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PLAYBIL матн Ше advent of 

leap year, young 
men's thoughts tum not only to the ien- 
der traps laid by marriage minded. maid- 
ens but то Ше по less time-honored 
quadrennial ritual of clecting а Presi- 
dent. Our timeliest article this. month, 
Lower the Voting. Age, is concerned 


with that sizable body of Americans— 
ges 


12,000,000— who between rhe 
Г 18 and 21 and who will not be voting 
in November. The author is Jacob К. 
Javits, senior U.S. Senator from New 
York and one of the most respected of 
liberal Republicans. No stranger 10 the 
demands of the writer's craft, Senator 
Javits has penned wo books. Discrimi- 
nation, U.S, A. and the more recent Or 
der of Battle: A Republican’s Call to 
Reason. 

Politics also provides us this month 
with a generous helping of humor im 
Ralph Schoenstein's 4 Day im the Life of 
President. George Romney—or Robert 
Kennedy. Richard Nixon, Ronald Rea- 
gan, Martin Luther King, Charles Percy, 
Hubert Humphrey. Nelson Rockefeller. 
Lurleen and George Wallace, which 
prophesies what might happen if various 
kely and norsolikely individuals were 
to be elected President. Schoenstein 
reports that he's hard at work on a 
me of tonguein-cheek travel pieces 
vely titled O Beautiful. Fallacions 
; it is scheduled for publication later 
г by Prentice Hall, 

Versatile Мах Gunther, who in recent 
issues has sounded out the new w 
makers in sonics research and 1 
tured the myth of computer 
considers another fu с phenomenon 
the Light. Fantastic. Gunther 
t илувоу is the third most 
popular magazine among, laser scientists, 
just behind Scientific American and. La 
ser Focus; one lab he visited had a gate- 
MALAMUD 


Lasers. 
reports. ii 


COOVER 


fold taped to the wall with the caption 
“PLASERBOY'S PLASER MATE OF T MONTH 

Curious Courtships, an imevere! 
valentine flavored review of some old-time 
postcards, is the work of James Pridcaus, 
а member of the Playwrights Unit (head- 
ed by Edward Albee, Clinton Wilder 
and Richard Ban), which has produced 
two of his plays, Lemonade and—coind- 
dentally Postcards. Prideaux to 
continue living and working the 
heart of Broadway, with occasional sal- 
ies t0 the Catskills.” 

1 Pinp's Revenge—the tr 
of an Am 
lead. story month and the second 
riavsOY piece by Bernard Malamud. 
Since publication of The Natural in 
1952, Malamud has earned the plaudits 
of both the critics and the public with 
succession of sensitively conceived and 
skillfully crafted works, induding The 
Assistant, The Magic Barrel, A New 
Life, The Fixer and his most recent 
book. A Malamud Reader. Currently оп 
the faculty at Harvard, he is writing a 
new novel and is working on a volume of 
short siori include 4 Pimp's Re 
nge—tor release in 1909. 
Robert Goover—author ol 
Aci, a gray-to-black-humor fantasy about 
а magician—is a former colleague of ours, 
having worked on our promotion stall. 
Now teaching at Ше Writers’ Workshop 
of the State University of Iowa, Coover 
has a new novel, The Universal Baseball 
J. Нету Waugh, Prop.. 
scheduled for publication next month by 
Random House; an carlier Coover work, 
The Origin of the Brunists, won the Wil- 
Faulkner Award as the best frst 
ле Hat Act, which will 
ually be included 
stories titled Exemplary Fictions, is Coo- 
ver's first PLAYBOY contribution. 
HENTOFF 


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WOLFE 


The Hot Sauces of Magda, by Ber- 
nard Wolfe, rounds out our 
for the month. Though f 
PLAvHoY story—as a matter of fact, it's 
his 1th—Magda is onc of his ironic 
best, about the romantic mi mures 
of a Mexican fruit picker. Wolfe, who is 
giving a course im short-story ing 
at UCLA, is at work on a pair of novels, 
My House Is Your House and Up You 
Go. A volume of bis tales, Move Up. 
Dress Up. Drink Up. Burn Up., will be 
published in April by Doubleday. 

That m fice for an ordinary 


issue; but since February boasts an extra 
day this time around, we've compiled 
additio of pictorial and repor 


divertisements to match the occi- 
n Brown, former football star of 
the Cleveland Browns and now a full 
Hedged film star. discusses the perils of 
fullbacking and the green side of black 
exclusive Playboy Interview. 
Ken 


are qs Ines species оГ car 
that has matured in Detroit. Also on 
hand are the results of our Jazz and Pop 
Poll, with Nat Немо! comprehensive 
survey of 19675 music scene; Thomas 
Mario's Let Yourself Goo. a guide to the 
uninhibited enjoyment of exwavagant 


desserts; a wardrobe of outdoor ойи 
for urban excursions by designer Bill 


Blass; and Sights & Sounds of "6$, a 
roundup of the latest and best in hifi 
and television equipage. Our eve opening 
pictorials include an inside look at epi- 
dermal attractions on display at a stun- 
ning Miss Nude Universe Contest; 
revealing rendervous with up-and-com 
screen star Joanna Рецес and 
with our lovely Playmate of the Month, 
Nancy Harwood. АП of which goes to 
prove that the shortest month of the year 
can be long on entertainment for men. 
PURDY 


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vol. 15, no. 2—february, 1968 


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CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE 


PLAYBILL 3 
DEAR PLAYBOY . 7 
PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 15 
THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 33 
PLAYBOY'S INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK —trevel PATRICK CHASE 37 
THE PLAYBOY FORUM. 39 
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: JIM BROWN—candid conversation 


А PIMP'S REVENGE fiction. 

LASERS: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC—article 
CURIOUS COURTSHIPS humor JAMES PRIDEAUX 75 
АТ EASE IN TOWN-—atlire...... ROBERT L GREEN 80 
LOWER THE VOTING AGE—opinion U.S. SENATOR JACOB K, JAVITS ва 
THE LADY IN “BLUE” 
THE HOT SAUCES OF MAGDA—fiction 
THE GIRL FROM INNER SPACE—playboy's playmate of the month 92 
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 100 


BERNARD MALAMUD 68 
MAX GUNTHER 72 


ictorial 


BERNARD WOIFE 88 


KEN W. PURDY 102 
THOMAS MARIO 111 
RALPH SCHOENSTEIN 116 


SPORTY AND SPECIAL—modern living 
LET YOURSELF GOO—food 

A DAY IN THE LIFE ОР... —selire 
THE MISS NUDE UNIVERSE CONTEST—pictorial 119 
TEARS AND LAUGHTER—ribald classic 125 
THE HAT ACT—fiction.. ROBERT COOVER 127 
SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF '68—modern living. 128 
JAZZ & POP '68 NAT HENTOFF 135 


HUGH M. HEFNER editor and publisher 
А. C. SPECTORSKY associate publisher and editorial director 
ARTHUR PAUL art director 
JACK J. KESSIE managing editor VINCENT T, TAJIRI picture editor 


SHELDON WAX assislant managing editor; MURRAY FISHER, MICHAEL. LAURENCE, NAT 
LEHRMAN senior editors; ROME MACAULEY ficlion editor; JAMES GOODE arlicles 
editor; ARTHUR KRETCUMER associate articles сапог; ROBERT J. SUPA, DAVID STEVENS, 
ROBERT ANTON WILSON associate editors; ROBERT 1. GREEN fashion director; DAVID 
TAYLOR fashion editor: THOMAS Mawo food & drink editor; VATRICK CHASE travel 
editor; J. PAUL cerry contributing editor, business & finance; KEN W. PURDY. con 
tributing editor; сила» кост administrative editor; ARLENE воска copy chief; 
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editor; MARILYN GRABOWSKI assistanl сите editor; MARIO CASILLL, STAN MALINOW- 
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PSYCHEDELIC SEX 
Congratulations to PLwvBOY and to 
writer R. E. Г. Masters for the Novem 
her article Sex, Ecstasy and the Ps- 
chedelic Drugs. Ws high time. no pun 
intended, that someone published an ac 
curate and readable report on the sex 
enhancing potential of today's drugs, and 
Masters piece was just that. 1 was 
especially impressed with his discussion 
of the way the conservative medical es- 
tablishment has cried wolf once too often 
and now, in the face of what may be very 
real dangers, its w 
1 hope PrAvmov's commendable open- 
mindedness will result 


nings go unheeded, 


з other articles as 


imeresting as this one, 
John S. Вепу 
Bay Shore, New York 


With the publica GC Ue Hes 
Masters’ article, PLAYBOY has given its 
readers the only accurate, scholarly and 
significant treatise in print on this impor- 
tant topic. It is unfortunate that Mas- 
ters and other researchers are unable to 
further investigate the ейеаз of these 
drugs, due to severe (and, in my opinion, 
foolish) restrictions imposed by the De 
partment of Health, Education and Wel 
fare. Nowhere in this nation is there a 
Clinic or a laboratory where a nonpsy 
chiatric volunteer cam undergo Ше psy- 
chedelic experience under controlled. 
guided conditions with bona-fide LSD. 
PLAVHOY continues to be опе of the [ew 
publications in America where readers 
can explore the many lacets ol psychedelic 
drugs. Masters piece is the finest you have 
published on the topic since your article 
by Aldous Huxley in 1963. 

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D, 
Brooklyn, New York 


Sex, Ecstasy and the Psychedelic 
Drugs, by R. E. L. Masters, was very in- 
teresting and well motivated, Personally, 
I have no experience with the sexual 
potentialities of LSD; but I know very 
well the "amplifying" power of the sub- 
stance and can easily imagine that imer- 
ljusted 


course between two mutually 
lovers who have taken LSD may reach 
unbelievable intensity. I wish to take this 
ocasion to praise the efforts of Masters, 


and those of other American pioneers, to 
counteract the many ridiculous and base- 
less charges that are currently made 
against LSD. We have in my country а 
perfectly similar wave of irresponsible 
ind terrorspreading information. Re- 
ccutly, ап Italian medical review stared 
that besides being “more destructive than 
Thalidomide,” LSD “has no therapeutic 
value whatsoever.” Personally, I know 
very well how useful it can be if proper- 
dy and carefully used—as therapy in 
severe cases of psychoncuroses, with ob- 
durne alcoholics, etc 

But E also know that the importance of 
LSD and the other psychedelic drugs 
goes far beyond their therapeutic use 
and | could give plenty of evidence for 
this statement, Masters’ aride was а 
challenging and thought provoking piece 
of work. 


Professor Emilio Servadio 
Rome, Italy 


Masters! article was excellent, the first 
Tve read on the subject that presented 
the truth. Гус used LSD and marijuana 


for over two years and find both sub- 
stances very rewanding, My husband 


and I derive a great deal of pleasure 

experiences enhanced. by 
these drugs. Pm certain that E speak for 
more Americans than most people realize 
when I congratulate Masters for telling it 
like i is 


from sexual 


(Name withheld by request) 
Vancouver, Washington 


PORTRAIT OF MICHELANGELO 
After viewing Blow-Up, a film that 
brilliantly explores the natwe and bor. 
ders of rcality 
man lay behind such a fine motion pice 
ture. My thanks for providing the an- 
swer in your November interview with 
Michelangelo Antonioni. He is clearly a 
cinematic genius; his philosophy is as 


1 wondered what kind of 


fresh and exciting as hus films. 
Stanley Glassman 
West Palm Beach, Florida 


Tm alraid a lot of people think anyone 
could make a movie like Blow-Up, but 
your imerview with Michelangelo Anto- 
Dioni shows how mistaken they are, As 
а serious student of the cinema, alter 


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A Vell of Arpege. It clings 

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PLAYBOY 


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reading your interview, I can only сай 
Antonioni a genius. He man truly 
dedicated to his art—and to his own sens 
of perception, My humble hat is off to this 
crusader for the “how it is” generation 
James R. Edington 
Nebraska Wesleyan University 
Lincoln, Nebraska 


g to know that a brilliant 
man like Antonioni is behind the scenes 
of a movie such as Blow. Up. Congratula 
tions to гълувоу for a fine interview and 
по Antonic щ us such real and 
provo 


i Гог givi 
tive films. 
Michael McNab 
Bucknell University 
Lewisburg, P 


'nnsylvania 


Antonioni used a term that describes 
your entire interview perfectly: Irivolous. 
With his generally insipid questions. your 
interviewer succeeded. in setting up an 
tonishingly meaningless dialog. 1 would 
have learned more by listening to Anto- 
nioni talk. in his sleep. 

Fr 


nk Simons 
shingon, D. С. 


UPS AND DOWNS 
Ken W. Purdy's Long Way Up, Short 

Way Down in your November issue im- 
pressed me very much. Ihe experience 
of the aging ех- ег and the young French 
girl shows with disturbing accuracy thar 
one man's mue love can be another 
man's hypocrisy—an important observa- 
tion, entertainingly presented. 

Paul Holmes 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 


Purdy is a fine writer and a knowledge- 
able man, He knows that the R. A, F.'s 
617 Squadron carried out the raids on the 
Морис and Eder dams. He even knows 
the names of several authentic R.A, Е. 
bomber boys who took part. So, how do 
we explain the almighty faux pas of giv- 
ing his ex-R. А.Е. central. character the 
rank of colonel? This is about as i 
congruous as having an admiral i 
mand of an armored division. 
R.A.F. rank equivalent 1o  colond 
would, of course, be group captai 

David. Lawrence 

Detroit, Michig: 

Quite right, old boy. 


CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE 
Congressman Mortis K. Udall's No- 
vember artide, The High Cost of Being 


a Congressman. was indeed a master- 
piece. In today's times of political tur- 


moil and corruption, it is both gratifyi 
and encouraging to sec that we still have 
a few politicians who are more interested 
i nation than in filling their own 
pockets. Representative Udall | attacks 
the problem of campaign funds and its 
relation to political corruption with the 
vigor and enthusiasm of a new-generation 
politician and with the wisdom and fore- 


sight of the gr 
such as Abe Lincoln. atlas in 
Congress are in a soi but. with 
men like Morris Udall fighting for a 
better Government, these matters a 
bound 10 improve. My thanks to тілувоу 
and Udall for a deeply interesting and 
worthwhile article. 


old-school politicians 
Surely 


І think Congressman Udall his със 
pressed our problem very well and I 
hope all of your readers will take the 
time to study his remarks so that they 
will better understand the problems their 
essmen Lace in campaigning every 
two years, While I do nor necessarily 
€ with every proposal Mo Udall has 
- 1 do agree that the problems ol 
elections in this coun 
are ad require more ане 
than they have gotten in the past 
Representative 
U. S. House of Representatives 
Washington, D. C. 


Many thanks for the frank 
straightforward article by Cong 


Udall, Just working for a candidate can 


cost money. Udall properly underscored 
some of the vast problems we are creat- 
ing for today's lead 
pot 


sand lor many 
atial candidates who might never 
с leadership. simply because ol 
ncial barriers they face, 

н. Baxter 

Exelsior, Minnesota 


ап Udall's article 


I've read. Congres 


on The High Cost of Being a Congress- 
the faci 


man and can vouch for that 
holding public office 
year, for instance, my 
соя me more than my total income 
when I was in the Texas senate. (1 uy 
hard to stay in close touch with the people 
at home and go back to my district almost. 
every weekend of the year.) Even the cost 
of sending out a newsletter has been so 
great that 1 have reduced the frequency 
of my newsletter from once a month to 
whenever 1 can allord it—usually just 
two or three times а year. Luckily, I can 
still айога weekly television and radio 
yeports but getting these aired at peak 
hours is difficult, indeed. 

Being à Congressman is not easy and it 
В anything but lucrative. But there is a 
certain reward in public service that has 
nothing to do with money. and that is the 
satisfaction of doing somerhing that must. 
be done, as well as possible, for the public 
good. That is why I am in politic— 
not for the money, because you can't 
make money in politics (at least not if 
you stay honest), but for the satisfaction 
that public service alone can give. 
Representative Henry В. Gonzalez 
J. S. House of Representatives 


Washington, D.C: 


Udall's wellawriuen arti 

de describes a condition with which we 

in Congress ate all too familiar. 
Representative John J. Flynt, Jr 
U.S. House of Representatives 
Washington, D. C 


Congressman 


Udalls aride was а t 


tative step in 
the right direction, but I think he missed 
the main implicution of his facts. He 
states, "Of every 100 Americans, 95 have 
never contributed 10 any political candi- 
date.” Then he advances impressive rea 
sony and techniques for broadening the 
base of compaign contributions. But the 
point is; Why do only five percent of 
Americans contribute to candidates? AL 
most all of us give to charitic: 
ог another, Udall's figures are a fine in 
dication of how alienated most of us are 
from the political process. The answer to 
this alienation will not be found by 
tinkering with the superstructure. 1 
stead, we need а Government that is ic 
sponsive to the people's needs and wishes, 
and we need politicians who act on these 
wishes. What we have now is government 
by cynical horse traders acting for them- 
selves. The American people show their 
instinctive good sense by refusing to 
Dankroll these operators. Campaign sub- 
sidits would ошу produce more of them. 

Ralph Taylor 

San Francisco, 


of one sort 


fornia 


I disagree with Representative Udall, 

I find thar 1 cam live within the salary 

paid me and | do not require gre: 
expenditures to ger clected. 

Senator Margaret. Chase Smith 

United Stines Sena 

Washington, D. С. 


NEW THING OF BEAUTY 
Since filming Jazz on a Summers Day. 
I have not had much time or opportur 
to keep abreast of new developme 
the jazz world. But Michael Zwerin’s 
wallawritten and infor e The New 
Thing, in your November issue. went a 
situa. 
ight. exciting write 
scems to about his subject. 
enough to bc involved with it while not 
losing his objectivity, Consequently, he 
ble to make the reader care, even if 
that reader is not a particularly avid jazz 
Гап. Lam happy that erAYBov has recog- 
nized Zwerin's ability 
Bert Stern 
New York, New York. 
Stern is one of Ше besthnown photog 
raphers in the nation; his “Jazz on a 
Summers. Day" is recognized as one of 
the finest jazz films ever made. 


care 


Congratulations on publishing Mi 
Zwerin's excellent and informative arti 
de about The New Thing in jazz. Like 
much of what we consider to be serious 
music in America, "the new thing" 


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receives little or mo attention, and 
PLAYBOY is to be commended for inform- 
ing the public about it. Unfortunately, 
Zwerin is accurate when he says that jazz 
is having rough days again. But as Dave 
Lambert used to remark: "Man, they say 
jazz is dying? Well, jazz has been dying for 
the last sixty years.” Eventually, jazz will 
take its place in the music world, just as 
chamber music has, and will be presented 
in concert halls just the way fine string 
quartets and woodwind quintets are. In 
spite of the current gloom, my observa- 
tions indicate that there are more fine 
players today than at any time since I 
began playing professionally in 1943. 
Ultimately, the new thing in jazz is the 
beautiful thing. | think the work of 
Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Les- 
ter Young and Charlie Parker is just 
as "new" as the sounds of Ornette Cole 
man and Cecil Taylor. As long as music 
says enough, it will be around for a long 
time. 


David Amram 
New York. New York 
Amram recently completed a tour as 
composer-in-residence for the New York 
Philharmonic, His works—which com- 
bine the classical and the contemporary 
—include two cantatas; a sacred services 
15 chamber works: five orchestral works; 
and two operas, “Twelfth Night” and 
“The Final Ingredient.” 


MEMORABLE DAY 
nk you for Robie Macauley’s short 
story That Day (плувоу. November) 
When Г heard of President Ken: 


ys 
assassination, 1. too—like Charlie. Huber 
маз “awestruck, for maybe the beter 
part of an hour.” However, there the 
similarity ends. 1 wasn't carried into a 
wonderful trance. 1 didn't break out the 
champagne and bourbon. I didu't go to a 
New Year’. ype party. The death of 
our President was one of the most tragic 
events in the history of our nation. Don't 
let Macauleys label “fiction” mislead 
you. There were many Charlie Hubers 
that day and their attitudes make me 
wonder if the Civil War is really over. 
Michael Korsonsky 
Brooklyn, New York 


Although I have read some very good 
works of fiction in PLAYBOY, never have 1 
Deen so moved as I was by That Day. 
The impact was powerful, chilling, shat- 
tering amd morbidly fascinating. This 
was masterful use of suspense and what 
might, I suppose, be called a surprise 
ending—yet not in the sense that the story 
turns itself around and you chuckle at 
the writer's cleverness; instead, the whole 
work was solidified by the ending, yanked 
into position as though by the abrupt 
setting of an enormous fishhook. 1 did 
not suspect what Macauley's story was 
leading up tò until those final lines; 
and when the end came, Г was dum- 
founded—much as I was on "that day" 


over four years ago. I feel sure that I 
shall be thinking of this short story 
long after many others have faded from 


memory. 
Laird Marshall 
New York, New York 


WORTHWHILE WORDS 

J. Paul Getty's Familiarity Сап Breed 
Content in your November issue was an 
inspiration, An undergraduate education 
in liberal arts cam be quite rewarding, 
particularly if one uses it as Getty sug- 
gests—to widen his business horizons 
and proficiency. But by the time the 
young man gets to graduate school in 


business education, he yearns for a more 
practical. pointby-point approach to his 
chosen field. 1 think the advice contained 
in Getty's short article is more valuable, 
in this respect, than a semester of just 


about anything a university offers. 
David F. Wood 
Columbia University 
New York, New York 


SMOOTH SAILING 
A. C. Spectorsky's article Charter 
Yachting in the Caribbean (rtAvnov, No- 
vember) is impressive not only for the 
ease with which it conveys the delights 
of yachting but also for its thoroughness. 
Robert Scout Milne 
Yonkers, New York 


Just as long as I could keep my mind 
from being distracted by PLAYBov's super 
lative photography, 1 found A. C. Spec 
torsky's article on the subject of charter 
cruising in the Windward Islands really 
first rate. It confirms what I've come to 
realize recently: that PLAYBOY is a serious. 
practical magazine and not just a delight 
to the senses. 


Robert N. Bavier, Jr 

Executive Vice-President 

Yachting Magazine 

New York, New York 

Both a noted yachtsman and а writer, 

Bavier is president of the North Ameri- 
can Yachting Union and author of “View 
from the Cockpit" and "Sailing to Win.” 
On the latter subject he is particularly 
well versed, since he skippered Constella 
tion to victory over England's Sovercign 
in the 1964 America’s Cup vace. 


May I congratulate you on producing 
far and away the best artide—and the 
most m 


ıificent photographs—on Carib. 
bein cruising and yacht chartering that 
1 have ever seen. 

J. H. Millar 

Monte Carlo, Monaco 


nts for PLAYBOY'S 


My complim 
article on chartering in the West Indies. 
1 have cruised this area in my own boat 
and so cin appreciate the accuracy of 
your descriptions: Being а yacht. broker 
and in the charter business, I can also 
appreciate the intelligent picture you give 


superb 


Look inside a 1966 Plymouth 
Fury Ш. You'll see what we mean. 

Once it was a real achievement 
to put luxury fabric on the seats of 
acar. So it cost you if you wanted 
luxury fabric, But not anymore. 


Luxury isn't 
expensive anymore. 


And there was a time when foam 
seat padding was considered 
something pretty special. So foam 
in a car cost extra, if you had to 
have foam. But not anymore. 

The same goes for Ihe sound- 
absorbing system in Fury Ill. The 
extra taillights. The moldings. 


Andwewon'teven gointo Fury's 
V-8 engine. Or the brakes. Or the 
trunk. Every one is the largest in 
its class. 

The fact is, all this comes stand- 
ard with Fury IIl, right down to the 
electric clock. We haven't made 
a big thing of it because we don't 
charge more for it. Which keeps 
Fury Ша low-priced car. 


Plymouth Fury Ш ф And the beat goes on. 


So if anyone hands you the line. 
about getting what you pay for, just 
remember, he might not be selling 
you a car. He might be taking you 
fora ride. 


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5 like to charter. In fact, your 
iswered most questions а prospec- 
tive charterer might think of and, м 
is more, answers them correctly. I have 
read most of the many articles that have 
come out on the subject, and Spectorsky's 
is by far the best. 


Richard Bertram. 
Miami, Florida 
Bestram's modest identification of him- 
self as a yacht broker conceals his avoca- 
tional fame as а racing yachtsman and a 
power-yacht designer. 


A barel of fine St. 
Spectorsky for his excellent Caribbean 
article. Having been associated with the 
Caribbean since 1958 terested in 
reading everything 1 can get my hands 
on involving chartering and West Indian 
travel. His article is the most compre- 
hensive I've yet seen. 

Michael S. Mitchell 

Kalamazoo, Michi, 


Lucian rum to 


IV's interesting to note that. PLAYBOY, 
with its pictorial piece on a yacht party 
in the Windwards (Playboy's Charter 
Yacht Party, November), has entered 
azine has 
several Бате Боде 
g but that js something else 
With your vast circulation and 
wide inlluence, there will no doubt be a 
great increase in the sale of binoculars 
the d Antilles this spring: but 
shouldn't you have put in just a word 10 
indicate that all girls on charter parties 
don't have quite the figures yours do and 
that all charter parties aren't exactly like 
yours? 


bodily imo our field. Our r 
had 


artides оп 


esser 


Robinson, Editor 
Yachting Magazine 
New York, New York 
Editor Robinson, whose surf we admit 
encroaching upon, is himself a prolific 
literary charter of exotic waters. His books 
include “Over the Horizon: The Best in 
Cruising" and “Where the Trade Winds 
Blow"—which Spectorsky acknowledges 
was his island Baedeker when he first 
cruised the Caribbean. 


TENDER TRAP 

Frederik Pohl's Speed Trap (vLavnoy, 
November) is probably the most. subtle, 
se d sophisticated treatment of 
the invasion-[rom-outerspace theme I've 
ever read. And the way things stand. to- 
day, we'd hardly need an invasion for 
Рома prophecy to come true: The world 
may. indeed, nor end with a but 
with a bureaucracy 


sitive 


Roger Danforth 
Cleveland, О 


STAG FILMS 
he entire History of Sex in Cinema 
has been outstanding, but in your No- 
vember installment, The Stag Ейт, 
thors Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert 


really outdid themselves. вгАУВОУ. too, 

ig hand for daring to print the 
graphic scenes. T certainly agree, inci 
dentally, that the film entitled Smart 
Alec deserves first prize. 1 have a fine 
istpeneration" print made back in 
1952 and I wouldn't part with it for any 


thing. Stag movies may come and go, but 
there's only one Candy Вап. Pound for 
pound, she was at 22 the most p 
woman I've ever seen. 
Harold J. Williams 
Newark, New Jersey 


The article on stag films in your No- 
vember issue was certainly top rate, The 
authors are to be congratulated on their 
insightful analysis, their meaningful in 
lerpretations and оп their good taste in 
writing it, 1 was also filled with nostalgi: 
ading about many “old friends” that 
d а hand in viewing and catalog 
1 was working with the Inst 
tute for Sex Research in Bloomington. 1 
hope you expand this into a book, as 
there are many more facets of the films 
that were not brought out 

Wardell В. Pomeroy, Ph.D. 
Marriage Counselor 
New York, New York 

Dr. Pomeroy, who is the coauthor, 
along wilh Dr. Alfred Kinsey and asso- 
ciates, of “Sexual Behavior in the Human 
Male” and “Sexual Behavior in the Hu- 
man Female." should be pleased to learn 
that вълувоу plans to publish an ex 
panded version of “The History of Sex in 
Cinema” in book form, shortly after the 
conclusion of the series in these pages. 


1 have generally enjoyed reading all 
the chapters of The History of Sex in 
Cinema, but The Stag Film is the best 
of the lot, It is, indeed, purports to 
be, a definitive survey of the screen's hard- 
core erotica. Its details were superb and 
the entire article gave a real feeling for 
the comparative history of this unique 
kind of film—trom the early 19005 to 
1 can't think of а recent PLAYBOY 
le—or, for that matter, 
other magazine—that 1 have found 
more sexolopically informative. Hearty 
congratulations! 

Albert Ellis, Ph.D. 
Fxecutive Director. 

Institute for Rational Living 
New York, New York 


date. 


any cle 


The excellent article on stag films re- 
minded me of one of my very few view: 
ings of the genre. In 1055 or 1956, 1 
went to the infamous Shanghai theater 
in Havana, The feature film was the 
most unusual variation оп the Faust 
theme anyone is likely to encounter. Al- 
though the photography was poor and 
the film suffered from all the other ills 
noted by Knight and Alpert, whoever 
nade the film at least had an imagi 


ie bored student 


tion. As in the legend, 
made а pac with the Devil. His reward, 
of course, was a series of orgies. At the 
climax, if that word may be permitted, 
the final hour arrives and the trembling 
Faust is visited—presumably Гог his 
damnation—by Mephisto. Advancing be 
hind the unwary Faust, Mephisto lifts 
his smock and proceeds to sodomize him. 
At this point, the film reached its finest 
moment, as the camera moved in on 
Faust’s face, which bore a smirking, 
coprophagous grin. Before the final fade 
out, Faust reciprocated Mephisto’s ad- 
vances, The i 
this silly Hick are worthy of De Sade and 
Sartre combined 

Joe Morehead 

Sin o, Califorma 


As 
save 


e says, stag films may help 
pe. A few quiet nights at 
home watching something besides the 
boob tube might be just the т 
therapy 


Dick Allen 
Crawfordsville, Indiai 


I read the installment on stag films 
with interest, though ГА like to point out 
one small error of fact, In supporting the 
notion that female sexual activity with 
animals has been a persistent preoccupa: 
tion in male pornography down through 
the ages. Knight and Alpert mentioned 
that “Europa had coitus with a bull and 
ve birth to a child that was Вай bull 
id half man.” Actually, although Euro: 
піса off to Crete on the h 
of a beautiful white bull (Zeus hi 
she did not give binh ro such 
Rather, she bore Minos, Rhadamanthus 
and (according t0 post-Homeric ac 
Sarpedon. Obviously, Kni 
have confused her wi 
. the wile of ми For she, м 
the help of Daeda 
as a cow and satisfied her 
passion" for a sacred white 1 
ollspring was the Minotaur 
E. N. Genovese 
Department of Cla 
Ohio State Univ 
Columbus, Ohio 
Humanum est errare. 


ра was 


counts) 


us, disguised herself. 
unnatural 


The Stag Film was well writen 
treated the subject matter fairly, but it 
failed to change my mind about the 


have a therapeutic value; but otherwise, 
viewing them doesn't seem to accom 
plish much. And, for the life of me, I 
can't imagine sexual intimaci 


Bob Bai 


е 
Les Angeles, 


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PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 


hanks to the activities of the Citizens 

for Decent Literature and other such 
publicspirited groups, we are all aware 
of the sinister menace of the fourletter 
word. But how many of us know that 
public order and morality are alo en- 
dangered by the thie letter word? И the 
reader, like the editors, has never given 
much thought to this threat, he can be 
assured that at least one dean-minded 
organization has already explored the 
dimensions of this creeping menace: the 


American Association of Motor Vehicle 
Administrators. Early last year, the 
AAMVA circulated to state motor-vehicle 


authorities а bulletin. informing them 
which threeleiter combinations were 
“objectionable” and should not аррез 
on automobile license plates. When we 


read а copy of this tabulation of taboos, 
sent to us by a thoughtful correspondent, 
we were, quite frankly, stunned at the 
flood of bumper bawdiness that might 
engulf our highways if the intrepid 
AAMVA were not out there protecting 
us. As а public service, therefore, in this 
deadline month for 68 plates in most 
states, we offer the following report on 
the association's alphabetical excisions. 
Nothing if not thoroughgoing in its 
condemnations, the AAMVA bans not 
only ASS but also AAS, ARS and even 
CAN from the nation's license. plates. 
TIT, TYT, ТТҮ and even TTI are 
equally verboten. ХАММА administra- 
tors abo impartially ban both BRA and 
BVD. The male sex organ, needless to 
say, is interdicted in any overt or sub- 
liminal way it may attempt to sneak 
onto a plate—not only as а straightfoi 
ward COK or DIK bur also in 
disguises as COC, COX, КОС, 
and KOX, DIC, DYK 
Nor will the equally pernicious female 
genitalia creep by, even in the guise of 
CUN, KUN or via the deceptive Latin 
abbreviation VAG. ‘This insidious erog- 
zone infiltrate as 
BOX. Naturally, such rape-inciting com- 
binations as FCK, ЕКО, FOX, FUK, 
FUX and FUG are considered equally 
objectionable. So, for that matter, are 
LAY and LAF, not to mention SU 


such 
KOK 


enous cannot even 


SUK, SUX, LIK, COM, CUM and KUM. 

Looking closer at the list, we begin to 
wonder about the inner workings of the 
AAMVA mentality. Hos lor example, 
did GOD become unprintablc? And 
HAM? We realize it’s not kosher; but 
why is it forbidden to gentile motorists 
alo? On the same subject, we suppose 
;OY is ruled out because it might offend 
those hip gentiles who happen to know 
what it means in Yiddish; but isn't it 
suetching things to assume that there 
exists somewhere а supersensitive Semite 
who will find a jecring tone in JOO? And 
if POO is really suggestive—as the 
AAMVA seems to have felt in forbidding 


it—why shouldn't the prurient works of 
А A. Milne be removed from our public 


or in what scerct perversitiey unrecorded 
by Krafft-Ebing, did such exiled combi- 
nations as AIG, DRY, EZP or NUN ac 
quire licentious meanings? And who was 
the genius responsible for the discovery 
of lurking lewdness in MOO and HOO? 

There are further mysteries, Was it 
some Birchite suspicion that pop 
might be a Commie or hippie plot that 
led the motor-vehicle censors to ban 
ZOW, BOP, K. OOF and YOW? If 
so, how did they miss POW? How, fur- 
thermore, did the alert 
let PAD get by? Don’t they realize hip- 
pies smoke GRS there? For that matter, 
how did GRS itself escape condemna- 
tion? POT. predictably, is banned—pre- 
sumably on the grounds that it might 
constitute advertising for а "dangerous 
drug"—hut then, why is LSD so 
conspicuously absent from the Index Es 
purgatorius? And we can't help wonder- 
ing whether the AAMVA shares the view. 
of the ancient Manichacans that all sex 
should be abolished. If not, why did it 
ban LOV, HUG, WED and BED, a se- 
quence that spells out the sacrament of 
matrimony? Was it a prejudice against 
jazz musicians that put GIG on the black 
list? Is KOP forbidden because it might 
offend a police officer—or is it, perhaps, 
an obscenity in Lithuanian? And how 
did the man who saw the double-entendre 


art 


administrators 


in HOR and PRO miss the dangers of 
WHR? 

Considering the high status given to 
animal doctors for their compassion and 
to soldiers for their heroism, why did 
VET get rejected? The ASPCA, finally, 
might be interested to learn that neither 
DOG nor CAT is permitted, the latter 
presumably because it might appear 
behind a house trailer. Despite such 
pecu idoxes, however, the list does 
reflect one consistent area o[ censorial 
permissiveness. While every possible rcf- 
erence to. wedding or bedding has been 
hunted out and expunged, the adminis- 
trators wem unconcerned about three- 
letter combinations that might provoke 
the homicidal instincts. STB, AXE. RIP. 
KLL, DTH, SLA, R, PSN, CUT and. 
MDR are ай permissible. But too many 


drivers dont need such provocation. 
Theyre out for BLD, anyway. 
ing news from J. Edgar Hoo- 


сак quoted in The Christian Science 
Monitor: “I regret to say that we of the 
FBI are powerless to act in case of oral 
genital intimacy, unless it has in some 
way obstructed interstate. commerce.” 
Who Said War Is Hell? Department 
the Quang- 
mi province of Vietnam vainly offered 
the Vict Cong $100 to start а Баше, 
said a story trom the Miami Herald 
Chicago Daily News wire service. A lance 
corporal explained that the Marines 
collected the money asked a local 
youngster—who frequ ran er 
to provide them with bananas and ice— 
10 use it то lure the enemy into battle. 
Sign of the times spoued on the 
marquee of a Long Island. Holiday Inn 
motel: HAVE YOUR NEXT AFFAIR HERE- 


X bored platoon of Marines 


ands 


Incidental Intelligence, Gourmet Divi 
sion: [aly is now importing gorgon- 
zola cheese made in Australia. 

Anglican parish magazines recently 
published am article by Dr. Gerald 
‘night, director of the Royal School of 


15 


PLAYBOY 


16 


Church Music. entitled "Let Us Sin— 
id Show We Mean It.” The second in- 
stallment had as its theme “The Right 
Way to Do It 


Lest We Forget, a radio program in 
Hancock, Michigan. that broadcasts de- 
led obituaries of local citizens. is spon- 
sored by a brewery that calls its product 
refreshing way to go.” 


the most 


During Mrs. Shirley Temp'e Black's 


nsuccessful for a Congres- 
sional sea a, an imeverent 
poster appeared showing Shirley in her 


moppet days. thrusting out her under lip 
and declaring, “If you don't vote for me, 
ГЇЇ hold my breath!" 


News of the prolilerating Love Gener 
ion has apparently penetraied the Iron 
The Polish daily Expres Poz 
“Because ol the 


as declared u 
increased sexuality of the AngloSaxons, 
it has been possible to exceed our planned 
export of mistletoe.” 


Insult was added to injun 

the Williamsport, Pennsylvan 

burglar who plundered a. detective 

gency and left a terse note: “So solve 
one 


Graffito spoued on the wall of a Chi- 
cigo subway station: ENOVID TAKES THE 
OF BEING CLOSE. 


WORRY OUT 
commend the candor of a das 
1 in the Fort Leonard Wood, 
Daily Bulletin, calling for “A 
t mech: condi- 


ме 
sified 
Missou 
pickup in excelle: 
tion, regardless of а 
bed. 


foot 


According 10 The 
ter, the “Report of the North Carolina 
Legislative Committee on Printing and 
Binding” is neither printed nor bound 
but mimeographed and held together 
h pla 


Insiders N 


іс fasteners. 


A notice posted at ше Host Hostess 
Club of Montreal, advertising а one-day 
guided tour of Niagara Falls, proclaimed 
that patrons would be able to “have a 
Чгутш honeymoon.” 


г scholars will be interested to 
lan the University of Science and 
Philosophy in Sw Virg 
offers а homestudy course in the secrets 
of the universe. The all-purpose pro- 
gram, explains the brochure, provides 
answers to all the eternal. questions «оп: 
g mankind, from “What is Cod 
10 "How can I dimb out of the assembly 
line and rise to the top in our factory 


nanoa., а. 


front 


Our New York correspondent tells us 
there's а commercial artist around town 
who's rigged up a light on the front of 
his car that flashes YOU'RE WELCOME in 
response 10 the THANK You light at auto- 
matic toll booths. 


Aucntion, Sexual Freedom League: 
Glued to the copying machine of an 
office in Spokane, Washington, is a sign 
that warns: NO ONE SHALL USE THE 
SECRETARY'S REPRODUCTION EQUIPMENT 
WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE 


OFFICER IN CHARGE. 

The word from the Haight-Ashbury 
grapevine is that a hippie chemist has just 
developed a powerful new antidore for 
LSD and STP that’s guaranteed to bring 
you down. He calls it LBJ. 


BOOKS 


“Debate on the accuracy 
cy of the Warren 


nd adequa 
Commissions work.” 


The New York Times editorialized sour- 
ap- 
lively 


ly in September 1966, “is now 
proaching the dimensions of a 
small industry in this country 
с of “revisionist” books 
Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment io the 
top of the bestseller lists and seriously 
shook much of the American publics 
en 
Defenders of the Commis 


confidence in the findings of the Ма 
Commi sion. 


and dismissing its critics as moneygrub- 
bing publicity hounds. The counter- 
counterattack is now under way, with a 
barrage of new books blasting the W: 


ren Commission. its defenders and its 
apologists. Their tone and quality are 
uneven, ranging from strident and 


sparsely documented polemics to sober 
and scrupulously researched studies of 
the Commission's evidence. A few build 
а disturbingly persuasive case against the 
Warren Report and deserve serious 
attention. 

The best of the new crop of books — 
4 Ше most chilling in its implications 
Sylvia Meagher's Accessories After the 
fot (Bobbs-Menill a comprehensive 
and exhaustively researched analysis of 
the Warren Report and its 26 volumes of 
supplementary evidence. “The central 
purpose of my book,” writes Mis. 
Meagher (а World. Health Organization 
consultant who in 1966 privately pub- 
lished а 150-page "Subject Index” to the 
Warren. Report). "is, by citing the actual 
evidence from the Hearings and Exhib- 
its, to prove (1) that Oswald, far from 
being a lone assassin, may well be inno 
«ent of any implication i 
which he has been 
there were two or more assas 
that the W; 
fact 


the crimes of 
(2) that 
s; and (3) 
en Report is a travesty of 
ad mockery of justice, consciously 


accused: 


a false version of the 
- Meagher amasses an 
of evidence in support 
of her contentions, to the considerable 
discomfiture of any reader not congeni- 
ly prone to conspiratorial theories of 
histor : 
grasp of the intricacies of the Gommi 
sions evidence make Accessories Afier 
the Fact the definitive work to date on 
the assassination. There may be answers 
to all the grave charges in her massive 
indictment; but until they 
Accessories After the Fact will 
modern J'Accuse. 

Another responsible researcher, in a 
field 100 olten—and коо hastily—dis- 
credited by the sensationalism of a few 
terary scavengers.” Harold 
hay been as prolific as he is meticulous 
investigating the assassination. Forced to 
publish his own books at conside 
expense, Weisberg has followed his 
lier assassination volumes—IVhitewash, 
Whitewash I1 and Photographic White- 
with a carefully documented new 
tion of the Garrison investig; 
tion. Oswald in New Orleans, subtitled 
"Case for Conspiracy with the CIA.” 
Always а painstakingly accurate and as- 
siduous—if less than — impartial—re- 
searcher, Weisberg brings these talents 
to bear with considerable success in hi 
effort. He contends that Oswald 


contrived to rend 


wash 


nwolved with the late David Ferrie, 
n exiles and clements of 
the CIA in a well-organized and ulti- 


mately successful. conspiracy 10 kill the 
ident. Its his conclusion, buttressed 
by a Вейу array of evidence, “that the 
CIA and its involvement in the asasi- 
tion were whitewashed” by the War 
1 Com On all major poi 


rison; and, along with 
case, his book will stand 
or fall with Clay Shaw in the courts. He 
does not pretend to be objective, but he 
never stretches or manipulates the facts: 


his research, particularly in the arca of 
the so-called “second Oswald" and Os- 
wald’s ties to rightwing ant-Gastro exile 


groups, is significant—and | unscttling- 
in view of the Warren Report's failure to 
th any such associations. Oswald in 
New Orleans is read by the unconmit- 
ted reader with the hope that Weisberg 
is wrong—and the lingering fear that he 


isn't. 
Yer another new dimension of the 
ssassination is examined in Josiah 


Thompson's Six Seconds in Dallas (Geis). 
Thompson, a philosophy professor at 
Haverford College who served 
sultant for Life magazine's t 


5 a con- 
n inves 


ligating the assassination, has closely 
sautinized the 


photographic evidence 
ion site on Novem- 


ber 22, particularly the uder 
film of the shooting. On the basis of a 


detailed examination of the films and 
photographs, some of which Thompson 


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reproduces for the first time, he sur- 
mises that Kennedy was killed by three 
assassins, firing both in front of and in 
back of the Presidential limousine. 
Thompson's most significant original 
contributions are his detailed reconstruc 
tion of the sequence of shots—contra- 
dicting that of the Commission—and his 
mathematical research on the accelera 
tion curves and impact phenomena of 
the bullets that struck Kennedy. Through 
intensive study of the Zapruder films and 
other relevant photographic evidence, 
Thompson concludes that the President 
was hit simultancously by two “bunched” 
shots—one bullet striking his back and 
flicting a nonfatal wound and a scc 
ond, fatal bullet striking the front of his 
head. Detailed photographic analysis, he 
contends, makes it clear that the Presi- 
dent's body was snapped forward under 
the impact of the first bullet that hit his 
back and fractions of a second later was 
slammed back and leftward by the sec 
ond bullet, which blew off the top of his 
skull and killed him. A single assassin 
could not, obviously, have fired both 
bullets. Thompson's study is a sober and 
scholarly one, and his conclusion that 
Oswald did not act alone—if, indeed, he 
acted at all—is difficult to contest. The 
most unsettling aspect of both Six Sec- 
onds in Dallas and Sylvia Meagher’s Ac- 
cessories After the Fact is the failure of 
the Warren Commission to investigate, 
evaluate—or often even acknowledge 
the huge body of evidence in its posses- 
sion indicating the possible presence of 
more than one gunman in Dealey Plaza 
on November 22, 1963. Whatever the 
reason for its errors of omission and com- 
mission—subterfuge, carelessness, time 
pressures or simply a prejudgmental as- 
sumption of Oswald's lone guilt—these 
new books lend weight to widening 
appeals by Congressmen and the press 
for an independent new 

of President Kennedy's assassination, 
Though the evidence would seem to 
dicate otherwise, such an investigation 
could conceivably vindicate the Warren 
Commission and silence the critics f 
ever; but until it is conducted, the cir- 
cumstances of the President's death will 
be the subject of many more books—and 
many more fears, 


s of P(elham) Genville) 
cognizant of the weird rules 
governing the pronunciation of some 
Christian names in dear old England 
(viz., “Chumley” for Cholmondeley), have 
long since performed their own elision on 
the author's name and call him, fondly, 
“Plum.” What better title, therefore, for 
this compendium of short stories by the 
indefatigable champion of rattlcbrained 
complexity than Plum Pie (Simon & 
Schuster)? Through it totter, quiver and 
dash a host of old friends—Jeeves, Bingo 
Little, Freddie Threepwood, Bertie Woos- 
ter, Mr. Mullincr—ensnarled as ever in 


Old ше 
Wodehouse 


defy sanity (and, 
anity). A third of the book 
is devoted to а previously unpublished 
story in which young love, jewel smug 
gling and dog biscuits weave а twisted 
saraband. The others are equally good 
fun, even if you've read them before in 
these very payes—for who can remem- 
ber how the intrigues of a Wodehouse 
plot resolve themselves, and who is not 
willing to savor once again the most 
amusingly inanc dialog this side of the 
Congressional Record? 


If pot is already one's cup of tea, he 
won't learn much by reading Por (Uni- 
versity). But this “handbook of marij 
na^ by John Rosevear can be of value 
to the semi-initiated. For the person who 
knows where to buy pot but is uncertain 
about exactly how to use it and doesn't 
want to risk asking the wrong people the 
right questions, there are reliable an 
swers in Roseyear’s primer, Pot tells 
how to grow Cannabis sati home 
(“Ап old bathtub: ted basement 
is an adequate planter") and how to сите 
it and prepare the plant for smoking. 
Useful though it is on practical matters, 
as a polemic vor of legalizing the 
sale and use of marijuana, the book is so 
completely devoid of objectivity that it 
anot be taken seriously. By contrast, 
The Book of Gross (Grove), an anthology 
of musings on marijuana by poets, novel- 
ists, philosophers, doctors, lawyers 
scientists, is addressed to a more liter 
public This volume, edited by George 
Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog, serves 
s а comprehensive source book. Perhaps 
its most impressive contribution is a 45 
page section devoted to medical opinions. 
When diverse authorities express a con 
sensus of approval on the use of ma 
juana, they lend strong support to thosc 


who seck legal reforms. (The emi 


glish psychiatrist R, D. Laing м 
in а letter: "I would be far happ 
my own teenage children would, with- 
out breaking the law. smoke marijua 
na when they wished, rather than start 
оп the road of so many of their elders to 
nicotine and cthyl-alcohol addiction 

The Book of Grass contains fascinating 
bits and pieces of the complex truth 
about the role of drugs in modern man's 
search for ways of expanding conscious- 
ness beyond the limits of logical thought. 


Physical torture has the obvious fascina- 
tion of pleasure for the sadist and th 
notso-obvious fascination of horror for 


the humanist. If, in war, these distinc- 
tions are muddied by the military, the 
individu n y be li e mud. 


died, and decency and vileness often may 
come up looking like brothers. Both the 
physical agony and the spiritual mud are 
scrutinized by Victor Kolpacoff in his 
first novel, The Prisoners cf Quai Dong 
(New American Library), and а harrow- 
ing scrutiny it is. The situation Kolpacoff. 


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poses is as stark as it is simple. A young 
Viet Cong is captured. Getting informa: 
tion from the prisoner means saving 
Ameri lives. The lieutenant in cl 
of the detail assembles a team of 
formation getters in a swelter 
hut and the interrogation begins. To the 
authors credit, there is not a real sadist 
n the bunch. The division among the 
men in the hut is between those who 
don't give а damn for the V. C's life and 
those who do. The irony that develops is 
that the V. С. himself wishes for his own 
death. nor so much to put an end to the 
relentless questioning and gouging knife 
but to assure his silence. It is upon Kreu- 
an American officer busted and im- 
oned for allowing enemy soldiers in 
the field to escape, that the cxquisiteness 
of choice rests. Pressed into this grisly 
business because of his slight knowl- 
edge of the language, he struggles for 
uninvolvement: but his wish to save the 
V. C. leads то an accidental betrayal that 
the prisoner has suffered martyrdom to 
prevent. The mutilations inflicted on the 
body of the V.C. are the mutilations in- 
flicted on the body of the idea, any idea, 
for which men go to war. By demonst 
ing this through the inexorable action of 
the story and not through the sermoniz- 
ing of his characters, Kolpacoff achieves 
а power that could be celebrated in a 
novelist’s tenth novel, much less his first. 

In his latest collection of essays. On 
Not Leaving It to the Snake (Macmillan), 
Harvey Cox, Harvard's brilliantly unor- 
thodox young theologian, presents a 
tough, iconoclas вишем. 
he says, cannot tell us what i 
wrong—we are summoned to make our 
own decisions; "to shove them off on 
someone else, even on God or thc 
church, is a. betra of our manhood. 
Today we as individuals and the church 
as an institution. writes Cox, must “leave 
the past behind and open ourselves to 
the promise of the future." Translating 
this into specific proposals, Cox calls fo 
a dialog between Christianity and Marx- 
ism. Expanding on the theme of his Jan- 
1067 rrívnov article, Revol! in 
the Church, he lauds the new breed of 
ministers and champions their soc 
volvement in actively combating 
poverty and injustice, And he challenges 
the church itself to fulfill its visionary 
function as the dreamer of dreams that 
transcend the pragmatic goals set by a 
materialistic society. Cox's stimulating 
introductory essay, Faith and Decision, 
contains the idea reflected in Ше title. 
Adam and Eve, he points out, let the 
ponsibility of deciding. 
we face the challenge 
топу future, he warns us not to 
ke tell us what to do." The. 
vivid—but nowhere in this col- 
lection does Cox succeed in clarifying 
and developing this idea. Who—or what 
—is the snake? And exactly what is it 


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which we look forward. 


To say that men arc animals is, 
many cases, to slander the animals. Th 
s repeatedly demonstrated in Freewheel 
Frank, Secretory of the Angels (Grove), as 
told to Michael McClure by Frank 
Reynolds. A graphic account of life in the 
Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, it is one 
of Ше sickest—and most. sickenit 
ports of human behavior ever recorded, 
"The book is written, for the most part, 
n wretched elementary school English, 
derivative, clumsy nd cul: 
(“Everything was just so „ка 
not be explained in words" Or: "When I 
looked at her the blood tingled and 
rushed through me. for Love in every 
way I had been taught") Reynolds says, 
“God is Love" and then decribes in lov- 
ing detail how seven Hell's Angels, 
without provocation, beat up three sail 
015 so viciously that one of them “came 
within two minutes of dying.” Sex is a 
gang bang: He tells of “magnificent 
momma turnouts,” and says of one mom- 
ma, 
n soul value,” because she could take оп 
such a long line of men. This book can 
be read, И read it you must, аз а morbid 
document of human perversion. As such, 
it has a dreadful integrity. 

Terry Southern, author of The Magic 
Christian and co-author of Candy and 
the screenplay of Dr. Strangelove, is à 
pioneer black humorist; but Red Dirt Mari- 
juana and Other Testes (New American 
Library, though not without i 
share of thrills and. tw 
bumpy roller-coaster ride with more dips 
than heights. This collection of short 
pieces seems to include not only recent 
short stories and magazine articles but 
also а few ипѕиссеѕ stabs at novels. 
Although there is a recurrent. preoccupa- 
tion with marijuana and other drugs, it 
not an all-pervading theme. The title 
story does deal with a Negro farm hand 
and a 12-ycar-old white boy who enjoy a 
Huck Finn-Jim relationship as they cul 
tivate their own psychedelic garden. But 
You're Too Hip, Baby doesn't go to pot 
for its put-down of a Kerouacky on-the- 
road whirl The last piece, The Blood of 
a Wig, gives Southern exposure al his 
best—and most outlandish. A Village 
hipster, filling in as an editor of a Madi- 
son Avenue "Mag for Men," takcs off 
on the furtherestout trip yet (а blood 
transfusion from a schizoid Chinese sym 
bolist poet) before going to wi 
savage spoof of some of the 
suppressed passages in the Manchester 
assassination book. The result is so post 
Lenny Bruceian that it makes MacBird 
seem like a cooing turtledove. 


he was double-good, couble-good 


Dick Gregory is, above all, consistent, 
Against killing in any form, he is а vege- 


tar 


n. Against injustice, he is tirelessly 


militant but insists on remaining nonvio- 
lent both as a strategy and as а way of 
he 


life. His nonviolence, however, 
said а while ago while marching 
Milwaukee Гог open housing. "means [ 
will not hit you or kill you, but Т will 
wear you out." First as a humorist, then 
as ап activist. and increasingly as а 
writer, Gregory has been trying to wear 
out the contradictions between what 
America professes and what her majority 
actually believes. His new book, The 
Shadow thet Scares Me (Doubleday), a series 
of “prophetic sermons" written—and de- 
livered—between 1962 and 1966. presents 
his shrewd observations on the ways of 
fe of both white and black Ame 
The incisive Gregory wit is presci 
the basic thrust of the book is à warning 
—"If America does not solve her social 
problems in the next five years, the 
problems will solve America." In terms 
of practical proposals, Gregory offers little 
that is new. He advocates that “America 
must listen honestly to the cries of the 
ghetto and apply the best available minds 
to the solution of its problems. Top 
sociologists, psychiatrists and social scien 
tists are needed rather than blu bbon 
anels to investigate the cause of riots. 
What makes the book distinctive is the 
self-portrait it draws of an exceptionally 
open, courageous and wholly unpreten 
tious man of our ume. 


Using Los Angele: model in Prelude. 
to Rio (Random House), Paul Jacobs 
describes “the pen without an exit gate” 
in which the poor of our large cities 
exist. Ehe institutions that purportedly 
serve them have actually perpetuated 
their powerlessness: “The help extended 
to the poor is grudging, tight-lipped and 

ious, for it is generally assumed that 
re responsible for their own bad 
condition and that if they wanted to get 
out of it badly enough, they could do so. 
It is also assumed that they are incapable 
of running their own lives and that there- 
fore they need not be given the same 
rights as the rest of the society.” Jacobs 
nalyzes the Los Angeles Police Depart 
ment, the Bureau of Public Assistance, 
public employment services, housing 
agencies, health and medical services and 
the school system. There is a chapter dis- 
secting the make-up and inner struggles 
of the McCone Commission, ned to 
examine the causes of the 1965 Watts riots 
and to suggest ways to prevent. further 
rebellions, As many commentators have 
observed, the Commission's report repre 
sented а failure to understand either и 
sons or remedies, and Jacobs account 
а fascinating illustration of 
c myopia in high places. It is 
unfortunate that parts of this valuable 
document read like the first draft of a 
conscientious reporter who has yet to 
transmute facts and figures into 
ished prose that will make the reader feel 


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the weight of what is being done to “the 
other America.” In the sections in which 
Jacobs breaks free of statistics and tells 
what he has seen and what the poor 
have told him, his book ruby the reader's 
sensibilities raw. 


PLAynoy readers’ favorite ghoultender, 
cartoonist Gahan Wilson, now has а 
collection of his diabolically delightful 
drawings under hardcover. The Mon in 
the Connibal Por (Doubleday) will amply 
reward those who appreciate the highly 
original, wildly macabre Wilson brand 
of humor, 


DINING-DRINKING 


Irs, the Vine Street-to-Malibu 
reaches of Los Angeles boasted three 
emphatically Italian. restaurants where 
film colons went as much to look а 
be looked at as to wine and d 
toni's in. Hollywood, La Scala in Beverly 
Hills and. Marco's in Westwood Village. 
ery night, these (ratloria-style hangouts 
were packed with the greats, near greats 
d notsogreats of Tinseltown; but to- 
day you'll often find vacant. t 
these elegant eateries. ‘The es 
that’s taking the bre 
play away from them is Stefenino's, at the 
west end of Sunset Strip, on the dividing 
line between Hollywood and Beverly 
Hills. Though armed with a bill of fare 
that easily equaled the big thice’s offer 
ings, restaurateur Steve Crane (owner of 
1. Аз The Luau, Au Petit Jea 
The Scam, as well as nine Kon-T 
around the country) tried for a year то 
get this spacious, lushly decorated mari- 
nara dispensary in the social swim—and 
in the black—but failed to make as much 
as a dent in the venerable tripartite 
monopoly. What he clearly needed was а 
majordomo who numbered 5000 show- 
business people among his personal 
friends and didn't have an enemy or an 
ill-wis mong them. Crane found his 
man in 38ycarold Nicky Blair. Follow 
ing his pal Tony Curtis (then Bernie 
aru) to Hollywood 15 years ago, 


nd tele- 


vision shows, plying trades that 
from сагрейдуша and house pain 
cooking for—and socializing with—such 


id and Marilyn Monroe. 
п he finally took over Stelanino's 
before last, the S. R- О. rope 
went up immediately and for good. Ste 
wino's is the place for people who are 
dying to Steak Sinatra (bite-size 
chunks of prime New York steak sautéed 
with gicen peppers and pimento) and to 
get a good look at Sinatra enjoying same. 
Hollywood's newest and liveliest risto- 
rante is more than a mecca for the movie 
colony; it's also the best place in town to 


get homestyle Italian provincial cuisine. 
Among tlie dishes Nicky recommends— 
and most regulars regularly relish —are 
Cannelloni, a delicate egg pasta wrapped 
around seafood and graced with а subtle 
wine sauce; Veal Cutlet Valdostans 
layers of veal, prosciutto and mozza 
covered with batter, sautéed in wine s 
and served with mushroom caps and а 
paragus hollandai 
role, classically thic 
stew; and the pièce de rési 

of Chicken alla Crane: deboned leg and 
breast of chicken pounded flat, wrapped 
around a spinach filling, dipped in batter, 
deep-fried to crisp the outside, then baked 
and served with a fruity brown sauce, rice 
and spiced peaches on the side. Plus, of 
course, a plentiful selection of broilings, 
fish dishes, pastas, salads, sweets and 
chee most excellent array of 
wines to wash them down. Nickys on 
hand seven nights a week—slim, trim 
and expansively ingratiating. Tell him 
your name once and Һе remember it. 
You'll remember the restaurant. 


