generally accepted
as the first recorded suppression of a
literary work in the U. S. on the grounds
of obscenity. The book was John Cle-
land's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,
better known by the name of its heroine,
Fanny Hill. Cleland's delightful classic of
ribaldry had been around for more than
half a century and no one had thought
to censor it; Ben Franklin is reputed to
have had 2 copy in his library. But the
book was suppressed in the early 1800s,
and it did not appear again in legal pub-
lication in this country for a century and
a half until, in 1963, G. P. Putnam's Sons
— emboldened by the recent victories
over censorship in the courts — brought
forth a new edition. Fanny's reappear-
ance resulted in several obscenity suits
which the publisher successfully defend-
ed; in the most significant, late in the
year, a New York court first held the
book to be obscene, then — in as refresh-
ing a bit of jurisprudence as we have

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witnessed in the Empire State in a very
long while — reversed itself. without the
need for appeal to a higher court.
After the unhappy late of Fanny
at the start of the previous century
the censors went back — for a time — to
whatever censors do when they're not
censoring: in a memorable debate in the
U. S. Senate in 1835, Clay, Calhoun and
Webster declared that the Federal Gov-
ernment should never have anything to
do with censorship: and in that same
у visitor from France, Alexis de
"Tocqueville, reported: "Attempts have
been made by some governments to pro
tect the morality of nations by prohibit-
ing licentious books. In the United States
no one is punished for this sort of wo
Yet in 1812 Congress passed а Tariff
Act that forbade the importation of “ob-
scene books or pictures into the United
States”; and in 1865 another law was
passed prohibiting the transmission of
objectionable materials through the
mail. “But there was one saving grace
in these laws," wrote Ernest Sutherland
Bates. “It never occurred to anyone ap-
parently that they should be enforced.
And then around 1870 the lid was
damped down. С ip spread over
the land like a prairie fire.” It was im-
ported, like the Puritans themselves,
from England. As Andrew
pressed it: nglish literature had been
at least as freespoken as any other to
the death of Smollett. Then in 20 years,
at most, English literature became . . .
the most respectful of the young person's
blush tl the world had eve:
The growing sexual repres:
century erupted in an orgy of censorship
—led by the infamous Anthony Com-
sto 1d others of his ilk — continuing
to the end of the 18005 and into the
beginning of the new century.
Comstock toiled for а number of years.
as an unpaid postal inspector, ferreting

known."
ion of a

out the indecent, the lewd, the lascivious
and the obscene in the U. in
what was cleanly a labor of Iove. before

graduating to the post of secretary of,
and primary spokesman for, the New
York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
He was responsible for the passage of
the Comstock Act, upon which H. L.
Mencken reported bitterly: “The story
of the passage of the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1873, is a classical tale of Puri-
n impudence and chicanery. Ostensibly
. . , the new laws were designed to put
down traffic [in obscenity] which, of
‚ found no defenders — but Com-
had so drawn them that their
actual sweep wi der, and once
he was firmly in the saddle, his enter-
prises scarcely knew limits. Having
posed of The Confessions of Marta
Monk and Night Life in Paris, he warned
to Rabelais and the Decameron, and
having driven these agents under the
book counters, he pounced upon Zola,

s vastly w

Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed
of these, too, he began a pogrom which,

in other hands, eventually brought down
such astounding victims as Thomas
Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

In carrying on this war of extermina-
tion upon all ideas that violated their
private notions of virtue and decorum,
Comstock and his followers were very
greatly aided by the ueness of the
law. It prohibited the изе of the mails
for transporting all matter of ‘obscene,
lewd, lascivious . . . or filthy’ character,
but conveniently failed to define these
adjectives. As a result . . . it was po:
to bring an accusation against
cally any publication that aroused the
Comstockian bloodlust.”

Heywood Broun remarked, “Anthony
Comstock may have been entirely correct
n his assumption that the division of
living creatures into male and female
was a vulgar mistake, but a conspiracy
of silence about the matter will hardly
alter the facts.

Not until the 1920s was there any no-
ticeable tendency toward a thaw in this
chilling climate of censorship, and
not until the most recent years that
ican maturity and the U.S. courts rca
the point where we can once again con-
template the possibility of the free press
assured us by our founding fathers.

CONTEMPORARY ANTISEXUALISM

Our fear of sex has been sufficient, as
we have illustrated in considerable detail
in carly installments of the Philosophy,
to rationalize the abridgment of our
Constitutionally guaranteed. freedoms of
both speech and press. Sex has also
served as a justification for curtailing
lemic freedom — and the mere ex-
pression of an unpopular opinion on the
subject can still cause the dismissal of a
college professor (as it did at the Un
versity of Ilinois in 1960): or a too-
realisti aden, drama by
may bring down the
wrath of a university president and
prompt the resignation of the head and
IF of an entire drama department (as
occurred at Baylor in 1963).

Discussing, describing or graphically
depicting sex too explicitly, or with an
improper moral point of view, is still
prohibited throughout much of these
supposedly free United States. Why? Be-
use it may lead to like behavior. And
that is the greatest fear of all: chat sex
may be indulged in freely. without the
burden of guilt and shame placed upon
ignorant, superstitious, f

ncestors in the Middle Age
Never mind that the contemporary
psychiatrist knows, and will gladly tell

ny who care to listen, that books, and
pictures, and pamphlets and papers th:
deal openly and honestly with sex have
little or no effect upon human behavior
and whatever effect they do e is

healthful, rather than injurious. to so-
cty; never mind that the science of
psychiatry has revealed that it is the
repression of the natural sex instinct,
and the association of sex with guilt and
shame, that cause the hurt to hum:
kind — producing frigidity, impotence,
masochism, sadism, homosexuality and
all manner of other sexual perversions,
social and psychological ills, neuroses
and psychoses: never mind that all of
огу documents the utter impossibility
of curbing the normal sex drive, of keep-
ing the male and female free from this
of the flesh; never mind that modern
research into sex behavior has revealed
t America’s own Puritan attempts at
wal suppression have failed to halt
or seriously hinder the °
conduct of the majority of our adult

population and resulted in nought but
frustr

tion, aberration, agony and heart-
never mind that any effort to
regulate or contol the private sexual
ty of the adult citizens of the
tes is contrary to the princi-
ple of individual freedom that is the very
foundation of our democracy, and is in
conflict with the most basic guarantees
of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Never mind — for such argumenis are
based upon reason. And there is noth-
ing reasoned or rational about our so-
cietys attitude toward sex. It is based,
instead, upon an irrational conglomera-
tion of prejudice, superstition, fear,
faith, mysticism and malarkey.

SEX, RELIGION AND THE STATE

The contemporary Judaco-Christian
concept of sexual morality stems — as we
ndicated in some Чеги
issues (The Playboy Philosophy, Au,
and September, 1963) — less from orig
Judaic law or the teachings of Christ
than from the extreme antisexu
the medieval Church, w

even marriage with extreme dis-
taste; and Calvinist Puritanism, which
extended the antagonism toward sexual
pleasure to include all pleasure in
neral.
Both the medieval Chu
s Puritanism ruled thei
European societies with an iron hand,
through the ecclesiastical courts and con
wol over the secular governments as
well; both demanded obedience of
church law— hoth tortured, imprisoned
and executed heretics.
The Church of the Middle Ages estab-
lished penitential laws regulating every
al life, including not only
fornication and adultery, but masturba-
tion and even involuntary nocturnal
emissions; the Church also decreed the
di of the ek and the
the year in which it was permissible for
the married to indulge in coitus, as well
as delineating the sexual techniques to

ch and Cal-
r respective

aspect of sex

weeks of

be used between man and wife in order
to remain free from sin; the sexual act
was permissible within marriage only
and for the single purpose of begetting
children — the pleasures of sex were sup-
posed to be kept to a minimum by the
pious and it was the pleasure attendant.
h the act, even more than the act
itself, that was thought to be ful;
women were held in extremely low es-
teem and a number of religious leaders
of the period denounced them as the
principal source of sin and the cause of
n's fall from the grace of God (it was
in this time that the Biblical story of
Adam and Eve the Garden of Eden
was given its sexual interpretation, with
Eve Gist in the role of the temptress —
although Christian authorities of every
denomination agree that the “Original
Sin" was pride, and there is no evidence
in either the Bible or in any respected
theological interpretation of the Scrip-
tures to justify the idea, still held by
many, that the sin was sexual).

John Calvin and his Puritan followers
accepted sex within marriage as essen-
tially good and opposed the celibacy of
the priesthood, but Calvin warned
against any "indelicacy" in sexual ге
tions and exhorted the married to “re-
su themselves from all immodest
lasciviousness and impropriety.”

He considered it an “inexcusable ef-
frontery” for a wife to touch that part
of her husband's body “from the sight
and touch of which all chaste women
naturally recoil.” Purita:
sentially joyless religion — in sex and all
other aspects of daily life. And sex out-
side the bonds of. ic was damned
as the worst of all possible sins.
Graham Cole, Ph.D. and noted member
of the ministry of the Presbyterian
Church, previously assistant. professor of
religion of Smith College and presently
President of Lake Forest (Illinois) Col-
lege, states in his book, Sex in Christian-
ity and Psychoanalysis, "Calvin . . . could
not believe that God would ш
nees fail to vent Н.
ion, and he extended the sense of
the Seventh Commandment to cover that.
as well as all other forms of sexual

“Sodomy Gal
larly heinous crime, since not even the
beasts, he said [quite incorrectly], are
guilty of such a perversion of nature.
Calvin had dearly no experience with
the sexual behavior of animals. Bestiali
se; relations with a member of an-
other species, is another sin repugnant
to the modesty of
law very properly fin Calvin
prescribes the death penalty
Cole states that Galvin also “spoke with
approval of the severe punishment

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ded any guilty of this as
ight degenerate . . .” In Geneva,
п attempted, unsuccessfully, to im-
e the death penalty for adultery, but
х па, under Puritan rule,
adultery was made a capital offense pun-
ishable by hanging, and some citizens
actually were hung for the crime.

It is not our intention to dwell upon
the irrational aspects of such religious
doctrine: in а free society, each religion
should be free to teach whatever it
plea or not, and each indi-
vidual free to either accept or reject the
belief. What concerns us here is the
extent to which this antisexualism has
Deen projected into secular society and
has even found its w мо the very
laws that govern our land.

In the last installment of this editorial
series we examined the extent to which
religious beliefs on sex are reflected in
our laws governing marriage and divorce.
Marriage, in our society, is a church-state
license to engage in sex and almost all sex-
ual activity outside of marriage is prohib-
ited by statutes on fornication, adultery
nd cohabitation in most of the 50 states.
We oppose these laws — not as an en-
dorsement of either premarital or extra-
marital sex — but in the firm belief that
such personal conduct should be left to
the private determination of the individ-
ual and is not rightly the business of gov-
ernment in our democracy. This belief is
shared by a great many legal and relig-
ious leaders in America, who have been
among the most outspoken in the current
criticism of our archaic sex statutes.

The legal view was expressed by the
American Law Institute, when it au-

thorized a Model Penal Code for sex in
1955 recommending that all consensual
relations between adults in p

should be excluded from the crimi
Taw, since "no harm to the secular
terests of the community is involved in
atypical sex practice in private between
consenting adult partners and there is
the fundamental question of the protec-
tion to which every individual is entitled
against state interference in his personal
rs when he is not hurting others.
The religious view is expressed by
ather James Jones of the Episcopal
Church, who has observed that when
personal sexual behavior is governed by
the state, it is Iess likely to effectively
ange the behavior than to make it
hidden or secretive, thereby making
more difficult the task of religion in
dealing with the moral issues involved.

т! gious view is confirmed by
the facts: Although 37 of the 50 les
have laws against fornication and 45
have statutes prohibiting adultery, Dr.
Alfred Kinsey and associates, their
monumental study of U. S. sex behavior,
published in Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male and Sexual Behavior in
the Female, found that the

Human

majority of adult men and women in
America а cd to having sexual i
tercourse outside of marriage. Kinsey

studies established that the sexual ex
perience of adult Americans varies
widely— depending upon social and

educational background, with 67 percent
of the males with some college education,
84 percent of those who attended. high
school but did not go on to college, and
98 percent of the men with only a
gradeschool education, having engaged
in premarital sexual intercourse; approx-
imately 50 percent of all females haye
coitus prior to marriage and, unlike
the statistics for males, this figure íi
creases for women of higher education,
with some 60 percent of the females
with a college education having had
intercourse before marriage.

Although both the social taboos and
the statutes are far stricter regarding
dultery, Kinsey estimates — taking into
count the high degree of cover-up he
found among married men in this por-

study — approximately 50
I married males have sexual
intercourse with women other than their
wives at some
riage. In Kinsey's study of U. S. females,
26 percent of all married women admit-
ted having n extramarital
intercourse; the females with a higher
educational background showed a slightly
higher incidence, with 29 percent of the
wives with some college education ad-
mitting to extramarital sex. Here agai
as with the married males, Kinsey foi
a considerable hesitancy on the part of
wives to divulge the facis related to
marital infidclity—a problem not cx-
perienced by the researchers in those
portions of the survey dealing with pre-
marital sex, suggesting that the true per-
centages for extramarital sex among
women are somewhat higher.

Using only the minimal estimates sup-
plicd by Kinsey and his staff, however,
it is safe to say that one out of every two
U.S. husbands, and something more than
one out of every four wives, will engage
in ex tram: 1 intercourse at some time
during their marriages: in addition,
nearly all of the males and one half of
the females have pr tercourse.
Quite obviously the U.S. laws prohibi
ing fornication and adultery are having
liule effect upon the behavior of a siz-
able portion of our society.

CRIMES AGAINST NATURE

It is in our laws against sodomy, or
what some state statutes refer to as “the
bominable and detestable crime against
nature,” that our religiously generated
aversion 10 sex proves most pronounced.
ly and medically refers
to anal intercourse, or buggery, but the
statutes on sodomy include all manner of
sexual activity conceived by someone,
somewhere, at one time or another, to be

Sodomy histor

“unnatural”; and this means, of course,
in this sexually repressed society, almost
jety of sexual activity other
ural" coitus. Sodomy laws thus
cover, in one state or another, not only
buggery, but fellatio (oral-genital con
tact with the male). cunnilingus (oral-
genital contact with the female),
homosexual behavior, bestiality (ех
contact with animals), necrophi
ual contact with the dead). and in two
states, even mutual masturbation, The
very concept of “natural” and "unnatu-
ral" sex is, of course, a rcligious-moral
one. Among all these “crimes against
ture,” only necrophi| ely
rare and a certain symptom of a scrious
psychosexual disorder, We will offer no
personal moral judgments on the rest of
this behavior now reserving the ex-
pression of our own concept of a ra-
tional sexual moral for a later
installment of this editorial series — but
the psychiatrist, without making any
moral determination on the subject,
would consider almost all of this activity
normal (and, therefore, "natural"): and
Kinscy found a far greater frequency for
most of it than was previously assumed.

Forty-nine of the fifty states and the
District of Columbia have sodomy stat-
utes and they include some of the most
cmotion-tinged language to be found
anywhere in the law. The Michigan stat-
ute, which states, “Any person who shall
commit the abominable and detestable
crime against nature, either with man-
kind or with any animal, shall be guilty
of a felony,” is typical; the phrase
“abominable and detestable crime against
nature" appears with such regularity in
the sodomy statutes that it the effect
of being an alternate title for the offense,
and Rhode Island actually lists the crime
under that heading: . Arizona
and Nevad: is also referred to as the
“infamous crime against nature.”

The “abominable and detestable”
phrase also becomes, in some instances,
the sole description of the offenses pro-
hibited under the Jaw. Some of the
legislators responsible for initiating and
sing thc statutes were apparently so
embarrassed by the whole business that
they offered no further cluc to the nature
of the crime, except to state that it was
illegal if perpetrated “with mankind or
animal.”

The noted 18th Century jurist Sir
William Blackstone, author of the fa-
mous Commentaries, which are still fun-
damental in any study of English or
U.S. law, reflects the irrational emo-
tionalism associated with these statutes
when he writes: "I will not act so dis.
agreeable a part, to my readers as well
as myself, as to dwell any longer upon
a subject, the very mention of which
is a disgrace to human nature. It will
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which treats it, in its very indictments,
as a crime not fit to be named. ...Which
leads us to add a word concerning its
punishment. This the voice of nature
and of reason, and the express law of
Cod determined to be capital, of which
we have a signal instance, long before
the Jewish dispensation, by the destruc-
tion of two cities by fire from Heaven;
so that this is a universal, not merely a
provincial precept; and our ancient Jaw
п some degree imitated this punishment,
by commanding such miscreants to be
burned to death; though Fleta says they
should be buried alive; cither of wh
punishments was indifferently used for
this crime among the ancient Goths. But
now the general punishment of all
Iclonics is the same, namely, by hanging;
and this offense (being in time of popery
only subject to ecclesiastical censures)
was made a felony without benefit of
ERE

The U. S. courts have displayed a simi-
Tar distaste in dealing with the subject.
‘Thus the judge, in State vs. Whitmarsh,
commented, "We regret that the impor-
tance of this question [whether or not
oral-genital contact could be considered
a crime against nature] renders it neces-
sary to soil the pages of our reports with
a discussion of a subject so loathsome and.
disgusting as the one confronting

Former Judge Morris Ploscowe, of the
New York Magistrates Court, now Ad-
junct Associate Professor of Law at New
York University, states in Sex and the

Law: “Ever since Lord Coke's time, the
attitude of judges has bcen that
sodomy is ‘a detestable and abominable

sin among Christians not to be named.”
The result of this attitude is a sharp
departure from the usual rules of crim-
inal pleading. It is one of the basic
canons of criminal procedure that a
defendant is entitled to know the partic
ulars of the crime charged against him,
so that he can adequately prepare his
defense. If the indictment is not suffi-
ciently specific, the defendant has a right
to demand a bill of particulars. But
when a man is charged with sodomy or
а crime against nature, an indictment in
the language of the statute is enough.
Tt is enough that the indictment alleges
that at a particular time and place the
defendant commited a ‘crime against
nature’ with a specific person. The
defendant need not be informed of the
particular sexual perversion which is
charged against him. As the Court put
it the case of Honsclman vs. People:
‘It was never the practice to describe
the particular manner or the details of
the commission of the crime, but the of-
fense was treated in the indictment as
the abominable crime not fit to be
named among Christians. The existence
of such an offense is a disgrace to human
nature. The legislature has not seen fit
to define it further than by the general

term, and the records of the courts need
not be defiled with the details of differ-
ent acts which may go to constitute it. A
statement of the offense in the language
of the statute is all that is required.’ "

HETEROSEXUAL SODOMY

Although English common law, from

chich our own statutes on the subject
are derived, defined and prohibited only
buggery with mankind or beast as "the
crime against nature," carrying the pen-
alty of death, a majority of the present-
U. S. statutes include both oral and
anal intercourse under sodomy.

Morcover, none of the statutes in any
of the 49 states make any distinction be-
tween heterosexual and homosexua
sodomy — both are prohibited under the
law; and what is even less clearly recog-
nized is that none of the U.S. statutes
make any distinction between the mar-
ried and the unmarried. Our Govern-
ment thus specifies, quite literally, where
a husband and wife may, and may not,
iss one another; and the manner in
which the sex act may be initiated and
carried out in the marriage bed with-
out becoming illegal.

Modern insights into human behavior
have radically changed society's views on
the subject of perversion, of course, and
what was once considered "unnatur:
in sex is now recognized as perfectly nor-
mal, and у nces, desirable.
A majority of our contemporary mar-
riage manuals, courses in sex education,
and counselors on the problems of sex
and family, stress a natural freedom in
the love play that accompanies marital
coitus; both husband and wife are in-
formed that the intimate preliminaries
of sex can be important in achieving the
full satisfaction of both partners: every
part of the loved one should be dear,
and free from shame, and the sexual
foreplay may quite properly include
kisses and caresses wherever desired; no
act of intimacy that brings pleasure to
both members of the mating should be
considered improper or taboo.

This quote from Sexual Harmony in
Marriage by Oliver М. Butterfield, Ph.D.,
a book reportedly given by some mem-
bers of the Presbyterian clergy to young
couples about to be married, is typical
“Any position is proper which permits
full satisfaction for both parties. All
parts of the body are proper for use
they сап be made to contribute to the
general goal without giving offense to
the taste or feelings of either partner, and
if neither partner is harmed thereby.”

Dr. Albert Ellis states, in an article
published in Marriage and Family Liv-
ing: "The only true sexual ‘perversion’
is a fetish or rigidity which convinces an
individual that he or she can only have
satis! ions in one method
or position. The great majority of sexual
‘perverts’ in this country are not sadists,

homosexuals, exhibitionists, or similar de-
viates, but ‘normal’ married individuals
who only enjoy one method of coitus . . .
because they are afraid or ashamed to
try the dozens of other sexual variations
that arc easily available to them.
In offering such psychologically sound
advice, the marriage manuals, educators
and counselors of America are actually
wviting husbands and wives to commi
criminal acts іп their. bedrooms — acts
that are prohibited by law almost every-
where in the United States, with lengthy
prison sentences prescribed for the guilty.
Since the relations between a man and
his wife are most often kept private,
relatively few instances of such behavior
come to public attention. Kinsey reports,
in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,
however, "While the laws are more
commonly enforced in regard to such re-
lations outside of marriage, there arc
instances of spouses whose oral activities
became known to their children, and
through them to the neighborhood, and
ultimately led to prosecution and penal
sentences for both husband and wife . .
More often this behavior comes to
light as the result of a divorce actio
although Ploscowe comments that it has
been customary for the courts to view
such charges with skepticism when they
are a part of a suit for divorce, since
they are inherently unprovable and rest
solely upon the assertion of the party
seeking to end the marriage. Sometimes
the behavior comes to light through
charges lodged by an unwilling partner
in oral or anal sex, because the act was

allegedly performed under duress.
Kinsey states in his second volume,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female,
"We have cases of persons who w
convicted because one of the spouses
objected, or because some other person
became aware that oral or anal play
had been included in the marital acti
ities.” Kinsey observes that there have
been relatively few actual convictions of
husbands or wives under U.S. sodomy
laws, but adds, “As long as they remain
on the books, they are subject to capri-
cious enforcement and become tools for
blackmailers. In those states where the
definition of cruelty as one of the
rounds for orce includes ‘personal
indignities’ or ‘mental cruelty, divorce
cases involving cither the husband's or
the wife's desires or demands for the use
of oral techniques are not infrequent.
For the unmarried, the chances of dis-
covery and possible prosecution are ob-
viously greater. Completion of the act
to orgasm, with cither the male or fe-
male, is not required to be guilty of the
offense — the act itself is sufficient; in
some states, а tion may be based
upon circumstantial evidence, or simply
upon an attempt to commit the act:
Alabama's statute оп the “crime against
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me бинл САЛ Ер Trembling Leaf,
on her knees beside James Bond,
leaned forward from the waist and
kissed him chastely on the right cheek.

“That's a cheat,” said Bond severely.

You agreed that if I won it would be
a real kiss on the mouth. At the very
least,” he added.

Gray Pearl, the madam, who had
black lacquered teeth, a bizarre affecta-
tion, and was so thickly made up that
she looked like a character out of a
no play, translated. There was much
giggling and cries of encouragement.
Trembling Leaf covered her face
with her pretty hands as if she were
being required to perform some ulti-
mate obscenity. But then the fingers
divided and the pert brown eyes ex-
amined Bond's mouth, as if taking aim,
and her body lanced forward. This
time the kiss was full on the lips and
it lingered fractionally. In invitation?
In promise? Bond remembered that
he had been promised a “pillow
geisha.” Technically, this would be
a geisha of low caste. She would not
be proficient in the traditional arts of
her calling—she would not be able
to tell humorous stories, sing, paint
or compose verses about her patron.
But, unlike her cultured sisters, she
might agree to perform more robust
services — discreetly, of course, in con-
ditions of the utmost privacy and at a
high price. But, to the boorish, bru-
talized tastes of a gaijin, a foreigner,
this made more sense than having a
tanka of 31 syllables, which in any
case he couldn't understand, equate,
in exquisite ideograms, his charms with
budding chrysanthemums on the slopes

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died quickly and respectfully. The power-
ful, chunky man in the black yukata,
sitting directly across the low red-lacquer
table from Bond, had taken the Dunhill
filter holder from between his golden
teeth and had laid it beside his ashtray.
“Bondo-san,” said Tiger Tanaka. head
of the Japanese Secret Service, "I will
now challenge you to this ridiculous
game, and I promise you in advance
that you will not win." The big, creased
brown face that Bond had come to know
so well in the past month split expan-
sively. The wide smile closed the almond
eyes to slits— slits that glittered. Bond
knew that smile. It wasn't a . It was
a mask with a golden hole in it.

Bond laughed. “All right, Tiger. But
first, more sake! And not in these ridic-
ulous thimbles. I've drunk five flasks
of the stuff and its effect is about the
same as one double martini. I shall
need another double martini if I am
to go on demonstrating the superiority
of Western instinct over the wiles of the
Orient. Is there such a thing as a lowly
glass tumbler discarded in some corner
behind the cabinets of Ming?”

“Bondo-san. Ming is Chinese. Your
knowledge of porcelain is as meager as
your drinking habits are gross. More-
over, it is unwise to underestimate sake.
We have a saying, ‘It is the man who
drinks the first flask of sake; then the
second flask drinks the first; then it is
the sake that drinks the man.” Tiger
Tanaka turned to Gray Pearl and there
followed a laughing conversation which
Bond interpreted as jokes at the expense
of this uncouth Westerner and his mon-
strous appetites, At a word from the
madam, Trembling Leaf bowed low
and scurried out of the room, Tiger
turned to Bond. “You have gained much.
face, Bondosan. It is only the sumo
wrestlers who drink sake in these quan-
tities without showing it She says you
are undoubtedly an eight-flask man.”
Tiger's face became sly. “But she also
suggests that you will not make much
of a companion for Trembling Leaf at
the end of the evening.”

“Tell her that Ї am more interested
in her own more mature charms. She
will certainly possess talents in the art
of lovemaking which will overcome any
temporary lassitude on my part.”

This leaden gallantry got what it
deserved. There came a spirited crackle
of Japanese from Gray Pearl. Tiger
translated. “Bondo-san, this is a woman
of some wit. She has made a joke. She
says she is already respectably married

...unless you played to win.

to one bonsan and there is no room on
her futon for another. Bonsan means a
priest, a graybeard. Futon, as you know,
is a bed. She has made a joke on your
name."

"The geisha party had been going on
for two hours, and Bond's jaws were
aching with the unending smiles and
polite repartee. Far from being enter-
tained by the geisha, or bewitched by
the inscrutable discords issuing from the
catskin-covered box of the three-stringed
samisen, Bond had found himself having
to try desperately to make the party go.
He also knew that Tiger Tanaka had
been observing his efforts with a sadis-
tic pleasure. Dikko Henderson had
warned him that geisha parties were
more or les the equivalent, for a
foreigner, of trying to entertain a lot
of unknown children in a nursery with
a strict governess, the madam, looking
on, But Dikko had also warned him that
he was being done a great honor by
Tiger Tanaka, that the party would
cost Tiger a small fortune, whether
from secret funds or from his own
pocket, and that Bond had better put
a good face on the whole thing, since
this looked like being a breakthrough
in Bond's mission. But it could equally
well be disaster.

So now Bond smiled and clapped his
hands in admiration. He said to Tiger,
“Tell the old bitch she’s a clever old
bitch,” accepted the brimming tumbler
of hot sake from the apparendy adoring
hands of Trembling Leaf, and downed it
in two tremendous gulps. He repeated
the performance so that more sake had
to be fetched from the kitchen, then
he placed his fist decisively on the red-
lacquer table and said with mock bel-
ligerence, “АШ right, Tiger! Go to itl"

It was the old game of scissors cut
Paper, paper wraps stone, stone blunts
scissors, that is played by children all
over the world. The fist is the stone,
two outstretched fingers are the scissors,
and a flat hand is the paper. The closed
fist is hammered twice in the air simul-
taneously by the two opponents and,
at the third downward stroke, the
chosen emblem is revealed. The game
consists of guessing which emblem the
opponent will choose, and of you your-
self choosing one that will defeat him.
Best of three goes or more. It is a game
of bluff,

Tiger Tanaka rested his fist on the
table opposite Bond. The two men
looked carefully into each other's eyes.
"There was dead silence in the boxlike

lath-and-paper room, and the soft gur-
gling of the tiny brook in the ornamental
square of garden outside the opened par-
tition could be heard clearly for the first
time that evening. Perhaps it was this
silence, after all the talk and giggling,
or perhaps it was the deep seriousness
and purpose that was suddenly evident
in Tiger Tanaka's formidable, cruel,
samurai face, but Bond's skin momentar-
ily crawled. For some reason this had
become more than a children's game.
Tiger had promised he would beat
Bond. To fail would be to lose much
face. How much? Enough to breach a
friendship that had become oddly real
between the two of them over the past
weeks? This was one of the most power-
ful men in Japan. To be defeated by a
miserable gaijin in front of the women
might be a matter of great moment to
this man. The defeat might leak out
through the women. In the West, such
a trifle would be farcically insignificant,
like a cabinet minister losing a game
of backgammon at Blades. But in the
East? In a very short while, Dikko Hen-
derson had taught Bond total respect
for Oriental conventions, however old-
fashioned or seemingly trivial, but Bond
was still at sea in their gradations. This
was a case in point. Should Bond try
and win at this baby game of bluff and
double bluff, or should he try to lose?
But to try and lose involved the same
cleverness at correctly guessing the other
man's symbols in advance. И was just
as difficult to lose on purpose as to win.
And anyway, did it really matter? Un-
fortunately, on the curious assignment
in which James Bond was inyolved, he
had a nasty feeling that even this idiotic
little gambit had significance toward
success or failure.

As if with second sight, Tiger Tanaka
spelled the problem out. He gave a
harsh, taut laugh that was more of a
shout than an expression of humor or
pleasure. "Bondo-san, with us, and cer-
tainly at a party at which I am the host
and you are the honored guest, it would
be good manners for me to let you win
this game that we are to play together.
It would be more. It would be required
behavior. So I must ask your forgiveness
in advance for defeating you."

Bond smiled cheerfully. “My dear
‘Tiger, there is no point in playing a
game unless you try to win. It would
be a very great insult to me if you
endeavored to play to lose. But if I may
say so, your remarks are highly pro-
vocative. They are like the taunts of the

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sumo wrestlers before the bout. If I
was not myself so certain of winning, I
would point out that you spoke in
English. Please tell our dainty and dis-
tinguished audience that I propose to
rub your honorable nose in the dirt at
this despicable game and thus display
not only the superiority of Great Britain,
and particularly Scotland, over Japan,
but also the superiority of our Queen
over your Emperor.” Bond, encouraged
perhaps by the crafty ambush of the
sake, had committed himself. "This kind
of joking about their different cultures
had become a habit between himself and
Tiger, who, with a first in P.P.E. at
Trinity before the war, prided himself
in the demokorasu of his outlook and
the liberality and breadth of his under-
standing of the West. But Bond, having
spoken. caught the sudden glitter in the
dark eyes, and he thought of Dikko
Henderson's cautionary "Now listen, you
stupid limey bastard. You're doing all
right. But don't press your luck. T.T.'s
ized kind of a chap— as Japs go,
that is. But don't overdo it. Take a look
at that mug. There's Manchu there, and
Tartar. And don't forget the so-and-so
was a Black Belt at judo before he ever
went up to your bloody Oxford. And
don't forget he was spying for Japan
when he called himself assistant naval
attaché in their London embassy before
the war and you stupid bastards thought
he was OK because he'd got a degree at
Oxford. And don't forget his war record.
Don't forget he ended up as personal
aide to Admiral Ohnishi and was train-
ing as a kamikaze when the Americans
made loud noises over Hiroshima and
Nagasaki and the Rising Sun suddenly
took a backward somersault into the sca.
And, if you forget all that, just ask
yourself why its T.T. rather than any
other of the ninety million Japanese
who happens to hold down the job as
head of the Koan-Chdsa-Kyoku. OK,
James? Got the photo?"

Since Bond had arrived in Japan he
had assiduously practiced sitting in the
lotus position. Dikko Henderson had
advised it, “If you make the grade with
these people,” he had said, “or even if
you don't, you'll be spending a lot of
time sitting on your ass on the ground.
"There's only one way to do it without
cracking your joints; that's in the In-
dian position, squatting with your legs
crossed and the sides of your feet hurt-
ing like hell on the floor. It takes a bit
of practice, but it won't kill you and
you'll end up gaining plenty of face.”
Bond had more or less mastered the
art, but now, after two hours, his knee
joints were on fire and he felt that if he
didn't alter his posture he would end
up bandylegged for life. He said to
Tiger, "Playing against a master such
as yourself, I must first adopt a relaxed
position so that my brain may be totally

concentrated.” He got painfully to his
feet, stretched and sat down again —
this time with one leg extended under
the low table and with his left elbow
resting on the bent knee of the other.
it was a blessed relief. He lifted his
tumbler and, obedicntly, Trembling
Leaf filled it from a fresh flagon. Bond
downed the sake, handed the tumbler to
the girl and suddenly crashed his right
fist down on the lacquer table so that
the little boxes of sweetmeats rattled
and the porcelain tinkled. He looked
belligerently across at Tiger Tanaka.
“Right”

Tiger bowed. Bond bowed back. The
girls leaned forward expectantly.

Tiger's eyes bored into Bond's, trying
to read his plan. Bond had decided to
have no plan, display no pattern. He
would play completely at random, show-
ing the symbol that his fist decided to
make at the psychological moment after
the two hammer blows.

Tiger said, “Three games of three?”

“Right.”

The two fists rose slowly from the table
top, quickly hammered twice in unison
and shot forward. Tiger had kept his
fist balled in the stone. Bond’s palm was
open in the paper that wrapped the
stone. One up to Bond. Again the ritual
and the moment of truth. Tiger had
kept to the stone. Bond's first and sec-
ond fingers were open in the scissors,
blunted by Tiger’s stone. One all.

Tiger paused and placed his fist
against his forehead. He closed his eyes
in thought. He said, “Yes. I've got you,
Bondosan. You can't escape.”

“Good show,” said Bond, trying to
clear his mind of the suspicion that
Tiger would keep to the stone, or alter-
natively, that Tiger would expect him to
play it that way, expect Bond to play
the paper and himself riposte with the
scissors to cut the paper. And so on and
so forth. The three emblems whirled
round in Bond's mind like the symbols.
on a fruit machine.

The two fists were raised — опе, two,
forward!

Tiger had kept to his stone. Bond
had wrapped it up with the paper. First
game to Bond.

The second game lasted longer. They
both kept on showing the same symbol,
which meant a replay. It was as if the
two players were getting the measure of
each other's psychology. But that could
not be so, since Bond had no psycho-
logical intent. He continued to play at
random. It was just luck. Tiger won the
game. Опе all.

Last game! The two contestants
looked at each other. Bond's smile was
bland, rather mocking. A glint of тей
shone in the depths of Tigers dark
eyes. Bond saw it and said to himself,
"I would be wise to lose. Or would 1?"
He won the game in two straight goes.

blunting Tiger's scissors with his stone,
wrapping Tiger's stone with bis paper.

Tiger bowed low. Bond bowed even
lower. He sought for a throwaway re-
mark. He said, "I must get this game
adopted in time for your Olympics. 1
would certainly be chosen to play for
my country."

"Tiger Tanaka laughed with controlled.
politeness. "You play with much in-
sight. What was the secret of your
method?"

Bond had had no method. He quickly
invented the one that would be most
polite to Tiger. "You are a man of rock
and steel, Tiger. I guessed that the
paper symbol would be the one you
would use the least. I played accord-
ingly.”