MOVIES 


Producerdirector Stanley Kramer ap- 
proaches big isucs like a professional 
въсш. He days hands on them, ай 
right, but the soothing treatment may 
soon persuade you that there is no prob- 
lem at all. Guess Who's Ceming to Dinner 
uses Ше theme of interracial marriage as 
home base for a high-toned tearjerker 
teaming Katharine Hepburn and the late 
Spencer Tracy (in his last screen rele). 
And despite the efforts of two such en- 
during, endewing heavyweights, Dinner 
looks opportunistic, pat and obyiou 
Wouldn't you know that the Negro 
brought home by their daughter (Kath- 
arine Houghton, 
niece, who 
auntie knows about smi 
tears) after a whirlwind courtship in 
Hawaii has to be Sidney Poiticr? And 
wouldn't you know that Sidney is not 
just a doctor but а world-famous physi 
cian whose credentials make Justice 
Thurgood Marshall sound like a Newark 
agitar? And wouldn't you know the 
happy couple won't have to suffer 
through any painful adjustment to life 
a white-dominaied society. because they 
plan to go straight from the altar to 
darkest Africa, where they will operate a 
mobile medical school and save millions 
of dive? One wonders why Tracy, as 
publisher of a fighting:liberal West 
Coast newspaper (what else) should 
withhold his parental approval for even а 
moment. Because the idea is timely and 
the talens are choice, however, 
ıt of rigging can 
ts sentimental impact. Emotions are 
stirred, as intended, through a hundred 
heavily charged fade-outs right up to a 
red-whiteand-blue finish, when Tracy 


rids himself of residual prejudice in a 20- 
minute valedictory scene thar the Great 
Society can be proud to call its own. 
Young rebels with a yen for dropping 
out and loving in will cherish the im- 
pulses that propel a runaway couple 
through Elvira Modigon, set Sweden 
well before the turn of the century. 
Though based on a true story, writer- 
director Во — Widerberg's delicately 
wrought film transforms fact into a rue. 
fully romantic love idyl, The heroine of 
the tide is a tightrope dancer who aban- 
dons career and family for a weak. ten 
derhearted Army deserter. He leaves a 
wife, two children and his honor behind. 
Not surprisingly, the pairs flight from 
reality comes to а sony end; yer that is 
only a factual footnote to Widerberg, 
who records the way of all flesh with a 
lyric poet's eye. The starcrossed couple 
(Pia Degermark and Thommy Berger 
are superb—she, а lissome dream girl for 
whom any lad might count the world 
well lost; he, a model of headlong boyish 
passion. In a realistic morality tale, their 
behavior could seem plain foolish; but 
Elvira Madigan has the quality of leg- 
end. carefully costumed and furnished i 
period. accompa Mozart 
piano concerto. like 
most love affairs, rather 
than logical 
color photography catches the 
illusory mood, filtering out the harsh tex 
une of adversity. What we sce instead is 
gossamer tragedy, frail and beautiful 


classic 


along 
ines. Above all, exquisite 


film's 


То kep The Incident in motion, two 
leering psychopaths commander а New 
York subway саг bound for Times 
Square at a wee hour when prudent 
people are home in bed. Along for the 
ride are 15 unsuspecting victims wearily 


winding up a night of seductions, family 
quarrels, racial antigonisms and ho- 
mosexual cruising. If the passengers 


e anything itis the well- 
publicized urban disposition to 1 
uninvolved with one's fellow 
beings. On that premise, director Larry 


(One Potato, Two Potato) Peerce creates 


а shocker in which a check list of con- 
temporary fears is conveyed to the 
screen by direct current, hot and siz- 
ding. As in his previous picture 


shows an unfortunate fondness for label 
ing isues and fitting his characters 
precisely into slots, But this eve 
message (in a xripr by Nicholas E. 
Bachr) has sufficient momentum to keep 
wailing through the long jungle night, 
from the swift vignettes that establish 
hup to a horrific 
climax that brings the thugs’ reign of 
temor to a halt. Tony Musante and 
Martin Sheen, as two feral specimens of 
life among Ше lower orders, are the с 
bodiment of senseless violence every city 
dweller hopes to elude. For their captive 
audience aboard the IRT, crisis follows 


ав during а trip nearly two hours long. 
It seems shorter, particularly when Jan 
Sterling, Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Gary 
Merrill, Ed McMahon and other troup 
ers start squirming as the poor unfortu- 
nates who find togetherness jammed right 
down their throats. 


The Fearless Vompire Killers or Pardon Me, 
Fut Your Teeth Are in My Neck is а visual 
feast signifying little except bad news 
from director Roman (Knife in the Water, 
Repulsion) Polanski—with or without 

3 » snipped (тегі. 
fully) from the film by producer Mart 
Kansohoff before из American release 
prompting Polanski (wisely but unsuc- 
cessfully) to demand the removal of his 
name from the credits. In this pseudo 
satire, Polanski attempts a slapstick 
parody of Hollywood's traditional horror 
spectacles. Не marinates fangs, cofins, 
blood and garlic im one of those cob- 
webby ‘Transylvanian castles, where а 
doltish professor and his sidekick rush to 
rescue а village beauty from the sinister 
Coumt Krolock. Since beauty is repre- 
ted by that bewitching creature named 
Sharon Tate (see The Tate Gallery, 
тглувоу, March 1967), whose сусз glow 
with Jambent flame, one can understa 
the boys’ desire to bring her back from 
the castle, but the Munstersstyle humor 
of their quest leaves much to be desired. 
At опе point 


a first of 
1 pethaps а mincing baby step 
w horizons for the genre. To 
top his flair for whimsy, Polanski himself 
plays the professor's lackey in а perform- 
ance made to measure for a class-C 
thriller. But. the originals were far fun 
nier than his ren id spookier, too. 


Somewhere on а remote Greek isl 
a mysterious W 
plane, two crewmen and enough thermo- 
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26 


shorts and grimly wringing them for a 
few uneasy laughs. Meanwhile, an influx. 
of high-camp tourists brings along Can- 
dice Bergen as а swinging archaeologist 
who digs boys in darling beachwear and 
gives a wooden performance worthy of a 
chip off Charlie McCarthy. By the time 
the fish float belly up in the polluted 
Aegean, it becomes clear that Cacoyannis 
wants to say something—about the de- 
dine of civilization, perhaps. Unhappily, 
his message is mere froufrou in a film as 
casy to do wi 


hout as radioa 


tive waste. 


Exploiting the Sinatra legend is the 
straightforward intention of Tony Коте, a 
melodrama that seldom lets far 
fetched fiction slow down its star. Flip 
side up, Frank plays a roving private eye 
who hangs in cruiser 
moored at Miami Beach, and faithful Si- 
manes should find everything ship- 
pe. The timing is breezy, as suits The 
Man, and the corpse count rises fast 
enough to satisfy the most sanguinary 

Amons the kinkier distractions 


are mammoth plugs for some of Sina- 
p» (among them, the 
Budweiser 


tra's favorite th 
Fontaincbleu апа 
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beer in 
nkly 
5 (a pair of newlyweds honey- 
ooning to exhaustion on the yacht next 
door and a frantic lady who makcs a 
scene about her stolen pussy). Such mat. 
ters keep the hero too busy smirking to 
really swing, even while he extricates 


himself from а plot that involves killers 
bortion- 


for hire, hustlers, blackmailers. 
ists, junkies, drug pushers, а 
stripper and other regio 
this slice of low life m. 


nd ready for action only to have 
ary call her a slut. "Now that 
introduced" purrs Jill im- 
urbably. Tony Rome also solves a 
mystery for anyone sull wondering what- 
ever became of Sue Lyon, She's alive in 
id how. 

ive a portable camera to Shirley 
(The Cool World) Clarke and the ват 
goes at a subject as though she'd been 
паса a crowbar, dislodging rocks from. 
y's lower strata to make us look at 
ln Portrait 
of Joson, the specimen unearthed is a 
young Negro homosexual, of bookish 
mien, who turns his own book of revela- 
ions into black comedy during a mara- 
thon dark-tilldawn interview, Alone on 
сга and loving it, Jason Holiday 
(born Aaron Paine in Trenton, New Jer- 
sey) introduces himself. with the cheerful 
admission, “I'm а whore,” then lists fur- 
ther credentials as pimp, houseboy, homo- 
sexi ad thorn in the side of two 
Bellevue psychiatrists. “They keep harpin* 
on sex," he complains, "I've been ballin’ 
from Maine to Mexico, and I'm trying to 
forget about it. . . . I am bona fide 
freaksville.” Maybe. But behind the bra- 


vado lurks a human being whose instinct 
for survival in the white world is fed by 
an ing sense of humor, not to men- 
tion “sparkle plenty pills” and vast quan- 
tities of booze. Though this long evening 
of Holiday camp is wildly funny when 
Jason describes drag queens he has 
known or his misadventures as ап inept 
domestic, it becomes ineffably moving 
when he recalls a bittersweet boyhood in 
the ghetto or tells about plans for a 
nightclub act he may never get around 
to. Through a thickening haze of alco- 
hol as offscreen voices press Гог more 
and more detail, Jason drifts at moments 
into bathos and near sadism; yet seldom 
have the techniques of cinéma vérité 
been used so strikingly to pull the stop- 
per on onc. man's truth. 

In the final scene of a whipped-cream 
ийе entitled Tender Scoundrel, | 
Belmondo limps into the m: 
wealthy divorcee whose limousin 
knocked him down. “Come and stretch 
ош,” coaxes the lady. 
demurs Jean-Paul, unders 
дей by the demands made of him earlier 
in rumpled beds from Paris to Tahiti. 
Belmondo embarks on his odyssey with 
blonde Mylène Demongeot, a banker's 
mistress who owns a Mustang she cannot 
to back up, though her forward 
nesli neatly. While schussing with 
the banker's mistess, Belmondo capti- 
vates a banker's wife (Genevieve Page), 
deplores her penchant for bedside br 
tality and trades her in for а nympho- 
maniacal baroness (Nadja Tille) who 
needs a sex hand will to саги his ра 
sage on а South Sea cruise. In short, Bel- 
mondo's travels tum out to be just one 
damn fing after another, drolly perpe 
trated by d 1 Becker, who 
knows tl very French brand of 
improvisation has to be kept as feathery 
аз a pillow light. Background music by 
Mid pes in frivolity-as- 
usual. But из Belmondo whose agile, 
eflortless comic style conceals the absence 
of plot il the show is almost over. 
There is no farceur in filmdom bette 
able to make a рга а look like a cue for 
passion 


Making off with $75,000 worth of 
jewels takes only a few minutes’ time in 
Robbery, but a lively few minutes they 
are, filled with sharp cuts and 
auto chase through London. And that is 
only the beginning of the picture. Under 
d 
quence deserves another in a tidy thriller 
based loosely on Ше 1963 highjacking of 
. The way Robbery 
ag is used as a pud 


tal i to cover the reen 
and training of 26 highly skilled bou n: 
ers (mechanics electricians, Боокксер- 


crs, с прегдс S, et al), who figure thcir 
be $10,000,000 stashed 
aboard the Royal Mail bound from Glas. 


gow to London. There is so much to do 
that the scenario can’t dawdle over рег. 
sonal problems—and after a few edgy 
encounters between the gangs leader 
(Stanley Baker) and his petulant wife 
(Joanna Pettet, featured in Phe Lady in 
"Blue" on page 81 of this issue), it's back 
to business. You may notice as D day 
d h that James Booth perfor 
very smoothly as а Scotland Yard man 
who responds like а scismograph to any 
sort of rumbling from the underworld. 


п and around the Yard, may explain why 
the movie contradicts history by 
most of the thieves bagged wit 
or two, But pay no mind. During the 


lads’ really big moments, right or wrong, 
you'll be with them—in fine, grainy 
newsreal color. 


Back in the heyday of Italian neoreal- 
ism, The Girl and the General would have 
been ıd should have been—filmed in 
gritty black and white by an impover- 
shed post-War director with a flair for 
squeezing grand ironies onto a small can- 
vas. But aflluence has set in and producer 
rlo Ponti can lux: 


One by an illit- 
a) and a soldier 
(Umberto Orsini) who hope to turn him 
in for a 1000404 reward. The trio's 
slowly evolving relationships are obvious 


ly meant to yield wagedy, comedy and 
flashes of quintessential humanity en 
route то a biner dima Stei 

woefully miscast and Virna just hints at 


the things she might do if a 
to look beyond her finely chiseled bones. 
And the they are supposedly 
trapped by seems а long-ago-and-t 
way fiction, even while the bombs cx- 
plode around hem. As Virna’s boyish 
comrade i though. Orsini is worth 
atchi frecklefaced Italian who 
combines beginners luck with exactly 
the sort of eager young blood the occa- 
sion calls for. 


amera were 


The generation gap, which has been 
taking up far to much of everyone's 
time on stage and screen, is bridged with 
gags, grit and resonant human comedy 
in The Graduate. Mike Nichols’ second 
movie (the first was Virginia Woolf) em. 
ploys a hotel bedroom as the setting for 
a temporary truce between disenchanted 
middle age, represented by an alcoholic 
matron (Anne Bancroft), and anxiery- 
youth. represented by an award. 
winning scholar and former track star 
(Dustin Hoffman), who is unable to fo 
cus, аз the sociologists say. on n 
ful goals. So he goes го bed with the first 
lady who asks him, who happens to be 
the wife of his father's business partner 
nd the mother of the willowy beauty 
(Katharine Ross) he is going to fall in 


love with very shortly. Complications 
Tollow, to put it mildly, but the compli 
cations that have preceded include the 
Iunniest moments of anguish ever filmed 
10 commemorate the decline and fall of a 
boys burdensome virginity. Hoffman, a 
runty recruit from olf-Broadway, com- 


bines an arsenal of sighs, squeals, nods, 


cues and semiarticulate protests with 
the perpetually perplexed expression of a 
feisty young pup that may never grasp 
the first principles of paper training. Не 
thrusts a palm onto his lady's bosom, 
waits, withdraws it and politely remarks, 
‘You're the most attractive of all my pz 
ents’ friends, Mis. Robinson." Anne's cal 
culated bitchery gives a hard edge to 
their scenes together, cach a classic €x- 
ample of noncommunication topped by 
the Tad's futile attempts to make a little 
conversation by asking Mrs Robinson 


how she got started on sex (“What kind 
of car was it2"). In the Buck Henry 
Calder Willingham scipt drawn hom 
Charles Webb's novel, sight gags altcr 
nate with verbal somersaults to produce 
a finally conventional reassurance that 
love conquers all. Nichols might have 


omitted some of his self.co 


scious cam- 
cra antics; but he docs achieve one cool 
ly striking alienation effect simply Бу 
putting his hero into a 5200 wet suit and 
letting him stand alone at the bottom of 
a swimming pool, safe from friends, 
parents and the pressures of Southern 
California mores. Mostly, the fresh comic 
spirits assembled here in defense of youth 
belt out lusty good humor. The Graduate 
stands at the head ol из class. 


RECORDINGS 


Simply Streisand (Columbia) may hc 
Barbra girl's best recording to date. 
There are almost none of the strident 
Su aities 
that have marred her otherwise captivat 
ing performances in the past. Her reper- 
toire is almost faultless (but Slout-Hearted 
Men, even taken at ballad tempo, is still 
banal, unfortunately); it includes Му 
Funny Valentine, When Sunny Gets 
Blue, More Than You Know and The 
Boy Next Door. 


amd and upper-register 


Bola Sete с! the Monterey Јат Festival 
(Verve) had to be one of the high points, 
if this record is any gauge. The Brazil- 
born, San Francisco-based guitarist, with 
bassist. Sebastian Neto and drummer 
Paulinho, is dazzling as he does а medley 
from Black Orpheus and a brace of his 


own tunes, Soul Samba and Flamenco. 
Sete-sational. 

The offerings of three other exemplary 
guitarists have come our way. Charlie 


Byrd is represented by Solo Flight (River- 
side) and More Brezilion Byrd (Columbia). 
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Charlie fills the room with sensuous and 
subtle sounds, The LP draws from the 
works of Django Reinhardt, Duke El- 
lington and Rodgers and Hart, among 
others. Byrd's Brazilian LP finds him 
backdropped by an orchestra and intro- 
ducing а new Rio rhythm, the Jequibau, 
A number of the Latin tone pocms are 
old favorites, but Charlie does get a 
chance to cook on some lesser-known 
items. Kenny Burrell, who has come into 
solo guitarist only in recent 
years, is now duly appreciated. А Genera- 
tion Ago Today (Verve) has him reprising 
а passel of the Benny Goodman small- 
group favorites that featured the legend- 
rv Charlie Christian. Poor Butterfly, 
Rose Room and If 1 Had You are amon 
the entries and Burrell needn't worry 
bout losing anything by comparison 
with Christian. He is strictly first rank. 
A Day in the tite (A&M) spotlights the 
wondrous Wes Montgomery with an ou 
sized aggregation. In addition to the title 
eat, Wes has a go at their 
Eleanor Rigby aud assorted odes ranging 
from Willow Weep for Me to the fun 
When a Man Loves a Woman. А notable 
triumph. 


his own 


On Magical. Mystery Tour (Capitol). the 
Beatles eschew further exper 
in favor of consolidating their gains. One 
side of the LP offers a half-dozen moody, 
melodic songs from the television film 
of the sume title (the other side is а pro- 

of previous Lennon-McCartney 
such as Penny Lane and Strawberry 
Fields Forever). An uncanny blend of 
sound and sense is sustained throughout, 
and the group seems even morc sell- 
assured than in the past; the high point 
of the set is the powerfully nihilistic 7 Am 
the Walrus. A booklet of color photos is 
included for the quartet's more rabid fans. 


Happy. happy keyboard sounds pour 
out ol Grond Piono (Exclusive). Willi 
“The Lion" Smith and Don Ewell ream 
> for a session of twofisted piano duets 
1 the assic jazz tradition. Zestful exu 
berance and a delightful rapport abound 
as Ewell able Lion 
хоп through Гое Found а New Baby, 
Some of These Days, Keepin’ out of Mis- 
chief Now, Sweet Georgia Brown and a 
тай dozen equally impressive evergreens. 


One of today's leading soul songstresses, 
etha Franklin, comes up a winner on 
Toke а took (Columbia), an LP whose 


opening track. the freewheeling Lee 
Cross, is more than worth the price of 
the recording. Songs such as the title 


Until You Were Gone and Blue 
bonus. 


ditty, 
Holiday ате strictly 


"Ihe Don Ellis Orchestra continues to 
produce some of the most ting 
sounds and rhythms in jazz. Live in 33/4 
ic Jazz), recorded at. Shelly's 


Manne Hole and the Pacific Jazz Festi- 
val, conveys the elect of fresh c 
ploration while avoiding “freeform 
anarchy. In addition to a quartet of wild 
Is, Mau Dennis’ wiecand-true 
yes is dramatically refurbished, 


as is Eddie Напі funky Freedom 
Dance. The Ellis group gives every indi- 


cation of being where the future big- 
band sound is at. 

New York-based Esterhazy Or- 
chesira under conductor David Blum has 
proved а splendid vehicle for conveying 
the ebullient spirit of the Baroque ста. 
In off B Georg Philipp Telemonn's Suite, 
The Prostitute (Bach Guild), along with 
several of his concertos for flutes, obocs 
nd uumpets, the orchestra has agai 

risen nobly to the occasion. Afte 
than 200 years, Т 
and limpid works are sti 
For sheer mu dexterity, in playing 
ad в. The Doors is the best pop 
вто cons, Their style, 
. is d (o 


The 


more 


mann's 


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while nor especially or 
pigeonhole. Strange Doys (Elektra), their 


appear in 


second album. proves that their phe- 
nomenal commercial success is justified, 
Whether timing on the psychedelic 
on Strange Days, or sustaining 
as on Moon 
the group swings powerfull 
sacrificing delicacy or taste and 
without controLroom gimmickry. They 
really stretch out оп their Hamine 
opus When the Musics Over. Jarmen 
ke heed: The Doors can play. 


Old meets new and both profit on 
Chuck Berry live ot Fillmore Auditorium (Mer- 
шу), Backed by the young Steve Miller 
Band, а Пгефир Berry leads the way 
through а program that embraces swing- 
а selections such as Flying Home, 
psychedelic blues (Feelin 11) and several 
down-home laments, including С. €, Mid- 
er. Despite occasional clinkers, the set i 
a mind-blowing experience—courtesy of 


Berrys guitar, which is angrier and 
trickier than ever. 
THEATER 


Tt was Eugene O'Neill's wish that 
Mote Stately Mansions be destroyed at his 
death. 1 the first American 
production of the unfinished play, it 
would be easy to say thar his instructions: 
should have been followed. Mansions is 
not complete and, in Jose Quintero's pro- 
duction, is not entirely stigeworthy. 
Nevertheless, the work is а valued pos- 
session, an artifact of America’s greatest 
playwright. Sprawling. prolix. it still 
bears the mark of O'Neill: dramatic е 
ıs, soul-searching soliloquies, pene 
os psychological revelations and 


ed wi 


nd rheme—as much about America 


gn 


ness success as it is 
love and hate. Mansions is an essential 
work for O'Neill fans: the question is 
whether it should have been offered to 
the public in its present guise. It is billed 


simply as а pkiy by Eugene ONeill, 
when the truth is that it has been 
wrenched from а mass of raw O'Neill 
material by Quintero. Credited only as 


the director, Quintero is actually а some 
what meddlesome midwife. He has, for 
example. reinstated а draggy first scene 
(cut when tlie play was first produced in 
Sweden), which serves only to link it 
with A Touch of the Poct—the only play 
O'Neill completed in his projected nine 
play cde and to remind one how far 
superior a work Poet is. In spite of thn 
impressive production values (sets that 
look like American primitive paini 
and a high-powered cast), the work re- 
mains not a play but an outline, Much of 


s 


the dialog sounds like shorthand for de- 
tail never brushed in. Transition is al- 
most catirely lacking. Si п Hafod 


(Arthur Hill), а Yankee bu: 
set by 
grid Bergman) 
wile (Collec 
denly from ni 
pulator. whi 
actors and audienc 
accepted for what it is—a  beginnir 
With dess pretension, the fragments 
could have been staged, or even read. 
The scenes could stand alone. without 
being forced into the mold of a play. 
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for possession of their man with an in 
tensity not likely to be equaled on 
Broadway this season, At the Broad- 
hurst, 5 West 44th Street. 


nessman. be- 


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An overdoze of putupon parents and 
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thought. ‘The authors Blimpish m 
piece, General Sir Mallalieu. Fitzbuttress 
(Anthony Quayle looking like Konrad 
Adenauer), comes home to England alter 
years in Malays, discovers that in his 
absence his son has been booted out of 
Oxford and let his hair grow. He looks 
k. And his "mistress" is an eq 
pie of indeterminate sex. The 
rs daughter. on the other hand. 
cn up promiscuity as а way of 
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fore her: she is hugely pregnant. knows 
not the lather and cares less. Unfared. 
Quayle compliments his brood on their 
good sense and proceeds to outhip them. 
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Coan you define some cool terms for 
me? I hear these words used every day by 
the hippies at my college and am embar- 


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bag” and an “oh-zec"?—J. P, Knoxville, 


Tennessee. 

If your local hippies toss these expres- 
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they're far from hip—and very uncool. A 
“nickel bag" is five dollars’ worth of mari- 
juana, usually measured as enough to fill 
а shot glass. A “dime bag” is twice as 
much—ten dollars worth, The myste- 
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quantity of pot. The next time you hear 
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listening.” You'll be regarded as the 
hippest of the lot. 


For duce years Т camied on a very 
nate love айайт with a bachelor ad- 
jg executive ly. our p 
sonaliry differences became manifest and 
1 finally insisted we break up. He has 
become determined to change my mind, 
4 he believes in the hard sell. For the 
st four months he has phaned me sev- 
eral times a day. at my office and at 
home. He vs he is still in love with me 
aud even wants to marry me. He [re 
quenily waits for me outside the build: 
ing in which 1 work and he writes to 
me and sends me presents. Is there any 
way to discourage his attentions yet not 
hurt his f ings lurther?—Miss T. B., 
Rochester, New York 

Don't worry about "hurting" 
it is, you have been making him miser 
able for four months. Tell him once, 
plainly, that you have по love left for 
him, that you find his relentless pusut 
annoying and that you can't bear the 
thought of pitying him, ах you ате begin- 
ning ta do. And let that be the last of 
your words—not harsh, but final. Unless 
you make up your mind clearly and act 
with conviction, you will continue to 
feed his masochistic needs, which he will 
continue to interpret as “hope.” No one 
carries on like this for four months with- 
ош being cither sick or encouraged. 


him. As 


iful piece of lass, 
but she's also a Ph. D., very outspoken 
and not at all backward about expressing 
her thoughts, which happen to be pretty 
far out. This fact doesn't bother me, but 
й will certainly startle my colleagues 
when 1 enter the business world (after 
achieving my M. B. A. next semester). I 
am an individualist in every sense of the 
word: I anyone's 
opinions (especially those of someone 


would never censor 


near and dear); but at the same time, T 
am concerned about my career. I am 
sure that in a зайу environment, this 
bundle of beauty and brains will get that 
career into trouble. Do you have any 
advice?—B. Е. Dayton, Ohio. 

The key phrase in your letter is “stuffy 
1.” Avoid it. Look for a job in 
а small. growing and. dynamic company, 
where most of the executives are young. 
There you should Jind less concern with 
a conformist im 


environme 


e and more concern 


with the job you do. In fact, your asyo- 
ciates will probably recognize that your 
choice of an unconventional mate is 
inseparable from the self-divectedness that 
makes you a productive person. 


Bam a риле addict, and six months 
ago a pen pal in another city sent me this 
опе by mail: “This is a logic game called 
Max and Nora. There is only one rule, 
but I can't tell you what it is. You have 
to deduce the rule by askin! 
that 1 сап 
no." Well, he died shortly alter we be- 
an this game. and 1 have only four an- 
swers to work from. I have not been able 
to solve this yet, my brain is tied in as 
ny knots as a pretzel and 1 am ready 
ve up. Here are my questions and 
his answers: “Will all your answers be 
literally truthful?” —Yes. “Are some of 
your answers going to be false?"—Yes. 
"Is the rule hinted at in the title Max 
and N Yes. “Is the rule that all of 
your answers are going to be ye 
No. Сап rLAYzoY discover the secret of 
the Мах Nora puzzle?—S. M. 
Tennessee. 

This is an old chestnut that gets 
revived periodically among logic stu- 
dents and puzzle. fans. The rule is that 
the instigator of the game answers the 
other player's questions not according to 
their meaning but according to the last 
letter of the last word of each question. 
All letters in the first half of the alphabet 
are “Maxes” and are answered “Ye 
all letters in the second half are “Noval 


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Е would like по pursue a career in ho- 
tel and restaurant administration. Where 
can | obtain a list of recommended 
schools and/or colleges offering courses 
n this Бед Е. E, San Francisco, 
ifornia. 

The Council on Hotel, Restaurant and 
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Wou have always stressed. the impor- 
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Amo h we have been married for a 
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“The Art and Science of Love,” should 
help you and your wife select those that 
suit you best. 


Today 1 bought several pillows to deco- 
ate my den and found auached to 
them ugly, sloppy-ooking labels de- 
scribing the contents of the pillows and 
saying, во NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY 
or tHe LAW. І removed them, anyway. 
but Tin wondering if I actually 


now 


have broken some Should I hire a 
lawyer? Should I turn myself in]. M., 
Coronado. California. 
No. As a consumer, 
remove the 
customers 


you are free to 
label. It is there to protect 
from fraudulent claims by 
manufacturers and sellers, and applies 
only to those who sell the articles. The 
Association of Bedding and Furniture 
Law Officials changed the wording of 
the labels last year to make il clear that 
the purchaser may remove them. 


Wb расте job that is helping me 
through college involves delivering pre. 
Today I 
nt of a 
very attractive divorcée. I dropped the 
package on the table and when I turned 
around, she was blocking the kitchen 
doorway and smiling at me in what 1 
thought was a rather inviting way. She 
didn't move when I stepped toward the 
door and we kept looking at ca 
for what seemed like а very long ti 
didn't know how to deal with the situ; 
tion, so I said and did nothing. Finally, 
she moved out of my way. This has been 
bugging me ever since. И it was really 
sort of propos 1 would like to h 


h other 
1 


taken advantage of it. But a young ma 
making advances to а strange wor 
alone in her apartment can get into a lot 


of trouble. What should ! have donc, 
and what should I do if I mak 


Rochester, Minnesota. 

If the opportuni gain, try a 
conversational hook—something that will 
give the lady a chance to gracefully 
make her intentions clear. If she doesn't 
respond to your verbal bait, pull in your 
line and move out smartly, Making a 
blind pass in these circumstances is, as 
you suggest, surely fishing for trouble. 


Precise help me with a simple etiquette 
problem. When serving steak, where 
should cach individual's steak Кайс bc 
placed?—L, С. Boise, Idaho. 

Right where the regular dinner knife 
would usually go: to the left of the spoon 
and one inch 10 the right of the plate. 


H 
find 
ings of inferiority and копи 
ity. I get along pretty well with 
. but I've never had sexual inter- 
couse. My friends, all of whom are 
about my age, constantly talk about 
their sexual exploits, which make my 


arises 


е age of 20, T 
terrific feel 
about my 


ing reached the 
Г suffering from 


backseat clutchings sound childish and 
leave me with nothing to say. Is there 
something wrong with еб. B. 


Davenport, Iowa. 

Yes. You're а little too credulous for 
your own peace of mind. Take yous 
friends’ boasting, discount a large ro 
portion and зс 


fuse to measure yourselj 


by the remainder. Each person progresses 
at his own rate, and further sexual ad- 
ventures will come your way when 
you're ready for Шет. 


At the end of next summer, I plan to 
spend almost a month visiting relatives 
in San Francisco. I've been told that 
there are a number of vineyards in the 
region where visitors are welcome. Do 
you have any information on thig— 

P. New Haven, Connecticut. 

More Шап 100 California vintners 
conduct guided tous through their win- 
eries—and many of these are located 
within driving distance of San Francisco. 
The Livermore district (east of the city), 
the Paul Masson and Almaden vineyards 
(to the south), the Sonoma-Mendocino 
vineyards and the Napa Valley (north of 
San Francisca) represent California wine 
country at its most beautiful. To top off 
your vintage voyage, head Jor Lodi, in 
mid-September, to witness California's 
bibulous blast of the year: the Grape 
Festival and National Wine Show. 


WI, wite is a tight sleeper and often 
awakes at night to discover that I have 
an erection, which she assumes must ac- 
company an erotic dre: I have told 
her that in the morning 1 can't remember 
my dreams and that they might very 
well have been about her. She says that 
even И this is ue, she is humiliated, be- 
cause I wouldn't have such dreams if J 
found her sexually satisfying. This leads 
to the old Freudian out dreams’ 
ting unfulfilled needs, and I 
now how to answer that. Do you? 
—T. J, Brooklyn, New York. 

The scientific study of dreams has ad- 
vanced considerably since Freud's day 
and, among other things, modern re- 
search shows that the average male has 
three to five dreams per night—nearly 
all of them accompanied by an erection. 
The frequency of these erections remains 
relatively constant and is not affected by 
the content of the dreams nor by the 
dreamers sex activity. Like dreaming 
itself, these erections probably perform 
some necessary function in the psychic 
cconomy—although this function is not 
yet understood. In any case, they are по 
reflection on your waking lifé—nor your 
wakeful wife. 


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FOR тоо MANY years, Spain has been a 
vacation retreat primarily for Europeans. 
Of thc nation's morc than 18.000.000 
isiors during 1967, fewer than 900.000 
they 
g and 
sophisticated. citi d and RBar- 
celona. plus her Mediterranean beaches— 
promise to attract 
this year than ever 


the Continents best 
Amcricans 


morc 
beforc. 
5 become one of the 
world's most cosmopolitan citics within 
the past ten years, and not the least evi 
dence of Madrid's new internationalism 
is its array of great hotels. The Ritz is 
still one of Europe's finest, but it now 
has competition from, among others, the 
Velazquez, the Plaza, the Luz Palace 
and the Succi 

I you arrive 


! town on a Sunday, 
purchase tickets immediately Гог the 
bullfight. The action doesn’t start until 
nearly six o'clock, which will allow you 
ample time to acquaint yourself with 
Madrid during the afternoon, Lunch is 
still the biggest meal of the day, and for 
traditional Spanish dining, pause for 
regal repast at such restaurants as Fl 
Pálpito, Hogar Gallego. Sobrino de Bo- 
tin or Casa Paco. Following lunchcon, 
stroll through the Campo del Moro ог 
the Casa de Campo—where the girls are. 
If you meet up with a companionable 
señorita, let her take you on an afternoon 
tour of the town's fascas—small bars that 
serve hot hors d'oeuvres washed down 
ith beer and wine. Among the city's 
best are the Toscana, Meson de 
Javier and Mesón del Segoviano. 

After the bullfights, you'll want to 
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as culinary expertise, two of the most se- 
lect spots arc La Puerta de Moros (located 
n ancient palace) and the Hotel 
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(jai alai) court, where you can wager— 
and win—enough to pay the dinner tab. 
for you and yours. 

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to move until after midnight. The city's 


in 


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steros. For lavish floorshows, you'll want 
to reserve а table at Pasapoga (Madrid's 
leading might club) La Galera, Са 
blanca or the Senorial. To cap off your 
evening on the town, drop into one of the 
city's wilder discotheques—Stone's, or the 
Royal Box, located in the Hotel Rex. 


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its share of Mod.isis, and Balenciaga rates 
among the world’s most fashionable hauls 


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Walking. in fact, is definitely the way 
to explore Barcelona. And the street to 
sec first is the Ramblas, а trec-bordered 
series of boulevards lined with май 
concessions offering songbirds and fow- 
ers in almost equal numbers. Another of 
your destinations should be the museum 
dedicated exclusively to the works of Pi- 
casso: the artist spent much of his youth 
in Barcelona 

Barcelona, like Madrid, is endowed 
with a Lucullan assortment. of first-class 
restaurants: Los Caracoles, an elegant 
establishment whose clientele has in 
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dispenses а succulent paella you can't al- 
to pass up. And for Basque delicacies, 
which, as a final fillip 
cal, 


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desert soufflés in the city. Make it to 
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Dragón Гог Oriental cuisine and Tres 


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discothèques in town. Comely single 
swingers will be found cavorting der- 
vishly at such dance palaces as the Dolce 
Vita, Fuji-Yama and Whisky à Gogo 
And afterward, catch the late show at 
the Jamboree Jazz Club, where such c 
nences as Woody Herman, Ella. Fitzger- 
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of Mediterra beadvreort towns. 
And just 30 miles south lies the Costa 
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and restaurant construction. Sp 
other famed Mediterranea 
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Valencia for 100 miles) and the Costa 
del Sol (extending all the way from Alme- 
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THE PLAYBOY FORUM 


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


LITTLE BROTHER 

Arthur Seldon's letter. concerning the 
crusade against Little Brother. the first 
anatomically accurate baby doll to be in- 
troduced on the American market, was a 
real shocker (The Playboy Forum, De- 
cember). 1 am stunned by the extent of 
sexual insanity in this country, as revealed 
by this campaign. Our local newspapers 
reported that two Ohio women have 
written to President Johnson demanding 
that the doll be banned. If these women 


were really concerned about obscenity, 
Шеу should have objected to what Amer 
ican bombers are doing to live children 
in Vietnam. 1t is as if we live in a md- 
house, where the inmates have gotten 
control 

If these women find an 


mitation penis 
on а doll so terrible, what do they think 
of real penises on real baby boys? 
Mrs. J. McGraw 
Cincinnati, Ohio 


The York 
ne gives an amusing account of 
some of the reactions to Litle Brother, 
the “anatomically correct” male doll im- 
ported from France. One о the most 
quotable statements from the article is 
the following. made by several protest- 
ing Ohio housewives: "Toys are. should 
Бе and must remain objects of play. Sex 
organs are not. 


rice in то Times 


David Lewis 
Hartlord, Connecticut. 


THE SEX GAP 

The discussion in The Playboy Forum 
of human sexuality is a valuable 
change of ideas and information. Unfor- 
tunately, the same enlightenment does 
not prevail in modern medical educa 
tion. As a medical student at the largest 
Big Ten university school of medicine, 1 
find that in the four years leading to the 
M.D. degree, there are no courses or 
porüons of courses devoted to human 
sexuality, Only recently has the medical 
student or the practicing physician even 
had access to such information (i 
Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual 
Response). Oddly enough 
human sexuality has 


Ше 


area of 
neglected 
probably because of the physician's anx 
icy, embarrassment and downright ina 
bility to discuss problems involving sex. 
Ihe public should be made aware of the 
gap 
(Name withheld by request) 
Indianapolis, Indiana 


been 


large "sex п medical education. 


PRURIENT PICASSO 

The June and September Playboy Fo- 
тит letters about TV's naked invisible 
man certainly drive home the point that 
obscenity is in the сус of the beholder. 
Along similar lines, I have conceived a 
wonderful fantasy in regard to the con- 
noversy over Chicago's gigantic new 
Picasso sculpture: Suppose old Pablo (who 
is known to have a wry sense of humor) 
nounced that the abstract work of art 


is actually an crotic depiction with some 
such title as Camel Committing Sodomy 
with Harem Girl, Homosexual Daisy 
Chain or White Protestant American 
Mother Engaged in Adultery with Titan 
ic Negro Hippie. Imagine the furor: out- 
raged citizens demanding that Mayor 
Daley dynamite the picce immediately; 
parents forbidding their children ever to 
look at it; hordes of teenagers gathering 
around the sculpture to snicker and smirk: 


and teachers being suspended for taking 
Classes to view it as a work of art. 
Bruce Wackowski 


Gary, Indiana 


DENMARK AND AMERICA 

Denmark is presently considering а 
proposal to abolish all restrictions on the 
publication and sale of books. This 
suggestion was made to parliament by 
the minister of justice, К. Axel Nielsen, 
after a legal commission came to the 


conclusion that it is impossible to find a 
definition of the unpublishable that the 
courts can enforce without bringing. 
themselves into. public contempt. 

This seems to me the only sane 
proach to censorship. Why doesn't an 
American legislator introduce а similar 
bill in Congress? This is supposed to 
be a Пее country: Why must we always 
be wailing years behind the northern- 
European nations? 


Arnold Fleeman 
New York, New York 
The United States has had such legis- 
lation since 1791, when thc Dill of 
Rights officially went into effect. The 
First Amendment to the Constitution 
commands that “Congress shall make 
no law . . . abridging the freedom of 
speech от of the press. Unfortu- 
nately, the Supreme Court has never been 
able to muster a majority who could 
agree that the law means what it says. In 
this connection, Justice Hugo Black has 
commented: 


1 understand that it is rather old- 
fashioned and shows a slight naïveté 


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PLAYBOY 


40 


10 say that "no law” means no law. 
Ii is one of the most amazing things 
about the ingeniousness of the times 
that strong arguments are made, 
which almost convince me, that it is 
very foolish of me to think “no law" 
means no law... . 

Then I move on to the words 
“abridging the freedom of speech or 
of the press.” It says Congress shall 
make no law domg that. What it 
means—according to a current phi- 
losophy thai I do not share—is that 
Congress shall be able to make just 
such a law, unless we judges object 
100 strongly. One of the statements 
of the philosophy is that if it shocks 
us loo much, then they cannot do it. 
Bul when I get down to the really 
basic reason why I believe thal “no 
law” means no law, 1 presume it 
could come to this—that I took an 
obligation to support and defend 
the Constitution as I understand it. 
And being а rather backward coun- 
by fellow, 1 understand it to mean 
what the words say. Gesticulations 
apart, 1 know of no way in the 
world to communicate ideas except 
by words. And, if I were to talk at 
great length on the subject, 1 would 
Mill be sayiny—although 1 under- 
sland that some people say that I 
just say it and do not believe it— 
that I believe when our founding 
fathers, with their wisdom and pa- 
triotism, wrote this amendment, they 
knew what they were talking about. 
They knew what history was behind 
them and they wanted to ordain in 
this country that Congress, clected by 
the people, should not tell the people 
what religion. they should have or 
what they should believe or say or 
publish, and that is about it. It says 
“no law," and that is what 1 believe 
й means. 


ENFORCING MORALITY 

During my early years as a minister of 
the Gospel, I added my voice to the 
lusty lungs of those who cried: "Down 
with alcohol! —a slogan accepted all too 
literally by those we were tr 
due. But the days of Prohibition demon 
strated the ineflectiveness of trying to 
legislate morals. Nevertheless, Ше ma 
of my community is currently attempti 
to ban a particularly offensive local peri 
odical, and there continues to be a gen 
| hue and cry against such things as 
salacious literature, contraceptives and 
firecracker 

In dealing with controversial pursuits 
ivities, we must adopt and follow 
more logical and consistent than 
those of the past. Although legislation 
jurisprudence regulate the disposi- 
tion of property and the protection of 
life, they have no bearing whatsoever on 
the way people think or on the moral 
nd ethical standards that motivate their 


FORUM NEWSFRONT 


^ of events related to issues raised by “the playboy philosophy" 


D AIR POLLUTION 

MAPLEWOOD, NEW JEKSEY—Air pollu- 
tion is а threat to sex powers, says Dr. 
Frank Rosen, an expert on allergy. He 
reported that tests conducted in Califor- 
nia showed that the capacity of animals 
for sexual activity diminished after they 
were exposed to auto fumes. “As far as 1 
know,” he said, “research has not been 
carried over to human beings, but the 
possibility of the adverse effect is cer 
tainly there” 


BRITISH ABORTION REFORM 

LoNboN—A bill making abortions 
available for a variety of medical and 
social reasons will go into effect this 
April. Abortions in the United Kingdom 
will be legal if any two doctors agree 
that one of these conditions exists: threat 
to the mother’s life; threat to her physi- 
enl or mental health; likelihood that the 
child, if born, would be seriously handi- 
capped, mentally or physically; danger 
of physical or mental injury to the moth- 
ers presently existing children. This last 
ground permits doctors to take into ac- 
count such broad factors as overcrowd- 
ing in the mother’s home, inadequate 
housing or strain on the mother; and it 
makes the British law much more liberal 
than any that have been passed in the 
United States. 


CONTRACEPTIVES FOR THE UNWED 

MADISON, WISCONSIN—d bill to allow 
the sale of contraceplives to unmarried 
persons is being considered by the Wis- 
ronsin State Lexislature. Mrs. Warren P. 
Knowles, the Roman Catholic wife of 
the states governor, publicly declared 
her support of the bill on the ground that 
the present law is “archaic and discrimi- 
mates against the poor.” Under the exist- 
ing law, all birth-control devices are listed 
as “indecent articles". and advertising 
them or prescribing or selling them to an 
unmarried person is a misdemeanor. (A 
distressing personal experience related to 
this type of legislation is told in “Birth- 
Control Crusader” in this month's 
“Playboy Forum.”) 


HATE THY NEIGHBOR 

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—What ef- 
Ject does chuichgoing have on prejudice? 
According to a study by Harvard psy- 
chologists Gordon W. Allport and J. 
Michael Roos, reported in the Journal 
of Personality and Social Psychology: (a) 
Churchgoers as a group are more intoler- 
ant than nonchurchgoers; (b) those who 
attend church mostly for reasons of social 
conformity are even more intolerant than 
other churchgoers; (c) the most intolerant 
group of all are those who are “indis- 
criminately proreligious’—that is, their 
reasons for keeping holy the Lord's day 


are so muddled that they cannot even be 
explained as conformity. However, (d) 
those whose religion is based on intrinsic 
personal conviction are extremely unprej- 
udiced and have less bigotry than other 
churchgoers and  nonchurchgoers com- 
bined, 


PLAYBOY AND SEX EDUCATION 

wicmra, KANsAs—Addressing а con- 
vention of educators, most of whom 
agreed that their primary problems with 
children dealt in some way with sex, Dr. 
Hugh Riordan, a Wichita psychiatrist, 
commented that “PLAYBOY magazine is 
making one of the few concerted efjorts 
at providing sex education.’ A panel at 
the convention stressed that sex educa- 
lion must go beyond the biological as 
pects of sex and bring into focus its effect 
on the whole person. 


VICE, NO; CRIME, YES 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN—“In num- 
bers arrested, the roundup was Ше most 
successjul ever conducted by Grand 
Rapids police; was the  poher[uced. 
comment of The Grand Rapids Press on 
а recent vicesquad. dragnet. While police- 
women glossily impersonaled prostitutes, 
detectives lurked nearby to arrest any 
male who attempted to solicit the ladies, 
and 22 men were busted in a single 
night. At the same time, according to the 
Press account, a real prostitute picked the 
pocket of a visiting businessman and got 
away with $260. 


DOXY DRAGNET 
New vork—A 


denounced аз “a 


criminalcourt judge 
disgrace” a police 
department dragnet that apprehended 
over 2500 suspected prostitutes. The gisls 
had been arrested on charges of disorderly 
conduct and loilering. The New York 
Times observed that the usual method 
of arresting prostitutes in New York has 
been to send plainclothesmen out to be 
solicited by the women. Last August, how- 
ever, the police department decided this 
approach was inefficient and instead sent 
out uniformed policemen to arrest sus- 
pected prostitutes for disorderly conduct. 
When the charges were dismissed for 
lack of evidence, the department kept its 
dragnet going by switching the charge to 
loitering. Judge Amos S. Basel of the 
criminal court dismissed loitering charges 
against 41 of the women in a decision that 
is expected lo terminate the crackdown. 


CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON TRIAL 
WASHINGTON, p. c— The Ваше against 
capital punishment is shifting from the 
legislative to the judicial area, according 
to a story in the Christian Science Moni- 
tor. The U.S. Supreme Court may soon 
be asked to decide on the constitutionality 


of the death penalty. т Massachusetts, 
attorney Ronald J. Chisholm has taken 
the сазе of a death-row client, John Kerri- 
gan, into Federal court, claiming that 
capital punishment is unconstitutional 
because it is divectly forbidden by the 
Eighth Amendment (which prohibits 
‘cruel and unusual punishments”). In 
five other states, lawyers immediately ap- 
pealed to the courts to halt all scheduled 
executions until the constitutional issue 
of the Kerrigan case has been decided; 
and in 13 additional slates, such appeals 
are beginning. Meanwhile, California, 
Florida and Utah have temporarily halled 
all executions until the courts can consol- 
idate the appeals of ай afjected death-row 
inmates into one case. Hitherto, foes of 
the death penalty have concentrated 
largely on changing the laws through state 
legislatures and in nearly a century. of 
heated agitation, have succeeded in having 
capital punishment abolished in fewer 
than one third of the states of the Union, 
At present, there are more than 100 
prisoners throughout the United States 
awaiting execution, 


LIFE ‘TERM FOR HOMOSEXUAL 

ottawa, ОЗТАШО- The Supreme Court 
of Canada has upheld the conviction of 
Everett Klippert, а 10-year-old тап who 
faces possible life imprisonment for a 
homosexual act. Although two psychi- 
atrists testified that the accused had 
harmed no one and was unlikely to be 
dangerous in the future, he was sn- 
tenced to “indefinite detention” as a 
habitual sex offender. It was his fourth 
conviction for “gross indecency,” each 
conviction, like the present one, having 
been for а private act with a consenting 
adult. 


FILM-RATING REAPPRAISAL 

NEW yoRK—Giving moral marks to 
movies, a practice of the National 
Catholic Office for Motion Pictures, has 
itelj received a С (condemned) rating 
both from film makers and from an 
М. С. O. M. P. official. According to The 
New York Times, five films that earned 
М.С. O. M. P.'s C rating were noncthe- 
less released by their. producers between 


November 1966 and October 1967, 
including Antonioni’s box-office and 
critical success "Blow-Up." Meanwhile, 


N. C. О. M. P. consultant Father Gene D. 
Phillips wrote in America magazine that 
the rating system, which has proved un- 
satisfactory, may be replaced with capsule 
reviews, letting the individual judge for 
himself the movie's moral worth. But a 
careful statement by the Office's execu- 
tive director, Father Patrick Sullivan, 
published in Variety, amounted to: “No 
comment just now.” 


SEX IN THE SWEDISH CINEMA 
srOckHOLM— The Swedish Film Cen- 

sorship Board has passed for public dis- 

play a film in which actors have sexual 


intercourse before the camera. Accord- 
ing to the London Observer, the board 
of censors’ advisory commitice declared 
“I Am Inquisitive” to be “a film of artis- 
tic unity with a political and moral сот- 
mitment unusual in the Swedish cinema.” 
The Censorship Board warned that the 
decision was not to be taken as a prece- 
dent and ruled that the film may be shown 
only to people above 15 years of a; 


PRISON LOVE-INS 

ÜsTERSUND, SWEDEN—“Love rooms” will 
be experimentally set up in Swedish 
prisons for weekend use by inmates and 
their wives or Шер funcées, penal officials 
have announced. The program will be 
made permanent if it proves helpful in 
rehabilitating lawbreakers, 


FEDS PONDER POT 

WASHINGTON, D.c.—A proposal to re- 
move marijuana. from the Federal list of 
.narcolic drugs is being considered at 
Cabinet level, According to a position 
paper privately circulated within the De- 
pariment of Health, Education and Wel- 
fare: “Though a public outcry would, 
without doubt, result from a proposal to 
consider legalizing marijuana, we ought 
not to allow ourselves to be so intimidat- 
ed that we refuse to re-examine the case 
against the weed. So far as an objective 
analysis of the problem is possible, to 
that degree one can only conclude that 
the case offered against marijuana. does 
nol hold good.” 

Meanwhile, Dr. James Goddard, chief 
of the Food and Drug Administration (a 
division of HEW), who recently stated 
that marijuana is no more dangerous 
than alcohol, has raised a Congressional 
windstorm, Some Congressmen called for 
his resignation, while Representative 
Widnall of New Jersey compared him 
with “hippies, draft-card burners and the 
great unwashed.” However, John Finla. 
tor, director of the FDA Bureau of Drug 
Abuse Control, declared in a speech that 
nobody has ever proved marijuana detri- 
mental to health and added that, in his 
opinion, people should not be punished 
for using it. 

Informed observers see these develop- 
ments within the Department of Health, 
Education and Welfare as the beginning 
oj a move to shift marijuana control from 
the Federal Narcotics Bureau to the 
Food and Drug Administration. This 
would not necessarily legalize the sale of 
marijuana, but it could mean lighter Fed. 
eral penalties or no penalties at all for 
possession. 


‘Forum Newsfront" is a monthly review 
of issues and events pertaining to subjects 
discussed in “The Playboy Philosophy" 
and orum." Readers are invited to 
send information about newsworthy 
events in their own communities to: The 
Playboy Forum, Playboy Building, 919 
N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Hl. 60611. 


actions. Surely this is an area where only 
the influence of education and religion is 
applicable. 

We have attempted over 
and continue at pre 
cally everything controversial, legislating 
strongly, albeit stupidi inst cach 
new danger to society as it appears. LSD 
and the other hallucinatory drugs are the 
most recent additions to the int 
list Just „ out of necessity, le- 
galized the usc of alcohol under Govern- 
ment control, let us now, by reason of 
logic, consistency and common sense, 
also legalize heroin, LSD, marij 
gambling. prostitution and abortion 
under Government control, 

Where possible, the state should col- 
lect taxes on these practices, allocating 
the money for ап educational program 
that would scientifically and objectively 
inform the public of the dan; 
harmful] effects some of thee practices 
сап have on human beings. This, 1 sul 
mit, would be more meanin relevant 
and realistic than forever s: 
shalt not! 

The Rev. Allan Dixon 
Vancouver Heights United Church 
Burnaby, British Columbi: 


S we 


all 


A. M. A. ON MARIJUANA 

I have always thought of the Amer 
п Medical Association as а reactionary 
medical Mafia with a Neanderthal ideo! 
ogy, It was with great surprise, therc- 
fore, that I read the A. M. As recent 
statement on marijuana, pointing ош 
that pot is not addictive and does not 
cause lasting mental or physical changes. 
"Three cheers for the doctors who drafted 
this declaration. They are far in advance 
of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which 
is still peddling science fiction and horror 
stories about grass, refusing to admit any 
of the known medical 


ters, who helps people return from 
psychedelic trips (“LSD Rescue Line, 
The Playboy Forum, November, may 
have shocked a lot of readers, it came as 
по surprise to me. I find it not at all 
shocking that the American Medical As- 
sociation has opposed Mr. Peters’ efforts, 
nor is it startling to hear that the local 
rcotics squad harassed and intimidated 
m. The A.M. A. long ago abdicated 
its function of treating drug addicts as 
medical rather than as criminal prob- 
Jems; it left the matter in the hands of 
the Federal and local law-enforcement 
agencies, who have no interest in reliev 
ng human suffering but are concerned 
only with punishing “sinners.” I say this 


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PLAYBOY 


42 


as former director of the joint American 

Bar Association / American Medical Asso- 

ciation Committee on Narcotic Drugs. 
Morris Ploscowe 
Attorney at Law 
New York, New York 


MODERN WITCH TRIALS 
Thank you for publishing my letter 
on “Pot Entrapment” in the November 
Playboy Forum. Although some readers 
may think my sentence (10 to 15 years 
for selling marijuana) is an unusually s 
vere one, I have met men in prison with 
even more unreasonable sentences; for 
mple, a 19yearold serving two to 
three years for selling one ounce of mari- 
a and a Qyearold serving a term 
of 18 to 25 years for selling packets of 
heroin (he was an addict himself and 
became a seller to support his habit). An- 
other drug addict. with two prior convic- 
tions for posession of heroin, is now 
serving ten years to life for making a 
sule. And yet another convict is in for 
three to five years for possession of one 
cigarete. 
(Name withheld by request) 
New Jersey State Prison 
Rahway, New Jersey 


THE GRASS AND THE FUZZ 

1 have any 
law against the use or possess 
juana, having no desire for m 
but I had some experience 
hemp plant while 
t, where it is wi 


of mari- 
riyrdom; 
th the 


cans, that marijuana docs not live up to 
its evil reputation. I found that it was 
mot at all as the Federal Narcotics Bu- 
теди, the police and the seus 
press had “adv 
was mild, pleasurable and Белини 
no time did I forget who or where I w 
1d at all times I retained perfect control 
over my body. And there was no hang- 
over—no queasy stomach or splitting head 
he, no woolly tongue or burning eyes. 
Although it is wrong for people to vio 
late bad Jaws, they have the right and the 
duty to change them. A democr: tic gov- 
ernment should. prove scientifically that 
gent is dangerous before passing laws 
against its usc or possession, In the case 
of marijuana, there is по such evidence. 
Те get that silly statute repealed. 

R. Doss 

Flushing, N 


an 


v York. 


DETRIMENTAL DROPOUTS 

Many magazines, including PLAYBOY, 
lave given much coverage to the hippic 
movement. I feel that this movement is 
detrimental to our society—but not for 
the reasons usually given. 

The ideas for sweeping social, political 
omic reforms, on which the hip- 
movement is based, are the only sal- 
vation for society. the 


our However, 


danger lies in the failure of the hippies to 
take constructive action based on these 
ideas. After having appropriated them, 
they have simply dropped out of society, 
leaving it to flounder. They isolate them- 
selves in an acid-love haze with other 
individuals who feel as they do. If, in- 
stead, the hippies would finish their edu- 
cations, they could become constructive 
members of our society, advancing to in- 
fluential positions that would allow them. 
to bring about reforms. They could form 
a fifth column that would, in time, initiate 
reforms beyond their wildest dreams. 
Hefner's dissatisfaction with the pres- 
ent state of alturs could have resulted. 
in his publishing something like The 
ast Village Other, reaching only those 
who already agreed with him. Instead, 
he made a revolutionary breakthrough 
within the American magazine industry. 
hus far, it seems unlikely that the hip- 
pies will ever accomplish as much: 
Sam SemolE 
Kingman, 


Arizona 


STUDENT ACTIVISTS 

1 E йе то express my opinion of 
. Every newspaper or maj 
zine 1 Uk up tells about students who 
are demonstrating against Ше draft or 
the Vietnam war or who are fighting their 
school administrations over some absurd 
“freedom.” These young people show 
more concern. for civil rights than they 
do for getting an education. I'm a col- 
lege student myself and, in my opinion, 
these organizers and demonsuators are 
the dregs of collegiate society, They at- 
tract publicity because of their weird, 
iwashed, — Ба moking behavior, 
while good, clean-cut kids are ignored. 
Bluntly, I get sick at the sight of such 
nut 

Activists should not be a 
spokesmen for American college youth. 
They are unintelligent, as is proved by 
their irrational behavior. They are ob- 
viously psychologically unstable. Coming 
from underprivileged ethnic groups, they 
are born with chips on their shoulders 
and, in most cases, their resentment is 
imensified because they grow up in 
unstable homes and are in rebellion 
against parental values as well as against 
society аз а whole. They go to college 
not to learn. but to make trouble and 
to take out their frustrations (Ше result 
of poor academic performance) by dem- 
onstrating against the administra 

I think there should be more publicity 
for Ше dean-cut Kids who do their job 
getting an education to prepare them- 
selves for success in life—without trying. 


cepted as 


10 attract notoriety. The activists are 
merely misfits and do not represent the 
best of our generation. 


George B. Allen 

Des Moines, Iowa 
A number of recently published psycho- 
al and sociological studies contradict 


your impressions. In a monograph pie. 
pared for the U.S. Office of Education, 
Dr. Joseph Katz of Stanford University 
points out that student activists (defined 
as organizers of demonstrations and pro- 
tests over various educational and social 
issues) should not be confused with the 
fully alienated (emotionally cut off from 
society) students and nonstudents popu- 
larly known as hippies—a confusion you 
appear to make with your reference to 
“weird, unwashed, banana-smoking be- 
havior.” 

According to a study by Dr. Kenneth 
Keniston of Yale University, student ac- 
tivists are far fiom the “dregs of collegiate 
society”: “The higher the student’s grade 
average, the more outstanding his aca- 
demic achievements, the more likely is it 
that he will become involved in any given 
political demonstration, 

Dr. Katz found that activist students 
as а whole are more intelligent and psy- 
chologically more stable than nonactiv. 
isis. Dr. Keniston agreed, asserting that 
“activists ave not drawn from disadvan- 
taged, statusanxious, underprivileged or 
uneducated groups: On the contrary, 
they are selectively recruited from among 
those young Americans who have had 
the most socially fortunate upbringing.” 
Nor are they in conflict with their par- 
ents, as you maintain. The studies cited 
by Dr. Каз found close emotional and 
intellectual ties between activists and 
their parents, which “put into question 
the ‘conflict-between-generations theory 
that has been advanced as one explana- 
tion of the activist protest.” 

Finally, activists are not maladjusted 
in the academic environment nor, normal- 
ly, in trouble scholastically. Besides dis- 
Covering a positive conclation between 


activism and high grades and. other out- 
standing academic achievements, Dr. 


Keniston found that activists do not drop 
out of college as frequently as do nonac 
divisis: they go on to graduate school in 
greater numbers and tend 10 express no 


greater degree of dissatisfaction with their 
education than do nonactivists. 

Dr. Kemston writes that activisis have 
a strong emotional impact on their fellow 
students: “Student dissenters of all types 
arouse deep and ambivalent feelings in 
nondissenting students and adults—envy, 
resentment, admiration, repulsion, nos- 
talgia and guilt." 

Does the shoe fil? 


CHRISTIANITY ON THE ROCKS 

Twas a Lutheran mi I have left 
ihe ministry, com that Church 
Christianity is a sinking ship. My opinion 
is exactly that of Dr. Karl Heim, who 
says in his book Christian Faith and 
Natural Science: 


ng in a time when 
all lized counties the tide of 
secularism is slowly but continually 
rising and the proportion of people 
still attached to any kind of church 


even in the AngloSaxon countries 
is steadily diminishing. Amid this 
rising flood of secularism there 
floats the ark of the Church. The 
Church is like a ship on whose deck 
festivities are still kept up and glo- 
rious music is heard, while deep be- 
low the water line a leak has been 
sprung and masses of water are 
pouring in, so that the vessel is set- 
Wing hourly lower, though the 
pumps are manned day and night. 


‘The Church, indeed, has hit the rocks 
—natural science—and suffered а grave 
puncture. Dr. Heim should pres his 
analogy further. He fails to mention, 
nce, that the crew (the clergy) is 
re of the leak below; he does 
not specifically inquire as to why they 
e still down there pumping bilge when 
they should perhaps better be on deck 
notifying the passengers (the laity) to pre- 
pare to man the lifeboats. The answer to 
the question must be found: Do we 

ip? И so, does this mean that Chris 
y is lost—or just the superstructure? 

I have joined the ranks of those who 
arc lowering the lifeboats and pushing 
be revealed once 
n in our day as a force full of power 
in the streets, the ghettos, the collec- 
houses—where it belongs, anyway 

Arthur M. Hale 
Racine, Wisconsin 


SEX AS A SPECTATOR SPORT 

In the June 1967 Playboy Panel ou 
Religion and the New Morality, Rabbi 
Rubenstein stated that watching films of 
sexual intercowse is “immature.” He jus- 
nical prejudice with the 
that watching and not par 
t healthy. Let me remind 
him that billions of dollars are spent every 
year sponsoring sporting events on tel 
vision for a voyeuristic audience of m 
Jions that watches but does not participate. 
Since the act of watching is the same 
whether the spectacle is sport or sex, 
the real objection must be not to the 
looking but to what is being looked at. 
Anyone who thinks it is healthy to be 
stined by a sadomasochistic boxing or 
wrestling match or by a. Freudian game 
in which phallic bats are swung at sym- 
bolic balls, but unhealthy to be stirred 
by a normal act of love, has а strong 
anti-eroti¢ bias, whether or not he con- 
sciously realizes it. 


M. R. Bestry 
Baltimore, Maryland 


DEHUMANIZED NUDITY 

The Playboy Philosophy has raised 
some important issues in a responsible 
way and, although 1 do not find myself 
always in agreement with his solutions, 
Hefner reports well the issues that need 
to be called to public attention 

I do feel, how that there is some 
thing almost dehumanizing about the 
approach to sex evident in regular 


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Rudy La Russo has his hair styled. 
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six months a year he's also a stockbroker. And, baby, in that game it's 
neatness, not toughness that counts. Here's how Rud: 
can help. Instead of cutting the hair dry, he shampoos it first, then cuts 
ith Rudy's face. Then he applies Dep 
for Men, a greaseless grooming gel made especially for hair styling, 
and combs Rudy's hair into place. Before Rudy leaves, the stylist also 
throws him a parting shot of Dep for Men Spray.. 


it wet...shaping it to blend 


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home, too. To hold the line between 
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гълувоу features. Women seem to be put 
down, despite the pleas to the contrary 
in the editorial pages. (Paying the Play- 
mate of the Month a generous bounty 
seems to me merely a convenient way of 
soothing the conscience.) 

All in all, though, I have to commend 
your magazine, I feel it is doing a far 
more responsible job in raising important 
issues than we do in the church, 

The Rev. J. Benton White 
ampus Director 

The Wesley Foundation 

San Jose State College 

San Jose, California 

Thank you for the commendation, 
However, your statement that our ap- 
proach to sex 
that we “put women is 
proved if the only evidence you can 
offer is our Playmate of the Month. Both 
m print and in person, our attitude toward 
Playmates is appreciative and considerate. 
Is it the appearance of a girl's body, albeit 
in a tasteful photo, that dehumanizes her? 
Did Goya's nude painting of the Duchess 
of Alba dehumanize ler—or glorify her? 
Did ancient Greek statues of nude gods 
and goddesses dehumanize the divinities 

-or humanize them? If you feel that any 
exposure of the human body is a put- 
down, we must suggest the reverse: The 
feeling that the human body must be 
covered at all times is a dehumanization 
and a putting down of humanity. 


is “dehumanizing and 
down” not 


BIBLICAL VIEW 
On Irv Kupciner’s TV show recently, 

Hefner was confronted with the Га 
charge that The Playboy Philosophy pre- 
sents a “recreational view of sex.” It de- 
lighted me to hear Hefner's simple answer 
at sex, after all, is quite a bit of fun. 
‘This is a fact that 1 always emphasize in 
counseling. PLAYBOY is quite 
ht in stating that the church, during its 
puritanical period, robbed us blind of this 
precious grace, which ought to be the 
freest and happiest form of communica- 
tion between husband and wife. Many 
people have a weak response to sex and 
very little fun; others have fun but n 
deep happiness; only a small number ex- 
perience true joy. And yet this joy can be, 
and should be, a force chat touches and 
enlightens the whole spectrum of being. 
This is the authentic Biblical view of 
what sex is meant to be and what pur- 
pose it is intended to serve. 

The Rev. Glenn В. Ogden. 

First Presbyterian. Church 

Highland, Indiana 


THE DIVORCE LAWYER'S CASE 
nk Bemus’ comments in the August 
Playboy Forum on the role of lawyers in 


American divorces are not only unfair 
but, in regard to Ше state bar of 
Georgia, also inaccurate. 


Mr. Bemus suggests that а Шу 
may select a judge who is a friend of his 


to hear a divorce case. For a judge to let 
friends! influence a decision is a viola- 
tion of his oath of offic nd a 
attempting to usc such influence is just 
cause for disbarme: Furthermore, it is 
true that lawyer n select judges, 
especially in Georgia's metropolitan arcas, 
where there are several judges for cach 
circuit. The assignment of cases to differ 
ent judges is in the hands of the presid 
judge. 

Another inaccuracy is Mr. Bemus’ 
contention that no effort is made to settle 
divorce cases out of court. My experi 
nd that of fellow members of the 

tate Bar Association indicates 
that а very small percentage of divorce 
cases filed ever reach а jury. The usual 
course is for an agreement to be nego- 
ted with the assistance of attorneys, 
alter a preliminary hearing in which 
urgent matters of support, alimony and 
custody are settled on a temporary basis. 
In my 14 years of law practice, I have 
tied only one divorce case before a jury. 
My other divorce cases were all settled 
out of court by agreement or were un. 
contested. In every са the court was 
realistic in its awards, not unduly partial 
to the wile. 

Mr. Bemus’ fictitious lawyer says, “АШ 
Task is onc third of the settlement.” The 
Sae Bar of Georgia has provided a 
schedule of fees as а guide to law: 
assessing their charges. In the 
of Ethics, which 
Canon of Ethics of the American 
Association, the Rules and Regu 
of the State. Bar of Georgia assert that 
^a dient's ability to pay cannot justify a 
charge in excess of the value of the serv. 
ice.” A member of the state bar violating 
these rules may be subject to censure or 
disbarment. 
By sugges 
aken as fu 
courts as possible 


ng that marital disputes be 

away from lawyers and 
nd placed in the 
hands of "family arbitration centers." 
Mr. Bemus recommends that laymen 
handle complex legal problems—and 
perhaps unwittingly deny couples the 
rights afforded them by law. Mr. Bemus 
damns a system that protects people and 
prevents chaos. 


"T. M. Allen, Jr. 
Attorney at Law 
Decatur, Georgia 


DIFFICULT WEDDINGS, EASY DIVORCES 
I have known many individuals who, 
on the basis of a short acqui 
bought ge license, v 
required few days and then got married, 
only to discover that they had been too 
y ied, however, they not 
only found it brutally expensive to get a 
divorce but they also found that it took 
months, sometimes years, before the un- 
fortunate contract could be canceled. 
Why haven't our lawmakers considered 
making it harder to get married and 


casier to get divorced? It seems to me that 
if they did. thousands of hasty marriages 
would be prevented and the nced for 
stringent divorce laws would be largely 
minated. 


Ernestine D. Kelly 
New York, New York 


SEXUAL FREEDOM AND MARRIAGE 
Although T advocate sexual freedom 


for the unmarried, 1 think marriage r 
quires the acceptance of certain limita 
tions. Therefore, I disagree with the 


London housewife who found a safety 
valve in extramarital relations to which 
her husband consented (The Playboy 
Forum, November). | doubt that any 
self-respecting male could calmly contem- 
plate his wife's engaging in sexual inti 
cies with another man and, knowing 
what she had done, serenely welcome 
her back to the marriage bed. I's against 
human nature; the man who could do 
has problems. Perhaps such a husband's 
willingness to let his wife stray is indie 
ative of a feeling of apathy toward her 
that drives her to seck adventure 
elsewhere. 

Whatever the cause, if the marriage 
relationship has declined to the point 
where the partners condone extramarital 
rs for each other, the hypocrisy 


should be ended and the marriage con 
tract dissolved. Then the two could pursuc 


allairs with the sexual freedom appropri- 
ate to Ше unmarried. 
(Name withheld by request) 
State College, Pennsylvania 


ADULTERY FLAP 
Everyone in my barracks was d 
mayed and appalled by the letter from 
the Detroit housewife who rented her 
body in order to make mortgage pay- 
ments on her house (The Playboy Forum, 
October). To most guys here, marriage 
is something special. We're not cor 
demning prostitution, but we don't think 
should be mixed with marriage. Being 
^ our 20s, we're tired of receiving th 
blame for the so-called decline of Amer- 
an morals, when members of the older 
generation behave like this. 
Robert A. Helber 
AEB, Utah 


се with one 
of my husband's friends has tremendously 
creased my enjoyment of marital love 
d sex. 1 don't feel that 1 have done апу 
ig immoral, regardless of what society 


th 
preaches; sometimes it takes an experi 
ence like this to open the door to sexual 


fulfillment in marriage 
Name withheld by request) 
Los Angeles, California 


The Detroit couple must have great 
plans for their kids, Once they find the 
right customers, the whole family will be 
on Easy Street. 

Charles W. Munch 
Smithtown, New York 


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PLAYBOY 


"The woman who tries to heighten her 
sexual enjoyment through extramarital 
relations needs some educating in proper 
love for her husband. Love and fidelity 
go together; they give sex a pleasure that 
the senses alone cannot impart. 

Mrs. Jancy Loveland 
Newbury Park, California 


MENAGE A TROIS 
Although your Forum letters about 
unusual marital arrangements may have 
shocked some people, you are to be con- 
gratulated for publishing this material. It 
is time for America to realize that one 
particular form of sexual life is not suita- 
ble or desirable for all people. The fol- 
lowing is another example of what the 
ignorant regard as “oddities.” A friend of 
mine, who is a very distinguished Ame 
can artist but who would not want his 
name published in this connection, has 
lived for over 40 years with a wife and a 
mistress in the same household. The 
whole family—he had one child by each 
—is very happy and loving; nobody has 
suffered from their Old Testament sexual 
pattern, In fact, this practice is well- 
known throughout Europe. 
(Name withheld by request) 
Rome, Italy 


BLESS THE WORKING GIRL 
Until 1 read Betty Gabriel's letter in 
the September Playboy Forum, І had 
thought Г was the only woman in the 
world who believed that profesional 
prostitutes provided a useful sexual re- 
lease for married men. Every state in the 
Union should allow prostitution, provid- 
ed it is adequately regulated. If my hus- 
band chose to cheat on me, I'd hope that 
he would go to a brothel rather than get 
seriously involved with another woman. 
Mrs. M. M. Woosley 
Reno, Nevada 


Betty Gabriel suggested in the Sep- 
tember Playboy Forum that prostitution 
сап actually help a marriage survive. 
Perhaps, then, it should be made legal, 
but only if the dient had a note from his 
wife, girlfriend or mother. 

Robert E. Walters 

Bennington, Vermont 


THE OTHER WOMAN 

A woman who deccitfully becomes 
sexually involved with a married man is 
as much a criminal as is a thief. I'm a reg- 
istered nurse a the 
wife who slashes her wrists when she dis- 
covers her husband's betrayal; the child 
who is emotionally disturbed due to 
divorce; the other woman herself, who 
is brought to the hospital because the 
wife shot her. 

Objections to premarital sex are most- 
ly nonsense, but the results of adultery 


are usually so dreadful that I can't see 
how any sane person could possibly 
defend it, 

S. Collins 

Los Angeles, California 


GOD-GIVEN SEX 

Т am convinced, from my own experi 
ence, that premarital scx is a positive 
good. 1 grew up placing “nice” girls on 
pedestals, belittling myself and fearing 
women and sex. This made my life in the 
Air Force miserable. 1 became even 
more distressed when I was ioned in 
nd, because ] was told that Eng. 
irls were unusually liberal and that 
if I could not live a sexually active Ше 
England. there was something wrong 
with me. This only terrified me more; I 
froze whenever I met a girl. Му chapl. 
said that once I got married, I would be 
all right. His advice did not help very 
much, for I couldn't envision presenting 
my anxieties to my bride on our wedding 
night. My psychiatrist agreed with me, 
but offered no solution. I was left with 
my fears and self-doubts, 
rtunately, I soon met an English 
girl who realized how deeply troubled I 
was. Gently, understandingly and lov- 
ingly, she seduced me. Except for my 
conversion to Christianity, the moment 
when I realized she was also satisfied 
was the most wonderful experience in 
my life. She proved my manhood to me 
and I loved her for it. We began a long 
and beautiful affair without guilt, shame 
or remorse. 

For me, sex before marriage was a пе- 
ссззйу. I cannot find in my conscience 
that either she or I sinned. 1 believe the 
Lord brought us together and approved 
our actions. I shall be grateful all my life 
to her and to Him. 

(Name withheld by request) 
APO New York, New York. 


HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE 

The anonymous homosexual was right 
in denouncing the popular stercotype of 
the “promiscuous faggot” (The Playboy 
Forum, December). Although conscious- 
ly homosexual since 18, I have had only 
four affairs with men and I am now 22. 
The first two affairs were impetuous 
disappointing, the third was a sit 
where we only thought we were in love 
and the fourth finds me “engaged” to а 
man whom I have known for some time. 
Upon my discharge from the Army, we 
plan to live as “spouses. 

We love and respect each other fully, 
having been acquainted long enough to 
be sure of ourselves. Our sex life is com- 
plete and quite private, Unable to have a 
sanctified marriage contact, we feel that 
we will be married in the eyes of God, 
for we love each other as much as any 
heterosexual couple. Our only regrets 
will be the lack of a formal ceremor 
the inability to have children and the 
fact that—at least in the foreseeable 


fucure—we may not live together: but 
marriages have survived under similar 
limitati 


(Name withheld by request) 
APO San Francisco, California 


LIFELONG BONDAGE 

Last year I was arrested in Los An- 
geles on suspicion of being a morals 
offender (a policeman in plain clothes 
accused me of making advances to him 
in a public rest room). 1 pleaded not 
guilty, but the court took the cop's word 
over mine and sentenced me to a $100 
fine or 20 days in prison, then suspended 
the sentence. 

However, because I was found guilty 
of what is obviously a trivial offense, I 
must register as long as I am а resident 
of California, which could be the rest of 
my life, as а known sex offender, under 
Section 290 of the California Penal 
Code. 1f a registered sex offender fails to 
report a change of addres within ten 
days, he can be picked up, given an 
examination as a sexual psychopath and 
placed in a state hospital for an indefi 
nite period, until he is declared "rc- 
habilitated." The identification division 
of the Fresno police department told me 
that they dislike this whole business, 
since they spend ten percent of their 
time registering men and their changes 
of address. In order to register, I have 
to be photographed, fingerprinted, proc 
csed and given a police file number just 
like any criminal. 

Perhaps something can be done to get 
this law repealed and end the lifelong 
bondage under which I and hundreds of 
others live. 


(Name withheld by request) 
Fresno, California 


DAYTON DOLDRUMS 


"Ihe vice squad of Dayton, Ohio, has 
been doing a marvelous job of 
ding our town of scandalous activitics 
—that is, rounding up homosexuals, 


Meanwhile, the Dayton newspapers have 
been covering their pages with the 
names, addresses and occupations of 
those caught in the raids, thereby wreck- 
ing the victims’ homes, families and ca- 
тесту. And now, if the cops and the 
newspapers are finished getting their 
kicks, wc in Dayton strongly hope they 
will become serious in their efforts to 
free our city of such real and 
crimes as assault and. murder. 
Murray 
Dayton, О! 


GUARDING THE GUARDIANS 

PLAYBOY is to be commended for pub- 
li Kenneth Rexroth's excellent ani- 
cle The Fuzz (July 1967). The problem of 
protecting us from our protectors is as 
old as civilization, a fact demonstrated 
by the ironic Roman who asked, "Quis 
custodiet. custodies?” (Who shall guard 
the geardians?) In these days of racial 


and social unrest, this very cynical ques- 
tion needs a very practical answer. 

For instance, in Chicago, the Ameri- 
can Civil Liberties Union has had prob- 
Jems in its attempt to reopen two recent 
cases in which Negro youths were fatally 
shot by policemen. The officers in both 
ses were exonerated by the coron 
jury; however, in both cases, eyewitnesses 
arply contradicted the policemen's уа 
i ıs. In the first tragedy, the 
1 17-year-old Ronnie Mc- 
attacking the officer with a 
knife; but the witnesses said that there 
was no knife and that the boy was actual- 


ly facing a brick wall with raised hands 
when he was shot. (The bullet wound 
was, in fact, in the back of his head.) In 


the second instance, 16-year-old Freddie 
Hu as shot in the back of the head 
g away Пот a policeman, 
г of mistaken identity; 
the terrible fact is that eyewitnesses insist 
that they told the policeman he was 
chasing the wrong boy; yet hc fired the 
fatal shot anyway. ] need hardly com- 
ment on how the families of these boys 
and the Negro community feel about 
these cases. 

While we would hesitate to 
what the truth is in either of these inci- 
dents, we do charge that the investig 
ave not been as thorough as would 
Пу be expected in a homicide case. 
There is a stark contrast between these 

i s and those resulting from 
иеп» killing a policeman. 
Jay А. Miller 
Executive Director, Illinois Di 
American Civil Liberties Union 
Chicago, Illinois 


BURN, AMERICA, BURN” 

When a Negro from the ghetto yells, 
“Burn this shitty city to the ground,” it's 
considered tr i i nd 
grave social problem requiring Army in- 
tervention. For over 100 years, white 
men were lynching and burning Ne- 
groes, dynamiting Negro churches. and 
raping Negro women; but these acts of 
violence were considered only slightly 
botherome—certainly not serious enough 
for the Federal Government to take 
effective action against them. 

Only a fool or a liar would say that 
the recent city insurrections have set 
back the cause of civil rights. As a white 
man, le me tell you—thi 
couldn't be set back апу furth 
the jawing or là 
years has improved the lot of the aver- 
age Negro—the Negro knows it, even if 
L.B. J. doesn’t, Nothing but the worst 
kind of allout rioting will have any 
effect on this fascist democracy we call 
the Great Society—every Negro knows ii 
even if Congress doesn't, If the Negro is 
humble, longsuffering and responsible, 
he will receive praise; but no action will 
be taken to improve his lot or that of his 


pitiful rargnawed children. The Negro 
will get nothing that he does not take by 
force and violence. 


The Rev. P. E. Roll 
Massillon, Ohio 


NO ABORTION LAWS AT ALL 

Dr. Nathan H. Rappaport, who wrote 
that there should be no abortion laws at 
all (The Playboy Forum, November), has 
a ally where he would least expect to 
find one—in the Catholic Church. The 
Reverend. Robert. Drinan, dean of the 
Boston College School of Law, recentl 
stated that having "no abortion laws 
might be less objectionable than having 
"liberal" abortion laws. Speaking at the. 
International Conference оп Abortion 
last September, Father Drinan said: 


Public authorities today are gen- 
erally unable or unwilling to сату 
out the enforcement of existing 
laws. When the com 
convictions or the consensus 
ally supported a law of a 
nature have eroded, it is 
5 wise for the aw to with- 
draw its sanctions rather than have 
the majesty of the law brought into 
disrepute by open disobedience and 
unpunished defiance. 


Father Drinan further pointed out 
that having no abortion laws at all is 
more compatible with Catholic teaching 
than is the present “liberalized” abortion 
package urged by the Law In- 
stitute and being considered by many 
state legislatures. His argument is that 
the ALI position recommends: 


anti-abortion 
mon 


For the first time in American juris- 
prudence, that the law single out 
Certain types of individuals whose 
lives can be taken not because of 
any offense they may have commit- 
ted but only because their existence 
js inconvenient to others. 

Abortion on request—or an ab- 
sence of law with respect to abor- 
tion—has at least the merit of not 
involving the law and society in the 
business of selecting those persons 
whose lives may be legally termi- 
nated. A system of permitting abor- 
tion on request has the undeniable 
virtue of neuualizing the Taw so 
that, while the law does not forbid 
abortion, it does not on the other 
hand sanction 


In this connection, Father Drinan 
cites Father John Courtney Murray, who 
has written Ч 


‘The aspirations of law are m nal 
—law speaks to establish and main- 
tain only that minimum of actual- 
ized morality that is necessary for 
the healthy functioning of the social 
order, . .. Therefore the law, mind- 
ful of its nature, is required to be 
tolerant of many evils that morality 
condemns. 


No abortion laws at all” probably 
more compatible with Catholic all-or- 
ig logic than “liberalized abortion 
and when the hierarchy of the 
Church finally realizes that the present 
abortion laws cannot be preserved, 
they may be forced to come around to 
Father Drinan's position. May that day 
be soon. 


ames Murphy 
Seattle, Washington 


CRASS ABORTION OUTLOOK 

Your editorial reply to the letter writer 
the August Playboy Forum (“Abor 
tion: A Case History") is typical of the 
crassness of PLAYBOY'S outlook, Appar- 
ently, you fail to sce that moral evil does 
exist; consequently, you cannot ap- 
preciate the girl's sincere repentance, 
which you reduce to a matter of bad 
handling of the affair. Unlike Laynoy, 
the girl realizes that homicide does not 
magically cease to be homicide simply 
because it is performed safely in dean 
and pleasant surroundings with all the 
attendants smiling. By attributing her 
feeling of guilt not to a perception of 
the truth of the situation but to the 
aces of the abor 


mere external circums 
ticn, you deny the possibility of man's 
perceiving a Jaw and a duty within him 
nd degrade him to a creature whose only 
obligation is to his own comfort and con- 
venience. The depth of ethical and hu. 
man iusensiti shows is appall 
W. Thrasher 
Cambridge, Massachusetts 
You claim that it way right and proper 
for the girl to feel guilty because she did 
an evil thing. We appreciate the sincerity 
oj her feelings and the intensity of her 
suffering, bul we find that the cause of this 
anguish lies in her mistaken belief that she 
did something wrong a belie] veinforced. 
by her parents’ harsh attitude and by the 
clandestine and unlrygienic circumstances 
oj the operation. As for her вий» spring 
ing from “a perception of the truth of 
the situation," this is impossible, be- 
cause the truth is that abortion. is not 
homicide. In fact, not one state in the 
Union classifies abortion as homicide: 
and Protestants and Jews—even those 
who oppose abortion—do not regard it 
as such. Even the Catholic Church did 
not until 1869 officially begin teaching 
that abortion prior to quickening (move- 
ment of the fetus, which usually occurs 
during the third month of pregnancy) is 
murder. In any debate on this subject, 
therefore, the burden of proof is on those 
who hold the historically eccentric posi- 
tion that а human embryo is а human 
being (which is tantamount to stat- 
ing that an egg is a chicken), Like 
most of those who hold to this belief, 
уои assert il as a fact known to every- 
body and make no attempt to argue its 


47 


correctness. Lacking such а demonstra- 
tion of the undemonstratable, your own 
letter seems to us “appalling” in its wish 
to sustain the guilt feelings of a confused 
young girl whose greatest need is com- 
passion апа reassurance. 


ABORTION CASE HISTORY 
The August Playboy Forum letter 


PLAYBOY 


entitled “Abortion: А Cae Hi 
prompts me to describe my own unusual 
experience. l, too, became pregnant 


while still too young to consider mar- 
Furthermore, I did not Jove the 
boy. Fortunately, my parents reacted 
with understanding. not with fury. They 
left Ше decision of whether or not to 
haye an abortion up to me and, when 
I decided to terminare my pregnancy, 
they arranged the abortion for me. 

I left school early one afternoon and 
went with my mother to a doctor's office 
in the downtown section of our city. 
where 1 was operated on under sanitary 
conditions, attended by a doctor and 
three nurses. The pain was not severe; T 
left the office an hour larer under my 
own power. I suffered no subsequent ill 
effects other than eramps, which lasted 
опе day. 1 soon returned to school and 
continued to live a normal teenager's 
life, with а clear conscience and a deeper 
respect for my parents. 

My abortion was not a mistake. I was 
exceptionally lucky in two respects: that 
I have such wonderful parents and that 
they were able to find a reliable doctor 
who would perform the operation. How. 
ever, the principal point E want to make 
is that abortion doesn't have to lead to 
edy. as it did for your August letter 
iter. The outcome of such a situation 
depends on the people involved. 

(Name withheld by request) 
Seattle, Washington 


ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION 
‘The present abortion controversy іп 
this country will inevitably die down as 
the practice of contraception becomes 
more widespread, simply because there 
will be less need for abortion. How- 
ever, it may take as much as a century 
before contraception becomes universal, 
given the backwardness of some of the 
American people. During this transition- 
period, there will be a great need for 
portion. Even after everyone has 
learned to use birth control scrupulously, 
there will be occasional problems that 
be solved only by abortion. 
Nevertheless, anyone who wants to 
see easing of the unwanted-child 
‘oblem should work toward the univer- 
ccptive education 
and contraceptive devices. Birth-control 
materials should be available to anyone 
who is old enough to conceive, regard- 
less of marital status; and the educa- 
tional process should begin in the carliest 
4g years. Young children should be taught 


that man has the power to determine when 
and under what circumstances to have 
children, Students at the eighth-grade level 
should have a thorough knowledge of 
birth-control techniques. 

At present, many doctors are respon- 
sible lor unwanted pregnancies among 
the unmarried, because they refuse to 
give contraceptives and contraceptive 
information to their patients. Unmar- 


ried women who go to the trouble and 


embarrassment—in this puritanical soci 
ety—of soliciting contraceptive devices 
are highly responsible persons and de- 
serve commendations and cooperation 
from their doctors, not moral lectures 
and refusal. 


Brian С. Gilm: 
Department of Sociology 
State University of Iowa 
Iowa City, Тома. 


“MORNING-AFTER” PILL 

A few months ago, I read a newspaper 
article about a "mor fter” birth- 
control pill that was discussed by two 
Yale researchers at the International 
Planned Parenthood Federation confer- 
ence in Chile. As I understand it, this 
pill could be taken after intercourse and 
would prevent pregnancy. Since reading 
about it. [ have heard rumors that this 
pill is available in the U. S.—that is, the 
medicine itself is not a new discovery but 
i d prescription that is just be- 
ginning to give evidence of this interesting 
side effect. Can you shed any light on this 
matter? 


псу Spellman 
Los Angeles, California 
The rumors are correct. Several pos- 
sible “morning-after” drugs—all estrogens 
—were discussed at the Planned Parent- 
hood conference. Опе of them—the one 
currently deemed preferable—is Stilbes- 
trol, which is in general use for the 
treatment of uterine disorders. According 
to the Yale researchers’ paper, 25 milli- 
grams of Slilbestrol, taken once а day for 
Jour or five days immediately after inter- 
course, will prevent implantation of a 
fertilized ovum. 


BIRTH-CONTROL CRUSADER 

As I write this letter, I face a ten- 
year prison sentence for the crimes of 
publicly exhibiting a birth-control pill 
and dispensing three kits of contraceptive 
foam. 

Four years ago, I was a well-paid clini- 
cal director of onc of this country’s larg- 
est manufacturers of contraceptives. In a 
hospital, I happened to ste a 29-year-old 
mother die with a wire coat hanger em- 
bedded in her шеги. She came from a 


background of poverty and knew nothing 
about birth control, was pregnant with 
her ninth child and had attempted а self- 


duced abortion. This incident prompt- 
ed me to teach contraception to the poor 
after my working hours and to start an 
zation called Parents’ Aid Socicty. 


My employer objected to my activities 
and fired me from my job. I then con- 
n into a clinic, which 
enabled me to drive into the most poverty 
stricken areas of New York City, where 
I dispensed birth-control aid and infor- 
mation, In the spring of 1965. 1 was 
arrested for violating New York's birth- 
control Да which prohibited these 
activities. Before I went on trial, the pub- 
спу concerning my crusade helped 
initiate a successful campaign to repeal 
New York's Jaw. The charges against me 
were then dropped. Subsequently, 1 
served on an advisory council to the New 
York Senate-Assembly Committee on 
Health for the 1966 legislative session 

ly second battle with birth-control 
laws took place in 1966 in New Jersey. 
The welfare director of Monmouth 
County proposed that unwed mothers on 
public welfare would be prosecuted for the 
crime of fornication. [See “The Playboy 
Forum,” January 1967.) Y campaigned 
against this proposal and helped prevent 
its going into elfect. 1 then took my van 
into New Jersey and notified the police 
that 1 would be dispensing birth-control 
information. A minister's wife agreed to 
help me test the law and, after showing 
arrested for e- 
raceptive device,” 
d $100. Refusing to 
pay the fine, I wi Degi 
hunger strike and suffered a heart attack. 
In November 1967, the New Jersey Su 
preme Court overturned my conviction 
but refused to find the law unconstitu- 
tional. 

In the spring of 1967, I received a let- 
ter signed by 700 students and faculty 
members of Boston University, asking 
me to test the Massachusetts birth-contiol 
law. This law specifies that contracep- 
tives may be obtained only by prescrip. 
tion and be prescribed only for 
married persons. This means that an un 
married woman on welfare cannot get 
any contraceptive aid, regardless of how 
many children she already has, and it 
also means that a prescription is required 
even for such birth-control devices as 
condoms and contraceptive foams; these 
the counter in most of the 


convicted and 


are sold ove 
US. 

On April 6, 1967, I spoke on overpop- 
ulation and methods of birth control to 
about 2000 people at Boston University's 
Hayden Hall. It was well known ıl 
intended to challenge the birth-control 
law; consequently, policemen were si 
tioned in the hall. At the conclusion of 
my talk, 1 was arrested for exhibiting a 
birth-control pill and for giving kits of 
contraceptive foam to three coeds. 1 was 
convicted on both counts 
to five years’ imprisonment for cach. 

My primary concern in violating the 
law was not to establish the right of a 
layman to provide birth-control aid but 
to challenge the ban on birth-control 

(continued on page 174) 


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One of our passengers taught us something useful.] 


This is Arex Hucentoster, BUSINESSMAN FROM WiL. 
Canton or Sr. GALL, SWITZERLAND. Ом HIS 
7™ Swissair ATLANTIC FLIGHT. (THIS YEAR, WE MEAN) 


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(While he was asleep.) 

This: That there will be more and more people like him. ( No 


We tried out the sleep goggles Mr. For instance in 


comment.) Who see no excitement in flying anymore. ( Agreed.) 
Who want to be lefi alone. (We leave’ em.) Who just want one 
thing hetween business meetings: sleep, sleep, and more sleep. 
(It's all theirs.) 


so we were just compl; ing things for you 


Hugentobler puts on for such occasions. 
And Mr. Hugentobler is dead right: they 
make your sleep deeper, more relaxing. 
more refreshing. 

So then we thoueht, if more and more 
people don’t think flying is an experience 
anymore, but rather an interval that lets 
you relax and sleep in the care of a good 
airline, then there'll be more and more 
people who want sleep goggles. 


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instead of making life easier. It would be а 
lot more sensible to have the goggles 
board the plane. Perhaps with a little S 
gnet. (Memento of a peaceful Swi 
flight.) And we could offer them for 
nominal price. To everyone like Mr. Hug 
tobler, who thinks flying is for sleepin; 
Only one thing. how many Huge 
toblers do you suppose there are in t 
world? (We'd like to get a rough idea so 


Ought we to hand you a list of all the 
addresses where you can buy these goggles’? 


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found we could never include all the shops, 


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ror new: «ШМ BROWN 


a candid conversation with the football superstar turned actor and civil rights activist 


Among. professional-football. fullbacks, 
Jim Brown remains Ше legendary stand. 
ard by which all others are measured. At 
six feet, two, and 230 pounds, Brown was 
the most powerful and elusive running 
back ever to play the game. With a mas- 
sive neck, steely arms and thighs thicker 
than most men's waists, he could drag 
tacklers with him as he yan, send them 
flying with а straight-arm, sidestep them 
with his misdirective footwork and ou 
distance them with his flashing speed. 
During nine seasons with the Cleveland 
Browns, this gut strength and incredible 
agtlity—combined with a juggernaut de- 
termination to win—netled him 15 М.Е... 
records that most sportswriters agree 
won't be topped easily or soon. Before а 
budding aliernate. career as а movie ac- 
tor and militant involvement їп the race 
struggle provoked his abrupt resignation 
from pro ball in 1966, Brown had 
crashed. his way to a record lifetime total 
of 126 touchdowns and led the league in 
yards gained for eight of his nine sea- 
sons, piling up a whopping 12,312 yards 
in the process—also an all-time record. 

Because repeated and jarring contact 
with bone-crushing opposing linemen is 
one of the position’s occupational haz 
ards, injuries have sidelined every other 
notable running back in pro football his- 
tory. But Brown's superb physical condi 
tion and playing ability made him a 


Ят T an advocate of black violence? If 
a white man hits me, I'm going lo try 10 
hit him twice—harder—because | want 
lim to do а lot of thinking before he 
ever hits me again." 


unique exception to that rule—despite 
many а lineman's rapacious atlempls to 
put him on the bench, if not in the hos 
pital; and he gave them plenty of oppor- 
tunity to try, by carrying the ball in 
roughly 60 percent of all offensive plays. 
An adept ball carrier off the field, too, 
he led the 1962 revolt of Cleveland play- 
ers that successfully brought about the 
ouster of their byilliant but inflexible 
head coach, Paul Brown. The following 
year, as if to vindicate the uprising, Jim 
Brown became football's sole runner to 
pass the mile mark in a single season—a 
feat veteran sportswriter Myron Cope 
called “perhaps the most incredible sports 
statistic of our time.” 

Brown's phenomenal prowess led the 
editor of Sport magazine to label him the 
“Babe Ruth of football” who “sits alone, 
indestructible, superhuman.” It also gave 
him the additional—and more tangible 
—honor of laking home the biggest pay 
check in pro ball, an estimated $65,000 
a year. But the crown didn’t rest easily 
on Brown's head. Despile lavish kudos 
from the press and considerable nation- 
wide attention, his natural reserve re- 
mained 10 the public 
том teammates alike, he remained icily 
aloof. The first rumblings of his eventual 
abdication came as carly as 1964, with 
the publication of his autobiography, 
“Off My Chest.” In it, Brown demon- 


and 


undented; 


“One time I remember a Philadelphia 
Eagles defense man jammed his hand up 
under my face mask; 1 felt him clawing 
for my eyes, so Г got ту teeth in that 
hand. Man, 1 tried to cat it ирт" 


strated that his hard-driving, no-nonsense 
brand of football was a graphic metaphor 
for his life style: He appraised various 
football personalities with a brutal can- 
dor that left many bruised and angry; 
and he revealed an attitude of racial 
militance—further explored here—that 
added a facet of passionate social com- 
титет to his already complex image. 
Unwillingly and briefly, Brown adopted 
yet another persona in 1965. In the 
period of a few months, two girls accused. 
him of molesting them. One refused to 
press charges, but the other took her case 
to court. After Brown was acquitted, she 
tried again with a paternity suit—and 
lost that, 100. 

Not surprisingly, today’s controversial 
Jim Brown is the product of a diverse 
and paradoxical background. Born on an 
island off the Geargia coast, he spent his 
first years in the care of a great-grand- 
mother. At the age of seven, he moved 
north to Long Island to live with his di- 
vorced mother, а domestic worker. Al- 
ways big and strong jor his age, Brown 
applied his talents more in the street 
than in school and soon fought his way 
to “war lord" status in the Gaylords, a 
teenage gang. If local officials hadn't 
quickly recognized his rare athletic abili- 
ties, the Jim Brown story might have 
been another “Rebel Without a Cause”; 
but they turned him on to sports, and by 


“Negroes are finally beginning to play 
roles that other Negroes, watching, will 
feel proud of and identify with, instead 
of being crushed by some Uncle Tom on 
the screen making а fool of himself.” 


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PLAYBOY 


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Brown's senior year, athletic events at 
Manhasset High School were drawing 
overflow crowds who came to see him in 
action—in football, basketball, baseball, 
track and lacrosse. Shattering records in 
nearly every sport he tried, Brown was 
graduated with — full-scholarship bids 
from 42 colleges. Ironically, he selected 
Syracuse, where Brown claims he wasn’t 
really wanted—for reasons that had 
more to do with race than with football. 
ill on the fifth-string (сат after his 
freshman season, he crashed the varsity 
Tanks as a sophomore, went on to be- 
come a Syracuse legend—and began to 
be called the greatest. all-round athlete 
since Jim Thorpe. Then, turning pro 
with the Cleveland Browns, һе set— 
cuen in his rookie year—new pro- 
fessional records. 

During the off seasons, Brown began 
to dabble in the myriad pursuits that 
finally lured him away from football. He 
tackled show business, first as host of a 
modest daily radio show in Cleveland, 
then as а Negro cavalry trooper in “Rio 
Conchos, a movie Western. He broke 
into the business world by traveling and 
interning as а marketing executive for 
the Pepsi Gola company. And in a move 
coinciding with occasional outings as a 
commentator on closed-circuit theater 
telecasts of boxing matches, he allied 
himself with Main Bout, Inc., a sporis- 
promotion agency. Main Bout eventually 
handled the fights of the controversial 
and racially militant Muhammad (Cas- 
sius Clay) Ali, and Brown's. association 
with the firm gave further flower to his 
own growing image as а haid-line racial 
activist: Some of his colleagues at Main 
Bout were Black Muslims. Brown dis- 
claimed membership in the sect but said 
that he felt its views voiced the true feel- 
ings of most Negroes. 

Amid the national controveyey in 1966 
that saw a Muhammad Ali fight blocked. 
out of arenas across the country, Brown 
quietly signed to play a vole in his se 
ond motion picture, “The Dirty Dozen; 
to be filmed in England that summer. 
He planned to return in time for fall 
football practice; but in England, heavy 
rains kepl delaying the filming. Soon the 
Cleveland Browns were al practice— 
without their star fullback. Pressed by 
sportswriters, team Art Modell 
announced a daily fine until Brown те- 
turned; bul Brown finally flanked the 
penalty with the bombshell announce- 
ment that he was quitting the game. Fans 
refused to believe il, thinking he would 
join up again once the film was finished, 
Though Brown did come back to Cleve- 
land after completing the movie, it was 
only to reaffirm his retirement and an- 
nounce that he intended to spend his time 
helping his race—by heading the Nation- 
al Negro Industrial and Economic Union, 
an organization he had founded. More 
motion-picture ofjers were in the works 


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as well, he added. Jim Brown was done 
with football for good—but not with 
the limelight. 

In the following months, he enlisted 
nearly 100 famous Negro sports figures to 
help him with his fledgling N. N.I. E.U. 
and opened offices in several cities across 
the country. When “The Dirty Dozen” 
opened and Negroes in unprecedented 
numbers flocked to see him—aptly cast 
as a racially militant soldier—it became 
clear that Brown's burgeoning screen 
[ame showed every promise of rivaling 
his legend оп the gridiron. At this point 
in his new career, we sent Alex Haley to 
interview the many-sided athlete-actor. 
“When I met him in Cleveland,” reports 
Haley about the first of their many en- 
counters, stretching over several weeks, 
“I soon discovered that his life now is 
probably more strenuous than when he 
was playing football. Between movies, 
he hustles through a 16-hour day that in- 
eludes time at home, in his N.N.LE.U. 
office, at public appearances and on the 
golf course—where he chafes if his 
scores reach the upper 70s. To keep up 
the pace, he burns a tremendous amount 
of fuel: I saw him consume lwo pounds 
of barbecued ribs as an appetizer while a 
four-pound T-bone broiled. Dessert was 
a quart of ice cream topped by a 
can of peaches. 

“Brown tried to concentyate оп my 
questions, but his Cleveland schedule 
and his characteristic initial wariness— 
made it impossible. We agreed to meet 
again later in California, where he 
would be filming his third picture, the 
$8,000,000 Cinerama production ‘Ice Sta- 
tion Zebra? im which he co-stars with 
Rock Hudson. During our meetings in 
his dressing room, he proved appreciably 
warmer and more candid. Returning 
from camera calls, he relaxed as easily as 
he once did upon leaving the field after a 
game. Dropping his well-known mask of 
impassivity, he became amiable and ani- 
mated, especially when he was talking 
about football. When racial matters 
сате ир. however, he turned dead seri- 
ous and often punctuated his pungent 
remarks with a baleful glare and à meaty 
forefinger jabbed т my direction. 

“Despite the long shooting days, 
Brown rarely went out at night, choosing 
instead to stay in his room and study his 
script. On weekends, though, he roamed, 
visiting friends like Lee Marvin and Bill 
Cosby, going into Los Angeles ghetto 
areas to talk to the kids there and put- 
ting in as much time as possible at his Los 
Angeles N. N.1. E.U. office. One day we 
got lo the office and found a small crowd 
there being regaled by Muhammad Ali. 
Ali playfully made a lightning feint as 
Brown entered; in mock 
Brown—who had once turned. down an 
offer of $150,000 to become a fighter— 
invited han оні back. Muttering dire 
warnings, Ali followed Brown outside, 


seriousness, 


where they touched fingertips and 
whirled inio a flashing, furious, open- 
handed bout. Head down, Broum would 
probe for an opening, while Ali danced, 
dodged and swatted bach. Then they 
stopped as suddenly as they had begun, 
boih sweat-soaked and laughing. In spite 
of the schoolyard levity they maintained. 
throughout, 1 couldn't help feeling they 
were testing each other, secretly wonder- 
ing what might happen in a ring.” 

The interview ended when Brown left 
for San Diego to do scenes parachuting 
from а plane to rendezsous with an 
atomic submarine for his role in “Ice Sta- 
поп Zebra.” He would Пу next to Bom- 
bay lo film “The Year of the Cricket." 
Beyond that lay a three-year contract with 
MGM that involved several more motion 
pictures. Im one of them, “Dark of 
the Sun," which premieres next month, 
Brown co-stars with Rod Taylor as а 
black mercenary involued in the Congo- 
lese uprising. No other athlete in history 
had ever such a successful 
transition to show business. We began by 
asking him about it. 


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PLAYBOY: What's your reaction to Lee 
Marvin's observation about your perfor 
ance in The Dirty Dozen: "Well, Brown's 
а beuer actor than Sir Laurence Oli 
would be as a member of the Clevel, 
Browns"? 

BROWN: That's great! I never heard that 
one before. Lee's wild! I Iove him! But 
about what he said: Look, my parts so 
г haven't really demanded too much 


of me as an actor: | know that and Г 
not trying to rush myself, What I feel 
I'm nor ready for, I мау away from. At 


this point I'm relying upon my presence; 
I'm concentrating on acting natural; and 
Im soaking up every technique I ca 
handle [rom the pros. I think everyone I 
work with can see that I'm trying to apply 
myself, and they go out of their way to 
teach me new things. So you m a 
it on-the-job tra 
ways tried to be good at anything I get 
nvolved in, That's another way of say 
g that eventually 1 hope to be regarded 
as a good professional actor—l mean by 
other actors. The the best criti 
PLAYBOY: As a longtime pro in another 
field, how did you feel about being the 
rookie of the cast in The Dirty Dozen? 
BROWN: I felt that was to my adv 
rybody knew I had everythi 
learn, а 
helping me; s 
al most rookics in Бриз. The role I 
played helped me, too. I was Robert 
Jefferson, a colleg ed soldier con- 
demned to death for murdering a wi 
1 brutally assaulted me. I 
fied with Jefferson. I could 
id understand. why he did wh, 


he 


feel 
did. | just made myself Robert Jefferson 
in my mind. And Bob Aldrich, the dircc- 


tor, gave me every break he could. He 
rarely talked with me, but when he saw 
me geuing up tight, he would say things 
that were constructive and calmi 
Even so, the pressure would build in me 
—you know, the doubts about whether I 
was really good enough to be there with 
them. But when Kenny Hyman, our pro- 


ducer, brought me a script for another 
movie, offering me a part, that was a 
sign of approval that meant a lot. 


PLAYBOY: While the picture was being 
made, a rumor circulated that you 
weren't getting along with several mem- 
bers of the cast. Was there any truth 
to that? 

BROWN: None. I got on with that cast as 
well as I ever have with any group in my 
whole Ше. Went out socially with most 
of them; never any arguments at all. 
That story must have been manufac- 
tured by press agents. I'm beginning to 
find out that press agents ате an occu- 
pational hazard in this business—their 
imaginations, Thi: story got 
started in пп, that 
Lee Marvin and I left a party at Sidney 
Lumet’s and that we had a bloody fight 
to the finish outside. It was completely 
abricated! In fact. Lee and I had a 
beautiful. rclationshi 
PLAYBOY: there is an 
acting void that you can fill, especially 
among Negroes: "He's seemingly more 
believable 10 the average Negro than 
guys like Poitier.” And director Robert 
Aldrich has said. “There isn't another 
Negro actor around quite like Brown. 
Poitier, Belafonte ог Ossie Davis aren't 
Brown's style” Do you think they're 
right? 

BROWN: I don't know; maybe I am shap- 
ing a new movie personality. Im just 
being myself; now how to 
do. I'm sure not taking anything away 
from any of those you named—and oth- 
ers like James Earl Jones. But there's а 
aying need for more Negro actors, be- 
«ause for so long, ever since the silent 
screen, in fact, the whole world bas been 
exposed to Negroes in stereotype roles. 
Have you ever been to any Negro the 
ter with a movie going, with a Negro in 
и? Well, you can just feel the tension of 
that audience, pulling for this guy to do 
something good, something that will 
ve them a little pride. That's why I feel 
so good that Negroes are finally starting 
10 play roles that other Negroes, watch- 
ing, will feel proud of, and respond to, 
nd identify with, and feel real about, 
instead of being crushed by some Uncle 
Tom on the screen making a fool of 
himself. You're not going to find any of 
us playing Uncle Toms anymore. In my 
first picture, Rio Conchos, I played a 
cowboy who fought not only Indians but 
white guys, too. And I played a realistic 
Negro in The Dirty Dozen. And in this 
picture I'm shooting now, Ice Station Ze- 
bra, I play a Marine captain on an atomic 


Marvin has sai 


submarine. It’s not a part written for a 
вто, or for any race in particu| sa 
t with no radal overtones whatever. 
That's why І can say, before this picture 
is even released, that a lot of Negroes 
are going to come to see i 
PLAYBOY: How did you get the part? 

BROWN: Robert O'Brien. MGM's presi- 
dent, was very happy with my Dirty 
Dozen performance and he discovered 


that unprecedented Nero audienc 
were апепаш He said, "Hell, this 15 
I around!” He led те 


about five one morning and said if there 
was a part 1 could play in Ice Station Ze- 
bra, he'd have me in Hollywood the next 
day. A white actor had been tentatively 
slated for this part, but he wasn’t signed, 
because he was still negotiating” for 
something else; and the next day I wa 
in wardrobe. In fact, they went ov 
whole script to be certain that no r 
overtones would occur because bla 
man was in the role. I dug the part not 
only for that reason but because, again, I 
could personally identify. Marine Cap- 
п Anders is my kind of officer—a man, 
self-sufficient as hell, bad, up tight, 
ready to do а hell of a job. He doesn't 
care who likes him or who doesn't, so he 
doesn't try to be He's а terr 
soldier, very tough on his men, but fair, 
and anything he asks them t0 do, he can 
do better. 
PLAYBOY: Have you gained any more 
confidence in yourself as an actor since 
Dirty Dozen? 
BROWN: 1 think so. It's just like football: 
1 had to get that first play under my belt 
before Fd stop trembling. 1 still get 
keyed up. but I keep it under control. 
And when I'm called to go before the 
cameras, like I used to do before a game, 
I just cut off my emotions and go act out 
atever the script calls for me to do. 
The only difference is that in football, 
we didn't have a specific script; the other 
side wouldn't have followed it, anyway. 
PLAYBOY: What made you decide to quit 
football so abruptly at Ше height of your 
career? Was it the movie offers? 
BROWN: Look—I loved playing football. 
It did a lot for me; it changed my 
life. Otherwise, I could have been some 
d of gangster today; I Kd a gang 
when I was а kid, you know. But, taking 
a realistic look at my Ше and my ambi- 
jons, at the things I wanted to achieve, 
it was time for a change, вее? I find th 
new carcer just as satisfying, and even 
more rewarding financially, and some- 
thing I can keep at far longer than I 
could have lasted in football. Besides 
that, my other activities are benefited, 
especially working to increase Negro 
icipation in the county's economic 
1e. Thats very important to me. Sure, 
sometimes when the weather's crisp out- 
side and I'm watching а game on tele- 
ision, it's hard not to be out there with 
the ball But still, leaving the game 


when I did is probably as lucky as any- 
thing that ever happened to me. Of 
course, I had some concerns about giv- 
ing up football's certainties for the mov- 
© uncertainties. But the hard fact is 
that 1 feel I quit just in time. I got out 
sull in my prime and without any inju- 
ries. Г got out before Г ever had to do 
like I've seen so many guys—sitting 
hunched over om the bench, all scarred 
and banged up, watching hot 
young kid out th nd, 
worse than thar, just wondering if they d 
slowed down so badly they'd never be 
called to go into the game anymore. You 
see, I believe a man grows up. He dis- 
covers there are other worlds. Basically, 
I'm a guy who has to progress or I feel 
Im ашп —1 don't mean juse ma- 
terially, but as a person. My interests 
have expanded in various areas—in ra- 
relations, my various investments 
and, of course, my new movie career 
but most of all in my sense of responsi 
bility to my people. For the rest of my 
Ше 1 am committed to taking part in the 
black struggle that’s going on in U 
country. 

PLAYBOY: Another of the factors involved. 
in your decision to retire, according to 
reports, was a contractual dispute with 
Browns owner Art Modell. Four years 
before, he had supported you in yet an- 
other dispute—against Cleveland coach 
Paul Bro g to an ultimatum 
from you i| other players. 
Modell finally fired Brown at the end of 
the 1962 season. Why did you insist оп 
his dismissal? 

BROWN: Well, first of all, it wasn't any 
vendetta, at least no personal kind of 
thing against Brown. At one stage in hi 
career, Paul Brown was a genius; he set 
new trends in the game. But the man's 
ego was such thar when other coaches 
openly stole his ideas, and added new 
twists, Paul Brown simply could not, or 
would nor, change and adapt to the new 
styles of playing. And we players in 
asingly saw this. Our professional 
res, Our careers, were involved. We 
happened not to be the brainless autom- 
atons he wanted his players to act like. 
So we did what we had to do—in what 
we saw as the best interests of the play- 
ers, the owner and the fans. And later 
events proved us right. That's really all 
there was to it. 

PLAYBOY: What were some of the adjust 
ments you felt Paul Brown should have 
made but didn't? 

BROWN: Well, the major thing, we felt, 
was that Paul immensely favored a 
ground game, with intricately devised 
through-theline plays. And in passing, 
he liked only short passes. Thats just 
two major areas whére his refusal to 
change cost us games we could have 
won. "The game had accelerated very 
fast, see, until any coach not utilizing 
long passes or frequent toudidown-run 


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PLAYBOY 


54 


threats was bound to become obsolete. 
Paul would only very rarely approve our 


trying the long-bomb pass, which other 
teams used often. And 1 was the Browns! 
main runner, Man, I loved 10 run—espe- 


cially on those outside sweeps; that was 
my major touchdown potential. But Paul 
refused to give me enough wide-running 
sweep plays. When we saw ourselves 
continually losing when we knew we 
could have won, it just took heart out of 
us. We lost that burning desire to win 
that a team has to have if it's going to 
How do you think we felt coming 
field beaten, and all of us there in 
the locker room knowing that the ше: 
mendous power we represented simply 
wasn't being used to its capacity? I don't 
like to knock the man, but truth is truth, 
that's ай. 1 he had just becn willing to 
compromise, to adjust only a lile, he 
could have remained the top coach in 
pro Бай. Anyway. some other players 
and I finally told Art Modell that unless 
the hing methods changed, we'd ci 
ther insist on being waded or quit. Well, 
any owner of a team is first and foremost 
a businessman. That next January—this 
was 1963—Art announced that Blanton 
Collier was replacing Paul Brown as 
head coach. We went into the new st 
son a thinking, working team again, 1 
had my best year and we took second 
place in the Eastern Conference. Then, 
in 1964, we won the league champion- 
ship. 

PLAYBOY: And you won the Hickok belt 
as the year's best professional athlete. In 
your entire pro career. you accumulated 
196 touchdowns among your 15 alltime 
N. F. L. records. Do you think anyone 
ever will equal or better those records? 
BROWN: I think every record Гус ever 
made will get wiped out, ultimately. 
Once people declared that my Syracuse 
records would never be broken; then Er 
nie Davis—the late Ernie Davis—broke 
all but three of them; and then Floyd 
Little broke all but one of Ernie's records. 
Records are made to be broken. You re- 
member the fourminute mile? The tcn- 
second dash? The seven-foot high jump? 
Always, you're going to have young guys 
coming along and improving. That's 
t, the way it needs to be, because 
's progress, that's advancement. My 
personal records were never that impor- 
tant to me, anyway. Аз a matter of fact, 
I almost hated to break a record when I 
was playing, because I always felt I was 
bccoming morc and mor tistic in 
people's minds than a human being. But 
I never dwell on what I did; it's history 
now. I have a lot of pleasant memories of 
a game that was a good part of my life. 
PLAYBOY: Among the records you set, 
none seems likely to last longer than the 
12,312. yards you gained in nine pro sea- 
sons—a large proportion of which you 


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amassed in the spectacular sweep runs 
you made famous. Was the sweep your 
favorite play? 

BROWN: Well, like I said, I loved those 
long sweeps—but any play that gained 
yardage was а good play as far as 1 was 
concerned. Most plays, you 
aren't lor long runs; they're just alter a 
crucial few yards, maybe one yard, maybe 
even inches, for a first down. That's your 
power plays, which can be just as impor- 
tant as some flashy run. But you say 1 
made the sweep runs famous; that’s very 
flattering, but the fact is that I never 
would have been able to make them with- 
ош a lot of company—without guys like 
John Wooten and Gene Hickerson, the 
Browns’ guards, to clear a path for me. 
Once they did, once 1 was through the 
hole and into the other team’s secondary, 
that’s when 1 was on my own. Then I 
d a man-to-man situation going—me 
against them: that's when I'd go into my 
ag of stuff, They're in trouble пое Ти 
55 things аге happen- 
1 once; I’m moving, evaluating their 
posible moves, trying t0 outthink and 


outmaneuver them, using my speed, 
quickness and balance. Гус always had 
very good balance. Im ready to use 


а straightarm, high knee-action ог 
shoulder-dipping. There's the full or half 
traightarm, or just the forearm, then 
the shoulder. In the leg maneuvers, I'd 
mbereg,” offering one leg, then jerk- 
ing it away when somebody grabbed. Or 
high-stepping would keep a pair of tack- 
lers from getting both legs at once. In 
that second just a step-by-step 
thing, using brainwork and instinct; but 
sometimes it gor down to just ourand- 
out strength and brute force 

PLAYBOY: The great linebacker Sam 
Huff was once asked how to stop you. 
He said: “All you can do is grab hold, 
hang on and wait for help." Detroit's 
tackle Alex Karras was even more graph- 
ic about и: “Give cach guy in the line an 
ax." Why did they have so much trouble 
tackling you? 

BROWN: Im the one that had trouble 
getting past them. You just don't run 
over guys like them; 1 had to try and 
fake them some way, like maybe drop a 
shoulder and struggle to get by. Some 
guys, of course, if they were small 
enough, Га just run over them. When 
we hit, I'd dip a shoulder, hitting his 
pads, and cross either with a straight- 
arm to the helmet or a clubbing forearm, 
PLAYBOY: Spcaking of that forcarm, Matt 
Hazelüne of the Forty Niners has said: 
“Brown reilly shivers you. I wonder how 
many KOs he would have scored when 
there were no [ace masks.” Did opposing 
players ever try to retaliate for all the 
clubbings you dealt out on the field? 
BROWN: Oh, sure. If you're a success- 
ful aggressive back, a scoring danger, 
roughings are a routine part of the game. 


it wa 


But it sull got pretty hairy sometimes. 
The biggest thing I resented was guys 
going after my face—fingers under my 
mask, after my eyes. Thats the only 
thing that ever brought me close to turn- 
ing chicken. 1 would yet up. not dizzy, 
but 1 still couldn't get my eyes clear. You 
know how you blink and your eyes still 
won't dear? One time 1 
Philadelphia Eagles defense man jammed 
his hand up under my face mask; I 
felt him clawing for my eyes and 1 got 
my teeth in that hand. Man, E tried to cat 
it up! ГП bet it hasn't гип under any 
more masks since then, Later, there was 
а protest about my biting him. I said, 
“Look, I can't bite anybody through a 
mask, can 1? Any hand under there was 
under there for some purpose, right?" 
There was no fine, 

PLAYEOY: On two occasions, you became 
involved in fights on the field. What 
made you blow your usual cool? 
BROWN: Well, once was when the Сі 
Tom Scott and I punched it out that 
time in Cleveland Stadium; the reason, 
again. was my eyes In a Giant game 
two weeks before, Id been hit and 
gouged in the eye seven er cight times, 
until E was half blinded for the next cou- 
ple of weeks. I went to the eye doctor 
and got drops and stuff, and 1 made up 
my mind that if anybody ever aga 
came deliberately dose (o my eyes I 
would retaliate in spades. So when I felt 
Scou's fingers grabbing for me, 1 just 
swung on him and we had that litle 
scuffle. It really wasn't much of a fight, 
but we both were put out of the gai 
"The only other time I swung оп anybody 
was with Joe Robb of the Cardinals. He 
hit me twice. 1 didn't mind being hit; 
that’s part of the game—but he hit me 
for no reason, no reason at all, and that I 
did mind, So I hit him back. But gener- 
ally, 1 felt that my best retaliation on 
у was to run over him on Ше 
next play and make him look bad. That 
could hurt him worse than a punch. 
Most things didn't upset me too much, 
though. It’s natural for the players to get 
emotional and fired up in a game. In 
fact, sometimes funny things happened. 
PLAYBOY: Like what? 

BROWN: Well, like sometimes guys would 
get all excited and call somebody а 
ame, Once in 1963, we were playing 
a preseason exhibition game against the 
Pittsburgh Steelers. Оп а third-down 
play, I fel pretty heavily on Low 
Michaels, who's now with Baltimore. He 
was real mad about it, and when I got 
ир. T was moving off and I heard him 
holler, "Why don't you go back to the 
Mafia, Brown?" I stopped and hollered 
back, “Mafia? You're mixed up, you 
dumb chump!" Lou was all flustered Гог 
something to say, and he finally stuttcred, 


remember, а 


ts 


“I mean the niggers!” Man, it was so 
Tunny, it cracked me up! 

PLAYBOY: In the course of your entire 
football career, despite all the fights and 
roughings, you were never sidelined by a 
major injury. Most sportswriters consider 
this almost miraculous. Did you really 
manage to avoid getting hurt or did you 
just avoid showing it? 

BROWN: A little bit of both—plus a lot of 
pure luck. Its true that Г was never hurt 
badly enough to miss a game, but I did. 
get a lot of what you might call small 
juries at different times—cuts, bruises, 


sprains, and so forth. "hat's part of the 
game. Look at my hands; see those 
scar? I still can't shake hands with 


much grip; can't even get an ordinary 
grip on а doorknob. 1 got hit on a nerve 
once, And though most people never 
knew it, during the 1962 season I played. 
all the way through with a badly 
sprained right wrist, It was tough for me 
to shift the ball from hand to hand in 
open field, as I liked to do when run- 
ng. OF all the blows I got, though, 
there's one VII never forget. It was either 
1958 or 1959, against the Giants. I had 
to hit the line, just one yard, for a touch 
down. The Giants did a lot of subma- 
x; and whenever 1 met submarining 
if the gain 1, Га try leaping 
over their line—which can get you hurt 
Well, we Лай to have this touchdown, so 
1 went up to the line, expecting to jump, 
Dut then I saw just this little sliver of 
daylight and I decided to go against all 
my principles of caution and just drop 
my head and take a chance of getting а 
hall of dache and go through some 
body's . Well, I stuck my head 
in there, and Vrooom! lt was like I'd 
been vise between their 
tackle Mack truck 
crashed against my helmet, Sam Hull! I 
had made the touchdown, all right— 
! Bells ringing, afraid somebody 
was going to have to help me up and all 
elf up, slow, the 
ays did. But it was like, Jesus? 
died, you know? Nobody's used 
to blows like ша. I played it cool 
though. walking olf like I was all right, 
because I didn't want anybody to know. 
Bur 1 gi 

was later that same ye: 
Giants. I drove into a ch 
in the pile-up. 


then a 


and em 


ess the worst onegame injury 
also against the 
ing line and 
I got kicked in the head 
в knocked out; 1 stayed 
but 1 couldn't remember 
anything—even having come into the 
stadium to play the game. Our quarter- 
back, Milt Plum. explained my assign- 
ments in the huddle and 1 carried the 
ball by instinct. That was in the first 
half; but even in the second half, I was 
still dreamy. Nobody knew it, though, 
but my teammates. Every tackle, wheth- 
er Vd just had a brush block or ГА 
really been clobbered like this time—I 


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always reacted the same way. I got up 
slowly and I went back to the huddle 
slowly, without expression. It kept people 
from knowing if I was hurt, because I 
never acted any different, see? Even if 
my head was ringing, I could make that 
slow rise and walk. That's the main rea- 
son І had that no-hurt reputation. 
PLAYBOY: Didn't your physical condition 
have anything to do with i? Dr. W. 
Мошавие Cobb, a Howard University 
anatomist, has said, “Jim Brown's bone 
structure must resemble forged vanadi- 
um steel—the hinging of ankles, knees, 
elbows; the ‘crawl’ of muscles, the dy- 
nism of effort easily tapped are all in 
nediate evidence,” 

BROWN: He's looking at the wrong part 
ways made it a 
prae y head before ] use my 
body. 1 looked upon playing football like 
a businessman might: The game was my 
business; my body and my mind were 
my assets, and injuries were liabilities. 
The first ic was to be absolutely 
topnotch physical condition—even more 
than any coach would ask you to be in. Г 
always tried to train harder than any- 
body else. 1 even developed my own set of 
extra calisthenics, things I could do in a 
hotel room if I had to. And over the 
years, E made for myself а careful study 
of what things usually cause injuries 
and, as much as 1 could, 1 avoided doing 
those things. For example, you'll see 
backs constantly jumping into the air, 
over a line; they think it looks so dramat- 
ic. Well, it can work—in fact, I did it 
myself, as I mentioned earlier, whenever 
I felt there was no other alternative— 
but sooner or later, somebody's bound to 
catch you up there in mid-air and break 
you in half. Another invitation to disaster 
is to use your head as a battering ram. If 
you do, pretty soon you're going to get 


it unhinged, like 1 did with Sam Huft. 
You'll also see some backs trying those 
fancy crosover step maneuvers—the 


leftlegover-theright-leg bit; I used to 
do that kind of thing at Syracuse; 1 was 
a regular fancy Dan. By pro-ball time, 
though—playing against guys who out- 
weighed me by 60 or 70 pounds—I 
had learned better. 1 learned that 1 
was going to make it with the pros, 1 was 
going to have to develop somethi 
tra, something more than sheer musde 
and flashy footwork. I was going to have 
to outthink the opposition. 1 would say 
that 1 credit 80 percent of the success I 
enjoyed to the fact that I played a men- 
tal game, The purely physical part— 
keeping in condition, running, passing, 
stuft like that—I'd credit with no more 
than 20 percent. It’s just common sense: 
Physically, many guys in pro football are 
more than my cquals—big, strong, fast 
son of a guns. But some simply don't 
get as much out of themselves as others. 