This bit of mumbo jumbo got by.
Tiger bowed. Bond bowed and drank
more sake, toasting Tiger. Released
from the tension, the geisha applauded
and the madam instructed Trembling
Leaf to give Bond another kiss. She did
so. How soft the skins of Japanese
women were! And their touch was al-
most weightless! James Bond was plot-
ting the rest of his night when Tiger
said, “Bondo-san, I have matters to
discuss with you. Will you do me the
honor of coming to my house for a
nightcap?”

Bond immediately put away his lasciv-
ious thoughts. According to Dikko, to be
invited to a Japanese private house was
a most unusual sign of favor. So, for
some reason, he had done right to win
this childish game. This might mean
great things. Bond bowed. "Nothing
would give me more pleasure, Tiger.”

An hour later they were sitting in
blessed chairs with a drink tray be-
tween them, The lights of Yokohama
glowed a deep orange along the hori-
zon, and a slight smell of the harbor
and the sea came in through the wide-
open partition leading onto the garden.
Tigers house was designed, enchant-
ingly, as is even the meanest Japanese
salaried man’s house, to establish the
thinnest possible dividing line between
the inhabitant and nature. The three
other partitions in the square room
were also fully slid back, revealing a
bedroom, a small study and a passage.

Tiger had opened the partitions when
they entered the room. He had com-
mented, “In the West, when you have
secrets to discuss, you shut all the doors
and windows. In Japan, we throw every-
thing open to make sure that no one
can listen at the thin walls. And what
I have now to discuss with you is a mat-
ter of the very highest secrecy. The
sake is warm enough? You have the
cigarettes you prefer? Then listen to
what I have to say to you and swear on
your honor to divulge it to no one.”
Tiger Tanaka gave his great golden

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“Кот God's sake, Harry, not here!"

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shout of mirthless laughter. "If you were
to break your promise, I would have no
alternative but to remove you from the
earth.

Exactly one month before, it had been
the cve of the annual closing of Blades.
On the next day. September first, those
members who were still unfashionably
in London would have to pig it for a
month at White's or Boodle's. White's
they considered noisy and "smart,"
Boodles too full of superannuated
country squires who would be talking
of nothing but the opening of the par-
tridge season. For Blades, it was one
month in the wilderness. But there it
was. The май, one supposed, had to
have their holiday. More important,
there was some painting to be done and
there was dry rot in the roof.

M, sitting in the bow window looking
out over St. James's Street, couldn't care
less. He had two weeks’ trout fishing on
the Test to look forward to and, for the
other two weeks, he would have sand-
wiches and coffee at his desk. He rarely
used Blades, and then only to entertain
important guests. He was not a "club-
able" man and if he had had the choice
he would have stuck to The Senior, that
greatest of all Service clubs in the
world. But too many people knew him
there, and there was too much “shop”
talked. And there were too many former
shipmates who would come up and ask
what he had been doing with him-
self since he retired. And the lie, “Got a
job with some people called Universal
Export,” bored him, and, though verifi-
able, had its risks.

Porterfield hovered with the cigars.
He bent and offered the wide case to
M's guest. Sir James Melony raised a
quizzical eyebrow. “I see the Havanas
are still coming in.” His hand hesitated.
He picked out a Romeo y Julieta,
pinched it gently and ran it under his
nose. He turned to M. “What's Univer-
sal Export sending Castro in return?
Blue Streak?”

M was not amused. Porterfield ob-
served that he wasn't, As Chicf Petty
Officer, he had served under M in one
of his last commands. He said quickly,
but not too quickly, “Аз a matter of
fact, Sir James, the best of the Jamaicans
are quite up to the Havanas these days.
They've got the outer leaf just right at
last." He closed the glass lid of the case
and moved away.

Sir James Molony picked up the
reer the headwaiter had left on the
table and punctured the tip of his cigar
with precision. He lit a Swan Vesta
and waved its flame to and fro across
the tip and sucked gently until he had
got the cigar going to his satisfaction.
"Then he took a sip. first at his brandy
and then at his coffee, and sat back. He
observed the corrugated brow of his

host with affection and irony. He said,
"AM right, my friend. Now tell me.
What's the problem?"

M's mi elsewhe He seemed
to be having difficulty getting his pipe
going. He said vaguely, between pulis,
“What problem?"

Sir James Molony was the greatest
neurologist in England. The year be-
fore, he had been awarded a Nobel
Prize for his now famous Some Psycho-
somatic Side Effects of Organic Inferi-
ority. He was also nerve specialist by
appointment to the Secret Service and,
though he was rarely called in, and then
only in extremis, the problems he was
required to solve intrigued him greatly
because they were both human and vital
to the state. And, since the war, the
second qualification was a rare one.

M turned sideways to his guest and
watched the traffic up St. James's.

Sir James Molony said, “My friend,
like everybody else, you have certain
patterns of behavior. One of them con-
sists of occasionally asking me to lunch
at Blades, stuffing me like a Strasbourg
goose, and then letting me in on some
ghastly secret and asking me to help
you with it. The last time, as I recall,
you wanted to find out if I could extract
certain information from a foreign dip-
lomat by getting him under deep hyp-
nosis without his knowledge. You said it
was a last resort. I said I couldn't help
you. Two weeks later, I read in the
paper that this same diplomat had come
to a fatal end by experimenting with
the force of gravity from а tenth-floor
window. The coroner gave an open ver-
dict of the ‘Fell Or Was Pushed’ va-
riety. What song am I to sing for my
supper this time?" Sir James Molony
relented. He said with sympathy, “Come
on M! Get it off your chest!”

M looked him coldly in the eye. “It’s
007. I'm getting more and more worried
about him,”

“You've read my two reports on his
condition. Anything new?"

“No. Just the same. He's going slowly
to pieces. Late at the office. Skimps his
work. Makes mistakes. He's drinking
100 much and losing a lot of money at
one of these new gambling clubs. It all
adds up to the fact that one of my best
men is on the edge of becoming a
security risk. Absolutely incredible con-
sidering his record."

Sir James Molony shook his head with
conviction, "It's not in the least in-
credible. You either don't read my re-
ports or you don't pay enough attention
to them. I have said all along that the
man is suffering from shock." Sir James
Molony leaned forward and pointed
his cigar at M's chest. "You're а hard
man, M. In your job you have to be. But
there are some problems, the human
ones for instance, that you can't always
solve with a rope's end. This is a case

in point. Here's this agent of yours,
just as tough and brave as I expect you
were at his age. Нез a bachelor and a
confirmed womanizer, Then he suddenly
falls in love, partly, I suspect, because
this woman was a bird with a wing down
and needed his help. Its surprising what
soft centers these so-called tough men
always have. So he marries her and
within a few hours she’s shot dead by
this supergangster chap. What was his
name?”

“Blofeld,” said M. “Ernst Stavro Blo-
feld.”

АП right. And your man got away
with nothing worse than a crack on the
head. But then he started going to
pieces and your M.O. thought he might.
have suffered some brain injury and sent.
him along to me. Nothing wrong with
him at all. Nothing physical, that is—
just shock. He admitted to me that all
his zest had gone. That he wasn't inter-
ested in his job anymore, or even in his
life. I hear this sort of talk from patients
every day. It's a form of psychoneurosis,
and it can grow slowly or suddenly. In
your man's case, it was brought on out
of the blue by an intolerable life situa-
поп — ог one that he found intolerable
because he had never encountered it
before — the loss of a loved one, aggra-
vated in his case by the fact that he
blamed himself for her death. Now, my
friend, neither you nor I have had to
carry such a burden, so we don't know
how we would react under it. But I can
tell you that it’s a hell of a burden to
Jug around. And your man’s caving in
under it. I thought, and I said so in my
report, that his job, its dangers and
emergencies and so forth, would shake
him out of it. I’ve found that one must
try and teach people that there's no top
limit to disaster — that, so long as breath
remains in your body, you've got to
accept the miseries of life, They will
often seem infinite, insupportable. They
are part of the human condition. Have
you tried him on any tough assignments
in the last few months?"

“Two,” said M drearily. "He bungled
them both. On onc he nearly got him-
self killed, and on the other he made a
mistake that was dangerous for others.
Thats another thing that worries me.
He didn't make mist: before. Now
suddenly he's become accident-prone.”

“Another symptom of his neurosis. So
what are you going to do about it?”

“Fire him," said M brutally. “Just as
if he'd been shot to pieces or got some
incurable disease. I've got no room in
his Section for a lame-brain, whatever
his past record or whatever excuses you
psychologists can find for him. Pension,
of course. Honorable discharge and all
that, Try and find him a job. One of
these new security organizations for the
banks might take him." M looked
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“ATTIRE BY ROBERT L. GREEN THE DEFINITIVE STATEMENT
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Preceding page: Date reclines drowsily on dune as sandman scans horizon in

eight-button alpaca cardigan with crew neck, short sleeves, by Brentwood, 821;
Dacron-cotton swim shorts with front buckle, side cinch tabs, by Corbin, $14.
Above: Girl cuddles close to guy’s acrylic-knit beach warmer with zip front,
stand-up collar, by Robert Lewis, $20; Lastex swimsuit, by Catalina, $7.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY J. BARRY O'ROURKE AND LARRY GORDON

HE FASHION MESSAGE this season is as clear and bright as the noonday sun: Light

makes right. This spring, as the days grow longer and summertime beckons
you toward the easier living ahead, count on breezier and more cheerful colors,
fabrics and designs to add ease and luster to your work-and-play wardrobe.

The big move to the light and the bright will take its cue from the warm side of
the spectrum. Don't be surprised if you hear your own voice among the chorus of
hosannas for hues ranging from stark white and off-whites to pale blues and olives.

Prepare, too, for a resurgence of the tan shades in the family of earth colors,
with taupe, putty and clay leading the way. Even the dark shades will be less
somber — what was considered a medium tone in the days of charcoal’s reign will
fall into this season's deepest color range. There, the big favorite will be traditional
gray, with a slight touch of blue to give it a fresh look.

For years, Newport-inspired cream-colored flannel slacks were warm-weather staples.
"This summer, however, white will sail out of Newport and extend its domain over
every fabric from lush doeskin to practical duck. Its mest important uses will be as

WOMEN'S APPAREL BY JAX

Above: Horseplayfully inviting naiads for splash in sea, surfers are admirably accou-
tered for occasion in, 1 to r, madras trunks with zip fly, string-tie front, by McGregor,
_Уустоп-сойоп, trunks with button fly, string-lie front, by Robert Lewis, $8.

Far left: Distaff member of mutual
admiration. society is sold on his
style— and his stylishness—in cot-
ton madras shirt jacket, by Fagle,
$9; Dacron-cotton belt-loop trou-
sers, by YMM, $13. Left top:
Returning sandy souvenir from
whence it came, gentleman gets as-
sist from miss who gives him a
hand for support and for his choice
of sportswear: cotton denim shirt
Jacket, by Eagle, $6.50; Arnel-cot-
ton twist cord slacks, by H.I.S.,
#6. Left bottom: Well-dressed man
above town spurns traditional pilot? s
garb, has pretty passenger in a tail-
spin over Мз Italian alpaca V-neck
pullover, by Damon, $22.50; short-
sleeved — rayon-colton-linen shirt
Jacket with tapered body, by Robert
Bruce, $6; cotton-flax walk shorts
with extension waistband, by
Cracker Barrel, $11. Right: Two
on the isle, a modern Crusoe and
girl Friday survey seascape; he sports
Zantrel-cotton pullover withattached
hood, side zipper, by William
Barry, $8; beltless cotton duck slacks
with top pockets, by H.LS., $5.

a ground color for sports coats and in
off shades for suitings.

When shopping for lightweight
spring and summer suits,.you can ex-
pect to encounter a far greater emphasis
оп texture than on pattern as a decora-
tive foundation. (The one major ex-
ception is the perennial glen plaid.)

This summer, the natural-shoulder
coat will remain a three-button, center-
vent affair. Many conventional and
high-style suits, however, will have side
vents and two buttons and will be
marked by an cased trim-and-tapered
look. Fabrics for suits will be tradi-
tional: worsteds, sharkskins, gabardines
and whipcords as well as hardy seer-
suckers.

Now, let's crystal-ball the warm
weather furnishings scene. Since your
wardrobe this season will generally
understate patterning, furnishings will
take up the slack with dress shirts
decked out in bright stripes, checks and
plaids against backgrounds of blue,

Left: Beauty in background yields limelight to
our man’s Dacron-wool jacket with flap pock-
els, center vent, by Michaels , $45;
baliste oxford buttondown, by , $6.50,
cotton knit tie, by Taylor, $2.50. Abi
Airborne house guests drop in for weekend—
at doorstep of bear-hugging host and friend,
who are brightly attired for cocktails on terrace
in, { to т, three-button Arnel-c

$30, coordinated belted slacks, $15, both 5,
Cricketeer; Dacron-cotton seersucker jacket,
$35, coordinated Dacron-rayon-cotton beltless
slacks with side pockets, $16, both by Palm
Beach. Right: Down-to-earth airman wears
Spring-weight wool topcoat with raglan
sleeves, silk lining, by Barry Walt, $710;
hand-woven raw-silk hat with stitched brim,
self-band, side feather, by Better Made, $12.50.

bamboo, light gray, maize and pink. The gripper
tab, traditional buttondown and moderate spread
tell the collar story.

Warm-weather neckwear will show a strong
accent on color in neater, planned designs for
two-and-one-half- to three-inch widths. Held over
for another season are the very marrow one-inch
to one-and-one-halfinch slims. Striking reps—
with authentic regimental and contemporary pat-
tems— will be popular. Colors will not be as
light as is customary for spring, because this
season's predominantly lighter tones call for
four-in-hands in medium to dark shades.

Let your cufflink collection reflect the fresh
seasonal spirit with semiprecious gems in cool
colors — particularly onyx, jade, blue jasper and
topaz. Silver and gold, always in good taste, will
glisten no less sumptuously this year. Handsome
wrap-around links with ornate Florentine finishes
now join the more conventional styling in cuff
closures. Avoid coronation-size jewelry — it tends
to be vulgar and nearly always is а glaring b
rather than a highlight. (text continued on page 86)

Above: Guest expresses regrets to charm-
ing dinner companion for unavoidable
eat-and-run tactics, prepares to leave on
business trip in Dacron-wool-mohair suit
with one-button front, slanted flap pock-
ets, side venis, by Phoenix, $65; cotton
batiste madras shirt, by Sero, 87. Any-
thing but displeased at prospect of being
shared by pair of pretties, host is the
most in Dacron-worsted suit with welt
seams, hook vent, by H. Daroff, #65;
cotton buttondown, by Van Heusen, $4;
silk pocket square, by Handcraft, $2.50.
Left: Poolside foursome has decided to
Jorgo a cool dip for some dry martinis.
Landlubbing lads sport, 1 to r, two-
button wool jacket with hacking pockets,
belted slacks, by PBM, $75, and cotton
madras buttondown, by Hathaway, $9;
Arnel-rayon jacket, by Haspel, $35, and
muslin oxford buttondown, by Van
Heusen, $5. Right: Dusk’s glow evokes
soft sentiments—and rich tones of his
Dacron—Orlon Sayelle suit, by Haspel,
$50; broadcloth shirt, by ЕхсеПо, KO.

PLAYBOY

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"T his applies particularly to tie tacks and
pinch-clip tie bars. И you must use them,
be sure they are small.

Ivy League waistlines will be enhanced
this spring by burnished harness-leather
belts with solid-brass buckles. If your
waistline preferences run more to the
traditional, however, you can tastefully
gird your middle a rich choice of
soft leathers. Belts of cowhide, calf and
deerskin in black and the natural leather
tones will keep your waist in the most
fashionable circles. If you're more vernal-
minded, try cinching yourself in the
attractive burgundy and bottle green
that will shoot up come spring. And
you'll be in the suni а сігае of all if
you augment the season's penchant for
lights and brights with fresh and colorful
fabric belts in madras, seersuckers,
denims and ginghams.
ince summer is icumen in, play it
cool from the ground up with lighter-
weight over-the-calf dress hose. Though
black is basic in dress hose, dark brown
can be your choice if your lighter-toned
suit or slacks are of properly comple-
mentary hue. Solid textures deserve con-
sideration, but steer clear of gimmicky
decorations such as clocks and arrows.
For casual- and sportswear, be sure to
look into the multicolor heather tones,
which have been lightened for spring.

(This season you'll be slipping those
smartly stockinged feet into imagina-
tively crafted, feather-light shoes as well
"The scope of this summer's fitting foot-
wear is too broad to examine here. For
а complete set of footnotes, we commend
you to our upcoming May feature New
Moves Afoot.)

"The stretch fabrics, with the comfort
that comes from their built-in elasticity,
have finally arrived. Only a few years
ago, outside of ski pants and socks, these
fabrics were unheard of in men's ap-
parel. Now, though theyre a long way
from reaching their potential, they make
sense in swimwear, outdoor jackets and
slacks. New improvements will make
more and more of them available — per-
haps within a year or so—for use in
business suits, sports jackets and even
formalwear. The freedom of movement
offered by the give-and-take of а few
inches of fabric cannot be ignored by
men who would have their clothes con-
form to their bodies rather than vice
versa.

In sports coats, slacks and walk shorts,

as linen, sailcloth, denim, madras and
seersucker — will be widespread.
Seersucker, incidentally, has come a
long way from the crumpled bluc-and-
white pajama look of the past. This
season you'll find it in multicolored
stripings, giant plaids and madras de-

signs, The seersucker summer sports coat.
is the coolest for wearing — with light-
ened madras, denim and oxford-cloth
jackets not far behind.

In keeping with the philosophy that
light makes right, sportswear this spring
and summer will be seen in a sunny
varicty of white and off-white shades, sun-
filled reds, pinks, greens and blues. Sports
coats, especially, will be brighter and
more audacious: a new spectrum of reds
— from burgundy to pink — will be much
in evidence. The news in coat patterns
is their size — jumbo glen plaids, giant
houndstooth checks and wide strong
stripes in contrasting color combinations,
with emphasis on the dramatic use of
black and white.

The blazer will blaze with visual fire-
works far more than last year. The cut
and details will remain traditional —
three buttons, natural shoulders, patch
and flap pockets, with brass or pearl
buttons — but colors will span the spec-
trum. Navy, of course, will still be the
basis of your blazer wardrobe, but from.
there you can go on to cool greens and
bright blues, rich browns, muted reds
and camel. You needn’t be confined to
solid colors, however; patterned blazers
will be on display in a forceful array
of twist denims, hopsacks, linen blends
and textured homespuns.

“Textured slacks nonpatterned fab-
rics (particularly linen-type weaves) and
lighter colors will be in the fore as well.
In predominant shades of gray, brown,
blue and olive, they will present an
admirable contrast to the stronger pat-
terns and brighter colors in sports coats.
Slack tones have been lightened, so that
last year's olive shade is now a. pewter
with lightgreen tones—a great team-
mate, by the way, for a bottlegreen
blazer, Faded reds and greens will also
brighten the spring and summer season.
Keep an eye out for slacks in visually
weightarimming shirting stripes. They
offer а perfect contrast to the burgeoning
numbers of solid-color blazers.

Slim slacks, of course, will still be
popular, but many of them will add belt
loops this season. For casualwear, the
big influence will be Western, with three-
quarterinch loops to accommodate a
wider belt and buckle.

Four years ago, we strongly recom-
mended that designers and manufac-
turers do the job of coordinating sports
coats and slacks. "This was not because
we felt that men were unable to choose
complementary colors and patterns, but
because we were aware that the problem
of availability frequently made the right
match difficult. Now we're happy to re-
port that the designers and manufac-
turers have finally done the coordinating
themselves and, in doing so, have made

one of the strongest fashion break-
throughs of the year. At the mills—
where the complementary colors are
picked up in both slacks and jackets —
coats of big madras plaids, stripes and
denim grounds, for example, are keyed
perfectly with appropriately shaded
slacks. The results are tangible and wel-
come: rich selections of such coordinates
are already available and many more,
happily, are on the way.

Both the pocket square and the ascot
take on greater importance this season
with the lessening of pattern in other
sartorial arcas. Experiment with them,
and don't be squeamish in your color
choices. Today's ascots and pocket squares
come in a multitude of colors and pat-
terns, and arc fine for adding a refresh-
i. offbeat counterpoint to your basic
wardrobe. You may use them to coordi-
nate on one day, to match on another.
If the third day still finds you intrepid,
make a sharp contrast with a wild color.

In sport shirts, the shorter buttondown
and the conventional medium-spread col-
lars will lead this spring's styles. They
will have a light and airy look, with
patterns leaning strongly toward big
gingham checks and not-too-active plaids.
This усаг stripes will give the sport
shirt a Jean, tapered effect that is flatter-
ing and appropriate for casualwear.
Shades of pink and red will continue to

n to the usual oxford shirt-
ings to assist you in getting into the
sportive summer spirit, there are cool,
comfortable seersuckers, denims, and
muslinlike cottons. Prepare to make
greater use of the comfortable shirt
jacket (worn outside your slacks) with
widespread Continental and mandarin
or military collars.

If you are interested in active sports,
knitted sport shirts in over а half-dozen
styles are on tap. This simple glossary
will help you get a clear picture of these
trim and jaunty builtforaction shirts:

Rugby: A boldly cross-striped pullover
with white drill collar. You can find it
in all fabrics and in many variations,
including the fly-front cardigan and tur-
tle neck.

Henley: A three-button with a slit
crew neck.

Boating: A cotton pullover with V
neck, boat neck or even classic crew
neck. Look for it this season in knit
seersucker.

Football: Jerseys of lightweight sweat-
shirt cotton. A lighter, more attractive
yersion of the utilitarian but unglamor-
ous sweat shirt.

Tennis: The styling of the classic
tennis sweater forms the basis of the
new tennis shirt. The V neck with red,
white and blue trim now appears in
terry, double knits, cottons and blends.
(concluded overleaf)

BTE MORNING was all right. Watching
the light come slowly, you could
always imagine that today you were
finally over it. It was quiet in the morn-
ing. and still cool, and was fine to
watch the sun come sliding up over the
edge of the world, past the coral reef.
‘There was even a faint breeze. You
never had fever in the morning.

Of course, there was the smell of the
Navy pilot. He was almost completely
burned, and they brought him in naked
except for a thick yellow grease, and
most of him, and all of his head, was
simply raw meat under the greasc. There
was no skin at all on his face and his
eyes looked like the eyes of a trout you
have roasted on a stick over coals. You
lay there, smelling him and his grease,
waiting for the next hour after dawn.

The next hour was always bad. The
sun would melt on the tin roof and the
bare canvas of the cot would grow sticky
with sweat, with white rings of salt form-
ing at the edges of the spreading dark
wet. The lagoon became a shifting sheet
of white light, and you could no longer
look at the lagoon, nor at the white
coral. You closed your eyes and felt the
heat gathering around you and inside
you, and the room would start to sway
and then tilt so that you had to clutch
the sides of your cot to keep from fall-
ing off.

You hung onto the cot as well as you
could while you rose and fell and tum-
bled through an insanity of heat until
you heard the orderlies talking to you.

Four of them would be holding you
down, and your throat was scraped raw
and hot from the shouting. They had
you wrapped in blankets. It would be
120 degrees in the ward, which was
nothing but an open shed with a hard
dirt floor and a tin roof, but they had
you buried in blankets, and you could
not stop your teeth from chattering with
the cold. and they had to hold you
down to keep you from shaking off the
blankets,

The fever and the chills left you weak
as sand, lying on your soaked-through,
saltrimmed cot, waiting for the next
round. But before the next fever came,
and before you had much of a chance
to hope — and every morning you did
hope — that perhaps that had been the
lust attack. that now, perhaps, vou could
begin to recover, the orderlies would
jerk straight as if pulled up by wires,
and shout "Attention!"

You were supposed to lie at attention.
when the chief medical officer came
through the ward making his morning
hat is, the badly wounded
were supposed to lie at attention. If you
were lightly wounded, or if you were
merely sick with jaundice, malaria, syphi-
lis, dengue fever, amoebic dysentery, ог
any combi п of these and other
endemic s, you had to get out of

YOU COULD
ALWAYS HOPE

she came to you after the fever and
chills and she was big and blonde
and brassy, and you loved her

fiction By JOHN KEATS

your cot and stand at attention if you
did not happen at the moment to be
thrashing in delirium.

You remained w: weakly at at-
tention until che medical officer, who
was a full colonel, left the ward. He
never gave the command "Rest" be-
cause he took the view that all who were
not dying were shirking, and he con-
veyed the impression that he thought
those who were dying were trying to
cheat him. One of the orderlies said the
colonel wanted it understood that there
was a war on, and that the hospital, by
God, was going to be just as rough as
combat for goldbrickers who, if discov-
ered goldbricking, would be returned
to combat forthwith. but stripped of
whatever grade they bad when they

came in. All right, what the colonel said
does not make sense, but there is reason
to believe that the orderly was quoting
the colonel accurately. At any event, it
was certainly clear what the colonel
thought of the sick and wounded, and
when you were convalescent, you pulled
KP cvery day until they sent you back
to combat.

Standing or lying at attention was part
of your punishment. The colonel took
the view that if you were wounded, it had
по doubt largely been your own damned
fault, and he —and the Army— main-
tained that if you had read the field
manuals and had followed your orders,
you could not possibly have contracted
malaria, or syphilis, and those who so
unfortunately did contract these diseases
lost their pay for that time they were in
the hospital and were returned to their
units stripped of any rank they might
have held. Stripped was the colonel's
word for it, and he used this word when-
ever he could.

After the colonel had marched out,
and you collapsed again on your cot,
the chaplains came mincing through the
ward. They were a Catholic, a Protestant
and a Jew, and you did not stand for
them. They were the three blind mice.
Chaplains were a sort of unfunny joke
in the Army, and you never trusted them,
because they were officers. The chaplain
always was supposed to be on your side,
but he never was, and you knew damned
well that he never was.

The Red Cross man was a fairy. He
was forever putting his hand on your
shoulder, asking what he could do for
you, and no matter what you asked for, he
was always sorry that he didn't happen
to have it. Like the colonel, he was
always reminding you there was а war
on, and this was why the thing you
wanted was unobtainable at the moment.
You did not believe in the Red Cross,
any more than you believed in chaplains.
You believed in the Salvation Army, but
you never saw those people in the hos-
pital, because the hospital was too far
behind the lines, and the Salvation Army
was always at the front. You also be-
lieved in the Army nurse. More than
that, you were in love with her.

She would come in after the second.
round of fever and chills, and when you
came out of it, there she was, big and.
blonde and sort of blowzy, with a wide-
mouthed smile and an odor of perfume
and her fingers cool on your wrist, wip-
ing all the rest of it away and bringing
you the morning back again. You knew
she was making ten pounds a night, Aus-
n, and that she would sell only to
officers, but she was frank. about it, and.
it was good to see an honest whor
was not that you really wanted her,
was just that it was good to be reminded
that there were women, and you loved
this one ina (continued on page 163)

PLAYBOY

FASHION FORECAST (continued from page 86)

Golf: These knits have fewer details,
with: greater emphasis on simple good
taste.

Ski: A ski-sweater adaptation now ap-
pearing in summer knits. Some have
turtle necks, with their collars split by
a ripper up the front. Crew-neck cardi
gans come in both zip and button fronts.

Our sport-shirt tale has a sock endi
This season's selection of sport hose will
be almost as wide-ranging as the shirt on
your back. In addition to the still-popu-
lar plain crew and striped crew, there
are three dozen vivid new shades — rang-
ing from bright white to deep purple —
now available.

Among the many sweater possibilities
for spring and summer, try pulling the
popular short-sleeve wool models over
your eyes. You'll like their feel and ap-
pearance in brushed wool and blazer
stripes, classic and high-button crew-neck
cardigans and updated tennis models
with V necks. Longsleeve cardigans,
linkstitch alpacas and double-knit sports
models will keep you as impeccably
at ease this year as last. And if you're
a seagoing or mountain-dimbing type,
remember that the beefy mohair blends
will put up a firm stand against brisk
ocean and mountain breezes. If you hap-
pen to live in a warmer clime, you'll
appreciate the touch of lightness found
in the richlooking, lcss-bulky mohair
blends which can be had in bouclé, rack
and open knits,

Although there's a big boom in boat-
ing, you needn't leave the dock to be
nautically natty this year. Try piping
yourself into shirts, jackets and parkas
that will serve you comfortably, practi-
cally and fashionably on land or at sea.
You will find maritime-accented gear in
nylon spinnaker cloth and lightweight
poplin, with such details as stand-up col-
lars, contrasting stitched trims (orange or
fireman red against the traditional salty
blue, for example) and zippered pockets,
Parka and jacket fabrics are often sea-
worthy in their resistance to rain.

In more formal foul-weather gear, the
traditional trend has caught on, and
the raglan-shoulder raincoat (which is
the only way to top off a traditional
suit) is being revived. New and more
effective waterproofing methods as well
as a simulated “wool and worsted” look
in rainwear fabrics make it easy to be dry
— and well dressed — in the most tor-
rential summer thundershower. Regular
length for raincoats is now 42 inches,
whereas formerly 45 inches was the
norm. ‘The short 40-inch coat, so popular
in France, is now being introduced here.
Though it's smart looking, when belted
it can ride up and appear a bit under-
nourished.

The newest

fabric in rainwear is

stretch poplin which, following the trend
in clothing, will be seen this season in
lightened classic plaids and checks.
Fabric weights are lighter as well, and
there will be a greater selection of fancy
linings. An interesting idea from Italy
is the use of classic tartans—both
in the lining and in the collar and
sleeve-cuff trim.

For weather that’s fair but cool, prime
consideration should be given to the
light new linen topcoat. You'll see it,
in big checks and plaids, sporting a
classic bal collar. For those occasions
when a bit more elegance is de rigueur,
try the sleek-looking button-through top-
coat with set-in sleeves, semipeaked col-
lar, straight flap pockets and tapered
sleeves. These coats will run 41 to 42%
inches in length, but the shorter version
will be more correct this season.

Noel Coward's mad dogs and English-
men notwithstanding, all those who find
the midday sun more inviting than in-
timidating will welcome the latest news
in headwear. It bears masculine tidings
in the form of the "Shakari," which gets
its dashing sense of style from the famed
hat worn by African white hunters.
This versatile and practical hat can be
worn to good effect with the brim down
all around or in the conventional man-
ner. Casual straws for at-ease spring and
summer weekends will be in evidence
wherever boating, horse racing and most
other outdoor sports are to be found.
Undoubtedly, among all the hats being
thrown into the political ring this sum-
mer will be ventilated straws that are
soft, cool and light in appearance and
weight, and circled by flag-bright bands.
Tweed and plaid hats, which in past
seasons have tended to he dark, will have
lighter grounds this year.

In beachwear, the ostentatious, over-
designed matching cabana set has been
dealt, we hope, the final blow. Today,
functionalism is the keynote; you can
let your own taste and imagination
create an individual beach image by
teaming up swim trunks with anything.
from football jerseys to ski parkas.

Speaking of functionalism, the prog-
ress in stretch swimwear has been great.
This year you can expect to see, and
wear, stretch suits that are trim, but
give when and where you need it—that
pinched, tight look has departed for
more distant shores.

The Jamaicalength swim walker,
equally at home in the water or out in
the sun, deserves more than honorable
meni It has the advantage of handy
side pockets, with either metal waist
closure or extension side tabs.

If you're in shipshape shape, consider
the lower-rise, fly-front brief which comes

їп exact waist sizes. Also, bear knit
swimwear in mind. Much of it has the
same detailing as woven trunks, includ-
ing mock fly fronts and tabs.

Brief nylon-tricot tank trunks literally
don't offer enough material to form a
natatorial new wave, but nevertheless
you'll see plenty of them at the beaches.
Built for speed and a good physique,
they have become a uniform for those
who take their swimming seriously.

Surfing trunks have ridden the breakers
from Hawaii to California and will be at
the crest of their popularity this sum-
mer at beaches, lakes, pools and ponds
throughout the land. Whether you ride
the surf or not, however, these patterned
trunks, trimmed in bleeding madras ог
contrasting solids, will give you the new
look in swimming gear. The longer
length of these higher-fitting, lace-tied
trunks was originally intended to pro-
tect the wearer who ventured to ride the
hoards. Today the length and laces are
largely decorative, though the back
pocket — designed to hold wax — now
doubles as a convenient hideaway for
change and small beach accessories.

‘Today, a man's wardrobe is rich and
varied, no longer stratified and limited
by items that have minimal use for spe-
cial occasions. A complete, multifaceted
wardrobe will lend itself to the many
different lives you lead — in college, at
business, home, at play. dating, partying,
at sports activities, for weekending, vaca-
tions, travel — in short, for each different
phase of your daily activities.

Details of design are important, of
course, in determining the effect of a
specific article of apparel, but it is essen-
tial to remember that such details only
make sense in so far as they reflect, in
their total look, the urbane multiplicity
of your life.

Bear in mind that rules in men’s fash-
ions are nothing more than general
guidelines, and may be suspended when
your personality and appearance allow
for exceptional treatment. Your summer
tan, for example, will permit you to take
advantage of colors that would seem far
too vivid for the normally pale winter
complexion.

Your attire should create an impres-
sion that you are perfectly dressed for
the particular occasion. It should always
blend in with you, however, so that it
expresses and complements rather than
overshadows and alters your personality.

From business suits to swimsuits,
we've extolled the trend toward the
lightweight, light hued and lighthearted.
It's up to you now to add new zip to
your spring and summer wardrobe by
latching onto some of the freshest fash-
ion ideas to come along in six months

of sun days.
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cartoonist gahan wilson nets a fin-filled school

of macabre sea denizens

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Above, | to r: Eorly-rising Ashlyn greets o sunny
Saturday. She says: “I have little time to myself week-
days, so | hate to pass my weekends sleeping." After
toothsome self-reflection, our April Playmate cuts
fresh scallions for a hefty Spanish omelet breokfost.

dazzling topic they can get together on: our

April Playmate, Ashlyn Martin. A sun-ripened
product of Delray Beach, Florida, auburn-haired Ash-
lyn recently succumbed to the Golden State's blandish-
ments, migrated to California for a change in scenery
and a taste of West Coast living. "I'm attracted to
bright lights and sports cars,” our outgoing 18-ycar-old
explains candidly. “Things were pleasant in Delray
Beach, but too quict for me. I visited Los Angeles
briefly after finishing high school—and right away
I knew it was California, here I come!" This 5'5”
bachelor girl now lives alone in a newly rented L.A.
aparument, decorated in Danish modern; her first job,
appropriately enough, is as a receptionist in a Los
Angeles sports-car rental agency. Ashlyn bears а strik-
ing resemblance to film star Ann-Margret, though her
own taste in singers runs to the masculine Mr. Sinatra,
Tony Bennett and the rhythms of Ray Charles. Ash-
lyn is also quite a cook. She says: “Though I can live
for weeks on bologna sandwiches and chocolate milk,
I love to prepare a real gourmet spread when I'm
entertaining. French cuisine is my favorite, and coq
au vin is my special dish. In fact, І think my idea of
a perfect evening would center around a six-course
meal at Maxim's, complete from soup to cognac. I'm
easy to please, and with the right man I'm happy in
almost any situation. Please don't ask me about the
future — the way many of my friends do — because
I'm really uncertain about that part of my life. Right
now I'm quite happy with the present.” For a view
of the status quo with which our Playmate is so
properly content, see the gatefold.

СЯ FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA now have a

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY BY POMPEO POSAR
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARIO CASILLI

Center left: After Miss April showers she covers
herself with a poir of towels and heads for the potio
of her pastel-tinted pad. Center right: Our pensive
Playmate samples с morsel of fruit and (right) relaxes
in a rare moment of smog-free Los Angeles sunshine.

Above left: Citrus fancier Ashlyn tries local orange juice os a light dessert, finds it equal to her own Florida standards.
Center and right: Words from a friend, proposing luncheon date at downtown club, fall on receptive ears; during dis-
cussion, our Playmate doffs duds. Below: Leopard-skin-clod Ashlyn shows sports-cor form emerging from friend's Mer-
cedes for her date. Though nat a car owner now, Miss April hopes someday to travel in style in her own white Sting Ray.

PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES

Your fare, young lady," said the handsome
tain conductor.

She smiled at him swectly, "You're not so
bad yourself.”

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On the occasion of Nero's 25th birthday, he
arrived at the Colosseum to find that the
Praetorian Guard had prepared a treat Гог him
in the arena. There stood 25 naked virgins,
like candles on a cake, tied to poles, burnin
alive. nderfull" exclaimed the breue
emperor, "but one of them isn't dead yet. I
can see her lips moving. Go quickly and find
out what she is saying.

The centurion saluted, and hurried out to
the virgin, getting 2s near the flames as he
dared, and listened intently. Then he turned
and hurried back to the imperial box. "She is
not talking" he reported to Nero, "she is

"Singing?" said the astounded emperor.
"Singing what?"

“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to
you...”

Limbo dancing was invented by a Scotsman
trying to enter a pay toilet.

The director was patiently explaining the
scene to the famous Method actor. “You've
been on this desert island for twelve years.
One morning, you awaken, crawl out of your
lean-to, and start strolling along the beach,
Suddenly you see this beautiful blonde girl
lying on the sand beside her discarded life
jacket You rush forward, grab her in your
arms, and start kissing her."

The actor nodded thoughtfully, then asked,
“And what's my motivation?”

Our Unabashed Dictionary defines cocktails
as sips that passion the night.

The grade-school principal dropped into the
new third-grade tcacher’s room to see how
she was adjusting to her first day of school.
“There is one problem,” she said. “That little
boy in the first row belongs in second grade,
but insists on remaining here, and he's so
smart I hate to send him

“He can't be that smart,
“Ask him something.”

The teacher called the boy forward and i
quired, “What does а dog do on three legs
that a man does on two legs that 1 do siting
down?"

“Shakes hands," said the boy.

"What has а cow got four of that 1 have
only two of?" she went on.

"Legs," the boy replied.

“What is a four-letter word meaning inter-

the principal.

course?” she continued.

“Talk,” he answered.

The teacher turned to the principal. “Well,
what should I do?”

He drew her aside and whispered, “Better
promote him to the fourth grade. I missed all
three questions.”

Our Unabashed Dictionary defines marriage
as wall-to-wall carping.

A stunningly stacked blonde walked into a
dress shop, and asked the manager, “I wonder
if I might try on that blue dress in the
window?”

"Go right ahead," he said. "It might help
business.”

Then there was the little old lady with varicose
veins who won first prize at a costume ball.
She went nude, as a road map.

Our Unabashed Dictionary defines bigamist
as fog over Italy.

His first day in the Army, the recruit was is-
sued a comb, and then the company barber
shaved off all his hair. The second day he was
issued a toothbrush, and then the dentist
pulled all his teeth. The third day he was
issued an athletic supporter, and he went

A.W.O.L.

Heard a good one lately? Send it on a post card
to Party Jokes Editor, PLAYBOY, 232 E. Ohio St.,
Chicago, Ill. 60611, and earn $25 for each joke
used. In case of duplicates, payment is made
for first card received. Jokes cannot be returned.

“Wow! A perfect 36-24-185!’

CONTINENTAL COMESTIBLES

a treasury of transoceanic gourmandise for the cosmopolitan american table

FOOD BY THOMAS MARIO ALTHOUGH A FRENCH PROVERB sapcly states that appetite is
the best sauce, few things pique the appetite so provocatively and prestigiously as the eggs of a
sturgeon, the liver of an overfed goose and the wild tuber growing near the roots of old oak trees
in Italy and France. Fresh caviar, pdté de foie gras and brushed truffles ride high in the Rolls-
Royce class not just because they come from afar, but because their magnificent yet casual
flavors satisfy, like nothing else can, the sophisticated appetites of the male animal. For men
whose digs are sanctuaries of gourmandise, and whose principal icons are the martini pitcher
and the champagne bucket, these three foods are almost indispensable.

Domestic imitators of these seductive imports turn out thousands of palatable and, it must
be granted, very useful facsimiles. But the prototypes still stand in a class all by themselves.
Even when the native producers of Strasbourg páté de foie gras try to imitate their оул works
with mousse of foie and purée de foie d'Oie and many other kinds of foie or fáté, the original

100 still stands skyward as the food of which the old bon vivant Sydney Smith said, "My idea of

PHOTOGRAPHY BY POMPEO POSAR

heaven is eating páté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.” A trumpet may be all right as a
garnish for eating рй de foie gras, but the best modern orchestration for such luxury items
is the hum of activity around a bachelor’s buffet table.

The effort that goes into getting them to market is almost incredible. The truffle, for instance,
is an underground tuber, a cousin of the wild mushroom. Visually, it's decidedly unprepossessing.
Hard and wrinkled, it looks like a ravaged jet black or brown turnip; but truffles, during a holiday
scarcity at one point last year, reached an asking price of $160 a pound. They currently sell
for a mere three dollars an ounce. There's a good reason for the high price tag; you don't just
pick a truffle off a tree. You must hunt for it underground, and the job of exploration can't
possibly be accomplished with unaided human ingenuity. To detect a hidden trove—and
there are only a few spots in the world where edible truflles can be found — you need a four-
legged Geiger counter. In France they use trained pigs. Not just any old pig will do. The
female is preferred to the male, since the distaffs olfactory sense seems much more sensitive
than the male’s in ferreting out this kind of buried treasure. Each fall in France, porcine candi-
dates are put through their trial runs. Tiny truffle peelings are used for bait. Pigs who display
an affinity for truffles and who finally master the theory and practice of truffle hunting are se
lected for the winter line-up, since truffles can only be hunted in cold weather. The pig on a
leash is trained to lead its master who carries a handful of corn and a (continued on page 159)

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“1 learned to cook the same way you learned
to make love. Out of a book.”

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an operators manual of some not-so-sporting propositions

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article Ву HOWARD MARGOLIS

THERE 15 A spor in Guys and Dolls, dis-
tilled from vintage Damon Runyon, in
which Sky Masterson tells Nathan Detroit
the secret of his success:

“When I was a young man about to
go out into the world, my father says to
me a very valuable thing. He says to me
like this: ‘One of these days in your
travels a guy is going to come up to you
and show you a nice brand-new deck of
cards on which the seal is not yet broken,
and this guy is going to offer to bet you
that he can make the jack of spades
jump out of the deck and squirt cider
in your car. But Son, do not bet this man,
for as sure as you stand there you are go-
ing to wind up with an earful of cider.’ "

Now, the subject of this article is not.
cider-squirting jacks but sucker bets—
wagers which seem to offer an infallible
win but which, once accepted, result in
an almost fallible loss. Or, looking at
them from the unscrupulous point of
view of the sharpie or operator, they
are bets that are as close to sure things
as you can come.

If you'll just step a little closer and put
your money on the counter, we'll give you
à demonstration of just what we mean.

Phone-Book Hook. The victim is asked
to open a telephone book to any page
and mark off 20 consecutive listings. The
operator (and we're not talking about
the lady who works for the phone com-
pany) now offers to bet him that within
those 20 listings there are two phone
numbers in which the last two digits are
the same (such as 3764 and 9364).

The prospective sucker cogitates a mo-
ment. He feels the keen clicking of his.
coldly efficient brain — a pleasant if in-
frequent sensation, He accepts the prop-
osition with confidence, for he has
figured that there are 100 possible com-

binations of those last two digits and,
hence, the odds are 5-1 against the oper-
ator. The sucker is right on the first
count, lamentably wrong on the second.
Actually, the odds are 7-1 in favor of the
operator. To understand why, you must
forget that the odds of matching any
particular two-digit number with another
are an unpromising 99/100 against and
remember that the operator is allowed to
match any two-digit number with any
other of the 19 on the list. The odds of
his failing to do so are figured by multi-
plying all of his chances of missing.
(Since there are 100 possible combina-
tions of two-digit numbers, the odds of
failing to match the first number with
the second are, as we've said, 99/100
or .99, and the odds of failing to match
the third number with either of the first
two are .98. Thus, the odds of failing to
match any of the 20 numbers are calcu-
lated by multiplying .99 x .98 x .97 etc.,
all the way down to x .80.) Even if there
were only 12 numbers on the list, the odds
would multiply out to about .5 or 50-50.
But that wouldn't be fair to the operator.
would it? So he extends the list to 20 num-
bers to make the odds 1—7 against miss-
ing or, more positively, 7-1 in his favor.

Reverse Phone-Book Hook. After the
sucker has lost several times running on
the Phone-Book Hook, he is ripe for a
reverse twist. “All right,” says the oper-
ator, "just to prove I'm a sport, Tl give
you a chance to win your money back.
Open the phone book anywhere and
circle the last two digits of any number.
Now, counr down 50 numbers and I will
bet you that the same combination does
not appear in the last two digits of any
of those 50 numbers.”

When the sucker, stung several times
on the 20-number bet, hesitates, the

operator says grandly, “Why man, that’s
а wonderful bet. I'm giving you more
than twice as many numbers to work
with than you gave me." And so he is.
But the game has changed.

Before, the operator could match апу
two sets of numbers, but the sucker now
must match a particular number. The
odds (99 to the 50th power) are 3-2
that he won't.

Unhappy Birthday. This bet makes
use of the same principle as the Phone-
Book Hook and is always sure to attract
2 willing victim. At any gathering of 30
persons or more (but not too many
more) the operator remarks casually, "I'll
bet there are two people here with the
same birthday."

Up jumps the pigeon, ready for the
challenge. After all, he reasons, there
are 365 possible birthdays— not count-
ing leap year. Yet, by the same process
of multiplying the chances of missing
(864/365 x 363/365 x 362/365, etc) the
odds are seven out of ten that a pair of
birthdays will be found among the first 30
persons. In a group of 50 the probability
is a gratifying 40-1 in favor of the oper-
ator. So, in this large a group, the oper-
ator magnanimously offers 2-1 oddsl

‘Those who doubt that the birthday
bet works are invited to examine the
natal and expiration dates of the United
States’ 35 Presidents — a typical random
sample. Not only were two (Polk and
Harding) born on November 2nd, but,
of the 31 who have died, Taft and Fill-
more passed away on March 8th, while
three others (John Adams, Jefferson and
Monroe) all died on July 4th. Similar
verification can be made by picking 50
names from Who's Who or any other
source that lists birth dates.

Two-Deck Dodge. The smart operator

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knows that it is wise, occasionally, to
let the sucker think that Ae is setting the
terms of the bet. For instance, the oper-
ator places two shuffled decks of cards
face down in front of a doubting dupe.
“I bet you $10, even money, that if you
go through both decks simultaneously,
you won't turn up the same card in both

decks on the same turn,” says the
operator.
“You must take me for an awful

sucker,” says the sucker, stepping into
the trap.

“Not at all,” says the operator, “I’m
just trying to liven up the evening. Tell
you what — I'll bet you do turn up the
same card at the same time.”

Having refused the first bet, the sucker
cannot very well refuse the second. Poor
fellow. The odds are about 2-I that he
will hit the same card in both decks.
True, the odds of matching cards on апу
single turn are 1/52, but if you multiply
the total chances of missing (51/52 x
51/52, 52 times) you come up with a
fraction of about 1⁄4, which means you
will miss a hit only once in three trips
through the decks.

License-Tag Tag. On the pretext of
relieving the monotony of a long auto
journey, the ever-ready operator can also
relieve a fellow-traveling sucker of his

bank roll,

“that one of the
next ten cars that pass will have a double
digit (33, 77, etc) as the last two num-
bers of its license plate.”

It sounds reasonable at even money,
but actually the chance of making good
is about 2-1 in favor of the operator.
After all, one car in every ten has a
double digit at the end of its license
plate (as a fast count from 101 through
200 will prove) and the operator is get-
ting a full 10 chances—not the five
chances that would make it a 50-50 bet.
"To explain this another way, if you toss а
coin your chance is one in two of getting
a head. Would you, at even money, give
someone two chances to toss a head? If
you would, please get in touch with us
and we will while away the hours flipping
coins — at high stakes.

Con-Man's Delight, Back to the old,
reliable card deck we go for one of the
sweetest of all sucker bets. The operator
instructs his mark to shuffle the deck and
deal out three piles of three cards each,
followed by a pile of four cards.

“My friend,” he says, “I will make
four separate wagers on these four piles
of cards. I will bet that the first two
piles of three cards each contain at least
two cards in the same suit; that the third
three-card pile contains a picture card;
and, to top it off, I will give you odds
of no less than five to one that the four-
card pile also contains at least two cards
of the same suit.”

For some strange reason, the sucker is

104 apt to feel that his odds of winning one

of these four bets is better than the
others. In a sense he is right. Yet his
odds of winning any of the bets are bad.

The odds are about 3-2 that three
cards dealt at random contain two
of the same suit; noticeably better than
even money that they will contain a pic-
ture card; and 9-1 in favor of the oper-
ator that two cards of the same suit will
show up in the four-card pile.

The exquisite beauty of this four-part
bet is that it contains the basic element
of the old shell game — enticement. After
losing a few times on one part of the
deal, the sucker will insist on trying the
others, searching for that onc surc thing
which he feels is hidden in some part
of the bet. Only after he tries all four
bets at once —and loses all four — will
he give up.

Mixed Shuffle. Here the operator adds
sleight of hand to sleight of conscience.
He divides a deck of cards exactly in half
and asks his victim to turn one of the
piles face up and shuffle the two halves
together, creating a horrible mess of
cards, half facing one way, half the other.
Next, the operator asks him to count
off 26 cards and leave the remaining 26
flat on the table.

“I will bet you even money,” says the
operator, “that you cannot, without look-
ing, rearrange the remaining half-deck
so that it contains the same number of
up cards as the first half of the deck.”

When the prospective pigeon asserts
that it doesn’t sound like a very good
deal, the operator graciously offers to
take the bet himself. Thereupon, he
places the remaining half-deck under
the table and, with a great show of con-
centration, pretends to be rearranging
the pile, Actually, all he does is turn
the pile over.

It seems mysterious, but his half-deck
will now be found to contain exactly
the same number of up cards аз the
other half.

Here's why: If the first half-deck con-
tains ten up cards, the other half-deck
must contain the remaining 16 up cards
since the whole deck contains a total of
26 up cards. Naturally, the other ten
cards in the second half-deck must be
down cards. With one turn those ten
down cards become up cards and both
halfdecks contain an equal number of
up cards.

Heads You Lose. Producing eight
coins, the operator asks his victim how
many heads are likely to wrn up if he
flips each coin. The sucker, aware that
the odds of getting a head on each toss
are 50-50, will undoubtedly say four.
"Fine," says the operator, "I will give
you two-to-one odds that you don't get
four heads."

If the sucker agrees to make this bet
a few times, the operator is reasonably
sure of a nice profit. True, four heads
will turn up much more often than any

other number of heads. But the totol of
other combinations will occur more
often. The odds are 8-3 in favor of the
operator.

The Impossible. A true sucker throws
caution to the winds when ollered a
large enough return on his "investment,"
But the odds must never be too high or
he will become suspicious. Thus, the
smart operator offers only 6-1 odds on
the little puzzle illustrated below.

“All you have to do," says the opera-
tor, "is draw one continuous line that
will cross each line in the diagram once
and only once." Then, just to make the
sucker feel he has a chance, the operator
adds, "But you must do this within a
three-minute time limit.”

They said it couldn't be done. And it
can't.

Last Match. Two years ago, after
acquiring star stature in the movie Last
Year at Marienbad, a nimble match
game called Nim suddenly became sa-
loondom's second most popular sport.
But to the operator, there is nothing
sporting about Nim; he will always win
if he has memorized the game's secret
combinations.

After constructing a four-row pyramid
of 16 matches (7-5-3-1), the thirsty opera-
tor explains the "game" to his mark,
offering to wager a drink on its outcome:
"We simply take turns removing matches
and the man who must take the last
match loses. You can take as many
matches on each turn as you want — from
one to a whole row—as long as you
pick from one row only.”

It makes no difference which player
goes first, as long as the operator picks
up enough matches to leave his oppo-
nent with onc of the following combi
nations: In four rows— 7-5-3-1 (wl
the starting setup), 7-4-2-1, 6-5
$4, 5-5-1-1, 4-4-1-1, 3 2-2-1-1; in
three rows — 6-5-3, 6-4-2, 5.4.1, 3-2-1, 1-1-1;
in two rows — 5-5, 4-4, 3.3, 2-2; and, of
course, in one row — 1.

If memorizing all 18 combinations
seems to be too much trouble for a free
drink supply, a lazier operator contents
himself with a simpler, if less certain,
system: he will usually win if he reduces
the pyramid either to an even number
of rows containing an equal number of
matches (as 44 or 44-1-1) or an odd
number of rows containing an unequal
number of matches (as 6-5-3 or 5-4-1).

The Missing Year. The passage and
marking of time is always good material
for sucker bets because every sucker is

(concluded on page 162)

THE FIEND

her body was alive and in a few
moments she would be conscious;
but what could he do with her then?

How BEAUTIFUL she was, Dandish thought,
and how helpless. The plastic identifica-
tion ribbon around her neck stood out
straight, and as she was just out of the
transport capsule, she wore nothing else.
“Are you awake?” he asked, but she did
not stir.

Dandish felt excitement building up
inside him, she was so passive and with-
out defense. A man could come to her
g at all to her, and
she would not resist. Or, of course, re-
spond. Without touching her he knew
that her body would be warm and dry.
It was fully alive, and in a few minutes
she would be conscious.

Dandish — who was the captain and
sole crew member of the interstellar
ship without a name carrying congealed
colonists across the long, slow, empty
space from the Earth to a planet that
circled a star that had never had a name
in astronomical charts, only a number,
and was now called Eleanor — passed
those minutes without looking again at
the girl, whose name he knew to be Sil-
vie but whom he had never met. When
he looked again she was awake, jack-
knifed against the safety straps of the
crib, her hair standing out around her
head and her face wearing an expression
of anger. “All right. Where are you? 1
know what the score is,” she said. “Do
you know what they can do to you for
this?”

Dandish was startled. He did not like
being startled, for it frightened him. For
nine years the ship had becn whispering
across space; he had had enough loneli-
ness to satisfy him and he had been
frightened. There were 700 cans of col-
onists on the ship, but they lay brittle
and changeless in their bath of liquid
helium and were not very good com-
pany. Outside the ship the nearest
human being was perhaps two light-
years away, barring some chance-met
ship heading in the other direction that
was actually far more remote than either
star, since the forces involved in stop-
ping and matching course with a vessel
bound home were twice as great as, and
would take twice as much time as, those
involved in the voyage itself. Everything
about the trip. (continued on page 108)

fiction By FREDERIK POHL

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F IEND (continued from page 105)

was frightening. The loneliness was a
terror. To stare down through an inch
of crystal and see nothing but far stars
led to panic. Dandish had decided to
stop looking out five years before, but
had not been able to keep to his deci-
sion, and so now and again peeped
through the crystal and contemplated
his horrifying visions of the seal break-
ing, the crystal popping out on a breath
of air, himself in his metal prison tum-
bling, tumbling forever down to the
heart of one of the 10,000,000 stars that
lay below. In this ship a noise was an
alarm. Since no one but himself was
awake, to hear a scratch of metal or a
thud of a moving object striking some-
thing else, however tiny, however re-
mote, was a threat, and more than once
Dandish had suffered through an itch
of fear for hours or days until he tracked.
down the exploded light tube or unse-
cured door that had startled him. He
dreamed uneasily of fire. This was pre-
posterously unlikely, in the steel and
crystal ship, but what he was dream-
ing of was not the fire of a house but
the monstrous fires in the stars beneath.

“Come out where I can see you,”
commanded the girl.

Dandish noted that she had not trou-
bled to try to cover her nakedness. Bare
she woke and bare she stayed. She had
unhitched the restraining webbing and
left the crib, and now she was prowling
the room in which she had awakened,
looking for him. “They warned us," she
called. “ ‘Watch the hook!’ ‘Look out
for the space nuts!’ ‘You'll be sorry!
That's all we heard at the Reception
Center, and now here you are, all right.
Wherever you are. Where are you? For
God’s sake, come out so I can see you.”
She half stood and half floated at an
angle to the floor, nibbling at imper-
ceptible bits of dead skin on her lips
and staring warily from side to side. She
"What was the story you were go-
ing to tell me? A subspace meteorite
destroyed the ship, all but you and me,
and we were doomed to fly endlessly
toward nowhere, so there was nothing
for us to do but try to make a life for
ourselves?”

Dandish watched her through the view
eyes in the reviving room, but did not
answer. He was a connoisseur of victims,
Dandish was. He had spent а great deal
of time planning this. Physically she
was perfect, very young, slim, slight. He
had picked her out on that basis from
among the 352 female canned colonists,
leafing through the microfile photo-
graphs that accompanied cach colonist’s
dossier like a hifi hobbyist shopping
through a catalog. She had been the
best of the lot. Dandish was not skilled
enough to be able to read a person-

ality profile, and in any event con-
sidered psychologists to be phonies and
their profiles trash, so he had had to go
by the indices he knew. He had wanted
his victim to be innocent and trusting.
Silvie, 16 years old and а litle below
average in intelligence, had seemed very
promising. It was disappointing that she
did not react with more fear. “They'll
give you fifty years for this!” she
shouted, looking around to see where he
could be hiding. “You know that, don’t
you?"

"The revival crib, sensing that she was
out of it, was quietly stowing and re-
arming itself, ready to be taken out and
used again. Its plastic sheets slipped {тес
of the corners, rolled up in a tight spiral
and slid into a disposal chute, revealing
aseptic new sheets below. Its radio-warm-
ing generators tested themselves with a
surge of high-voltage current, found no
flaws and shut themselves off. The crib
sides folded down meekly. The instru-
ment table hooded itself over. The girl
paused to watch it, then shook her head
and laughed. “Scared of me?" she called.
“Come on, let's get this over with! Or
else,” she added, “admit you've made a
boo-boo, get me some clothes and let's
talk this over sensibly.”

Sorrowfully Dandish turned his gaze
away. A timing device reminded him
that it was time to make his routine half-
hour check of the ship's systems and, as
he had done more than 150,000 times
already and would do 100,000 times
again, he swiftly scanned the tempera-
ture readings in the can hold, metered
the loss of liq helium and balanced.
it against the withdrawals from the re-
serve, compared the ship's course with
the flight plan, measured the fuel con-
sumption and rate of flow, found all
systems functioning smoothly and re-
turned to the girl. It had taken only a
minute or so, but already she had found
the comb and mirror he had put out for
her and was working angrily at her hair.
One fault in the techniques of freezing
and revivification lay in what happened
to such elaborated structures as finger-
nails and hair. At the temperature of
liquid helium all organic matter was
britde as Prince Rupert's drops, and
although the handling techniques were
planned with that fact in mind, the body
wrapped gently in elastic cocooning,
every care exercised to keep it from con-
tact with anything hard or sharp, nails
and hair had a way of being snapped
oft. The Reception Center endlessly
drummed into the colonists the im-
portance of short nails and butch hair-
cuts, but the colonists were not always
convinced. Sil now looked like a
dummy on which a student wigmaker
had failed a test. She solved her problem

at last by winding what remained of her
hair in a tiny bun and put down the
comb, snapped-off strands of hair float-
ing in the air all about her like a
stretched-out sandstorm.

She patted the bun mournfully and
said, “I guess you think this is pretty
funny.

Dandish considered the question. He
жаз not impelled to laugh. Twenty years
before, when Dandish was a teenager
with the long permanented hair and the
lacquered fingernails that were the fash-
ion for kids that year, he had dreamed
almost every night of just such a situa-
tion as this, To own a girl of his own
— not to love her or to rape her or to
marry her, but to possess her as a slave,
with no one anywhere to stop him from
whatever he chose to impose on her—
had elaborated itself in a hundred va
ations nightly. He didn't tell anyone
about his dream, not directly, but in the
school period devoted to practical psy-
chology he had mentioned it as some-
thing he had read in a book and the
instructor, staring right through him into
his dreams, told him it was a repressed
wish to play with dolls. “This fellow is
role playing,” he said, “acting out a wish
to be a woman. These clear-cut cases of
repressed homosexuality can take many
forms ..."; and on and on, and al-
though the dreams were as physically
satisfying as ever, the young Dandish
awoke from them both reproved and
resentful,

But Silvie was neither a dream nor a
doll. “I’m not a doll!” said Silvie, so
sharply and patly that it was a shock.
“Come on out and get it over with!”

She straightened up, holding to a free-
fall grip, and although she looked angry
and annoyed she still did not scem
afraid. “Unless you are really crazy,” she
said clearly, “which I doubt, although 1
have to admit its a possibility, you
aren't going to do anything I don't want
you to do, you know. Because you can't
get away with it, right? You can't kill
me, you could never explain it, and be-
sides they don’t let murderers run ships
in the first place, and so when we land
all I have to do is yell cop and you're
running a subway shuttle for the next
ninety years" She giggled. "I know
about that. My uncle got busted on in-
come-tax evasion and now he's a self-
propelled dredge in the Amazon delta,
and you should sce the letters he writes.
So come on out and let's see what Im
willing to let you get away with."

She grew impatient. “Kee-rist,” she
said, shaking her head. “I sure get the
great ones. And, oh, by the way, as long
as I'm up, I have to go to the little
girls’ room, and then I want breakfast."

Dandish took some small satisfaction
in that these requirements, at least, he

(concluded on page 165)

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“It’s a list of the fathers of my unborn child — and I want you to see to it

that every single one of them does the right thing by тє!”

HIGHBROW AUTHORS
AND MIDDLEBROW BOOKS

Opinion by John W. Aldridge
the plight of today's readers and writers of "literature" —
a no-holds-barred appraisal

ntil fairly recently, speculations on the health of the novel were a

morbid and monotonous feature of our literary life. In fact, ever

since Ortega y Gasset pronounced the novel dead back in the

Twenties, and T. $. Eliot discovered that Flaubert and James had
killed it, critics haye generally shown more interest in the novel dead than
alive, and have devoted more energy to conducting post-mortems than to
providing resuscitation. For a number of years in the Sunday book-supplement
world, the novel was dying as regularly as tycoons and athletes, and of a much
more interesting variety of ailments. In the main, it was the critics of that
world, the middlebrow, trend-tracking kind, who carried on the discussion
over the last two decades, the concern for the novel's health apparently having
passed from Eliot to Trilling to Frank O'Connor to J. Donald Adams with
steadily dwindling intensity and authority.

For a while there it looked as though, if the novel were not actually dying
under its own power, it was certain very soon to be talked to death. It now
appears, however, that the situation has rather dramatically reversed itself,
and that it is not so much the novel, аз the talk about its death that is dying.
In fact, among highbrows we are suddenly hearing a great deal of talk about
the novel's aliveness, while the middlebrow postmortems have diminished
in number to the point where we can sometimes go for whole months or even
years without hearing any more baleful middlebrow news of the novel than
the tired old news that it continues to be obsessed with sexual perversion and
other “sordid and depressing” aspects of life, and that nobody writing today
is anywhere near as good as John Р. Marquand. A kind of forlorn pettishness
about issues which everybody else long ago ceased to think of seems to have
overcome the old-style middlebrow crepe hangers. And not only have they
stopped talking about the death of the novel; they have apparently stopped
being aware of the novel altogether, except as a form which somehow failed
to oblige them by dying at the right time and has instead taken on a new life
they are unable to comprehend.

The truth of course is that the novel as the middlebrows used to know
it did in effect die. The death which they made a habit of announcing so
solemnly was actually quite real, in the sense that the kind of novel they once
felt close to did pass away as a dominating literary force and has since been
replaced by another kind, a largely intellectual kind, (continued on page 166)

119

man at his leisure

artist neiman depicts derby day at england's historic epsom downs

THE EPSOM DERBY, а contest of such moment that a horse worth a few
thousand pounds at the outset of the race may increase in value a hundred-
fold by the finish, lays claim to the title of world’s greatest sporting event.
Dating back to 1780, this on d-a-half-mile competition is not so much a
race as it is a national institution: it ranks in an Englishman's esteem with
afternoon tea апа Buckingham Palace. With the betting ranging from
a few bob to thousands of pounds, there is hardly an onlooker in the cheer-
ing crowd who doesn't have something at stake as the horses make that last
straining effort down the straightaway from famous Tattenham Corner.

left. Racing enthusiasts, impeccably garbed and suitably field-glassed, come to Epsom
not only to see the Derby, but to be seen. Below: A view from the Royal Enclosure toward
the crowded infield, as the surging thoroughbreds thunder toward the winning post.

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Derby Day by all who can’t afford the traditional morning coats, top hats, waistcoats and other sartorial appurte-
nances called for by this socially prestigious occasion. From the reigning monarch to the lowliest commoner,
everyone who c; age to be there is there. Throngs jam the trains to Epsom, 15 miles from the heart of Lon-
don: as early as six in the morning the parking areas begin to fill with endless streams of cars and motor
coaches." The milieu is an olio of the elegant and the plebeian, as entire families come upon the scene with
picnic baskets to make a day of it. Tents and booths blossom all over the grounds, purveying anything from
chilled champagne to hot sausages, while the nobility pays its respects to the Queen in the Royal Box, where,
as England's most illustrious improver of the breed, she oversees one of her country's oldest and proudest events.

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The Crafty

Ribald Classic

AFTER A SUCCESSFUL campaign in Reggio
di Calabria, the battle-weary troops of
Colonel Biondi were dispatched to Pro-
vincia Cosenza for a period of rest and
recuperation. A bivouac was set up on
the beaches and supplies were brought
south from Naples, including wines,
meats and fine cheeses. The sage Biondi
realized, however, that despite the many
comforts offered the men, there still was
a decided lack of the ultimate ac
commodations: the presence of women.
Accordingly, desirous of securing for
them the maximum in recreation, Biondi
determined the location of cert:
curers from whom courtesins might be
persuaded. He then visited these fellows,
sampled their wares and bargained for
group rates to be applied to all who
might be members of the military unit.
Now, having done these things, the
colonel repaired to his command tent.
where he contemplated the problem of
advising his troops of the locations of
the procurers whose business cthics met
with his approval. He realized that if he
were to condone openly the patroniza-
tion of the procurers, he would arouse
the ire of those who concerned them-
selves with the morals of others, and
consequently bring governmental dis-
favor upon the men of his unit. There-
fore, to circumvent the problem, he
published an order as follows:

The men of this unit are hereby
advised that this command will not
look kindly upon familiaritics be-
tween the men of this unit and the
women of the province of Cosenza.
It is further commanded that no
member of this unit may go to the
town of Rogliano with the intent of

ounsel of Colonel Biondi

obtaining а woman from the house
of one Giacomo Ciellano, a known
procurer, and bringing that woman
to his tent. It is further decreed
that those who do enter
in their tents will be
most harshly.

n women
dealt with

Biondi's order continued to describe
the route to the house of Giacomo Ciel-
lano, which the troops were forbidden
to take: the procurer's price, which they
were forbidden to pay, and the manner
by which they could return to the
bivouac ar

a, with their women, unob-
served by police — which manner they
were commanded not to employ.

Now there was in the battalion at that
time a lieutenant by the name of
Lorenzo, a dedicated man, assuredly, but
perhaps not a wise one, who accepted
the colonel’s order at face value. Con-
sequently, when he heard the men openly
discussing their experiences with the
courtesans, he complained directly to
Biondi who immediately published an-
other order, warning that the lieutenant.
had overheard this conversation about
the courtesans, and threatening punish-
ment for whomever the lieutenant discov-
ered indulging in these “wrongful acts."

The men conducted their affairs in
secrecy thereafter; but one afternoon a
ne wench in one of the tents, having
imbibed an abundance of Neapolitan
wine, staggered to the center of the bat-
talion quadrangle and began а most ex-
acting dance during which she removed
the few garments she had been wearing.
As chance would have it, Lieutenant
Lorenzo happened by; but when he no-
ticed her, he kept his distance and waited
until one of the soldiers took hold of

a 16th Century Calabrian tale

her and brought her back to his tent.
Then Lorenzo followed the couple, and
observed thiough the flap of the tent а
the two indulged in a performance that
astounded him, in that he had never seen
it performed before.

In rage and dismay, he proceeded to
the colonel and hurled accusations at
the soldier and the girl. But the wise
Biondi examined the regulation he had
published, and pointed out that there
was no proof that the soldier had ob-
tained her from one of the “forbidden”
procurer, nor that he had followed any
of the "forbidden" routes, nor was he
necessarily "entertaining" the woman in
his tent, which was also forbidden.

The colonel then ordered Lorenzo to
seize the woman and bring her to the
command tent, whereupon he instructed
Lorenzo to demonstrate the performance
by which the woman had been “enter-
tained.” Although Lorenzo found the
positions of this demonstration u
fortable, never before having been in
them, he followed his colonel’s mandate.

When the act had been completed,
Biondi asked the woman if she had
found it “entertaining,” She replied that
Lorenzo was anything but entertaining:

ndeed, he was boring. Biondi conse-
quently dismissed the case on the ground
that a private most certainly could not
have entertained the woman if an officer
had failed to do so. And, Lorenzo, who
found himself entertained by the experi-
ence, ceased to harass the troops, for
100, was occupied in the pursuit
ther entertainment, in accordance
with the spirit if not the letter of the
crafty colonel’s regulatio:

—Retold by Paul J. Gillette

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playboy encores its third year's gatefold girls

PLAYBOY's Tenth Anniversary reprise of past Playmates proceeds apace with a refreshing
backward glance at 1956. The succeeding years of the PLAYBOY decade will be recapped an
issue at a time until December, when a Readers’ Choice pictorial, presenting the ten all-time
favorites, will appear. Our third year of publication was highlighted by a countdown of
figurative feats. Our beautiful Subscription Manager, Janct Pilgrim, became a Playmate for
the third time in October (a record that still stands); Phi Beta Kappa Alice Denham was
doubly exposed in July, both as Playmate and author of The Deal, that month's lead fiction;
in September, Danish-born Playmate Elsa Sorensen married singer Guy Mitchell (they’re still
receiving a joint subscription to PLAYBOY); and for a dazzling year-end capper, appreciative
readers zeroed in on the demure warmth of Floridian Playmate, Lisa Winters. Readers
with long memorics need not wait for our centerfold retrospective to unfold — their selections
are welcome at any time. Any Playmate, from December 1953 through December 1963, is
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128

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

defensively into the dear blue, compre-
hending eyes of the famous neurologist.
He said, seeking support for his decision,
“You do sce my point, Sir James? Im
tightly staffed at Headquarters, and in
the field, for that matter. There's just
no place where I can tuck away 007 so
hc won't cause harm."
You'll be losing one of your best
men."

"Used to be. Isn't any longer."

ir James Molony sat back, He looked
out of the window and puffed thought-
fully at his cigar. He liked this man
Bond. He had had him as his patient
perhaps a dozen times before. He had
seen how the spirit, the reserves in the
man, could pull him out of badly dam-
aged conditions that would have broken
l human being. He knew how
ate situation would bring out
those reserves again, how the will to
live would spring up again in a real
emergency. He remembered how count-
less neurotic patients had disappeared
forever from his consulting rooms when
the last war had broken out. The big
worry had driven out the smaller oncs,
the greater f the lesser. He made up
his mind. He turned back to M. “Give
him one more chance, M. If i'll help,
I'll take the responsibility.”