Why? Their mental game docsn't match 
their physical capacity. My game piv. 
ated on having planned ahead of time 
every move I intended to make on the 
field. The nine years I was in pro ball, I 
never quit trying to make my mind an 
encyclopedia of every possible detail— 
about my teammates, about players on 
other teams, about the plays we used, 
bout plays 1 knew they used and about 
both our and other tcams' collective and 
individual tendencies. 

1 know you've heard that I was sup- 
posed to have a reputation for being dis 
tant, aloof and hard to get along with, 
especially in football seasons, most cspe- 
cially close to gametime. Well, maybe 1 
was. Maybe I was rude to people and 
had very little to say to anybody. The 
reason is that I was focused mentally on 
that coming game. I was concentrating, 
visualizing things that 1 knew could hap- 
pen and what I would do if it went this 
way or that way. I knew 1 had it work- 
ing right when I started seeing. plays in 
my mind almost like I was watching tele- 
vision. ГА sce my own line in front of 
me, the guards, the halfbacks, the quar- 
terback, and then the other team over 
there—especially big Roger Brown and 
Alex Karras, two of the best tackles 
football. Both of them are quick, 
art, fast and big, 
hard, Notice Г doi 


ile, 
d they like to hit 
t just say they hit 
hard, but they like to Ви hard—that's 


mental; that’s positive thinking, sec? ГА 
walk around in the locker room, secing 
Roger Brown in my mind—for some rez 
son. not his face or hands or shoulders, 
but those thighs of his. Massive thighs, 
like some huge frog. Г always envision 
Roger hopping up in the air, jumping 
over blocks—all 300 pounds of him. And 
Alex Karras—in pro football, he’s jus 
little cat, just 250 pounds, but he's bi 
like a stump, with a boxers sneering 


a 


thinking again, sce? Anyway. 
watching them mentally across the 
nd sizing up the moves they n 
make against me. Ud see plays running 
and things happening—see myself start- 
ng a run and having to make spur- 
of-themoment changes of strategy and 
direction. Every play I ever ran, I had al- 
ready run а thousand in my mind. Right 
now, 1 can sce a sweep run. I'm starting 
—my first three steps are very fast. Then 
I'm drifting, to let my guard in front of 
me get into position. There he is; now 
others are throwing their blocks; my 
guard is blocking their halfback to the 
outside. Now I nd I shoot 
through the gap. That outside linebacker 
is my greatest danger now. I can sce the 
order in which the tacklers are going to 
come. I'm looking for that end first, or 
maybe that outside linebacker, since no 


ne could get to lim right away. I sec 
myself making all kinds of instantaneous 
adjustments, step by step, through their 
secondary—and then into the clear and 
all the way for a TD. Do you see what I 
mean? You get a jump on the game 
when you visualize beforehand not only 
the regular plays you run but also the 
hundred and one other things that might 
happen unexpectedly. So when you're in 
the actual game, whatever happens, 
you've already seen it in your mind and 
plotted your countermoves—instantly and 
instinctively. 

PLAYBOY: You've been talking only з 
plays on which you were the ball carrier. 
Опе of the few things for which you 
were criticized as a ballplayer was your 
alleged. refusal to block for your team- 
mates when someone else was carrying the 
ball. How do you: 
BROWN: Who said that about me? 
PLAYBOY: Washington Redskins coach Otto 
Graham, among others. He has also said 
that the Browns would have been a better 
team without you. 

BROWN: Well, I never saw that quote, 
but ГЇЇ assume it's true, because Otto has 
a lot of other comments disparag- 
ing my playing ability. I think maybe it's 
time 1 reveal something 1 haven't before 
that might cast a light on his real reason. 
See, Otto and 1 had always been good 
friends, and we were playing in а proam 
golf tournament at Beechmont Country 
Club in Cleveland, when Ouo had a bad 
break. He drove a ball off the second 
tee and hit a man in the nose. Maybe 
s later, this guy decided to sue 
busy practicing for a game 
when Otto's attorn 
asking me a lot of questions about the 
event. I told him 1 remembered the man 
was about 25 or 30 yards away when the 
golf ball hit him, and I didn’t really re- 
member too many other details. Evident- 
ly, the lawyer reported to Otto that | 
didn't wish to be cooperative. Well, 
shortly after that, I read the sports head- 
linc that Опо Graham said I couldn't or 
wouldn't block and the Browns would 
maybe do better without me. I've а! 
refused to fire back at him, feeling th 
he said it in the mistakei 
didn't want to testify in his behalf 
PLAYBOY: But тапу others—coaches, 


BROWN: Look, the Browns’ system, 1 
simply wasn't cast to do blocking; our 
offense was geared for me to run. Г think 
I bad only five or six blocking assign. 
ments in our whole repertoire of plays. 
Га have been the league's best blocker if 
the Browns had another guy doing the 
major running. But there are many, 
many great blockers in pro football and 
relatively few very good runners. If 1 
had started blocking like the best guard 


S "May | have one of your "e Е т, 
cigarettes, Steve? #2: 
Mine taste so dull." 


"Sure. Kools are what 
you're looking for. 
Bet you stay with ет.” я 


Come up to the Kool taste. 
Taste extra coolness 
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58 


id doing less running 
probably have won considerably less and 
my salary would have gone down by 
around 525,000. In fact, since the team 
depended on me running, I could even 
have lost my position, I ied to 
satisfy the coach I worked for, and run- 
ning was what they always asked of me 
—even in college. 1 always took Glen 
Kellys point of view: He said he 
wouldn't hitch a race horse to a milk 
truck, 

PLAYBOY: Throughout your first year at 
Syracuse, the couches didn’t even want 
you as a starting player on the freshman 
team, let alone as its star fullback, Until 
your sophomore season was well under 
in fact, you were relegated to the 
fourth or fifth string on the varsity team. 
Why? 

BROWN: I was black. that’s why. You 
see, before 1 went to Syracuse, a Negro 
named Avatus Stone had been a great 
ballplayer there—a quarterback, a 
punter. They wanted him to pla 
but he refused and finally left and went 
to Canada. But the real rub was that 
Stone had been very popular among 
white coeds—which made him very un- 
popular with white males. So when I ar- 
rived, the only black man on the team, 
the coaches had nothing to say to me 
except, "Don't be like Avatus Stone!” My 
whole freshman year, I heard so many 


sermons about what 1 should be like, I 
t so many hang-ups, that my attitude 
became as bad as theirs, In practice, I 


was snubbed and ignored until I got to 
where I'd just sprawl out on my back 
during drills and nobody said a word to 
me. I was as sullen as they were, and the 
freshman season ended and the sopho- 
more season began with me on the fifth 
sting. But I hustled like mad when 
sophomore waining season opened; and 
when the they had moved 


mes beg: 


me up to second string. I got in а few 
ig spectacular 


games, but noth 
pened until, finally, in the fourth. game, 
against Illinois, we had a lot of injuries 
on the team and I started. We got badly 
beaten, but 1 carried 13 times, averaging 
five yards, and the fans caught that. 
When I was on the bench, they started 
hollering, "We want Brown! Brown! 
Man, that made me feel ten feet 
tall! Then came my really big break— 
against Cornell. We lost М to 6, but I 
made a long touchdown run, over 50 
yards, as ] remember; and altogether I 
in the 
de two 
touchdowns. That did it; overnight, the 
fans made me a campus celebrity and, 
n. did 1 love it! In my junior year, I 
opened thinking 1 had it made and Pius- 
burgh bouled me up for 28 yards in 12 
carries and the coaches demoted me to 
second team, That made me so mad 1 saw 
fire; and in the next practice scrimmage, 


hap- 


T 50. ya rhe 
gained about 150 yards. The 


ma 


I left first-stri Tacklers lying out all 
over the field and ran. four touchdowns 
in five plays. After that, they left me on 
the first string. That's how I got accept 
ed, you know? I mean accepted аз Jim 
Brown, not Avatus Stone. And I'm say- 
i i inst Stone, because he's a 
beautiful cat. Im just saying my person- 
was my own and | didn't happen to 
feel that white coeds had any monopoly 
on desirability for me. Anyway, once the 
coaches made up their minds, they were 
men enough to realize they had been 
wrong and they became fair in dealing 
п me, and then 1 gave them all I had. 
I think maybe having to fight my way up 
the way I did taught me more about 
being a man, too. 

PLAYBOY: Did you have to contend. with 
race prejudice in pro ball as wi 
BROWN: ОГ course! in this 
country, 1 don’t care who he is, is aflect- 
ed by racial prejudice in some of its vari- 
ous forms. Athletes probably enjoy as 
much freedom as any black men in this 
counmy—but they're by no means cx- 
тре from discrimination, The relation- 
ship with white players is much better 
now: they respect whoever can help 
them win that championship bonus 
check. And the fan reaction is greatly 
improved, because so many Negroes 
are staring and there are now even 
black team captains. The problems arise 
off the playing field and Fd say that 
the major problem area is related, in 
some way, to white women. It's a major 
factor why black and white players don't 
socialize, because sooner or later they 
are going to be in some situation involv- 
ing women. The black athlete who is de- 
sirable to white women is going to run 
into all kinds of trouble. If he gets any- 
where around white men with her, fel- 
low athletes or not, pretty soon that 
black man is going to get reminded that 
he is not free, that he’s still black in 
white men’s eyes, star on the field or not. 
105 one of the reasons black athletes no 
longer particularly try to socialize with, 
ог even get along with, white team- 
mates, When the game . the 
whites go their way and the blacks ро 
theirs, with very few exceptions. 
PLAYBOY: According to the Clevel: 
press, that separatism didn't apply to 
white women, at least in your Case. 
BROWN: I see I've got to remind you I'm 
matried—ma black woman. 1 
think I'm no different from the vast ma- 
jority of black men: I'm not dying to 
white woman. Stokely Carmi- 
el uses a good statement in this area 
when that subject comes up. He says. 
“The white woman can be made! OK, 
we've got that settled—so lets go on to 
something important!” When I wa 
college, 1 dated both black and white 
coeds. It didn't matter to me. I've never 
seen any difference in white or black 


nd 


women. Its a question of individual 
characteristics, personality, habits and 
tastes. All that mattered to me was 
pretty girls. I always went after the 
finestlooking, the real foxes! 1 have a 
kname, "Hawk," which comes from 
having very good cyesight. Visually, I 
appreciate anything that 1 consider beau- 
tiful—if it's а car, if it's a suit, а paint- 
ing. a woman or what have you. And 


ppy and very 
much in love with mc. I have never 
denicd her and 1 have never denied those 
three big babies we have at home in 
Cleveland. So Im sure that I'm doing 
no big damage by looking. 

PLAYBOY: Speaking of babies, vou were 
once the defendant in a paternity suit 
filed by an I&ycarokl Cleveland. gil. 
Though you were subsequently exoncr- 
ated, it didn't exactly enhance your pub- 
lic image. What were the details of the 
сазе? 

BROWN: Actually, Г was sucd for assault 
and battery, Then the same party sued me 
for paternity. 1 figured, hell, I’m strong 
enough to fight it out publicly. and that's 
what I did. I sat a week in that hot 
courtroom, missing а number of impor- 
tant commitments, It never would have 
gone to court if I had been guilty; I 


would have dealt with it the w; n 
should deal with a thing of that nature. 
Anybody who doubts that doesn't know 
me. 

PLAYBOY: Quite apart Пош paternity 
suits, fairly common knowledge that 


you've long been the target of demon- 
strative admiration by many fem: 
ball fans, Is it just coincidence that most 
of them happen to be white? 

BROWN: You're just tipping around the 
edges of the big question at the bottom 
of the ad of every white man in this 
country: “What about you blacks and 
white women?" Right? Well, OK, lets 
k straight about that. ГП tell you 
the very first thing that always knocks 
me out about that question, Why is the 
always the implication that the white 


с foot- 


with 
the зи 


black man? Everybody 
rt hip, 20th Century 

а complete control of 
herself and docs exactly what she d 
well wants to do and nothing else. So 
what's the reason the white man has her 
pictured in his mind аз hypnotized and 
helpless with a black man? The other 
thing that bugs me about that question 
is the assumption by the average white 
man that any black man he sees with 
ny white woman has got to be sleeping 
with her. To me, that instant assumption 
tells me а lot more about that white man 
than it docs about the black man—or 
the white woman. Lets assume he's 
right that a lot of white women аге ei 
ther openly or secretly attracted to black. 


men. It happens to be truc—but let's ask 
ourselves why. Well, the answer is that 
the white man himself has made his 
woman this attracted to us. 

PLAYBOY. How? 

BROWN: For generations, he has рай 
the black m. such inimal that 
not only natural but inevitable that the 
white woman's mind occupies itself. with 
this big, exciting taboo. And, 
of them do morc than think about it; 
they decide to find out, And when they 
do, they find that the black man isn't the 
gorilla the white man has painted; that 
Пе may be as much of a gentleman as any 
man she has known and may even pay 
her more respect than her own kind, You 
"1 blame her for responding—and you 
‘t blame him for responding to her, 
se he's the same man who for 800 
s couldn't open his mouth or he 
would die, while he saw the white man 
g зех as he pleased with the black 
1l you something 
esting to do. Every time you sce a Negro 
from now on, just take note of his com- 
plexion. See how few are jet black and 
reflect how all the Africans brought over 
here were jet black. It might help you to 
do some thinking about who genetically 
changed the color of a whole race of 
people, diluted them from black Africans 
not into black Americans but into Ne- 
groes; even the word is a white man's 
igma, a kind of proper form 
Historically, there’s been 
s more sex bc- 
and black women than 
n and white wom 


not in the least qiticizing where it is 
fact. 1 believe that whatever amy two 
dulis—black or white—do 


their 


in 


The white man may con- 
sider it his business; in fact, most do; but 
1 don't feel that it's mine! 

1 know, and 1 accept, that certain ex- 
posures to white women will likely en- 
courage and develop friendships. 1 use 
ihe expression "friendships" because ] 
nt to be guilty of doing the 

1 people of do- 
ing to me—jus sce me talking with 
some white woman and instantly they аз 
sume, “There goes sex," 1 can't tell you 
how many times that has made me sick 
in this country. 1 can ber once 
when someone wasn't waiting to sce me 
outside the stadium after а game— 
different friends, some of them from 
some of them white women. 
husbands and. cl 
dren would be standing off to one side 
and they would run up and hug me. 
lt was a very warm thing between the 


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two of us; after all, we hadn't seen 
each other in years—at least it should 
have been warm. But I can't remember 
one single time when, before I got 
through the crowd, I didn’t catch 
some white faces giving me that 
frowned-up, dirty look that was saying, 
“Him and white women again!” Some- 
thing beautiful and completely platonic 
disrupted by somebody who didn't even 
know us. Hell, it didn't even have to be 
a grown white woman! I've known it to 
happen with little girls! The autograph 
crowd is around, say, everybody excited 
and happy—and all of a sudden there's 
this little girl, under ten, say, whose par- 
ent tells her, “Go tell Jim Brown hello. 
OK, I bend over and the little girl, with 
nstinctive affection, starts 10 reach up to 
hug my neck and kiss my check. You 
know? But I've been that route before. I 
anticipate the impulsive intent of a 
sweet, innocent little child—and I have 
to maneuver somehow to prevent her 
acting natural. Because too many times 
before, see, I had straightened up from a 


child’s embrace and caught the dis- 
approving white facial expressions. Fi- 
nally, I began to feel that I'd just rather 


not see my old friends in that kind of sit- 
uation. Which meant that / was becom- 
ing prejudiced. Many a time since then, 
I have walked on through a crowd, not 
king to anybody, and it helped to 
у reputation. 
But this kind of bitter experience isn't 
unique with me, or even with black ath- 
letes; it happens to сусту black man and 
woman in Americ: 
PLAYBOY: Though you've certainly ехре- 
rienced many of the injustices familiar to 
all Negroes, isn’t it also true that you en- 
јоу, as a celebrity, certain privileges that 
are denied to the average Negro? 
BROWN: Well, 1 do have some of what 
you might call door advantages." 
Numerous doors and opportunities have 
opened for me personally. for the indi- 
vidual me. I've got a few dollars in the 
bank, and a home, and my family eats 
and dresses well and I drive a good car. 
When I consider that my forbi 
slaves, I know I'm lucky to bc where I 
am and have what I do. But, to me, 
these are always a reminder of the fact 
that the same doors are not open for all 
black people, Although I appreciate the 
advantages for sclfish reasons, this con 
stant awareness of inequity makes them 
mean less to me. And there's something 
ele a lot of people don't realize—ths 
the more successful a black person is, the 
it is for to live with the 
things that still go with being black. Let 
me give you an example, just one of th 
common examples. You've earned the 
money to buy yourself a better home in 
a better residential area, and you haven't 
суеп signed the papers before the word 


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leaks out and white people start running 
before they'd live near you. The poor, 
ignorant type? No! Your betterclass 
people. The people who in another 
setting would smile to sce their kids 
rushing you for autographs. How is one 
supposed to feel about that? I never will 
forget being bluntly refused an apart- 
ment in Cleveland soon after I moved 
there. The landlady looked me the 
face and said, “We only take whites.” I 
wound up buying the home we have 
now, in a nice, modest, predominantly 
Negro neighborhood. At the other place, 
І hadn't been eager to live around white 
people; I had just wanted a place near 
the field where the Browns practiced, 
which would be more convenient for me. 
It wasn't integration I was after; I just 
was bitter about being segregated, you 
understand? 

PLAYBOY: Have you encountered any other 
nd of overt discrimination since you 
became well known? 

BROWN: Are you kidding? I don’t even 
like to think about it. But I'll give you 
jus one example. There was nothing 
really uncommon about the incident 
itself in the average Negro's experience, 
particularly in the South. But it had me 
choked up and bitter lor а long time 
after it happened. It w 1957 and 
l was in Army training down in Ala- 


bama. Three buddies of mine and 1 were 
in my convertible, with the top down, 
driving to Tuskegee. We had just gone 


through this little town, enjoying our- 
selves, when all of a sudden this police 
car roared up behind and barreled past 
us, cut us ой and stopped; and, baby, 
I'm looking at this cop getting out with a 
drawn gun niggers!” We got 
out. "What are you making dust all over 
white people for?" Just about then, an- 
other car pulled up and stopped and an- 
other white guy got out. The cop was 
. "You hear me, nigger? 

emotions were such that 1 hardly trusted 
myself to speak, “I don't know what a 
nigger is!" 1 said, Then he jammed the 
pistol right in my stomach. “Nigger, 
don't you know how to talk to white 
folksz" One of the guys with me said, 
"He's not from down here; he's from ир 
North.” The cop said, “Nigger, I don't 
care where you're from, ГЇ blow you 
apart! Where did you get this car, any- 
I said, “It was gi He 
said, “Given to you! Who give you a 
car?” 1 said, "It was given to me at 
school.” “What school?” I said, "Syra- 
cuse University.” Just about then, the 
other white man came over closer and he 
said, “That's right. I recognize this boy. 
He plays football up there.” That was 
my reprieve. The cop took the gun out of 
my belly and said, “I'm going to let you 
go, but you bener drive slow and you 
beter karn how to act down here, nig- 
ger!” So we got back in the car and 


n to me. 


drove on. I don't know why I even told 
you that; it's not good to dredge that 
stuff up in your mind again. But you sce, 
you don't forget a thing like that, not if 
somebody handed you every trophy in 
football and 15 Academy Awards. That's 
why a black man, if he’s got any sense at 
all, will never get swept away with spe- 
cial treatment if he happens to be 
famous, because he knows that the min- 
ше he isn't where somebody recognizes 
who he is, then he's just another nigger. 
That's what the Negro struggle is all 
about; that’s why we black people have 
to keep fighting for freedom in this coun- 
try. We demand only to live—and let 
live—like any ordinary American. We 
don't want to have to be somebody spe- 
cial to be treated with respect. 1 can't 
understand why white people find it so 
hard to understand that. 

PLAYBOY: If you feel as strongly as 
you say about winning equal rights for 
Negroes, why didn't you ever join the 
Negro celebrities who participated with 
Dr. King in such nonviolent demonstra- 
tions as the Selma march? 

BROWN: I felt T could do more by giving 
my time to my own organization—the 
National Negro Industrial and Econom 
Union—than by flying to Alabama and 
marching three days, another celebrity 
in the pack, almost a. picnic atmosphere, 
and then flying back home a so-called 
hero because I'd been so “brave.” I'm 
not knocking those who did: I'm just 
saying I felt differently about it, That 
kind of demonstration served its purpose 
well; but it finally outlived its usefulness. 
PLAYBOY: In what way? 

BROWN: I'd compare Dr. King's methods 
with Paul Brown's brand of football. 
Brown was a genius in his 
с, but he refused to change and final- 
ly he became outdated. J think the sit- 
ins, walk-ins, wade-ins, prayins and all 
those other -ins advanced the movement 
tremendously by awakening the nation's 
consdence—making millions of white 
people aware of and sympathetic 10 the 
wrongs suffered by black people. When 
the white population was at that point, I 
think the movement's direction. should 
have been aliered toward economic pro- 
graming for Negro self-help, with white 
assistance. Think what could have been 
accomplished if the nation's black lead. 
ers, at that time, had actively mobilized 
the good will of all the millions of white 
people who were willing, even Dus, 
to help the Negro help himself. We 
could had millions, white and 
black, working toward that goal, with 
tremendous results, That what I felt 
and what I tried to do, in forming my 
National Negro Industrial and. Economic 
Union, But no one listened—not in the 
movement and not in Washington. What 
happened, instead, was that the marching 


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went on and оп. getting more and more 
nilitant, until a lot of white people 
began to resent it—and to feel threat- 
ened. Whenever being feels 
threatened—i шег И he’s 
ight or wrong—he starts reacting delen- 
sively, negatively. We lost the white 
sympathy and support we'd fought so 
hard to win: Badly needed now civil 
rights legislation began to die on the 
ne; existing laws were  loopholed, 
modified or ignored; poverty funds dried 
up. On the threshold of real progress, the 
door simply closed in our faces, The in- 
evitable consequences of that frustration 
set fire to. Watts, Detroit, Newark and 
two dozen other cities 
PLAYBOY: Police authorities several 
cities have claimed that the riots were 
mel not by frustration but by 
communist agitators.” Do you think 
there’s any truth to that charge? 

BROWN: If by "fomented" they mean 
planned, like some kind of revolutionary 
battle strategy, they just don't under 
stand the explosive state of every ghetto 
in this country. The average ghetto. Ne- 
gro is so pent up and fed up with white 
lies, hostility, hypocrisy and neglect that 
riots don't need planning. All they need 
is a spark to set them olf, and the cops 
usually provide that without any help 
from the Commu Once t gets 
started, of cour: the Communists, 
along with a lot of others, will be out 
there fanning the flames. Communist 
money and people are working in every 
ghetto, especially the major ones. It’s no 
big secret that the Communists’ main 
objective in this country is to auract a 
large following of Negroes. You'll hear 
black kids standing around on corners 
talking defiantly about "feudalism" and 


apitalism" and‘ exploitation of 
un” and all that stuff; they don't even 
know what the words mean, but it 


sounds hip to them, you know? If there's 
anything the vast majority of Negroes i 
this country have proved, however, it's 
that they aren't Communistinclined. 
They don't need Communist indocuina- 
tion to tell them that they're second-class 
citizens, and they don't need Communist 
help to become first-class citizens. They 
can—and will—do it on their ows 
matter what it costs. Black people are 
ting that they're willing to die 
1 freedom. "There's not going to 
ny turning back now. Its going to 
be cither total freedom or the concent 
tion camps I hear they're getting ready 
for us. If there's anything the blak man 
has learned thoroughly in his history in 


no 


this country, it’s that begging, ap 
ing. urging and imploring has gotten him 
nowhere. He jus kept on getting 


slapped around, and only when he start- 
ed to slap back did he begin to get any 


$2. kind of respect. 


PLAYBOY: Are you an advocate of Negro 
violence: 
BROWN: Don't 
violence, The 


talk to me about. Negro 

greatest violence this 
country has ever known has been on be- 
half of the various vested interests of 
white people, demanding whatever they 
were convinced were their rights. You 
could start with the American Revolu- 
tion, Then the Indian wars—outright 
criminal violence, depicted in the history 
books and on television as hero Then 
the Civil War, in which the | man 
wasn't really the true issue; Не was noui 
ing but the excuse. And оп down the 
line to the labor movement. Heads got 
split open. people shot down. property 
destroyed all over the cow I you 
want to talk about race пос, the Irish, 
not black people, fought the bloodiest 
riot ever seen in Ameri in the late 
1800s, they went looting and burning 
and killing down Lexington Avenue, 
which was then the richest, most fash- 
ionable part of New York City. There's 
no point in dragging this out forever, if 
you see my point 
PLAYBOY: You've strayed from our origi- 
nal question: Are you an advocate of 
black violence? 
BROWN: I am a 100-percent advocate that 
if а man slaps you, you should slap him 
back. I know that if a man hits me, I'm 
going to try to hit him twice—harder— 
because I it him to do a lot of thinking 
before he ever hits me again. 1 am an ad- 
vocate of freedom for everybody. freedom 
that isn't something handed out at one 
groups discretion and taken away if 
someone makes that group angry. The 
law is the law; that’s what I believe, and. 
1 believe right is right. We're all sup- 
posed to abide by this country’s so-called 


Taws—not only the laws against civil dis- 
order but Ше laws for civil rights. 
Theres a very simply stated way to elim- 


че the race problem: Just enforce the 
same laws and the same standards for 
everybody, black like. That's 
the only thing the black. people are after 
Am I personally an advocate of black 
violence? I'm an advocate of stopping 
black violence before it starts—by facing 
the facts, by curing the reasons black 
people engage in violence. I've gouen 


nd white 


were in progress, 
something.” and my reaction has been, 
ter for you! When I was trying to tell 
what our №. N. I. E.U, could do to pre- 
vent riots, you didit want to listen. 
Well, now you've waited too late!" What- 
ever I think, or any other black person- 
lity thinks, isn't going to make any 


PLAYBOY: Can they be stopped, or do you 
think they'll escalate, as some predict, 
into a race war? 

BROWN: Ш nothing is done to prevent 


riots—and 1 don't mean with more tanks 
—raœ war is a very real and immediate 
probability. Too many black people who 
have been kept methodically at the bot- 
tom of the ladder for centuries don't 
really care what happens, They figure, 
what have they got то lose? The build 
up of police forces, the various thi 
veiled threats, like concentration camps, 
have no deterrent ellect. whatever. All it 
does is make the blacks madder, and 
that will send them out in the streets 
quicker th ything else. As of right 
now, only a very small percentage of 
groes have actually rioted, or even have 
thought about physically participating in 
rioting. But the number grows with 
every threat. And there's one thing in 
particular that ГА think about a long, 
long time if 1 were any city’s police chief 
or mayor or a state governor—and that's 


the curfews thar get slapped down 
whenever there's trouble. After the 
Watts trouble, which involved only а 


few of the Negroes in Los Angeles, sud- 
denly а "riot area" curfew was declared 
that went far beyond the locale of the 
rioting—all the way to the borders of the 
total black community in Los Angeles, 
excepting only the handful of so-called 
upper-middle-class blacks who happened 
to be living in so-called integrated high- 
income areas. With that single act, 
hundreds of thousands of Negroes—be 
they criminals, hoodlums, preachers, 
doctors, lawyers, nurses, schoolteachers, 
firemen. policemen or politicians—dis 
covered that it made no difference, that 
what really was being put down was 
black people! Nobody caught in that 
curfew net ever will think the same 
in. It was very obvious to them what 
was being said. 
PLAYBOY. You said the riots may escalate 
if nothing is done to prevent them. What 
do you think can be done? 
BROWN: First of all, these mayors’ and 
governors’ offices have got to drop this 
implied revenge attitude I was talking 
abour—buildi p police forces and 
beding up the National Guard. Thats 
j ing toward the concentration 
s got to be, someh 
neere understanding achieved 
between Negro leaders and the con 
cerned state and city administ 
And by Negro leaders, I don't m 
Martin Luther Kings and the Whitney 
Youngs; I mean the people who have fol- 
lowings in the gl 
listened to, and worked with, and given 
respect. and urged to help with program. 
ing where money and other aid will ас. 
tually filter down to the lowest level of 
the ghetto, where you find Ше people 
most prone to riot—those who are most 
bitter and alienated and frustrated and 
suspicious. So much ha done 10 
them, it's a pinsand-ncedles job to make 


.some 


them believe anybody actually will do 
nything for them. Вш if the city govern- 
ments are willing to listen 10 and work 
with these real Negro leaders. 1 think. 
there is a wemendous chance of quicting 
racial disorders. I say this because 1 head 
up an organization—the N. N.L E.U. 
—that offers, free, some of the greatest. 
black talent in this counuy, most of it 
never used before. 1 ст call upon 50 or 
60 of the top black a 
пу t0 run summer programs and work 
directly in communities with these 
young kids. But when 1 Г 
Vice-President's committee to fund 
m, 1 think something is 


Мете» in this coun- 


radically wroi 
PLAYBOY: Considering the mood of Con- 
gress in the wake of the riots, i 
umealistic to expect the Federal Gover 
ment to allocate funds for a program im- 
plemented by ghetto gang leaders who 
many whites feel were instrumental in 
starting the riots? 

BROWN: 1 unrealistic, it seems 10 
me, to expect that the people sealed up 
st ghettos would remain quiet in 
them forever. If you're uying to мор 
iot. Г cul any man qualihed, street 
hoodlum or not, if he controls the people 
who riot. 1 know what Fm talking about 
Гуе seen what cin happen with these 
people. You've got 10 persuade the black 
men who are respected in their area to 
go in and crack the door. crack Ше ice. 
Ive been able to do this myself a few 
times in a few places. The ghetto people 
know Fm straight, that I speak up and 
stand up and | wouldn't betray them. 
Ive gone into ghettos and talked with 
the toughest cuts. I've told them, “Now, 
look, 1 think you know I'm my own man. 
Now, here's what seems to me a hell of a 
program, but it needs your help to get 
wide community support behind it" In 
most cases, these guys will give 100- 
percent support. Give the toughest cats 
certain respect, because they have тє 
spect Irom the people youre пу 
reach with help, and theyll work with 


was 


but they'll talk sincerely у 
figure you're with them. You 
greatest disippointment and bitterness 
come from promises that 
proved later to be some political shum or 
that just weren't followed up. Whatever 
a there 


promises, 


pro: i has to be followed up, 
day to day. And the best people to moni- 
that as these tough. guys: Give them 
jobs doing it. All they want is decent sal- 
they have to eat, 10 live, just | 
anyone else. But 1 find that city adminis 
trations don't like this idea. They're still 
after political points, They want to dic 
tate the te 1 the ghetto people 
yesent anybody bringing them 
gram with white sui 
gets nowhere. And 


пу pro- 
urally it 


likely to have more black uprisings, 
which lead to more white “revenge” talk 
and threats, and the vicious cyde contin 
ues. 1 hope that black freedom can be 
won peaceably. Thats my Лоре. But 
things I keep seeing make me skept 
Historically, great batles for freedom 
have seldom been won peaceably. 

PLAYBOY: Have you read the polls that 
show that a large majority of N 


ое 


think the whites would lose in a race 
war? 

BROWN: Yes, I have. That's emotional- 
ism. Because, without a doubt, black 


people couldn't win any mass encounter. 
How could they? Ounumbered 
on? With а handful of эз. some 
homemade Molotov cocktails, sticks, 
rocks and switchblade? Against ше 
white man's jets. tanks. chemical warfare 
and H-bombs? That's just plain silly. I 
think anybody who doesn’t realize thi 
ply isn’t being a realis. Вос this is 
just one of many lacis ol about 
which black people, especially the ex- 
vmisis, aren't. being realistic. 

PLAYBOY; You affiliated, 
official of Main Bout, with the 
Muslims who ran the or 
you feel that the Musli 
losophy of separatism is т 
BROWN: No, | don't. Like ‚ many 
Negroes—maybe 90 percent of us pri 
vately—I agree with much of what they 
у. but I don’t personally accept their 
ust philosophy, and I'm not a 


ten to 


ше 


were 


My ew relations 
п Bout with Herbert Muhammad 
ad John Ali was а very pleasant. and 


compatible one, however, and 1 respect 


the organization for instilling black 
people with pride in their race and for 
tac k people to pull themselves 


up by their own bootsuraps and take cue 
of their own. Гао respect the Muslims 
right to practice their own religion —a 
right legally recognized by the Govern- 


ment, if not by the white pies. which I 
feel grossly misrepresented thu 
The main reson they're so disliked by 


whites is that so much of what they siy 
about the black condition is the truth, 
wd white Americ Yt like to hear 
оки bigotry 


doc 
h about its 


the г and. 


oppresioi 
: Do you leel the same way 

such black power. firebrands as Sic 

: p Brown? 

1 feel there is a need lor tx 
Молина ву, the average white seems 
10 need a good scare from the Carmi- 
chacls and Rap Browns before he'll listen 
по less dramatic requests. Speaking Гог 
myself, I think it's too easy to just go out 
nd threaten Whitey, What is that doing 
me time, 
шу Ad- 
als, seeking money and 
support for our selfhelp programa 


bout 
ely 


10 help black people? At the 
Гус 


been пптей dows 


by so 


on offic 


not 


jest turned down but suspected 
of being “subver that Pe 
tempted to take the casy way, 100. and 
start hollering against Whitey myself. As 
ions refuse to sponsor 
s that give black people con- 
structive aliematives 10 violence 
really blame these guys for their extrem- 
ism. I think they symbolize a lot of those 
their age who are sick ol passive resist 
ance, who are really fighting for freedom 


ve" becn 


1 can't 


—young Negroes with greu pride in 
themselves and their race. They are nor 


trying to be assimilated; but they һе 
there should be, and must be, equality: 
ot. they ате what the 


less and they're going to fight in any а 
every way they feel necessary то be re 
spected and 10 win their freedom in this 
country. Where I disagree with guys like 
Stokely and Rap is that it was a mistake 
for them to get identified with merely 


defining and defending black power. It 
has dellected their energies from effective 
programing into sloganeering. 


PLAYBOY: How would you define black 
power? 

BROWN: First and foremost, I'd define it 
as a creation of the white pres. From 
the moment Stokely Са 
the expression in a speech two years 
though he quickly explained that he 
meant it in the sense of political and cco- 
nomic power—the press, and. millions of 
te people, instantly interpreted those 
two words as an ominous thr of black 
mass uprising. lt says more to me about 
the interpreters than the two 
words, То me it says white fear, white 
ing a justification. a target. It 
was whites, па turned it 
into а hate thing and used it to label es 
ponents of black power as advocates of 
racial violence. 
PLAYBOY: Would you 
ponent of black. power 
BROWN: I'm for blick power the sume 
way I'm for Irish power, Jewish power, 
bor power. doctor power, larmer pow 
Catholic Protestant. power. 
for all the speci 
groups’ using their economic and pol 
cal strength to demand that others pay 
them respect and grant them equality. 
Only 1 call ir green power. That's my 
idi t needs to become the black 
peoples special interest. 1 want по sce 
black people pooling their monies, their 
skills, their brains and the 
power to bener themselves 
pae more fully in the mainstream of 
American life. And that requires white 
support. The black people simply don't 
have the money to support the programs 
needed to train them in what they cin 
do for themselves. 

PLAYBOY: When you say you need white 


w 


guilt sec 


not bi who 


all yourself an ex- 


power 


I vested-interest 


a of whi 


PLAYBOY 


financial support to help Negroes help 
themselves, does ti mean you share 
the deepening cynicism of such militant 
Negro groups as CORE and SNCC 
about the direct personal involvement of 
white volunteers, however sincere and 
committed, in the civil rights movement? 
BROWN: Speaking for my own organiza 
tion, the one Гус founded—which is the 
only one I can really speak for—we know. 
there are many, many sincere and 
truly committed white people, and one of. 
our major eflorts is to get more and more 
of them to help us. But we no longer want 
or need the same kind of help they've 
offered in the past: We don't want them 
to march with us anymore, becuse 
marches are а thing of the past; and we 
don't want them to work with us in the 
ghetto anymore. We want their moral 
and financial support—as long as there 
are no strings attached. to either—but we 
want them to work with their own kind 
and leave us alone to work with ours. 
PLAYBOY: Why? 

BROWN: Simply because the people in the 
ghetto just don't trust whites, по matter 
how sincere or well intentioned they ar 
hell, they don’t even trust the 
so-called accepted black leaders—wh 
is to say, the black leaders approved 
of by the white establishment. The sus- 
picions and hostilities, born of 300 years 
of white bigotry and betrayal, run too 
deep. Bur that's where we can use all 
the help we can get from concerned 
whites: in uprooting racial prejudice 
where it originates—in the hearts of 
other whites. 

What it comcs down to is; Who 
work best where? For the same reason a 
white man would last about five minutes 
preaching brotherhood on a Harlem 
street corner, black people can't run 
around с communities trying 10 
change white attitudes; they'd get arrest- 
ed for “disturbing the peace.” Sincere 
white people have got to go to work up- 
stairs, downstairs, next door, down the 
block—talking, teaching, reasoning, or- 
ganizing, whittling away at white prej- 
udice wherever they find i ad they'll 
find it everywhere. Our job, the job of 
sincere and committed blacks such as the. 
athletes in my N.N.LE.U.—who may 
be the only kind of guys the toughest 
street cats will accept and listen to—is to. 
work inside the ghetto to climinate the 
effects of 1 prejudice and discrimi- 
nation by helpiug black people acquire 
Ше green power they need to make Ше, 
liberty and the pursuit of happiness a 
tangible reality rather than an empty 
catch phrase. 

PLAYBOY: How did you evolve this strate- 
gy of liberation through economic self- 
help? 

BROWN: Well, 


acia 


when 1 was with the 


Cleveland Browns, as you know, for 
some time 1 had a summerseason job 
with Pepsi-Cola. I had access to much ol 
their internal. operati am, and 
they bad me do а lot of traveling to vari- 
ous places, as а representative, In the 
process, I began 10 get a pretty good 
understanding, better than any I had be- 
fore. of how economics is the very foun- 
dation of this country. When 1 say white 
people have got to face some hard 
truths, Г also believe that black people 
have got to face some hard truths; and 
the most basic of these truths is that, lor 
all the crimes committed st him, 
the black man in America still has not 
begun properly to take advantage of 
even the limited. opportunities that he 
has had. We have become a consuming 
people and we have produced almost 
ig. Therefore, automatically, what 
dollars we make don’t circulate 
то һе1р us; they go into other 
pockets instead. We've wasted too much 
time hollering and complaining that we 
don't have this, we can't do that, and so 
forth—all because of Whitey. We've 
squandered energies that should have 
been spent focusing upon what we could 
have and could do with what we do 
have! Аз а race, we sufler from а tenible 
miswust not only of the white man but of 
cach other, Thats why we've never real 
ly been able to get together, why we 
haven't had more coope 
ventures. For another thing, we're just 
not economically oriented by matum 
we're 100 impulsive, impractical, unprag 
matic and emotioi bout money. It's 
the sad truth that we continue to drin 
the best imported Scotch, to wear the 
finest shoes, to drive the biggest Cadillacs, 
and we don't own one single distiller 
shoe factory or Cadillac agency—at least 
not ro my knowledge we don't. Right now, 
Гог thousands of jobs 
going be that industies are otter- 
ing to black youth. The message in that 
fact for black people, I think, is loud and 
clear: Get off the streets and into the 
schoolrooms and the colleges and the 
libraries. 

Now, in saying all this, by no means 
am I Jetting the white man off the hook. 
He has sinned; he has held the black man 
down for centuries. I'm just saying that 
the black man, in hard fact, hasn't done 
enough to help himself. We've used our 
being a minority as a crutch. We're said 
to be ten percent of Ше population; but 
the Jews are only about three percent, 
fewer than 6,000,000, and they came 
here with far less than black people now 
have in resources and they met all kinds 
of prejudices, But they worked together; 
they used their brains and the law and 


попи 
few 
among и: 


instance, there 


money and business acumen, and b 
now you can't find any ethnic group in 
America commanding more respect. 


Commanding it! Do you know that once 
Jews weren't wanted in Mi 

i th the С 
speech today without sug 
g the Jews as a model of what 
black people need to do with themselves 
economically. 

Anyway, this was the wend of the pri- 
vate thinking I had been doing for a 
long time—about how Ше black people 
could truly become a part of American 
society and share in its good things. 
Well, the Pepsi-Cola experience gave me 
the insights and the know-how Г needed 
to put that thinking into action—by get- 
ting others who feel as I do to help 
me form an organization to help black 
people help themselves economically, The 
first thing L needed was a stall to whom 
black people would listen, from whom 
they would take advice and guidance. 
And I knew of one ideal group—black 
Метев It n mmodest, but 


sound 


fact that we tend to be herocs among 


black people, especially black youth. 
Something that’s haunted me for years is 
that look I have seen so many times in 
some of those black teenagers! eyes look- 
me up close: For just an instant, 
nimal hipness and suspicion leaves 
the face and you see a look in the eyes 
that seems to say, “For God's sake, for 
just а minute, will somebody care?" Tt 
gets to me, because Г was that kid once, 
see? So its onc of those “There but for 
the grace of God" things with me—and 
it’s the same for all the other athletes I 
now. So among my own teammates, 
and wherever we played, I filtered the 
idea around. And that’s where I got my 
first major encouragement. They just 
snapped it up! It was funny, man! On 
the field, cats were tn 
each other 


half: 
we're 


h other in 
then the ev ame, 
all huddled together excitedly discussing 
this new project. Guys like John Wooten 
and Walter Beach of the Brown: 
Casey of the Atlanta Falcons, 
Keys of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bobby 
Mitchell of the Redskins, Leroy Kelly 
Bill Russell, Curtis McClinton, Timmy 
Brown, lots of others. We mapped out an 
organization that would sell memberships 
to anybody and everybody for from 52 
to $100, to raise money го finance good 
leas for small blick businesses, because 
so many good black ideas can’t obtain 
financing. And we decided to та 
of black professional people. 
“middleclass Negroes” we hear so much 
talk about—to draw them in with us, to 
lend their talents to young № 
the various ways they could. And we de 
cided to use the image value of black 
athletes in personalcontact programs with 
black youth, especially in the ghettos. 
We all pur in some of our own money 
to get it started. I personally donated 


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more than $50,000. Then we hired a sec- 
retary and rented an office in the gheuo 


ara of Cleveland, where people 
wouldn't feel uncomfortable coming to 
see us. Well we've been almost two 
years now working, researching, recru 

ing, opcning another office in Los Angeles 


and operating limited programs in four 
other cities. With more financing, I 
think we have the potential of being 
one of the most meaningful and effective 
programs anywhere in this country. 
PLAYBOY: How many Negro athletes are 
involved now? 

BROWN: About 100, at least, from stars 
to rookies, from old-timers like me down 
to young kids like Lew Aldndor. He 
works for us like a Trojan in his off time. 
Quite a few white athletes have come in 
with us, 100, as investors in black bu 
ness ideas. And you wouldn't believe 
some of the nonathletes who have volun- 
iccred t0 come and work with us for 


nothing but subsistence! People like 
Spencer Jourdain, a Harvard graduate, 
who quit а great job ar Corning Glass to 


work fuil time for us, just Гог subsidy, 
because he's so committed to our idea. 

PLAYBOY: With so little city, state or Fed- 
eral support. financial or otherwise, how 
much have you been able to achieve 
BROWN: Well, aside from a couple dozen 
К businesses now in operation, E 
с could rightly claim some major 
credit for Ше fact that last year, Cleve- 
land didn't prove to be the nation's num- 
ber-one riot arca, as had been predicted. 
by the socalled experts. We got 1o- 
gether with the city administ 
with the Greater Cleveland Foundation 
and persuaded them to cooperate, 
through the N.N. T E. U., with those who 
were truly in control of the ghetto—the 
kind of people who really control every 
ghetto, people your average sociologists 
couldn't even talh to, because they don't 
know their language, even. The really 
tough cats, you know? The kind who are 
the most dangerous people in any socie- 
ty. Like this young man called Ahmad, 
who has a very sizable following and 
influence in Cleveland’s ghetto. We got 
together with him and we got him to 
agree то serve on a committee to di: 
ghetto needs, to ойег plans, and we 
in Ahmad a very changed attüitude—bi 
cause suddenly this guy was given some 
w he works to do con 
structive things for the area. We were 
also able to get the Greater Cleveland. 
foundation to fund a youth center for us 
One of the first things we did was es- 
blish courses in black history, business 
administration, economics and many 
other such selLhelp subjects. We offer 
entertainment, — t00— ng. theater, 
talent night: the kids love it. And we've 
developed а job-procurement program. 
We involved everybody we could get 


our hands оп, with special emphasis 
ting into constructive chan- 
nels the energy of special groups who 
rting trouble. One 
had been viewed 


young fellow, who 
generally as à. prime troublemaker, we 
were able to turn. into a crackerjack di- 
rector of our youth center; we have six 
Cleveland Browns athletes doing volun- 
teer work under him. We're headed into 
the 1968 summer now. The popularity of 
our youth center has so overllowed it 
that were asking the Greater. Cleveland 
Foundauon to lund five more of them 
for truly think that if we can ex. 
nd, мете capable of conducting spe 

ultancously iı least 
jor cities. We want to open form: 


Boston and Chicago. Given more city. 
administration. aid and cooperation, 1 
know we can prove what we can do. If 
nybody else wants to help us,or just find. 
out more about us, would you be good 
enough to print that our N.N.L. 
headquarters address is 105 
Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 
PLAYBOY: Gladly. On another front, how 
do you feel about the election. of your 
former N.N. L E.U. legal counsel, С 
Stokes, as mayor of Gleveland—and 
about the victories of several other N 
gio candidates for high city office 
throughout. the coun 

BROWN: Cleveland—and the country— 
will benefit. Carl won пос because of— 
or despite—his being a Negro, but be 
cause he's a takeover guy who's going to 
produce a positive, dynamic administra 


n lor black and white alike. As lor 
Other Negro mayors and city ol 


the North, like Hatcher in С 
ply had to happen, because otherwise, 
with the big Northern cities becom 
more and more Negropopulated 
white people rush to the suburbs, w 
wouldn't have representative city gov- 
ernment. But the most heartening si 

me is the fact that. Negroes are compet- 
ing with—and winning against—white 
candidates. on the basis of personal 
qualifications rather than skin color, and 
winning with white support. 

PLAYBOY: You scem to be much more op- 
timistic about the racial situation than 
you were a few years ago—and much 
less cynical about the prospects of white 
cooperation. Why? 

BROWN: The only change is that once 1 
dealt with the negative aspects; now I 
deal with what I see as positives. I'm 
working now g 10 do something 
bout what 
have an organization. 1 have responsibil- 
ities toward the people who believe in 
iked, talked about 
пъ. Now I'm trying 


ils us black people, Now 1 


to help get rid of it. 
PLAYBOY: With the kind of movie sched- 


ule you've been keeping, do you feel 
you're giving all the help you should? 
BROWN: Not nearly as much as I'd like. 
But the other athletes carry on full time 
when I'm away, as their schedules per 
mit, And whatever success Ї carn in the 
movies is going to be invested in building 
nd promoting the N.N.LE.U. so I 
don't feel like I'm neglecting my duty. 
What bothers me more is that I haven't. 
bec ble to be at home with Suc and 
the kids more than а few weeks at a time 
for about 18 months now. 1 don't thi 
the kids will suffer too much because of 
it, thanks to the great job Sue is doing in 
keeping them well adjusted; but I'd like 
to be there more, all the 5 и get- 
ting older, you know, and | want my 
family ties to be as strong as the ties to. 
my people. The best way I can «ее to 
strengthen both of them, in the long r 
is by doing what I'm doing: trying 10 be 
come a good actor. 1 may not make my- 
self any more popular by saying some of 
the things I've said to you today. bur I'd 
lose respect for myself if 1 told anybody 
just what I felt they wanted to hear, Just 
about whenever Ive stood up and spo- 
ken my mind about situations that both- 
ered me as a black man, somebody I 
thought I trusted. somebody 1 thous! 
knew and understood has ad 
and urged and all but begged me— 
the best of intentions—not to express my 
objections publicly, "Jim," they tell me, 
“itll hurt your image, Dell alienate the 
good will of your public"—meaning the 
white public. Well, I don't need that 
ind of concern for my wellare. I'm 
not going to be anybody's diule boy. I'm 
man, a black man, in a culture where 
black manhood has been kicked around 
and threatened. for - So Ша 
why I don't feel I need to tke too much 
advice about how I'm supposed to think 
t. And that’s why J have to tell the 
like I see и. Maybe some people 
will holler; maybe they'll hate me for i 
But ТШ just stick it out, walk tall and 
wait for the truth to be dicated. 
PLAYBOY: How long do you think that 
will take? 


me, 


eneratioi 


BROWN: | can't say how long; | can’t 
worry about that. That doesn't even 
matter to me, All tha 


more and more black people mobilized 
id working toward constructive self- 


help goals. T want more b 


this, all the other gains aren't going to 
make any difference. If in my 
can sce that this idea really has 
hold, then I will have the satisfaction of 
knowing that tue freedom—ás black 
black Americans—will finally 


our grasp. 


2 = М wr. 


WHAT SORT OF MAN READS PLAYBOY? 


Turning a party from a mere occasion into an exciting event is easy for this young man. He's a 
smooth mixer: interesting people and the best in brands. Facts: PLAYBOY delivers the greatest 
concentration of males 18-49 of any major magazine—prime alcoholic-beverage buyers. Which is 
why it's the number-one monthly in beer, wine and liquor advertising revenue. Put a little spirit into 
your media mix. Add the dash of PLAYBOY. Men can't resist it. (Sources: Р./.В. and 1967 Simmons.) 


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67 


F, RAVAGED FLORENTINE, gricving, kicked 
apart a trial canvas, copy of one he had 
been working on for years, his foot 
through the poor mother's mouth, de- 
stroyed the son's insipid puss, age about 
ten. It deserves death for not coming to 
life. He stomped on them both, but not, 
of course, on the photograph still tacked 
to the easel ledge, sent years ago by sister 
Bessie, together with her last meager check. 
"I found this old photo of you and Mom- 
ma when you were a little boy. Thought 
you might like to have it, she's been dead 
thee many years.” Inch by enraged inch 
he rent the canvas, though cheap linen 
linen he could ill afford, and would gladly 
have cremated the remains if there were a 
place 10. He swooped up Ше mess with 
both hands, grabbed some smeared draw- 
ings, ran down four rickety flights and 
dumped all in the bowels of a huge bur 
lap rubbish bag in front of the scabby 
mustard-walled house on the Via S. Agos- 
tino. Fabio, the embittered dropsical land- 
lord, asleep on his feet, awoke and begged 
for a few lire back rent, but Е ignored 
him. Across the broad piazza, Santo Spirito, 
nobly proportioned, stared him in the 
bushy-mustached face, but he would not 
look back. His impulse was to take to thc 
nearest bridge and jump off into the Arno, 
flowing again in green full flood after a 
dry sumner; instead, he slowly ascended 
the stairs, pelted by the landlord's fruity 
curses. Upstairs in his desolate studio, he 
sit on his bed and wept. Then he lay with 
his head at the foot of the bed and wept. 

He blew his nose at the open window 
and gazed for a reflective hour at the Tus 
can hills in September haze. Otherwise, 
sunlight on the terraced silver-trunked 
olive trees, and San Miniato, sparkling, 
framed in the distance by black cypress: 
Make an interesting impressionist oil, 
green and gold mosaics and those* black 
trees of death, but that’s been done. Not 
to mention Van Gogh's tormented су 
presses. Thats my trouble, everything's 
heen done or is otherwise out of style 
cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism. 
If I could only guess what's next. Below, 
a stunted umbrella pine with a hcadlul 
of black and white chirping swallows grew 


A PIMP'S 
REVENGE 


fiction By BERNARD MALAMUD 


Jor years the painter sought his true 
madonna in his model—but the 
truth was destined to destroy him 


PLAYBOY 


70 


in the landlord's narrow yard, over a 
dilapidated henhouse that smelled to 
heaven, except that up here the smell 
was sweetened by Ше cinnabar odor of 
red roof tiles. A small dirty white rooster 
cowed shrilly, the shrimpy brown hens 
ducking as they ran in dusty circles 
around three lemon trees in tubs. F's 
studio was a small room with a curtained 
kitchen alcove—several shelves, а stove 
and sink—the old-fashioned walls painted 
with faded rustic dancers, nymphs and 
shepherds, and a lage scalloped cornu- 
copia. full of cracked and faded fruit. 

He looked until the last of morning 
was gone, then briskly combed his thick 
mustache, sat at the table and ate a hard 
anise biscuit as his eyes roamed over some 
quotations he had stenciled on the wall. 

Constabl ing is for me another 
word for feelin 

Whistler: “A masterpiece is finished 
from the beginning. 

Pollock: “What is it that escapes me? 
The human? That humanity is greater 
than ан? 

Nietzsche: “Art is not an imitation of 
nature buc Из metaphysical supplement, 
raised up beside it in order to overcome 
it. 

Picasso: “People seize оп pa 
order to cover up their nakedness. 

Ah, if I had his genius. 

Still, he felt better, picked up a 14- 
inch Madonna he had carved and sanded 
Then he painted green cyes, 
black hair, pink lips and a зку ше doak, 
and waited around, smoking, until the 
statuette had dried. He wrapped it in a 
sheet of newspaper, dropped the pad 
into a string bag and went 


ng in 


again dow 


pants and black beret. Sometimes he wore 
sunglasses. 

At the corner he stepped into midstreet, 
repelled by the old crone’s door, the 


fortuneteller, the eighth of seven sisters, 
to hear her talk, six thick gray I 
sprouting from the wart on her chin; in 
order not to sneak in and ask, for 100 
Tell me, signora, will I ever make 
I finally finish my five years’ 
nting of Mother and Son, my sure 
terpiece—I know it in my bones—if 
І ever get it done?" 

Her shrill sibylic reply made sense. “A 
good cook doesn't throw out yesterday's 
soup.” 

“But will it be as good as I want, I 
mean? Very good, signom, maybe a 
masterwork?” 

‘Masters make masterworks.” 

"And what about my luck, when will 
it change from the usual?” 

"When you do. Art is long; inspira- 
tion, short. Luck is finc, but don't stop. 
br 


Will I avoid an unhappy fate?” 

“Tt all depends." 

‘That or something like it for 100 lire. 
No bargain 

Е sighed, Still, it somchow 


couraged. 


A window shutter was drawn up with 
а datter and a paper cone of garbage 
ame flying out at him. He ducked as the 
oily bag split on the cobblestones behind 
him. 

BEWARE OF FALLING MASONRY. 

He turned the corner, barely avoiding 
three roaring Vespas. 

Vila pericolosa. tt had been а suffo- 
cating summer slowly deflated to cool 


autumn. He hurried, not to worry his 
hunger, past the fruit and vegetable stalls 


in the piazza, zigzagging through the 
Oltrarno streets as he approached Ponte 
Vecchio. Ah, the painter’s eye! He en- 
joyed the narrow crowded noisy streets, 
the washing hung from windows. Tour- 
were all but gone, but the workshops 
were preparing for next year’s migration, 
mechanics assembling picture frames, 


cutting leather, plastering Ше mosaics; 
women plait 
through a 


; straw, He sneezed passing 
nnery reck followed by hot 
ble. Above the din of traffic 
an old forge rumbling. Е hastened by а 
minuscule gallery where one of | 


D 


по protest, art lives on accidents. His 
signature, F upside down, looked like a 
music notation. 

At а small square, thick with stone 
benches where before the War there had 
been houses, the old and lame of the 
quarter sat amid beggars and berouged 
elderly whores, one nearby combing her 
reddish gray locks. Another fed pigeons 
h a crust of bread they approached 
ad pecked at. One, not so old, in a 
homely floppy velvet hat, he gazed at 
twice; in fact, no more than a pirl with a 
slender youthful body. He could stand a 
little sexual comfort, but it cost too 
much, Holding ie um tightly to 
his chest, the painter hastened into the 
woodworker’s M 

Alberto Panenero, the proprietor, in a 
brown smock smeared with wood dust 
and shavings, scattered three apprentices 
with a hiss and came forward, bowing. 

‘Ah, maestro, another of your charm- 
ing Madonnas, let's hope?” 

Е unwrapped Ше wooden statuette of 
the modest Madonna. 

The proprietor held it up as he ex- 
amined it, He called together the appren- 
tices. “Look at this workmanship, you 
ignoramuses,” then dismissed them with 
a hiss. 

“Beautifu F said. 

“ОГ course. With this subject, who can 
miss?” 

“And the price?” 

Eh. What can one do? As usu: 
"s face fell an inch. “Is it fair to pay 
only fixe thousand lire for a statuette 
that takes two weeks’ work and sells on 
the Via Tornabuoni for fifteen thousand, 
even twenty if someone tikes it to St. 
Peter’s and gets it blessed by the Pope?” 

Panenero shrugged. "Ah, maestro, the 

world has changed since the time of true 


qaftsmen. You and 1. we're fighting a 
te. As for the Madonnas. I 
now get most of the job turned out 
machine, My apprentices cut in the face 
d а few folds to the robe, daub on 
bit of paint, and I swear to you it costs 
me one third of what I pay you and gocs 
for the same price to the shops. Of 
course, they don't approach the quality 
of your product—l'm an honest man 
but do you think the tourists care? 
What's more, the shopkeepers are stin- 
да than ever; and believe me, they're 
stingy in Florence. И I ask for more 
they offer less. If they pay me seventy- 
five hundred for yours, I'm in luck. With 
that price, how can I take care of rent 
and my other expenses? I pay the wages 
of two masters and а journeyman on шу 
other products, the antique furniture, and. 
so forth. 1 also employ three apprentices 
who have to eat or they're too weak to 
fut, My own family, including a dub- 
foot son and three useless daughters, 
comes to six people. Eh. I don't have to 
tell you it’s no picnic carning a living 
nowadays. Still, if you'll put a bambino 
in the poor Madonna's arms, ГИ up you 
five hundred.” 
“II take the five thou 
The proprietor counted 
50. and 100-lira notes. 
he trouble with 
уоште а perfectionist. 
there nowadays? 
“I guess that’s so," F sighed, “Don't 
think I haven't thought of selling the 
Madonnas to the tourists myself, but if I 
have to do that as well as make them, 
where's my painting time coming from, 
Fd like 10 know 
“L agree with 
said. "still, for a 


and 
out in wom 


maestro, is 
many are 


you, 
How 


you totally,” Panenero 
bachelor, you're not 
doing too badly. Tm always surprised you 

look so skinny. It must be hereditary.” 
"Most of my earnings go for supplies. 
Everything's shot up so, oils, pigments, 
ine, everything, A tube of cad- 
ium costs me close to thirteen hundred 
lire, so I try to keep bright yellow, not to 
mention vermilion, out of my pictures. 
Last week I had to pass up a sable brush 
that cost three thousand. А roll of cotton 
canvas costs over ten thousand. If I have 
to pay such prices, what's left for meat 
“Too much meat is bad Гог the diges- 
tion. My wife's brother cats meat twice a 
liver trouble. A dish of good 
ese will fatten you up 
without interfering with your liver. Any- 

way, how’s the painting coming? 

“Don't ask me 50 I won't have to lie.” 
In the market dose by, F pinched the 
tender parts of two Bose pears and a 
nish melon. He looked into a basket 
examined some pumpkins on 
‚ inspected a bleeding dead rabbit 
and told himself he must do a couple of 
still lifes. He settled for a long loaf of 
bread and two efti of tripe. He aho 
bought a brown cgg for breakfast, six 
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PHOTC BY SEYMOUR МЕО 


potent enough to vaporize 
any material on earth, pre- 
cise enough to halve a 
chromosome, these awe- 
some rays provide their 
wielder with a miraculous 
instrument for good or evil 


article By MAX GUNTHER 


LASERS 
THE LIGHT 
FANTASTIC 


THE SIGN on the gray me 
door warns in red: DANGER 
R LIGHT. а small- 
er sign quietly continues the 
warning: DANGER. INVISIHLE 
DEAMS. HIGH ENERGY. 