“What sort of chance are you thinking

“Well now, I don't know much about.
your linc of business, M. And I don't
want to. Got enough secrets in my own
job to look after. But haven't you got
something really sticky, some a
hopeless assignment vou can
man? I don’t mean. necessarily
ous, like assassination or stealing Rus-
sian ciphers or whatever. But someu
that's desperately
ently impossible. By all means give him
a kick in the pants at the same time if
you want to, but what he needs most
of all is a supreme call on his talents,
something that'll really make him sweat
so that he's simply forced to forget his
personal troubles. He's a patriotic sort
of a chap. Give him something that
really matters to his country. It would
be easy enough if a war broke out. Noth-
ing like death or glory to take a man
out of himself. But can't you dream up
someth
If you can, give him the job. It m
get him right back on the rails. Any-
way, give him the chance. Yes?"

M, his shoulders hunched
square-cut blue su
the big window looking out across
park. Without looking round he
"Sit down." No name, no number!

Bond took his usual place across
desk from M's tallarmed chair

(continued from page 76)

no file on the
ther in front of the
And the iN and OUT baskets were
both empty. Suddenly he felt really bad
about everything — about letting M
down, letting the Service down, letting
himself down. This empty desk, the
empty chair, were the final accusation.
We have nothing for you, they seemed to
say. You're no use to us anymore. Sorry.
Its been nice knowing you, but there
it is.

M came over and sat heavily down in
the chair and looked across at Bond.
There was nothing to read in the lined
sailors face. It was as impassive as the
polished blue leather of the empty chair

that there

noticed

back had been.

M said, "You know why I've sent for
your"

“I can guess, sir. You can have my

resignation

M said angrily, "What in hell are
you talking about It's not your fault
that the Double-O Section’s been
for so long. It’s the way things go. You've
had flat periods before now — months
with nothing in your line.

“But I made a mess of the last two
jobs. And I know my medical's been
pretty poor these last few months.”
Nonsense. "There's nothing the mat-
with you. You've been through a
bad time. You've had good reason to be
a bit under the weather. As for the
last two assignments, anyone can make
mistakes. But | can't hi idle hands
around the place, so I'm taking you out
of the Double-O Se

Bond's heart had temporarily risen.
Now it plummeted again. The old man
was be g to let him down
lightly. "Then, if it's all the
same to you, sir, I'd still like to put in
my resignation. I've held the Double-O
number for too long. I'm not interested

1 staff work, I'm afraid, sir. And по
good at it cither.”

M did something Bond had never
seen him do before. He lifted his right
fist and brought it crashing down on the
desk. "Who the devil do you think

оп.”

you're talking 10? Who the devil d'vou
think's running this show? God in

heaven! 1 send for you to give you pro-
motion and the most important job of
your career and you talk to me about
resignation! Pigheaded young fool!
Bond was dumfounded. A gr
surge of excitement ran through |
What in hell was
I'm terribly sorry,
been letting the side down lately.
“ГИ soon tell you when you're leuing
the side down." M thumped the desk
for a second. time, but less hard. "Now
listen to me, I'm giving you acting pro-
motion to the Diplomatic Section. Four-

t
m.

1 this about? He said,
I thought I'd

figure number and a thousand a year
ехши pay. You won't know much about
the Section, bur I can tell you there
are only two other men in it. You can
keep your present office and your sec-
retary, if you like, In fact, 1 would
prefer it. I don't want your change of
duty to get about. Understand?”

“Yes, sir.”

“In any case, you'll be leaving for
Japan inside a week. The Chief of Staff
is handling the arrangements personally.
Not even my secretary knows about it
As you can sec,” M waved his hand,
“there's not even a file on the case.
"That's how important it is.”

But why have you chosen me, sir?”
Bond's heart was thumping. This was
the most extraordinary change in his
fortunes that had ever come about! Ten
minutes before he had been on the rub-
bish heap, his carcer, his life in ruins,
and now here һе was being ег up on
a pinnacle! What the hell was it all
about?

“For the simple reason that the job's
impossible. No, 1 won't go as far as that.
Let's say totally improbable of success.
You've shown in the past that you have
an aptitude for difficult assignments.
The only difference here is that there
won't be any strong-arm stuff,” M gave
a frosty smile, “none of the gunplay you
pride yourself on so much. It'll just be
nd nothing
else. But if you bring it off, which 1
усту much doubt, you will just about
double our intelligence about the So-
viet Union.”

‘Can you tell me some more about it,

a question of your wits

‘Have to, as there's nothing written
down. Lower-echelon stuff, about the
Japanese Secret Service and so forth, you
tan get from Section J. The Chief of
Stalf will tell Colonel Hamilton to an
swer your questions freely, though you
will tell him nothing about the purpose
of your mission. Understood?”

“Yes, sir.

“Well now. You know a bit about

cryptography?”
“The bare bones, sir. I've preferred to
keep clear of the subject. Better that

way in са
of me.
“Quite right. Well now, the Japanese
v past masters at it. They've got the
right mentality for finicky problems in
letters and numbers. Since the w;
under CIA guidance, they
credible cracking machine
last year they've been reading the cr
of the Soviet trafic from Vladivostok
and Oriental Russia — diplomatic, na
air force, the lot
“That's terrific, sir.”
“Terrific for the CIA.
"Aren't they passing it on to us, sir?
I thought we were hand in glove with
(continued on page 131)

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Not in the Pacific. They regard d
as their private preserve. When Allen
Dulles was in charge, we used at least
to get digests of any stull that concerned
us, but this new man McCone has
cracked down on all that. He's a good
all right, and we get along well
ally, but he's told mc candidly
g under orders — National
Defense Council. They're worried about
our security. Can't blame them. I'm
equally worried about theirs. Two of
their top cryptographers defected a cou-
ple of years ago and they must have
blown a lot of the stuff we gave the
Amer - Trouble with this so-called
democracy of ours is that the press gets
hold of these cases and writes them up
too big. Pravda doesn't burst into tears:
when one of their men comes over to us.
Izuestia doesn't ask for а public inquiry.
Somebody in K.G.B. gets hell, 1 sup-
pose. But at least they're allowed to get
on with their job instead of having re
tired members of the Supreme Soviet
pawing through their files and telling
them how to run а secret service.
To get M back on the wack, Bond
id, “About this stuft the Japanese are
Where do І come in, si

M put both hands fiat on the table.
It was the old gesture when he came to
the 64-dollar question, and Bond's heart
lifted even further at the sight of i
“There's a man in Tokyo called Tiger
Tanaka. Head of their Secret Service.
"t remember what they call it. Some
unpronounceable Japanese rubbish.
He's quite a man. First at Oxford. Came
back here and spied for them before
the war. Joined the Kempeitai, their
wartime Gestapo, trained as a kamikaze
ıd would be dead by now but for the
surrender. Well, he's the chap who has
control of the stuff we want, I want, the
Chiefs of Staff want, You're to go out
there and get it off him. How, I don't.
know. That's up to you. But you can
see why I say you're unlikely to succeed.
He's in ficf"— Bond was amused by the
old Scottish es ion — “to the CIA.
He probably docsn't think much of us.
М5 mouth bent down at the corners.
“People don't these days. They may be
right or wrong. I'm not a politi „не
di 't know much about the Service
execpt what he's penetrated or heard
from the CIA. And that won't be greatly
to our advantage, I'd say. We haven't
had a station in Japan since 1950. No
trafic. It all went to the Americans.
You'll be working under the Australians.
They tell me their man’s good. Section J
says so, too. Anyway. that’s the way it

If anyone can bring i
е а try, James?
M's f suddenly friendly. It
"t friendly often. James Bond felt
a quick warmth of affect
who had ordered his destiny for so long,

but about whom he knew so little. H
instinct told him that there were things
iden behind th gnment, motives
which he didn't understand. Was this a
rescue job on him? Was M giving him
is last chance? But it sounded solid
enough. The reasons for it stood up.
Hopeless? Impossible? Perhaps. Why
hadn't M chosen a Jap speaker? Bond
had never been east of Hong Kong. But
then Orientalists had their own particu-
lar drawbacks — too much tied up with
tea ceremonies and flower arrangements
and Zen and so forth. No. It sounded a
true bill. He said, “Yes, sir. I'd like to
have a try.”

M gave an abrupt nod. “Good.” He
leaned forward and pressed a button on
the intercom. “Chief of Staff? What
number have you allotted to 007? R
He's coming to sce you straightaway.

M leaned back. He gave one of his
rare smiles. “You're stuck with your old
digit. All right, four sevens. Go along
and get bricked.

Bond said, "Right, sir. And, er, thank

you." He got up and walked over to
the door and let himself out.
ate Colonel nner of
s and Bond's best friend i
‚ looked up from his hea’
laden desk. He grinned with pleasure
at what he saw. He said, ke a
James. So you've bought it? Thought
you might. Bur it’s a stinker all right.
Think you can bring it ofl?”
Not arthly, I'd guess," said Bond
cheerfully. man Tanaka sounds a
tough nut, and I'm no great hand at
lomacy. But why did M pick on me,
Bill? I thought I was in the doghouse
because of messing up those last two
jobs. I was all set to go into chicken
farming. Now, be a good chap and tell
me whats the real score.

Bill Tanner had been ready for that
one. He said alls J
You've been running through a bad
patch. We all hit 'em sometimes. M just
thought vou'd be the best man for the
job. You know he's got rely mis-
placed opinion of your abilities. Any-
у, itll be a change from your usual
roughhousing. Time you moved up out
of that damned Double-O Section of
yours. Don't you ever think about pro-
motion

"Absolutely not" said Bond with
fervor. "As soon as | get back from

mes,

this caper, I'll ask for my old number
back again. But tell me, how am 1
supposed to set about this business?

What's this Austra
Have I got ng to offer this
Oriental in ge for his jewels?
How's the stuff to be transmitted back
here if I do get my hands on it? Must
be the hell of a lot of trafic.”

“He can have the entire product of
Station H. He can send one of his own
staffers down to Hong Kong to sit in

п cover consist of?

with us if he likes. Hel probably be
pretty well off on China already, but
he won't have anything as high grade
as our Macao link, the “Blue Route.”
Hamilton will tell you all about th;
In Tokyo, the man you'll be working
with is an Aussie called Henderson —
Richard Lovelace Henderson. Fancy
name, but Section J and all the old Jap
hands say he's a good man. You'll lı
an Australian passport and we'll fix for
you to go out as his number two. That'll
give you diplomatic status and a certain
amount of face, which counts for
near everything out there according to
Hamilton. If you get the stuff, Hender-
son will push it back to us through
Melbourne. We'll give him a communi-
cations staff to handle it. Next question.”

"What is the CIA going to say about
all thi? After all, it's barefaced
poaching.”

"They don't own Japan. Anyway,
they're not to know. That’s up to this
fellow Т; i. He'll have to fix the
ng it into the Aus-
nbassy. That's his worry. But
the whole thing's on pretty thin ice.
The main problem is to make sure he
doesn't go straight along to the CIA
and tell "em of your approach. If you
get blown, we'll just have to get the
Aust to hold the baby. They've
done it before when we've been bowled
ош edging our way into the Pacific.
Were good friends with their Service.
Firstrate bunch of chaps. And, anyway.
the CIA's hands aren't as clean as all
that. We've got a whole file of cases
where they've crossed wires with us
round the world. Often dangerously. We
can throw that book at McCone if this
business blows up in our faces. But part
of your job is to see that it doesn't.
ems to me I'm getting all balled up
in high politics. Not my line of country
at all. But is this stulE really as al as
ays?”

“Absolutely. If you get hold of it,
your grateful country will probably buy
you that chicken farm you're alw
g about.”

So be it. Now, if you'll give Ha
a buz, Tl go and start саги
about the mysterious Fa

Хапвеі! Welcome aboard," s;
pretty kimonoed and obied stewardess of
Japan Air Lines as, a week later,
Bond settled. into the comfortable win-
dow м of the four-jet Douglas DC-8
at London Airport and listened to thc
torrent of soft Japanese coming from
the tannoy that would be saying all
those things about life jackets and the
flying time to Orly. The sick bags
п case of motion disturbance" were
embellished with pretty bamboo em-
Dems and, according to the exquisitely
bound travel folder, the random scrib-
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bles on the luggage rack above his head.
were “the traditional and auspicious
tortoiseshell motif.” The stewardess
bowed and handed him a dainty fan, a
small hot towel in a wicker basket and
a sumptuous menu that included a note
to the effect that an assortment. of ciga-
rettes, perfumes and pearls was available
for sale. Then they were off with 50,000
pounds of thrust on the first leg of the
four that would take the good aircraft
Yoshino over the North Pole to Tokyo.

Bond gazed at the picture of three
oranges (No! After an hour he decided
they were persimmons) in a blue bowl
that faced him and, when the aircraft
tened out at $0,000 feet, ordered the
first of the chain of brandies and ginger
ales that was to sustain him over the
Channel, a leg of the North Sea, the
Kattegat, the Arctic Ocean, the Beaulort
Sea, the Bering Sea and the North Pa-
cific Ocean and decided that, whatever
ppened on this impossible assignment,
he would put up no resistance to his
old skin being sloughed off him on the
other side of the world. By the time he
was admiring the huge stuffed polar bear
t Anchorage, in Alaska, the embrace of
JAL's soft wings had persuaded him that
he didn't even m the color of the
new skin was to be yellow.

па i

The huge right fist crashed into the
left palm with the noise of a 45 pistol
shot. The great square face of the Aus-

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tralian tumed almost pu
veins stood out on the grizzled temples.
With controlled but almost
under his breath, he intoned savagely:

ple and the

violence.

“I bludge,
Thou bludgest,
He bludges,
We bludge
You bludge,
They all bludge.”

He reached under the low table and
then seemed to think better of it and
moved s of sake,
t down hi

hand to thc gl.
picked it up and poured
throat without a swallow
Bond said mildly “Take it
Dikko. What's bitten. you
does this vulgarsounding colonial ex-
pression mean?
Richard Lovela

casy,
And wl

» Henderson, of Her
Majesty's Australian Diplomatic Corps,
looked belligerently round the small
crowded bar in a bystreet off the Ginza
and said out of the corner of his large
and usually cheerful mouth that

was

now turned dow | bitterness and
anger. "You stup pommy bastard,
weve been miked! That bludger
Tanaka's miked us! E under the

table! See the little wire down the leg?
And see tha at the bar?
Chap with or g bloody re-
spectable in his bluc suit and black tie?
"That's one of Ti 1 can smell

ger’s men.

off and on for ten years. Tiger dresses
‘em all like litle CIA gentlemen. You
watch out for any Jap who's drinking
Western and w ng that rig. All Ti
He grumbled, “Damn good mind
to go over and call the bastard.”

Bond said, “Well, if we're being
miked, all this'll make sweet reading for
Mr. Tanaka tomorrow momin:

“What the hell,” said Dikko Hender
son resignedly. “The old bastard knows
what I think of him. Now he'll just
have it in writing. Teach him to stop
leaning on me. And my friends" he
added, with a blistering glance at Bond.
"Its really you he wants to size up. And
I don't mind if he hears me saying so.
Bludger? Well hear me now, Tiger!
This is the great Australian insult. You
can usc it ai He raised his voice.
"But in general it means а worthless
pervert, ponce, scoundrel. liar. traitor
and rogue — with no redeeming feature.
And I hope your stewed seaweed sticks
in your gullet at breakfast tomorrow.
when you know what I think of you."

Bond laughed. The torrent of ром
ful swcarwords had started its ceaseless
flow the day before at the airpo
Hane the field of wings.” It had
taken Bond nearly an hour to extract hi:
ingle suitcase from the customs ar
nd he had emerged fuming into the
central hall only to be jostled and
pushed aside by an excited crowd of
young Japanese bearing paper banners
that said INTERNATIONAL LAUNDRY СОХ
vention, Bond was exhausted from hi:
flight. He let out one single four-letter
expletive.

Behind him a big voice repeated the
same word and added some more.
“That's my boy! Thats the right way
to greet the East! You'll be needing all
those words and more before you're
through with the area.”

Bond had turned.
the rumpled gray suit thrust out a hand
as big as a small ham. 1 to meet
you. I'm Henderson. As you were the
only pommy on the plane, I guess you're
Bond. Here, Give me that bag. Got a
car outside and the sooner we get away
from this blankety-blank madhouse the

men

ishter who h aken
to the bottle. His thin suit bulged with
musde round the arms and shoulders
and with fat round the waist. He had
a craggy, sympathe her stony
blue eyes, and a badly broken nosz. He
was sweating freely (Bond was to find
that he was always sweating), and as he
barged his way through the crowd, using
Bond's suitcase as a battering-ram, he
extracted a rumpled square of terry
doth from his trouser pocket and wiped
it round his neck and lace. The aowd
parted unresentfully to let the giant
through, and Bond followed in his wake

s retired and

face,

to a smart Toyopet saloon waiting in
no-parking arca. The chauffeur got out
1 bowed. Henderson fired a torrent of
istractions at him in fluent Japanese
and followed Bond into the back seat,
settling himself with a grunt. “Taking
you to your hotel first — the Okura, lat-
est of the Western ones. American tour-
ist got murdered at the Royal Oriental
the other day and we don't want to
lose you all that soon, Then we'll do
bit of serious drinking. Had some
ner?”

About six of them, as far as I can
remember. JAL certainly takes good care
of your stomach.”

“Why did you choose the willow-
pattern route? How was the old rup-
tured duck?
hey told me the bird was a crane.
Very dainty. But efficient. Thought I
might as well practice being inscrutable
before plunging into all this” Bond
ed at the cluttered shambles of the
Tokyo suburbs through which they were
ing at what scemed to Bond a sui-
ddal speed. "Doesn't look the most at-
wactive city in the world. And why are
we driving on the left?

“God knows," said Henderson mood-
ily. “The bloody Japs do everything the
wrong way round, Read the old instruc-
ion books wrong. I dare say. Light
switches go up instead of down. Taps

turn to the left. Door handles likewise.
Why, they even race their horses clock-
wisc instead of antidockwise like ci
lized people. As for Tokyo. it's bloody
awful. It's either too hot or too cold or
pouring with rain. And there's

about cvery day. But don't worry
about them. They just make you feel
slightly drunk. The typhoons are worse.
Il one starts to blow, go into the stoutest
bar you can scc and get drunk. But the
fist ten years are the worst. 105 got its
points when you know your way around.
Bloody expensive if you live Western,
but I stick to the back alleys and do all
right. Really quite exhilarating, Got to
know the lingo though, and when 10
bow and take off your shoes and so on.
You'll have 10 get the basic routines
straight pretty quickly if you're going
to make any headway with the people
you've come to see. Underneath the stitt
collars and striped pants in the govern-
ment departments, there's still plenty of
the old samurai tucked away. 1 laugh at
them for it, and they laugh back be-
cause they've got to know my line of
patter. But that doesn’t mean 1 doi
bow from the waist when | know

expected of me and when I want some-
thing. You'll get the hang of it all ri

Henderson fired some Japanese at the
driver who had been glancing frequently

in his driv

g mirror. The driver laughed.

and replied cheerfully. “Thought so,"
said Henderson. “We've got ourselves a
tail. Typical of old Tiger. I told him
you were staying at the Okura, but he
wants to make sure for himself, Don't
worry. It's just part of his crafty ways.
If you find onc of his men breathing
down your neck in bed tonight. or a girl
if you're lucky, just talk to them politely
and they'll bow and hiss themselves
ош.”

But a solitary sleep had followed the
serious drinking in the Bamboo of
the Okura, and the next day had been
spent doing the sights and getting some
cards printed that described Bond as
Second Secretary in the Cultural De-
partment of the Australian Embass
"They know that’s our intelligence side.
said Henderson, “and they know I'm the
head of it and you're my temporary
assistant, so why not spell it out for
them?” And that evening they had gone
for more serious drinking to Hender
son's favorite bar, Melody's, off thc
Ginza, where everybody called Hender-
son "Dikko" or “Dikko-san,” and where
they were ushered respectfully to the
quiet comer table that appeared to be
his Stammtisch.

And now Henderson reached under
the table and, with a powerful wrench,
pulled ош the wires l left

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THE BIGGEST NAME in Egyptian movies belongs to a
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hanging. “ГИ give that black bastard
Melody hell for this when I get around
to it,” he said belligerently. “And to
think of all I've done for the dingo
bastard! Used to be a favorite pub of
the English colony and the Press Club
avabouts. Had a good restaurant аг
tached to it. That's gone now. The E
teye cook trod on the cat and spilled
the soup and he picked up the cat and
threw it into the cooking stove. Of
course that got around prety quick
nd all the animal lovers and sancu
monious bastards got together and tried
to have Melody’s license taken away. 1
managed to put in squeeze in the right
quarter and saved him, but everyone
quit his restaurant and he had to close
it. I'm the only regular who's stuck to
him. And now he goes and does this to
me! Oh well, he'll have had the squeeze
put on Літ, І suppose, Anyway, that’s
the end of the tape so far as T.T.'s
concerned. Ill give him hell, too. He
ought to have learned. by now that
and my friends don't want to assa
the Emperor or blow up the I
something.” Dikko glared around him as
if he proposed to do both those thi
"Now then, James, to business
fixed up for you to meet Tiger tomorrow
morning at eleven. ГП pick you up and
take vou there. "Ihe Bureau of All-
Asian Folkways.’ 1 won't describe it to
you. It'd spoil it. Now, 1 don't really
know what you're here for. Spate of top-

(continued [rom page 135)

secret cables from Melbourne. To be
deciphered by yours truly in person.
"Thanks very much! And my Ambassador,
Jim Saunderson, good bloke, says he
doesn't want to know anything about

Thinks it'd be even better if he didn't
meet you at all. OK with you? No of-
fense, but he’s a wise guy and likes to
keep his hands dean, And I don't want
to know anything about your job either.
That way, you're the only one who gets
the powdered bamboo in his coffee. But
I guher you want to get some high-
powered gen out of Tiger without the
CIA knowing anything about it, Right?
Well that’s going to be a dicey business.
er man with a career mind.
Although, on the surface, he's а hun-
dred-percent. demokorasu, he's a deep
опе — very deep indeed. The American
occupation and the Ameri

n influence

look like a very solid basis for a
But

here

total American- ance.

ations

nese, Russian, German, English. It’s
their bones that matter, not their lying
faces, And all those races have got tr

mendous boues, Compared with the
bones, the smiles or scowls don't mean
a thing. And time means nothing for
them either. Tei the blink of
a star for the big ones. Get me? So Tiger,
nd his superiors, who, I suppose, are
the Diet and, in the end, the Emperor,
will look at your proposition principally

"OK, let's say they destroy our civilization

and we destroy theirs.

w, here's my plan...”

from two angles. Is it immediately desir-
able, today? Or is it a longterm invest
ment? Something that may pay oll for
the country in ten, twenty years. And.
if I were you, I'd stick to that spiel -
the long-term talk. These people, people
like Tiger, who's absolutely top man
in Japan, don't think in terms of days
or months or years. They think in terms
of centurii c right, when you come

ko Henderson made a wide ges-
шге with his left hand, Bond decided
that Di getting cheerfully tight.
He had found a Palomar pony to run
with, They must be rare enough in
Tokyo. They were both past the eighth
flask of sake, but Dikko had also laid
a foundation of Suntory
Okura while he'd been waiting for Bond
to write out an innocuous cable to Mel-
bourne with the prefix “Information
which meant that it was for Mary
Goodnight, to announce his arrival and
give his current address. But it was all
right with Bond that Dikko should be
getting plastered. He would talk better
and looser and, in the end, wise

vhiskey in the

iy. And Bond wanted to pick his
brains.
Bond said, "But what sort of a chap

this T
friend?

"Both. More of a fr
least I'd guess so. I amuse
pals don't He loosens up with

a? Is he your enemy or your

me.
We've got things in common. We share

pleasure in the delights of samsara —
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m. He's paying
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it in the ring to make an opponent look
and feel small in front of the audience.
ot it? So you start with that in your
favor. He would be predisposed to do
what you want because that would re

move all his on toward me and, by his
accounting, stick a whole packet of on
on my back toward him. But it's not so

simple as that. АП Japanese have per-
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Emperor, their ancestors and the Japa-
nese gods. "This they can only discharge
by doing ‘the right thing. Not easy,
you'll say. Because how can you know
what the higher echelon thinks is the
right thing? Well, you get out of that
by doing what the bottom of the ladder
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gods. But that’s all right with him, be-
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him, so he can get on with dissecting
fish, which is his hobby, with a de:
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volve the Almighty and your great-
grandfather in a decision to cut the price
of aspirin by a penny a bottle.

“It doesn't sound very demokorasu to
me."

“OL course it isn't, you dumb bastard.
For God's sake, get head
that the Japanese are а separate human
species. They've ошу been operating as
a civilized people, in the debased sense
we talk about it the West, for fifty,
at the most a hundred years. Scratch a
Russian and you'll find a Tartar Saatch
a Japanese and you'll find а samun
or what he thinks is a samurai. Most of
this samurai stuff is a myth, like the
Wild West bunk the Americans are
brought up on, or your knights in shin-
ing armor at King Arthur's court. Just
because people play baseball and wear
bowler bars doesn't mean they're quote
ou I'm
getting rather tight — not. drunk, mark
you — I'd add that the UN is going to
reap the father and mother of a whirl-
wind by quote liberating unquote the
colonial peoples. Give ‘em a thousand
years, yes. But give "em ten, no. Yo
only taking away their
giving them machine guns, Just you wait
for the first one to start crying to high
heaven for nuclear fission. Because they
must have quote parity unquote with
the lousy colonial powers. TIL give you
ten years for that to happen, my friend.
And when it does, ГИ dig myself a deep
hole in the ground and sit in i

Bond laughed. “That also doesn't
sound very demokorasu."

into your

civilized unquote. Just to show

blowpipes

^l fornicate upon thy demokorasu’
as brother Hemingway would have said.
I sand for government by an elite.
Dikko Henderson downed his ninth pint.
of sake. "And voting graded by cach in-
dividual's rating in that. elite. And one
tenth of a vote for my government if
you don't а h me!”

“For God's sake, Dikko! How in hell
did we get onto politics? Let's go and
get some food. ГШ
р original common. sense
you say...”

"Don't talk to me about the aborig
s! What in hell do you think you
know about the aborigines? Do you
know that in my county there's a move
afoot, not afoot, at full gallop. to give
the aborigines the vote? You
poofter. You give me any more of t
eral crap and ГЇЇ have your balls for
a bow tie

Bond said mildly. “What's a poofter?"

"What you'd call a pansy. No." Dikko
Henderson got to his feet and fired a
string of what sounded like lucid Japa
nese at the man behind the bar, “before
I condemn you utterly, we'll go and eat
eels — place where you can get a serious
bottle of plonk to match. Then we'll go

o “The House of Total Delight After
that, 1 will give you my honest verdict,
honestly come by

Bond said, “You're a no-good kangaroo
bum, Dikko. But I like cels. As long as
they're not jellied. I'I pay for them and
for the later relaxation. You pay for the
rice wine and the plonk, whatever tha
is, Take it easy. The wingy at the Ьа
has an appraising, look."

‘I come to appraise Mr. Richard
Lovelace Henderson, not to bury him.”
Dikko Henderson produced
thousand-yen notes and. be
them out for the wait
is." He walked, with careful majesty, up
to the bar and addressed himself to the
large Negro in а plum-colored coat be
hind it. “Melody, be ashamed of your
self!” Then he led the way, w
dignity, out of the bar

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Dikko Henderson came to ferch Bond
at ten otlock next morning. He w:
considerably overhung, The hard blue
eyes were veined with blood and he
made straight for the Bamboo Bar and
ordered himself a double brandy and
ginger ale. Bond said mildly, "You
shouldn't have poured all that sake on
top of the Suntory. I can't believe Japa-
nese whiskey makes a good foundation
for anything.”

You've got something ther
Ive got myself a proper futsuka

sport.
oi —

honorable hangover. Mouth like а vul
шге crutch. Soon as we got home from
that lousy cat house, I had to go for the
big spit. But you're wrong about Sun-
tory. It’s а good enough brew. Stick to
the cheapest, the White Label, at around

fifteen bob a boule There are two
smarter brands, but the cheap one’s the
best. Went up to the distillery some
while ago and met one of the family.
Told me an interesting thing about
whiskey. He said you can only make
good whiskey where you can take good
photographs, Ever heard that one? Said
it was something to do with the effect
of clear light on the alcohol. But did I
talk а lot of crap last night? Or did you?
Seem to recollect that one of us did.
“You only gave me hell about the state
of the world and called me а poofte
But you were quite friendly about it.
No offense given or taken.
“Oh. Christ!" Dikko Henderson gloom-
y pushed a hand through his tou
led hair. “But I didn't hit anyon
y that girl you slapped so 1
on the bottom that she fell down
“Oh chat" said

o Henderson
as just a lo
's bottom for, anywa
so Far as T recall they all screamed with

She looked pretty enthusiastic."

"She was.
2ood show." He swallowed the re
is of his drink and got to his feet.
ome on, bud. Lets go. Wouldn't do
to keep Tiger waiting. | once did and
he wouldn't speak to me for a wee

It was a typical Tokyo day in late
summer— hot, sticky and gray — the
full of fine dust from the endless demo-
lion and reconstruction work. They
drove for half an hour toward Yoko-
hama and pulled up outside a dull gray
building which announced itself in Large
leuers to be “The Bureau of AILAsian
Ik There was a busy traffic of
Japanese scurrying in and out through
the bogusly important looking entrance,
but no one glanced at Dikko and Bond,
amd they were not asked their business
as Dikko led the way through an en-
trance hall where there were books and
postcards on sale as if the place were
some kind of museum. Dikko made Гог
a doorway marked COORDINATION DE-
PARTMENT and there was a long co
ridor with open rooms on both sides.
The rooms were full of studious-looking
young men at desks. There were large
wall maps with colored pins dotted
across them, and endless shelves of books.
A door marked INTERNATIONAL RELA-
TIONS gave on to another corridor, this
time lined with closed doors which had
people’s names on them in English and
Japanese. A sharp right turn took them
through the VISUAL PRESENTATION BU-
reau with more closed doors, and on
то DOCUMENTATION, а large hall-shaped
library with more people bent over
desks. Here, for the first time, they were
scrutinized by a man at a desk near the
entrance. He rose to his feet and bowed
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“А real gentleman. I've yet to hear
him raise his voice in anger.”

“This is where the cover
1 those people

said quietly,

май, doing more or less classified
work. Sort of archivists, This is where
we'd be politely turned back if we'd
lost ou ." Behind a final wall of
bookshelves that stretched out into the
room a small door was concealed. It
was marked PROPOSED EXTENSION TO DOC-
UMENTATION DEPARTMENT. DANGER! CON-
STRUCTION WORK IN PROGRESS, From
behind it came the sound of drills, a
circular saw cutting through wood and
other building noises, Dikko walked
through the door into a totally empty
room with a highly polished wood floor.
‘There was no sign of construction work.
Dikko laughed at Bond's surprise. He
gestured toward a large metal box fitted
to the back of the door through which
they had come, “Tape recorder.” he said.
“Clever gimmick. Sounds just like the
real thing. And this"— he pointed to the
stretch of bare floor ahead —“is what
the Japanese call a ‘nightingale floor.’
Relic of the old days when people
wanted to be warned of intruders. Serves
the same purpose here. Imagine tying
to get across here without being heard.
They set off, and immediately the cun-
ningly sprung boards gave out penetrat-
ing squeaks and groans. In a small
facing door, a spy hole slid open and
one large eye surveyed them. The door
al а stocky man in p

clothes who had been 5
deal table reading а boo
boxlike room that se
other exit. The man bowed. Dikko said
some phrases containing the words “Т
na an." Ehe man bowed again. Dikko
turned to Bond. "You're оп your own
now. Be in it, champ! Tiger'll send you
back to your hotel. See vou

Bond said, “Tell mother I died game,”
and walked into the little box and the
door was closed behind him. There was
a row of buttons by the desk and the
d pressed onc of them. There came
arely perceptible whine and Bond
got the impression of descent. So the
room was a lift, What a box of tricks
the formidable Tiger had erected as а
screen for himself! The authentic Eas
ern nest of boxes. What next?

‘The descent continued for some time.
When it stopped, the guard opened the
door and Bond stepped out and stood
stock still. He was standing on the plat-
form of an underground sti ‘There
it all was: the тей and green signals over
the two yawning tunnels. the conven-
tional white tiles on the walls and the
curved roof— суеп an empty cigarette
Kiosk let into the wall beside him! A
man had come out of this. He now said
in good English, “Please to follow me,
Commander,” and led the way through

g at a small
It was a tiny
ed to have no

ion!

ch marked exit. But here all thc

Hoor space of the hall that would one
day lead to the moving stairways was
occupied by trim prefabricated offices

оп both sides of a wide corridor. Bond
was led into the first of these which
revealed itself as а waiting room and
outer office, A male secretary rose from.
his typewriter, bowed and went through
a communicating door. He immediately
reappeared, bowed again and held the
door open. “Please to come this way,
Commander.

Bond went through and the door was
softly closed behind him. The big square
figure that Dikko had described to him
came forward across the handsome red
carpet and held out a hand that was
hard and di "My dear Commander.
Good morning. It is a great pleasure to
meet you.” The wide, gold-toothed smile
signaled welcome. The eyes glittered
between long dark lashes that were al-
most feminine. “Come and sit down.
How do you like my offices? Rather
ferent from your own Chicf's, по doubt.
But the new underground will take
other ten years to complete and there
is little office space in Tokyo. It crossed
my mind to make use of this disused
station. It is quiet. It is private. It is
also cool. I shall be sorry when the trains
аге required to run and we shall have
10 move ош.”

Bond took the proffered chair across
the empty desk from Tanaka. “It’s a
brilliant idea. And I enjoyed the Folk-
ways above our heads. Are there really
so many people in the world interested
in Folkways?

Tiger Tanaka shrugged. “What docs it
matter? The literature is given away
free. I have never asked the Director
who reads it. Americans, I expect, and
Germans. Perhaps some Swiss. The seri-
ousminded can be found for
such stuff. It is an expensive conceit,
of course. But fortunately the expense
is not carricd by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs with whom I am concerned.
Down here, we have to count our pei
nies. I suppose it is the same with your
own budget.”

Bond assumed that this man would
know the published facts of the Secret
Service Vote. He said, “Under ten mil-
lion pounds a year doesn't go fa
there is the whole world to cover."

The teeth glistened under the neon
strip lighting. "At least for the last ten
years you have saved money by dosing
down your activities in this part of the
world.”

“Yes. We rely on the CIA to do our
work here for us. They are most ellicient
and helpful.

“As much so under McCone as under
Dulles?”

The old fox! “Nearly so. Nowadays
they are even more indined to regard
the Pacific as their own back garden.”
From which you wish to borrow the
mowing machine, Without them know-
ing.” Tigers smile was even more tiger-
ish than usual.

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Bond had to laugh. The wily devil
had certainly been putting two and two
together. When Bond laughed, Tiger
Iso laughed, but carefully. Bond said.
"We had a called Captain Cook
nd various others who discovered much
of this garden. Australia and New Zea
land are two very great countries. You
must admit that our interest in this half
of the world is perfectly legitimate.”

“My dear Commander. You were lucky
that we struck at Pearl Harbor rather
th Australia. Gan you doubt that
we would have occupied that country
and New Zealand if we had done othe
wise? These are big and important land
spaces, insulliciently developed. You
could not have defended The
Americans would not have. If our policy
had been different. we would now own
half the British Commonwealth. Per-
sonally, 1 have nderstood the
strategy behind Pearl Harbor. Did we
wish to conquer America? The supply
¢ too long. But Australia and
New Zealand were ripe for the pluck-
ing.” He pushed forward a large box of
“Do you smoke These arc
an acceptable brand.”
James Bond was running out of his

man

п at

them

never

Morland specials. He would soon have
to start on the local stuff. He also had
10 collect his thoughts. This was rather
like being involved in a summit meet-
ing between the United Kingdom and
Japan. He felt way out of his depth.
He took a cigarette and lit it. It burned
rapidly with something of the effect of
a slow-burning firework. It had а vague
taste of American blends, but it was
good and sharp on the palate and lungs
like 90-proof spirits. He let the smoke
а quiet hiss and smiled. "Mr.
Tanaka, these are matters for. political
historians. I am concerned with much
lower matters. And matters conce
the future rather than the past.”

“1 quite ıd. Commi
Tiger Tanaka was obviously displeased
that his game of generalities had been
dodged by Bond. “But we have a say-
ing, ‘Speak of next year and the Devil
laughs! The future is inscrutable. But
tell me, what are your impressions of
Japan? You have been enjoying your-

out in

underst

e that one always enjoys one-
h Dikko Henderson
he is a man who lives as if he
were going to die tomorrow, This is a

self wi

“My compliments to the chef.”

correct way to live. He is a good friend
of mine. | greatly enjoy his company.
We have certa

Bond said
Exactly.
He has a great affection for you. I do
not know him well, but I suspect that
he is a lonely man, It is an unfortunate
combination to be both lonely and in-
nt. Wouldn't it be a good thing
for him to marry a Japanese girl and
settle down? Couldn't you find him one?”
Bond was pleased that the conversation
had descended to personalities, He
on the right. track.
better track than this talk
about power politics. But there would
come a bad moment when he would
have to get down to business. He didn't
care for the prospect.

As if he had sensed this, Tiger Ta
naka said, “I have arranged for our
friend to meet many Japanese girls. The
result in every case has been negative,
or, at the best, fleeting. Bur tell me,
Commander. We have not met here to
discuss Mr. Henderson's private life. In
what respect can 1 be of service to you?
Is it the lawn mower?”

Bond smiled. "lt i manufac-
turer's trademark for th cular im-
plement is MAGIC 44;

“Ah yes. A most valuable implement
of many uses. I can understand that your
country would wish to have the s
of this implement. A € point is an
example of its capabilities which came
into my hands only th
Tanaka opened а draw his desk
and extracted а file. It was а palegreen
file stamped in a square box with the
word сокин in black Japanese and Ro-
man characters. Bond assumed this to
be the equivalent of Top Secret. He put
this to Mr. Tanaka who confirmed
Mr. Tanaka opened the file and ex-
tracted two sheets of yellow paper. Bond
could see tha covered with
Japanese ideograms and that the other
had perhaps 50 lines of typewriting. Mr.
Tanaka slipped the typewritten one
ross the desk. He said, “May I beg you

t. Mr. Tanaka.
m afraid I must, Commander."
So be it.” Bond drew the sheet of
paper toward him. The text w
lish, "This is what it said:

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James Bond pushed the document
ay from him as if he feared contami-
nation from it. He let out his breath in
4 quiet hiss. He reached for the box of
Shinsei and lit one, draw
smoke deep down i
raised his eyes to. Mr. Tanaka's, which
were regarding him with polite interest.
“J suppose Number One is Khrushchev?"

“That is correct, and the nx
stations grade two and above is consu-
lates general and embassies, It is inter-

sting material, is it not?”

‘It а mistake that vou are keeping
this material from us. We have a treaty
of friendship and a trade treaty with
you. Do you not regard the withholding
of this vital information as а dishonor-
able act?

“Honor is a very serious word in

Japan, Commander. Would it not be
even more dishonorable to break our
word to our good American friends?

"They have several times assured me and
my government that any information of

vital importance to our other friends
and allies will be passed on to them
such a way to divulge the source.
I have no evidence that they are not
pursuing this roui
s well as I do, Mr. Ta-
А, ng and doctoring to
conceal the source reduces this type of
material to a grade no higher than se-
стег reports from countless other ‘deli.
cate and reliable" sources. The шге
particular s
опе ading the very words of the
enemy. st fifty percent of the
value of the information this message
contains, No doubt Washington will
pass on a garbled version of this message
to London. | hope they already have
But you realize that it might bc in their

interests to keep quiet about this ter-
rible threat that hangs over England?
At the same time, it is in England's in-

terest to use every hour in devising some
er to this plan. One small step.
which at once comes to mind, is prep
tions for the internment of all Soviet

citizens in Britain at the first

cour

n of

of view,
ader. There is of course, in this
alternative route for th

led wickedly.
nuly over the desk.
my word of honor!”

glit
nd assumed an d look. In a
curious way, the whole face slumped
to melancholy, He said, "Commander,
I was very happy in England, Your peo-
ple were very good to me. I repaid them

з unworthy fashion.” (Ah! thought

nw:

“This experiment certainly has gotten out of hand!”

Bond. The on.) “I plead youth and the
heat of a war that I thought would bring
much glory ro my country. I was mi
taken, We were defeated. The expiation
of that dishonor is a large matter, a
matter for the youth of this country. 1
am not a politician and 1 do not know
what course that expiation will take. At
present we are going through the usu:
ition period of the vanquished. But

ус my own private ac
nce. I am in great debt
. This morning I have
ed a state secret to you. І was en-
couraged in my action by my friendship
for Dikko. 1 was also encouraged by the
sincerity of your bearing and the hon-
sty of your approach to the duty that
has been laid upon you. I fully realize
the importance of this piece of paper
to Britain. You remember its contents?"

"Exactly, 1 think."

“And you are on your honor not to
communicate it elsewhere."

Yes

Tiger Ta

ака got to his [ect and held

out his hand. "Goodbyc for the time
g.

b commander. 1 hope that we shall
be seeing more of each other.” The
powerful Тасе lit up again. Now there
was no pretense in the great golden
smil Tonor is a pattern of behavior,
Commander. The bamboo must bend to
the breeze. But equally the cedar must
bend to the typhoon. The mear
this is that sometimes duty is more com-
pelling than any words, A car is waiting
to take vou back to your hotel. Please
give my deep respects to Dikko and tell
him he owes me one thousand yen for
repairs to electronic equipment that i
the property of the state.”

James Bond took the hard dry paw.
He said from his heart, “Thank you, Mr.
Tanaka.” He walked out of the little
secret room with one thought uppermost
in his mind. How fast were Dikko's com-
munications to Melbourne? How fast
from Melbourne to London?

ng of

a month later and

And now it was
Mr. Tanak;
Co ider Bond had become “Bondo:
san.

The weeks had passed without any
significant progress in Bonds mission
except in the direction of what seemed
to be a genuine friendship among
Bond, Tiger and Dikko. Outside
working hours the three men became
well-nigh inseparable. but Bond sensed
that on their excursions into the coun-
tryside and during their roistering in the
cvenings he being constantly, but
with great discretion, sized up. Dikko
had confirmed Bond's impression. “1
think you're making progress, champ.
Tiger would regard it as dishonorable
to lead you up the garden path and then
pull the rug out from under you with a
flat refusal. Something's definitely cook-

ing in the background, but what it is I
haven't the faintest idea. 1 guess the
balls with Tiger's superiors, but with
Tiger on your side. And, in the ver-
nacular, Tigers got whats called ‘a
broad face.’ That means he has great
powers as a fixer. And this on he's got
in respect of Britain is a huge factor in
your favor. What he gave you on your
first meeting was an unheard-of presento,
as we call it here. But watch out! You're
piling up a great heap of on in respect of
Tiger. And if it comes to striking a
gain, I hope you've got a pretty mass
presento up your sleeve so that the on
on both sides is more or less evenly
balanced. None of this salmon and
shrimp business! Have got? Can do?”

"I'm not so sure," said Bond doubt-
fully. The Macao “Blue Route" material
had already dwindled in his mind to
the size of a minnow in comparison with
the salmon that was Tigers to give or
withhold. The impact of the single slice
he had handed Bond had already been
formidable. The test of the 200-mega-
ton bomb had duly taken place and
been greeted by the public uproar anti-
cipated by Moscow. But counteraction
by the West had been swift. On the ex-
cuse of protecting Soviet personnel in
England from demonstrations of public
animosity, they had been confined within
а radius of 20 miles of their homes, and
“for their protection” police were thick
round the Soviet embassy, the consulates
and their yarious trading offices. There
had, of course, been reprisals on Brit-
ish diplomats and journalists in Ru:
but these were to have been expected.
The President of the United States had
come out with the strongest speech of
his career, and had committed total re-
prisals from the United States in the
event of a single nuclear device being
exploded by the Soviet Union in any
country in the world outside Soviet ter-
ritory. This thundering pronouncement,
which had produced а growl of dismay
from the American тап in the street,
was greeted in Moscow with the feeble
riposte that they would take similar ac-
Чоп in answer to any Western nuclcar
device exploded on the territory of the
U.S.S.R. or her allies.

A few days later Bond had been sum-
moned again to Tigers underground
hideout. “You will not of course repeat
this, iger had said pu his wicked

ter of which you are privately awa
has been indefinitely postponed by the
Central. Authority.”

“Thank you for this private infor-
mation, Bond had said. "But you
do realize how your kindness of three
weeks ago has greatly alleviated the
international tension, particularly in re-
lation to my country. My country would
be immensely grateful if they knew of
your personal generosity to me. Have I

grounds for hoping for your further in-
dulgence?" Bond had got used to the
formalities of Oriental circumlocution,
although he had not yet attained the re-
finements of Dikko's speech with Tiger,
which included at least one four-letter
word in each flowery sentence and which
caused Tiger much amusement,
“Bondo-san, this implement which you
ish to rent from us, in the most im-
probable event that it is made available,
command a very high price. As a
fair trader, what has your country to
oller in exchange for the full use of
MAGIC +4?”

"We have a most important intelli-
gence network in China known as the
Macao ‘Blue Route.” The fruits of this
source would be placed entirely at your
disposal.”

Melancholy settled over Tiger's mas-
sive face, but deep down in the Tartar
eyes there was a wicked gleam. "I am
very much afraid that I have bad news
for you, Bondo-san. ‘Blue Route’ has
been penetrated by my organization al-
most since its inception. We already
receive the entire fruits of that source.
I could show you the files if you wish.
We have simply renamed it ‘Route
Orange,’ and 1 admit that the material
i ceptable. But we already have
at other goods had you in mind
for exchange?”

Bond had to laugh. The pride of Sec
tion J —and of M, for that matter! The
work, the expensc, the danger of run-
ning the ‘Blue Коше, And at least 50
percent in aid of Japan! By God, his
eyes were being opened on this trip.
This news would put a fine cat among
the pigeons at H.Q. He said blandly,
“We have many other commodities. Now
that you have demonstrated the un-
doubted value of your implement, may
I suggest that you name your price?”

“You believe that you have something
on your shelves that is of comparable
value? Perhaps material from a similar,
though no doubt inlerior, source that
would be of equal importance in the
defense of our country?"

“Undoubtedly,” said Bond staunchly.
“But, my dear Tiger, would it not be a
good idea, once your mind is made up,
for you to pay a visit to London and
inspect the shelves for yourself? 1 am
sure my Chief would be honored to
receive you."

You do not possess full powers of
negotiation:

“That would be impossible, my dear
Tiger. Our security is such that even I
havc not full knowledge of all our mer-
chandise. So far as I personally am con-
cerned, I am only in a position to pass
on to my Chief the substance of what
you зау or to render you any oti
sonal services you might ask of me.”

For a moment, Tiger Tanaka looked
thoughtful. He seemed to be turning

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Bond's last words over in his mind. Then

he closed the interview with the invita-
tion to the geisha restaurant, and Bond
went off with mixed feelings to report
to Melbourne and London what he had
gleaned.

In the room where he now sat after
the geisha party, and where Tiger had
just cheerfully threatened him with
death, tigers’ heads snarled at him from
the walls and gnashed at him from the
floor. His ashtray was enclosed in a
stuffed tiger's paw and the chair in
which he was sitting was upholstered in
Mr. Tanaka had been born
ar of the Tiger, whereas Bond,
had taken much pleasure i
g him, had been born in the Year
of the Rat.

Bond took a deep drink of sake and
said, "My dear Tiger, | would hate to
put you to the inconvenience of havin
to remove me from the face of the earth.
You mean that this time the cedar may
not bow before the typhoon? So be it.
This time you have my very topmost
word of honor.

iger pulled up a chair and faced
Bond across the low drink table. He
poured himself a liberal tot of Suntory

nd splashed in the soda. The sound of
ht traffic from the main Tokyo-Yoko-
hama road came in from some way
beyond the surrounding houses, only a
few of w showed dollhouse
squares of yellow light. It was the end
of September, but warm. It was ten min-
utes to midnight. Tiger began talk
in a soft voice. “In that case, my de
Bondo-san, and since I know you to be
a man of honor, except, of course, in
matters affecting your country,
this does not, I will tell you qu
interesting story. This is how it is."
got out of his ch:
tatami and arran

h now

He
and sat down on the
ed himself in the lotus
position. He was obviously more com-
fortable in this posture. He said, in an
expository tone of voice, “Ever since the
beginning of the cra of Meiji, who you
will know was Ше emperor who fathered
the modernization and Westernization
of Japan from the beginning of his
reign nearly а hundred years ago, there
have from time to time been foreigners
who have come to this country and set-
ted here. They have for the most part
been cranks and scholars, and the Euro-
pean-bom American Lafeadio Hearn,
who be Japanese citizen, is a very
typical example. In general, they have
been tolerated, usually with some amusc-
ment. So, perhaps, would be Japanese
who bought a castle in the Highlands of
Scouland, and who learned and spoke
Gaclic with his neighbors and expressed
unusual nent interest
ys. If he went about his
esearches politely and peaceably, he

would be dubbed an amiable eccentric.
And so it has been with the Westerners
who have settled and spent their lives in
Japan, though occasionally, in time of
war, as would no doubt be the case with
our mythical Japanese in Scotland, they
have been regarded as spies and suffered
internment and hardship. Now, since
the occupation, there have been many
such settlers, the great majority of whom,
as imagine, have been American.
The Oriental w; fe is particularly
attractive to the American who wishes to
escape from a culture which, E am sure
you will agree, has become, to say the
least of it, more and more unattractive
except to the lower grades of the human
species to whom bad but plentiful food,
shiny toys such аз the automobile and
the television, and the ‘quick buck,"
often dishonestly carned, or cared in
exchange for minimal labor or skills, are
the summum bonum, il you will allow
the sentimental echo from my Oxford.
edu

said Bond. “But is this not a
picture of the life that is being officially
couraged in your own country:
Tiger Tanaka's face darkened per-
ptibly. "For the time being,” he said
"we are being subjected

с
with distaste, `
to what I can best describe as the "Scuola

di Coca-Cola, Baseball, amusement ar-
cades, hot dogs, hideously large bosoms,
neon lighting — these are part of ou
payment for defeat in battle. They are
the tepid tea of the way of life we know
under the name of demokorasu. They

© a frenzied denial of the official scape
goats for our defeat а deni
spirit of the samurai as expressed i
kamikaze, a denial of our ancestors, а
denial of our gods "They arc à despi-
cable way of lile" — Tiger
the words—^but fortunately they
also expendable and temporary. Ihe
have as much importance in the history
of Japan as the life of a dragonfly.” He
paused. “But to return to my story. Our
American residents are of a sympathetic
type — on a low level, of course, They
enjoy the subservience, which 1 may say
only superficial, of our women. They
enjoy the remaining strict patterns of
our life—the symmetry, compared with
the chaos that reigns in America. They
enjoy our simplicity, with its underlying
hint of deep meaning, as expressed for
instance the tea ceremony, flower ar
rangements, по plays—none of which
of course they understand. ‘They also
enjoy, because they have no ancestors
and probably no family life worth speak-
ing of. our veneration of the old and

our worship of the past. For, in their
impermanent world, they recognize these
as permanent things just as, in their ig-

norant and childish way, they admire the
fictions of the Wild West and other
American myths that have become

known to them, not through their edu-
cation, of which they have none, but
through television.”

"This is tough stuff, Tiger. Гус got a
lot of American friends who don't
equate with what you're saying. Presum-
ably you're talking of the lower-level
Gls — second-generation Americans who
are basically Irish or Germans or Czechs
or Poles who probably ought to be work-
ing in the fields or coal mines of th
countries of origin instead of sw
ing around a conquered country under
the blessed coverlet of the Stars and
Stripes with too much moncy to spend.
dare say they occasionally marry a Jap-
anese girl and settle down here. But
surely they pull up stumps pretty
quickly Our Tommies have donc the
same thing in Germany. But that's quite
a different thing from the Lafcadio
Hearns of the world.

Tiger Tanaka bowed almost to the
ground, “Forgive me, Bondosan. Of
Course you are right, and I have been
diverted from my story down most un-
worthy paths. I did not ask you here to
pour out my innermost repugnance at
the occupation of my country. This of
course is repugnance against the fact of
defeat. I apologize. And of course you
are correct. There are many cultured
Americans who have taken up residence
in this country and who are most valued
irens. You arc right to correct ane, for
1 have friends of this i

ger-

“ОГ course, 7 My country has not
been occupied for many centuries. The
mposition of a new cultu n old
onc is something we have not suffered. I
пог imagine my reactions in the same
circumstances. Much the samc as yours,
1 expect. Please go on with your story.”
Bond reached for the flask. It stood
in a jar of warm water being heated over
a slow flame from a charcoal burner. He
lled his glass and drank. Tiger Tanaka
rocked two or three times on his buttocks
and the sides of his feet. He resumed.
“As L have said, there are a number of
foreigners who have taken up residence
1 Japan and, for the most part, they are
nolfensive eccentrics. But there is one
such person who entered the country in
nuary of this year who has revealed
ntric of the most
devilish nature. This man is a monst
You may laugh, Bondo-san, but this man
o less than a fiend in human form.
have met n bad men in my
time, Tiger, and generally they have
been slightly mad. Is that the case in
this instance?’
"Very much the reverse. "The calcu
ed ingenuity of this man, his under-

standing of the psychology of my people,

show him to be a man of quite outstand-
ing genius. In the opinion of our highest
scholars and savants he is a scientific
research worker and collector probably
unique in the history of the world."

“What docs he collect

“Не collects death."

James Bond smiled at this dramatic
utterance. "A collector of death? You
mean he kills people

“No, Bondosan. It is not as simple as
that. He persuades, or rather entices
people to kill themselves.” Tiger paused,
the wide expanse of his brow furrowed.
“No, that also is not being just. Let us
just say that he provides an easy and
attractive opportunity — a resort — for
people to do away with themselves. His
present tally, in just under six months,
is something over five hundred Jap
nese.

“Why don't you arrest him, hang
him?”

“Bondo-san, it is not as easy as that. I
had better begin at the beginning. In
January of this year, there entered the
country, quite legally, а gentleman by
the name of Doctor Gunuam Shatter-
hand. He was accompanied by Frau
Emmy Shatterhand, born De Bedon
They had Swiss passports and the doctor
described himself as a horticulturist and
nist specializing in subtropical spe-
He carried high references from the
Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Kew Gar-
dens, and other authorities, but these
were couched in rather nebulous terms.
He quickly got in touch with the equiva-
lent authorities in Japan and with ex
perts in the Ministry of Agriculture, and
these gentlemen were astonished and
delighted to learn that Doctor Shatter-
hand was prepared to spend по less than
one million pounds on establishing an
exotic garden or park in this country
which he would stock with a priceless
collection of rare plants and shrübs from
all over the world, These he would im.
port at his own expense in a sufficient
state of maturity to allow his park to be
planted with the minimum of delay — an
extremely expensive procedure И you
know anything about horticulture

“I know nothing about it. Like the
Texan millionaires who import fully
grown palms and tropical shrubs from
Florid

“Exactly. Well, the park was not to
be open to the public, but would be
freely available for study and research
work by authorized Japanese experts.
All right. A wonderful offer that was en-
thusiastically accepted by the govern-
ment, who, in return, granted the good
doctor a ten-year residence permit —a
very rare privilege. Meanwhile, as a mat-
ter of routine, the immigration authori-
tics made inquiries about the doctor
through my department. Since | have

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no representatives in Switzerland, I re-
ferred the matter to our friends of the
CIA, and in due course he was given
complete clear: It appeared that he
was of Swedish origin and was not widely
known in Switzerland, where he only
possessed the minimum requirement for
residential status in the shape of two
rooms in an apartment block in La
sanne. But his financial standing with
the Union des Banques Suisses was grade
one, which I understand requires you
to be a millionaire many times over.
се money is almost the unique status
symbol in Switzerland, his clearance by
the Swiss was impeccable, though no ii
formation could be obtained about his
standing as a botanist. Kew and the Jar-
din des Plantes, on inquiry, referred to
him as an enthusiastic amateur who had
made valuable contributions to these in-
stitutions in the form of tropical and
subtropical species collected for him by
expeditions which he had financed. So!
An interesting and financially sound с
izen whose harmless pursuits would be
of some benefit to Japan. Yes?"
“Sounds like
“After traveling round the country in.
great style, the doctor took a fancy to a
semiruined castle in Kyushu, our south-
ern island. The castle was in an ex-
tremely remote corner of the coast not
far from Fukuoka, the principal pre-
fecture of the island, and in ancient
times it had been one of a line of castles
facing the Tsushima Strait, the scene
of the famous defeat of the Rus:
"These castles were originally designed to
repel attacks from the Korean mainland.
Most of them had fallen into disrep:
but the one chosen by the doctor was a
giant edifice that had been occupied
until the last war by an eccentric
family of textile millionaires, and its
monumental surrounding wall was just
what the doctor required for the privacy
of his undertaking. An army of builders
and decorators moved Meanwhile,
the plants ordered by the doctor began
arriving from all over the world and,
with a blanket customs clearance from
the Ministry of Agriculture, they were
planted
Here I should mention that an addi
tional reason for the doctor's choice of
site was that the property, which cx-
tends for some five hundred acres, is
highly volcanic and furnished with many
geysers and fumaroles, which are com-
mon in Japan, These would provide, all
the year round, the temperature needed
for the successful propagation of these
topical shrubs, trees and plants from
the equatorial zones. The doctor and
his wife, who is by the way extremely
ugly, moved into the castle with all speed
and set about recruiting staff in the
neighborhood who would look after the
establishment and its grounds." Here

Tiger assumed his sorrowful face. “Апа
it was at this time that I should not have
dismisscd as fanciful certain reports that
reached me from the Chief of Police at
Fukuoka. These were to the effect that
the doctor was recruiting his staff unique-
ly from former members of the Black
Dragon Societ

“And what might that be?"

“Have been,” Tiger corrected him.

“The Society was officially disbanded be-
fore the war. But in its heyday it was
the most feared and powerful secret so-
ciety in Japan. It consisted originally of
the dregs of the sashi — the unemployed

samurai who were left high and dry after
the Meiji Restoration of about a hun-
dred years ago— but it later recruited
terrorists, gangsters, fascist politicos, cash-
iered officers from the navy and army,
secret agents, soldiers of fortune and
other riffraff, but also big men in indus-
try and finance, and even the occasional
cabinet minister who found Black Drag-
on support of much practi value
when dirty work had to be donc. And
the odd thing is, though it does not seem.
so odd to me today, that the doctor
should have chosen his site, leaving out
its practical amenities, in just that cor-
ner of Japan that used to be the head-
quarters of the Black Dragons and has
always been a hotbed of extremists, To-
yama Mitsuru, the former head of the
Black Dragons, came from Fukuoka; so
did the anarchist Hirota, and Nakano,
leader of the former Tohokai, or fascist
group, in the Diet. It has always been a
nest of scoundrels, this district, and it
remains so today. These extreme sects
never die out completely, аз you have
recently, my dear Bondo-san, found in
the resurgence of the Black Shirts in
England, and this Doctor Shatterhand
found no difficulty in collecting some
twenty extremely tough and dangerous
characters around him, all most cor-
rectly clothed as servants and gardeners
and, no doubt, perfectly good at their
ostensible jobs. On one occasion the
Prefect of Police thought it his duty to
make a courtesy call and give his dis-
tinguished inhabitant a word of caution,
But the doctor dismissed the matter on
the grounds that competent guards
would be necessary to maintain his
privacy and keep trespassers away from
his valuable collection of plants. This
scemed reasonable enough, and anyway
the doctor appeared to be under high
patronage in Tokyo. The Prefect bowed
himself out, much impressed with the
lavish display of wealth in evidence in
the heart of his poor province.”

“Well, under this doctor from Switzer-
land, have they done any harm yet?

“Oh no. They are nothing more than
he says — personal staff, at the worst, if
you like, a bodyguard, No. The trouble
is quite different, much more complex.

You see, this man Shatterhand has cre-
ated what I can only describe as а gar-
den of death." Tiger exploded his
golden smile. "Bondosan, I can sce
from your face that you think I am
either drunk or mad. Now listen. This
Doctor Shatterhand has filled this famous
park of his uniquely with poisonous
vegetation, the lakes and streams with.
poisonous fish, and he has infested the
place with snakes, scorpions and poison-
ous spiders. He and this hideous wife
of his are not harmed by these things,
because whenever they leave the castle
he wears a full suit of armor of the 17th
Century, and she wears some other kind
of protective clothing. His workers are
not harmed because they wear rubber
boots up to the knee, and maskos, that
ntiseptic gauze masks such as many
people in Japan wear over the mouth
and nose to avoid infection or the
spreading of infection

wh
hand’s garden is
thing, God wot.”
‘And you have of course heard of the
South American piranha fish? They can
strip a whole horse to the bones in less
than an hour. The scientific name is
Serrasalmo. The subspecies Nattereri is
the most voracious. Our good doctor has
preferred these fish to our native gold-
fish for his lakes. You see what I mean?

NO 1 Bond, “frankly 1 don
What's the object of the good doctor's
exercise?

at a daft setup. Doctor Shatter-

deed a lovesome

It was three o'clock in the morning.
The noise of the trafic to Yokohama
had died. James Bond didn't feel а.
He was now totally absorbed in this
extraordinary story of the Swiss doctor,
who, as Tiger had originally said, “‘col-
lected death." Tiger wasn't telling him
this bizarre case history for his enter-
tainment. There was going to come a
moment of climax. What would that
climax be?

Tiger wiped his hand over his face.
He said, “Did you read a story in the
evening edition of the Asahi today? It
concerned a suicide.”

"No.

“This was а young student aged eight-
een who had failed his examination for
the university for the second time. He
lived in the suburbs of Tokyo. There
was construction work on a new depart-
menlo, a department store, going on
near where he lived. He went out of
his 100m onto the site. A pile driver
was at work, sinking the found.
Suddenly this youth broke through the
surrounding workmen and, as the pile
came crashing down, laid his head on
the block beneath

“What a ghastly business! Why?”

“He had brought dishonor on his par-
ents, his ancestors. This was his way of

ions.

“I feel, Mr. Peabody, that you might adopt
a less cumbersome defense mechanism.”

expiation. Suicide is a most unfortunate
aspect of the Japanese way of life,"
Tiger paused. "Or perhaps a most noble
one. It depends how you look at it. That
boy, and his family, will have gained
gicat face in his neighborhood."

ice from strawberry

hhumous V.Cs, for instance’

“They're not awarded for committing
suicide after failing in an examination.”

“We are not so demokorasu as you
there was irony in Tiger's voice.
ishonor must be expunged — according
to those of us who remain what you
would describe as old-fashioned. There
is no apology more sincere than the
offering up of your own life. It is liter-
ally all you have to give.

"But even if this boy failed for the
university. he could have gone for a
lower standard of examination, for a
lower grade of college. As you know,
say ‘Blast!’ or perhaps a stronger
word if we fail an examination in Brit-
n. But we readjust our sights, or our
ents do it for us, and have another
bash. We don't kill ourselves. It wouldn't
occur to us. It would be dishonorable
rather than honorable. It would be cow
ardly — a refusal to stand up to reverses,
to life. And it would give great pain to
our parents, and certainly no satisfac-
tion to our ancestors.”

“With us it is different. And despite
demokorasu, the parents of this youth
will be rejoicing this evening and thei
neighbors will be rejoicing with them.
Honor is more important to us than
life — тоге proud, more beautiful.”

Bond shrugged. “Well, I just think
that if the boy had the guts to do this
thing, it was the waste of a perfectly
good Japanese life. In fact, of course,
this suicide bu арап is nothing
more than a form of hysteria —an ex-
pression of the streak of violence that
seems to run all through the history of
Japan. If you hold your own life so
cheaply, it follows that you will hold
others’ lives even more cheaply. The
other day, I saw a traffic accident at one
of the main crossings. 1 don't know the
name of Tt was a multiple affair, and
there were bodies all over the place. The
police came, but instead of concentrat-
ag on geuing the wounded to hospital,
psisted that they should lie where they
were so that they could draw chalk lines
round them and photograph them — pre-
sumably for usc when the case came to
cou

“That is common practice,” said Tiger
indifferently. “We are much overpopu-
lated. Abortion is legal. It is helping to
solve one of our problems if a few ext
people die in an automobile accident,
But there is something in what you said
earlier, Our word for suicide is jisatsu,
literally "self-murder, and although it
is a violent solution to a personal prob-
Jem, it carries no stigma as it would in
your country. In fact, one of our most
famous folk tales, known to all children,
is of the fortyseven ronin, or body-
guards. Through their negligence, their
lord, Asano, ted. They
swore to avenge him and they did so.
But then they came together at a place
called Ako and all committed seppuku
to cxpiate their negligence. This is what

was assassin

153

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154

you know as iri, which is a vul,
ning "belly cutting." Tod

ne of the festival at the Ako
shrine, special trains have to be 1
on to accommodate the respectful pi
grims.”

"Well, if you b Idren up
on that sort of stuff, you can't expect
them not to venerate the act of suicide.”
ust so," said Tiger proudly. “Twenty-
five thousand Japanese commit suicide
every year. Only the bureaucrats regard
that as a shameful statistic. And the more
spectacular the suicide, the more warmly
it is approved. Not long ago. a young
student achieved great renown by trying
to saw his own head off. Lovers link
nds and throw themselves over the
very high Kegon Falls at Nikko. The
10 on the island of O Shima
is another favorite. locale. People run
down the roasting slope of the crater
and hurl themselves. their shoes on fire,
into the bubbling caldron in its cente
To combat this popular pastime, the
interfering authorities have now opened,
great. expense, a "Suicide Prevention
Office” on the peak. But always the
wheels of the good old-fashioned rail-
1 provide the most convenient
пе. They have the merit of being
selLopcrating. АЙ you need to do is
oot jump."

a bloodthirsty old bastard,
But what's all this lecture abou
anyway? What's it got to do with friend
tterhand and his pretty gard
Everything, Bondosan. Everythi
You see, much against the good doctor's
wishes, of course, his poison garden has
become the most desirable site for su
cides in the whole of Japan. It has every-
thing — a ride on our famous "Romance
express to Kyoto: a boat trip across our
beautiful Inland Sea that is so full of
Japanese history: a local train from the
terminal harbor at Beppu to Fukuoka

g your c

and a walk or taxi drive
ful coast to the
of this mysteriou
these, or s

long a beauti-
inspiring ramparts
Castle of Death. Climb
muggle yourself in on а pro-
vision nd then a last delicious,
rumin Ik. perhaps hand
with your lover, through the beaut
groves, And finally the great gamble, the
game of pachinko the Japanese love so
much. Which ball will have your num-
ber on it? Will your death be easy or
painful? Will a Russell's viper strike at
your legs as vou walk the silent, well-
raked paths? Will some kindly, deadly
dew fall upon you during the night as
you rest under this or that gorgeous tree?
Or will hunger or curiosity Ісай you to
munch a handful of those red berries
or pick one of those orange fruit? Of
course, if you want to make it quick,
there is always a bubbling, sulphurous
fum. ıd. In any one of those.
the thousand degrees centigrade will
allow you just cnough time for one
scream. The place is nothing more than
a departmento of death, its shelves Taden
with delicious packages of selldestruc-
tion, all given away for nothing. Can
you not imagine that old and young
flock there as if to a shrine? The police
have erected a barricade across the road
inc visitors, botanists and so on,
ve to show a pass. But the suicides
fight their way to the shrine across the
fields and marshes, scrabble at the g
walls, break their nails to gain entrance.
The good doctor is of course much di
mayed. He has erected stern notices of
warning, with skulls and crossbones
upon them. They act only as advertise-
ments! He has even gone to the expense
of flying one of those high helium bal-
loons from the roof of his castle. The
hanging streamers threaten trespassers
with prosecution. But. alas for the doc
tor's precautions. the high balloon serves
only to beckon. Here is death! it pro-

ole

To Suits

“Frankly, Syborski, I think yowve hit a dead end.”

ims. Come and get i
You're daft, Tiger.
arrest h

Why don't you
n? Burn the place down?”

^ Arrest him for what? For presenti
Japan with this unique collection of
rare plants? Burn down a million-pound
establishment belonging to a respected
gaijin resident? The man has done noth-
ing wrong. If anyone is to blame, it is
the Japanese people. It is true that he
could exercise more careful surveillance,
have his grounds more regularly p
trolled. And it is certainly odd that
when he has the ambulance called, the
victims are always totally dead and are
usually in the form of a bag of calcined
bones fished out of one of the fumaroles.
One would have expected some to be
only crippled, or blinded. The Herr
Doktor expresses himself as much puz-
zled. He suggests that, in the cases of
blindness or amnesia, the victims рг
fall into one of the fumaroles
by mistake. Maybe. But, as 1 have said,
his tally so far is over five hundred and,
with the stream of publicity, more and
more people will be atmacted to the
tle of Death. We have got to put a
stop to it.

“What steps have been taken so far?”

‘Commissions of investigation have
visited the doctor, They have been most
courteously treated. The doctor has
begged that something shall be done to
protect him from these trespassers. He
complains that they interfere with his
work, break off precious boughs and
pick valuable plants. He shows himself.
as entirely cooperative with any те
sures that can be suggested short of
abandoning this project, which is so
dear to his heart and so much appreci-
ated by the Japanese specialists in bot-
any and so forth. He has made a further
most generous offer. He is constructing
a research. department — to be manned
by workers of his own ch k yo
—to extract the poisons from his shrubs
and plants and give the essences free to
an appropi ch center.
Many of these poisons are valuable med-
icines in a diluted form.

“But how has all this come on you
plac?" Bond was now geuing drowsy,
Tt was four o'clock and the horizon of
jagged gray, porcelainshingled rooftops
was lightening. He poured down the last
of the sake, It had the flat taste of too
time he was in bed. But
r was obviously obsessed with this
atic business, and subtle, authentic

sumabl

ate medical rese:

much. It wa:

the ridiculous, nightm:
undertones of Poe,
Stoker, Ambrose Bierce.
Tiger
ness of the hou
perhaps etched more
brutal lines. The hi ned
and civilized, lurked with less conce;

ment, like a caged anii in the dark
pools of his eyes. But the occasional
rocking motion on the buttocks and
ign that
ited. He said,
an, 1 sent one

place to пу
and discover wh. в all about. I w
so instructed by my Minister, the Minis-
ter of the Interior. He in turn was under
orders from the Prime Minister. The
matter was becoming one of public de-
bate. 1 chose a good man. He was in-
structed to get into the place, observe,
and report. One week late
he was recovered from the sea on a beach
near this Castle of Death. He was blind-
ed and in delirium. All the lower half of
his body was terribly burned. He could
only babble a haiku about dragonllics.
I later discovered that, as a youth, he
had indulged in the pastime of our
youngsters. He had tied a female dragon-
fly on a thread and let it go. This acts
as а lure for the ma

sides of the feet was the onl
he was interested, even
“One month ago, Bondo:
of my best men into thi
its

male and will not let go. The haiku —
that is a verse of seventeen syllables —
he kept on reciting until his death,

which came soon, was ‘Desolation! Pi
dragonllies flitting above the

James Bond felt he was 1
the little room, partitioned in
è paper and cedar plywood,

garden in which water
tant redness of an immi;
loi а
the quict voice of the storyteller telling
a fairy tale, as it might be told in a
tent under the And yet this was
something that had happened the other
day, dose by—was happening now,
something that Tiger had brought him
here w tell. Why use he was
lonely? Because there was no one else
he could tri Bond pulled himself out.
of his sonmolent slouch. He said, "Fm
sorry, Tiger. What did you do next?”
Tiger Tanaka seemed to sit slightly
more upright on his black-edged ree
tangle of golden tatami. He looked very
directly at James Boud and said, “What
was there to do? 1 did nothing
apologize to my superiors. I
1 honorable solution to
ted for you to come.

just as easily have been someone else."