There are laboratories 
such as this all over the 
country—indeed, all over 
the world. This one belongs 
to the Perkin-Elmer Corpo- 
ration at Norwalk, Connecti- 
cut. It is a long, darkened 
room cluttered with equip- 
ment. Electrical cables 
tangled across the narrow 
floor space like spaghetti on 
a plate. The room is domi- 
nated by a single lab bench 
running down its middle, 
and on the bench is a glass 
pipe 30 feet long. 

“This is a molecular la- 
ser,” says the scientist who 
s been bending over the 
pipe, tinkering with some 
fixture of unguessable pur 
pose. "It's quite new. It ruris 
on a mix of carbon dioxide 
and other common разе 
traightens up. Dr. 
len is his name; he 
is a British physicist who 
came to this country several 
years ago because, in his 
field, this is where the action 
is “II show you how it 
works,” he says. He turns to 
the 30-foot laser, then thinks 
of something and turns back. 
“By the way," he says, “keep 
your goggles on. And keep 
your hands by your sides.” 

He puts his own goggles 
on, flips some switches and 
turns some dials A loud 
hum fills the dark room and 
a wave of heat comes from 
—where? You look at the 
gadgeuy and frown, puz 
пей. The glass tube is glow- 
ing with a dim, cool, purplish 


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PLAYBOY 


74 


ht. Nothing else visible is happening. 
‘ou've heard a lot of talk about laser 
death rays,” says Dr. Rigden, still tinker- 
ing. "105 been mostly science fiction so 


far. But if there ever is such a weapon, 


15 to one end of the long glass 
“oming out of there right now is 
ınuous thin beam of intense infra 
t see it, but"—he looks 
to make sure your hands are down by 
your sides—"there's enough of it to chop 
your arm off.” 

He rummages in a greasespotied pa- 
per bag, pulls out a thick meat bone and 
grips it with a pair of tongs. He holds the 
bone out, then lowers it into the invisible 
laser beam. There is a sudden. ding 
flash of light and a loud sput. Dr. Rigden 
withdraws the bone and holds its smol- 
dering stump ир for inspection. The 
bone has been chopped in half. 

Dr. Rigden gazes at the bone stump 
thoughtfully. "As molecular lasers go,” 
he says, "this one isn't unusually power- 
ful. It delivers about two hundred and 
fifty watts in its beam. Raytheon and 
others have generated continuous beams 
of over 3000 watts. And last week 1 
heard Well" He stops, grinning. 
"Security regulations, you know. Come 
on, ГИ show you something el 

A laser lab is strangely exciting, Litle 
knots of men stand about in the corri- 
dors, talking. Many talk with foreign ac 
cents—for, like Dr. Rigden, they have 
been drawn from all over the world by 
the promise of action, There is a pro- 
found and mysterious feeling in the air, 
а Christmasmorning feeling of discov- 
eries hidden just around the corner and 
large events about to happen. There are 
по bored or weary or disappointed faces 
here. Everyone in the business is а per- 
petually surprised newcomer. The lab 
equipment is equally new. The complex 
structures of metal and glass and rubber- 
sheathed cable stand untidily on tables 
and floors. Everything has an ephemeral 
look, as though it were put together in 
an eager hurry yesterday and will be re- 
built to try out some new idea tomorrow. 

"Here's something else new,” says Dr. 
Rigden. He ducks into another dark, 
Cluttered laboratory room and. puts prac 
ticed hands on a metallic tube about two 
feet long. He is obviously enjoying him- 
self. “This is an argongas laser. Watch. 

He switches on the device. A pencil- 
thin beam of intense blue light shoots 
ош and makes a tiny brilliant spot on a 
target at the other end of a long metal 
table. 

“Pretty, isn't it?" says the scientist 
reflectively. He gazes at the target 
for a long time without moving. 
never get tired of looking at laser light.” 

‘The blue light is more than preity. It 
is a blue of shining heartbreaking purity 
—bluer, unimaginably purer than any 


shone until the 1960s. 
ance hurts the 
y. The blue 


earthly light tha 
Its perfect jewellike bri 
суе, yet you can't look ам 
target spot has a реси: 
it seems to consist of a million tiny lum 
nous specks that churn slowly about on 
another. The effect arises from the spé- 
cial qualiues of laser light. It is hypnotic. 
You lean closer. . . . 

Back off a liule,” says Dr. Rigden. 
“This beam can give you a nasty burn. 
Here—I'll show you something else.” 

He tinkers with a gray box mounted 
next to the laser. The box clicks. Long 
numbers appear in windows on its face. 
“You're looking at a new kind ol yard 
stick," Dr. Rigden explains. "Laser light 
is so pure that we know € 
wave length is. By knowing the wave 
length and by doing а little 
ме can measure distances in billi 
an inch. This gadget is now measuring 
the distance from the laser head to the 
target. Here: Put your hand next to the 
laser.” 

You rest your hand on the cold metal 
plate on which the laser is mounted. The 
counting device instantly starts to click. 

“Know what just happened?” asks Dr. 
Rigden. “The warmth of your hand ex- 
panded the metal The distance to the 
target increased. Not much. Less than a 
irbreadth. But enough." 

You begin to understand wi all the 
excitement is about You begin to see 
why industrial companies and govern- 
ments are pouring millions of dollars a 
year into laser research. The U.S. mili- 
tary services and other Government 
agencies have been interested in lasers 
from the beginning. So have the Rus- 
sians. So с the British, the French. 
and the Italians. They're fascinated by 
the capacity of laser light to measure dis- 
tances to targets. At the moment, they're 
particularly fascinated Бу the new 
carbondlioxide laser. the Buck Rogers 
deyice that generates a steady b 
enormous cnergy—not just а bı 
but a continuous, mileslong 
needle. And they're fascinated by what 
they see in the future. 
very once in a while, from behind 
some imperfectly closed security curt 
in Rome or London or Washington, a 
few tantalizing words leak out. Ron 
Barker, energetic young associate pub- 
lisher of Laser Focus magazine, spent 
much of 1966 touring laser Jabs in Eu- 
торс and the United States—and came 
back, he says, “with my hair standing on 
end. I saw things . . . I heard things. 
... My God, if 1 could only print half 
of He can't, of course. The hints you 
hear nervously dropped around laser in- 
stallations аге not meant for publicati 
and, in any case, the hinter always clams 
up when you pres him for corroborating 
information. What he has said. in its 
naked form, without the necess: 
ing of tangible evidence, has a 
phal sound and can hardly be passed 


on without embarrassment. Billion-watt 
beams. Beams that can е buildings in 
half or cleave steel at a distance or 
porize aircraft or mow down men 
scythe mows grass. Truc or false? Reali- 
ty or plan or merely dream? The facts 
cannot be had. 

The laser business is like that. You 
can't easily tell what's apocryphal and 
what isn’t, for the entire science seems 
apocryphal. Pt shouldn't exist; it is 
probable and outrageous. Never belore 
in history has a scientific invention gone 
from mental concept to working hard- 
ware to world-wide practical applica 
in so short a time. The raw idea of a la: 
was conceived only 11 years ago. The first 
working model was built only eight years 
ago. Today lasers are used im surgery. 
welding, drilling, surveying, weaponry. 
They are common items of technological 
hardware, available by mail order like 
Bunsen burners or microscopes. They are 
where they shouldn't really have arrived 
until the 21st Century. "It's like being 
shot into the future,” says Alan Haley, 
терїопа1 sales manager at Perkin-Elmer. 
“I'm selling a product that didn't exist 
when I got out of college—wasn’t con- 
ceived, wasn't even dreamed of. I'm sell- 
ing it like ordinary hardware. | «апу 
samples of it around. What would a 
career counselor have said ten or twenty 
years ago if I'd told him 1 wanted to sell 
ray guns for a living? 

He would ghed, of course. 
The entire short, brilliant history of the 
laser has been one of people laughing at 
one another. First A laughs scornfully 
at B, and a few weeks later B is laughing 
triumphantly at А as A struggles to pry 
his foot from his mouth. They laughed in 
1959 at the man who said he could build 
a laser. He did it in 1960. They laughed 
in 1968 when some nut at the Bell Tele. 
phone Laboratories said it wa possible 
to make a laser spit blue light instead of 
red. Maybe in the 1970s, they chuckled. 
It happened in 1964, and now lasers pro 
duce every color of the rainbow, plus a 
broad range of infrared and ultraviolet. 
In 1961, they had developed pulsed 
sers that would spit brief bursts of high 
energy light, but the continuousbeam 
lasers were barely achieving one watt of 
output and everybody laughed at the ide 
of more. In 1968, 3000-watt steady beams 
have been announced and more powerful 


beams have carefully not been announced. 
In 1965, they were grinning over a state- 
ment that had become а cliché: “The 


laser is a solution in search of a prob- 


won't buy a 
promises a profit. Now they laugh (but 
an oddly hesi : 
death гау, building slicers, 
(continued on page 181) 


са: 


humor 


By JAMES PRIDEAUX 


CURIOUS 


М? 


minzyarns and 
microfables add 
comtc-zalentine 
postscripts to the 
saccharine picture 
postcards of the 
romantic past 


Та ИІ 


Were they really too young to know true love? Manuel was just 
going on seven and Jeanette was just past five and a half 


Manuel had first ed the fruits of love one Easter afternoon with 


Nursey at Luna Park, and that had been eons ago. Jeanette had 
dear Unde Malcolm, her mother's younger brother, who had put 
yea 
The Elwes and the Shoemaker in the church basement. When first 
Manuel and Jeanette met, then, at the Fairies Concert, an edu- 
cational program under the auspices of the P.T.A., they were 
ready for each other. Mature beyond their years, they discussed the 


s on her in the course of 20 minutes during an intermission of 


possibilities of free love or marriage, deciding sensibly upon mar- 
riage. "It will kill our parents, 


id Jeanette amiably, but they con 
cluded it was better that they marry and kill their parents than 
sin. "But what if it doesn't kill our parents?” asked Manucl, who 
could foresee all manner of trouble ahead under those circum- 
stances, “Oh, it will,” declared Jcancue. "I do hope so," replied 
Manuel, embracing her passionately and thinking how wonderful 
it was to be young and in love. 


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aat по Ме par- 
When "puberty came along, it 
caused him an anxious moment or two, 
but Fred had a great deal of homework 
to do and, gradually, puberty was for- 
gotten in a barrage of high grades and 
school honors. He dated once or twice, 


ents. 


but he found the girls a trille forward 


(Maude had reached for his hand in the 
movies, but he had changed his seat i 
the nick of time) and thereafter he de- 
voted himsclf entirely to his studies. And 
then Fred's father was suddenly killed 
by an arrow during the Centennial Cele- 
bration, and Fred's mother was forced to 
become a seamstress. She invested the 
last of the опеу in a dummy, 
thinking she was doing what was best 
for herself and Fred. Later, she wor 
dered. Whereas Fred had been adverse 
to her working, he was ecstatic over the 
dummy. “We'll call her Betsy,” he said, 
nd she can sleep in my room.” “Are 
you nuts?” laughed his mother, affection 
tely and with good humor, knowing 
ted was simply making another of his 

ап, boyish jokes. Thinking it a bit of a 
rk, she agrecd that Fred could keep 
Betsy in his room, and often laughed 
over it with the neighbors. But one 
night, she discovered him, his books put 
le, with his arms around. Betsy's waist 
па his head on her chest She was 
greatly disturbed that he must be neg. 
lecting his studies. 


„ее 


isurance 


d 


When Humbert was a boy, his father gave him a piece of advice he never forgot. 
Always take care of your hair," the old man said, succumbing shortly thereafter to 
a chill on his liver, Humbert grew into a tall, elegant young man with beautifully 
picured fingernails and the most astonishing hi in West Shokan. His 
bureau overflowed with combs and brushes, pomades and ointments, shears and 
mirrors. He could dress in 20 minutes, but it took him an hour to get his hair into 
the kind of shape he considered presentable for the street, “Heavenly Haired Hum 
bert,” they called him in West Shokan, even in the suburbs, and people were known 
to tavel all the way from Poughkeepsie just to view him on his way to a party 
Humbert felt that by following his father’s advice, he had made of his life a crown 
E achievement, Only once was his composure ruffled, when, in a hair-raising 
moment, a young lady with whom he was dallying ran "s fingers over his head, 
musing his соййис. Humbert scrcamed like a stuck pig. Since that time, he has 
taken extreme care in his choice of love partners, prefer = arthritis. Agnes ap: 
pealed to him because she declared upon first glance that his was the most beautiful 
head of hair she had ever clapped eyes on and she could never consider herself 
worthy to touch it. Such perfect sentiment must be rewarded, and Humbert lowered 
his lips to hers, while prudently holding her hands 


When Mary Ann put on her Sarah Jane 
shoes and went downtown to try for a 
job, her mother warned her that she 
might run into a certain type of man in 
the business world. "Don't get into dry 
goods," she advised. Mary Ann wasn't 
quite sure what dry goods were, but she 
swore to herself on the subway that, 
whatever they were, she wouldn't get 
nto them. Mr. Rupert Sassoon hired her 
at a glance and Mary Ann was ecstatic 
10 think she had found such a good 
rypewriting job—especially considering 
that she couldn't type—and decent em 
ployer. By four o'dock, however, Mr 
Sassoon, in correcting her typewriting, sat 
in her high-backed chair and, then, sud- 
denly and without warning, pulled Mary 
Ann down onto his lap. “My God!" cried 
Mary Ann, having to smile a little, “ 
must be in dry goods!" "We'll soon take 
care of that,” said Mr. Sassoon, a ici k 
Mary Ann could not comprehend then or 
ater, although she received a raise that 
very day and looked toward an exciting 
career in the business world. 


Oh. Саца mins. with oyes of bhia. 


HHHH HHE 


Prudella had been in New York less than 
a weck when Mr. Ziegfeld saw her dis 
mounting from the Sixth Avenue cl and 
mounted her in a tableau at the Follies. 
In no time at all, she became the toast of 
New York, renowned for her beauty 
and her peacock-feather headdress. 
young blades showered her with flowers 
and jewcls. The richest of these, albeit 
the least young and рау, was Farns- 
worth. Farnsworth adored her passion- 
ately, although she suspected he drank 
and, 100, he had a strangely sopo- 
rific quality. nsworth," she would 
say regally as he embraced her, "do you 
find me exciting?" "Hmmmmmmm," he 
would reply, breathing heavily and slip- 
ping a little farther toward the floor. 
“No, but do you really find me exciting?” 
she insisted, languidly eying the photo- 
graph of herself as Catherine the Great 
in the Queens of АП Nations spectacle. 
"Hinmmmmmm," hc would again re- 
spond, this time giving а spasmod When Rodolfo met Ccleste, he thought 
twitch before settling deeper into his | she had a curiously ethereal air, but she 
reverie of love. “I do love hearing you | also was a bundle of fun and he let it 
sy it,” murmured Prudella drcamily, | pass. They were married in an extremely 
waiting for the sunrise. long ceremony at St. Peter's, with the 
bride genuflecting half a dozen times 
کے‎ going down the aisle, and still Rodolfo 
only thought that it was rather touching 
and that the kids would be raised right. 
It was on the second day of their honey- 
moon that he realized religion was more 
than a Sunday thing with her. “I've rent- 
cd a rowboat,” she announced, “by the 
month. Here, hold the roses." Although 
Celeste was decent enough to row the 
entire trip, Rodolfo was, nonetheless, put 
out that they traveled clean across the 
bay, а journcy of some eight miles; and, 
too, he felt silly holding the roses. "For 
God's sake,” he grumbled. 2 
replied Celeste. She pulled up in front of 
a shrine on an island. “Jesus!” exclaimed 
Rodolfo. "Mary," corrected. Celeste. Аз 
she climbed up the shrine, it was all 
Rodolfo could do not to give her one 
hell of а goose. 


and have to witness what went on in the flat of Fatale, the 


То be a ladies maid was exasperating enough, but to be a sleep. 
sulky siren of the silver screen, after the moon came up, was almost more than Marianella could endure. Was she, herself, not 
ten times the sexpot Fatale was, could the world but know? And yet every evening, she was forced by circumstances to pussyfoot 
about Fatale’s digs, swathed to the tecih in old lace and crinoline, while Fatale’s bosom grew warm and moist from the hot 
breath and passionate spittle of her admirers of the opposite sex. Marianella's cold, dry bosom heaved with resent 
swore that one night she would shut Fatale's water off once and for all. Aud so she did. It was the night of the St. Grispin’s 
Day Dance and Fatale had just slithered home with Sandor and was getting her bosom moistened when Marianella, coughing 
wildly, excused herself and disappeared into the bathroom. There she wrenched the taps with a hammer secreted in her cleav 
age, repeating the process on the kitchen taps a few minutes Inter. When, at last, Sandor departed, his mouth parched from a 
full evening of salivation, Fatale called for Marianella to draw her a l am,” said Marianella, "there's something 
gone wrong with the taps and there ain't no water and the super has s missus and gone to the seashore for a frisk. 
“Well,” said. Fatale, imperturbed, "I'll just have to go to bed with my spittle on.” "Oh, you filthy thing!" cried. Marianella, 
pulling off her old lace and crinoline and resigning on the spot, as her mother would certainly have wished her to. 


—POMePEReIEMSPDMeIEReIEMePERe:84— 


78 


Helga and Ludwig met over Wiener Schnitzel a 


d it was love at first sighi 


herself, absent mindedly cutting 
ing portion of sauerkraut. “В 


a baked potato. 
asked Helga, han 


in the pit of his stomach really love? Helga shilted 
her heartstrings and, indeed, the entire area of her chest. “Sh 
loosening his belt wi 
He w: 
fat, although she must break 


г. 


faintly 


that hand again. Really, it was too annoying. They had been engaged 
rs now and LaVerne had the strong suspicion that her secret could not 
ain hers alone much Jonger. It was rather interesting, though, that Monroc, a 
successful chicken sexer and formerly married to a flamenco dancer, couldn't tell 
the difference between sponge rubber and the real thing. Or could it be—a terrible 
apprehension swept over LaVerne—that he didn't care? Could it be that Monroe 
actually found some sordid satisfaction in fondling sponge rubber? That kind of 
thing made a mockery of romance, not to mention marriage, and LaVerne shud- 
dered at the thought. Misinterpreting the movement as passion, Monroe strength- 
ened his grip, heaving a sigh of pure pleasure. “Do you like the touch of my 
fingers?" he whispered into her mouth. LaVerne gulped and nodded, consumed 
with guilt that all these years she hadn't felt а thing. 


So engrossed were they in cach other that they 
ordered seconds on the Wiener Schnitzel and hardly realized what they were eating. "Has it happened at last 


Helga asked 


Jan this be the real thing?” thought Ludwig, helping himself 10 a heap- 
ng him the bread plate with her left hand as she scooped up her peas 
with her right. “I don't mind if 1 do,” replied Ludwig inaudibly, his mouth sulled with strudel. Was that cu 
ghi that she recognized 
Il we finish off with a lite Sacher torte?" murmured Ludwi 
h а romantic flick of his fingers. Helga, preoccupied with a cramp, could only nod in happy agreement. 
perfect, she declared to herself. Always saying the right thing. She would love him even when they were both old and 


ous sensation 
s emotion tugging at 


lda she was known as, and 
because she owned the trimmest 
vesel off the North Shore. She sailed as 
hi; wide and handsome on land as on 
sea. Henry was flattered, being only a 
week out of Boston, when she invited 
him for a cruise up the Sound. He had 
heard of these New York girls and their 
ways, but he presumed his experiences 
оп Beacon Street fitted him for anything 
they might have to offer. Matilda, how- 
ever, was more than he bargained for. 
‘They had no sooner set sail than she 
turned to him full face and said. point- 
blank, "Why don't you take the top of 
your bathing suit off" Henry blushed 
«rimson. “На, ha," he said, with his M 
husetts finesse, smoothly treating it 
а joke. “Come on," insisted Matilda, “get 
some sun on your navel.” “Really!” he 
exdaimed, alarmed as she tugged at the 
ribbed cotton, He crossed his arms over 
his chest and let out а well-bred scream. 
с go!” he cried. "Let's just get a 
gander at the pectorals," Matilda persist- 
ed. “I think you're awful!” declared 
Henry, wrenching himself free and div- 
ing into the Sound. As he swam toward 
Matatuck, Henry's brain fairly danced 
with terrible thoughts. What if the scan. 
dal were to get out? Still, he felt that if 
only he could get safely back to Beacon 
Hill, it could be hushed up, as these 
dreadful things always were in Boston. 


POPE oP ера? ае ра 


Son 


CAMDEN 
ЖЫ i> онен 


if Ex y^ елд TEMES 
t б И а Талаш ШЕ, 
ww rs 


Glenda was a mere slip of a girl, but already she Бай developed a nasty habit. She 
did like to smoke in bed. Night after night, she would curl up with a box of choco- 

es, an Ethel M. Dell novel, a jigger of brandy and a couple of packs of cigarettes. 
ice girls don't smoke in bed,” her mother admonished her. “One of these days, 
you'll live to regret it.” Glenda revered her mother, but she couldn't bring herself to 
give up the fags. "I empty my own ashirays,” was all she could think to say, lighting 
up. One night, in an unusual attempt to edify herself, Glenda eschewed Ethel M. 
Dell and perused instead Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In no 
time she was asleep, an ash glowing on the sheets. She awakened in flames, the 
dying screams of her mother issuing from the kitchen, where she had been trapped 
basting a turkey. Glenda went to the window, where, fortunately, Clancy was 
waiting for her, teetering on the ladder, his eyes blazing with love. It had really 
worked out quite well, Glenda thought, considering all the harping her mother had 
done on her smoking in bed. 


tert вала balono s - 


at from 
lk of 
ge it, 
теш, 


Moncrief wasn't much to look 
the front, but his behind was the 
the town. Whenever he could m 
he preferred to be viewed from tli 


| even affecting a gait that permitted. him 


er a room backward. Women were 
ed to find this a shade annoying 
nd it tended to make romance di 
if not impossible. Few were the young 
ladies, for cxample, who were prepared 
to waltz around a ballroom clinging to 
his back; and when he seated himself, 
he did so with his face to the sofa, 
presenting them buttocks rather 
than a lap. Twinkie, however, was a girl 
of determination. She was firm in her 
conviction that if he was unalloyed joy 
, he must be pure bliss advanc- 
"Montiel," she said coyly, pulling 
shoulder, "look at me." Accommo- 
is neck 
mbrace me," she murmured 
He wrenched ВВ shoulders in a remarka 
Ме contortion and took her in his arms, 


| although the lower portion of his body 


remained squarely against the wall 
“Why are you so cold to me?" she cried 
suddenly, exasperated beyond measure. 
“I give what I can,” he replied, рі 

her mi 
there was something tragic about him, 
something that didn't meet the сус. 


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AT EASE EN TOWN aii: ny nonent1. GREEN 


UNTIL ris WINTER, Coty award winner Bill Blass was predom 
fashions. Now his first collection of sophisticated yet casua 
bold approach to patiern and color combinations 


antly—and internationally—known for his high-style female 
attire for men is available and it's bound to make headlines. Blass 
, as well as his original treatment of coat shapes, gives the wearer а with-it look 
that's neither faddish nor extreme. And Blass, perhaps more so than others, designs clothes for a specific occasion; his trim tailored 
raincoat pictured here, when coupled with rain slacks, becomes a coordinated rain suit th 
turtleneck pullover and a rain hat. Men's са 
ables that are independent yet readily interch 
cloth 


t can be complemented with a Blass high. 
r wardrobes build up gradually. Blass keeps this in mind by turning out м 


angeable, His tissue wool high turtleneck, for example, looks great with evening 
„ tweeds, corduroys or the rain suit. Blass emphatically designs for the man who 


kes his casual Jothes scriously. His 
styles, fresh from the drawing board, typify the upbeat upheaval that has brought f. 


hion elegance and élan to today's urban scene. 


designer bill blass comes up with easygoing outdoor garb for the indoor man 


Three well-dressed guys with partners and pooches in tow present а fashionable view from the bridge in Bill Blass casual coordinates. 
The chop at left takes a stylish step forward in his double-breasted Найап whipcord corduroy shaped town-coat suit that consists of a 
woollined long-length town coat with deep inverted center vent, $150, and coordinated slacks with top pockets and belt loops, $45, 
worn over а polyester and cotton plaid shirt, $18.50, and a paisley Swisswool challis tie, $8.50. His nearer buddy is the fashion center 
of attention wearing a polyester and cotton rain suit that includes a raincoat with overlapping front-button closures ond roomy bellows 
pockets, $95, and matching polyester and cotton cuffless slacks with top pockets, $30, combined with а tissue-wool high turtleneck, 
$37.50, and jauntily topped off with an italian whipcord corduroy rain hat, $20. The gentleman at right is informally cut front in a 
Scottish wool tweed sports coat with Windsor-pane overcheck, $115, and matching slacks with top pockets, $45, a cotton broadcloth 
shirt with high spread collar, $18.50, and a paisley Swiss-wool challis wide tie, $8.50. All outfits are designed by Bill Blass for PBM. 


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PLAYBOY 


82 


“If you don't mind, young lady, we'll discuss the question of premarital 
sex in a civilized manner—in the drawing room over brandy." 


LOWER THE VOTING AGE 


1 . SENATOR JACOB К. JAVITS 
the influential liberal republican voices a powerful plea for the unfranchised 12,000,000 
young adults and exhorts them to demand a voice in their and their nation’s destiny 


ited States from 21 to 18—and thus to involve 12,000,000. 
young Americans in the most basic process of democracy—appears closer to victory now than at any time since 
it began For the first time, both the majority and the minority leaders of the U. S. Senate are 
among 40 members of that body cosponsoring a resolution that calls for a constitutional amendment to lower 
the voting age to 18. On the other side of Capitol Hill, some 45 similar resoluuons were introduced during the 
past session in the House of Representatives. These proposals have the support of President Johnson, former 
President Eisenhower, the hierarchies of both major political parties and an array of nationally prominent 
groups ranging from the National Student Association to the AMVETS. They also are endorsed by most of the 
country's adult population. Last April, Mr. Gallup seemed almost surprised when he reported that 61 percent 
о the adults polled by his organization thought that 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds should be permitted to vote, the 
highest percentage in favor since Gallup first presented the proposition in 1939, Yet with all this high-level a 


THE CAMPAIGN TO L 


WER the voting age in the U 


in earnest in 1949 


nd 


grass-roots support, there is almost no chance that a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age wil 
become a reality any time in the n uture. Why? 

"The answer is that the. prospect of 12,000,000 new, allegedly unpredictable voters’ being added го the rolls 
overnight scares the political pants off many of the people whose business it is to win local and state elections for 
themselves or for members of their party. Obviously, those in Congress who support lowering, like myself, feel 
this is a false (саг. But we cannot pass such an amendment by the required two-thirds vote with our current 
strength in the Congress and such an amendment cannot become law unless ratified by the legislatures of three 
fourths of the states. Unfortunately, success will continue to elude us until the 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds them- 
selves organize to win over key political elements at the Congressional-district and state levels, 

‘There has never been an easy way to expand the electorate, as political leaders have been finding out ever 
since they attempted to abolish property qualifications for voters in 1789. But the genius of the American po- 
al system has been its adaptability. Through the years, our political parties and leaders have always been 
capable in the end of embracing new ideas and new people. Whether it was the immigrant just off the boat or 
the native disenfranchised Negro, each group was finally included and its:cnergies, ideas and hopes invariably 
became a valuable part of our social system. Political leaders and parties who have refused to accept such trans- 
fusions have always been left behind. 

Now and in the foreseeable future, these “new people" bearing the new ideas will be our own youth. Forty 
percent of the population is now under 21. By 1970, half of the population will be under 27 and about seven 
percent will be between 18 and 21. (It is interesting to note that the average age of Amer inging back 
toward the lower 20s now, after climbing upward since the first decades of the last century. America is gradually 
becoming as “young” in its make-up as it was at the time of the Revolution.) Increasingly, the lives of young 
people will be affected by Governmental action—in job-training programs; in Fede nd scholarship pro- 
grams for all forms of higher education; in matters of war and peace; and, most dramatically, in their personal 
dealings with the Selective Service System. 

Which brings us to the slogan, “If they're old enough to fight, they're old enough to vote.” This assertion 
has always had wide emotional appeal. Proposals to lower the voting age have always (continued on page 176) вз 


84 


dhe: Пасо 


та new psychological western, joanna pettet displays the dramatic 
ability and svelle sexiness that augur well for a bright movie future 


The mon in Blue, Paramaunt’s new Westem, is Terence Stomp, 
shown with Joanna Pettet an the set (top) ond in a scene exhibiting 
Joanna's healing pawers (above). She tends ta Stamp after he's 
waunded when his adapted Mexican bandit family attacks her town. 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAWRENCE SCHIL 


ти 15 A TIME for telling it like it is" Joanna Pettet told 
PLAYBOY recently. “If there's a reason for taking the camera 
beyond the bedroom door, today's audiences will demand that 
the film maker do just that." The camera goes well beyond 
several dusty south Texas doors in Blue, which stars Joanna 
opposite Terence Stamp, to reveal dimer jue and 
feeling unexplored in her four previous film successes (The 
Group, The Night of the Generals, Casino Royale and Rob- 
bery). Joanna once was a PLAYBOY opponent, putting down the 
magazine, its Editor-Publisher and The Playboy Philosophy in 


the May 1966 Cosmopolitan; but times and Joanna's outlook 


have since changed—as evidenced by her appearance in our 
Girls of “Gasino Royale” feature a year ago and even more 
so by this special pictorial on a now-confirmed rravsov fan. 


Joanna has obviaus talent and freewheeling opinions in comman with 
the brightest British stars—and ako the slender, highly chorged sexi- 
ness the decade appreciates. By eliminating all else, the uncluttered 
photos here highlight the physical element in the Pettet appeal. 


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LJ 


Life can still imitate the ragsto-riches Broadway musical 
Joanna arrived in New York when she was 16 to begin dance 
lessons with Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse. 
She won a role in the comedy Take Her, She's Mine and 
garnered such praise that the lead was hers when the show 
went on tour. Back in New York, parts followed in The 
Chinese Prime Minister and then in Poor Richard, which set 
up the big break. The Group's writer-producer caught her in 
one performance and signed her immediately as his film's 
Kay. “That role used the greatest range of emotion,” Joann 
told us, “but the level of intensity is higher in Blue. Each day 
was totally exhausting.” Herewith, Joanna in another mood 


THE HOT SAUCES OF MAGDA 


when a preity girl with the best of intentions 
promises she'll get you out of trouble, you'd betier 
watch out for what she’s getting you into instead 


fiction By BERNARD WOLFE 


GIRLS YOU REMEMBER won't molest. You put them from mind 
when you need the room. 

Girls you forget can hold to you tight. Set up а noise of 
housekeeping in your head. Rattle pots and pans of guilt 
through your head. 

I will illustrate. . . . 

One time I had to run. I was working then in Indi 
the Salton Sea. 1 asked myself which way to run the cops 
won't expect. 

Cops think everybody thinks in straight lines. Expect a 
Mexican in running mood to run straight south, to Mexico. 
The cops would look for me around border towns, Nogales, 
Mexicali, Tijuana. I fashioned a route all ways but south. 

By Greyhounds I traveled east to Blythe and Yuma; back 
west to El Centro; north via Seeley, Brawley and Westmore- 
land there by the Superstition Mountains; cast some more 
through Calipatria and Niland; north for a distance to the 
unhurried shirtsleeve town, below Frink, close to the Salton 
Sea, called Vaverdy. 

I found a fraying motel, adobe cabins with gardens of cacti 
and succulents between the spokes of wagon wheels. Yanks 
like to plant old wheels. This motel was close to Vaverdy's 
preliminary of a downtown, my innocence of automobile 
would not cause talk. 

I registered as P. Armendariz. My room was adequate, 
though the air conditioner gave me a crick in the neck and I 
missed sweating. For two days and nights, while ordering ту 
thoughts as to how a future can be planned on 5400, 1 sat 
and watched television. 

On the third day I felt casy enough in mind to go out. By a 
intersection in die hint of a downtown, a surprise was 
waiting. 

As Г passed the Western Union, a woman emerged at high 
speed, calling my name. 
she shouted, "Hey. P. Armendariz,” that in itself 
would have been thought-provoking. What she was shouting 
was, "Hey, hey there, Manolo, Manolo Ruiz, мор, I know 
you!" With the air of total conviction, even endorsement. In 
Spanish. 

She was on the whole young, maybe 27, Mexican, worth 


ILLUSTRATION BY GENE SZAFRAN 


second looks in any situation not cobbled with d 
amplitudes, finely distributed. 

My calculation had been to leave the name of Manolo Ruiz 
behind in Indio, a buried wheel. 


id, "Did I have the di 


ager. Fine 


nction to be addressed by you, 
mi 

She said, “Tm sending «money order to La Paz, and 1 look 
up and theres Manolo Ruiz going down the street grand as a 
mayor! A shining face I never expected to see agai 
agine! Here, in Vaverdy!" 

e would consider itself in the privileged cl 
be seen by you at any time, miss,” I said. “But I don't recall 
having the honoi 

She was researching me from а number of angles, ше and 
several matters lefehandedly related to me. 

She seemed to make a quick, possibly historical, decision. 
She said, "You had all the honors, Manolito! In La Paz, in 
the summer of 1956, you spend nights in my bed, you were 
honored to the full, now don't you deny it, you tease!" 

I did quick figuring. Where did I pass the summer of 1956? 
In La Paz, сопса. But in her bed? The summer of 1956 was 
when I discovered tequila. It was in the summer of 1957 
I discovered. girls. I'm the type who does one thing at a 
time, which made me think I couldn't have been in this girl's 
or any girl's bed in La Paz in the summer of 1956. Maybe she 
had her dates mixed up? Maybe she meant 1957, wh 
busy with girls? But in 1957 I was nowhere near La Ра 
ly too much to hope for that you were in this bed 


I was 


isn’t in you 
not remembe: 


suggesting a joint occupancy, it's 
jointness. You climbed а tall 


Knowing my father would shoot if he heard, now you can't 
recall any honors whatsoever, Was I so displeasing to you? 
You said otherwise.” 

"1 said, “I was drunk the summer of 1956, also, I've 


o 


Ruiz who charters fishing boats in La Paz, do I have these 
facts straight When you were a braying burro of age fifteen, 
with some components bigger and more active than you 


on your Р s. ? TI mene 
you at this moment Magda, 
whose poppa, Porfirio, rented out fishi That busy 
summer an lot of fishing, some 
in wate cle, and now you 


our town you did a da 
dicated by your и 


PLAYBOY 


90 


ph there опе or two im that 
overpopulated bed!” 

“You were right to get sore," I said. 
“I remember now, the eucalyptus, the 
walls, more particularly the bed, popu- 
lad just right for a growing boy. Му 
memory failed me because I'm far from 
home; also, I'm worried, at the moment 
I'm running from certain situations. All 
my apologies, Magda. What do you hear 
from your dear poppa and morum 

"theyre dead. 
1 Vaverdy; my 
brothers in La Paz need support from 
me; 1 work as nurse and tutor for a rich 
planter. What are you doing around 
here, Manolo? The last 1 heard you wi 
the university. 
“1 went till the money ran out, then 


e, were 


E.” she said, 
Thats why Ym here 


r Indio, that's where I've been, 
on the date ranches.” 

lanolo Ruiz a braccio,” she said, 
shaking her head. “А stooper and dimb- 
ht kid like you. 1 thought by 
now you'd be doctor or lawyer or some- 
thing with your name on a door." 

е up thoughts of the high 
1 said. "My plan is, was, to 
save my wages, hen learn some uade 
like television repairs. Certain detour 
situations have come up.” 

"You talk of Indio, but you're in V: 
verdy.” she said. "You define yourself a 
fieldworker, then remark you're on the 
run, which excludes fieldwork. What's 
the nature of your worries? Can 1 help?" 

How much to tel? Helping me from 
one species of jail. could she land me in 
another? 

She made no secret that she endorsed 
all my components, except, as noted, my 
memory. If asked, I would have cn 
dorsed hers, with the one except 
memory. Hers were in fact memor 
full where fullness is valued, trim where 
we look for economy. Had I encountered 
these bloomings and slimmings before, 
and closer, in puppy youth, in adult 
years, in La Paz, in a rowboat, I should 
have remembered. 

Unless, as I've 


p. 
professions, 


ated, 1 was drunk. 
ed, I'm single-minded; 
I drink exclusivel 
I decided to unfold my story by 
es, noting her reaaions. 
"I ran into trouble in Indio," I said. 
"You know what ту job was in the date 
groves? I climbed trees to impregnate 
them with pollens. 
“You shouldn't have had trouble in 
that job," she said. “You were a 
guished climber from the first. 
"Maybe you've heard how bashful 
е trees are," I said. “They don't make 
good pollination ements by them- 
selves; third parties have 10 handle the 
mauer for them.” 
"No third parties had to make ar 
ements for you at age fifteen,” she 


said. “If you want my opinion, the 
unching of your tree carcer was in La 
Paz.” 


he end was in Indio," 1 said. “In 
Indio 1 was doing fine until V. J., Ver- 
nace Joe Prodger, came. 
he preacher who says God m 
man to m: strikes?” 

“Some say V. J. thinks God m 

to make man make strikes. V. J. 
himself а migrant minister. He says this 
is the Christian way of ministry, to go 
along the roads waking people up, that 
Jesus was the first migrant minister." 
Not with picket signs, however." 
У. J- says the first Gospels were writ- 
ten оп varieties of picket signs but 
churches want to forget it. Anyhow, V. J- 
began preaching on the roadside. We 
е down from the trees and listened. 
Soon we were boycotting the trees and 
walking up and down with signs for bet- 
ter wages and conditions." 

“Ies funi she 
church people пей worke 
mad at bosses; here you 
people stirring up worker: 

“I've thought a 
makes me wonder if some tra 
shouldn't investigate if there 
Gods. If you say one and the sa 
stirs workers against bosses and protects 
boses against workers, this means God 
contradicts himself and must be foolish." 

"On the other hand,” she said. “if 
God is everywhere as holy writings say, 
maybe he has to be on both sides of the 
dass struggle, with both classe: 

"I don't think so," I said. "Maybe, as 
they claim, God made the opposites of 
men and women so they could get to- 
gether, but if he made the different 
economic classes for the same blending 
purposes, the classes haven't heard about 
Anyhow, the ranchers brought in some 
truckloads of hill and woods people from 
Texas to strikebreak. Their leader was a 
man of brutish looks 
ugly one always yelled 
drove through our picket 1 
morning Bleggs yelled 10 me from 
truck, you drink your mother’s urine 
straight from the breast.” 


In our country 
not to get 
see church 


Americans always insult the mother," 
she said. 

“He was saying certain th 
and above the custom," 


that 1 still take food from 
а sucking baby, not a man. Second, that 
my mother's no ord 
of milk sh 


"t per 


"There's 


, that my palate 
"t distinguish between 
normal, healthy, clean milk and urine. I 
wanted to show Bleggs ideologies are 
one subject and mothers are another and 
shouldn't be mixed, if we're going to 
ер issues clear. So 1 went to confront 
him in the dormitory for fieldworkers.” 

“And you broke the law?’ 


“No, his jaw. His way of debate was 
to approach with a crowbar. Naturally, 1 
had to take this away from him. Not to 
load you down with details, this is what 
І did, by means of hitting him repeated- 
ly, for the most part in the jaw, which 
broke. We can consider this definite, Бе 
cause the last time 1 hit the jaw I felt it 
displace measurably to one side while 
the rest of с didn't move. As a re- 
sult, I left immediately. This was 
days ago." 

“Manolo! What's there to run from? 
You were only defending yourself!” 

“True, but the  strikebreakers 
plained it to the cops another w у 
said I crept into the dormitory with this 
crowbar to kill Bleges. Soon the sheriff 
was looking for me with a warrant, so 1 
told Vernace Joe I'd better go away, not 
to harm his drive for better wages and 
conditions for migrants. So here's the re 
sult, that I'm entirely migrant, traveling 
in circles because the cops are no doubt 
looking for me in straight lines. What do 
you make of my story, Magda, anything?” 

After some thought she answered, “I 
ke this of it, Manolo, that you're some 
tree dimber, and this time you've 
climbed yourself up a very bad tree.” 

By now we were sitting on a bench in 
Vaverdy's embryo of a central square. 

Magda said finally, with а mamyring 
look. "| hate to lose you the minute I 
find you, but shouldn't you hurry up 
back to Mexico?" 

What's in Mexico?" 1 said, "Rouen 
wages. few chances for schooling? I told 
you I want to better myself. 

"To become unseen to looking cops is 
a betterment. 


“No, in no case do I go home. I wasn't 


planning to, even if the Bleggs situation 
hadn't come up. My plan was 10 sneak 
from the bracero camps and disappear 
into some city where I could find а job 
and мап my television studies." 

She sar up. She considered me. 
face began to lighten. 

Well, how much is changed?" she 
said. “Before Bleggs jaw you planned по 
be fugitive, now youre fugitive. Essen- 


Her 


tially you have what you planned, 
though ahead of schedule. Tell me, 
you've saved some money? 

About four hundred dollars and some 
change. 


Good, fine. What you'll need is 
good selection of 1. D.s—work permi 
birth certificate and such. No problem; 1 
know à who makes 
superior papers, I'll telephone him, if 1 
ask he'll service you for about onc hun- 
dred dollars, which isn’t much over cost.” 

А source of papers was my first goal. 
сте was a source, on cost-plus terms. 

You vouch for the quality of his 


He has many satisfied customers. И he 
could advertise, he'd have а big population 
(continued on page 188) 


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“Lucille, I'm dropping out.” 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL НОСЕ ANO ED DELONG 


THE GIRL TRON 
INNER SPACE 


between studies and the hyper- 
active use of leisure time, 
nancy harwood manages to 
savor the joys of meditation 


MAHARISHI МАНЕЅН YOGI, the Indian 
mystic who has introduced the Bea- 
ues, the Rolling Stones and Mia Far- 
row Sinatra, among others, to the 
joys of contemplation, can also count 
Nancy Harwood among his followers. 
When Miss February faces the “altar” 
in her bachelorette pad in Burbank 
—it's adorned with artificial flowers 
of psychedelic intensity from Mexico 
—she forgets not only the cares of a 
parttime college student but also the 
care-nots of a 19-year-old coming of 
age in Southern California. “It’s like 
getting high without drugs,” explains 
the pharmacist’s daughter—who got 
the message when she and many 
others, including pop idol Donovan, 
meditated with Maharishi recently at 
the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: 
“You could actually feel your neigh: 
bors going up, up and 

The more conventional side of 
Nancy's education includes psychol- 
ogy and business courses at Los An- 
geles City College, a school she likes 


Nancy Harwood is a recently registered 
coed at Los Angeles City College who 
enjoys romping on the beach or just sit- 


Spending the afternoon at the 
Corona del Mar beach, Nancy 
leaps high in her effort to spike 
the ball during a volleyball 
game; later, while amicably dis- 
puting one of the sport's finer 
points, she tugs on a strand of 
the net to make certain that it's 
secure. At sunset, while roasting 
wieners with the group, Nancy 
warms to the conversation: "Ве- 
ing good campany is an art in 
itself." Like most people who 
share her attitude, Miss Febru- 
ary seldom lacks companionship. 


Faced with a routine hazard of 
campus life—homework—Non- 
cy spends time ai the school 
bookstore (left) in search of a 
psychology text, followed by a 
few hours in the library learning 
about reaction formations ГА 
rother dispense with books and 


just thi but if | were educat- 


ing myself, I'd never get around 
to most academic subjects"). In 
the evening, Nancy takes her 
ease close to the speaker and 
lets her imagination ride on the 
now sounds of Ramsey lewis. 


PLAYBOY'S PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH 


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because of the diverse origins and upbringings 
of its students. Her ambitions are to model— 
Vogue's Veruschka is her ideal—and to dance 
preferably in films. Like so many of her tuned- 
in generation, Nancy grooves to the 
sounds of today's many-splendored pop mu 
world—Hugh Mase 

Beatles, the Stones and Ravi Shankar. She also 
enjoys fraternizing with a variety of people at 
school, at the beach (“I used to go in for a lot of 
surfing, but paddling out got to be a drag") or 
on Sunset Strip: "I have a lot of friends with 
long hair, though I wouldn't necessarily call 
them hippics" However, Nancy informed us 
that abrasive contact with the “real” world is 
taking its toll on the flower children: “The 
Suip now has a lot in common with skid row— 
everybody's just milling around and most of 
them are up tight. Last spring, people were 
turned on to one another; now, everybody's on 
his own trip." Nancy is about to embark on a 
trip herself: She plans to spend her Playmate 
modeling fee on a tour of Europe this summer. 
Her Playmate adventure began while she was 
еп route to a party in ndale; she caught the 
eye of a PLAYBOY lensman who suggested that 
she pose for test shots. Nancy readily consented; 
and we're sure Maharishi would agree that the 
results are worthy of your prolonged meditation. 


An avowed enthusiast of the latest dances, Nancy 
accepts an invitation à go-go, then does the Funky 
Broadway at Gazzarri's, a Sunset Strip night spot 
that offers its patrons four bands each evening. 


PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES 


The loving young couple wanted to marry im- 
mediatdy—but the girl's strong-willed and 
domineering mother adamantly opposed the 
union. 

“I can't help it," said the distraught girl 
to her boyfriend. “Mother thinks you're ef- 
feminate." 

Reflecting for a moment, he replied: “You 
know, compared with her, maybe I am." 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines sex drive 
as trying to find a motel that has a vacancy. 


Returning home for a forgotten briefcase, the 
husband found his pretty wife standing naked 
on the bathroom scales. Not bothering to enter 
the room, he reached in, patted her on the 
bottom and asked: “How much today, baby?” 
“The same as always,” she answered. “Two 
quarts of milk and а pound of butter.” 


An underground newspaper suggested recent- 
ly that the marijuana question could easily be 
settled by a joint session of Congress. 


During a visit to the zoo, the inquisitive child 
asked: “Mommy, how do lions make love?” 

“1 don't know, dear,” replied the mother. 
“Most of your father's friends are Rotarians.” 


On the first night of her fourth marriage, the 
still-attractive bride turned to her husband and 
implored, “Please, darling, try to be patient 
with me in bed—I'm still a virgi: 

“A virgin!" her mate exclaimed. "But you've 
been married three times before!” 

“I know it's a little hard to believe, but it's 
the truth,” she sighed sadly. "My first husband 
was a charming alcoholic, but he'd get loaded 
every night and by bedtime, he'd be dead to 
the world. My second husband was quite 
handsome, but on our wedding night, I dis- 
covered he was more attracted to my brother 
than to me. My third husband—the advertis- 
ing exccutive—was a persuasive fellow, but he 
turned out to be a complete captive of his 
craft.” 

“What do you mean?” asked her astounded 
husband. 

“Well,” she said, "every night, all night 
long, he'd sit on the edge of the bed, telling 
me how great it was going to be.” 


My reason for resigning will soon become 
apparent,” the pretty secretary memoed her 
boss, "and so will I." 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines Fire Island 
as the place where a man with a limited income 
can live like a queen. 


A young man drove his date into the Holly- 
wood hills in search of a suitable spot for a sex- 
ual interlude. They got out of the car, but the 
girl had reservations about making love in the 
open, so the boy suggested they crawl under 
the car, where no one could possibly see them. 
"They were locked in passionate embrace when 
an authoritative voice demanded to know what 
the hell they thought they were doing. 

"Without looking up, the young man an- 
swered, “Fixing the transmission. 

"Oh, yeah,” snapped the cop. “Well, you'd 
better fix your brakes, too. Your car is at the 
bottom of the hill.” 


Our Research Department informs us that to- 
day's most common form of marriage proposal 
is: “You're what?" 


During midmorning coffee break, the boss dis- 
covered his shapely secretary айй a junior 
executive making love in the storeroom. “Ном. 
can you explain this?” the boss steamed. 

“Well,” said the secretary, straightening a 
nylon, “neither of us likes coffee.” 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines patience as 
the difference between rape and seduction, 


Then there were the two Burmese girls looking 
for a Mandalay. 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines suicide as 
the sincerest form of self-criticism. 


Complaining of the distance between campus 
buildings, the veterinarian's daughter wrote 
home for money to buy a bicycle. But by the 
time the money arrived, she'd changed her 
mind and bought a monkey instead. After а 
few weeks, the animal began losing its hair. 
Hoping her father might know a cure, she 
wrote: "AII the hair is falling off my monkey— 
what shall I do?" Е р 

Two days later came the terse directive: “Sell 
the bicycle.” 


Heard а good one lately? Send it on a post- 
card to Party Jokes Editor, PLAYBOY, Playboy 
Building, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 
Ill. 60611. $50 will be paid to the contributor 
whose card is selected. Jokes cannot be returned, 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARVIN KONER 


DODGE CHARGER R/T: Equipped with a 
brand-new body that’s o vast improvement 
over last year's styling, the Charger in its 
R/T regalia is geared for go. With Chrysler’s 
brutish 426-cu-in. hemi engine or the stand- 
ard 440 Magnum mill under the hood, ac- 


celeration and top speed are impressi 


Among the Charger’s more interesting feo- 
tures: an upswept ай-й rear end, business- 
like gauges, side pockets for easy stowage, 
special suspension, а giant-sized race-styled 
gas filler cap mounted atop the left rear 
fender and ап optional center console 
(left), which houses either a three-speed 
automatic or a fourspeed manual shift. 


modern living 
BY KEN W. PURDY 


SPORTY 
AND 
SPECIAL 


detroit is producing a new 
breed of car—handsome, 
hairy and a ball to drive 


THE MOTORMASTERS of Detroit once took а 
Тату dim and distant view of the sports 
car resurgence that began in 1946 when 
a tiny band of ex-GIs waded ashore with 
the news that the crafty Europeans knew 
how to make small and lively two-seaters 
that had no apparent function but fun 
These pioneers found that there were a 
few Americans, most of them rich and 
social and centered around the Ivy League 
colleges, who had known all about MGs 
and Bugattis and things in the 19305 
The two groups joined and their small 
piping cries of pleasure began to be 
heard in Boston and New York and 
environs. In 1948, they even managed to 
entice a few people to come to sec a 
sports-car race, at Watkins Glen, now the 
venue of the Grand Prix of the United 
States. Detroit saw all this as a cloud not 
as big аз a baby's hand: Sull, in the 
fullness of time, the Chevrolet Corvette 
came along, billed as a genuine made-in- 
America sports car, but it wasn't really 
fast aid it wouldn't really handle. Jaguar 


owners, blowing it off at will, were not 
impressed, nor would they be by the 
Thunderbird. The Corvette grew up to 
be a brute, indeed, and fantastic 5 
for mone 


and now, in the year of grace 
and wonder, 1968, purists are beginning 
to concede that it is verily a sports car 
Still dubious, and rightly so, it wasn't 
until 1964 that Detroit, in the person of 
Lee Iacocca of Ford, noting that half the 
people in the country were under 30, 
a vast market for which no domestic 
builder was producing Пасош, decided 
where the True Parh lay and ran out 
the Mustang. It was cobbled up out of 
standard parts, it wasn't a sports car 
and it wasn't 
smallish, (text continued on page 110) 


а family wagon, but it was 


PLYMOUTH GTX: This hotted-up, decked-out top of the fresh-faced 
Belvedere series is the other end of the spectrum from the stripped-down, 
beep-beep Road Runner. The GTX comes with c 440-cu.-in. engine os 
standard, the 426 hemi as option. Its dual striping is available in white, 
black, blue, red and green, depending upon body color. Hood features 
ovtboord-facing cir scoops. Dual chromed exhaust outlets are standard. 
Options include front disk brakes, push-button automatic speed control. 


CHEVROLET CORVETTE: A totally new look finds the Corvette picking 
up much of the appearance of its Mako Shark idec-car predecessor. 
Most radical version is the coupe shown here, with removable roof 
panels and rear window ond stationary center strut (right). Turbo Hydra- 
Matic tronsmissian is available. Retractable headlights are now vacuum- 
powered, come up automatically when turned on. The top engine can 
punch ovt more horsepower (435) than ils сит. displacement (427). 


PONTIAC FIREBIRD 400: Now in Их sophomore year after 
ап impressive start, Firebird hos the 400 os top of the line. Its 
400-cu.-in. engine can corral 335 horses. This high-flying F-bird 
hos а heavy-duty 3-speed Hurst box, with hood-mounted tach 
ovailable. Hood scaops are operationol with Ram Air option. 


SHELBY COBRA GT 500: A super Mustang is this Carroll Shel- 
by conversion beoring the nome once applied to his Ford-AC 
marriage. The convertible hos а hondsome integral roll bor 
(Пен), power-ossisted front disk brakes, adjustable shocks. 


FORD TORINO GT: A new model this year, the Torino fast- 
bock is a blood brother of Mercury's Cyclone GT, boasts dual 
ide stripes, floor-mounted Cruise-O-Matic transmission when 


equipped with center console, special handling package. 


MERCURY COUGAR GT-E: A muscular addition to the Cougar line, the 
GI-E possesses such amenities as ће formidable 427-cu-in. hydroulic- 
lifter VB that develops 390 horsepower, а bulging hood scoop whose 
primary function is to let the observer know whof's under the hood, 
redesigned disappearing headlights, power steering and disk brakes, 
© work-horse Ззреей avtomotic tronsmission, styled steel wheels 
and on instrument ponel (right) that proves atiroctively functional. 


OLDSMOBILE 4-4-2: Sharing its 112-in. wheelbose ond new bosic GM 
body with such as Pontiac’s GTO, the 4-4-2 hos o louvered hood, GT 
pin striping, concealed windshield wipers end a 400-cu-in. engine 
putting ovt 350 horsepower. Also standard are heovy-duty springs and 
shocks, front and reor stobilizer bors ond punishment-absorbing wheels. 
Sport steering wheel and flcor-mounted control console ore optional, 
os ore power-ossisted front disk brakes ond antispin differentiol. 


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AMERICAN MOTORS JAVELIN SST: Bright new entry in the sporty- 
cor field, the Javelin, in its SST incornation, comes accautered with 
wood-graintrim door panels, sports steering wheel, reclining bucket 
seats, instrument gauges dromatically deep-set into a heavily padded 
ic dash (right), flow-Ihrough fresh-air ventilation and mag-type 
sks. The top en. 
4borrel Typhoon that can be had with а 4-speed floar shift. 


CADILLAC ELDORADO: The biggest change this year is under the 


hood: а mammoth 472-cv.in. engine that has only to praduce an 
effortless 375 horsepower. The Eldorado shares with Taronado the 
distinction of being Detrair's only front-wheeldrive vehicles. Front disk 
brakes are standard (and a necessity) and, in additian to its luxurious 
interior appointments, the Eldorado comes equipped with such engi- 
neering Роуз as automatic level control and variable-ratio steering. 


"I asked my hairdresser to make 
me look like Twiggy, but he put 
the part on the wrong side.” 


y 


PLAYBOY 


110 


SPORTU AND SPECIAL, 


fast, comfortable, sexy, it had a base 
price under $2500, and it what De- 
чой was convinced no "real" sports car 
could ever do—it sold, and sold by De- 
troit standards: In terms of sales within 
а modcl year, it was the most successful 
motorcar ever built. There followed а 
thunder of running feet, the rush to 
the drawing board, and lo, a New Thing 
was delivered unto us: the sporty car, 
the street car, the special, the muscle 
car, the pony car or whatever—a vehicle 
meant to have dash to set it aside from 
the ne family car, and comfort, 
reliability and unfussiness to distinguish 
it from the pure, or European, sports car. 
Everybody in the business sells at least 
one now. Some look like what they are— 
hairy—and some hide the muscle under 
а demure and strictly standard exterior. 
‘The choice of makes в wide and the 
choice of options with makes so huge that. 
опе nearly needs a computer to cope with 
them. When you start circularizing your 
friendly local dealers for а sporty car, 
you are at root shopping for image. You 
may also get straightline (and, in some 
cases, bentline) performance that will 
wipe out all but the topmost imports, 
and you'll get it at, comparatively, а 
bargain price in dollars. (As with trucks 
and station wagons and everything else, 
the degree of bargain may vary madly 
from a dealership in Denver to one in 
Dallas, or even from the wheel store down 
at Ше corner to one 15 miles away.) 

Few startling changes [rom 1967 prac- 
tice show in the 1968 Scars (for sporty, 
special, street or so-what. Under the 
Federal lash, much noise is being made 
about safety features, and items such as 
breakaway steering columns, padded 
windshield pillars and sun visors, double- 
thick windshiclds and improved washers, 
locked seat backs, dual-brake systems, for- 
ward glare reduction, and so on, are in 
evidence everywhere, 

Hidden windshield wipers are very 
much in and so are full-flow ventilation 
systems using positive extraction of old, 
tired air from the car's interior. Vent 
windows are out. Gofaster stripes are 
everywhere, running every way but diag- 
опаПу. Pontiac GTO's integral composi- 
tion bumper, which rebounds without 
even chipping its paint, will be copied as 
fast as ingenuity permits. There are some 
old new ideas, too, like Oldsmobile's 
forced-induction system, which picks up 
air from under the front bumper and 
pipes it to the carburetors to give a slight 
supercharge effect for free, and Eldorado's 
double door handles last 
year), onc for the front people, one for 
the rear, a convenience that Mercedes- 
Benz was pleased to offer to disc 
buyers in 1934. The onceexotic disk 
brakes аге as optional as red paint with 
most producers, for front wheels only. 


(continued from page 102) 


The parking-brake problem keeps them 
off the rears in most cases—the Corvette 
is an exception. Two goodies are common 
to all the S-ars, and they are flaming, 
stearn-catapult-type take-off and plus-100- 
mph top speeds that are as illegal as ag- 
gravated assault with a deadly weapon 
every jurisdiction save the Principality 
of Nevada. Some models in wide usc on 
the stock Greuits—Dodge’s Charger, for 
example—cin be vitamin-packed to run 
on the high side of 130 and still not be 


too nervous for the street if the driver 
doesn't mind working at it and 
with a certain amount of clatter. Where 


will it all lead? You may well ask, view- 
ing with bemused fascination two world- 
wide tends inevitably running for a 
head-on. 

On the one hand, everything that will 

kc for speed and more speed is being 
pumped into the automobile, and practi- 
cally every engine in sight has provision 
for still more future performance ticked 
away in it somewhere, rather like secret 
compartments in а Danish teakwood 
desk. Things like the Ford Mark Ш and 
Aston Martin's 200mph project are al- 
ready in being. And on the other hand, 
world bureaucracys tend toward lower 
speed is clearly irreversible. Any- 
one holding a contrary view has only to 
ponder the British 70-mph limit, called a 
mere temporary "experiment" when it 
was introduced and hardened into fixed 
law a few months later. (It will be low- 
aed to 60 in the foreseeable future) 
Even the authorities in Germany, where 
the limit on the open road is still whatev- 
er your thing will do if you stand on the 
accelerator and lock your knee, are be- 
ginning to mutter about cutting back a 
Some theoreticians seriously propose, 
and can make a rather stunningly good 
case for, a univers 45-mph limit, How- 
ever, the time is not yet, so be of good 
heart, and if nothing less that 375 horse- 
power will soothe your twitching gan- 
glia, be assured that the man down at 
the store has something for you. 

"The S-cars are interesting, too, in the 
degree of comfort they offer in combina- 
tion with go, comfort that would, only a 
few years аро, have been read as deep 
luxury. Today, you can roll in your own 
self-chosen environment, almost in your 
own world, cosseted in fine Icather (reclin- 
ing, if the need arises), air-conditioned 
and temperaturecontrolled, with multi- 
speakers pumping out the beat, broadcast. 
or taped. in a quality that would have 
been thought pretty good living-room 
hi-fi not too long ago, and all this for 
less than $4000, И you like. 

Newest on the scene is American Mo- 
tors Javelin. The Javelin is A. M. C/'s 
riposte to the notion—widespread in the 
past half decade and more—that every- 
thing to do with A. M. C. had also to do 
with senior citizens, согу im retirement, 


whose preference in transport leaned to 
carriages fat, wide, easygoing, safe and 
sure. In these years of violence, flower 
power and flat-out go go-go, such an image 
could point only to bankruptcy. Fore 
htedly enough, in 1964 A. M. C. had 
laid down a new model, the Tarpon— 
а smooth, wind-tunneled, four-pasenger 
sporty car. But before it could show, it 
was shot down by che Mustang. The Tar 
pon was switched into the Marlin, fish 
of another color—a six-passenger sedan 
type that made no great noise in the mar- 
ket place. The AMX, once an “idea” car 
that first showed many Javelin features, 
be out in production form later in 
the year. 

The Javelin is something else again. A 
low—52 inches—slecky, airflow, two-door, 
four-passenger vehicle, it's basic with a 
145-hp, six-cylinder engine, but tops with 
a 343-cubicinch, 280-hp V8 that will 
deliver a 0:t0-60-mpb time around 8 sec- 
onds and a top of 120 mph. It's available 

ight and in a super version—the SST 
two-seater with custom interior, redining 
buckets, special trim, and so on. Between 
the 145-hp, six-cylinder and the 280-hp V8, 
there аге 200-hp and 225-hp V8s, with 


automatic transmission or three- or four- 


speed manuals. Optionally—dual 
hausts, wide-oval tires and disk brakes i 
front. 


That by no means exhausts the option 
list, of course. As a matter of fact, the 
expanded option list of recent years 
forms a system unique in the world and 
just about docs blow out of the water the 
notion that you can't buy a custom-made 
car anymore. Maybe not custom-made, 
but customassembled, certainly. Take 
the Chevrolet Camaro as an example. 
Chevrolet's original answer to Ше M 
tang. Standard, it comes with a 9103р 
V8, and new for '68 are Ше no-vent 
windows everybody's going for, flow- 
through ventilation system, instrument 
panel, wider wheels, exterior trim, new 
grille, tail lamps, and so on. But on the 
side for the Camaro, including the sporty 
SS model, are two six-cylinder engines, 
or V8s running 275, 295 or 325 hp. Special 
rear-wheel opening moldings, belt and 
roof drip moldings. You can have a spe- 
cial grille and hidden headlights, and 
parking, directional and backup lights 
mounted under the bumper, a black- 
finished lower body, special fuc! filler cap, 
тейзизре wideoval tires, hood insula 
tion, and so on and on—this aside from 
paint and upholstery combinations. The 
Chevelle 55396 ойст three-speed or four- 
speed manual transmission, Powerglide 
or Hydramatic. 

Or consider the Ford Mustang, w 
six engines, three tra 
rearaxle ratios on the books, plus dual 
exhausts, . pop-up fuel filler cap, fog 
lamps, heavy-duty suspension, wide tires, 
rcar-window defogger, power front disks, 

(continued on page 167) 


ith 
ismissions and sever 


LET YOURSELF СОС... 


your just desserts—those sweet, soft, rich and richly rewarding 
climaxes to put the icing on mere meals and turn them into feasts 


food BY THOMAS MARIO ALTHOUGH SHE MAY ONE DAY outgrow valentines, no girl ever out- 
grows extravagantly rich desserts. Frenchmen at the table, especially during the month of hearts and arrows, love 
to repeat their old saying, Le dessert est tout le diner pour une jolie femme, The whole dinner? Like most apho- 
risms, it seems particularly exaggerated these days, when toutes les jolies femmes, almost as avidly as men, devour 
their onion soup gratinée, their thick chateaubriands and their bowls of salad studded with roquefort cheese. But 


e e e AND LET ABL PRO ELE со 


all during the dinner, in the back 
of every girl's mind, the dessert, 
like an unmentioned but impend 
ing rendezvous, is awaited as the 
grand finale. A sumptuous dessert 
differs from every other course on 
the menu. It doesn't depend upon 
appetite any more than the use of 
ones hand is dependent upon a 
diamond ring. Like all lovely 
baubles, it’s rich and rare only 
when the donor knows what and 
how to give. 

Crepes sureue are always daz 
zling. The host in a hurry сап pick 
up а jar or twó in any gourmet 
shop, heat the crepes, fortify them 
with liqueur and, in double-quick 
time, a flamboyant dessert lights 
up his table. But crepes made in 
one’s own crepe pan can be much 
more imaginative. They may be 
sweetened with the usual jam, jelly 

ar—all dependable ways of 
"Will vou be mine, oh. 
valentine?"—but И they're coated 
with а soufildlike filling 
before they're rolled and flambeed. 
they turn into a completely -differ- 
ent kind of rapture. Even though 
the crepes are made the day before 
(a perfectly acceptable procedure), 
they have the delicate freshness, 
the tender bitability that their 
syrupsoaked counterparts in Ше 
jar are denied. The secret of crepe 
making—the key to any great des- 
sert, in fact—is to be found in a 
simple word af advice: Rehearse. 
The first time round, the crepe 
journeyman may hesitate in pour 
ing the proper amount of batter 
into his pan, in turning. зсаски 
filling or flambéeing the crepi 
The second or third time round is 
invariably speedier. because it's 
easier; and eventually, the ritual 
can be carried off blindfolded. 

But while crepes are best when 
freshly made, there are culinary 
short cuts that shouldn't be over 
looked. Meringue shells, for e 
ample, used in making meringue 
glacée, a prodigal ice-cream des. 
sert, don't depend upon freshness 
ior favor. You can count upon 
iheir being more uniform in size 
and shape, as well as lighter, whe 
turned out by professional bakers, 
than when made by amateur mas 
tersof the dolce. Excellent meringue 
shells are now being imported from 
England. Canned sweetened chest- 
nut purée from France is a rich 
gem of a dessert ingredient, eclips- 
ing the fresh chestnuts that must 
be laboriously boiled, shelled, 
crushed, sieved and sweetened. Pur- 
chasable dainties such as toasted 


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14 


coconut bits ог ladyfingers are members 
in good standing in the category of casy 
confections. 

But total effect is all important; a 
menu that features a triumphantly lav- 
ish dessert must be kept in balance; A 
simple broiled breast of chicken or breast 
of guinea hen with a slice of Virginia 
ham is preferable to an outsize vol-au- 
vent of chicken or guinea hen swimming 
in a rich cream sauce, A double lamb-chop 
mixed grill, a roast tenderloin of beef or 
any roast game such as quail or partridge 
are all party foods that naturally lead to 
such peaks as pineapple baked Alaska. with 
its hot outer crust and cold inner cargo of 
ice cream and fruit marinated in liqueur. 

Choosing mates in February was an 
old Lupercalian festival predating Saint 
Valentine himself, strictly a hitor-miss 
айайт. Names of Roman boys and girls 
were put into a box and whatever name 
was picked was, ipso facto, the next 
year's mate. Centuries later, Chaucer ob- 
served that the birds in February didn't 
seem to go in for this kind of freewheel- 
ing, but met and carefully chose their 
mates . . . “And after Ше away/With 
hem as I move you with pleasaunce.” 
The following entremets are for men 
who arc masters in their own houses of 
pleasaunce. 


PINEAPPLE BAKED ALASKA 
(Serves four) 


1 extralarge ripe pineapple 

Granulated sugar 

1 oz. maraschino liqueur 

1 oz. kirsch 

4 egg whites 

X4 teaspoon salt 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 quart banana ice cream 

6 brandied red cherries 

Confectioners’ sugar 

Cut pineapple im half lengthwise, re- 
taining stem end with each half. With 
small, sharp paring knife, cut out meat 
of pineapple, leaving pincapple shell 15 
in. thick. Avoid puncturing shell. Cut off 
hard core of fruit. Cut remainder into 
slices about 14 in. thick. Combine 
sliced fruit with 2 to 3 tablespoons gran- 
ulated sugar to taste, maraschino liqueur 
and kirsch, mixing well. Let fruit mari- 
nate overnight or at least 3 to 4 hours 
before serving. Store pineapple and pi 
apple shells in refrigerator unul serving 
time. Preheat oven at 500°. In electric 
mixer, beat egg whites, salt and va 
extract until almost stiff. Slowly add 14 
cup granulated sugar while beating and 
continue to beat until stiff peaks are 
formed. Fill pineapple shells with scoops 
1 sliced pineapple and 
surround ice cream with it. Cover with 
whites, using a spatula or pastry bag 
ша tube. Be sure pineapple shell is well 
to edge. Place 3 cherries on 


each pineapple. Sprinkle lightly with 
confectioners’ sugar. Place in shallow 
pan in oven ший whites are lightly 
browned. Serve at once. Each pineapple 
shell is 2 portions. 


COCONUT CHEESE PLE 
(Serves six to eight) 


ПА cups chocolate-wafer crumbs 
3 tablespoons butter at room tempera- 
ture 

1 Ib. ricotta cheese 

4 ог. whipped cream cheese 

834-07. can cream of coconut 

34 сир heavy cream 

2 envelopes plain gelatin 

2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar 

Зу-ог. can Hawaiian coconut 

Place about 2 dozen chocolate wafers 
on a large kitchen towel. Fold towel to 
cover wafers. Roll with rolling pin or 
pound with smooth side of meat tender- 
izer until wafers are thoroughly crushed. 
Crumbs should be fine size, with no 
large pieces remaining. Combine 114 
cups crumbs with butter, blending very 
well. Press crumbs with back of spoon or 
by hand onto bottom and sides of 9-in. 
pie plate. Bake in oven, preheated at 
375°, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool crust. In 
bowl of electric mixer, beat ricotta, 
cream cheese, cream of coconut and %4 
cup cream ший very well blended. Soak 
gelatin in V4 cup cold water until solt, 
n place in top part of double boiler 
over simmering water until dissolved. 
Add gelatin to cheese mixture, 
ing un well blended. Pour 
«rust. Chill in refr 
firm. Beat remainder of cream until 
thick, Fold in confectioners’ sugar. 
Spread whipped cream over pie filling. 
Place coconut bits in blender and blend 
at high speed until finely crushed. 
Sprinkle on top of pic. (Prepared, ready- 
10-fill chocolate crumb crust may be used 
as а timesaver. If crust is smaller than 9 
inches, reduce amount of filling.) 


ino pie 
erator until filling is 


MOCHA MERINGUE GLACÉ 
(Serves six) 
84-07. can sweet marron purée with 
vanilla 

эд cup heavy cream, whipped 

6 large scoops coffee ice cream 

12 small meringue shells or 6 large 

shells 

6 marrons in syrup 

Coffee liqueur 

Mix marron purée until soft and easily 
spread. Slowly but thoroughly fold purée 
into whipped cream. On each of 6 
dessert dishes, place a scoop of 
cram. Place 2 meringu alo 
side ice ercam, or place 1 large meringue 
shell under ice cream. Top with 
whipped-cream mixture. Place a marron 
on top of whipped crcam. Pour about an 
ounce of coffee liqueur on top. 


ice 


BRANDIED DATE PUDDING 
(Serves six) 


12 pitted dates 

4 ozs. cognac 

12 ladyfingers 

Ма cup sugar 

14 teaspoon salt 

1 teaspoon vanilla 

4 eggs 

2 cups milk 

14 pint vanilla ice cream 

2 tablespoons sugar 

14 cup heavy cream, whipped 

1 oz. cognac 

Soak dates 
dates, reserving cog 
coarsely. Sprinkle drained 
ladyfingers, then cut them into Yin. 
squares. Divide ladyfingers and chopped 
dates among 6 buttered custard cups. 
Add 14 cup sugar, salt and vanilla to 
eggs and beat well. Heat milk to boiling 
point, but do not boil. Slowly pour milk 
into egg mixture. blending well. Pour 
eggmilk mixture into custard cups and 
place them in a shallow baking pan with 
1 in. hot water. Bake in oven preheated 
at 375° 30 to 40 minutes or until knife 
inserted lard comes our 
clean. Remove custard cups from pan 
and chill in refrigerator. Let ice cream 
stand in refrigerator (not freezer) until 
soft but not melting. Add 2 tablespoons 
sugar (o whipped cream. Fold ice cream 
into whipped cream. Add 1 oz. cognac. 


cognac overnight. Drain 
Chop 6 dates 
cognac on 


center of cu 


Runa[ aside of each 
custard cup and invert pudding onto 
dessert dishes. Pour ice-cream sauce 


over pudding. 
each portion. 


Place a dite on top of 


FRUIT POUSSE-CAFÉ. 
(Serves four) 


Cut into cubes enough ripe sweet 
pears, apples and bananas to fill 4 parfait 
glasses or 4 large whiskeysour glasses. 
Since glasses vary in size, no exact 
ount of fruit can be indicated. Sprin- 
kle fruit generously with sugar and steep 
orange or pineapple juice to keep fruit 
from discoloring. On bottom of cach 
glass, pour about 1 oz. crème de noyau. 
Drain fruit, discarding juice. Put enough 
fruit into glass 10 reach top of noyau. 
Add another layer of fruit 1 pour а 
layer of blue curagzo into glass very 
slowly over back of spoon held against 
side of glass. Add a third layer of fruit 
and pour pincapple juice (again, slowly 
over back of spoon). Fill glass to тор 
with fruit, Add а final layer of Southern. 
Comfort. On top of fruit, place a dab or 
roue of whipped cream огей with 
green crème de menthe. Layers of li- 
queurs and fruits need not be uniform in 
size. The section covered with pineapple 

(concluded on page 169) 


“Careful, Tex—those Circle-Z boys are mighty jealous.” 


satire By RALPH SCHOENSTEIN minule-by-minute chronicles of the diurnal duties 
and diversions of nine men and one woman, any one of whom just might be our next head 
of state—as a day in the life of jim bishop might have been spent recounting them 


A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT GEORGE ROMNEY—OR 
ROBERT KENNEDY, RICHARD NIXON, RONALD REAGAN, 
MARTIN LUTHER KING, CHARLES PERCY, HUBERT HUMPHREY, 
NELSON ROCKEFELLER, LURLEEN AND GEORGE WALLACE 


MR. JIM BISHOP, the man who takes us for the ages the manner in which the What's next for Mr. Bishop in his 

into the bathtubs of the mighty, has President shaves, eats beef for break- showerhead view of history? Here, as 

written 4 Day in the Life of Presi- fast and pauses with just one leg in a PLAYBOY exclusive, are the opening 
ne dent Johnson, a book that preserves his pants to summon an aide. pages of some best-selling sequels. 


A Day in the Life 
of President Romney 

President Romney awoke at five, 
angry at having wasted so much time 
asleep. He went to Ше window, 
looked down at the earth and saw 
that it was good. Then he put on his 
sweat 


tsand took his regular morn- 
ing run around his point of view. 
At 5: 
said, “Good morning, George.” 
He scowled at the 
then, recogni 
affairs, he sm 


30, Mrs. Romney awoke and 


ity; but 
g her position in his 
led and tenderly shook 


“А lovely day,” she said. 

"FI have a statement on that 
later," he replied; and then he 
switched on the Mormon Tabernacle 
Choir and marched reverently to the 
shower. 

As the cold water cascaded over 
his well-scrubbed brain, the Presi- 
dent double-timed in place and re- 
аррга recent stand against 
long sideburns. 1 should have made 
it clear, he thought, that 1 oppose 
them only on men. 

At 6:15, he put on the pants of his 
blue suit, careful to insert both legs 
down from the top, first one, then the 


sed his 


other, in the custom of the time. 
Then he began applying talcum to 
his temples, allowing himself the pi- 
ous hope that temples across the land. 
were shining brightly, too. 

At 6:30, his closest advisors, Ham, 
Shem and Japheth, entered the bed- 
“Го afraid, sir," said Shem, 
“that you can't keep delaying a state- 
ment on Vietnam. This is the fifth 
anniversary of ۸ 2 


room. 


ас occupati, 
“J do not envisage any forthcoming 

elaboration of my previous explora- 

tory position,” the President said 

crisply. 

nd then he finished dressing, 


117 


PLAYBOY 


118 


checked the angle of his jaw and strode 
down to the Oval Office, where he went 
right to work showing colorful slides of 
the Michigan budget. 


A Day in the Life 
of President Kennedy 


President Robert Kennedy awoke at 
6:30, sweating from а nightmare in 
which he'd seen himself with no more 
scores to settle. The First Lady was al 
beside him, kneading and 
pounding his shoulders. Turning to her, 
he smiled boyishly and said, "Did you 
have any children during the night? 

“No,” she said, "I was surfing. But ГИ. 
always keep you in the picture." 

“Way to go," he said. “I always want to 
know. Remember, you're either with me 
ог against me; there's по in between 

And then he leaped from Ше bed and 
cartwheeled to the bathroom, where he 
started tugging his forelock. "Put on the 
record!" he called, and the suite was 
soon filled with Sir John Gielgud's roso- 
nant reading of Thirty Days to а More 
Powerful. Vocabulary. 

By 6:45, he had showered 
stretched his hair 


wolled 


bedroom, where he down a 
breakfast of Wheatena and Schlitz. 
“Ready . . . set . . . gor" cried the 


First Lady, clicking a stop watch as the 
President started. reading the Times. 

Four minutes and. 38 seconds later, he 
reached the obituaries. “Damn!” he said 
“That was rotten!” 

“Maybe,” she said 
Times can't be done. 

Slamming the table, he cried, "There's 
nothing that can't be done! Now lets hit 
The List Who are we up to?" 

Picking up a long sheet of paper, she 
said, “Portland Hoffa. Wait a minute: 
She's no relation." 

“OK, spare her. Who's next 

As the First Lady read, the President 
settled down to the mornings work. 


“the fourminute 


A Day in the Life of President Nixon 


President Nixon awoke at eight and 
lay Гог a moment in the still room, listen- 
ing to his beard grow. "Then he reached. 
out for the result of a poll on whether he 
should get up. It was starting the day 
with a tough decision: Only 5l percent 
of the people wanted him up (42 percent 
didn’t and 7 percent were undecided), 
but he still had a majority, so he rose, 
removed his pajamas and walked to the 
bathroom with his copies of The New 
York Times and Boys’ Life, At once, he 
saw a jarring headline: 


16 THE NEW NEW NIXON 
JUST THE FIRST ONE? 


He decided to name a 
team to read the story for him, 


а ruthless 


"d be 
1 today he was feeling nostalgic. 
While brushing his teeth (25 real, 13 


false, thus giving him six spares), he 
thought, Its so nice to finally be Presi- 
dent. At last I can be my real self 
On a pad above the sink, he wrote, 

Та real self. Arrange brichings." 

At 8:15, he entered the shower; 
at 8:19, his head now clean both outside 
and in, he went back to the bedroom, 
where he met Mrs. Nixon, an old friend. 
1 want to take this opportunity," he 
said in the silly secret talk they often 
shared, ^to thank you for all your 
support.” 

And then he called in his secretary 


and began dictating a position paper on 

a possible stand against urban riots. 
"While the riots seem to do more 

harm than good,” he said, "I am frank to 


admit that a wider sampling would be a 
better basis for generalization. Now, if 
we could also have Toledo, Tampa and 
Yonkers. . . .” 


A Day in the Life 
of President Reagan 


President Reagan awoke at 6:45 and 
smiled at the brilliant sun, hoping it was 
beaming as brightly on all the shuffle 
boarders, pruncpickers, movie fans and 
old fanatics who had started him down 
the road to the White House. 
“Zip-adee-doo-dah, look at that sky!" 
he told the First Lady. “I gotta do some 
location stuff. Let’s go dedi 
park or a statue of Barry and then let's 
go and throw some Federal funds in the 
Colorado.” 

“You have a press conference at clev- 
en,” she said. 

“Oh, hell, have ‘em use a rerun. I'm 
not taking any newfangled stands right 
now; I still like the old oncs. Hey, that 
reminds me: How'd you like my speech 
on the Marshall Plan?” 

“I thought you were for 

“Well. by golly. this one really had me 
on the fence; but then I went up to 
Grants Tomb and prayed awhile and 
the whole thing came to me in a flasl 
That an Marshall Plan is just another 
case of the Federal Government doing 
something that the states can do them- 
selves! 

The First Lady smiled proudly, put 
her head on the President's shoulder, 
that he needed a touch-up and got 
irol. "Fenderly rubbing it in. she 
. "You know, Ronnie. sometimes I 
have to pinch myself.” 

“Gee, honey,” he said, "I should be 
doing that for you, but it leads to all that 
scratching and biting and then I need 
». which of course Т never use. 
not talking about sex. I don't 
ng till your term is over; it's 
not that big a change in our routine, I 
pinch myself because I just can't believe 
tha at a General Artists man is really Pres- 
1 always thought the White House 
would go to Ashley Famous: 

The С. A.C. boys should be proud: 


saw 
the 


Presidency. 1 
not even the 


ad-libbed the whole 
па line for it, 


Ive 
didn't lea 


Constitution. Anyway, this wonderful 
runs itsell—very nicely, I might 
without interference from the. 


Governme 
At 7:10, while putting Plus White on 
his teeth, the President tried to remem- 
ber some of the prayem that Knute 
Косев mother used to say; but he 
gave up when he realized that she'd said 
п № 


them. 


A few minutes later, he aud the First 
p his 


Lady went in to bre 
head toward the Sugar Pops (whose irrev- 
i frown). the 


ig Academy in the Sky, let me 
govern today in one take, with no static 
from Steve Allen, but with a clear voice 
for all the litte folks in the loges, who 
still know that thy greatest temple will 
always be Shirley.” 


A Day in the Life 
of President King 


At 6:30, President Martin Luther 
King awoke from a wonderful dream in 
which Stokely Carmichael and Н. Rap 
rown had both been white and МСС 
had stood for South Norwalk Chamber 
of Commerce, 

When the First Lady awoke, she 
smiled at him and he tricd to smile back, 


зеШе for a slight widening of his eyes 

“You ki she said, just 
a little tired of that book end you use Гог 
а lace." 

“L understand.” he said. “Verily yes. 
Let us make sure that you never lose the 
right to reject it” 

“What 1 mean," she said, 
pared to you, Gandhi was a swinger.” 

То accent her point, she threw an ash- 
tray at him, catching him squarely in the 
mouth, because, in the words of Alvin 
Dark, “They're all better players.” 
nk you," he sid, “but I don't 


is, com- 


smile and you don't 
fight and—how the hell did you ever get 
elected?” 

"Of the nine million who voted, 
gratified that a majority wanted m 

"Well, sometimes 1 wish Javits had 
won." 

"The President walked to the TV set 
and tumed it on. А newscaster was say. 
y was still out. in Adam 
ayton Powell's third trial. 
he Reverend Powell would 
much greater help to our peop! 
the President, “if he would j 
that hes w 
know. In fact, it's probably con 
in style, 

"That Powell.” 
getting dressed. 
«оп. Marty, 1 


Fm 


be of 
said 


said the 


Lady, 
now there's а hip dea- 


"s face You're the 
(continued on page 186) 


F BEAUTY is skin-deep, then the Miss Nude Universe 

Contest, held each year outside San Bernardino, Califor 
за, puts more sheer pulchritude on parade than any other 
pageant in the world, Unlike the Miss America competition 


—which confuses amateur theatrics and adolescent 


etiquette with the genuine article—the Miss Nude Universe 


THE MISS NUDE UNIVERSE CONTEST 


this annual search for beauty in the buff is a refreshing answer to those parades of the vestal virgins 


During an undress rehearsal (top), competitors are given their cues. The girls are 
then caught up in last-minute preparations: Above (left), Linda Marie Francis is made 
more eye-alluring by a cosmetician, while a body-make-up man (right) lightly 
touches up the obvious assets of Bunny Meeks. Below (left), Kellie Everts tends 
to her tresses, as four other eager entrants (right) check out their coiffures. 


Contest requires only one thing 
of its finalists: that they be 
beauteous in the buff. The 
annual eyent came about, says 
Mel Hocker, its founder and 
director, because swimsuit run- 
offs are only cover-ups. “Those 
beauty contests allow girls to 
show themselves off in foam- 
rubberized disguises that create 
figures the girls possess only 

in their dreams,” Hocker says. 
"And since they're required to 
wear the same 


thing suits, they 
all look like peas in a pod. 
When a young woman appears 
nude, however, you can bet she 
retains her individuality.” 
Entrants in the Miss Nude 
Universe Contest are graded on 
four counts: figure, face, poise 
and personality (these last two 
reflected in the girls’ carriage 
and composure). The undad 
contestants are given up to 

five points in each category; in 
case of a tie, the girl with the 
best over-all suntan is declared 
the winner. The event, staged 
each y 


ar in the alfresco setting of 
the Oakdale Guest Ranch, 
attracts a host of sun and fun 
worshipers who—like the candi 
dates for the title of empress of 
epiderm—are required to attend 
au naturel. The same holds 

true for the judges; the intrepid 
anatomy appraisers have already 
been appointed for the next 
contest and include former 
heavyweight boxing contender 
Lou Nova; George Liberace, 
violin-playing brother of the 
pianist; photographer Russ 
Meyer, who directed The Immoral 
Mr. Teas; and Jennie Lee, presi- 


dent of the Exotique Dancers 
League. Although candidates for 
the crown have come from 
Argentina, Canada, England and 
Geni 


ny, only Americans have 
thus far captured the title. Upon 
being crowned, the newest Miss 
Nude Universe—Kellie Everts 
—promptly challenged the 
winners of the Miss America, 
Miss Universe and Miss World 
contests to a true show of beauty. 
No takers have yet come forward. 


А Mayan theme sels the scene for the alfresco event. By way of introduction, each attractive contender emerges from a 
makeshift temple and is then aided down a short flight of stairs by Mayan "'chieftains." Above Пей), Daniel Munsun re- 
ceives several helping hands on the way to the judges’ table. After being escorted around poolside (above right), the girls 
chat with judges (below left), who are circumspect in their evaluations of the damsels in dishabille. The brief and informal 


interviews with the queen makers concluded, the girls proceed to display their filled-out forms to the rest of the assemblage. 


Judges and audience alike review the 17 candidates for the title of Miss Nude Universe as the girls promenade around 
poolside а! the Oakdale Guest Ranch; an appreciative gathering of more than 1000 spectators has also doffed its duds 
in deference to contes! rules. After much deliberation on the judges’ part, the well-rounded field is narrowed to five final- 
ists. While the judges make their final choices, the shapely quintet receives the crowd’s plaudits, Seen from behind, the 
girls are (below, from left to right) Kellie Everts, Bobbie Rogers, Bunny Meeks, Daniél Munsun and Linda Marie Francis. 


At last, the choices for the queen and her court are annaunced. Daniél Munsun, а 22-year-old photographer's model 
labave, left and center), is awarded faurth-runner-up honors and is congratulated by her escart. After Bunny Meeks, 23, a 
dancer, is named second runner-up, the two girls (above right) view the caronatian of the new Miss Nude Universe, 22- 
year-old Kellie Everts. Moments later, Miss Everts—whase regal dimensions аге 39-25.35— poses exuberantly for photog- 
raphers. First prize was a screen test and motian-picture contract; Kellie, a topless ga-go girl, is intent upan on acting career. 


PLAYBOY 


SPECIAL! 


FLEURS Dv Mac 


ga ga iZ 
sag ERI 


"I'm looking for something that will appeal to 
his prurient interests." 


ON THE BANK of a river in the Ukraine 
there once lived a ferryman and his 
wife. He was strong as ап ox and near- 
ly as clever and he earned his bread 
by rowing travelers from bank to bank. 
She had a supple body and a face like 
а flower—but the first was so neglected 
by her husband that the second was 
often full of longing. One day, a Volga 
sailor appeared on the other side of the 
stream and shouted for the ferryman. 
Сап you lor the ferry, young 
man?” asked the boatman. “Otherwise, 
I can't you across. 

"I have no moncy," said the traveler, 
"but if you will help me, I will make 
you laugh and cry at the same time. 

“Impossible. What does he mean?” 
thought the ferryman, but he was so full 
of curiosity that he seized his oars and 
rowed the young man across the river. 

"Very good, Раа" the fellow said. 
“Now turn your boat bottom up.” Still 
curious, the ferryman did so. The sailor 
reached into his trousers and pulled 
out his huge, stout member and with it 
gave the boat bottom such a blow that 
he stove in the timbers. 

It was such an astonishing sight that 
the ferryman began to laugh heartily; 
then, when he contemplated the destruc 
tion of his boat, he felt so sad that 
tears came to his eyes. "Well, баща, 
have I kept my word?” said the sailor. 
he Devil take you," cried the boat- 
man. "Go away!" 

The ferryman returned home, still 
provoked. As he came in the door, he 
thought of the sailor’s prodigious mem- 
ber and began to laugh, and then he 
recalled the fate of his boat and he 
burst into tears. His wile anxiously 
asked him what the matter was and, 
«d, he told her all 


when he was recov 
that had occurred. 

Her eyes widened and a thoughtful 
look came over her face, Suddenly, she 
began to reproach him. “You old devil, 
why did you let him go? That was по 
sailor—that was my brother, and you 
didn't recognize him. My parents must 
have sent him to visit us. Harness the 
horse and follow him quickly; I must 
have all the news of my dear mother 
and father! 

When the ferryman caught up with 

the sailor, he said, "Sce here, why 
didn’t you say you were my wi 
brother? You must come home and stay 
ih us.” 
The clever sailor guessed the answer 
to the puzzle almost at once. "How 
could 12" he said. "I'd never seen you 
before. 

When they came back to the house, 
the girl ran out and threw her arms 
around the young man with many ex- 
pressions of: “My dear, how long since 
1 saw you" and “How are they all at 
home?” He replied appropriately with 
many hugs and words of pleasure at 
the joyful reunion. She took him inside, 
plicd him with omelets and brandy, 


tears and laughter 


from Russkiia Zavetny1a Skazki 


Ribald Classic 


and all three were merry until night 
came. 

As darkness fell, the pretty wife said 
to her husband, "Brother and | still 
have so much to say about our relatives, 
the living and the dead, that I shall 
sit here by his bed for a while. Don't 
trouble yourself to stay up, but make 
your bed in the lean-to.” Being sleepy, 
he а and went off. 

Very shortly the sailor and the girl 
è locked together in such a vigorous 
game of bouncing that she let out a 
“What is the matter?" shouted 


“God rest his soul,” said the ferry. 
man. Then he crossed himself and went 
back to sleep. 

Soon she gave a louder cry, and again 
the husband asked the cause. "Mother 
is dead," said the girl. "May she rest 
with the saints" said the ferryman 
This continued all night until even the 


second and third cousins were in their 
graves. 
‘The next morning, the sailor pre- 


pared to return hom 
gave him some pi 
many kisses and said, “Please come 
soon!" And the ferryman added, 
shall always be glad to sce you.’ 

In order to set the brother on 
high road in the right 


The young wife 
and brandy and 


the 
direction, 
the couple went along with him on the 


small road that led through the wood. 
"The conversation was brisk and merry, 
Dut at last the girl said, “You must not 
be too long from your work, Байа. Re- 
turn home now and ГИ go just a little 
ther with my dear brother. 

"The ferryman turned back, but after 
he had gone some 30 paces through 
the wood, he stopped and looked back. 
In the meantime, the sailor, wishing to 
give his supposed sister а rousing fare- 
well, hoisted her skirts around her neck. 
aid her down on a grassy bank and 
began to roger her strenuously. In order 
to deceive the husband, however, he 
aised her right leg in the air and put 
his cap over her foot. 

In the midst of her pleasure, the 
girl's foot kept shaking and, seeing only 
the cap over the bushes, tbe ferryman 
said to himself, “What affection! Her 
brother is already more than halfway up 
the path and still he is waving good 
bye.” He took off and 
waved that, too. 

When husband and wile were home 
in, she was glowing with happiness. 
‘This is the first time in two years I 
have heard you sing songs" he said. 

“Do you blame me?" she asked. “IL 
was such a deep pleasure to see my di 
brother, 1 hope he will come agai 

“Well, for your sake,” said her hus- 
band, “I hope that he will come many 
times again," 

—Reiold by Nicholas Gabayeu 


his own cap 


[Y | 125 


PLAYBOY 


126 


PIMP'S REVENGE 


azionale cigarettes and а quarter of 
head of cabbage. In a fit of well-be 
he bought three winered dahl 


of her basket handed him а 
free. Shopping for food's a 
. you get down to brass tacks. It 


for inst 
felt he needn't p: 
lite and noth 
iey moved like a current. through 
belly as Ше thought threatened 
had all he could do not to break into a 
sweat, тип back. to the studio, set up his 
canvas and s ш it with paint. I'm 
à timeaavaged man, horrible curse on 


we painting a n 
ми for 


the 
g much lost: but ther 


vest o 


artist, 

The young whore with Ше baggy hat 
saw the flowers amid his bundles as he 
approached, and through her short veil 
smiled dimly up at him. 


F. for no reson he could think of. 
gave her the marigold. and the girl—she 
was по more than 18 Вей the flower 
awkwardly 


“Whats your price, if you dont mind 
me asking? 
What 


пе you, 
ш?” she asked. 
“That's right, how did you know? 
“1 think D guessed. Maybe 
clothes or the flowers ог something. 
smiled her eyes 
benches, her hard mouth tight 
swer your question, two thousand lire” 
He raised his beret and walked on. 
"You Gu five hun 
called. an whore her 
“What she hasn't heard of Eve pr iced 
all my lile. I have no objection 10 odd 
requests." 


Mer or 


1 


some- 


thii 


its your 
She 


dred,” 
bench, 


have me for 


old from 


But Е was now running. Cot to get 
back to work. He crossed the street 
through a stream of Fiats. carts, Vespas, 


amd rushed back to his studio. 
Afterward he sit on his bed. hands 
asped between knees, looking at the 
nvas and thinking of the young whor 
Maybe itll relax me so 1 Gin paint. 
He counted what was left of his moi 
cy, then hid the paper lire in a Кпопей 
sock in his bureau dra He removed. 
the sock and hid it in the armadio on the 
hat rack. Then he locked the armadio 
and hid the key in the bureau drawer. 


wer 


He dropped the drawer key into a jar of 
cloudy turpentine. figuring he wouldn't 
nt to wet his 1 ing for it. 


e she'd let me 
when 1 have more money? I 
wuld do two Madonnas sometime and 
pay her out of the 10,000 lire. 
Then he thought, She seemed 
ested уре 
trade for a d 
He rifled through a pile of charo: 
drawings and cime on опе of a heavy- 
bell le cutting her toenails, on 


inter- 


n she'd 


(continued [rom ра 


70) 


chunky foor on а 
ted to the benches in the 1 
where the girl sat glumly w 
marigokl in her hand. 
"Would vou mind havi 
stead? One of ту own, 
stead of what?" 
“Instead ol 
їз just an ide 
It took her a 
her head. "Oh, 
you want 
He unrolled the drawing 


a drawing, 
that is?” 


cash. lm short. 


minute to run it through 
all right, il u 


id. showed. 


it 


1 right." 

as though she had made a 
ke, she flushed under her veil and 
ed embarrassed 
“Anything wrong! 
Her eyes miserably searched the piazza, 


Зи nothing.” she said after a minute. 
“TI take the drawing”: then seeing him 
studying her, she laughed. nervously and 


id. "1 was looking for my cousin. He 
was supposed 10 meet me here. Well, if 


һе comes let him wait, he's a pain in the 
ass anyway." 
She rose from the bench and they 


went together toward Via 5. Agosti 
Fabio, the landlord, took one look and 

called her puttana. 
“That'll do from you,” 
p 


suid Е, sternly. 
stead оГ pising away 


Mind your business. 
Her name, she told him as th 
undressing in his studio, was Esn 
His was Arturo. 


I's hair, when she tossed oft hu 
‚ was brown and full. she had 
ack eyes shaped like plum pits, а small 
mouth, оп the sad side, а Modigliani 
neck, strong though not exactly white 
pimply brow. She wore long 
ar earriugsand kept ешон. 
Esmeralda unzipped her clothes and they 
were at once in bed, It wasn't bad, though. 
she apologized for her performa 

As they lay smoking in bed 
given her one of his cigaretces— 
la said. “Phe one 1 was looking for 
isn't my cousin, he’s my pimp or at least 
he was. If he’s there waiting for me now, 
I hope it's snowing and he freezes to 
death.” 

They had an espresso 
said she liked the studi 
m 


ice. 


she h; 


together. She 
and ойстеф 


He was me tarily 


panicked. "I 


woukl't want it w interfere with my 
painting. 1 mean, Fm devoted to that. 


Besides, this is a small. place. 


m a small girl. VII take care of your 
»ceds and wont interfere with your 
work. 

He finally agreed. 

Though he had conce 


her health, he let her stay yet felt rea- 
sonably contented. 


“Signor Ludovico Belvedere.” the land. 
lord called up from the ground floor. 
gentleman on his way up the stairs to 
sec vou. И he buys one of your pictures, 
won't have an excuse for not paying 
д month's rent. not to mention June or 


F went in 
cr slowly, 
stopping to breathe. wound his way up 
the stir. The painter dad hastily ae 
moved the canvas from the easel, hidi 


it in the kitchen alcove. He soaped his 
hands thickly. the smoke from the butt 
dangling fiom his mouth d into a 
dosed eye. F quickly dri with 

diny towel, It was, instead of a gentle- 
man, Esmeraklas wedy cugino, the 
pimp. a thin man past 30. tall, wih 
pouched small eyes and а pencilline 


mustache. His hands and feet we 
small. he wore loose squeaky shoes with 
gray spus. His clothes, though neatly 


pressed, had seen better than thei 
Чам 1 sported a 


асса cane 
There was 
though he seemed to mask it, à quality 
of having experienced everything. 
more. that gave F tlie momentary shivers. 

Bowing courteously and speakin 
mong he was not, 
explained, in the best об moods—to му 
nothing of his health—after а week of 
running around desperuely ying to 10- 
cue Esmeralda. He explained they had 
misunderstanding over a few lire 
unfortunate error, no more 
itake in addition са 
one instead of a seven. “These 
ppen io Ше best of mathematicians, 
but what cun. you do with someone who 
won't liven 10 reason? She slapped my 
face and тап off. Through а mutual. ac 
quaintince Т made an appointment. to 
explain the maner to her, with proof 
from my accounts, but though she gave 
her word. she didu't appear. It doesn't 
ik well for her maturity 
1 learned later from 


friends. 


fend in 


the Santo Spirito quarter that she was at 
Lu- 


the moment living with the signore 


for dlisturl 


but Е must understand he had come out 
of necessity and urgency. 

Per cortesia, signore, | request your 
good will A great deal is at stake lor 
four people. She can continue to serve 
vou from time to time if thats what she 
but 


Mts, gather from your. landlord 
that you're not exactly prosperous, and 


of course she has to support herself and 
а starving father in Fiesole. 1 don’t sup 
pose she's told you about him, but il it 
weren't for me personally, he'd be 
in a common grave th 


flowers on his chest, She must come back 
to work under my guidance and protec 
tion not only because it's mutually 

(continued on page 156) 


nothing bothers a magician more than a truculent topper with a will of its own and a beautiful nude stuck inside 


In the middle of the st plain table. 
A man enters, dressed as ian with 
black cape and black silk Dolls 
hat in wide sweep to audience, bows 
clegantly 

раи: 

He displays inside of hat. It is empty. Не 
thumps it. It is clearly empty. Places hat 
on table, brim up. Extends both hands 


over hat, tugs back sleeves, exposing 


fiction 


By ROBERT 


ООУ: 


wrists, snaps fingers. Reaches 
a rabbit. 

1pplaus 

Pitches rabbit into wings. Snaps fingers 
over again, reaches in, extracts a 
dove. 

Applause. 

Pitches dove into wings. Snaps fingers 
over reaches in, extracts another 


rabbit. No (continued on page 170) 


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$59.95 each 

T9 AM/FM stereo receiver can play two different programs simultaneously, by Telmar, $329.50. Model 3301 stereo tape cartridge recorder, by Craig, 
Oiled-walnut equipment cabinet, by Furm-a-Kit, $123.50 (in kit form), holds—teft to right, top to bottom: Headliner 14-diagonalinch color TV, 

35. Model SC-100 solid-state preamplifier, by Pioneer, $375. AR all-silicon transistorized amplifier, by Acoustech Research, $225. Model 2000 solid- state 

/ FM stereo receiver, by Sansui, $299.95. Acoustech VIII solid-state FM stereo tuner, by Acoustech, $349. Model 911 all solid-state power amplifier, by С. 

Model RF-3000A Voyager 6-band solid-state portable, by Panasonic, $179.95, atop a Townsman audiometric speaker, by 

110. Dual TG 27 4-track stereo tape deck with smoke-tinted plexiglass cover, by United Audio, $234. Model 550T AM/FM stereo receiver, by Fisher. 

Model 1725.81 4-track stereo tape recorder can also record or play 8-track stereo cartridges, by Roberts, $389.95. Model ХР15 speaker system in 

oiled-walnut cabinets with each unit housing seven speakers, by Fisher, $299.50 each. Model F-105 4-track stereo cassette tape deck, by Concord, $140. Huldra 

Model 8-55 FM and 4-band AM table radio, by Tandberg, $456. Model Р$-2000 record player features an illuminated-strobe speed-adjustment knob, by Sony, $329, 


PLAYEOY 


channel, For tape bulls, the Japanese firm 
TEAC offers the AS-60 AM/FM receive 
(5389.50) into which as many as four 
decks can be hooked for special editing, 
те d duplicating exigencies. 

the "s receiver innova- 
DC's Model 1000 (5379.95) 
ar's Eldorado (5329.50). The 


five. 
whim and 
the usual complement of control: 
latter is an AM/FM model 
bring in both bands at once, which then 
Gin be piped to separate It 
comes in handy when you w 
background music for various purposes 
(perhaps Ravi Shankar im the living 
room and Sinatra in the bedroom. or vicc 
versa), Somewhat less newsworthy but 
equally deserving of attention are several 
п models from old and faithful sup 
pliers of stereo receivers. These include the 

sher 200-T (25 watts per channel, 
$290.95), the Harman-Kardon 530 (25 


M stations (they can be reset as 
copraphy dictate) as well as 
The 


watts per channel, AM/FM, 5299) and 
the Scout ЗИС (30 watts per channel, 
5399.95). all of which offer front-pancl. 


switchin, 
setups. 

The sophisticated engineering in to- 
days all-in-one receiver made the 
ries of separate components 
what less imposing th: 
Nevertheles 
will sull find pertinent advanta 
greater flexibility offered by separa 
tuning and amplification gear. For exam- 
ple, if your listening tastes range to in- 
ternational shortwave broadcasts as well 
аз domestic AM and FM fare, you'll 
want 10 consider an allwave tune» such 
the Grundig RT40U (5249.95) or the 
her R-200 (5349.05). And, И you 
have difficulty tuning in your favorite 
programs, the ultrahigh sensitivity built 
b top quality tu the Scott 
312D ($319.95) and the Acoustech VIH 
(5349) can solve а lot of problems. 

An even wider diversity of options is 


provision for auxiliary speaker 


some- 


ers 


ictu 
renewed interest in the principle of bi 
ori „а technique that pro- 
vides an individual power source for 
wooler. midrange and treble speakers, 
ating the lowered dampi 
ulis when one amplifier is 
used to drive three different speakers. 
This type of setup hit its stride in the 
luc days of mono listening, then disap- 
peared when stereo made the sound 
scene. Now bi- and uiamplification 
seems to be on the rebound—ol course, 
stereo. Sony is ollering the highly 
sophisticated T A-4300 electronic crossove: 
network (5199.50) in conjunction with 
its S0-watt-per-channel. solid-state 
amplifiers (Model T A-3120, 

each), Kenwood has a similar arrange- 


134 ment in its Supreme 1 multichannel sterco 


amplifier (9605), which incorporates a 
preamp and six stereo power amplifiers 
on one chassis, adding up to a total of 
142 watis of continuous stereo power. 
Pioneer offers a variation on the theme by 

ing two solid-state power amplifiers 
nd pack- 
aging them toge andy bookshelf- 
size integrated unit (Model IS-80, 5375 
each) that’s perfect for a bachelor studio 
apartment. Pioneer is also introducing a 
new all-out preamp. the SC-100 ($375), 
with d circuits for low-level and high- 
level inputs and a sloping input panel 
at for casy access 10 phono 
00 cin be used with the 
system or with any top- 
grade stereo power amplifier, such as C/M 
Laboratories’ Model 911 (100 watts per 
nel, 5177) or the Marantz Model 
15 (60 watts per channel, $395). 

Among the many conuol amplifiers 
shown this season are two newcomers. 
The AR amplifier. from firm noted 
lor speakers and turntables, puts out a 
substantial 50 wants per channel. incorpo- 
rates such refinements as an “idler” pow. 
cr supply for eliminating turn-on noise 
bursts and carries а remarkably low 
price tag (5225). Sansuís 25-wattper- 
channel Model AU-777 (5279.95) offers a 
multitude of controls on its functional 
front panel—indluding knife-type switches 


for high and low filters, presence circuit, 
imerstation muting and tape monitoring. 
Turning now to turntables and 


iridges, we find a good deal of signifi 
improvements and a couple of impor 
breakthroughs. The salient aspect 


recent cartridge design— elliptical sty 
degree vertical tracking angle 
mal tracking force—show up 
top 


1 mini- 
a all the 
models with minor updaungs 10 
ewen beter performance than 
Cartridge refinements are cumul 
tive in effect, so a five-year-old model is 
ly pretty far out of date. И you're 
in the market for ultrasensitive pick- 
up, be sure по sample the latest arriv: 
—Empire’s 999V. ), Pickering’s 
DCF 400 ($49.95), ADC's ЮЕ Mark IL 
($59.50) and Ortofon's SL-15T ($75), to 
name a few. Another excitingly new car- 
піве comes from Kenwood and com- 
ads a retail price of 5120. The unit 
rks on а photocleciric principle, with 
the stylus shaft interposed between a tiny 
bulb and two light-sensitive diodes. Al- 
though the head contains a hefty amount 
of eleciwonic hardware, Kenwood claims a 
wacking force of less than two grams, 

The autom turntable field also 
gives ample evidence of updating. Head- 
line news is being made by Sherwood: 
Their justunveiled Model SEL 200 
(8149.05) is an automatic turntable utiliz- 
g twin motors—one for driving the 
plauer, another for working the changer 
mechanism. rd has revamped its 
пе British-made line with the intro- 
ion of a new synchronous motor that 
imo the alternating current for 


menance, regardless 
"Top model in the 
50), features an ad- 
control that helps 
equalize the lateral pull on the stylus. 
The 2020 (5129.95) ha 
stylusaangle adjustment in irs 
shell de 
degree 
stacked on the sp 
that carry low price tags include 
600 ($74.50), Miracord 620 (589. 


constant speed ma 
of voltage fluctuation: 
series, the 5195 (51 
justable antiskati 


he BSR 
0) and 


turers are playing it 
о radical ii 
Ks по extreme 


cool this year 
no outlandish sh; 


Even so, with the continuous refir 
and restyling thats endemic to 


breed. there's а lot of new merchandise 
available, Empire has invaded the com 
pact market with a model called the Kit- 
ten ($99.95); like any proper feline, it's 
happiest on terra firma—the floor serv 
ing as sounding board for the down 
ward-pointed woofer. At a slight extra 
charge. Kittens can be supplied with 
cushions or marble tops for doubleduty 
s seats or end tables. Another interest- 
ing departure from the standard “pi 
ture-frame” approach to speaker 
hay been developed by the Califorr 
firm of James B. Lansing. The new JBL 
Nova (5180) elegantly connasts. walnut 
with a а shaped  dark-paiterned. 
pric: while the JBL dual-cibinet Ca- 
price (8171), which is faced w 
spun. chi swivels on 

i floor-stand то 
are built around. 12 
Sánch drivers, respectively. Анес new 


look this season takes the form of large. 
that 


ble enclosure 
med Voice of the Th 


system in either a contemporary or a 
Mediterrancan cabinet (the Monaco, 
5328, and La Paz, 5337). Sansui, on the 


other upbeat styling 
note by m hand-carved walnut 
fretwork in place of the us He cloth 
for its top-of.th odel SP 900 


(5179.95). 

Not all the spcaker changes arc vi 
ble. Acoustic Research's AR-3, which 
has long been a touchstone for 


lence, has now become the sin 
looking AR-3a (5250) with the addition 
of а lowered crosove for 


woofer and new midrange and tweeter 
units, Tannoy has broken with uadition. 
and introduced a compact sj 
the Townsman (5110), that uses sepa 
low frequency 
the dual concentric speakers 


m 


1 of 
normally 


nits 


tening when you want 


instead of loudspeakers, 
there's nothing better than a pair of 


stereo headphones. The wares offered by 
such established specialists as Koss, Tcl- 
ех, Sharpe and Superex are all worth 
considering. In addition, you may wish 

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9927 & РОР 68 


| a look at the current music scene— plus the 
winners of the 12th annual playboy poll and 
readers! choices for the playboy jazz hall of 


fame and recordsofthe year ВВ МАТ HENTOFF 


“THEY TEACH YOU there's a boundary line to music,” 
Charlie Parker said. “But, man, there’s no boundary 
line to art.” The sounds of the year just past were the 
sounds—often electronically driven—of the cracking 
of boundary lines. A San Francisco rock group, Big 
Brother and the Holding Company, made the most 
powerful impact of any unit at the Monterey Jazz Fes- 


tival. The year's most significant new guitarist, 24-year- 

old Larry Coryell, started 1967 as a member of The Free A 
Spirits, a rock combo, ended it with the jazz group of 3 
Gary Burton, but remained his own world-encompass- f v 
ing self. It is Coryell who speaks for the new generation Lov 


тне 1968 PLAYBOY 80-57988 ап-зтавз OSCAR PETERSON, piano, instrumental combo 


of musicians: “If music has something to say to you— 
whether it's jazz, country blues . . . hillbilly, Indian or 
any other . . . folk music—take it. Never restrict 
yourself.” 

More and more combos pulsate with this exuberant 
> musical ecumcnicity. The ferment of influences in 
74 Jeremy Steig and the Satyrs, a jazz-and-rock unit, 
S includes Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Paul Hindemith, 
John Coltrane, Howlin’ Wolf and many varieties of 
rock. A characteristic boundary breaker, bassist Chris. 
topher Darrow of The Kaleidoscope, a West Coast 
combo, lists as his favorite composers Bach, John 


BUDDY DE FRANCO ELLA FITZGERALD WES MONTGOMERY DIZZY GILLESPIE 
clarinet female vocalist guitar trumpet 


£ 


Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jimmy Reed and John 
Lee Hooker. A young tenor saxophonist until recently 
in Woody Herman's band, Steve Marcus, is described 
by Down Beat as having roots in "Coltrane, Ravi 
Shankar and the Beatles." 

And it is the evolution of the Beatles, climaxed in 
the most influential album of the year, Sgt. Pepper's 
Lonely Hearts Club Band, that symbolizes the growing 
seriousness with which the joy of the new music is 
being welcomed by musicians and listeners leaping free 
of categories. As Hungarian-born jazz guitarist Gabor 
Szabo, who now doubles on sitar and plays Beatles 


J. J. JOHNSON 


FRANK SINATRA 


songs as well as jazz originals, says of the Sgi Pepper phenome. 
non:""The music, together with the lyrics and performance, is 
something nobody has come close to in freshness. The album 
as a whole is a composition: it starts, it develops and it ends. 
It's funny and it's scary at times romantic and has lyrical 
quality and, of course, the throbbing beat. Its the message of 
1967; everything is in there.” 

Accordingly, the annual poll results in this issue are of the 
1968 Jazz & Pop Poll. Accordingly, halfway through the year, 
Down Beal, the oldést existing jazz magazine, announced it was 
expanding its coverage to include the pop scene. Accordingly, 
the monthly Jazz ended the year as Jazz & Pop. The lines 


RAY BROWN 


trombone male vocalist bass 


THE 1968 PLAYBOY ALL-STARS’ ALL-STARS 


MILT JACKSON GERRY MULLIGAN 
vibes baritone sax 


between jazz and pop have not dissolved entirely—not 
yet, anyway. Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor, for exam- 
ple, are not likely to make the pop charts for some time 
to come, nor are they among the jazz combos that 
include Beatles tunes in their repertory. But the lis- 
tener involved in contemporary sounds now finds it 
mecesary—and pleasurable—to follow the Grateful 
Dead, the Cream, Janis Ian, Aretha Franklin, the Jef- 
ferson Airplane and, of course, the Beatles along with 
Ayler. Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, 
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet. 

As the year made Day-Glo clear, the new pop music 


STAN GETZ 
tenor sax 


FOUR FRESHMEN 
vocal group 


is not only а Gestalt cf a whirlpool of intersecting 
cultures—black blues, country and western, jazz, Indian 
music, psychedelic mind-blowing—but it also repre 
sents the taking over of ше pop field by the young 
themselves. The groups and the singers write their 
own songs; their recording supervisors are, for the 
most part, of their own age. The young finally have 
their own communications medium, and that medium 
is its message—life-affirming sound expansion through 
electronics; immediacy expansion through accompany- 
ing light shows and other forms of total environmental 
theater; and at the core, as Grace Slick, lead singer of 


ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARTIN HOFFMAN 


CANNONBALL ADDERLEY 
alto sax 


the Jefferson Airplane, candidly puts it, the succinct етапара- 
tion proclamation: “Be free—free in love, free in sex.” 
Similarly, Albert Ayler, among the most advanced of the 
new jazzmen, speaks of the need to “go beyond notes imo 
feelings, for music can bring about new ways of 1 
loving.” There can be rage in the new jazz (Archie Shepp) 
and sardonic skewering of adult hypocrisy in the new pop 
(the Mothers of Invention), but the basic thrust among crea 
tors in both fields, including those who keep crossing over, is 
toward liberation—liberation of mind and body. 
It was, therefore, uot particularly surprising to those who 
know their current music when the Beatles, toward the end of 


THE 1968 PLAYBOY ALL-STAR BAND 


CHARLES MINGUS 
bass 


BUDDY RICH 


CHET ATKINS 
guitar 


FRANK SINATRA 
male vocalist 


RAVI SHANKAR 
sitar 


HLUSTRATION EY BILL UTTERBACK 


HERB ALPERT 
instrumental combo 


- v Ve 
HERB ALPERT MILES DAVIS LOUIS Dum 
first trumpet third trumpet fourth trumpet 


4 \ 
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: 1 wn У РИ 
|, ve 3. ме 24 ХИ 
| J.J. JOHNSON | 51 ZENTNER Il КА] WINDING | RI 


| frst trombone | second trombone 5 third trombone 4 


= 1 a DX m a 
PAUL DESMOND STAN GETZ BOOTS RANDOLPH | GERRY MULLIGAN PETE FOUNTAIN 
second alto sax first tenor sax second tenor sax | baritone sax | clarinet 


HENRY MANCINI 
leader 


BEATLES 
vocal group 


SCULPTURES BY JACK GREGORY 
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SEYMOUR МЕОМСК, 


THE PLAYBOY 
9872 нац оғ ғаме 


Each year, PLAYBOY readers are asked to vote for the three 
performers—vocalist or instrumentalist, alive or remem- 
bered—who are mosi worthy of inclusion in our Jazz Hall 
of Fame. With the addition of this year’s winners, the roster 
now numbers nine; yet the list of revered names in jazz 
history has barely been tapped—a tribute to the depth and 
scope of jazz itself. We're confident that as our Hall of Fame 
continues to grow in size and prestige, so will the music it 
honors; and that as jazzmen blow their way into the future, 
proponents of the various schools—from way back to way 


out—will learn to accept and live with one another's ideas. 


Two years ago, readers selecied three indisputable giants of 
jazz as the first contingent to be ensconced in our Hall of 
Fame. They were (left, top to bottom) Frank Sinatra, the 
Meistersinger from Hoboken: Louis Armstrong, who shared 
his New Orleans cradle with jazz itself; and Dave Brubeck, 
whose forays into far-out rhythms helped the modernists 
crash the lime barrier. In 1967, they were joined by an 
equally impressive trio—all of royal stature, in fact. The 
newcomers included Duke Ellington, the premier composer 
and orchestral leader of jazz; vocal queen Ella Fitzgerald, who 
still generates more purely musical excitement with her voice 
than many top instrumentalists can produce; and Count 


Basie, whose bands have maintained an Olympian standard 
of brilliance for decades. This year, artist Jack Gregory's busts 
immortalize the features of three more performers—the king 
of swing, the king of soul and a late leader of the avant-garde. 


JOHN COLTRANE Legions of jazz fans felt personally 
bereaved last summer when death suddenly claimed John 
Colirane at the age of 40. Introspective and never content to 
rest on his achievements, Coltrane struggled long and hard 
before he discovered himself. After 15 years as a pro, during 
which he played with Earl Bostic, Thelonious Monk aud 
Miles Davis, often engaged in а titanic, lonely battle with his 
horn, he formed his own quartet. With mystical fervor, Col. 
tranc then embarked on a series of rhythmic, harmonic and 
tonal explorations that he was destined to leave unfinished: 
Shortly before his death, Trane turned down a nightclub 
engagement because he was busy working out new ideas. As 
the primal sire of the "new" jazz, he gave exposure to such 
inventive young voices as Eric Dolphy and Archie Shepp; he 
saved the soprano saxophone from oblivion; his recordings, 
from the trail-blazing “My Favorite Things” to the messianic 
“Ascension,” are authentic masterpieces, But Coltrane’s trade- 
mark was his unique sound, which bespoke a relentless search 
for perfection yet was always, even in the 
realms of abstraction, compellingly passionate and alive. 


most elevated 


the year, after finishing a tele 


nounced that they would spend a month in India studying with a mystic, Mahai 
xpanding imperatives of the new music was the appea 
Richard Lester's antiwar film, How 7 Won the War. Nor was it surpr 
I—an unprecedented summit meeting of pop performers—a standing ovation was received by 


with the lifi 


ternational Pop Festi 
Ravi Sh: 
sensuality with spirituality. 


пКаг after he h; 


‘That festival made vivid the sccpe of today's pop expression 
and Garfunkel through piebald blues (Canned Heat, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, М 


gence of Simor 


1 given a capacity audience an undiluted program of Indi 


ion show (the first they had completely assembled and produced themselves), an- 


context 


ishi Mahesh Yogi. Also 
nce, as an actor, of Beatle John Lennon in 
ng when, in June, at the first Monterey In- 


n music, a music that combines 


from the lyrical ingenuity and probing intelli- 
Bloomfield 


and the Electric Flag, Big Brother and the Holding Company), basic black “soul” music (Otis Redding) and sheer soar- 
ing high spirits (the Mamas and the Papas). Те was the most ambitious assemblage of its type so far anywhere in the 
world and it presages the kind of festival growth for pop music that has characterized the jazz scene in recent years. 


Last year, the Newport and Monterey jazz ft 


ls were again successful 


s were the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival in 


Cleveland, the first Nashville Jazz Festival, the Longhorn Jazz Festival in Austin and similar events in Philadelphia, 


BENNY GOODMAN The halcyon days of the big-band eva, 
when the undergrads of the Thirties were freaking out via 
the jitterbug route, are personified by the king of swing— 
а тейсет, ullraprofessional musician who is at ease playing 
a Hindemith clarinet concerto under the baton of Leonard 
Bernstein or improvising with jazzmen like Lionel Hampton 
and Gene Krupa. The son of an immigrant tailor, Benny 
got his first musicians’ union card at 13. In 1935 he made it 
10 the top of his profession with his own band, aided by 
Fletcher Henderson's inimitable charts; by the time of his 
legendary Carnegie Hall concert of 1938, he had become Ше 
idol of his dancing generation and had helped boost jazz to 
an unprecedented peak of popularity. In recent years, Benny 
has devoted a lot of his time to the classics, but he still gigs, 
records and occasionally serves as one of Americas premier 
ambassadors of jaz: he has played his joyful, streamlined 
music for Nikita Khrushchev and jammed with the King of 
Thailand. Benny's combos, no matier what their size, con- 
tinue to be models of unity and flexibility; and as the years 
roll by, his audience appears more appreciative than euer. 


RAY CHARLES Much of today's pop art is about love, but 
there is no one who can convey the anguish and сирйона of 
love with the immediacy or the profundity of Ray Charles. 
The personal agonies of “The Genius" are well known—he 
was blinded al six, orphaned as a teenager and subsequently 
hooked on narcotics (which he has apparently licked after 
а long struggle). The Ray Charles success story is equally 
fantastic; since discarding an imitation-Nat Cole style in the 
early Fifties and projecting his personal blend of blues, Gospel 
and jazz, he has built a world-wide, fanatically devoted audi- 
ence and has earned a fortune. In the process, Ray has estab- 
lished himself as a master of romantic ballads, earthy rock 
w voll, country-and-western tunes and virtually everything 
else he has touched; he is a skilled arranger, pianist and reed 
man and an astute businessman, At 35, he is our youngest Hall 
of Famer. Yet for the many who literally adore him—once, 
misled by а rumor that Ray's blindness was curable, thou- 
sands offered him their eyes—it is simply R.G.'s voice, sensitive 
to every nuance of a song, unflinchingly honest and potent as 
the blues itself, that invariably turns. black night into day. 


PLAYBOY 


144 


Апама, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, 
Cincinnati, Buffalo and Baltimore. Less 
healthy in attendance and receipts was 
the second annual Pacific 7 Festi- 
in Costa Mesa, California. Mean- 
nal jazz-festival territory was 
ned in Mexico—in Puebla and Mexi- 
co City—the breakthrough having been 
cosponsored by the Mexican government 
and the concerts produced by the ubiq 
tous George Wein. Spurred by the enthu- 
siastic reaction to the initial inclusion of 
jaz in the prestigious Puebla Festival 

ich has previously focused on interna- 
nal classical and folk music), this year 
Puebla will be the scene of a Hemisphere 
Festival encompassing jazz and indige- 
jous forms of music from North, South 
and Central America. 