James Bond yawned. He couldn't help
по end to the evei
Tiger had got some Japanese bee in his
Japanese bonnet. How in hell could
Bond stop it buzzing? He said, "Tiger.
Irs time for bed. Let's talk about the
rest of this tomorrow. Of course Ull give
you any advice | can. | c
difficult problem. But those are
ones to sleep on.” He made to rise from
his chair.

Tiger said, and it was an order, "Sit
down, Bondosan. If you have any re-
gard [or your country. you leave tomor-
row.” He consulted his watch, “By the
twelve-twenty [rom Tokyo main station.
Your ultimate destination ukuoka
on the southern island of Kyushu, You
will not be going back to your hotel.
You will not be seeing Dikko. From now
оп you are under my personal orders."
The voice went very quiet and velvety.
“Is that understood?

Bond sat up as if he had been stung.
"What in God's name are you talking
about, Tiger

Tiger E
other day you made
ment. You said words to the effect that

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in exchange for MAGIC 44 you were em-
powered to carry out any personal serv-

that I might require of you."

1 didn't say that I was empowered.
I meant that I would do anything for
you on my personal responsibility.”
‘That is quite good enough. I took
you at your word and I requested
audience of the Prime Minister. He in-
structed me to proceed, but to regard
known only
and to me— and of course to

the matter аз a state se
to hi

ome on, Tiger,” said Bond impa

tiently. "Cut the
want me to do?"

But Tiger was not to be hurried. He
aid, "Bondosan, 1 will now be blunt
with you, and you will not be offended,
because we are friends. Yes? Now it is a
sad fact that I, and many of us in posi-

jons of authority in Ja
п unsatisfactory opinion about the Bri
ish people since the war. You have not
only lost a great empire, you have
secmed almost anxious to throw it away
with both hands, All right,” he held up
a hand, “we will not go deeply into the
reasons for this policy, but when you

kle. What is it you

n, have formed

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apparently sought to arrest this slide
into impotence at Suez, you succeeded
only in stage-managing one of the most
pitiful bungles in the history of the
world, if not the worst. Further, your
governments have shown themselves suc-
Cessively incapable of ruling and have
handed over effective control of the
country to the trade unions, who appear
to be dedicated to the principle of doing
and less work for more money. This
therbedding, this shirking of an hon-
est days work, is sapping at everin-
ag speed the moral fiber of the
British, a quality the world once so
much admired. In its place we now see
à vacuou: nless horde of seekers alter
pleasure — gambling at the pools and
bingo, whining at the weather and the
declining fortunes of the country, and
wallowing nostalgically in gossip about
the doings of the Royal Family and of
your so-called aristocracy in the pages
of the most debased newspapers in the
world.

James Bond roared with laughter.
"You've got a bloody cheek, Tiger! You
ought to write that out and sign it 'Oc-
in’ and send it in to The Times.

е a look at

You just come over and ta
the place. It’s not doing all that Байт

“Bondo-san, you have pleaded guilty
out of your own mouth. ‘Not doing too
badly, indeed!’ That is the crybaby ex-
cuse of a boy who gets a thoroughly bad
end-of-term report. In fact, you are do-
ing very badly indeed in the opinion of
your few remaining friends. And now
you come to me and ask for some very
important intelligence material to bol-
ster up the pitiful ruins of a once great
power. Why should we give it to you?
What good will it do us? What good
will it do you, Bondo-san? It is like
giving smelling salts to а punch-drunk.
heavyweight just before the inevitable

id angrily, “Balls to you,
And balls again! Just because you're a
pack of militant potential murderers.
here, longing to get rid of your Amer-
ican masters and play at being samurai

ain, snarling behind your subservient
smiles, you only judge people by your
own jungle standards. Let me tell you
this, my fine friend. England may have
been bled pretty thin by a couple of
World Wars, our welfare-state politics
may have made us expect too much for
free. and the liberation of our colonies
may have gone too fast, but we still
climb Everest and beat plenty of the
world at plenty of sports and win Nobel
Prizes. Our politicians may be a feather-
pated bunch, but I expect yours are too.
All politicians are. But there's nothing
wrong with the British pcople —al-
though there are only fifty million of
them.”

Tiger Tanaka smiled happily. “Well
spoken, Bondo-san, ] thought your fa-
nglish stoicism might break down
hard enough. I just wanted to
sce. And, for your information, those

are very similar to the words 1 addressed
ister. And do you know

to my Prime M
what he said? He said, all right, Mr.
Tanaka. Put this Commander Bond to
the test. If he succeeds, I will agree that
there is still an elite in Britain and that
this valuable material would be safe in
their hands. If he fails, you will politely
turn down the request.”

Bond shrugged impatiently. He was
still smarting under Tiger's onslaught,
and the half-truths which he knew lay
behind his words. "All right, Tiger.
What is this ridiculous test? Some typ-
ical bit of samurai nonsense, 1 suppose.”

“More or less," agreed Tiger Tanaka,
with equanimity. "You are to enter this
Castle of Death and slay the dragon
within.”

This is the first of three installments
of lan Fleming's latest James Bond
novel, “You Only Live Twice.” Part H
will appear next month.

CONTINENTAL COMESTIBLE:

long sturdy stick. When the pig finally
hits the ground with its nose, it's re-
warded with a few grains of corn. The
stick is kept in hand to swat the porker
lest, in its eagerness to complete the
pass, the animal swallow the trea sure
itself. In Alba, Italy, a school mat
lates hounds for the same kind ot
hunting. French truflles are black, The
Iulian are called white, although the
socalled “white” truflles are really
brown, and boast an even richer aroma
than their French counterparts.

The flavor of truffles has been com-
pared with everything from cheese to
icorice to nuts. Professional truffiemen
who dig for the black gems of the
kitchen know better than to compare
the truffle's subtly imperious flavor with
nything. The aroma of the fresh пие
is much more pungent than that of the
canned. But fresh truffles deteriorate
quickly, and in both France and Italy
they're rushed to the cannery as fast as
possible. In France, truffes are roasted
under hot cinders, blended with sauces,
folded into omelets, slid under the s
of fowl and buried in fátés. In this
country, their most frequent appearance
is as slices atop the hollandaise sauce
on eggs benedict. But in almost any
sauce or casserole, truffles are a wonder-
ful obbligato. For the average recipe of
four servings, a 7%-ounce tin is an ample
benediction.

Foie gras means fat liver. Páté de foie
gras is the seasoned liver of a force-fed
goose. "The labor of stuffing grain or
noodles down a goose’s gullet every
three hours, day and night, is rewarded
with livers that sometimes weigh over
two pounds apiece. The best quality
from Strasbourg is creamy rose in color.
Although foie gras is available fresh in
France and is sometimes air-mailed to
the States, we usually buy it here in tins
or terrines. Each påté de foie gras is
overlaid with a rich stratum of goose or
pork fat to keep the páté moist and fresh
tasting. For hors d'oeuvres, paté de foie
gras should be biting cold. A sharp knife
dipped in hot water helps to liberate
thin, uniform slices,

Caviar can be neatly divided into two
classes — the roe of the sturgeon and
the roe of all other fish. Actually, the
top of the sturgeon hierarchy is the
beluga (Russian for the white color of
the fish). It’s called black caviar, but
at its best is actually gray. There's hardly
a trace of saltiness in it, and although
each tiny egg is intact, its texture is
almost semiliquid in the mouth. There
are excellent caviars of other sturgeons,
such as the sevruga. in fresh forms and

in scaled jars. So-called pressed caviar,
sturgeons,

made from the rocs of sever:
is always useful for emergency
ing. Conno

uen
eurs quite justly resent the

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fact that the word caviar can be used to
describe the roes of the salmon, the
whitefish and the lumpfish — salty spreads
beneath their contempt. The present
price of fresh beluga caviar, about $32
a pound, is hardly extortionate when
you consider that a beluga sturgeon
doesn't produce eggs until it’s about 20
ears old, that only the most sensitive
fingers can force the eggs through the
sieve that separates the large eggs from
the small, that caviar must be aged three
months at 30°, and that it must be kept
refrigerated like fresh crab lump or any
other fresh food until the moment it’s
devoured. For entirely too many gener:
tions caviar was the symbol of conspicu-
ous gourmandizing, enjoyed only by the
top carriage trade. Now food shops like
the Caviarteria in New York and дош
met stalls everywhere have taken it out
of the dowager's class and turned it over
to men who simply dig good cating. At
the cocktail table its jar should rest atop
crushed ice held in a commodious bowl.
To keep eggs intact, an ivory or glass
spoon is used. Garnishes for caviar
should be kept to simple chopped egg,
chopped onion or sour cream.

Not all imported foods are rare or
require limitless resources. A few, like
French or Danish snails, simply do not
flourish on this side of the Atlantic. It
should be pointed out that the French
escargots are land mollusks, and if they
lived in the sex, they'd be properly re
garded as just another fine shellfish.
"That you must buy them canned here
tums out to be a special boon for bache-
lors. The job of preparing: snails from
scratch first involves about five days of
starving them before cooking, then
about nine hours of scraping, washing,
boiling, blanching, simmering and bak
ing. With canned escargots, you simply
prepare a flavored butter and go
through the last baking step, about 5 to
8 minutes hot oven. The receptive
ness of snails to garlic is a famous one,
and the butter in which they're baked
in the shells is prized almost as much as
the filling itself, Confirmed snail men
usually equip themselves with
plates, designed to cradle each st
arately, as well as snail holders to gi
the hot shells conveniently, and slender
forks to dig out the delicious insides.

Over the centuries, gourmet philoso-
phers have not stopped expounding
on the amatory effects of these voluptu
ous foods. In ancient times the truffle
was dedicated to Venus because it s
ulated love. Even the comparat
recent rin personally
convinced that truffles made women
more tender and men more affectionate.
Caviar at various times and places
has been credited alternately as ап

sep-

was

aphrodisiac and as a tr
extraordinary feat.
hermaphroditic and bestow their affec-
tions indiscriminately, are considered by
some to be an even keener stimulus to
amour than oysters. Foie gras fanciers
naturally keep quoting Plato, who ex-
plained why the liver was the soul's
ion. Sociological implications not-
withstanding, the following recipes are

planned to make their greatest stir
where all food should — against the
taste buds.

BLINI FOR CAVIAR
(Makes 25-30)

3 tablespoons salad oil

3 eggs

% cup milk

34 cup water

34 cup whole-wheat flour
% cup white flour

2 teaspoons baki
Y teaspoon salt
are tiny pancakes,
Iver dol

process, this modernized version is easie
and actually more tootlisome.

Pour oil. eggs. milk and water into
well of blender. Add whole-wheat flour
white flour (sifted before measuring),
baking powder and salt. Blend until
batter is smooth. Stop blender and
scrape sides when necessary to blend dry
ngredients. Preheat electric skillet to
390°. Grease lightly with salad oil. Wipe
off excess oil with paper toweling. Drop
batter by tablespoons to make small

When edges of blini are dry look-
nd when bubbles appear in center,
turn and brown on other side. Grease
skillet lightly again before cooking sec-
ond batch. Serve on white napkin. At
cocktail table spoon sour cream on each
Ый. Add a dollop of caviar.

TOURNEDOS ROSSINI
(Serves six)

6 tenderloin steaks cut from the filet

Salt, pepper

shallots, minced

medium-size onions, mi

tablespoons salad oil

tablespoon flour

need

Hwee

cups beef broth, fresh or canned
7602. can truffle

minced.
a wine

2 ozs. made

6 slices toast

Boz. block pûlê de foie gras with

truffles

1 tablespoon butter

One could write an entire cookbook
of dishes in which trufes and pate de
foie gras are mated. The best known of
these duos was the culinary idol of the
Italian оре composer in honor of
whom the recipe is named

In a saucepan sauté shallots and
onions in oil until onions are deep
brown. Stir in flour. Sauté until flour

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turns brown. Slowly add beef broth,
‘ing constantly. Simmer slowly about
30 minutes. Strain sauce. Add truffles
d wine, return to pan and bring to
a boil. Set aside. Sprinkle steaks with
salt and pepper. Place in а preheated
heavy ungreased frying pan or electric
skillet. Panbroil until medium brown on
both sides. Place steaks on toast on
platter or serving dishes. Cut páté de
Joie gras into six slices and place a slice
on top of cach steak. Pour sauce into
frying pan in which steaks were p:
broiled. Mix well to loosen drippings.
Bring to a boil and simmer 2 or 3 min-
utes. Remove from flame. Skim ar
excess from sauce and stir in butter,
Add brown gravy coloring if desired.
Pour sauce over steaks.

РАТЁ DE FOIE GRAS IN PORT ASPIC
(Six appetizer portions)

medium-size onions, minced
tablespoon salad oil
tablespoon butter
cups chicken broth, fresh or canned
tablespoon unflavored gelat
p cold water
ozs. tawny port
07. cognac
or 4 drops red coloring
block pdté de foie gras with
truffles

Boston lettuce

Sauté onions in oil and butter until
onions are deep yellow, but not browned.
Add broth and bring to a boil, Reduce
flame and simmer slowly about 30 min-
utes or until the three cups of broth
have been reduced to two. Strain and
measure broth. If quantity exceeds two
cups, continue to simmer until it is re-
duced to proper amount. If it is less
than two cups, add water. Soften gelatin

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in cold water and stir into hot broth
until dissolved. Add port, cognac and
red coloring. Pour 9 or 3 tablespoons
broth пу
molds of
until just jelled. Gut páté de foie gras
into six slices. Place a slice on gela
pressing firmly. Pour balance of gel
into the cups. Place in refrigerator until
jelled. To unmold, dip cups for a few
seconds in hot water. Run a knife
around edges to loosen sides of gelatin.
Unmold each portion onto a leaf of
Boston lettuce. Serve as а first course for
dinner.

SUPREM

Or CHICKEN WITI CEPES
(Serves four)

6 single breasts of chicken, skinless
and boned

214-07. terrine páté de foie gras

blespoons butter

8 tablespoons salad oil

10-07. tin cepes, drained, sliced

1 medium-size onion, minced

2 shallots, minced

3 ozs. dry white wine

oz. cognac

tablespoon flour

cups chicken broth, fresh or canned
t. pepper

1-02. tin Italian white trufiles, drained,

minced

6 diagonal slices French bread

For some strapping gourmands a sin-
gle breast of chicken might not be
enough. For other appetites, two are
too much. The six-to-four ratio above
js just about. the golden mean.

Divide foie gras into six parts. Par-
tially separate the fillet of the chick
the small piece running along underside
— from top piece. Place a piece of foie
gras between sections of each breast.
Press sections back into place. Heat but-

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few years . . . just introduce the wheel .

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ter and 2 tablespoons oil in a large
skillet. Sauté chicken until light brow:
on both sides. Add cepes to pan and
sauté about a minute more. Remove
pan from flame, and set aside. In a sauce-
pan sauté onion and shallots in 1 table-
spoon oil until onions are deep yellow.
Add wine and cognac. Flame liquor.
Simmer until wine has almost disap-
peared from pan. Turn flame low and
stir in flour. Slowly add chicken broth,
stirring well. Simmer over low flame
about 15 minutes. Add salt and pepper
to taste. Strain sauce into pan with
chicken. Add truflles. Simmer 15 to 20
minutes over low flame. Stir occasionally
to keep chicken from sticking to pan
bottom. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Sauté bread in balance of oil until light
brown on both sides. Place fried bread
on platter. Place a breast of chicken on
each piece of bread. Spoon cepes and
sauce on top.

SNAILS, ALMOND BUTTER
(Serves two)

24 canned snails with shells

y, cup shelled almonds

14 Ib. sweet butter

3 tablespoons bread crumbs

1 teaspoon finely minced garlic

14 teaspoon lemon juice

Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper

The conventional recipe for snails
Bourguignon will usually be found on
the outside of the can or container. This
more-orlessstandard procedure takes а
mixture of butter, garlic and parsley,
which, together with the snails, is placed
n the shells and baked. This recipe
follows a tradition in the department of
Aude, home of the eminent French chef
Prosper Montagné.

Let butter stand at room temperature
until it is soft enough to spread casily.
Di snails. Rinse shells i
and drain them well Put almonds in
well of blender and spin until almonds
are finely chopped. In a mixing bowl
combine almonds, butter, bread. crumbs,
garlic and lemon juice. Add salt and
pepper to taste and a dash of cayenne.
Stull snails into shells. Spoon butter mix-
ture into shells, allowing about a tea-
spoon and a half of the butter mixture
for each shell Preheat oven at 4259.
Bake snails, open ends up, in snail plates
about 5 to 8 minutes. Serve at once while
very hot. Provide ample French bread
for mopping operations.

Although one may take exception to

grand curmudgeon George Bernard
Shaw's observation “There is no love
sincerer than the love of food,” the
preceding recipes might easily bring
about at least a suong infatuation with
ental comestibles.

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quite certain he can count just as well
as the next fellow, Count he can, but
can he reckon?

“How many years are there between
January 1, 1850 and January 1, 19507"
ks the operator.

The sucker, after much thought and

possibly a bit of finger arithmetic, finally
1s quite correctly, “100 y

And how rs are there be-
tween 50 n.c.

“Why, 100, " says the sucker.
"Wrong." replies the operator.

Actually the sucker should have said
99 years because of the absence of the
year 0. This can be proved to a doubting
mark by having him count on his fingers
the years from 1895 to 1905 and then the
years from 5 п. to 5 an.

Time Will Tell. “How many times а
day docs the minute hand of a clock
come even with the hour hand?” asks
the operator.

The sucker will probably say 24 times,
reasoning that the minute hand crosses
the hour hand once every hour. But he
should have said 22 because the hands
crow once every 6555 minutes.
(Ihe hour hand is slow, but it keeps
plodding along.)

answi

only

Dire States. Many sucker bets find
their takers among those who think they
know something when, in fact, they don't.
For instance, the operator bets his mark.
he can't list all 50 states їп fivc
minutes — abbreviations will do. Unless
the sucker has a photographic memory,
he'll lose.

Ineligible Receiver. Would-be sports
experts are among the best of all poten-
tial marks for not-so-sporting wagers.
The operator asks how many players are
cligible pass receivers when a college
football team lines up in а T-lormation
ollensc. The sucker is sure to say six — two:
ends and four backs. g a bet
that the sucker is wrong, the operator
cites NCAA Rulc7,Scction 3, Article 3 (b),
which makes any playcr in position to
Ке a direct handol! from the center in-
cligible as a pass receiver. This rules out.
the T-formation quarterback.

Foul Ball. At a baseball game the
count is three-and-two, “Bet he fouls on
the next pitch,” mutters the operator.
Even money?" says a nearby sucker,
knowing full well that the batter might
just as easily strike, walk, hit fair, or
even get hit by a pitched ball.

Even money,” says the operator,

ng even better (having read this
article on sucker bets) that the correct
odds are 6-5 that a batter will foul on
a three-two count.

There are many more sucker bets, of
course, Probably as many as there are
suckers. But let there be no misunder-
st g about our motives which, as
always, are high-minded ones indeed.
g that none of our readers would
to bet on a sure
this collection of
sucker bets not as sure-fire tips for en-
acing one's income, but as a warning
against taking such deceitful wagers.

Ii, however, you happen to meet the
kind of sucker who will take these bets
and you find yourself wrestling with yo
gentlemanly conscience, remember this:
Any man who will accept a sucker bet
does so because he thinks he is taking
advantage of you. He thinks— greedy
fellow that he is— that he is betting on
a sure thing.

Now, we ask you, in all fairness. are
you expected to waste any sympathy on
the sort of lowlife that would bet on a
sure thing? You are not!

In fact, it is your duty, your oblization
10 give him the punishment he deserves
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YOU COULD ALWAYS HOPE

general way until the morning they
brought in the Navy pilot who stank.

Medical science was trying to save his
life, perhaps to prove a point. So there
hc was in his coat of grease. He was
supposed to receive God knows how
many millions of units of penicillin
every half hour, and they had stuck
pipcs into him here and there, and they
brought in the nurse you loved and told
her what to do.

She took the hypodermic and looked
at that raw ooze wrapped in yellow
grease, and bent toward ii

She recoiled so fast she smashed into
the rack with the plasma bottles, and you
could see the fluid in the needle spurt
up in a little golden stream like a puppy
wetting as her hand clenched. The or-
derlies came running in when they heard
that first scream, and it took two of them
to grab her and wrestle her out of there,
and you could hear her still screaming
as they took her across the white-hot
coral compound, yelling, "Oh, Christ,
he stinks! Christ, he stinks!

All right. he stank. That was all he
could do. Maybe he never heard her;
maybe he was already dead when they
brought him in. Medical science isn't

(continued from page 87)

everything; he was certainly dead when
they carried him out that same after-
noon. He stank ail day, and in the
afternoon they took him out, cot and
all, but you could still smell him the
next day, and the smell never left.

You never spoke to that nurse again.
The orderlies would not speak to her,
cither. Every day she would come into
the ward, just as you were coming out
of the second round of fever and chills,
but now she did nothing to wipe out
the memory of the morning inspection,
the three blind mice, the fairy, or the
general hopelessness. She was no longer
big, blowzy and good. She was just a
sack that the officers had used for pur-
poses of masturbation, and the word w
that she couldn't give it away now, even
to the colonel. You would turn your
head when she took your pulse, but you
did not have to do this, because she
would be looking away [rom you herself.
Sometimes she would be crying as she
came in, and she would wipe her eyes
with a khaki handkerchief, and you did
not care. She would get though the
ward in dead silence, reading the charts,
taking temperatures and writing on the

charts, moving in light footfalls that

sounded like a barrage in the silence
of that ward. The only point she ever
had was that she was a woman, and now
that she һай failed at that simple thing,
she was dead.

The fever and the chills would return
exactly one hour and thirteen minutes
after she had checked the chart of Zim-
merman, Rudolph A., and when you
came out of the fever to find yourself
jumping under the hard hands of the
four orderlies who were trying to hold
you and the blankets to the cot, vou knew
that you and they shared a kind of love
that you could never share with any
woman, nor, of course, with the likes of
the Red Cros pans

. Perhaps love is

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Maybe it was the nurse who made you
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they bring those goddamn sluts out
here” And since you understood ex-
actly what he meant, and understood
that there was no good reason, there was
no reason to answer him. You knew he
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was making a statement.

It is sale to say that no one in that
ward ever took a woman scriously again.
You could see the contempt in their
eyes when the new nurses were assigned
to the wards, To be sure, you would
talk with the new nurses, but in a cold,
cynical way. It was shortly after the new
nurses came to the nd that one of
them was raped — the only case of rape
wed had up ший then—and sure
enough, it һай been one of the men
from the ward, When they tried him,
he said she'd and the court-
martial bel him. Perhaps they
would not have believed him il he had
mot been an officer, but maybe they
would have believed her if it had not
been for what had h

‘The days were all An hour after
dawn you were delir you
tottered to attention for the inspection,
and then the chaplains and the pansy
would set you up for round two, and
after it was over, the new nurse would
come in to remind you that women had
no place in any reality that you knew,
and so you passed into round three, and
whenever you were conscious, you could
still smell that Jong-buried Navy pilot.
г дау it was the same thing,

strength emptied into salt-
rimmed pools on the canvas beneath you.

But you always had the morning. In
the morning it was cool and you had
no fever, You could watch the sun edg
up out of the sca and hear the fighters
warming up on the airstrip, and you
could always hope that this time, today,
the fever would break. It was odd how
you looked forward to gening out of
there, because what was waiting for you
when you got back to the squadron was
not precisely ап improvement.

There w people the
squadron who hoped the war would end,
but that was silly. In the squadron, the
only thing you could really hope for
was that you would still be alive when
the sun went down, and at the end of
each day you hoped the sun would not
come up tomorrow, because you would
be flying if it did. OF course, you flew
whether the sun came up or not, but
at night you could always hope the
weather would really be too bad for
in the morning.

Perhaps the real reason why you
wanted 10 get back to the squadron was
you knew there would be no women
1 no one to tell you to stand
or lie at attention, or to remind you
there was a war. At any rate, it was
always cool in the hospital in the first
light of early morning, and you could
always hope that you would soon return
10 the squadron and to your private ap-
pointment with whatever was waiting for
you 25,000 fect above the impersonal,
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FIEND (continued from page 108)

had foreseen, He opened the door to
the washroom and turned on the warmer
oven where emergency rations were
waiting. By the time Silvie came back
biscuits, bacon and hot coffee were set
out for her.

“I don't suppose you have a cigarctic?"
she said. "Well. ГИ live. How about some
clothes And how about coming out so
I can get a look at you?” She stretched
ıd yawned and then began to cat. Ap-
parently she had showered, as was ge
erally desirable on awaken: from
freezeslecp to get rid of the
skin, and she had wrapped her ruined
hair in a small towel. Dand!

reluctantly, but it
m that his victim would wrap it
around her head. Silvie sat thoughtfully

aring at the remains of her breakfast
and then after a while said, like a lec
turer:

“As I understand it, starship sailors
are always some kind of a nut, be
who cise would go oll for twenty yeu
at a time, even for money, even for any
d of money? АП right, you're a nut.
So if you wake me up and won't come
out, won't talk to me, there's nothing I
can do about

“Now, I can see that even if you
weren't a little loopy to start with, this
d of life would tip you. Maybe you
just want a little company? 1 can under-
stand that. I might even cooperate and
say no more about it.

“On the other hand, maybe you're
trying to get your nerve up for some-
thing rough. Don't know if you сап,
because they naturally screened. you
down fine before they gave you the job.
But supposing. What happens then?

“If you kill me, they catch you.

“IE you don't kill me, then I tell them
when we land, and they catch you.

“I told you about my uncle. Right
now his body is in the deepfreeze some-
where on the dark side of Mercury and.
they've got his brain keeping the navi-
gation channels clear off Belém. Maybe
you think that’s not so bad. Uncle
Henry doesn't like it a bit. He doesn't
have any company, 1
I guess, and he says his
always sore. Of course he could always
louse up on the job, but then they'd just
put him some other place that wouldn't
be quite as nice —so what he does is
grit his teeth, or T guess you should say
his grinders, and. get along the best he
сап. Ninet

ing faces and buttering another roll
and flinging it furiously at the wall,

where the disposal units sluiced it away,
she said, "Damn you, then give me a
book to read. anyway.

Dandish retreated from her and lis-
tened to the whisper of the ship for a
few minutes, then activated the mecha-
nisms of the revival crib. He had been a
loser long enough to learn when to cut
his losses. The girl sprang to her fect
as the sides of the crib unfolded. Gentle
tentacles reached out for her and de-
posited her in it, locking the webbing
belt around her waist, “You damned
fool!” she shouted, but Dandish did
not answer. The anesthe: de-
scended toward her struggling face, and
she screamed, “Wait a minute! І never
said I wouldn't ——”: but what she never
said she wouldn't, she couldn't say, be-
cause the cone cut her off. In a moment
she was asleep. A plastic sack stretched
itself around her, molding to her face,
her body, her legs, even to the strayed
towel around her hair, and the revival
crib rolled silently to the freezing room.
Dandish did not watch further. He knew
what would happen, and besides, the
mer reminded him to make his check,
‘Temperatures, normal; fuel consump-

à cone

tion, normal; course, norm: freezer
room showed one new capsule en route
to storage, otherwise normal. Goodbye,
Silvie, said Dandish to himself, you were
a pretty bad mistake.

Conceivably later о
girl...

But it had taken nine years for Dan-
dish to wake Si id he did not think
he could do it again. He thought of her
Uncle Henry ing a dredge along
the South Ada oral. It could have
been him. He had leaped at the oppor-
tunity to spend his sentence piloting a
starship instead.

He stared out at the 10,000,000 stars
below with the optical receptors that
were his eyes. He clawed helplessly
space with the radars that gave him
touch. He wept a 5.000.000-mile stream.
of ions behind him from his jets. He
thought of the tons of helpless flesh in
his hold, the bodies in which he could
have delighted, if his own body had nor
been with Unde Henry's on coldside
Mercury, the fears on which he could
have fed, if he had been able to inspire
fear, He would have sobbed, if he had
had a voice to sob with.

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HIGHBROW AUTHORS

toward which the middlebrows quite
naturally feel alien and about which
they seem able to do nothing except
carp in the outmoded rhetoric of yes-
terday's moral indignation. That is, ii
fact, one of the most interesting and
portant developments in the lii

ineffectual, irrelevant, or merely
increasingly dissociated from its former
h the novel, living or dead,
while in the highbrow world there has
never before been such an abundance
and variety of concern. In the estab-
lished literary quarterlies and the less
widely circulated critical journals, mod-
ern novelists are being subjected to a
g in its tone

ness, and even
such serious younger writers as Salinger,
Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud and
Philip Roth, whose careers, for all their
prominence, may still be considered in
the developmental stage, have already
had special issues of some of the smaller
of these magazines devoted entirely to
their work fact, Salinger has had
scvcral entire critical volumes devoted to
him alone). Newer writers like William
Burroughs (Naked Lunch)
Heller (Catch-22) have not yet h
to be examined on quite this sea
they have already received an enormous
amount of attention, and there can be

of triumphant possessi

(continued from page 119)

no doubt that they too will very shortly
be swept up by the full force of the
new wave of critical interest and borne
at high speed into the prominence of
minor classic status.

"This interest, furthermore, has by no
means been confined to the small world
of professional and academic criticism.
It may have begun there, but it has
quickly spread throughout the large-
circulation quality-magazine world as
well "The increasingly serious literary
emphasis of Esquire, PLAYBov, and. the
various women's fashion magazines — to
y nothing of the recent appearance of
ich important new publications as The
New York Review of Books — serves to
indicate just how vital it has become not
only for highbrows but for everyone who
values highbrow tastes to be in the know
about new writers and writing.

"The principal reason for this changed.
state of affairs is not simply that high-
brow interest in the novel has increased,
declined,

That decline is only an effect of the
more important circumstance that the
serious novel is no longer the vehicle
of middlebrow id and middlcbrow
experience, as it pretty largely was back
in the days of Dreiser and Anderson,
ıd Hemingway. These
writers have now nearly all been con-
verted, by a process of academic appro-
ation following after deep analysis,

“The passengers are all below, I trust.”

into highbrow property, while currently
active writers like Bellow and some of
the others have never belonged to or
written for the middlebrow world, but
have from the beginning worked from
assumptions about the nature of modern
experience and modern fiction at least
paralleling those of the highbrow world.
‘The result is that, in sharp contrast to
their predecessors and in a manner seem-
ingly unique in literature, these writers
have been absorbed directly into the
highbrow critical canon without ever
having had to fight the battle for general
readership and acceptance in the middle-
brow world, With the exception of
ulkner, they are the first novelists i
our recent history to have become criti-
cally established in their lifetimes with-
out first having been more or less widely
read, and one can only suppose that this
has occurred not only because of high-
brow interest in their work but because
there is no longer a ground on which
the battle for middlebrow acceptance
can be fought.

But whatever the reason, the process
by which so many of the better younger
writers have been transported from ob-
scurity to prominence, while at the same
time bypassing the traditional appren-
ticeship period in the middlebrow world,
is now part of the accepted routine of
our literary life. The middlebrows have,
consequently, been left with no cstab-
lished novelist of genuine high quality,
and except possibly for James Gould
Cozzens, John O'Hara and John Stein-
beck, no established novelist who even
approaches high quality. They further-
more have scarcely anyone at all in the
younger group who is articulating cmo-
tions and experiences that are familiar
and attractive to them.

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during the great period of middlebrow
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system of the dominant social class and
able, as a consequence, to dramatize
materials and themes of particular rele-
vance to that class. Among the most im-
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meaning in the whole range of America
experience, was the theme of first con-
frontation of the modern world and first.
itiation into the new circumstances of
modern life. In the many works that
now form the classic body of modern
American fiction this theme appears
a very specific and recurrent preoccup
tion, Although differing greatly from one
nother in nearly every other respect,
such books as Winesburg, Ohio, Sister
Carrie, Babbitt, Manhattan Transfer, Of
Time and the River, Studs Lonigan, The
Sun Also Rises, This Side of Paradise
and The Great Gatsby are alike in the
one respect that in cach of them either
the characters or the contemporary
reader, or in most cases both, came into
relationship with experience of a kind
unknown to them before and markedly
different from the provincial experience
of their origins.

These books
attempts. to

in this sense
directly or
ive pro-
vindal question which the European
novel had begun to answer a hundred
years before: what is real life like; what
is the nature of experience in the world
outside the neighborhood, town or re-
gion? And the fact cannot fail to seem
remarkable to us today that this was a
question to which virtually a whole
American middle-class provincial culture
was secking an answer, and that the in-

iswer,

terest of that culture in the novel
gely sustained by the promise
novel held out of supplying it.

It is no accident that Scott Fitzgei
was able to refer, however jokingly, to
The Sun Also Rises as “а Romance and
a Guide Book" and to his own This
Side o[ Paradise as “а Romance and a
Reading List.” Beneath the lightness of
tone there is a perfectly serious point.
Although it is hard to conceive today of
any really literate person turning to а
novel for either romance or
whether about books or the better
of Paris and Pamplon
the elements which the g
their time found initially fascinating
these two novels. They provided him
with a portrait of life at its most intet
ng and adventurous remove from pro-
vincial existence, yet plausible enough
to be accepted by the provincial imagi

Чоп; and a set of facts supposedly es
l to anyone desiring entry into that
What was important was that the
ader did desire entry into that life. It
was symbolic to him of all that his own
fe was not, and he wished to be in-
formed about how he should behave if
he should ever succeed in gaining entry.

Hence, Hemingway's preoccupation
with the rules of social form, with the
etiquette of correct conduct in situations
of physical and psychic test, and Fitz
gerald's passion. to learn the rules, to

nformati

these are exactly
iweral reader of

become an acceptable member of the
club, made a powerful appeal to his
imagination as well as to his native
terest in process and know-how. It was
ike the appeal made by the arche-
ypal older brother or favorite uncle
who returns to his home town alter long
absence to charm hi latives with tales
of curious customs in far-oli, exotic lands.
Hemingway's role was always that of the
older brother or uncle, the man to whom
everything imaginable һай happened;
Fiugerald’s was always that of the wide-

eyed younger brother or nephew, the

boy to whom nothing worth imagining
had ever happened: and the reader could
identify equally well with both. He could
identify not only because he could sense
that both were themselves as enchanted
and as fundamentally innocent as he,
but because they were telling him som
thing he did not know and wished to
know, and telling it in the context of
moral assumptions 4
sponses which we
own, The novel
therefore, п Extel
sion and extender of his grasp of reali
a rule book for the conduct of the de-
si ond the limits
of the undes a which he felt
enclosed. And it is this educative cle-
ment which the novel has lost in our
ias lost the middle
become, by a shift from
1 status, from sociology to
phrenology, the middlebrow.

1 familiar with the standard
reasons given for the change that has
taken place in American society and, by
extension, in the American novel, since
nd Fitzgerald began to
present population is no
fied by а common provincial
a region d small-town

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tion, the latter is, as its name suggests,
merely a social abstraction. characterized.
by undifferentiated numbers. There is
also some significance in the fact that
it is no longer middle-class culture
but minority culture that is provid-
g the primary subject matter of the
contemporary serious novel. Middle-class
culture appears to have receded a
tential source of novelistic n
time with its recession as the character-

ing culture of our society, while the
xperience of the Jew and the Neg!
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the fault lies as much with experience
and our present relation to it as it does
with the novel.