Wein further expanded his festival cir- 
cuit outside the United States by sending 
a troupe to Expo 67 in Montreal in the 

pring and, in the fall, another caravan to 
Europe. The year's most tumultuous inter- 
national jazz experience, however, took 
place in Tallin, Estonia, in May, when 
the Charles Lloyd Quartet became the 
first American jazzmen to perform pul» 
licly with Sovict musicians. At that Soviet 
1. festival, the authorities at first. de- 
ed Lloyd's appearance, finally offering 
him only a chance to play at a workshop 
before a small number of Soviet mu: 
ins, Lloyd refused unless he was also 
given a chance to play before the gencral 
festival audience; and when permission 
finally came through, he created before 
а roaring audience of 5000 what A. P's 
man at Tallin reported as “the wildest 
hour of farout jazz ever performed in 
the Soviet Union. 

As the barriers to American jazzmen 
kept falling in the Soviet Union (Gerry 
Mulligan jammed at the Moscow Hotel 
in July), the president of the Russian 
composers’ union called for the forma- 
tion of jazz de ps at U.S. S. R. 
educational institutions to bring more 
“professionalism” to native jazz Me 
while, the increasing internationalization 
of European jazz festivals was dramatized 
by the presence at the tenth Jazz Jamboree 
in Warsaw of groups representing both 
sides of the Curtain. їп Yugoslavia, big- 
band leader and composer Miljenko Pro- 
haska ind ed the direction that more 
1 more non-American jazzmen are 
g—the incorporation of native 
in their jazz wor 


a 
pursui 
themes and idioms 
At first, Prohaska’s band had echoed that 
of Count Basie; but now. at home and in 
the compositions he brought to the Mon- 
trey Jazz Festival in September, Proha: 
ka illustrated the validity of the advice 
Monterey Festival music director John 
Lewis has long gi П the years 1 
have encouraged foreign jazzmen, I al- 
ways told them they should put some of 
their own soul into the 

Furthermore, the maturation of Euro- 
pean jazz instrumentalists was clear at 


Monterey through impressive appea 
ances by French violinist Jean-Luc Pon- 
ty, French drummer Daniel Humair and 
the father-son team from Lugano of F 
vio (alto) and Franco (trumpet) Ambro- 
seti. Most stunningly proficient of all 
the European guests was 21-year-old 
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, whose 
performances prompted Ray Brown to 
xclaim: "What does it mean to say 
nopean’ or ‘American’? These cats play 
music. Maybe its roots are here, but with 
records, radio, tours and festivals, jazz 
spreads as fast from New York to 
as from Chicago to Los Angeles. 

Even more swift in its spread is the 


new pop music. When the Procol Harum’s 


A Whiter Shade of Pale broke into the 
bestselling lists in England and then in 
America, its ascent continued in France, 
Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Bcl- 
gium and other countries. Toward the 
end of the Гог other examples, the 
les All You Need Is Love topped 
Argentina; Mala 
to Reflections by Diana Ross 
and the Supremes; the Rolling Stones’ 
Backstreet Girl was rising in popularity 
in Israel and the same Stones We Love 
You was moving up in Poland. 

In April, the Rolling Stones venuned 
behind the Iron Cur nd at Congress 
Hall in Warsaw, while the crowd. inside 
screamed, waving coats and shirts at the 
beginning and end of each number, 8000 
youngsters outside, unable to get tickets, 
tried to charge the building's iron gates 
but were thrown back by police tear gas. 
Mick Jagger, leader of the Stones, told 
newsmen before the trip: “We're going for 
а piddle of our usual fec, of course, but I 
think it'll be nice if we can reach across 
the stage and establish, you know, com- 
munication with the Polish kids” In 
Moscow in late fall, the Beatles began 
communicating instantly with Russian 
teenagers when, for the first time, one of 
their records, Girl, went on public sale 
(although in a pirated version, for Ri 
w don't pay го 
groups). On that Beatles Day, hundreds 
of Russian youngsters lined up before 
the store opened 
Inperson communication of рор 
oups with the young at home inten- 
sified as college campuses inacasingly 
opened 10 concerts by the full scope of 
the current efllorescence—from. Smokey 
Robinson and the Miracles to Country Joe 
and the Fish. Swarthmore’s second annual 
College Rock’n’-Roll Festival in Febru- 
ary, for instance, included the Jeferson 
Airplane, Tim Buckley, jazzman and 
classical composer Dave Amram and a 
Swarthmore student, Garth McDonald, 
one of many around the country devel 
oping formidable skills on the Пи 
tar. (More sitars were sold in the United 
States last year than in India.) 


More and more of the groves of aca- 
deme were also taken over by jazz. In 
the first extensive jazz program ever pre- 
sented at the University of C. i 
at Berkeley, a series of J 
and lectures reached a climax 
1-8 festival at the campus Harmon 
Gymnasium, In May, UCLA was the site 
of Ше fist Los Angeles Jazz Festival, 


nan April 


which was based on the theme "The 
Tradition of the New" and included 
newly commissioned works by Omette 


Colcman, Wayne Shorter and Gary Ме 
Fa 4. In April, for the first time оп 
record, at the State University of New 
York at Stony Brook. smdentacivity 
money was used to commission three com- 
positions played at a concert there by the 
‘Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra and the 
Jaki Byard Quartet. 

Jazz making by college musicians 
themselves was more extensive than ever 
before, culminating in a number of im- 
portant intercollegiate competitions. Nine 
combos and nine stage bands competed in 
ly March at Notre Dame's ninth 
nual Collegiate Jazz Festival. And for the 
first time, there was a world series of col- 
lege jazz, organized nationally by the Inter. 
collegiate Music Festival in Miami Beach. 
At that event, the wide range of listening 
experiences among todays young was 
reflected in the fact that the most intei 
esting groups had moved away from the 
conventional jazz models of the past 
(such as Count Basic and Stan Kenton) 
and into their own boundary-breaking 
styles and compositions. Noted one of 
the judges, Robert Share of the Berklee 
School of Music: “We're going to hear 
all kinds of rhythmic advances from now 
on—irs inevitable when today's 15-year- 
old rock-n-roll drummers play 5/4 almost 
by instinct.” 

To be sure, jazz musicians from the 
Dave Brubeck Quartet (which disband 
cd during the year) to the current big 
band of Don Ellis have been working in 
complicated meters; but Share's comment 
points up the over-all eagerness to exper 
rhythms, in colors, in the 
x of a performance—that per- 
vades the most venturesome of the new 
pop groups as they change the very 
defini is of musical forms and sounds. 
In the past year, for example, Ше pene- 
trating сйос of electronic organs and 
hugely amplified electric guitars in rock 
groups has stimulated  musicalinstru- 
ment manufacturers to create ап electric 
harpsichord with switches that ca 
sound like many other instruments a 
an clecuic sitar; eleciric bouzouki 
and the Moog synthesizer, A complete 
unit, with more stops and comb ns 
than an electric organ, the Moog pro- 
duces an unprecedentedly broad range 
of electro; tones. And in onc of their 
numbers at Ше Monterey International 
Pop Festival, the Steve Miller Blues 


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Band used a prerecorded tape—controlled 
by a foot pedal—as another voice in the 
ensemble on one number. 

In several respects, Sgt. Peppers 
Lonely Hearts Club Band is the apotheo- 
sis of curent electronic expansion of 
musical possibilities, In Being for Ше 
Benefit of Mr. Kite, for example, John 
Lennon taped a track on Hammond 
organ, recorded it at different speeds, 
mixed in montages of other organ sounds 
with an overlay of clectronic echoes, and 
then ац all those tapes up and recom- 
bined them. As pop-music critic Richard 
in observes: "Todays rock cre 
е learning to play the recording 
studio as а supcr instrument.” But even 
outside the studio, they arrive at dances 
and concerts with am army of equip- 
ment. In thc garden of New York's Mu- 
seum of Modern Art in July, for instance, 
Jeremy Steig уз plugged into 
battery of a an electric flute, 
п electric da n electric guitar 
and a tape machin 


jazz, alto saxophonists John Handy 
and Sonny Stitt, together with uumpeter 
Clark Terry, also added new electronic 
versions of their instruments to their ar- 
senals, thereby having new ways of con- 
uolling color and vibrato and, at will, 
being able to play two lines simultane- 
ously am оцауе apart. 

Inevitably, the electronic spectrum 
being widened and deepened by pop 
groups, and. eventually by jazzmen, will 
alo be incorporated into film music. 
Already, The Trip has а score by Mike 
Bloombield’s rock combo, as а result of the 
insistence of the movie's star, Peter Fonda, 
е involves you 1 says of Bloom 
es you through 
Among the insuu 
ments in the background of the film is an 
деатопи hesirer. Rock was in the 
foregrou nother picture this past 
ted by Peter (The 


War Game) Watkin: 
rock singer Paul Jon 
Manfied Mann group. Rock, Watkins 


“Frankly, doctor, don’t you think it’s time to get 
off this civil rights kick and get back to the 
fundamental teachings of Christianity?” 


warns, can also be made a tool if its practi- 
tioners allow themselves 10 be manipulat- 
sol now, this is an unlikely possibility 
sistent nonconlormity of 
most of today's leading rock creators 

And the most celebrated nonconform- 
ist of all the young singer composers, 
Bob Dylan, was the subject of a singular 
antiestablishment film, Don't Look Back, 
made by D. A. Pennebaker as he chroni- 
ded a Dylan tour of Britain. (Inactive 
most of the year while recovering from а 
motorcycle accident, Dylan, now bearded, 
had begun recording in in late fall* 
in Nashville.) 

The use of jazz composers in films has 
broadened in scope—trom Herbie Han- 
cock scoring Antonionis Blow.Up to 
Сепу Mulligan last year writing the 
ic Гог the film version of Murray 
Al's Luv. It was Quincy Jones, how- 
ever, who surfaced as the year's most diver- 
sified film composer, his credits including 
In the Heat of the Night, Enter Laughing, 
The Deadly Affair and In Cold Blood. 
Jones also found time to write the n 
for the TV series Ironside. The only f 
ture film diiccdy concerned with jazz and 
the jaz life was Sweet Love, Bitter. 
While the picture was uneven in qui 
Dick Gregory made a powerful 
debut as а musician modeled on Ch; 
and Mal Waldron's scorc 
sively effective. 

In television, three remarkable hour- 
long features on Duke Ellington. were 
shown during the course of the year. 
Critic Ralph Gleason and Richard Moore 
produced two of them Гог Fı i 
KQED—Duke's concert of sacred music 
and a profile of Ellington, Love You 
Madly. The two shows were dis 
120 educa ТУ outlets throughout 
the country. In Octob 
prime commercial time 
adaptation of cinéma 
by Robert Drew Asociates, who presented 
the touring Ellington on NBC TV's Bell 
Telephone Hour. 

In addition to а characteristic y 
nearly perpeti а 
abroad, 
tor of music degrees (то 
College and Yale U 
the first living American composer to be 
honored by the issuance of a postage 
stamp bearing his portrait. In recog 
of the 20th anniversary of UNE: 
1 Republic of Togo issued four 
stamps featuring major composers of 
different e ich, Beethoven, Debussy 
ington. Also during the ye: 
Duke recorded his Far East Suite and, in 
tune with present directions, he com- 
posed a new work, Psychedelic Suite. 

But for Duke, his triumphs durin 
year were overs! 
—the death of his friend and collabora- 
tor Billy Strayhorn. Ellington established 
a Billy Strayhorn Scholarship Fund at 


was 


buted to 


о! 


r of 
and 


Morga 
Duke bec 


the Juilliard School of Music. A startling 
death was that of the dircctionse:ting 
tenor saxophonist John Coltrane at 40. 
Also on the obituary list during the year 
were trumpeterscornetists Red Allen, 
r. Rex Stewart and Sid- 
trombonists 
nd Henderson Chambers: 
Ida Cox and Otis Redding; the non- 
pareil violinist Stuff Smith; alto saxo- 
phonist Willie Smith; clarinetists. Ed- 
mond Hall and Buster Bailey; pianists 
Pete Johnson, Herman Chittison, Elmo 
Hope and. Walter "Fats" Pichon; band- 
leader Zack Whyte: trumpeter 
Treadwell and jazz critic-discog- 


Mugesy Spa 


ger 


"the fifth Beatle,” died; 
music, this century's most 
singer- 
succumbed, 
a long illness, at the age of 55. 
But Ше and the h went on as 
Woody's 20-year-old son, Arlo Guthrie, 
turned out то be the cynosure of the 
Newport Folk Festival in July with his 
song novella, Alice’s Restaurant Massacre, 
released! later in the year on his first Reprise 
album, Another, even younger, new star is 
IGyearold Janis Ian, who first hit hard 
and controv Шу with Society's Child, 
about an interracial romance with a dis- 
sonant ending. First banned by a num- 
ber of rock stations, it finally broke 
through, as did her first Verve/ Folkways 
album, Janis Jan. This was also the 
year of ascent for the lyrical Richic 
Havens, who fuses blues with new ways 
т: and Jimi Hendrix, а 
ger-erotic showman. Origi 
Пу from Seaule, Hendrix became а 
star in England and is now in persistent 
demand in the United States. 
Aretha Franklin, who had been hover- 
ing on the edge of widespread recogni 
tion for several у moved to Atlantic 
Records and the results, Respect and Z 
Newer Loved а Man the Way 1 Love 
You, firmly established this fiery singer 
with a whiplash beat. Further indication 
that hard, visceral rhythm and blues 
now attracts all classes and shades of au- 
dicnces was the rmous success of the 
te Otis Redding. who won the British 
Melody Maker poll as Ше world’s 
leading singer in pop music. And, in 
America, Redding received the most 
thunde udience response of all the 
variegated performers ас the Monterey 
International Pop Festival in June. The 
careers of Ray Charles and James Brown 
continued to prosper, as did those of 
ich streamlined graduates of rhythm 
and blues as Lou Rawls, Dionne War- 
а Ross and the Supremes. 


ou 


roots were also spreading in 
the new pop. Bobbie Gentry, originally 
from C w County, Mississippi, be- 


came an instant star with her own ballad, 
Ode to Billie Joe, sung with smoky 
passion and an undulating beat. Country 


rock powered a provocative new combo, 
Moby Grape, one of m 
ing to the fructifying climate of the San 
Area—the home of 
on Airplane, Big Brother and the 
Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, 
4 the Fish and the d 
nong other 


пу units testify- 


Country Joe 


n to the Cream 
ng guitar of Eric Clapton), 
group sounds 
of the Procol 
blend of sub- 
stantial music and lyrics in the work ОЕ 
the Bee Gees. Also build- 


In England. in 


five Australian: 
g attention was the Canai 
apers, Luke amd the Apostles 
and singer-poet Leonard Cohen. 

The already established Rolling Stones 


the continued evolution of 
the new pop music as they moved more 
tinctly Пот being emula 
k American blues men 
creators of their own singing and com- 


and morc di: 


of Change). "Throughout 


irrepressible movement of growth, change 
iety of expression. 
Along with previously cited cclebrators 


and prodigious v 


mpressionistic inventive 

; the intensely dri 
ism of The Doors; the subtle pla 
of color and moods of the V. 
Fudge, The Association and The Beach 
Boys; and the ambling lyricism of The 
Lovin’ Spoonful and The Young Rascals. 
Anyone still locked in the cliché “It all 
sounds the same" just wasn't listening. 

In jazz. too, it was а year of break- 
throughs into the further possibilities of 
expression. Among the newer names 
coming into prominence, Milford Graves, 
Rashied Ali, Ch 


Marion Brown, Charles 
Tyler and Roscoe Mitchell sax men 
Pharoah aders and Joe Henderson 

wumpeters Jimmy Owen and Alan 
Shorter; Бази Alan Silva, Henry 
Grimes, David Izenzon and Eddie Gome: 
nists Keith Jarrett and Roger Kell 
ists Larry Coryell and Jerry 
t Michael White. In 
quite different ways, Don Ellis and Sun 
Ra continued to open new dimensions for 
big-band jazz; and the concerts of the As- 


York was hardly the only center for the 

ion of the jazz language. 
zdub scene did not im- 
prove (the Five Spot and Eddie Condon’s 


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were lost to New York), Norman 
Granz revival of Jazz at the Philharmonic 
proved there was still а considerable au- 
dience for concert jazz throughout the 
country. And more openings were made 
for the music in the cultural establish- 
ment: Ornette Coleman became the first 
musician 10 receive a Guggenheim fel- 
Jowship for jazz composition. The New 
York State Council on the Arts ga 
of its awards to the traveling Jazzmobile, 
which provided free concerts in the 
streets of New York for the third con- 
ecutive summer. The Jazzmobile concept, 
joreover, spread 10 Philadelphia, New- 
k, Washington, Hartford and New 
H In New York, Jazz Interactions 
received an unprecedented grant of 
$11.250 from the New York State Council 
on the Arts to produce 50 jazz concerts 
and lecture-demonstrations in the. New 
York school system. 

From September 29 to Ocober |, 
Jazz Interactions cosponsored the 
Eastern Conference of Jazz Societies. 
Attending the sessions in New Yo 
more than 400 people repres 
s in Hartford, Ph 
g renton, Nash 
s and Warren, Ohio. The confer- 
ence sounded an ecumenical note as 
drummer Milford Graves told the dele- 
Bates that avantgarde jazz and the new 
rock are not as dissimilar as they ше 
have thought. He added: “If jazz wants 
to reach youth, it will have to get with 
the new music, and the new and the old 
will have to get togethei 
guitarist Gabor Szabo went 
further than Graves by pro 
advent of a new international music 


adelphia, 
lle, New 


already started, new music, and the 
whole world scems to be coming together. 
We all had our согу little nests, we were 
d part of 
t. But it feels as 
if all of it is gone now. We are now just 
World, Earth, The music definitely re- 
flecis this, In the Sgt. Pepper album, the 
Beatles have already started. something 
that is going to be the future.” 

As if in echo, George Harrison spoke 
not only for the Beatles but for the best 
of all the young explorers in the new pop 
and jazz: “We haven't really started yet. 
There js musical infinity as well. We've 
only just discovered what we can do as 
musi 5. what thresholds we can cross. 
The future stretches out beyond our 
imagination.” In corrobor 
Paul Simon of S akel 
looks ahead: “I'm ing to play the 
and I'm fascinated by Ше singing in 
intervals of seconds by those Bulg 
You see, the new music can incorporate 
all those influ 


s past. we asked our incum- 
s to choose their own 


in the voti ll winners in '67 
—were Cannonball Adderley, 
Armstrong, Bob Brook 
Dave Brubeck, Charlie Byrd, Miles Davi: 
Buddy DeFranco, Paul Desmond, Duke 
Ellington, Ella 
. Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillesp 
Hampton, Al Hirt, МИ Jacks 
Johnson, Henry Mancini 
gus, Wes Montgomery, Joe Morello 
Gemy Mulligan, Mimi Perrin (Double 


Louis 


“Now will you speak for yourself, John?” 


Six of Paris), Oscar Peterson, Buddy 
Rich, Diana Ross (Supremes), Frank 
Sinatra, cy Wilson, Kai Winding 
and Si Zenmer. 

ALL-STARS’ ALLSTAR LEADER: Last year's 
top threc—the Duke, the Count and 
Woody—retained their laurels. Buddy 
Rich moved пле the five spot, ousting 
Dizzy Gillespie. 1. Duke Ellington; 2. Count 
Basie; 3. Weody Herman; 4. Thad Jones- 
Mel Lewis; 5. Buddy Rich. 

ALLSTARS’ ALLSTAR TRUMPET: Miles 
and Diz executed their second about- 
face in as many years, with Dizzy re- 
gaining the top spot by a sizable margin. 

Miles Davis; 8. Clark 
5. Art 


d; 


FAR TROMRONE: lt was 
top, but $i Zentner and 
not amon 


, who ма 


gave good accounts of them- 
|. J. Johnson; 2. Bob Brookmeye 


4. Carl Fontana; 5. Al 

Grey. Kai Winding. 
STARS! ALLSTAR ALTO sax: There 
was little disturbance among the altos, 


though Phil Woods and Johnny Hod 
traded positions from last year. 1. Cannon- 
ball Adderley; 2. Paul Desmond; 3. Phil 
Woods; 4. Johnny Hodges; 5. Sonny 


ALL-STAR 
tz repeated as the AILS 
h Zoo. Sims moving up 
in place of John Coltrane: 
ster slipped olf the list, as Sonny 
and the ageless Coleman Hawkins 
mbed on. 1. Ston Getz; 2. Zoot * 
3. Sonny Rollins; 4. Colem: 
5. Paul Cons: 
ALL-STARS ALL-STAR BARITONE SAX: Flere 
the fourth and fifth chairs that 
saw change, as Bud Shank and Charles 
Fowlkes replaced Cecil Payne and 
Charles Davis. 1. Gerry Моа Harry 
Carney; 3. Peppi 4. Bud 
Shank; 5. Charles 


NOR SAX? 
first choice, 
10 second 
Ben Web- 


аг: 


it 


srak CLARINET; Buddy 
DeFranco held onto his number-one sta- 
tus. bur below him there a lot of 
shuffling, as evidenced by the hve-way 
lock for fifth place. 1. Buddy DeFranco: 
у Goodman; 
Pete Fountain, Bill 
‚ An Pepper, Artie 


y Scott; 5. 
Smith, Joc Muran: 
Shaw. 

ALLSTARS’ ALLSTAR PIANO; The С 
again went to Mr. Peterson, with Herbie 
Hancock moving from fifth to third. 
Hank Jones sliding one notch 10 fourth 
and Chick Corea moving into the top 
five to climinate Dave Brubeck. 1. Oscar 
Peterson; 2. Bill Evans; 3. Herbie Hi 
cock; 4. Hank Jones; 5. Chick Corea. 

ALL-STARS’ ALLSTAR GUITAR: Four of 
Jast year's top five came home intact, with 
ng Grant 

|. Wes Mont- 
. Jim Hall; 3. Kenny Burrell; 
4, Herb Ellis; 5. Charlie Byrd. 


and Richard Davis again plucked the top 
spots, with Ron Garter, Sam Jones and 
George Duvivier all making progress. Of 
last years leaders, only Steve Swallow 
is missing. 1. Rey Brown; 2. Richard 
Davis; 3. Ron Сапег; 4. Sam Jones; 
5. Charles Mingus, George Duvivier. 

ALL-STARS! ALLSTAR DRUMS: The big 
news here was young Tony Williams 
crashing into the third slot, knocking 
Philly Joe Jones off the pace. 1. Buddy 
Elvin Jones; 3. Tony Williams; 
4. Joe Morello; 5. Shelly Manne. 

ALLSTARS’ ALLSTAR MISCELLANEOUS IN- 
SURUMENT: Mil Jackson and Jimmy 
Smith again showed the way. but James 
Moody, Ravi Shankar and “Toots” 
Thielemans squeezed out Lionel Hamp- 
Jackson, vibes; 2. Jimmy Smith, 
organ: 3. Roland Kirk, manzello, stritch; 
1. James Moody, flute; 5. Ravi Shankar, 
sitar, and Jean “Toots” Thielemans, har- 
monica. 

ALL-STARS’ ALL-STAR MALE VOCALIST: 
The only change here was in the fifth 
slot. as balladeers Johnny Hartn and 
Billy Eckstine combined to oust Mel 
Tormé. 1. Frank Sinatra; 2. Joc Williams: 
3. Tony Bennett; 4. Ray Charles; 5. 
Johnny Hartman, Billy Eckstine 

ALLSTARS’ ALL-STAR FEMALE VOCALIST: 
Last ycars top five all returned, in the 
me order. 1. Ele Fitzgerald; 2. Sarah 
3. Carmen McRae; 4. Nancy 


Peggy Lec. 


ALL-STARS” ALL-STAR. INSTRUMENTAL 
сомво: The defending champions, the 
Dave Brubeck Quartet, failed to place 
this year. as the Oscar Peterson Trio took 
top billing and the Bill Evans Trio 
moved into contention. 1. Oscar 
Trio; 2. Cannonball Adderley Quintet; 3. 
Miles Davis Quintet; 4. Modern Jazz 
Quartet; 5. Bill Evans Trio. 

ALLSTARS’ ALL-STAR VOCAL GROUP: The 
5th Dimension, a recently organized pop 
unit, came out of nowhere to place third, 
while the Four Freshmen replaced thc 
Double in the top spot and the 
Anita Kerr Singers fell off the totem 
pole. 1. Four Freshmen; 2. Double 
3. 5th Dimension; 4. 
gle Singers 


JAZZ HALL OF FAME 


Music, like most of the arts, is current- 
Jy in a state of flux; yet a majority of the 
top vore getters in this years Hall of 
Fame balloting are traditional contenders. 
There are, however, a number of new- 

s. led by the ever-more-popular 
b Alpert, who was not among last 
aders but finished а close fourth 
time around, Also missing from last 
ars list were Buddy Rich, Nancy 
оп, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, 
Cannonball Adderley and John Len- 
non. Previous winners—Louis Armstrong, 
Frank Sinatra, Dave Brubeck, Ella 


gerald, Duke Ellington and Count Basie 


—swere ineligible. Following are this 
year's top 25 vote getters: 
1. Ray Chorles 


2. John Coltrane. 


3. Benny Goodman 
4. Herb. Alpert 
5. Henry Mancini 
6. Miles Davis 

7. Stan Getz 

8. AI Hirt 


reisand 
Dean Martin 
. Buddy Rich 

an Kenton 


. Lionel Hampton 

. Tony Bennet 
Charlie Parker 

Paul MeCartney 
Sammy Davis Jr. 
Bob Dylan 

. Ramsey Lewis 
Cannonball Adderley 
John Lennon 


RECORDS OF THE YEAR 


The balloting for the best LP records 
of the year was again spirited in prog- 
res, decisive in conclusion. As in pre 
vious polls, there were по nominations; 


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any record in each of three categories— 
best LP by a big band, һем LP by a 
small combo (fewer than eight pieces) 
and best vocal LP—was cligible. 

BEST BIG BAND Lr: Big Swing Foce / Buddy 
Rich (Pacific Jazz). Buddy and his cohorts, 
climaxing a two-year surge, struck a rich 
lode, indeed, with this aggregation of 
blazing big-band sounds, deftly charted 
and executed to р 

BEST SMALL COMBO LP: SR O. /Herb 
Alpert ond Ше Tijuana Bross (А & M). For 
the second straight year, the chili-con: 
wz gang took top honors—and this 
stiffest compe- 
. Sounds Like re- 


[ES li 
Day Will Come. Blue Sunday and Work 
Song. which hit big on the charts as a 


VOCAL LP: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hecrts 
Club Bond / The Beatles (Capitol). "I his was 
much more t a vocal LP, as the 
M. B. went out on a 


sh of articles and reviews. by 
s, who hailed it as a serious a 
бей work of art, But, of course, these 
en't the only records that merited 
votes. Following arc the top 95 in cach 
category: 


BEST BIG BAND LP 


1. Big Swing Foce / Buddy Rich (Pacific Jazz) 

9. Mancini "67 (Victor) 

3. Swingin’ New Big Band | Buddy 
Rich (Pacific Jazz) 

4. Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival | 
Don Ellis (Pacific Jazz) 


5. Doctor — Zhivago—Sound Track 
(мсм) 

6. Duke ЕНтонв Greatest Hits! 
(Reprise) 


7. The Best of Mancini (Victor) 

8. А Man and a Woman—Sound Track 
(United Artists) 

9. Popular Duke Ellington (Victor) 

Big Band Shout | Buddy Rich 

(Verve) 

11. Basie's Beat (Verve) 

Sound Pieces | Oliver Nelson (Im- 

pulse!) 


13. You Only Live Twice—Sound Track 
(United Artists) 

14. Golden Sword | Gerald Wilson (Pa- 
cific Jazz) 

15. Far East Suite | Duke Ellington 
(Victor) 

16. Music to Watch Girls Go By | The 
Bob Crewe Generation (Dyno Voice) 

16. Broadway Basie’s . . . Way (Com- 


mand) 


18. Basie's Beatle Bag (Verve) 

19. Casino Reyale—Sound Track (Со!- 
gems) 

19. Stan Kenton Plays for Today (Capi- 
tol) 


21. Jazz Orchestra | Mel Lewis, Thad 
Jones (Solid State) 


. Mercy, 


. Anything 
- Casino Royale 


- Loveln 


. Bravo! Brubeck! 


Boots with Strings | Boots Randolph 
(Monument) 

Tequila | W 
Music of Hau 
(Victor) 
vo for 
(Victor) 


Montgomery (Verve) 
ii | Henry Mancini 


Ше Road—Sound Track 


BEST SMALL COMBO LP 


S.R.O. / Herb Alpert ond the Tijuana 
Brass (A & М) 

- Sounds Like | Herb Alpert and 
the Tijuana Brass (А & M) 
Mercy. Mercy! | The Cannon- 
ball Adderley Quintet (Capitol) 
Whipped Cream and Other Delights] 
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass 
(A & M) 


. Miles Smiles | Miles Davis Quintet 


(Columbia) 

Wade in the Water | Ramsey Lewis 
(Cadet) 
Sweet Rain | Stan Getz (Verve) 
What Now My Love | Herb Alpert 
and the Tijuana Brass (A & M) 


. California Dreaming | Wes Moni- 


gomery (Verve) 


. Forest Flower | Charles Lloyd (Adan 


tic 
Hones Places! | Herb Alpert and 
the Tijuana Brass (A & M) 

Hip Hug-Her | Booker T. and the 
MG's (Stax) 

Goes! | The Dave Brubeck 
Quartet (Columbia) 

Herb Alpert and the 
Tijuana Brass (Colgems) 

| Gharles Lloyd Quartet 


(Atlantic) 
The Dynamic Duo | Jimmy Smith, 
Wes Montgomery (Verve) 

Goin’ Latin | Ramsey Lewis (Cadet) 
Time In | The Dave Brubeck Quar- 
tet (Columbia) 


. Blues Etude | Oscar Peterson (Lime- 


light) 


20. Hang On Ramsey! | The Ramsey 


Lewis Trio (Cadet) 
| The Dave Bru 
beck Quartet (Columbia) 

Super Psychedelics || The Ventures 
(Liberty) 

The Lonely Bull | Herb Alpert and 
the Tijuana Brass (A & M) 


. Impressions of the Middle East | 


Herbie Mann (Atlantic) 


. Spellbinder | Gabor Szabo (Impulse!) 


BEST VOCAL LP 


Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heorts Club Bend / 
The Beorles (Capitol) 


. Francis Albert Sinatra and Anionio 


Carlos Jobim (Reprise) 
Surrealistic Pillow | Jefferson Air- 
plane (Victor) 

That's Life | Frank Sinatra (Reprise) 


. Equinox | Sergio Mendes and Brasil 


66 (А к M) 
Sergio Mendes and Brasil "66 (A & M) 
Born Free | Andy Williams (Colum. 
bia) 


8. Deliver | The Mamas and the Papas 
(Dunhill) 

9. I Never Loved a Man the Way 1 
Love You | Aretha Franklin (Av 

ntie 

. Ode to Billie Joe | Bobbie Gentry 
(Capitol) 

11. Lou Rawls—Live! (Capitol) 


19. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme) 
Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia) 
18. Flowers | The Rolling Stones (Lon- 


don) 

4. Album 1700 | Peter, Paul and Mary 
(Warner Bros.) 

14. The Doors (Elektra) 


M. Je М'АреПе Barbra | Barbra Strei- 
sand. (Columbia) 

17. Strangers in the Night | Frank Sina- 
ба (Reprise) 

17. [ust for Now | Nancy Wilson (Capi- 
10) 

19. Sinatra al Ше Sands (Reprise) 

20. Double Trouble | Elvis Presley 
(Victor) 

21. The Temptations’ Greatest Hits 
(Gordy) 
A Man and His Soul | Ray Charles 


(ABC) 
Soulin’ | Lou Rawls (Capitol) 

September of My Years / Frank Sina- 
па (Repri: 
- Claudine 


ALL-STAR READERS’ POLL 


) 
| Claudine Longet (А & M) 


А dear ma 


inclusion of pop stars in the poll, how- 
ever, gave several categories 

female vocalists, i mental combo 
and miscellancous instrum new 
look. The most newsworthy develop- 
ment, perhaps, was the emergence of 
R; Shankar, India's master sitarist, as 
the readers’ favorite in the miscellancous- 
instrument category. Here's how cach 
contest. developed: 

Henry Manani was again elected 
leader of the leaders, followed by the 
Duke and the Count. Major gains were 
made by Buddy Rich, who finished 
fourth; Ray Charles, who Phad sixth; 
and rhythm 
who took the seventh dies опе of 
whom were serious contenders a year ago. 

In the uumpet section, Herb Alpert 
ы of left (n to take the first 


lofty positions. 
No long slides, up or down, were evi- 
dent in "bonesville, as J. J. Johnson kept 
his grip on first position. Following J. J. 
in the same order as '67, were Si Zentner, 
and Bob Brookmeyer. 
Adderley and Paul Bs; 
а took the first two alto c 


followed by Bud Shank and Jem) 
Hodges, who exchanged their positions. 
of a year ago. Ornette Coleman, the old 


master of the new music, was again fifth. 
With John Coltrane out of the running 


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PLAYBOY 


because of his premature death, Stan 
Getz had no formidable competition on 
tenor sax. Trailing a distant second was 
Boots Randolph, third last year. The big- 
gest advances were by King Curtis— 
from. nowhere to third—and by Charles 
Lloyd, who stepped up from 19th to 6th. 

The action in the baritone section was, 
appropriately. in the lower register. as 
Gerry Mulligan and Bud Shank repeated 
as the top men, while Chuck Genny 
replaced Jimmy Giulfre and Sahib Shihab 
dropped Harry Carney from the top five. 

Evidence that the inet is not la- 
vored by experimentalists was provided 
by the fi at Pete Fountain, Benny 
Goodman, Bilk, Woody Herman 
and Buddy DeFranco finished in the 
same order as they did in 767 

‘The top three piano men of last year 
—Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis and 
Peter Nero—also retained their rels, 
with case. Ray Charles, who placed high 
n three separate categories, edged Oscar 
Peterson for fourth place. 

Chet Atkins overhauled Charlie Byrd 
as the number-one guitar picker, reg: 
ing the Gown he los in 196 
steps were taken by George Har 
from 18th to 4th, 


Giant 
ison, 
l by Duane Eddy, 
ay from 25th to Gth. 
bass registered little 
Last year's top four finished in- 
tact, with Charles Mingus remaining the 
readers’ favorite, 


who twanged his w 
The 


division 


The big thunder on skins was made by 
the sticks of Buddy Rich, who took over 
top ranking from Joe Morello. Ringo 
Starr joined Gene Krupa and Sandy Nel- 
son in the top five, as Shelly 


in the miscellany depart 
ment i Shankar, who has evi- 
dently sucteeded in teaching the West to 
appreciate his ragas. Veteran vibist Lionel 
Hampton, last years winner placed 
second. "The pop world w 


sented as Beatles Paul МСС 
George Harrison, Stax/Volt organist 
Booker T. and bluesharmonica player 


Paul Butterfield entered the 
joining jazz stalwarts Herbie M. 
Jackson and Jimmy Smith, plus org 


тор ten, 


Earl Grant—who sprang up to 8th place 
from 26th a year ago. 


Frank Sinatra continued. to dominate 
the male vocalists. Ray Charles, 
last усаг, slid three places; mov 


second 


him were Lou Rawls Dean Mai and 
Топу Bennett. 
Diminutive Pet Clark became the pet 


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vocalist of readers, тері 
Nancy Wilson—who finished second. 
Notable upward progress was made by 
Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Nan- 
cy Sinana and Grace Slick of the 
Jefferson Airplane 

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass 
displaced the Dave Brubeck Quartet as 
the number-one instrumental combo. 


Booker T. and the MG's parlayed their 
Memphis soul sound into fourth place. 
behind the Ramsey Lewis Trio; and 
the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, aided 
by several pop hits, moved from 18th to 
Sth. The biggest surprise, perhaps, was 
the sixth-place showing by The Ventures, 
who languished in a tie for 38th a year 
ago. Unlisted last year was Charles 
Lloyd's adventurous quartet. 

The unpredictable Beades predictably 
took the top vocilgroup spot, as Mo- 
town's Diana Ross and the Supremes 
dropped го third, behind Sergio Mendes 
and Brasil 766, Here, too, the pop groups 
showed their popularity, as The Mamas 
and the Papas, The Association, The 
Temptations, the Jefferson Airplane, 
the Rolling Stones, Simon and Gar- 
funkel and Peter, Paul and Mary all 
finished in Ше хор ten. 

Following are the leading vote getters 
in each category and the number of 
votes they commanded. Only artists with 
100 votes or more are listed: wherever 
two choices for the AllStar Band were 
allowed, 200 votes are required for list- 
ing; and in categories where readers 
could vote for four individuals, 400 votes 
are needed. The musicians who earned 
АП Маг status are listed in boldface 
pe; all will receive silver medals, as 
will winners of the Hall of Fame ballot- 
g and the artists who—in the opinion 

readers—produced the top 


of PLAYBOY 
records of the year. 


LEADER 


1. Henry Mancini 3,281 


11. Jor 
2. Duke ! 


3. Count Basie . 872 1 
3. Buddy Rich .... 736 

1. Chet Bak 
5. Skitch Henderson .... БН Е 


9. Maynard Ferguson ... 
10. Bobby Hackett ..... 
(Jones: cece cen 
12. Harry James ... 
. Billy Butterfield . 


15. Hugh Masekeli 


Garnett. Brown. 
Lawrence Brown 


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О SAX 


Grachan Moncur HI 


б. Trummy Young ..... 


483 | 11 
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AL Cohn 
Sonny Stitt . 


.... 492] 19. Corky Corcoran 
402 | 14. Eddie Davis ... А 
15. Minois Jacquet -..... 


16. Bob Cooper .... 
17. Paul Gonsalves . 


6 Charles .. SUE EEA Cannonball Adderley -7,544 | 18. Buddy Tate Ни 
7. James Brown IE ga HS ce Paul Desmond -4,305 | 18. Stanley Turren! 
8 Kenton . E Bud Shank ... . 1260 
9. Ray Conniff . . Johnny Hodges . 806 сунан 
y Jones ... ROTE Ornette Coleman .... 71 
11. Nelson. Riddle . Zoot Sims . А vol 
12. Gerald Wilson . 1. J. J. Johnson 5,817 s.l 553 2 
13. Oliver. Nelson. 2. Si Zentner 5,92| 8 el 08 иск Gentry + 
14. Benny Goodi 3. Kai Winding ........4,758 Paul Hom ....... 418 pper Adams ......- 
15. Woody He b Brockmeyer ..-..3,648 t Pepper -.. 50 
16. Si Zentner . Slide Hampton 1,860 ed Nash 347 
А EIS С, 6. Jimmy Cleveland 1328 Bob Donovan . 296 | 7. Charles Davis 
VOTUM ИИ 7. J. C. Higginbotham .. 123 | 13. Benny Carter B. Artic Kaplan .. soe 
9 | 8. Urbie Green ........ 1,096 | 14. Phil Woods - : пту Carney ....... 282 
19. Di Gillespie... Wz 
ROS Ud үп | 9 Dave Baker .... B82 | 15. Walt Levinsky .. 245 | 10. Bill Hood 9 
s S д Turk Murphy ....... 836 | 10. James Moody 242 | П. Lonnie Shaw . 192 
21. Gil Evans ...... 106 3 T я 
Велева jog | !!- Carl Fontana ........ 708 Jerome Richardson. 186 
22. Charles Mingus ... 3 MORao т94 TENOR SAX Jack Nimitz 163 
p Butch. Stone 132 
TRUMPET зше СВ BEE вно он лаза Ponente 114 
M. Harold Betters 739 Aks Керк 
ceu TS ROD Gera 2. Boots Randolph 172,559 | 16. Clifford Scott 112 
pert -- fat] 3 Bing Cutis... 1230 Rani T 105 
P PNE сова $ mny Rollins ....... 951 Frank Hinner 103 
il 606 2 ы с Secepsc 3 
3. Miles Davis .- - 900 | 5. Coleman Hawkins ... 912 ^ 3 
za Cecil Payne 103 
4. Louis Armstrong 18. Dick Nash .. 227 | 6. Charles Lloyd 
5. Dizzy Gillespie ... 19. Wayne Henderson 544 | 7. “Fathead” Newman .. ares 
6. Doe 90. Charles. McPherson 528| 8. Zon ERE 
tk Terry 21, Al Grey 506 | 9. Yusef Lateef . 1. Pere Fountain - 
8, Nat Adderley 22. Quentin Jackson 490 | 10. Roland Kink .. 2. Benny Goodman ..... 1,753 


3. ....... 1373 5. Buddy Clark ........ 15. Mongo Santamaria, INSTRUMENTAL COMBO 

4. Woody Herman 6. Art Davis ... bongos 174 

5. Buddy DeFranco ..... $47 | 7. Joe Byrd .... 16. Yusef Lateef, flute, 1 Него рет ш жа 

6. 464 | 8. Monk Montgomery oboe . 160| „ 

7 404 | 9. Chubby 17. Sebastia 2. Dave Brubeck 

З 345 Percy Не harmonica ........ 157 СЕ ао онолсо ВИЕ 

9. Pee Wee Russell ..... 329 a Jones ..... 18. Paul Horn, Ише ..... 130 | 9 Ramsey Le 880 
Art Pepper .... 179 | 12. Ron Carter .. ә 19. Groove. Holmes, oen A 
Tony Scott . 13. Paul Chambers ..... organ 1% . 396 


2 Woods . 149 | 14. Bob Haggart . 20. Terry Gibbs, vibes . 
13. Buddy Collette 


. 138 | I5. Richard Davis 21. Gary Burton, vibes ... 117 4 
M. Peanuts Ниско ...... ПЕ Art Van Da 6 у Arte 
isst MET accordion ...... 107 | 7 Modern Jazz Q 
16. Jimmy Hami ces CHE eS. WN а 106 | & Miles Davis Quintet .. 246 
19. с R. Charles Lloyd 
9. ;omez KA 
TIANO 90. Pops Fostei MALE VOCALIST 299 


ian Neto 
Don Bagley 
Norman В: 


Deom: 
Quartet ... 
Jimmy Smith 
Oscar Ре 


1. Frank Sinatra . 
2. Lou Rawls 
3. Dean. Martin - 


1. Dave Brubeck 
2. Ramsey Le 
Peter Ni 


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4, Ray Charles . 
5. Oscar Peterson 
di 


5. Ray 


Safranski ...... y 
6. Andy Willi 


б. André Previn ~ 
7. Erroll Gamer ...... " 7. Bob Dylan Бес 189 
8. Thelonious Monk . 539 Milt Hinton 4 8. Paul McC: Se риол 3 
9. Sergio Mendes . оо 91 Mathis ..... ПО ............. 160 
10. Count К 10. ы George Shearing 
m DRUMS jammy Davis Jr Quintet... из 
E Jack Jones Pe cc. dE 
Е 1. Buddy Rich . -2,847 Elvis Presley Vince Guaraldi ‘Trio, 195 
ae . Joe Morello ......... 1619 | 14, Donovan ‘al Tjader Quintet .. IG 
- Gene Krupa ......... 1,295 d Ames 21. Charlie Byrd Trio ... 113 
is 4. Ringo Starr . oe 1412. ма As 9?. Louis Armstrong 
16. В пра ly Nelson . 987 ану BIRNE All-Stars ... 101 
17. Farl Hines .. 205 | 6, Shelly Manne ....... 467 
и З ү : . Eric Burdon ......... 
18. Herbie Hancock ..... 161 7. ЕГ Jones a... . 909 1 Ri VOCAL GROUP 
19. Roger Williams ...... 131 | 8. Cory Cole 296 UU JRE 
20. Horace Silver ........ MG | 9. Art Blakey .......... 289 SNE е осо 
10. Chico Hamilton 2s 98 2. Sergio Mendes and 
GUITAR 1l. Red Holt А 211 
12, Ginger Raker ist James Brown. 


133 | 24. John G 


13. Willie Bobo . 
14, Max Roach 

15. Jou Cusatis .. 
16. Grady Tate .-..... 

17. Louis Bellon ........ 
IR. Charlie V 
19. Bob Stor 


1. Chet Atkins - 
2. Charlie Byrd . 
3. Wes Montgomery 
4. George Harrison . 
Joao Gilberto ....... 
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7. Laurindo Almeida .. 


ar 


lenn Yarbrough, 
Trim Lopez .... 


FEMALE VOCALIST 


6. 
7. Temptations ........ 390 
8 
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ula Clerk 1,275 


8. Kenny Burrell . B 19. Tony Williams ...... 
9. Tony Mottola LOS 
10. Mike Bloomfield 312 MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUMENT 00) 
11. Gabor Szabo 231 Mss 
їр Ена Сыр рй 217 | 1. Ravi Shanker, sitar ..1,737 910 
13. Bola Sete kt 151 92. Lionel. Han 686. 
Herb Ellis .......... H2 CIC eite ocasion ы Dimension 
15. Muddy Waters ...... 138 | 3 Herbie Mann, ше... 1012 i 16. Young Rascals ....... 164 
C нъ Нед 130 | 4 Jimmy Smith, organ . 1,028 | 9. Astrud Gilberto IS. Four Tape «cc 1б 
Zalman Y ` George Harrison, silar. 10. Joan Baez А (AEN Is 
БЕРЕН А HE 6. Paul McCartney, 11. Eydie Gormé . оган Р 
Jonny Smith 4 ЙК electric bass ....... 12. Cass Elliott . M ысы 
Luiz Bonfa .......... 115 | 7 Booker T. organ .... 583 | 13. Peggy Lee .. Jackie Cain and Roy 
109 | 8 Ear Grant, organ .... 46 | 14. Lainie Kazan ........ нуи е 17 
те Paul Butterfield, armen McRae . Sd Ru ME 
ДУР harmonica ........ $80 Nina Simone EEL DB 
7 qoo | 10. Milt Jackson. vibes... 358 | 15. Dusty Springfield . Rene ЗЕ 
IH. Cal Tjader, vibes .... 344 18. Maria Faithfull Johnny M 122 
racks 12. Miles Davis, 19. Bobbie G EE 
Flügelhorn . . 990 | 20. me A rou WI 
1. Charles Mingus... 2,009 | 13. Roland Kirk, manzello. 21. Sarah. Vaughan ЗА гой зо 10 
2. Ray Brown . «ves 1,508, stritch, flute .., - 190 | 22. Janis Joplin ........- LEBEN. 100 
3. Gene Wright ........ 388 | 14. Clark Terry, 23. Janis Jan . zh 
4. El Dee Young ... 521 Flügelhor ........ 175 | 24. Lana Cantrell .. [Y ] 153 


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154 


sights X sounds of "68 


to check out a newly introduced line 
from the AKG factory in Austria. AKG's 
ulalightweight models K-20 ($19.50) and 
K60 ($39.50) depart from the usual 
principle of sealing off outside noise in 
favor of one that keeps the headphone 
wearer in partial sonic contact with the 
surrounding sounds. For hisand-her lis- 
tening in the wee hours, Koss prolfers 
the Model T-10 chairside listening sti- 
tion (519.95), a remote-control unit with 
separate volume controls lor cach of two 
seis of headphones. 

If you haven't the penchant or 
patience for assembling your own com- 
ponent rig, a factory-packaged compact 
system is probably just the ticket. This 
breed of equipment has progressed. far 
beyond the original concept of stereo in 

suit Г of combining a 
central twrntabletuner-amplifier module 
with two compatible speakers still 
nds, but today the accent is on luxury. 
r the listener with $1100 to spend, 
Pioneer markets a lordly rig that comes 
equipped with a pair of the above- 
mentioned 1580 integrated amplifier- 
and a companion module 
heavy-duty turntable, FM tuner 
ег. Be imin's Model 1050 
ng less money, also 
al 
module incorporates the prestigious Mira- 
cord 50 automatic turntable with an 
85.watt AM/FM receiver. As an optional 
extra, Benjamin makes available a cas- 
sette tape recorder (more about cassettes 
Tater) that can be mounted in the base 


housing 
and preamp 
($550), though cost 
offers the highest of fidelity. Is cen 


(continued from page 134) 


($139.50). Harman-Kardon is also putting 
ош а casetteequipped. compact (Model 
SC 2520, $170) while Bogen tikes 
slightly diflerent approach and featur 
a Stereo 8 tape cartridge. player 
topranking Model MSCI ($ 
Because demand for these conv 
modular systems continues to climb, pro 
duction is high and there's a bountcous 
choice ef merchandise, with such sul 
warts as Fisher, Scott, Sony and KLH 
worthily represented in addition to those 
manufacturers already noted. пъ defi- 
nitely а buyers market, and we recom 
mend that you engage in some earnest 
comparison shopping and listening before 
you pull out your checkbook, 
And now the time has come to talk of 
tape—and what a mouthful it is. In ad- 
dition to a lavish outpouring of reel-to- 
reel gear (both audio and video) an 
abundance of cartridge and cassette 
equipment is also аг hand for men of ac- 
tion who don't want to be bothered with 
tape threading, rewinding adling. 
The tape cartridge was originally con 
trived for use on the highway. About а 
усаг and a half ago. it moved into the 
big time, when R.C.A, Victor 
put their combined corporate wei 
hind Lear Jet's Sicreo 8 system 
then, Stereo 8 has been espoused by 
leading record labels and auto makers, 
and it's now firmly established as the pri 
fared medium for mobile stereo. In case 
you're not familiar with this type of co 
tinuous loop sound system, here's how 


“So far so good. Now how about the motto?" 


it works: Quarter-inch tape emerges from 
the core of а single coil, passes the play 
back head and returns to the outer cir- 
cumference of Ше same coil. The eight 
tracks of recorded material on the tape 
accommodate up to 80 minutes of pro- 
graming and the switchover from one 


pair of stereo tracks to the next is 
accomplished. automatically. 
Stereo 8 cartridges are remarkably 


casy to usc (push them into a slot and 
they begin to play), but the system is not 
without certain disadvantages. А tape 
cartridge cannot be put into reverse (it’s 
like tying to stulf toothpaste back into 
the tube). This means that you've got to 
take Stereo В programing as it comes. If 
you've just enjoyed the Beatles’ 4 Day in 
the Life and want to hear a repeat рег 
formance, you'll have to be patient. Even 
on more expensive sets, the tape must 
reach the end of the track before you can 
activate the mechanism for the song 10 
come around АпоШи 
remember is th 
designed for playback, not for recording. 
You can choose from а hefty catalog of 
commercial recordings, but it's difficult 
to make your own. 

ishway, none of this really 
matters, and the cartridge. player сап be 
recommended for your car without те 
vation (it's best to get the rig factory: 
installed). Whether you'll also want it 
chez vous depends on your reactions to 
its advantages and its limitauons. If your 
response is positive, R.C. A. Victor has a 
compact and inexpensive playback mod- 
ule (the Mark 8, $69.95) to hook into your 
component rig. Another useful adjunct 
for Stereo 8 buffs is the Roberts Model 
TIB-X (5199.95), which has recording 
well as playback capability for both reel- 
to reel and cartridge tape. 

Hotly competitive with Stereo В, ıl 
recent cassette system developed by Phi 
ips in Holland has captured the fancy of 
hi-fi buffs from coast to coast. Accordi 
to industry guesstimates, cassettes will 
outsell cartridges two to one in 1968. 

his rosy prognosis bctokens some not 
ble technological superiorities. The ree! 
to-reel cassette is specifically made for 
recording as well as Гог playback, oper- 
tes at both fast rewind and fast forward 
nious tape 
t a glance your where: 
оп a tape. To top it all, а cassette 
one fourth the size of an equival 
midge. All this has been accomplished 
by reducing the tape to an eight-inch 
width and devising an ingenious plastic 
mechanism for housing the two tiny reels. 

Manufacturers here and abroad have 
jumped on the cassette band wagon and 
there's now quite a selection of recorder/ 
playback units on the American market 
from which to choose. Smallest of the 
lot is Sony's mono-only Model TC-50 
(5119.50), which includes a built-in mike 
and speaker within its coatpocket-sized 


index 


format. The monoonly Norelco Carry- 
Corder 130 (569.90), although slightly 
larger and heavier, is also eminently 
portable. Stereo turns up in the cassette 
systems designed for home use. You're 
best olf with a deck that plays through а 
good component setup, thus combining 
the cassette's cascoL-handling with the 
superior sonic performance of separate 
amplification and speaker gear. One such 
deck is the Ampex Місто 50 ($139.95). а 
trim, walnutencased model that features 
push-button operation, а VU meter, di 
ital counter and pause control. It should 
be noted, incidentally, that blank Gis- 
seues for do-it-yourself taping аге avail- 


only the thickness of the tape varies. 
Prerecorded cassettes of both pop and 
classical music are also being produced. 
by most of the major record companies. 
While the fidelity of a cassette (or the 
Sterco Вз) occasionally leaves somcthing 
10 be desired, we feel that the compact- 
and simplicity of operation morc 
compensare for а somewha 
rower frequency response and 
tape hiss. 

Audiophiles who opt for the distortion- 
free perlormance of open-reel tape and 
the convenience. of a cassette will wish 
10 give the new automated reel-to-reel 

that’s now—or soon will be - 
ике: а whirl. Froncrunner 
the automation sweepstakes is Sony 
forthcoming Model 760, a recorder/ 
playback that mot only threads 
and reverses direction by itself but 
changes iis own recls. АЙ you do is stack. 
up to five reels on the spindle, actuate 
the automaticplay control and let the 
mechanism take over. The 760 won't be 
ready until this fall; the price will be 
559 


also 


Meanwhile, there is а handsomely 

wtomated. таре deck available right now 
from Bell & Howell. The Model 2291 
(5349.95) eschews automatic reel change 
but does offer automatic threading and 
reverse, along with such other useful fea 
tures as pause and search controls and a 
power-assisted master control knob [or all 
tape transport functions. Autothread 
and reverse are also available from 
Ampex in its threespeed Model ПЕТА 
(8899.95, with slide-on speakers). 


Го keep matters in perspective. we 
should observe at this point that thread- 
ing a piece of tape | 
doe 


а head assembly 
il awesome feats of dexteri 
|. as an added incentive, there's a 
ray of reehtoreel equipment 
silable, ranging all the way from the 
sublime to the serviceable. In the former 
cuegory we put the Crown SX800 
(51495). a rugged professional instru- 
ment with lOrzinch reels, hyster 
syichronousdrive motor, magnetic brak- 
ing and completely separated record and 


playback preamps. The big news of thi 


not eni 


system is its computerl 
pe transport 


control for the 
а four-button device that 


allows you to make any shift, even 
from fast forward to fast reverse, with- 
out risk of tape breakage. Crown’ 


transport mechanism can also be remote- 
controlled for armchair operation. An- 
other top-of-the-line tape deck—TEAC's 
Model A-6010 (5699.50)—automatically 
reverses the tape at the end of the recl. 
Roberts’ Model 5000 (5599.05) also be 
longs in thc stellar class; thc deck ac- 
commodates 1014-inch reels and features 
the famed Akai crossfield recording head. 

A short move down the price scale 
brings us to a number of tempting inte 
mediate models from suppliers of long 
standing. Tandberg has completely tran- 
sistorized its Series 12 recorder (9498) 
for 1 electronic performance 
As its Scandinavian provenience, 
the 12 comes encased in hand- 
finished teak. Uher has also completely 
transistorized из Model 9000-L deck. 
(5100). which packs into an extremely 
compact module such refinements as a 
hysteresis synchronousdrive motor that 
keeps the rpm speed constant even when 
voltage Muctuates, Sony's Model 560D 


improve 


befits 


T... Ws your pusher, madam. . . . 


deck (5349.50) comes equipped with a 
servo-control AC-DC motor for variable 
pitch adjustments, as well as a flutter 
filter, noisesuppressor switch and ai 
omatic reverse system. 

The low-price tape-cteck field has been 
invaded by two long-experienced пи 
table manufacturers —BSR, with its three- 
speed TD-1020 deck from Engl: 
($120.95; and Dual with its 
deck from € 
featuring push-button controls and sound- 
on-sound recording. Automatic revers 
at à budget price can be found in Con 
cord's Reverse-A-Track. deck ($199.50); 
while excelle ue has been built 
such basic n s as the Viking 493 
(5949.50). Wollensak 5720 ($189.95) and 
Panasonic RS-766US (5149.95). АШ offer 
three-speed transport, dual VU meters, 
digital tape counters and a full comple- 
put and output. jacks. 

Adventurous tapists now have the fas- 
cinating world of sight and sound to con- 
quer. Video tape recorders are still a bit 
costly, but they're getting better all the 
time and one of these days everybody 
will own onc, Unfortunately, the hoped- 
for standardization of ape record- 


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PLAYBOY 


156 


“Now, just a minute!” 


ers has not yet come 10 pass, and it looks 
as И we're in for a battle of the speeds 
reminiscent of the imbroglio over 33 and 
45 rpm. The Ampex people are. plump- 

ng for nch tape at a transport speed 
of 9.6 ips. Thi at is embraced. in 
ihe just-announced Model 5000 deck 
(8995), which will produce video tapes 
that are fully interchangeable with 
other one-inch Ampex video tape re- 
corder, Sony favors haltinch tape at 
transport speed of 714 ips. The finm! 
well-established = CV-200D  video-tape- 
ecorder deck (S695) is now joined by a 
12-pound battery-operated recorder and 
camera for on-location work ($1250, in- 
duding zoom lens, microphone and bat 
tery charger). Full interchangeability is 
so guaranteed within the Sony family of 
ape recorders. Just to cloud mat 
ters further, the Craig Model 6401 deck 
($1035) runs halfinch tape at 915 ips, 
while Panasonic's Model NV-8000 (51000) 
spins along at 12 ips. 

JE you've been considering purchasing 
ТУ set. don't buy until you check 
out the new portables now on the mar 
ket Screen sizes vary, as do style and 
quality, so it’s impossible to list ай mod 
els here. For a starter, you might wish 
to consider the following three: GE's 
10-diagonalinch 269.95), 


forn 


а colo) 


Poracoler ( 


-diagonal-inch 
Model CIS (5349.50). For those of you 
who'd prefer to rally round а con- 
sole, there are plenty of them available 
in à multitude of wood hues and cabinet 
styles, Packard Bell's walnut finished. 
Scandinavianstyle Narvik ($700) fea- 
tures both a tambour door that сот- 
pletely closes off the tube and control 
panel when not in use and a swivel base 
for multidirectional viewing with a mini 
mum of effort. Two other е es in the 
uncommon market of lc sets are 
Admiral's walnutfinished Lisbon (Model 
L5438, $650) and Zenith’s Danish-walnut 
Ekstrom (5749.95) 

That about wraps it up. Clearly, 
there's a plentiful supply of electronic 
accouterments available for solo or social 
evenings in your digs, Prices quoted 
lis. In the case of many brands. 
counts from retailers are the order of the 
day. Belore buying, shop for price as 
well as for quality of sound. But think 
twice before purdhasing gear made by a 
company you have never heard of. Pints 
may be hard to come by and the work- 
manship shoddy. Ш you stick to name- 
brand merchandise, it's diffiault to go 


wrong. 
Ba 


con: 


dis- 


PIMP'S REVENGE 

(continued from page 126) 
beneficial but because it’s also а matter 
of communal responsibility; not only 
hers for me now that Гуе had а most se 
rious operation, or both of us Гог her 
starving father, but also in reference to 
my aged mother, а woman of eighty 
three who is seriously in need of proper 
nursing care. D understand уоште an 
American, signore. That's one thing, but 
y is a poor country. Here each of us 
has to be responsible for the wi 
four ог five others or it doesn't work 
we all go under 

He spoke calmly, philosophically 
little breathlessly, as if his recent opera 
tion now and then caught up with hi 
And his intense small eyes wandered in 
different directions as he talked, as 
though he suspected Esmeralda might 
be hiding in the room. 

T, after his first indigna 
with interest although disappointed the 
шап had пос turned ош to be а wea 
picture buyer. 

"She's had it with whoring.” he said. 

“Signore,” Ludovico said with ето 

irs important to understand. The 
girl owes me much. She was seventeen 
1 came across her, 
а wretched exist 
you the details because they'd tum your 
stomach. She had chosen this profession, 
the most dificult of all as we know, but 
Jacked the ability to handle herself. 1 
met her by accident and offered to help 
her, although this sort of thing wasn't in 
my regular line of work. To make the 
story short, 1 devoted many hours to her 
education and helped her find a better 
clientele—to give you an example. re- 
cently one of her newest customers, а 
wealthy cripple she sees weekly, offered 
to marry her, but I advised against it be 
cause he’s really a contadino. Anyway, 1 
took measures to protect her health and 
well-being. 1 advised her to go Гог medi- 
cal examinations, sawed off badly be- 
haved customers with a toy pistol and 
tried in every way to reduce indignities 
and hazards. Believe me, 1 am a protec 
tive person and gave her 
alfecion, I wear her as il ske were any 
own daughter. She isn't by chance in the 
next room? И she is, why doesn’t she 
come out and talk frankly?" 