The provincial expects always to be
transformed by contact with the world
beyond the provinces. He may even ex-
pect to be saved by it, as though some-
thing terribly religious were bound to
happen to him if only he could get out
of town and on the road to his personal
Damascus. Most of the characters
older Ameri Is believed thi
: Anderson's
Hemingway's Nick Adams, Fitzgerald's
Amory Blaine and Nick Carraway,
Wolfe's Eugene nt, Dos Passos’ Mar-
tin Howe, rell's Studs Lonigan were
all seekers after the cosmic “it” to be
found in the experience of the modern
world. They were all disciples of what
has come to be called the cult or my.
i perience, that innocent faith
itual conversion principle of
merely additive living, which pro-
vided the American novel with so much
of its ba as well as extraneous matc-
rial. But we have come to know better
— even if our knowledge is not shared by
writers like Jack Kerouac who continue
ice an extinct provincialism and
to exult depressingly in experience which
literature and the rest of us have long
се had. We all of us very much

in the modern world at the present time,
and we can scarcely remember a time
when we were not very much, even too

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we now have such abundan long
before we have a chance to be educated
by primary experience. We are vicari-
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to the point where we do not need to
have experience, and if we do have it,
we very often [eel it to be less comp
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which we already possess. This is un-
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and the motion pictures —
ve very nearly

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are finding it necessary to make use of
steadily more bizarre and sensational
15 in their effort to maintain their
hold on the public attention. Since the
public knows so very much as it is, and
is so heavily surfeited with what it
knows, it requires exposure to stronger
and stronger doses of reality in order to
be able to respond at all, And although
lacking the cynicism of the more frankly
commercial media, the novel has been
propelled in the same direction. Because
it is no longer able to discharge its older
educative and initiatory function, it has
been forced to concern itself with the
more margi
sometimes with precisely those depicted
on the movie and television screens — or
with kinds of experience which may have
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reader, particularly the general or mid
dlebrow reader who is not equipped to
find his satisfaction solely in the artistry
with which the experience is portrayed.

Actually, the middlebrow reader's cs-
trangement from the contemporary seri-
ous novel involves a. paradox of rather
bewildermg complexity. If we take it for
granted that the serious novel does not
interest him—and publishers’ sales fig-
ures seem to indicate that it emp!
cally does not—the first explanation
that comes to mind is that he does not
find it relevant to his life. Yet in saying
this one cannot allay the suspicion that
his life is itself irrelevant to life, at least
to most of those forms and manifesta-
tions of it which the novelist can get at
and put to creative use. The middlebrow
scems to have very litle sense of a dis
tinctive experience or a distinctive past,
and such sense as he does have seems to be
intermittent, fragmentary and elusive. As
1 have said, he lacks the advantage which,
30 or 10 years ago, he might have enjoyed,
the adv age of involvement in some of
the large cultural movements and histori-
cal changes which gave the members of
the older middle class their feelings of
having shared in a collective cultural past.
He has had no part, for example, in the
at psychological as well as physical mi-
ion from the provinces to the city; he
was not on hand at the opening of the last
frontier of the modern consciousness and
the modern world. Hence, he cannot know
the powerful response of instantaneous
recognition and identification felt by
those readers who discovered in some
of the novels of their time ап imagina
tive rendering of things they remem-
bered having lived or wished they might
live. He is not, to be sure, very likely
to be exposed to novels having to do
with such things, or with things of
equivalent importance to his own
and his own experience. The novel-
ists of his time also lack the advantage
of sharing in a collective cultural expe-
nce, and so tend to devote themselves
perience about which
uy only that it has meaning
lives. It is
therefore not surprising that the middle-
brow reader, having little or no sense of
personal experience, should be able to
make little or no sense of the experience
of novelists who have a sense only of
their personal experience.

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about something the reader knows or is
supposed to know. It may be about sub-
ja, exurt mass culture or the ad-
vertising business, although, interestingly
enough, our current serious novels are
almost never about such things. It may
depict a life that is virtually an exact
copy of the life he leads every day. But
by confronting him with that life, the
novel is bound to appear to him hateful
and depressing, or again simply unreal

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and foreign, not only because he has
probably never before seen his life ex-
cept in hurried glimpses through the
haze of his semiconsciousness, but be-
cause the novelist's determination to get
at the truth would almost inevitably
force him to por ities which the
reader could not accept without fi
his life intolerable. Certainly, he does
not want to be reminded that he is living
a life that is not worth living, and the
fact that in order to live it he has had
to close his mind to it does not increase
his ability or desire to identify with it
when he sees it reflected in a novel
Hence, it would seem that unless the
novel were in other respects sufficiently
unique, surprising or salacious to amuse
or titillate him, he would have little rea-
son to read it and much reason not to
read it.

Yet this is by no means to suggest that
what the middlebrow actually wants
from fiction is irrelevance of the kind
that the ordinary run of escape fiction
could be counted on to give him. The
thing that makes him a middlebrow re-
quires him to pretend to himself that
he is observing the pietics of middlebrow
status, that he is continuously and con-
sciously exercising his taste in ways that
have been approved by the cultural cs-
tablishment to which he feels affiliated
What he therefore wants from fiction is
a portrait of experience that seems real
and familiar to him, but that is not so
real and familiar as to make him un-
comfortable or force him to examine his
life. He also wants a style of present
tion that looks serious and “literary
the same time that it too is familiar and
conventional enough not to violate his
preconceptions about the way good litera-
шге should sound or assault his sensi-
ness of the really

es with the

new.

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in spite of his high moral pretensions,
he wants the various extraliterary divi-
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he dared to read it. He wants 5 а
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which he can be sure of a dea а
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which is in perfect proportion to the
emotional impoverishment of his life. He
wants them on these terms, that is, if
he can persuade himself, at whatever cost
to the truth, that they are the terms of
serious literature.

At the moment there are not many
good writers around who would be able
to assist the middlebrow in this kind of
self-deception. There are, to be sure, a
number who could provide him with
the titillation he craves, but too often
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“Yeah, but suppose it's not for psychological effect?”

reminder of the real world which he
would find distasteful. Because of his
rather gingerly orientation toward him-
self and toward reality, the middlebrow
requires a fiction combining some of the
pretensions of serious literature with
some of the escapist and sensational
qualities of trash, a fiction, in other
words, that will feed his intellectual
vanity, coddle his complacency, and en-
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his more virulent frustrations — all in a
context of lifelike and literaturelike un-
reality, Certainly, there is no one writer
who satisfies all these requirements. But
it is possible to think of two who in
very diffcrent ways and to very different.
degrees satisfy at least some of them.
John O'Hara, of course, comes immedi-
ately to mind because the large sales of
his books—to say nothing of the kind
of critics who praise them — are convinc-
ing proof of his overwhelming middle-
brow appeal. William Styron seems at
first glance to be a much less obvious
possibility because he has some reputa-
tion for seriousness and is so much better
a writer than O'Hara that he threatens
t every moment to be mistaken for
highbrow and to disappear into the rcla-
tively т s obscurity of highbrow
status. Yet whatever their differences of
nent, OCH and

rious literary pretensions
ially middlebrow view of
y embodies the mid-
dlebrow notion of the important novelist.
To put the matter in the simplest po
ble terms, the middlebrows like O'Hara
because his books ad them of the
life they imagine themselves to be lead-
ing. Hence, he is the perfect antidote to
those other writers who keep reminding
them either of the life they actually ате
leading or of a life th п imagine
nobody leading. The middlebrows like
Styron because his books remind them
not of life but of the classic modern

literature they think they are supposed
to admire. Hence, he is one younger
writer from whom it is possible to get
the comforting impression that nothing
has really changed in the novel since the
golden age of middlebrow proprictor-
ship over it.

EXE the matter is. of course, nowhere
imple. O'Hara crcates a fam
r, seemingly able world — or let
us say that he creates an initial illusion
or facsimile of on at is both totally
unlike the world the middlebrows live
in and exactly like the world they want
to see themselves as living in. The ш
likeness puts a safe distance between
themselves and his world, freeing them
of all moral responsibility for it, at the
same time that the likeness enables them
to identify vicariously with it, in a state
of guiltless, voyeuristic fantasy. On the
surface O'Hara's favorite locale, Gibbs-
ville, Pennsylvani is an American
Dream community straight out of Nostal-

i» by way of The Saturday Evening
Post. It is everybody's Our Town raised
to a higher income bracket and gone
sophisticated, a good, solid, red-blooded,
churchgoing sort of place where the
people seem both prosperous and nice,
and the best families have been best
friends of the best families for genera-
tions. There appear to be no Jews, Ne-
or homosexuals in Gibbsville, but
are any, they would certainly
be tolerated, although just as certainly
not admitted to the clubs or invited to

about the only fictional community

current American literature. where the
middlebrow reader can escape the pre-
ailing obsession with minority groups
and perverts, and be sure that, if dev
ions from right conduct do occur, they
will at least occur among the right sort
of people. That, at any rate, is the assur-
ance that O'Hara seems to provide,
at is the sop he tosses to middlebrow
snobbery and moral hypocrisy, and, аз

it turns out, it is absolutely vital to the
success of his appeal to the middlebrow
mind.

For in almost every O'Hara novel
there comes а moment when the readers
conscience has to be palliated if hi
fidence is to be held, a moment when
life in Gibbsville is rev
deal more th i
surface, Bene:
ability and niceness, behind the closed
bedroom doors of the mansions, in the
expensive convertibles parked out in
ck of the country club, all sorts of i
teresting and incredible things suddenly
seem to be going on — among the
people, of course —and all of them, not
very surprisingly, have to do with sex.
To put the matter with typical O'Hara-
ish directness, whatever else his cha
ters may piously appear to be doing with
their time, what they are actually doi
is sleeping or tying to sleep with every-
body else's wife or daughter or sister or
mistress or mother, The pursuit of the
Good Life, when reduced, as O'Hara
persistently reduces it, to its symbiotic
essence, becomes the pursuit of the
Good Lay. Our Town is magically wans-
formed —one might almost over-
night—into the Kinsey report; the
Salurday Evening Post image fades into
something with green covers out of
Olympia Press; and bed emerges at last
as the natural social habitat of the solid
citizens of Gibbsville, a kind of fomica
tory home-aw
body sooner or later gets acquainted and
settles down to the enjoyment of r
togetherness.

There are even occasions when John

con-

say,

-from-home where every-

graphic Krafft-Ebing,
a dinical recital of all the possible ways
of having sex for those who fe

even the staunchest Gibbsvilleans ulti-

mately must— that, sexually реа
they ready had everything. Оп
such occasions we leave behind the

world of mere wo

deviational activity is explored by per-
formers as aloof and business! the

people who pose for French feelthy post-
Lesbians

cards. make passes at litle
1 women. Lit-

па older

of trucks and older girls seduce
other in college dorms.

It all turns out to be as twisted and
corrupt as the gamiest of the serious
novels which the middlebrows find too
ugly and distasteful to read. But there
is one very important difference, Where
in many of these novels the corruption
exists in a context of seemingly equal
distortion, in а world which the middle-
g and strange,

in O'Hara's novels the corruption has
had its sting removed through being
presented within the familiar and sanc-
tifying context of middle-class moral ap-
ces. It is made acceptable not only
because the right people indulge ir
but because the moral machinery which
conventionally condemns it is built into
the setting in whid occurs. That
setting is Gibbsville, and what is Gibbs-
ville if not an idealization of our collec-
tive imaginary memory of what appears
on the surface to be the perfect Amer-
ican town, the kind of town we like to
think we have all lived in or at the very
least come from? But as an idealization
ably unreal, although
it deeply familiar as ап
imaginary construct. It is removed from
the reader in time, and it exists out of
me in a dimension of myth and nostal-
gia— the same dimension in which we
sentimentally place Our Town and The
Saturday Evening Post.

By a very human incongruity the dirty
hook with the green covers als s
that dimension in our minds: senti-
mentality and pornography arc, in psy-
chologic: terms, bedfellows. Hence,
a's treatment of sex, which is
p more than bad pornography
smugeled in under the thin plain wrap-
per of social documentation, ally
j unreal as his Gibbsville. It is un-
real first because it is sex cold-bloodedly
enacted without love or passion by pco-
ple who seem just as wooden and lifeless
as the characters in sht pornog-
iphy, and second because it is literary
sex, book sex, having virtually nothing to
do with, and therefore casting no reve-
latory light upon, the actual. practice of

in the living society about which

a is ostensibly writing. It is merely
wet dreams аге made on,
ed ritualistically and mechanically
bstitute in life for an carned emo-
1 relationship, and i ure for
an earned dramatic nce, the
kind of significance which the scrious
novelist takes pains to find outside as
well as between the sweaty sheets of his
created world,

But literature’s 1055 is, in O'Hara's
case, the middlebrow reader's gain, Bc-
cause of the lifelike unreality of
O'Hara's setting and the impersonal na-
ture of his pornography, the reader
nses that none of it finally relates to
him or engages him on the moral level.
Yet he also senses that it is familiar
enough and close enough to his crotic
nd sentimental dre:
im to dei
it He is therefore absolved of all re-
sponsibility to judge or condemn it,
freed to lie back and enjoy the show
with a dean conscience and a ditty
mind. He has,
have it both
req

ау

чоп

fact, been allowed to
ays, which is the prime
ement the middlebrows make of

a novel: he has had his cheesecake and
not caten it, too. The Saturday Evening
Post image — the pretensions to respect-
ability which he initially saw i ibbs-
ville and which lulled him into an
itcan’t-happen-here state of mind — has
canceled out the distaste he might other-
wise have [elt obliged to have for the
pornography. The pornography has at
the same time provided him with the
titillation he craved: while O'Hara's
seeming earnestness and detachment,
above all his apparently scrious commit-
ment to the old-fashioned belief that
whatever is sexy or obscene must be art
("Don't say ‘urinate, ” cried the lusty
old slicer-oflife. "Say *piss!'") have
given the reader the excuse he needs for
succumbing to the capital middlebrow
self-delusion, the delusion that he is
reading literature while enjoying all the
Kicks of trash.

"The case with Styron is both very sim-
ilar and very different. Styron is, first of
all, obviously no O'Hara. For one thing,
he is an infinitely better, infinitely more
intelligent. writer, and for another, his.
place on the sliding scale of literary
charlatanism is nowhere near so secure.
Styron apparently writes the way he
does because he honestly believes tha
the way serious literature sounds — and
he is right: it does or, at any rate, it did.
His charlatinism — if it can be called
that—is of the ious and,
therefore, wholeheartedly sincere kind.
O'Hara, on the other hand, passed off
as serious literature what he should
know to be trash, presumably because,
first, he can no longer write anything
else and, second, because he has found
out by now that his particular audience
is incapable of telling the difference

а is an example of the
ist who has abnegated.
inal power to write well for mid-
dlebrow success. Styron is an example —
re one indeed in the pres-
ion— of the still-

ed a cer-
ure of middlebrow success
without having to compromise at all He

is what the middlebrows want just as he
is—or to be exact, he was until the ap-
pearance of his book Set This House оп
Fire raised new questions concerning his
status in the middlebrow club.

But that again is a simplification.
Styron is better than this, and deserves
better than this. Let us say that he is a
victim of his age in that he happened
to [orm himself on standards of literary
seriousness which have unfortunately be-
come too widely known and accepted to
be considered very serious anymore. He
formed himself, that is, on the standards
set by his eminent predecessors, and now
he is condemned to writing like them,
to achieving his effects in the way they
achieved theirs, while today seriousness
can ultimately be measured only in the

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degree to which a writer refines upon
his predecessors or goes them one better,
with another kind of power and a differ-
ent degree and quality of emphasis.

Yet it is precisely this lack of primary
seriousness in Styron that accounts most
for such popularity as he has so far e
joyed with the middlebrow reading pub-
lic. His work sounds not only to him but
to them like the serious literature which
they have been taught to admire — and
that of course, the now classic and
institutionalized literature of the Twen-
tie: d Thirties. For a long time this
kind of assurance of continuity with the
honored past has been the one clement
the middlebrows have sorely missed in
the novels of the current younger
writers. They have been confused by the
fact that so many of these writers are
supposed to be good, while at the same
time they are obviously not good in the
old familiar ways. Styron’s considerable
virtue is that he puts their minds at ease
by satisfying the expectations wh
chronically bring to new wri
vindicating their prejudices about the
nature of good writing in general. He
is, in short, a "literary" writer in the
sense that his work resembles what
generally taken to be, or has been in
demnified by previous usage as being,
erary.” He therefore never commits
the unpardonable sin of the truly orig-
inal writer: he never confronts the
reader with what, disturbingly, the
ader has never seen before; he never.
educates the consciousness by demand-
ing that it go to work here and now, as
if for the very first time, on him and his
unique vision of reality. Instead, he
comforts the reader, however uninten-

tionally, with a vision of the fami
and the previously опей, skill-
fully projected through a literary man-
ner with which the reader feels

thoroughly at home. Yet Styron is a
sufficiently good writer never to seem
merely imitative. In everything he has
done up to now he has managed to
a fine balance between sounding
r enough to be acceptable and
not sounding so familiar as to seem en-
tirely unoriginal.

His writing style, which has been
justly praised for its evocative power
and great verbal ingenuity, is
lent example of this kind of equilibrium,
It belongs to a category of literary ex-
pression which the middlebrows — and,
for that matter, many highbrows — have
come to identify as the “major” mod-
ern. American style, the traditional lan-

an excel-

, melodramatic, poetical, rhetori-
cal, metaphorical and sentimental, and in
Styron's hands it dearly shows the marks
of the hard usage already given it by

174 most of our natiye modern literary gen-

iuses. In fact, one can easily imagine his
books as big sprawling houses of lan-
guage, crammed with antiques passed
down to him by beneficent forebears
named Wolfe, Faulkner, Fivgerald and
Hemingway. Yet Styron's skill at interior
decoration is such that one cannot help
but see at once how interesting and new
the familiar old pieces look in the quite
individual arrangement he has made of
them. For there can be no doubt about
: the arrangement. is individual. It at
least is his own, суси if the materials
are not. He has not, therefore, been al-

together imitative, and neither has he

been disturbingly original. He has sim-
ply exercised ingenuity in turning to
his own advantage the stylistic innova-
tions of his predecessors. But he has also
inevitably done something else, some-
thing vastly more important from the
nt of view of his middlebrow ad-
He has managed to convey the
impression that by sounding like his
predecessors, hc has carned the right to
take a place in the ranks of greatness
beside them. "The style in his case may
not be the man, but it would seem to
make him. For if hc writes in the cer-
tified style of geniuses, must he not be a
genius, too?

Jn very much the same way, Styron's

stock si ions and emotional stances
are also those of serious modern litera-
ture. The anguished, possessed, drunken,

demented and tormented, the boorish,
slobbish, phonily tender and sentimental
— these are all the conventional mate-
ids through which modern writers
have defined their sense of the forms and.
terms of life in the modern world. But
the point is that they are the conven-
tional materials. Now at this late time
of our history they seem to belong to
a canon of more or less habitual ar-
rangements of reality, and they seem
valid and rcal no longer because of their
relation to actual life and observed ex-
perience, but because of their relation
to past literature, which has conditioned
us to the assumption that they are valid
and real, at the same time that it has
conditioned our responses to them.
Hence, in meeting them again in Sty-
ron's work, one has the feeling of hav-
ing met them before, not necessarily in
any specific book, but in the whole of
ure, the feeling of being
r ground without the feeling
g detected а plagiarism. The
ntellectually ambitious reader might
therefore be forgiven if he should assume
that Styron must be as serious, even as
original, in his handling of these mate-
rials as his predecessors were in their
handling of them.

This seems to me to be Styron's prin-
cipal weakness as a novelist, and it
happens also to be a middlebrow weak-
ness. In spite of his great talent and

sensitivity he has still not found it pos-

ble to operate outside the system of
ideological and dramatic conventions
which have become the clichés of the
highbrow world even as they remain the
intellectual status symbols of the mi
dlebrow world. The result is that al-
though his books are written wonderfully
well, at least by middlebrow standards,
they continue to exist in a dimension of
irrelevance and unreality which is the
dimension neither of life nor of litera-
ише but of something in between. They
ve many of the qualities of litera-
ture, just as they bear considerable re-
semblance to life, but they are essentially
skilled adaptations of the already formu-
lated modes of seeing and judging life
and of portraying it in literature.

Styron’s talent seems at the present
time to be imprisoned within the circle
of these modes and condemned to moy-
ing round and round in a monotonous

id unending routine of coming at expe-
rience over and over again from exactly
the same direction and reacting to it in
exactly the same way. The explanations
it finds for human conduct inside the
€ always fashionable and always
ble: the motives of women are
Шу reducible, as they are in Lie Down
in Darkness, to Oedipus complexes and
the “sickness of the age"; the troubles
of men can finally be traced, as they are
in that book and Sei This House on
Fire, to an inordinate fondness for the
bottle, a suppressed fondness for other
men, or some topical problem involving
the controversial issues of race, creed or
color,

John O'Hara's talent is also imp
опей inside the circle, and that is the
main reason the middlebrows like him
so much. But where O'Hara continues
to pander not only to middlebrow tastes
in pornography but to middlebrow
needs to escape from literature and life,
Styron, at least in Set This House on
Fire. seems to have come close to losing
the middlebrows by reminding them too
uncomfortably of both literature and
life. But he has not yet come dose
enough or reminded them uncomlort-
ably enough. To do that he will have to
submit himself to а tougher discipline
even than the onc which his high am-
bition has already imposed on him. He
will have to submit himself to the ulti-
mate discipline of learning to sce a
with his own eyes and to think ag:
with his own mind, and no longer with
those of his predecessors and contempo-
raries. For that is the work that most
urgently needs to be done by the ambi-
tious writer today if the dead formu
tions of the past are ever to be put
aside and the novel is ever to be freed
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nature" states, "An offense may be
proven under this section . . . by circum-
stantial evidence, when positive proof is
anting. .. . А conviction may be had
lor an attempt to commit an offense
denounced by this section." In some
states the mere suggestion or solicitation
to engage in such behavior is a crime.
Kinsey reports, "One case even goes so
lar as to uphold the conviction of a
man for soliciting his wife to commit
sodomy."

Considering the obvious abhorrence
h which both the legislative and the
judicial branches of our government
lave dealt with the subject, and the

i ties prescribed for the
assorted nonprocreative acts collected to.
gether under the sodomy and "crime-
against-nature” statutes (the most severe
of any of our laws dealing with sexual
activity between consenting adults), it
is especially interesting — and significant
— to consider how prevalent at least
some of this behavior is in our societ

Dr. Kinsey and his researchers found
relatively little evidence of heterosexual
anal intercourse, her within or out-
side of marriage, and neither of their
first books include any statistics on this
behavior. Kinsey did find marked differ-
ences in the anal eroticism reported by
his subjects, however, and some of the
females described sexual responses to
anal intercourse that were closely akin
to those achieved through vaginal coitus.
More current research prompts the Sex
Institute to estimate that approximately
four percent of the adult male popula-
tion has attempted, and three percent
successfully accomplished, anal hetero-
sexual intercourse; these statistics are
from a preliminary study, however, and
no educational breakdown is presently

i consistent with Kinscy's prev
ous findings, it is to be assumed that the
percentage among upper-level, college-
educated males will be somewhat higher
than this overall average. number of
experts in sexual behavior, including Dr.
Lawrence Z. Freedman, of the Depart-
ment of Psychiatry at the University of
Chicago, consider these percentages to be
low; Dr. Freedman states, "My impres-
sion is that both female homosexual
experience and male anality are prob-
ably underestimated in these [Kinscy’s
and his Sex Institute's] figures.”

In contrast to anal intercourse, how-
ever, Kinsey found oral-genital sex — also
considered a "crime against nature" i
most states — quite common among males
and females, married and unmarried.

Kinsey reports, “Mouth-genital con-
tacts of some sort, with the subject as
either the active or the passive member
in the relationship, occur at some time
the histories of nearly 60 percent of
e Inci-

dence table for Oral Contacts in Sexual
Behavior in the Human Male, by which
is meant the sexual experience of the
subject up to the time of the interview,
Kinsey found that 18.4 percent of the
males had premarital heterosexual o

ital relations of an “active” nature
performed by the male on
the female) and 38.6 percent had
sive” mouthgenital relations prior to
marriage (fellatio, performed on the
male by a female); however, the Ameri-

can husband apparently believes it is
bette

to give than to receive, or is less
ly repressed than his spouse, as
pproximately 45.3 percent of the mar-
ricd males engage in cunnilingus with
their wives, while 49.7 percent experi-
ence fellatio.

As with most sexual activity, educa-
kground plays an
role in determining the extent of o
genital activity that accompanies the sex
act, with cunnilingus and fellatio far
more common among upper-educated
males than among their less-educated
brothers. Among those males who have
never gone beyond eighth grade in
school, the accumulative incidence for
mouthgenital contacts of any kind is
only 40 percent; for those males with an.
education limited to high school, the in-
cidence is 65 percent; and for those with
some college, the percentage rises to 72.

Fifteen percent of al] U.S. females
have some mouth-genital contact prior
to marriage and, as might be expected,
Kinsey found a high correlation between
such activity prior to marriage and the
extent of premarital intercourse engaged
in by fcmale subjects: among the
younger women in the study who
not engaged in premarital coitus, "only
three percent had allowed the male to
touch their genitalia orally. . . . But
among those females who had had some,
even though not extensive coital experi-
ence, some 20 percent in the younger
generations had accepted such oral stim-
ulation; and among those who had had
more extensive coital experience, 46
percent had accepted such contacts . . .”

Oral stimulation of the male by the
female follows the same general pat-
tern, though the incidence is slightly
lower. On this Kinsey comments, "Often
the female makes such contacts only be-
cause she is urged to do so by the male,
but there are a few females who
ate such activity and some who may be
much aroused by it, A few may even
reach orgasm as they stimulate the male
orally. This greater inclination of the
human male toward oral activity is du-
plicated among other species of mam-
mals, Contrary to our earlier thinking.
we now understand that there are basic
psychologic differences between the
sexes; and although cultural traditions

also be involved, the differences in
oral behavior may depend primarily on
the greater capacity of the male to be
stimulated psychologically

Among married women. approximately
50 percent have some mouth-genital con-
tact, either active or passive, with thei
husbands; Kinsey's report on the Fe-
male does not include any classification
by educational background, but it is to
be assumed that the pattern already
established would hold tuc and that
females with a higher education would
also display a markedly higher incidence
of both premarital and marital activity
of an oral-genital nature.

One of Kinsey's most interesting find-
ings related to oral eroticism has to do
with the date of birth of his subjects —
a comparison of the incidence of thi
activity among both the males and fe-
males of the present and previous gen-
erations. Quite clearly the public attitude
d such behavior has changed rad-
ally during the past 50 years and
what was once considered “perversion”
is now recognized and accepted through-
out much of our society as both natural
and good: such a lessening of the
taboos connected with this sexual ac-
tivity might be expected to produce
a noticeable increase in the activity itself.

In addition, the antisexual might
argue that the prevalence of such “so-
phisticated" nonreproductive variations
on the sexual theme offers evidence of a
sexually jaded society that requires such
bnomnal" psychosexual stimulation,
because the unnatural contemporary ob-
session with the subject has dulled our
capacity to appreciate sex and be aroused
by it in its simpler forms.

1t is significant to note, therefore, that
in the accumulativeincidence tables
both the Male and the Female studies,
ital activity is relatively the
same for past and present generations.
Society's publicly proclaimed attitude on
the subject has undergone a dramatic
change, but the actual private behavior
of the individual has remained almost
constant. There were, as we have pointed
out, significant variations based upon
educational background, but for both
males and females of similar education
in this and the previous generations,
born in cach decade back to 1900,
ey comments, "there were surpris
ingly few differences . . .”

‘This fact is important, we feel, both
in establishing the essential naturalness
of the behavior itself and in pointing
out how relatively ineffective social and
legal taboos are in suppressing natura
sexuality.

HOMOSEXUAL SODOMY

‘The same oral and anal techniques
that may be used to introduce variety
and additional pleasure into à hetero:
sexual relationship are the primary

means of sexual gratification in homo-
sexual associations.

As we have already stated, none of the
U.S. statutes with sodomy
and/or “the abominable and detestable
crime against nature” make any dis
tinction between the heterosexual or
homosexual practice of such activities
In the enforcement of the laws, however,
disproportionately high percentage of
sodomy arrests and convictions involve
homosexual contacts — presumably be
cause a heterosexual cop and a hetero
sexual judge find a homosexual crime
against nature a good deal more "abomi-
nable and detestable” than а hetero
sexual one.

We confess to a strong personal preju-
dice in favor of the boy-girl variety of
sex, but our belief in
and humane society demands a tolerance
of those whose sexual inc'inations ave
different from our own-—so long as
their activity is limited to consenting
adults in private and does not involve
either minors or the use of any kind of
coercion. Lenny Bruce expressed our
viewpoint with typical satiric bite and in-
ight when he said: "I'm not prejudiced

dealing

rational

fre

against homosexuals, but I wouldn't
want my brother to marry one.
Actually, we Americans are — as a na-

tion — more intolerant of homosexuality
than almost any other county in the
world; Dr. Alfred Kinsey states, in Sex-

ual Behavior in the Human Female:
“There appears to be no other major
culture in the world in which public
opinion and the statute law so severely
penalize homosexual relationships as the
do in the United States today.” You can
call an American male а scoundrel and
a thief with less chance of eliciting an
emotional response than if you simply

question his manhood
The American male’s concern over his
masculinity amounts to an obsess
And as we have observed in our con-
sideration of the history of antisex in
our culture, such an obsession usually
x

ion.

represents a repressed fear. We will
plore a bit later, in some detail, the
degree to which this fear for our man-
hood is justified in contemporary 0.5.
will attempt to trace
trends in our society that are responsi-
ble for this drift toward the asexual;
and we will point out the extent to
which the censor and the prude con-
centrate their most vigorous attacks on
the heterosexual aspects of our culture,
leaving the asexual, homosexual, sado-
masochistic and fetishistic to flourish.
Quite obviously, however, any at-
tempts society may make to legislate ho-
mosexuality out of existence are doomed
Пу more
inclined to perpetuate and encourage
sexual deviation than diminish it
To whatever extent homosexuality —

society: we the

to certain failure and are actua

an erotic attraction to members of the
same rather than the opposite sex — rep-
resents an emotional disorder, it must be
dealt with psychiatrically; you do not
successfully treat
a law against its symptoms. In addition,
homosexual behavior is not necessarily
symptomatic of amy emotional aberra-
tion; far too great a percentage of our
adult population have engaged in some
form of homosexual activity at some
time in their lives to permit it to be
scientifically defined as abnormal.

Kinsey points out that homos
contacts occur frequently in a
species of animal life and except for the
strong cultural taboos affixed to such be-
havior, the incidence would presumably
be equally high among human beings,
Kinsey states that a perfectly normal
man or woman may be erotically av
tracted to, or aroused by, a member of
the same sex; and. prolonged separation
from the opposite sex
some assignments in the armed services)
may significantly increase these homo:
sexual responses. Judge Morris Ploscowe
states, in Sex and the Law: “Whenever
men are isolated from women, or women
from men, for any length of time, homo-
sexual relationships and activity inevit-
ably develop."

The individual whose homosexual ac-
tivity becomes known is apt to find
himself an outcast in much of our hetero-

neurosis by passing

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sexual society and he is forced into a
nether world inhabited almost exclu.
sively by homosexuals: it thus becomes
increasingly unlikely that he will ever
lind his way back to a. predominantly
heterosexual life. In this way, we unwit-
tingly support a system calculated to
maximize the spread of homosexuality
rather than reduce its incidence, at the
me time linking the behavior with
feelings of guilt and shame conducive to
nal conflict, anxiety and perhaps
serious psychological disorientation.
Kinsey makes this further appeal to
'egarding our attitude on the sub-
‘Condemnations of homosexual as
well as some other types of sexual activ-
ity аге based on the argument that they

emoti

and in that sense represent a perversion
of what is taken to be ‘normal’ sexual
behavior. It is contended that the gen-
al spread of homosexuality would
threaten the existence of the human
species, and that the integrity of the
home and of the social organization
could not be ma ned if homosexual
activity were not condemned by moral

codes and public opinion and made
punishable under the statute law. The
gument ignores the fact that the ex-
istent mammalian species have managed.
to survive in spite of their widespread
homosexual activity, and that sexual re-
lations between males seem to be wide-
spread in certain cultures (for instance,
Moslem and Buddhist cultures) which
are more seriously concerned with prob-
lems of overpopulation than they are
with any threat of underpopulation.
Interestingly enough, these are also cul-
tures in which the institution of the
mily is very strong.”

condemnation of homo-
tionships originated in Jewish
history in about the Seventh Century
extensive ап!
ted Judaism after
the Babylonian exile. Kinsey comments,
"Both mouth-genital contacts and homo-
sexual activities had previously been as-
sociated with the Jewish religious service,
as they had been with the religious
services of most of the other peoples of
that part of Asia, and just as they have
been in many other cultures elsewhere
in the world. In the wave of nationalism

which was then developing among the
Jewish people, there was an attempt to
disidentify themselves with their neigh-
bors by breaking with many of the cus-
toms which they had previously shared
with them. Many of the Talmudic con-
demnations were based on the fact that
such activities represented the way of
the Canaanite, the way of the Chaldean,
у of the pagan, and they were
liy condemned as a form of idola-
a sexual crime. Through-
iddle Ages homosex:
associated with heresy. The reform in the
custom (the mores) soon, however, be

question for action under crimi

“Jewish sex codes were brought over
nto Chi an codes by the early ad-
herents of the Church, including St. Paul,
who had been raised in the Jewish tradi:
tion on matters of sex. The Catholic sex
code is an almost precise continuation of
the more ancient Jewish code. For c
turies in medieval Europe, the ecclesiastic
Jaw dominated on all questions of morals
and subsequently became the basis for
the English common law, the statute laws
of England, and the laws of the various
states of the United States. This accounts
for the considerable conformity between
the Talmudic and Catholic codes and
the present-day statute law оп se:
cluding the laws on homosexual activity,”

We share a common Judaeo-Christian
heritage with Europe, but American
Puritanism has carried this country well
beyond the antisexualism still to be
found in the Old World. In much of the
U. S., the legal penalties for sodomy are
surpassed only by those for kidnaping,
murder, and rape.

And yet, despite the severest sort of
social and statutory prohibitions, Dr.
Kinsey and his research associates of
Indiana University found a гешатг
high percentage of both Amer
and women who admitted to having had
some homosexual contacts, On the open-
ing page of the chapter entitled "Homo-
sexual Outlet" in Sexual Behavior in
the Human Male, Kinsey states: “A
considerable portion of the population,
perhaps the major portion of the male
population, has at least some homo-
sexual experience between adolescence
and old age. In addition, about 60 per-

void overt соп
are of their
to other males.'

The data in this study ate that
a minimum of 37 percent of the total
male population have had overt homo-
sexual experience to the point of orgasm

«ts but who are quite
otentialities for reacting

les, approximately 30
percent have been brought to climax at
least once through mouth genital contact

with other males; and 14 percent. have
brought other males to climax in the
same manner.

When the sampling is limited to those
men who remain single until the age of
35, half (50 percent) have had overt
homosexual contact resulting in orgasm
since puberty: when educational level is
taken into consideration for this sume
group of single males, 58 percent of
those who went to high school but not
beyond, 50 percent of the grade-school
level, and 47 percent of the college level
ve had homosexual experience to the
point of orgasm after the onset of
adolescence.

Specific statistics on anal intercour
in homosexual experiences are not av
able, although Kinsey does indicate th
al intercourse is reported by 17 per-
cent of the preadolescent boys who had
engaged in homosexual activity of
sort. In general Kinsey tends to mi
anal eroticism in homosexual. relation-
ships, just as he has in heterosexual
ones, and it docs appear that oral al
techniques are far more common in both.

Among females, 20 percent of the
total population have had some overt
homosexual experience prior to the age
of 45: and 13 percent have had homo-
sexual experience resulting in orgasm.
When the sampling is limited to those
females who arc still ш ried uh
е of 45, the incidence of overt homo-
sexual experience rises to 26 percent

The erotic techniques Шу utilized
by females in homosexual relations may
often include little more than “simple lip
ing and generalized body contacts.”
Ultimately, however, with females of
increased homosexual experience, а more
timate fondling of the partner, with
nual m ation of the breasts and
genitalia, becomes almost universal (95
to 98 percent); and more specific oral
stimulation of the breasts (in 85 percent)
lia (in 78 percent) becomes
common technique.

The male and female differ m
in the number of homosexual p.

rkedly
ners

with whom they are typically involved:
nsey’s

imple of single women, a
jon (51 percent) of those
ny homosexual experience had had.
relations with but a single partner,
up to the time at which they contributed
their histories to the study
percent had had relation:
ners; only 29 percent h
sexual relations with three or more
partners; and only 3 percent had had
betwee: In contrast, a
high proportion of the males with homo-
sexual experience had had r lations with
several dilferent partners: t had
had more than ten partners, including
8 percent with over one hundred. Ki ey
originally believed that these d
in promiscuity were due prima
environmental

ten and twenty.

conside

the time he was ready to publish his
second volume his research had led him
to the conclusion that the differences in
male and female promiscuity — whether
homosexual or heterosexual — are pri-
marily the product of varying degrees of
psychosexual responsiveness in the two
sexes.

For any oldsters who may find these
statistics shocking evidence of the im-
ity of the modern generation, it
must be reported that — as with the data
ar heterosexual nonreproductive
techniques — males and females born
prior to 1900 (and in cach decade since)
evidence almost indentical percentages
for homosexual activity. Grandma and
would have been shocked b
y any open discussio;
the subject, but their actual sexu

of
1 be-
ior was little different from our own

Quite obviously. Kinsey's statistics do
not represent the number of “homo-
sexuals” in society, as we usually under-
stand and use the term, but the amount
of “homosexual experience.” The great
majority of the men and women who
have had such experiences are primarily
heterosexual in their behavior and the
most significant point to be unde
from this data is that almost all of us
have, within ourselves, the capacity to
respond to both heterosexual and homo-
sexual stimuli

On this point, Kinsey states. “It would
nicourage clearer thinking on these m:

stood

homosexual. but
dividuals who have had certain amounts.
of heterosexual experience and. certain
amounts of homosexual experience. In
ng these terms as substan
stand for persons, or even as
jectives 10 describe persons, they may
better be used to describe the of
the overt sexual or the
stimuli to which
responds.”
This po
following facts: While 37 percent of the
tori] male population — or nearly two
ales out of ever e at Teast
some overt homosexual experience to
the point of orgasm between adolescence
and old age, only 25 percent of the male
population have more tham incidents
homosexual experience or reactions ove
at least a thre period between the
es of 16 and 55: only 18 percent have
least as much homosexual as hetero-
ience in their histories for
ar period between the
10 percent are more or less
homosexual for at least
period: 8 percent are exclu-
homosexual for least thre
1 only 4 percent are exclusively
homosexual throughout their lives.
But related to the subject presently
under discussion, we must. remember

same ages:

ely

that not being “homosexual” that is
illegal in almost all of the 50 states, it
is the single “homosexual experience”
— of the sort engaged in, at one time or
another. by nearly two out of every five
adult males in society — that is a crime.
In most. states, it is a crime punishable
by a lengthy prison sentence

Our moral and legal condemnations
of homosexual activity do not apply
equally to both men and women, being
uncommonly severe deal h
male homosexuality and generally ignor-
ing like behavior in the female. This is
consistent. w gious traditio:
which h;
phasis on male homosexual activity
had Tittle to bout female homosex-
ману. The ancient Hittite code coi
demned теп for homosexual behavior

our г

ly placed much em-

but only under certain specified cir-
cumstances. and made no mention of
women: similarly, the references to

homosexuality in the Bible and Talmud
apply primarily to the mi
This seeming inconsistency is probably
partially explained by the fact that
women were considered socially less im-
portant in earlier cultures and their
private activities were more or less ig-
ored when not involving men; in addi
tiom, the speci ast
male homosexı behavior is consistent
with the Catholic emphasis on the wast-
g of the male seed as a sin. In medi
val European history thi bundant
records of death penalties imposed upon
miles for sexual contact with other
males, but very few recorded cases of
similar action against. females.
In modern English and other
law, the statutes have coni
10 apply only to men (there

Euro-
nued

pom

stitutes адашы homosexuality
only in Austria Finland and
Switzerland): but in American law, the

g of most of the statutes would
them applicable to both female
nd male homosexual activity: the pro-
hibitions usually "all persons,"
пу persons," or "any human bei
without distinction as to sex. The en-
forcement of laws however,
чийе another matte study of U.S.
court records that almost. no
women have ever been prosecuted
convicted for homosexuality, while the
prosecution and conviction of men for
homosexual activity has been extensive.
Only one state (Michigan) specifically
prohibits Lesbi v. In five s
(Connect ia, Kentucky, South
consin) the sodomy
e so written as to not include
female homosexuality. The Georgia
statute, titled Sodomy and Bestiality,
def s sodomy as s “the carnal knowledge
and connecti t the order of n;
ture, by man with man, or in the same
tural n woman.” The
ads, crime of sodomy as

reler to

these

suitutes a

179

defined in this section cannot be ac uly gross to an individual who
complished between two women; hence unaware of the frequency with which
person convicted on indictment cha exceptions to the supposed rule actually interspecific crosses, or crosse:
ing her with sodomy, both partici occu tinct varieties, have increasing'y be-
in act being alleged to be females, will Even the scientists have been con- come known. The birdbanding work has
be discharged on habeas corpus on siderably biased in their investigations shown that birds respect the limits of
ground that she is being illegally re- in this field, for they too have accepted their own species much less often than
strained of her liberty, in that indic- the traditions. Even they have believed the old-time naturalists would have in-
ment on which she was convicted was that matings between individuals of dif- sisted. And, finally, the students of sexual
null and void.” t species occur only < Within behavior among the higher mammals are

This statute thus offers an interesting t few decades, however, ‘students beginning to report an increasing num:
example of the irrational nature of all axonomy. d evolution ber of instances of animals mating, or
the laws dealing with sodomy: Cunni- trying to mate, with individuals of totally
lingus (oral contact with the female Is i gly drawn to the distinct and sometimes quite remote

philosophy or the-
n among the higher animals,
between

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genitalia) is not a crime in Georgia if tention. These, of course, predicate the species . . -
performed by another female, but it is existence of imterspecific matings. Some “When one examines the observed

a crime if it is performed by a male; biologists are clearly uncomfortable in cases of such crosses, and especially the
heterosexual fellatio (oral contact with the face of these data, and are inclined rather considerable number of instances
the male genitalia) is similarly prohib- to argue them away as they would argue in which primates, including man, have
ited. The statute states, in a further
paragraph concerned with oral-genital
activity: “Where man and woman vol-
untarily have carnal knowledge and con-
nection against the order of nature
with cach other, they are both guilty of
sodomy, whether offense be commiued
by the mouth of the man or by the
mouth of the woman.” The law makes
no exception for a husband and wife.

The courts have held that heterosex-
ual cunnilingus is not “the crime against
nature” in Mississippi and Ohio, and the
decisions would presumably apply to
homosexual cunnilingus as well; in
Arkansas, Colorado, lowa and Nebraska
the vagueness of the statutes also leaves
some doubt as to the status of female

PENALTIES FOR SEX

Maximum fine and/or imprisonment for first offense unless otherwise noted.

ADULTERY

COHABITATION sooomy*

310010? or 6 mos.** | 310010? or 6 mos.**

‘ALASKA

ARIZONA
‘ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA

5-20 yrs.

20—100%**
31000 or 1 yr.
or both

COLORADO $200 or 6 mos.****
CONNECTICUT $100 or 6 mos.

144 yrs.

ae ar both
homosexuality. Neither male nor female
homosexuality is illegal in Minois, for DELAWARE $500 oF 1 yr. or both $1000 and 3 yrs.
Wie ШЕЕ 3 erm DISTRICT ОР 0 or 6 mos. 3
it is the one state in all the 50 that has MAY SBE E $1000 or 10 yrs.
no sodomy statute.
FLORIDA $30 or 3 mos. 3500 or 2 yrs. $300 or 2 yrs. 20 yrs.
ANIMAL CONTACTS GEORGIA 31000 or 12 mos. ‘$1000 or 12 mos. 1-10 yrs.
К or both or both 2nd conviction,
U.S. sodomy statutes universally pro- KEPA
hibit sexual contact between humans HAWAN шо 00-3100 or 31000 and 20 yrs.
-3 mos.

ad infrahuman species of animal lif
the “abominable and detestable crime
against nature” is most often defined in
the statutes as being “either with m:
kind or beast.” Kinsey reports that ani-
mal contacts represent the smallest source
of common sexual outlet, but they are
by no means rare and the relatively
her percentages of such experience in
communities, on farms, and where

IDAHO $300 or 6 mos. 100-1000 or

or both mos.-3 yrs.

$200 or 6 mos.
or both

$500 or 6 mos.
or both

Syrs. to?

ILLINOIS

INDIANA

IOWA

KANSAS $500 or 6 mos.

гиг
larger animals are more readily avail

KENTUCKY. 320-350 2-5 yrs.

able. suggest that accessibility may have LOUISIANA 51000 or 1 yr. $2000 or 5 уп.
more to do with the incidence of such ae = mc = —
behavior than moral and legal prohibi- zx ыа LES
tions. MARYLAND $10

Kinsey states, "To many persons it MASSACHUSETTS | — $30 or 3 mos. $500 or 3 yes. 3300 or 3 уп.
will seem almost axiomatic that two MICHIGAN $500 or 1 yr. $2000 or 4 yrs, 15угз.
mating animals should be individuals of ке

MINNESCTA $100 or 3 mos. $300 or 2 у.

the same

species. This is so often truc,
from one end of the animal kingdom to мо ЗАК кон 550080 6а
the other, that exceptions to the rule uu Bue $1000 or Ти. 2ys. to?
seem especially worthy of note. To those MONTANA ETE EES

or both
NEBRASKA $100 and 6 mos. lyr.

who believe, as children do, that con. or both

formance should be universal, any de-
pirture from the тше becomes an
180 immorality. The immorality scems par-

been involved, one begins to suspect that
the rules about intraspecific matings arc
not so universal as tradition would have
it. Indecd, one is struck anew with the
necessity for better reasons than biolo-
gists and psychologists have yet found,
for expecting that animal matings should
invariably be limited to individuals of
the same species,

“In light of the above, it is particu-
larly interesting to note the degree of
abhorrence with which intercourse be-
tween the human and animals of other
species is viewed by most persons who
have not had such experience. The biol
chologist, and the an-
thropologist and the student of history,
will have made a significant contribution
when they can expound the develop

OFFENSES IN THE U.S.

When two numbers are given, they represent minimum and maximum penalties.

ment of our taboos on such contacts.”
These taboos were already well-estab-
lished in the time of the Old Testament
and the Talmud. It is worth noting
that in the older Hittite code, which in-
fluenced later Hebrew law, the taboos
on animal intercourse were not so clearly
the moral issues that they subsequently
came to be. Specifically, in the Hittite
code it is decreed that “If a man lie with
a cow the punishment is death, .. . If a
man lies with а hog or dog, he shall d
If a bull rear upon a man, the bull
shall die, but the man shall not dic.
If a boar rear иро n, there
penalty. . . . If a man lies with a horse
or mule, there is no penalty, but hc
shall not come near the king, and hc
shall not become it pricst.”

FORNICATION ADULTERY COHABITATION
NEW HAMPSHIRE | $50 or6 mos. 3:00 &1 yr. 1000 or 5 yrs.
312-3 yrs. or both
NEW JERSEY 0 or 6 1000 or 3 000 or 20 yis.
ыз "е. bol фын
NEW MEXICO 100 or 6 mos. 5000 or 2-10:
ык Кышы
m
NEW YORK 3250 or 6 mos. $500 or1yr.
ar bath or both
NORTH CAROLINA | Fine or jailor beth | Fine or jail or both
as court may direct | as court may direct

NORTH DAKOTA | $100 or 1 mo.
or both

or both

$500 or 3 yrs.

3100-5500 or
1 mo.-3 mos.

$200 or 3 mos.

OHIO $200 or 3 mos.
OKLAHOMA

5
ا
طا ا

OREGON 450-4300 o $200-$1000 or

Ге mos. 3 ms 2 yrs
PENNSYLVANIA | $100 $500 or Lyr. $5000 or 10 yrs.

or both

RHODE ISLAND | sto $500 or] yr.
SOUTH CAROLINA | $100-3500 er 4100-5500 or $5000 to ? or

б mos--1 yr. or both

6 mos--1 yr. or both

Š yrs. or both

SOUTH DAKOTA
or both

$500 or 5 yrs.

TENNESSEE.

TEXAS $50-$500 5100-51000

UTAH 3100 or 6 mos. ays.

VERMONT зоо or 5 ys. 1-5 yrs.
VIRGINIA 320-5100 320-8100

WASHINGTON $1000 oF 2 yrs. $1000 or 1 уг.

WEST VIRGINIA $20 to? 320107

ог both

S50 to ? or 6 mos.
or both

WISCONSIN 3200 or 6 тоз. 31000 or 3 yrs.
or both or both or both
WYOMING $100 and 3 mos. $100 and 3 mos,

*Sodomy often referred to as "the crime against nature

**$300 to ? or 1 year for second conviction; 2 years for third.

"$100 to ? ог 1 year for second conviction; 1 to 3 years for third conviction.
‘****Double first sentence imposed for second conviction and so on for subsequent convictions.
*****Penalty for male only; for female, penalty is less: $10 to $30 or 1 to З months’ imprisonment,

includes. wide variety of “unnatural” sexual activity, with
animals or with another person of either Sex, both within and outside of marriage,

‘conviction.

Kinsey comments, “These are proscrip-
tions against contacts with certain ani-
while contacts with certain other
mals are more or less accepted. Such
distinctions are striking!y paralleled by
the taboos which made certain foods
dean and other foods unclean. [As we
have previously noted, early Christians
then adapted and subs
forced these traditions:
for a time, an
Christian to have sexual relations with
a Jew.] The student of human folks
is inclined to see a considerable body of
superstition in the origins of all such
taboos, even though they may ultimately
become religious and moral issues for
whole nations and whole races of
people

In any case,
contacts with a

is certain that human
imals of other species
have been known since the dawn of his-
they appear in the folk tales of
ancient. culture, and references to
contacts abound in ihe writings
t of the oldest civilizations; they

own to every race and culture
acluding our own.

Kinsey concludes, "Far from being
matter for surprise, the record simply
substantiates our present understanding
that the forces which bring individuals
of the same species together in sexual

ever
such

and
are also

relations, may sometimes serve to bring
individuals of different species together

in the same types of sexual relations.”

About 8 percent of the tota! ma
population have some sexual
with animals. Most such expe
in the early postadolescent уса
tween adolescence and the age of 20—
with the incidence dropping markedly
the older age groups. Frequency of animal
cts is similarly low in the male pop-
n, taken as a whole; for most indi-
Is, they do not occur more than once
or twice, or a few times in a lifetime.
The significance of such experiences
becomes more pronounced, however,
when our consideration is limited to the
records of males raised in rural or farm
communities, with a ready access to ani-
mals, For this group, approximately 17
percent experience orgasm as the result
of animal contacts which occur some-
time after the onset of adolescence;
many more rut
tacts with animals that do not result in
d there are an additional
number who have preadolescent expe
ences, which ot included in the
above calculations. In total, Kinsey re-
mething between 40 and 50
nt of all farm boys have some sort
of animal contact, either with or with-
out orgasm, in their preadolescent, ado-
lescent, and/or later histories. These
must be minimum data, for there has
undoubtedly been some cover-up in the
reports of these activities.”

Kinsey found that in certain western

1 males have sexual con-

are

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182

areas of the United States. where
mals are most readily available and social
restraints related to such behavior are less
severe, incidence figures for some com-

nunities rose as high as 65 percent. The
marked difference in percentages of ex-
perience between rural and urban males,
plus the number of experiences for
urban boys that occur during v
arms, suggests that the opportunity
such contacts is a major consideration in.
determining the accumulative incidence;
if city-bred boys had simi

ges of experience for the total
population would approximate
those established for rural males.

As with most other aspects of human
sexual beh г, there h corre!
tion between educational level and the
extent of infrahuman sexual experience:
14 to 16 percent of the rural males of
de-school level, 20 percent of the
1 males of high-school level, and 96
to 28 percent of the rural males of col-
lege level have some contact with animals
to the point of orgasm. Well over half of
these upper-level males have some sort
of scxual contact with animals and nearly
one in every three achieves orgasm
through such contacts.
xperiences with animals usually
represent a form of sexual experimenta-
tion for the adolescent male, which
disappears in the mid-tcens; but in some
rural areas, especially in the West. there
is a consider ular activ-
ity in the later teens and even through
the ies. In most s, such
1
relations with human females; this is par-
ularly wue in ru 5 where the
opportunity for both social and sexual
relations with girls may be
most parts of the country anima
course is extremely rare among ma
males.

"The animals involved in such contacts
include practically all or the species that
re commonly domesticated on the farm
or kept as pets in the household. Because
of the relatively low incidence and fre-
quency of such activity in the population
as a whole, animal contacts are signifi
cant primarily because of the extreme
social and legal taboos attached 10 such
behavior.
isey comments, “In rural commu!
ties where animal contacts are not
infrequent, and where there is some gei
eral knowledge that they do commonly
occur, there seem to be few personal con-
flicts growing out of such activity, and
very few social difficulties. It is only when
the farm-bred male migrates to a city
community and comes in contact with
city-bred react to these activities, that
he becomes upset over the contemplation
of what he has бопе...

“Anglo-American legal codes rate sex-
ual relations between the human and

mals of other species as sodomy
punishable under the same laws whi
penalize homosexual and mouth-ge
contacts. The city-bred judge who hears
such a case is likely to be unusually
severe in his condemnation, and is likely
to give the maximum sentence that is
possible. Males who are sent to penal
stitutions on such charges are likely to
receive unusually severe treatment both
from the administrations and from the
mmates of the ns. АП in all,
there is probably no type of human ses
ual behavior which h been more
severely condemned by that segment of
the population which happens not 10
have had such experience, and which
accepts the age-old judgment that animal
intercourse must evidence а men
abnormali well as i
1 contacts with
less common among [ema
found only 3.6 percent
female population with any evidence of
such activity in their histories after the
beginning of adolescence. The sample
was considered too small to permit any
valid urban-rural or educational break-
down, although ity of the females
who reported having had such experi-
ences were from the better-educated s
ments of the population
The extensive sexual involvement of
human females with a wide variety of
anim: п ancient folklore, Classic Greek
and Roman mythology, and major liter-
ary and artistic efforts of more recent
centuries (including some of the world's
great art; eg. Leda and the Swan has
been a recurring, ever-popular theme
with artists down through the ages, from
Classic sculpture, to the p. s by
Michelangelo and Rubens, to contem-
porary Picasso) is understood in its
relation to actual sexual behavior when
viewed not as a reflection of common
female activity, but as a projection of
erotic ma asics about the female.
The hur ater capacity to be
aroused by eal stimuli not only
leads him into a far greater number of
sexual experiences, and experiences of
greater variety, but also produces an
extensive masculine interest їп unus-
ual, rare, and sometimes fantastically
impossible types of sexual activity. In
Kinsey points out, there
is a great deal more discussion and a
more extensive body of literature and art
on such sexual themes as incest, t
titism, necrophilia, and the more extreme
forms of fetishism, sado-masochism and
animal contacts, than the actual occur-
rence of any of these phenomena justifie:
It is clear, nevertheless that there is
considerable diversity in human sexual
r that most of thi
variety on our favorite theme is
forbidden by the sterner traditions of
our Judaco-Christian heritage and by
the statutory laws that it has begotten

imals are even
les and Kinsey
of the adult

пзуез-

Kinsey
nd

points out that for most
iduals the various types of sexual
tivity may seem to fall into categories
that are as far apart as right and wrong.
icit and illicit, normal and abnormal.
acceptable and unacceptable in our soci-
ety. To cach of us, the significance of any
particular activity depends largely upon
our own previous experience. Ultimately,
certain activities may seem to be the
only ones that have value, that are right,
that are proper, that are socially accept
able; and all departures from our own
particular pattern may appear the ex-
tremes in what is i
But. scientific a now av:
port the conclusion that,
proper set of environmental circum-
stances, most ini duals could have
been sexually conditioned in any of a
number of different. directions, even into
5 which they now consider quite
ceptable.

In the search for a more reasonable,
objective and psychologically sound ap-
proach to sex, upon which to base better
nd legal codes, it would help if
we more clearly recognized and differ-
entiated between the sexual behavior
that is common to а large part of society

nd that which is relatively uncommon,
Kinsey observes, “Considerable con
sion has been introduced into our think

ng by this failure to distinguish between
sexual activities that are frequent and a
fundamental part of the pattern of be-
havior, and sexual activities which are
rare and of ficance only to a limited
number of persons. Psychologic and
psychiauic texts are as likely to give as
much space to overt sado-masochistic or
necrophilic activity as they give to homo-
sexual and mouth-genital activities, but
the last two are widespread ignifi-
nt. parts of the lives of many females
and males, while many of the other types
of behav ity rare.”

ILLEGAL PETTING

Current U. S. laws give governmental
sanction to a specific set of religious
ideals regarding sex. Our present quarrel
is not with the ideals themselves —
though we do believe that a rational
society should be able to produce a bet-
ter, more humane, more workable sexi
morality than the present one, and we
intend a fuller d
of the problem ii ег installment;
but what we here object to —and it
a concern that should be shared by
every individual who believes in the
fundamental principles of our democ-
‚ regardless of his personal religious
and moral persuasion — is the unconsti-
tutional church-state alliance that makes
any one religious dogma the law of the
land in this supposedly free society.

All sexual intercourse outside the
churchtatesanctioned bonds of maui-

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mony is prohibited under the statutes
on fornication and adultery; all non-
procreative sexual activity, between the
same and opposite sexes, both inside and
outside of marriage, and including any
undue familiarity with household pets, is
prohibited under the statutes on sodomy.

Our state laws on sodomy are derived
directly from the religious doctrine that
the only natural purpose of sex is pro-
creation; it follows, therefore, that non-
ve sex is a “crime against

These sodomy statutes are so all-inclu-
e in their joyless suppression of any
variety in our sexual behavior that we
might be prompted to conclude that the
only form of love play left legal is pet-
ing. Such a condusion would be overly
optimistic. In two states (Indiana and
Wyoming) the sodomy statutes actually
nclude a prohibi nst heavy pet-
ting (the masturbation of another per-
son of either sex who is under the age
of 21). The laws in both states read:
“Whoever entices, allures, instigates or
aids any person under the age of
twenty-one (21) years to commit mastur-
bation or self-pollution shall be deemed
guilty of sodomy.” This means, quite
literally, that if a Wyoming or Indiana
male masturbates his 20-year-old girl-
friend, he is guilty of sodomy.

"The medieval Church taboos on even
solitary masturbation continue to influ-
ence contemporary society's attitude
toward a sexual activity that is near
universal in the male and common to
a majority of females as well. Ultimately
92 percent of the total male population
is involved in masturbation which leads
to orgasm; and among college-educated
males, the incidence is higher, reach
96 percent. In the total female popul
tion, 62 percent ultimately engage
masturbation, and 58 percent achieve
orgasm this manner; educati
level predictably exists as a factor, with
only 34 percent of the grade school-level
females ever achieving orgasm through
masturbation, 57 to 59 percent of the
high-school and college level, and 63
percent of the graduate-level females
masturbating to the point of orgasm.

Heavy petting, frequently induding
masturbation of either, or both, sexes is
also extremely common in the years
prior to marriage; indeed, for upper-
educated males and females, such pre-
marital sex play often serves as а sub-
stitute for coitus. Almost all males
engage in fairly extensive heavy pet-
ting prior to marriage and 88 percent
have some petting experience that leads
to orgasm; 96 percent of all females
have some premarital petting experience
and 89 percent have achieved orgasm
through such petting. The extent of
direct manual stimulation of the geni-
talia of, or by, a partner, as a petting

184 technique, is related to the amount of

previous coital experience. Among fe-
males who have not had sexual inter-
course, 36 percent have some petting in
which they receive such manual stimula-
tion, and 24 percent give such manual
stimulation to the male; among females
who have had only a limited amount of
coitus, 87 percent have relationships in
which they receive, and 72 percent
where they give, manual stimulation;
among females with more extensive

coital experience, 95 percent receive,
and 86 percent give, manualgenital
stimulation.

Tt is reasonable to assume that the
male and female populations of Wyo-
ming and Indiana are little different in.
such behavior than the total population
of the U.S.; that being so, this unique
wrinkle in the sodomy statutes of these
two states attempts to suppress some of
the most common sex activity in exist-
ence —activity in which almost all of
its citizens have, at one time or another,
been involved.

The severity of the pei
sodomy, or "crimes ag;
natized by the Wyoming and Indiana
statutes. "These two states could punish
the completed act of sexual intercourse
between a man and a girl who happened
to be between the ages of 18 and 21 as
fornication, with maximum possible
sentences of three. and months re-
spectively. (If the girl were under the
age of 18, the act would be considered
statutory rape and permit a considerably
heavier penalty.) But if the same male
and female refrained from sexual inter-
course, confining their lovemaking to
petting — including masturbation of the
female — they would be guilty of an act
of sodomy and liable to imprisonment
of up to ten years in Wyoming and
fourteen years in Indiana.

PENALTIES FOR SODOMY

The irrational nature of U. S. sodomy
statutes emphasizes the lack of logic that
pervades almost all of our sex laws; the
severity of the penalties for what our
lawmakers have deemed to be “crimes
against nature” emphasizes the extreme,
religiously inspired superstition and
emotionalism that still persist in our
attitudes toward sex in this supposedly
modern, rational, scientifically enlight-
ened, just, humane and free society.

Forty-nine of the fifty states have sod-
omy statutes. Almost all of them make
illegal the variety of noncoital sex activ-
ity discussed in this issue — at least some
of which is engaged in, at one time ог
another, by a majority of our adult
population. Almost none of these stat-
utes make any distinction. between a
prohibited act when it is performed by
members of the same or the opposite
sex (the single exception permits certain
activity between two females, as noted,
that is prohibited between a female and

a male) None of these statutes makes
any distinction between a prohibited
act when it is performed by a married
couple and one that is unmarried. The
penalties for behavior covered under
our sodomy statutes are among the most
severe of any in U. S. law.

Sixteen states and the District of
Columbia specify imprisonment of up
to 10 years at hard larbor for "crimes
against nature"; the maximum sentence
in another 14 or 15 years and
eleven states specify 20. In Idaho and
Montana the minimum penalty for sod-

5 years, with no maximum in-
in North Carolina the minimum
is 5 years and the maximum 60; in
Nevada the possible maximum penalty
is imprisonment for life.

"The American Law Institute expressed
its concern over U. S. sex statutes in 1955
when it drafted its Model Penal Code
to replace our present irrational laws.
This model code was predicated on the
premise that in a free society all sex
relations entered into freely by adults
in private should be excluded from our
criminal law. In the nine years since
the w Institute handed down this
opinion, the legislature of only one
state — Illinois — has made any serious
attempt to correct its statutes on sex.
Some two years ago Illinois’ legislators
replaced their sodomy statute with a
new law patterned after the one sug.
gested by the Institute. Illinois is,
therefore, the only state in the Union
with no statute for “the abominable and
detestable crimes against nature.”

This example of modern legislative
acumen is not without its irony, how-
ever. The Illinois lawmakers did те
move thc state's sodomy statute, but
they left standing the statutes against
fornication and adultery. Illinois is thus
in the unique position of permitting all
so-called “perversion,” both heterosexual
and homosexual, while prohibiting nor-
mal sexual intercourse.

It is obvious that we are still a very
long way from establishing sanc sex laws
anywhere in these United States.

In the next installment of “The Play-
boy Philosophy,” Editor-Publisher Hugh
M. Hefner will offer his own suggestions
for a more reasoned and reasonable set
of statutes on sex; he will also discuss
the problems of juvenile sex crime, pros-
titution, abortion and birth control.

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for readers’ comments — pro and con —
on subjects raised. in previous install-
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ГТ THE OBSCURE ISLAND OF NUEANUEA
IN THE VAST SAMOAN CHAIN, WE FIND
ANNIE STEPPING FROM A NEWLY DECORATED
| NUKANU LONG-BOAT, AND WE MIGHT WELL
ASK WHAT BRINGS ANNIE TO NUKANUKA IN A

1
THAT THIS WAS
A BACKWARD
COUNTRY ^^ AND
IF РМ THE ONLY
ONE DRESSED,
THAT CERTAINLY

BACKWARD! !

RALPHIE! f/ гих, ANNIE! YOURE IN ANOTHER
ANOTHER CULTURE! THEY REGARD KISSING
CIVILIZED AS DISGUSTING, SEE -~ THE CHIEF
PERSON! IS COMING TO AFFECTIONATELY
come GREET YOU ИЧ THE PECULIAR
Kiss E) NUKANUAI FASHION QUICK!

NOW, RALPHIE > 1 WAS WILLING TO COME OUT HERE AND
SACRIFICE ~ BUT ODN'T YOU THINK THIS 15 TOO MUCH ?

IT'S ALL IN THE POINT OF VIEW,
ANNIE! WHILE IN OUR CULTURE, WE
PUT OUR WET, SALIVATING, GERM-
INFESTED MOUTHS TOGETHER, HIS
CULTURE USES A MORE HONEST
EXPRESSION OF MALE VIRILITY.

185

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186

YOUR.
E HEAD.

HE Ў ОН, CHIEF -+ THIS IS THE YELLOW-
PUTS HIS HAIRED SCHOOL TEACHER | HAVE
FOOTON SUMMONED ACROSS THE WATERS

FROM THE GREAT WHITE FATHER.
IN WASHINGTON, ATMO SABES

МАКАО THIS
THE NEW SCHOOL.

I THINK THE CHIEF
15 OREAMY. HIS BE-
LIEFS GIVE HIM
SUCH STRENGTH:
TELL ME MORE
WHILE | CHANGE
INTO SOMETHING
MORE COMFORTABLE.

WELL ~ TO BEFRIEND THE
NUKANUANS, WE CAN'T ASSUME THE
STEREOTYPE OF SUPERIOR WHITES TALKING|

DOWN TO UNCIVILIZED NATIVES.
WE MUST ADOPT THEIR WAYS «+
BECOME A PART OF THEIR CULTURE WE
HAVE TO FORGET ABOUT THE
WHITE MAN'S CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS,
HOWEVER SUPERIOR THEY SEEM—

COME LITTLE OH, NO! NOT
YELLOW- HAIRED SCHOOL PRAYER!
SCHOOL MARM ** LISTEN, CHIEF ---
=“ YOU WILL TEACH | IT’S HARD TO EXPLAIN,
INOUR UTTLE BUT CHURCH AND

BLACKBOARD | STATE SHOULO BE

JUNGLE SEPARATE -- 1

NOW CLASS MEAN, IT’S THE
STARTS WITH WAY OF
TRADITIONAL. DEMOCRACY ~
NUKANU PRAYER.

CHIEF BOOLA GOLDLUAU IS VERY
TRADITIONAL. HE FIERCELY
DEFENDS THE STRANGE, OLD
TRIBAL WAYS -- WHICH GIVE
HIM GREAT STRENGTH -: AND
AFTER ALL, “STRANGE OLD
TRIBAL WAYS" ARE MERELY
^ POINT OF VIEW.

ANNIE! SHAME ON YOU!
COVER YOURSELF, QUICK!
~ CRYING OUT LouD!

OH, RALPHIE =

YOU MAKE THINGS SO
DIFFICULT WITH YOUR.

IDEAS! --« LEAPIN'
LIZARDS, IF SOMEBODY
DOESN'T WANT TO
PRAY, THEY CAN JUST
SIT THERE BY THEM-

SELVES AND IGNORE

ITALL-

^ -AND WHAT OH, DEAR-
ABOUT THE HUMAN DON'T THEY

WAIT, EVERYBODY ! EVERYONE
KNOW NUKANUKA ISLAND IS
NEXT TO KANUKANAL ISLAND.
WHICH IS ACROSS CANOE
CANAL !-- THE NEW

CANOE CANAL! THE NEW
NUKANU- KANUKANAL
CANOE -CANAL.

SILLY LITTLE IGNORANT
YELLOW- HAIR * AS EVERY

DURING THE PRAYER. / LIKE, GEOLOGY " $ EVIL SPIRITS AMONGST
AND PRESSURES Я | NUKANUANS + WHICH
AND SHIFTING z GOTTA BE PURGED BY
5 ۶ KILLING ANO TORTURE.

WE CONSIDER. THROWING
NATIVES INTO VOLCANO
ANYTHING SO HORRIBLE YOU INHUMAN, MEDIEVAL
LIKE THROWING NUKA-
NUANS INTO VOLCANO,
IN MY RELIGION #

e
>

x |

IN KANUKANAL WHERE | WAS BDRN, WE
TAUGHT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BELIEFS! WE
USE FOUR TOM-TOMS, A REFORM WITCH-

DOCTOR, AND A FISH IDOL.

EXACTLY MY POINT, CHIEF! You
CAN'T FORCE STUDENTS TO FOLLOW
| | A SINGLE BELIEF! THIS BOY MAY
Mi \ THINK HIS BELIEF IS AS GOOD AS

\ Your BELIEF MAYBE BETTER!

«TO APPEASE GODS, WE
ONLY THROW WHITE FOREIGNERS
INTO VOLCANO.

z
©
©

187

- WHITE HERO AND HEROINE ALL THAT'S
ESCAPING FROM THE WILD SAVAGES « THE. LACKING IS THE
VERY HACKNEYED "UNCLE TOM" IMAGE OF WHITE ERUPTING VOL-
CANO THAT KILLS

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BEAUTIFUL GIRL CARRYING

OH, HERO TO SAFETY - THAT'S A
PHONY STEREO- RALPHIE =- SWITCH ON THE STEREOTYPE?
TYPE THEY PUSH IN SHUT UP PLL ACCEPT THAT!

MOVIES AND TV «+

HERO CARRYING
BEAUTIFUL GIRL

im, TO SAFETY-

ОН, RALPHIE! SHUT UP AND AT
LEAST LET ME KEEP RUNNINGS,

188

NUKANUKA ONCE ISLAND PARADISE UNTIL GODS MADE
ANGRY BY EVIL SPIRITS AMONGST MY PEOPLE, SO | FOLLOW
TRADITIONAL NUKANUAN BELIEFS -FIRST | THROW TEN
MEN IN VOLCANO, BUT GODS NOT APPEASED! SO THEN | THROW

TEN WOMEN IN * GODS NOT APPEASED! THEN 1
THROW ALL MEN IN! THEN ALL WOMEN ! THEN ALL CHIL-

DREN /^- NOW GODS ARE APPEASED! ONLY > 15 NO

ONE LEFT TO ENJOY ISLANO PARADISE !

MAN AND WHITE
GIRL ESCAPE ON A
RAFT WHILE CHIEF
GDLDLUAU AND

ARE DESTROYED
BY VOLCANO.

KAU!
ME
NEITHER!

CHILDREN int |
FIRST!

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