He pointed w 
ain. 

Thars the kitchen,” 
out. shopping." 


listened 


whe 


my sincere 


h his cane at the alcove 


said Е. "She's 


Ludovico paused, bereft, blew оп his 
fingers, his eyes momentarily glazed as 


his glance mech 
the room. He seemed then to come to 
gazed at some of F's pictures with sud- 
den interest. In а moment his features 
were animated. 

Naturally, you're a painter! Pardon 
me for overlooking it, a worried man 


Пу wandered а 


halí blind. Besides, somebody told me 
you were an insurance agent" 

“No, I'm а painter. 

The pimp bonowcd F's last cigarette, 
took a few puffs as he studied the pic 
tures on the wall with tightened су 
then put out the barely used butt and 
pocketed it. 

“Its a remarkable coincidence." He 
had once, it wed out, been a frame 
maker and later part owner of a small art 
gallery on Ше Via Strozzi, and he was of 
course familiar with painting and the 
painting market. But the gallery, be- 
use of the machinations of his thieving 
partner, had failed. He hadn't reopened 
it for lack of capital, and it was shortly 
afterward he had become seriously ill 
aud had to have a lung removed. 

That's why I didn't finish your cig 
теце, though 1 still have a craving for a 
pull or two." 

Ludovico coughed badly- 
him. 

“In this condition, naturally, 1 find ic 
hard to make a living. Even frame mak- 
ing wears me ош. Thats why it's advan- 
tageous for me to work with Esmeralda. 
Anyway, you certainly have your 
nerve," the painter replied. "I'm not just 
referring 10 your coming up here and 
g me what I ought to 45 vis isis 
someone who happens to өс hac be 
cause she asked to be, but 1 mean ac- 
tually living off the proceeds of a girl's 
body. All in all, it isn't much of a moral 
thing to do. Esmeralda might in some 
ways be indebted to you. but she doe 
owe you her soul." 

The pimp leaned with dignity on his 
cane. 


believed 


are vou а moral man; 

“In my ап I am." 

Ludovico sighed. 
are we то ta 
badly? Morality has a thousand sources 
and endless means of expression. As for 
the soul, who understands its пей 
nism? Remember, the thief on the cross 
was the one who rose to heaven with our 
Lord." He coughed at length. “Maybe I 
expressed myself poorly before. This is a 
complicated world. Keep in mind that 
the girl of her free will chose the calling 
she is engaged in, not L She was in it 
without finesse or proficiency, which 
makes it almost impossible to succeed in 
such an enterprise, although she is of 
course adequate. Her advantage is her 
youth and a certain directness, but she 
needs advice and managerial 
Have you seen the hat she wears? Twice 
1 tied to burn it. Obviously she lacks 
taste. The same is true for her clothes, 
but she's very stubborn to deal with. 
Still, І devoted myself to her and man- 
aged to improve conditions, for which I 
received a modest but necessary com- 
mission. Considering the circumstances, 
how can this be an evil thing? The basis 
of morality is recognizing one another's 


Ah. 
lk of what we understand so 


maestro. who 


necds and coop 
ty is nothing to с 


ting. Mutual. generosi- 
с other people Гог. 


After all, what did Jesus teac 
Ludovico had removed his hat. He 
was bald with several gray hairs parted 
in the center. 
He seemed, now, depressed. "You 
aren't in love with this gil are you 


maestro? If so, say the word and 1 disap 
pear. Love is love, after all. I don't forget 
lam an Italian,” 
F thought for a minute. 
Not as yet, 1 don’t think.” 
Tn that case, I hope you will not 
terfere with her decision?” 
“What decision do you have in mind? 
‘As to what she will do after I speak 
to her. 
You mean if she decides to leave? 
“Exactly.” 
That's up to her." 
The pimp relieved hand over his 


perspiring head and replaced his hat 
“The relationship n 


be momentarily 
convenient, but for a painter who has his 
work to think of, you'll be bener off 
ithout her.” 

Т didn't say 1 wanted her to go." said 
Е. “АП I said was 1 wouldn't interfere 
with her decision. 

Ludovico bowed. ЗА 
ivitv of a truc ia 


. you have the 


On his way out, he tossed aside the al- 
cove curtain with his cane and uncovered 
F's painting on the kitchen table. 

He was at first unable to believe his 
eyes. Standing back, he had a bett 
look. “Straordinario,” he murmured 
kissed his fingertips. 

snatched the canvas. blew the dust 
nd carefully tucked it away behind 
his bureau. 
“It’s work in progress,” he explained. 
1 dont like to show it yeu” 
"Obviously it will be a very fine paimt- 
ing. one sees that at a glance. What do 
you call it" 

"Mother and Son.” 

"In spirit, it's pure Picasso.” 
s i? What do you m 

refer 10 his remark: "Vou. paint not 
you scc but what you know is 


nd 


what 


US right,” Е said, his voice husky. 
ll have to learn from the mas 
ters Theres nothing wrong with trying 
to do better that which they do best 
themselves. Thus new masters аге born.” 

“Thank you. 

“When you finish, let me know. I am 
acquainted with people who are interest 
ed in buying fine serious contemporary 
work. I cort! ger you аг excellent. price, 


"I didn't marry Frank for his money, 
but Pm divorcing him for it.” 


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158 


of course for the usual commission. Any- 
way, it looks as though you are about to 


give birth to а painting of extraordinary 
. Permit me to congratulate you on 
talent.” 


mei 
your 


Ludovico fell to his 
o fuck yourself,” she 

“Ah, signorina, my misfortune is your 
good luck. Your I superb arti 
You сап take my word for it.” 


How do you paint а Kaddish? 

Here's Momma sitting on the stoop in 
her cotton house dress, awkward at 
ing her picture taken yet with a dim 
smile on the dry old snapshot tur 
yellow that Bessie sent me years 
Here's the snap, here's the painting of the 
same idea, why can't 1 make one out of 
both? How do you make art of an old 
photo, so to say? A single of a double 
age, the one in and the one out? 

The painting, 31 x 38, was encrusted 
in places (her hands and fect) (his face) 
inch thick with 
y 1 history. an- 
other word Юг thick past in the paint it- 
sdf. The mystery was why in the five 
s he had been at it. on and off be 
had to hide it away when it got 
to be too much for him, he hadn't been 
able to finish it though most of it was 


av 


except Momma's face. 
. mostly as he had 
though he often added 


knife on the dry forms. He had tried 
it every which way, with Momma alone, 

w standing, i 
and with Bessie in or out, but never Pop- 
pa, that living ghost; and I've made her 
old and young, and sometimes resem- 
no, or Theresa. 
n; even a little 
Susskind, when my memory gets 
‘d up, who was а man 1 met when 1 
first came to Rome: Momma apart and 
he apart, and then trying to bri 
together in the tightly woven paint so 
they would be eternally mother and son 
as well as unique forms on canvas. So 
beautifully complete the idea of them to- 


like 


gether that the viewer couldn't help but 


th 
ivs 


no one has to do it because 
been done by F and can't be done 
better; in truth, a masterwork, He had 
painted her sad and happy, tall, short, 
realistic, expressionistic, cubistic, surrca 
i, even in action splotches of violet 
and brown. Also in black and white, 
stark like Motherwell, Опсе he had 
molded a figure in clay from the old pho- 
to and tied to copy it, but that didn't 

work either. 
The faces were changed almost every 
day he painted, his as а young boy, hers 
s herself (long since departed); but now 
though for ad let the boy 
be, his face | he was still never 
satisfied with hers—something always 
missing—lor very long alter he had put 
it down: and he daily or nightly scraped 
if off (another lost face) with his rusty 
m 


“You love her, McBride. Make me believe you love her!” 


next day: then scraped that face the 
same night or the day after; or ler it 
harden in hope for two days and then 
frantically, before the paint stiffened, 
scraped that face off, too. АЙ in all he 
had destroyed more than a thousand 
faces and conceived another thousand 
for a woman who could barely afford 
one; yet couldn't settle on her true face 

ас least true for art. What was true for 
Besic’s old photo was truc cnough—you 
n't beat Кодак, but reduced on can- 
vas, too much left out. He sometime 
thought of tearing up the old snapshot so 
he would have only memory (of it?) to 
go by, but couldn't bring himself to de- 
stroy this last image of her. He was 
afraid to tear up the snap and went on 
painting the face on the dumpy body on 
the chair on the stoop, litte F standing 
ndly by 1 с knowing she had 
died though pretending, at least in paint, 
that he didn’t: then scraping it off as the 
rest of the painting slowly thickened into 
a frieze. 


minutes, though not when I look at them 
I don't paint her face so tha 
holds him in her presence. It comes out 
like two portraits in space and 
should I stand а on the left in 
stead of right? I tried it once and i 
didn't work; now I have this hard-as- 
rock-quarter-of-an-inch investment in the 
way they nd if I scrap either 
of them ( ire), 1 might as 
well throw out the canvas. I might as 
well scrap what's left of my Ше if I 
have to start over again. 

How do you invent whoever she was? 
1 remember so little, her death, not even 
Ше dying, just the end mostly, after а 
sickness they саъйу cure nowadays with 
penicillin. L was about six or seven, or 
maybe ten, and as 1 remember, didn't 
cry at the funeral. For years that never 
bothered me much, but when Bessie sent 
me the snap and 1 began painting Mom- 
ma's pictures, Г guess it did. Maybe I 
held it against her, 1 mean dying; either 
that or I am by nature а nonmoumer, 
born that way whether one wants it or 
not. The truth is I am afraid to paint, 
like 1 might find out something. 

I have not said Kaddish, though 1 
could have looked up the words. 

What if she were still а 
figure among the stars, unable to 
Pearly Gates? 

He hid the canvas and turned then to 
the ucte of the Madonna without 
child. Esmeralda liked to зе the chips 
Пу as the Holy Mother rose out of wood. 

The girl had coffee with milk in the 
morning, slept on a borrowed cot in the 
nd stayed ош of his way 
nting. The back of the 
canvas was what she saw when she Game 
into the studio cach morning for a few 


dering 
nd the 


lire to shop with. It was understood she 
was not to try to look as he painted. 
"Malocchio," he said, and she nodded 
and withdrew on tiptoe. Because he 
found it uncomfortable to work with 
someone around, after a few days hc had 
thought of asking her to leave, but when 
he considered how young she was, hard- 
ly grown up, like a young child's 
ter, he changed his mind. Only once she 
indirectly referred to the painting, asking 
what was the snapshot he pored over so 
much. “Mind your business," F said; 
she shrugged and hdrew. In the 
Kitchen she was slowly reading a love- 
story serial in a movie magazine. She 
shopped, cooked, kept the studio clean, 
although she did not bathe as often 
as he. In the kitchen, as he was paint- 
ing she sewed, mended his socks, under- 
wear, and altered her dresses. She had 
not much clothing, a sweater and skirt 
and two trollop's dresses, from one of 
which she removed two silver roses, 
from the other some rows of purple se- 
quins. She raised the necklines ап low- 
ered the hems. She owned a tight black 
sweater that looked good on her because 
of her bosom, long neck, dark eyes; also 
a few pieces of patched underwear, noth- 
ing enticing but a red chemise, not bad 
but too red, some baubles of jewelry she 
had bought on the Ponte Vecchio, and a 
modest pair of house shoes. Her gold 
high heels she had wrapped in newspa- 
per and put away. How long for does 
she think? Е thought. And the girl was a 
talented cook. She fed him well, mostly 
оп macaroni, green vegetables cooked in 
olive oil, and now and then some tripe or 
rabbit. She did very well with a few lire, 
and, all in all, two lived cheaper than 
one. She made few complaints, though 
she could be sullen when, lost in hi: 
work or worry about his work, he paid 
scant attention to her for days. She 
obliged in bed when he wanted her, 
could be tender, and generally made 
herself useful. Esmeralda once suggested 
she would pose for him in the nude, but 
F wouldn't hear of it. Heavy-armed and 
long-fooied, at times she reminded him. 
of Везе as he remembered her as a girl, 
though they weren't really much alike. 
One October morning Е sprang out of 
bed, terribly inspired. Before breakfast 
he got the painting out of its hiding 
place to finish it off once and for all, only 
to discover that Bessic's snapshot was 
gone from the easel ledge. He shook Fs- 
merakla awake, but she hadn't seen it. Е 
rushed downstairs, dumped the garbage 
bag on the sidewalk and frantically 
searched amid the hard spaghetti strings 
ad mushy melon rinds, as the landlord, 
waving both anms, threatened. suit. No 
s, he hunted though the 
studio from top to bottom, Esmeralda 
diligently assisting, but they found noth- 
ing. He spent а terrible morning, not a 


“Someone to see you, Senaior, from the gun lobby.” 


"But why do you need a pic 
paint Вот, it's all so ridiculous. 
“Are you эше you didn't take it?” 
"Why would I take it? It's not a pic 

ture of me." 

"To teach me a lesson or something?” 

“Don't be a fool,” she said. 

He trembled in rage and misery. 

In his presence she searched through 
his chest of drawers—he had been 
through them a dozen times—and on 
top, under a book on Uceello he had 
been reading, discovered the lost snap- 
shot. 


"e to 


blushed. 
I forgive your dirty suspicions,” she 
said. her eyes clouding. 

“Not that I deserve it,” he admitted. 

After lunch she tried on the floppy hat 
she had worn when he had met her, to 
sec how she could alter it. 

The sight of the velvet hat on her ex- 
cited his eye. F had another inspiration. 

“LIL paint you in it—at least a draw- 
ing, 

‘What for? You said it's ugly on me. 

“It’s unique is why. Many a master in 
the past was enticed by a hat to do a 
portrait of the face beneath. 

“Oh, all right," Esmeralda said. "Its 
immaterial to me, though. | thought 
you'd want to be getting back to your 
painting. 
The day's shot for that.” 

She agreed to pose. He did a quick 
charcoal for а warm-up that came out 
entrancing, especially the hat. He beg 
then to sketch her in pencil, possibly for 
ting. 


ap 


As he was drawing. F asked, “How 
did you manage to fall into prosti— 
Your former profession? What I mean is, 
was it Ludovico's doing?" 


“Prost Profession.” she mim- 
icked. "Once you've cackled, lay the 
cus 


“I was trying to be considerate.” 
“Thy again. Keeping your mouth shut 
about certain things is a better consid- 
ion: still, if it's only your curiosit 
you're out ro satisfy, ГИ tell you why. 
Ludovico had nothing to do with it, at 
least then, although he was one of my 
carliest customers and still owes me 
money for services rendered, not to men- 
tion certain sums he stole outright. He's 
the only pure bastard Г know, all the 
others have strains of decency, not that 
much difference. Anyway, it 
i nt to know: 


F, letting the irony pass continued to 
sketch her. 

"One thing ГИ tell you. it м: 
cause of any starving father, 
what he's told you. My father is 
in Fiesole, he stinks of manure 
incredibly stingy. All he's ever 
with is his virginity, He's got my 
and sister drudging for him and is sore 
as a castrated bull that I escaped, 1 ran 
away because I was sick to my teeth of 
being a slave. Whats more, he wasn't 
above giving me a feel now and then 
when he had nothing better to do. 
"Thanks to him I can barely read and 


per 
and is 
parted 
other 


write. I turned to whoring because I 158 


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160 


don't want to be a maid and T don't 
know anything else. A muck driver оп 
the autostrada gave me the idea. But in 
spite of my profession, I'm incredibly 
ars why I let Ludovico p 


said, 


and when she had, 
What are you going to call ii? 
He had thought, Portrait of a Young 
Whore, bat answered, “Portrait. of а 
Young Woman. 1 might do an oil trom 
in” 

“It's immaterial to me,” Esmeralda 
said. but he saw she was pleased. 

The reason I stayed here is I thought 
you'd be kind to me. Besides, if a man is 
an artist, 1 figured he must know about 
lile. If he does. maybe he can teach me 
something. So far, all I've learned is 
you're like everybody else, shivering in 
your pants. That's how it goes, when you 
think you have nothing, there's some- 
body with less.” 

Е made three more drawings on pa- 
per, with and without the hat, and one 
with the black hat and Esmeralda hold- 
ig marigolds. 

"The next morning he carved half a 
wooden Madonna in a few hours, and to 
celebrate, took Esmeralda to the Uffzi in 


the afternoon. and explained some of the 
great works of art to her 
She didn't always understand his allu- 
ions, but eful. “You're not so 
dumb, 


‘One picks up things." 

That evening they went to a movie 
and afterward stopped for a gelato and 
espresso in a café off the Piazza della Si 
g Men looked her over. F stared 
them down. She smiled at him tenderly. 
You're a lot more relaxed. when you're 
working on the Madonnas. When youre 


painting with that snapshot in front of 
you, you haven't the civility of a de; 

He admitted there was some truth to 
it 

She confesed she had stolen a long 
look at his picture when he was down- 
stairs going through the garbage bag Гог 
the snap. 

To his surprise, he did not condemn 
her. 

What did you think of it?" 
"Who is she, the one without 
face?" 

"My mother, she died young. 

“What's the matter with the boy?” 

What do you mean?” 
He looks kind of sad.” 

“That's the it’s supposed to be. 
But I don't want to talk about it any- 
more. The worst thing you can do when 
you're painting is talk about it 
о me it’s as though you were trying 
to paint yourself back in your mother's 
arms." 

He momentarily stunned. "Do 
you think зо?” 

“из obvious to me. 
mother, a som's а son. 

"On the other hand, it might be like 
an attempt on my part to release her 
from the arms of death. But 4 sort of 
май doesn't matter much. It’s first and 
foremost a painting, a potentially first- 
class work if J ever get it done. If I could 
complete it the way [ sometimes see it in 
my mind's eye, I bet it could be some- 
thing exi nary. You know, if a man 
docs only one such p: in his life- 
time, he can call himself a success. 1 
sometimes think that if ] could paint 
such a picture, much that was wrong in 
my life would rearrange itself and add 
up to more, if you know what I mean 

“In what way?” 


the 


A mothers a 


“But I can’t go with you to your planet! 
These are my peak earning years!” 


“I could forgive myself for past errors.” 

“Not me," Esmeralda said. “I'd have 
to paint ten great pictures." 

She laughed at the thought. 

As they were crossing the bridge, Es- 
meralda said, “You're really nutty. I 
don't sce why a man would give up five 
years of his life just to paint one picture. 
it was me, I'd put it aside and do 
1 could sell.” 

I do once in a while, like this portrait 
of you I'm working on now, but I always 
go back to Mother and Son." 

"Why docs everybody tlk about art 
so much?" she asked. “Even Ludovico, 
when he's not adding up his accounts, 
he's talking about a 

“Ares what it must be, which is beau- 
ty, and more, which is mostly mystery. 
That's what people talk about. 

“In this picture you're painting of me, 
what's the mystery?’ 

“The mystery is that you've been cap- 
tured, yet there's more—you've become 


"You mean it’s not me anymore?" 

"Et never was, Art isn't life." 

“Then the hell with it. If I have my 
choice, ГИ take life. If there's пос that, 
there's no 

"Without art there's no life to speak 
of, at least for me. If I'm not an artist, 
then I'm nothing.” 

“My God, aren't you a man?" 

"Not really, without 
“Personally, 1 think you've got a lot to 
learn.” 

"I'm learning,” F sighed. 

"Whats so great about mystery?” she 
then asked. "| dont like it. There's 
enough around without making morc." 

“Being involved in it.” 

“Explain that to me.” 

“1 complicaed, but one thing would 
be that a man like me—you understand 
—is actually working in art. The idea 
came to me late. Г wasted most of my 
youth. The mystery of art is that more is 
there than you put down and every 
stroke adds to й. You look at your paint- 
ng and se this eye staring at you 
though all you've painted is an old ur 
Its also a mystery to me why I haven't 


been able to finish my best painting, 
though 1 am dying to." 
“If you ask me," Esmeralda said, "my 


idea of a mystery is why I am in love 
with you, though it's clear 10 me you 
don't see me for dirt.” 

She burst into tears. 

A week later Ludovico, come for a 
morning visit wearing а pair of new yel- 
low gloves, saw the completed portrait of 

da, 48 x 30, with black hat, long 
nd marigolds. He was bowled 


ntastic. If you pay me half, 1 can 
get you a million lire for this work of 
art." 


F agreed. so the pimp, crossing him- 


self, left with the paint 


One 
Ludovico, 
four flights of stair 
dio lugging a tape recorde 


out, 


rowed 

“What for? 
To keep 
get it printed. in. International Arts. My 
cousin 15 assistant to the 


ng. 


when Esmeralda w 
breathing badly after 
appeared in the stu. 
r he had bor- 


lor an interview with 


fternoon 


s 


record for the future. ГЇЇ 


business man- 


ager. It will help you get a gallery for 


your first one-man show 


Who needs a gallery if all I can show 


is unfinished 

You'd better incr 
down here and talk 
I've turned it on. Di 
machine, 


nVases?” 

ase your output. Sit 
но the microphone 
ıt worry about the 
it won't crawl up your leg. Just 


relax and answer my questions candidly. 
Also don't waste time justifying yourself, 


Ate you ıe: 


ly 


Yes.” 


LU 


Lup: 


LUD: 


LUD: 


Very well. Ludovico Belvedere 
speaking, interviewing the paint 
er Fidelman. Tell me, Arturo, as 
an American, what does painting 
1 to you? 

my whole life. 

t kind of person do you 
think an artist is when he's paint 
ing? Do you think he's a king or an 
emperor, or a seer or а prophet? 

I don't know for l often 
feel like a constipated witch doctor. 
Please talk with good sense, И 
you're going to be scatological, 
ГИ have to stop Ше machine. 

I didn't mean anything bad. 

As an American painter, what do 
you think of Jackson Pollock? Do 
you agree that he is а liberating 
influence? 

He hasn't freed me. The truth is 
you have to Все yourself. 

Try 10 respond to the question. 
Were talking about painting, not 
your personal psychology. Jack- 
son Pollock, as any cultured per- 
son will tell you, has changed the 
course of modern. painting in the 
world, Don't think we don't know 
about him in this country, we're 
not exactly backward. We can all 
kearn him, including 
Do you agree that anyone 
works in the modes of the 
has only leavings to work with? 
Only partly, the past is репу 
rich. 

Never mind. I go now 10 the 
next question. Who is your favor- 
пе painter? 
Ah—well, I 
one, Г have 
If you think that’s an. advantage, 
you're wrong. There's no need of 
hubris. И an interviewer asked 


sure, 


from 


past 


dont think I have 
many. 


e 
Lup: 


Lup: 


Lup: 


me that question, I would reply 
"Leonardo, Raphael, Mididan- 
gelo." or someone else, but not 
the entire pantheon of painters. 

1 answered honestly. 

Anyway, to go on, what is your 


avowed purpose in ип? 
To do the best I cam. To do 
more than that. My momentary 
purpose is to create my uncreated 
masterpiece. 

The one of your mother? 
That's right, Mother and Son. 
But whore is originality? 
Why are you so concerned with 
subject matter? 

1 reject originality. 
Whats that? Please expla 
sell. 

Maybe I'm not ready, not y 
Mother of God! How old are you? 
Forty-one plus. 

Then why are you so cautious 


п your- 


and conservative? Fm. filty-two 
and have the mind of a youth. 
Tell me, what's your opinion of 


pop Think before you speak. 
If it stays away from me, I'll 
stay away from it. 

(garbled) 


What did you say? 
1 said nothing. 

I heard you mater something. 
Please anend to the question at 
hand. 1 wi 


h you would explain 

10 ше clearly why you paint. 

With my paintings 1 uy to stop 

the flow of time. 

Thats a ridiculous statement, but 

go on anyway 

Гуе said it. 

Say it more comprehensibly, The 

public will be reading this. 

Wall, art is my means for under- 

standing Ше and tying out cer- 

tain assumptions I have. I make 
г s me. 

have a proverb: “The bray 

an ass can't be heard in heavy 

en.” 

Frankly, 1 don't like some of your 

remarks, 

Are you saying the canvas is the 


alter cgo of the artist's miserable 

sell? 

Thats not what I said and I 
like what you're saying. 


iry to be more respectful. 
Maestro, once you spoke to me of 
your ап as moral. What did you 


Did I? It’s just a thought 1 had 
I guess І suppose 1 mean that 
maybe a painting sort of gives 
value to a human being as he re 
sponds to it. You might say it en 
langes his consciousness. If he 
feels beauty it makes him morc 
than he was, it adds, you might 
say, to his humanity, 

What do you mean "responds"? 
A man responds in rape, doesn't 


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he? Doesn't that enlarge the con- 
sciousness, as you put it. 

Its a different response. Rape 
isn't art. 

An emotion is am emotion, no 
matter how it arises. In itself it is 
not moral or immoral. Suppose 
someone responds to the sunset 
on the Amo? Is that better or 
more moral than the response to 
the smell of a drowned corpse? 
What about bad art. suppose the 
response is with more feeling 
than 10 a great painting—does 
that prove bad art is moral, as 
you call it? 

І guess 


not. АП right, then 
the painting in из 
doesn’t have it, but putting it an- 
other way, maybe the artist does: 
is he does when he's paint- 
ing—creating form, order. Order 
protects us all, doesn't i 
Yes, the way a prison doc 
member, some of the 

pricks, if you will excuse the use 
of this word. have been great 
painters. Does that necessarily 
make them moral men? ОГ course 
not. What if a painter 
grandfarher and then 
beautiful Ascension? 

Maybe I'm not putting it right. 
Maybe what m trying 10 say is 


that I feel most moral when Im 
painting, like through being en- 


gaged with truth. 

LUD: So now its what you feel. I 
speak with respect, maestro, but 
you do 
with 

F: Look, Ludovico, 1 don’t under- 
stand, if you don't mind my 
зо, why you brought this machine 
up here in the first place if all you 
want to do is insult me. You could 
have done that without the tape. 
Now take it away, it's using up 
work time. 

Lup: Please speak with respect where 


respect is due, 1 am not a serv- 
ant, maestro. I may have been 
forced into menial work through 
circumstance. but Ludovico Bel- 
vedere has kept his dignity. 
Don't think that because. you are 
ап American you cin go on wam- 
pling on the rights of Europeans. 
You have caused me unnecessary 
personal discomfort and grief by 
interfering with a business r 
tionship between this unfortunate 
girl and myself, and the lives of 
four people have been seriously 
affected. You don't seem пот 
ize the harm you are doing. 
END OF INTERVIEW. 


had jumped on the tape recorder. 
Ludovico broke down. He asked for 
mercy 

F said mercy for what. 


Each he awoke carlier to 
paint; w awn though the light 
from the streaked sky was. of course 
possible. He had lately been capable of 
very little patience with the necessities 
of daily life: wash, dress, cat, even go to 
the toilet: and the matter became most 
inconvenient when his nervous impa- 
tience seeped into the painting itself. It 
а burdensor 
ke the canvas from its hid 
hind the armadio and arrange it on the 
asel, select and mix his paints, tack up 
the old suapshot (most unbearable) and 
begin work. He could have covered the 
canvas on the cisel every night and left 
the snapshot tacked on permanently, but 
was obsessed to remove it each time 
ter he put the paints away, soaked the 
brushes in turpe: aned up. For 
merly, just picking up a brush and stand- 

nes 


moming 


im- 


business to 
place be 


g in thought. or reverie, or somet 
blankly, before a painting would case 
interior constrictions 10 the point where 
he would relax sufficiently to enjoy the 
nd once he had painted for an 
; which sometimes came to no more 
than a stroke ог two, he Гей well enough 
to permit himsell to eat half a roll and 
swallow an espresso Esmeralda had pre- 
pared, and afterward go with lir buit 
ine to the gabinetto. But now 
there were days he stood in tenor in 
front of Mother and Son and shivered 
with every stroke he put down. 

He painted out of anguish. a dark col- 
or. The canvas remained much the same, 
the boy as he had been, the fickle moth- 
er's face daily changing; daily he scraped 
it oll as Esmeralda moaned in the kitch- 
] learned the sound of palette 


It was then that F de 
cided to use the girl as a model for his 
mother. Though she was only 18, it 


might help to have a living model for 
Momma as а young woman, though sl 
was touching middle age when Bes 
took the photo, and was of course anoth- 
er sort of person; still, such were the 
paradoxes of art. Esmeralda agreed and 
stripped herself по the ı the 
painter es; dt 
was her face he was painting, She did 
as he demanded and patiently posed, 
sweetly, absently, uncomplaining, for 
hours, as he. fighting ag 
privacy in the aca 
invent the mother's 1 
сап with ima 


al I 
mation, 1 mean on top of 
the snapshot. And though at the end of 
the day he scraped her face off as the 
model wept, F urged her to be calm be 
cause he now had a brand-new idea: to 
paint himself not with Momma anymore 
but Bessie instead, Brother and 


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owll stop using the snapshot.” But F 
replied, “Not exactly." He still needed it 
as а tool to get the true relationship of 
them * well as psychology 

As they were into the spaghetti at sup- 
per. the girl wanted to know whether all 
artists had it so hard. 

"How hi 
o that 


es them years to paint a 


pictur 
“Some do and some don't. What's on 
your mind?” 
“Oh, I don't know," she said. 
He threw down his fork. “Are you 


doubting my talent, you whore? 
She got up and went into the gabine 
to. 


ay on his bed, his face engulfed in 
a pillowful of black thoughts. 

Aher a while Esmeralda. came ош and 
kissed his ear. 

“L forgive you, tesoro, I want you to 

КОО 
‘TI will." he oied, springi 

bed. The next day he rigged up a 
young boys costume— blouse and knee 
pants. and painted in it to get to the 
rt of bygone days, but ti 
work so he went back to putting 
ralda into the painting, and scraping her 
face off cach night. 

To live. to paint, to live in order to 
paint, he had to continue carving Ma- 
donnas; being he m 
more reluctantly. When Esmeralda point- 
ed out they su 
no spagheui, days he апіса 
ош a statuene, then hurried it over to 
Panenero’s shop. The woodworker unfor- 
tunately couldn't use it. “Му appren 
tices.” he shrugged, "are turning them 
out by the burtelful, Frankly, they mod- 
cl cach stroke on yours and work Гам. 
Eh. thats what's happened to craft in 
So Ше stuff piles up aud the 
"D appear til spring. Its a 
the Hachensacks and Leder- 
hown come over the Alps, maestro. 
Still. because irs you and because 1 ad- 
mire your skill. ГЇЇ offer you two thou- 
sand lire, take it or leave it. This js my 
busy day. 

F lelt w 


g up from 


(ош a word, in afterthought 
wondering whose yellow gloves he had 
seen lying on the counter. On his way 
along the riverbank he flung the Madon- 
to the Arno, She struck the gtecn 
with a golden splash, sank, then 
то to the surface, and turning on her 
back, floated downstream, eyes to the 
blue sky. 

He cuval two more М 
wrought pieces 


donnus, finely 
nd peddled them him- 
self to shops on the Vie Tornabuoni and 
della Vigna Nuova. No luck. The shelves. 
were crammed full of religions figures, 
though one of the merchants offered him 
6000 lire for a Marilyn Monroe, nude if 
possible. 

“L have no skill for that sort of thi 


“What about Jolin the Baptist 
gy skins? 

"What about him?” 

"I offer five thousand.” 

“I find him an uninteresting 

Esmeralda then tried sel 


at- 
ucttes. Е wouldn't let her offer them to 


ng the s 


Panenero; so the girl, holdi 
Mother in each апп. stood in the Piazza 
del Duomo and finally sold one to 
German priest for 1200: and the other 
she gave to a widow in weeds a 


g a Holy 


Maria Novella. for 800 lire. Е. whe 
heard, ground his teeth, and though she 
pleaded with him to be reasonable, 


swore he would carve no more. 

He worked at odd jobs, one in a Iaun- 
dry, that tired him so he couldn't paint 
at night. One morning he tried chalking 
blue-robed Madonnas with Child, after 
Raphael. on the sidewalks before the 
Baptisery, Santa Chiara, the Stazione 
Cenuale. where he was almost arrested. 
Passersby stopped to ch him work 
bur moved on quickly when he passed 
the hat. A few tossed small coins upon 
the image of the Holy Mother and Е col 
lected them and went to the next spot. A 
brown-robed monk in sandals followed 
him. 

"Why don't you look for produc 
work?’ 


your art 

He went to the Brancacci Chapel and 
sat the rest of the day staring in the half. 
а the Masaccio frescoes. Сен 


made masterworks. If you weren't gr 
ly gifted the way was ha 


1. a master- 
ile. Still, somehow or 


work was a m 


other, art abounded in miracles 

He borrowed a fishing pole from 
artist neighbor and fished. amid a 
men with bent rods. off the Ponte Tr 
ta. Е tied the rod to a nail on the ling 
and paced back and forth, retuming 
every few minutes to check his lines as 
the float bobbed in the Arno. He caught 
nothing, but the old fisherman next to 
him, who had pulled in eight fish, gave 
him a one-eyed crippled cel. [t was a 
cloudy November day, then rainy. 
patches of damp appearing on the studio 
The cornucopia leaked. The 
house was cold, Fabio wouldn't turu on 
the heat ull December. It was hard to 
get warm. But Esmeralda made а tasty 
Grippled-ecl soup. The next night she 
cooked a handful of borrowed polenta 
that popped in the pot as it boiled. For 
lunch the next day there was stale bread 
and half an onion apiece. But for Sunday 
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beans and a salad of beet leaves, Не sus- 
piciously asked how come, and she ad- 
mitted she had borrowed a few hundi 
lire from Ludovico. 

"How are we supposed to pay 1 
back?” 

“We won't, he owes me plenty 

“Don't borrow [rom him anymor 

“Tm not afraid of him, he's afr: 
me.” 

"I don't like li 
at my most dishonest among dishonest 
men. 

"Don't trust him, she said. 
еспей. “Hed knife you if he could. 
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Afterward she asked, “Why don't you 


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carve a Madonna or two? Two thousand 
lire now and then is nothing to spit at 
Besides, you do beautiful work in wood.” 
Not for the price, it's not worth my 
time.” 
The landlord, wearing a woman's 
black shawl, entered without knocking, 


shouting for his rent. 
"TI wet the municipality to throw you 
both out, the puttana and you, You're 


fouling up this house with your illicit 
Your friend told me what 


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t the ce 
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fore 1 moved i 
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F bio shout- 


a 


turning out delicate tapered 
for quc tables and did no paint- 
ing. In the street, going back and forth 
from work, he looked for odds and ends 
people might have dropped. At home he 
saved pieces of string tied together and 
rolled into a ball. He switched off the 
light altcr Esmeralda had washed the 
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inches of her hair to а man with a sack 
who had knocked оп the door, so she 
could buy herself some warm under- 
weh 
Finally she could stand it no 
What are you going to do?" 
"What cin 1 do that I 
1 don't know. Do you want me to go 
back to my work?" 
L never said so." 
If 1 don't, you'll be like this forever. 
you're like when you're not 


longer. 


“It sounds like yes." 

He went out for a long walk and for a 
while hung around the palazzo where 
Dostoievsky had written the last pages 
of The Idiot. It did no good. When he 
returned he said nothing to Esmeral 
In fact, he did not feel too bad, thous! 
he knew he ought to. In fact, he had 
been thinking of asking her to go to 
work, whatever she might do. It's cir- 
ics, he thought. 
lda had got out her black hat, 
the two dresses and her gold shocs. On 
the velvet hat she sewed the silver roses. 
She raised the hems of the dresses above 
her knees and lowered the necklines to 
expose the rounded tops of her hard 


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she 


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You know what I mean. I don't want 
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in full. It’s blood money.” 

ГИ protect you," F said. 

He wore dark glasses, а black velour 
hat pulled low over one eye and a brown 
overcoat with a ratty fur collar. buttoned 


He thought of growing a beard 
ve that up. His bristly reddish 
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been. And he carried a snappy cane with 
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They went together to the Piazza del- 
la Republic 


almost merrily. "For art," 
ter а moment, bitterly, 


She cursed him from the depth of her 
t and then forgave him. “It’s my na- 
ture,” she said. “1 can't bear a grudge.” 
‘Neither cm 1,” Е said. 
He promised 10 marry 
had finished the painting. 
Е paints all moming after Esme 
has posed; she bathes, does her nails and 
toes and makes herself up with thick 
mascara, After a leisurely lunch, they 
leave the house and go across the bridge 
to the Piazza della Repubblica, She sits 
on a bench with her less crossed. high, 
smoking: and F is at à bench nearby, 
sketching in a pad in which he sometimes 
finds himsell drawing dirty pictures: men 
and women, women and women, men 
and men. But he doesn't consort with 
the other pimps, who sit together playing 
cards; nor does Esmeralda talk with the 
other whores, they call her hoity-toity. 
When а man approaches 10 ask whether 
she happens to be free she nods, or look- 
ing at him through her short veil, says 
yes as though she could just as well have 


he 


her once he 


said no. She gets up, the other whores 
regarding her with their eyes and 
mouths, and wanders with her client 


10 one of the crooked side streets, to 
tiny room they have rented close by 
so there's no waste of man hours getting 
back то the piazza. The room has a bed, 
а water bowl, a chamber pot. 

When Esmeralda from Ше 
bench, F slips his ¢ pad into his 
overcoat pocket and leisurely follows 
her. Sometimes it is a beautiful late-fall 
afternoon and he takes deep breaths as 
he walks. On occasion he stops to pick 
up a pack of Nazionales, and if he’s a lit- 
tle hungry, for an espresso and а bit of 
pastry. He then goes up the smelly stairs 
wd waits outside the door, sketching 


little pictures in the dim electric glow, as 
hi 


Esmeralda performs; or files 
rule, 15 or 


finger- 


nails. It takes, as 0 minutes 
for the customer to come out. Some 
would like to st longer but can't if 


As a rule there 


they won't pay for are 


no arguments. The man dresses and 
sometimes leaves a tip if it has been 
most enjoyable. Esmeralda is still dress 
y. bored with getting in and cut of her 
clothes. Only once thus far has she had 
to call F in, to deal with a runt who said 
it hadn't been any good so no sense p 


F enters with the sword drawn out of 
his cane and points it at the man's hairy 
threat, “Pay. and beat it.” The 
unt, gone two sl cr, hurriedly 
leaves, assisted by а boot in the pants. 
Esmeralda watches without expression. 
he hands F the money—usually 2000 
lire, sometimes 3000; and if she can get 
it Пот а wealthy-type client, or an older 
man especially fond of 18-year-old 
7000 or 8000. That sum is rare 
the money—often in 1 
slips it into his wallet, wrapping a fat 
rubber band around it. In the eve 
they go home together, Esmeralda doing 
her shopping on the way. They пу not 
10 work at night unless it's been а bad 
day, In that case they go out alter supper, 
when the piazza is lit in neon signs and 
the bars and cafés are doing business; the 
competition is stifl—some very beautiful 
women in extraordinary clothes. Е goes 
into the bars and secks out men who seem 
to be alone. He asks them if they w: 
pretty gil, and if one shows 
leads him по Esmeralda. When it's 
or freezing cold. they stay in and play 
cards, or listen to the radio. F has 
opened an account in the Banco di Santo 
Spirito so they can draw from it in the 
winter if Esmeralda should be sick and 
t work. The то bed after mid. 
night. The next morning F gets up carly 
and paints, Esmeralda sleeps 1 

One morning F paints with 


Be 


dark 


glasses on, until she wakes up and 
sereams at him. 
г. when she is out buying material 


for Ludovico strides into the stu- 
dio, incensed. His usually pale face is 
flushed. He shakes his Malacca at F. 

"Why wasn't I informed that she h: 
gone back to work? 1 demand à comm 


sion. She took all her instruction. from 
uh 


bout to run him out of the room 
at of his overcoat but then has 
this interesting thought: Ludovico could 
take her over while he stays home to 
paint all day, for which he would рау 
him ten percent of Esmeralda’s 
Per cortesia,” says the pimp haughti- 
ly. "At the very least twenty-five per 
cent. 1 have many obligations and 
sick man beside 
“Ten is all we 
more 
Esmeralda returns with a package or 
two and when she comprehends what 
the argument is, swears she will quit 
rather than work with Ludovico. 
“You can do your own whoring, 
says to Е. “ГИ go back to Ficsolc. 
He nies to calm her. “It’s just that he's 


5 
by the s 


1 afford, not a penny 


she 


“So what happened to the first-run movie? 


PLAYBOY 


166. 


so sick is the reason 1 thought Td cut 
him i 


"Hes got one lung." 
"He has three lungs and four balls. 
ves the pimp down the stairs. 

In rhe afternoon he sits оп а bench not 
far from Esmeralda's in the Piazza della 
Repubblica, sketching himself on 


his 


drawing pad. 
Esmeralda burned Bessiés old эп: 

shot when Е was in the toilet. “I'm ge 

ting old," she said, “where's my future? 


Е considered strangling her but couldn't 
asclf to; besides, he hadn't. be 
using the photo since having Esmeralda 
as model. Sull, for a time he felt lost 
without it, the physical presence of the 
decaying snap. his only visible link to 
a, Bessi ам. Anyway, now t 
it was роти s gone. a memory be 
in. He painted wi 
more fervor yet detachment; fervor to 
complete the work, detachment to 
image, object, subject. Esmeralda left 
n to his devices, went off Гог most of 
Ше aftemoon and nded him the lire, 
fewer than before, when she returned. 
He painted with new confidence, amuse 
ment, wonder. The subject had changed. 
Irom Mother and Son to Brother and Sis- 
ter (Esmeralda as Bessie), to, lets face it, 
Prostitute and Procwer, Though she no 
longer posed, he was becoming cemer 
in his inner eye as to wl he wanted. 
Once he retained her face for a week be- 
fore scraping it off. Im geuing ther 
And though he considered. sandpapering 
his own face olf and substituting Ludo- 
o as pimp. the magnificent thing was 
that in the end he kept him: 
ny most honest piece of work, Esme 
was the now-l9yearold pros 
and he, with а stroke here and there ag- 
ing himself a bit, а 15-year-old procurer. 
This was the surprise that made the 
nting. And what it means, I suppose, 
he thought, is I am what I became from 
а young age. Then he thought, It has no 
ncaning, a painting's a painting. 

The piaure completed. itself. 


dé 


was 


afraid to finish из What would he do 
next and how long would that take? But 
the picture was. one day. done, Tt as- 


sumed a completion: This woman and 


man together, prostitute and procurer. 
She was a git with fear in both black 
vulner neck and а steely 


ence of е: 
Sacrament 
He had tormented, ecstatic, 


ch protected the other, A Holy 
The form leaped to the eye. 
et confused 


done! Though deeply drained, 
moved, he was sitished, completed—ah, 


eralda to look at the 
ps trembled, she lost col- 
turned away, finally she spoke. "For 


me it’s me. You've caught me as 1 am, 


there's no doubt of it. The picture is а 
rel" She wept as she gazed at it. 


"Now I can quit what I'm doing. Let's 
get married, Arturo. 
Ludovico, limping a lite in his 


squeaky shoes, came upstairs to beg their 
pardons, but when he saw the finished 


painting on Ше easel, stood stiff 
in awe 
I'm "Һе d, "What morc 


speechless, 


I 
‘Don't bother.” said Esmerald 
body wants your stinking opinion. 
They opened а bottle of wine and Es 
meralda borrowed а pan and baked a 
loin of veal, to celebrate. Their wiist 
neighbors came in: Vitelli, an illustrator 
meager wife; it was a festive 
„Е afterward related the story of 
his Ше and they all listened, absorbed. 
When the neighbors left and the three 


^no- 


were alone, Ludovico objectively dis- 
cussed his weak nature. 
ed to some Гус met in thc 


streets of Florence, Гл not a bad person. 
but my trouble is | forgive mysell too 
has its disadvantages be- 
cause then there are no uue barriers 10 
harmful act if you understand my m 
ing. 105 the casy way out, but what else 
you do if you grew up with certain 
mages? My father w ally 
inclined and it’s from him 1 inherited my 
worst qualities. H's clear enough that 


goats don't have puppies. Tm vain, 
lfüsh, though not arrogant, and given 
almost exclusively to petty evil. Nothing 
serious but serious enough. Of course 


I've wanted to change my ways but at 
my age what can one changez Can you 
change, maestro? Yet I readily confess 
who I am and ask your pardon for any 
convenience I might have caused you 
Either of you. 
“Diop dead," said Esmeralda. 
“The man's obviously sincere 
There's no need 10 


Е said, 
be so 


пе to bed, Arturo," She entered 
gabinetto as Ludovico went on with 


his confession. 

“To tell the truth, 1 am myself a failed 
artist, but at least 1 contribuie по Ше 
by offering fruitful 
suggestions, though youre [ree to do as 
you please. Anyway, your painting is a 
marvel. Of course Picassoid, but 
you've outdone him in some of his 
strategies.” 

Е expressed thanks and gratitude, 

“At first glance 1 thought that since 
the bodies of the two figures are so much 
their faces, especially the 
destroyed the unity of su 
face, but when I think of some of the 
impastos I've seen, and the more I study 
inting, the more I (есі that’s not 


long as ike a spontaneous act. 
"True, and therefore my only criticism 
is that maybe the painting suffers from 


an excess of darkness. It needs 
light, I'd say а soupçon of lemon 
little red, not more than a trace. But I 
kave it 10 you 

Esmeralda с 
in a red nightgov 
hodice. 

“Don't touch it,” she warned, “You'll 


more 


me ош of the gabinetto 
п with a black-lace 


never make it better 
How would you know?" F said. 
“L have my eyes.” 
“Maybe she's right" Ludovico said. 


with a yawn, "Who knows with art? 
Well, I'm on my way. If you want to sell 


your painting for a handsome price, my 
advice is take it to a reliable dealer. 
‘There are one or two in the city whose 


names and addresses ГП bring you in the 
mornin 
Don't bother,” Ша said. ^No- 


body needs your assistance.” 

"E want to keep it around for a few 
days to look at.” F confessed 
“As you please.” Ludovico tipped his 
hat good night and left limping. F and 
Esmeralda went to bed together. Later 
she returned to her cot in the kitchen, 
took off her red nightgown and put оп 
an old one of white muslin. 

F for a while wondered what to р: 
nest. Maybe a sort of a portrait of Ludo 
vico, his face rellected in a miro 
two sets of aqueous sneaky eyes. 
slept soundly but in the middle of the 


He 


night awoke depressed. He went over his 
painting inch by inch and it seemed to 


ent. Where was Mom- 


right, the picture was dark and could 
stand a touch of light. He laid out his 
nts and brushes and began to work, 
almost at once achieving the effect he 


a bit on the ice, no more 
than а stroke or two around Ше cyes and 
mouth, to make her expression truer to 
life. More the prostitute, himself a шие 


older. When the sun blazed through 
both windows. he ed he had been 
working for hours. F put down his 
brush, washed up and returned for а 


look at the pi ickened to his gut, 
he saw what he felt: He had ruined it. It 
slowly drowned in both his cyes. 

Ludovico came in with a well-dressed 
paunchy friend, an an dealer. They 
looked at the picture and both laughed. 

Five long years down the drain. Е 
squeezed а tube of black on the cunas 
and with a thick brush smeared it ova 
both faces in all directions. 

When Esmeralda pulled open the cur- 


tain and saw the mess, moaning. she 
came at him with the bread knife. “Mur 
Чете!” 


twisted it out of her grasp, and in 


mish, lifted the blade into his gut. 


"This serves me right 
“A moral act," Ludovico a 


ecd. 


SPORTY AND SPECIAL 


limited-slip differential, tilting steering 
wheel, collapsible spare tire, shoulder 
harnesses, automatic speed control, ext 
instruments and two-tone paint, There 
are only facelift body changes from last 
year’s model. Mustang is reaching to- 
ward a sales total of 1.700.000 units, а 
knock if you're looking for exclusivity, a 
plus if you believe with most people that 
the longer a model runs, the fewer the 
bugs it harbors. 

The Torino is new from Ford, replac- 
ing the Fairlane GT in convertible and 
two-door hardtop. Twin bucket seats are 


optional; so is the new 427 engine at 390 
hp. The convertible shows the new back 
window. which looks like plastic and 


pliable glass. which sounds 
a monumental contradiction in 
but the stuff does bend without 
g and, of course, won't scratch. 

Pretty much the same is the Thunder- 
bird. except that it, too, can use the 390- 
Тр engine as option to the standard 315. 
Bucket seats arc an option now, with the 
car a full six-seater, The Dearborn name- 
makers-up intend to soften the blow for 
bucket lovers by calling the new thing a 
“Hight bench." The Landau models have 
alligator pattern vinyl asked 
Gustave Reuter, one of the few gr 
custom coachmakers still with us, wi 
he would arge to replace thi 
with real skin. He ventured 519,500 as a 
г price, considering that his friendly 
local alligator dealer would charge him 
$180 per square foot for the hide. And he 
would recommend keeping it out of the 
п. So T-bird Landau owners are get- 
ting a bugain, since the vinyl can't be 
told from the genuine stuff at ordinary 
passing speeds and distances, You сап 
have the Thunderbird in a dozen new 
colors this year, out of a total of 20. 

Plymouth's Bar is а good схаш- 
ple of the rubberincinerating perform- 
ансе 53000 or so will incredibly, buy 
- The 230-hp, 318-cubicinch engine 
is манба, with the 275/310 engine in 
the Barracuda 5. If you are serious about 
it all, you can have the 383-cubicincher, 
which will deliver 300 horses at 4100 rpm. 
With this, if you don't mind the hard 
ride ths with the mandatory 
heavy duty suspension, you cin go bear 
hunting with anybody 

А new supercir entrant. is Plymouth's 
Road Runner, а tightlooking coupe on 
the Belvedere chussis. |t goes with the 
S83-cubicinch engine, and if that isn't 


terms, 
bre: 


roofs. 1 


comes 


cnough—it should be for most people— 
it will the mighty hemi 496. Every. 
under the car is heavy-duty: springs, 


ars, Linch drum brakes, 
єз. It also has a very funny 
horn now. The Plymouth GTX, now 
with power steering, is one of the best- 


(continued from page 110) 


handling of all S-cars, and carries as much 
go as any. 

А gran turismo car designed for Amer- 
ican road conditions is the notion behind 
the Dodge Charger; or, to put it another 

vay, is meant to be a fullsize sports 
car. Go it will, certainly in the R/T (for 
Read /Track) version, camying the op- 
tional 426-cubicinch hemi engine, one of 
the great U.S. power plants. Indeed, it 
will get to 105 miles an hour in a stand- 
ing quarter mile. The Charger has a good 
deal of flair about it. with a racing-t 
tank filler cap on the left rear fender, 
nstiruments—there are no idiot lights 
canted to point toward the driver (a real 
good Italian notion of a few seasons back) 
nd a dei—round and 
round i па aft. 

much-liked regu- 
as against the old com- 
w in the GT Sport 
$40-cubic-inch 
ing 383 also 
are hardtop, 


lar /compact car- 
pact/compacts—is ni 
model. 


unning a new 
with man 
. For bodies, the 


the 


“Why, no! I'm Max Casanova the butcher 


convertible, two-door and four-door se- 
dans, The Coronet R/T runs the 440- 
cubic-inch engine or the 426 hemi. 

The Toronado by Oldsmobile, de- 
servedly а sensation when it came on the 
scene to prove that fronewheel drive 
could be used with a big engine in 2 big 
car. externally nds pretty much in last 
year’s posture, except that the front fend- 
ers, held by some to be pedestrian slicers, 
have been rounded off. Toronado uses 
the sume body shell as the Buick Riviera 
and the Cadillac Eldorado. All Olds- 
mobiles are carrying slowerrunning en- 

nes Гог 68; for example, a working 
ange of 800-2900 rpm instead of 1000— 
3500. The idea is to show a fuel sav 
without power loss by using bigger си 
nes with softer Gunshafts and leaner 
rburetion tied to very low final-drive 
ratios. The end product is quieter, too. 

The Ram Air option goes for all 
Oldsmobiles; but, of course, it can't do a 
lot for you until you're going pretty fast. 
when it will make you go faster. It will 
be useful on the monster 4-4-2 with the 
JO0-cubicinch engine. Ihe 4-4-2, restyled 


167 


PLAYBOY 


168 


for 1968, is now the top of the F-85 line. 
The “S” Cutlass offers 12 engine-trans- 
mission setups. (It was on the Cutlass 
that Olds tried out the slower-turni 
engine idea, with the Turnpike Cr 
designation.) Also common to all models 
п the line is a nifty fueltank filler 
tube that will collapse on impact. instead 
of wupturing the tank by ripping itself 
out, and a hornbwtton thing that runs 
continuously around the bottom of the 
steering wheel and is integral with it: 
Anywhere you squeeze, comes beep. Bi 
gatti tried for the same thing, but didn't 
с make it, with the four underneath 
buttons he pur on the deluxe Type 
їп 19097. Oldsmobile shift levers 
collapse, too, and there's по metal show- 
ag on the backs of front seats. 
Pontiac's Firebird is too new to need 
much change-over. It sull has the hood- 
mounted tachometer, one of the cutest 


gimmicks of the decade, and there's 
been fiddling with the instrument panel 
D 


‘The rear shocks are biased. now—one in 
front of, one behind the rear axle, to hold 
down hop under full power, a good no- 
. when you consider that 330 hp is 
Шу on tapa 175-hp six is stand- 
d. The GTO, the one with the ma: 
stuft bumper in front, has new wideness 
on the ground—five feet even—which 
puts Ше overall width of the car to a 
hair this side of 75 inches. An opt 
400-cubicinch V8 for the GTO produces 
265 hp on regular fuel. 


option 


Theres а new Cougar at Lincoln- 
Mercury, the GT-E, marked by а muscle 
bulged hood, special paint, tough 
competition suspension, flatspoke steel 
wheels, power brakes and stecring, wide- 
oval tires and the aforementioned 427- 
cubicinch, 390-hp engine, The Cyclone, 
in the Montego series, is a fastback, with 
а rear window almost flat enough for a 
poker game and а 302. иһ VB as 
standard. Theres а Cydone GT with 
performance suspension and the 390- 
cubicinch V8. 

Boss of the production Scns, by rea- 
son of longevity, evolution and musde, 
remains the Corvette; and the 1968 is 
obviously and indisputably bener in 
many ways than the 1967, reflecting the 
unremitting creative chort Zora Arkus 
Duntov has put into the model for so 
long. The body, a refinement of the 
Mako Shark, is smoothly  sculptured— 
except for the popup head lamps, and 
they're out only in the dark—and the car 
overall is two inches lower 
inches longer. It comes as a coupe and 
convertible with a soft or a removable 
hardtop backed up by a roll bar. Sever 
inch wheels are standard: the automatic 
transmission is three speed. 1 of 
two-speed —a blessing. Power is the same, 
running to the 427/435 V8; handling 
and comfort are both better than before. 
All very good thing. 

Carroll Shelby tamed out about 3300 
Shelby GTs last усаг, six times his first- 


nstea 


“Now, do let us know the moment 
the airline finds our luggage.” 


year (1965) total, and it wasn't enough. 
New arrangements, including production 
in Michigan instead of in California, have 
been put in t and Shelby Cobra 
GT350-500s (Ше Cobra in its AC body 
form is no more) will soon be morc 
numerous in the land. The vehicle is 
offered fastback and convertible, the 
convertible with a Ta The 
СТ 350 runs the 302-cubicinch engine, 
at 250 hp; the optional superchz 
trifugal) boosts this по 335. The GT 
has the 428/360 V8 as st rd; as option, 
the 427 at 400 hp. Roof-suspended shoul- 
der sifety harnesses are standard, and 
many firsttime Cobra drivers will be glad 
of it when they realize the size of the gate 
the accelerator pedal opens: Suddenly, 
everything is straight downhill. Steep, too, 
Minor metalwork changes show оп 
Buick’s Riviera. looks a lot longer, for 
one thing—and the rear suspension has 
been worked over with a view to better 
ride and less noise. The Riviera has al- 
ways put out an excellent ride in almost 
dead silence; yet notable improvement 
has been made. Hidden head lamps still, 
buried wipers and no-vent windows. The 
S 400 mounts the coupe on a shorter 
wheelbase this year, a sharp-lookiny 
Cadillac, which | iced 
firsts down the ycars, ig the first 
production electric self-starter, иеге 
less doesn't т, Аз 
befits а full-luxury curiage maker, Cadil- 
Jac tends to stay with а good thing. Jt 
stayed with its last engine for 20 years, 
and the new one for the ‘68 Eldorado is 
ишу startling—the biggest in the world 
for passenger use, at 472 inches, and 
puiting out the most torque, a fantastic 
525 pounds. At 375 hp, it’s rel 
stressed, just эпо} along. The c 
is allnew, from cast instead of forged 
cankshaft to a temperature gauge that 
senses metal heat as soon as it appears, 
her g for water to 
warm up and bring the message. The ca 
looks smaller to the driver than to the 
man on the sidewalk, handles extremely 
well for its type and, of course, ha 
automatic everything. Worrying 
You have to make up your mind fiom a 
list of 129 interior-trim combinations, 64 


ively ш 


than w the 


factor: 


in cloth, 65 in leather 
Lincoln's Continental Mark HI, de- 
yed by the Ford strike, will be intro- 


duced this month and will show pretty 
much as it was in two previous inc 
tions, still one of the world’s pr 
luxury motorcar. D i 


ke: 

caule raised in unfenced 5, 10 
prevent the odd barbed-wire mark. 1 
hope so. That's the one fact I remember 


from the introduction of the Mark I, 
back there when Ike was President or 
whenever. Hard to forget something like 


that. 


LET YOURSELF GOO 

(continued from page 114) 
juice may be larger than the others, if 
desired. Dessert may be assembled be- 
fore dinner, adding whipped cream just 
before serving. 


CREPES Sour 
(Serves 


s WITH CURACAO 
four to six) 


3 cges 

% cup milk 

И cup cold 

16 teaspoon salt 

% cup flour, instantized 

2-8 tablespoons clarifted butter or 

salad oi 

Put eggs, milk, water, salt and flour 
into blender 1 bi high specd 20— 
30 seconds. pe sides of blender il 
necessary. Heat about a teaspoon butter 
over moderate flame in a heavy рап 6 
in. in diameter, Drain off any excess 
butter, Pour about 3 tablespoons crepe 
batter into pan, tilting pan so that crepe 
batter covers bottom completely. Adjust 
flame if necessary to prevent overtapid 
browning. When lightly browned, turn 
with spatula and brown other side. Re 
nove from pan, set aside and continue i 
this manner until all crepe batter is used. 
If crepes are to be used the following 
y. cover and store 


er 


Scr 


FILLING FOR CREPES 


1 cup milk 
3 tablespoons flour, instantized 
2 tablespoons butter 
Y, teaspoon salt 
Y cup sugar 
2 egg yolks 
1 teaspoon vai 
1 egg white 
Put milk. flour, butter. salt and sugar 
heavy small sauce ing with 
ге whip ший no lumps of flour remain. 
^t over moderate flame, stirring con- 
Шу, until thick. Remove from fire, 
Beat egg yolks well. Add a few table- 
spoons sauce to yolks and pour into pan. 
Return to a flame, stirring 
constantly, until thick—about | to 2 m 
utes. Add vanilla and set sauce aside un- 
til serving time. Just before filling crepes, 
beat egg white until stiff 1 fold into. 
sauce. Spread about У tablespoons 7 
on each crepe and той up, enclosing fill- 
ing. Place crepes in a single layer 
tered shallow casscrole or a 
Bake in oven preheated at 375° until 
heated through—about 8-10 minutes. 


Ша. 


SAUCE FOR CREPES 


X cup butter 

2 tablespoons sugar 

2 ozs. fresh orange juice 

4 ozs curacao 

Heat butter, sugar and orange juice 
ший buuer melts. Pour over crepes. 


“Stop crying, Momma! Г 


Turn crepes to coat all sides completely. 
Heat curacao over a trivet flame. Pour 
over crepes and set ablaze. Serve when 
Hames subside. 


CREME BRULEE WITH 
(Serves four) 


/ANS 


1 cup heavy cream 
1 cup milk 

4 teaspoon salt 

JA cup sugar 

5 egg yolks, well. beaten 


2 tablespoons oloroso sherry 

2 ozs. shelled pecans 

Brown sugar 

Heat cream and milk to boiling point, 
but do not boil. Add salt and sugar 


stir- 
g until sugar dissolves. Slowly pour 
«eam mixture into egg yolks, beating 
well. Heat. stirring constantly, in top 
section of double boiler over simmering 
water until custard thickens, Avoid over- 
cooking or custard may curdle. Sı 


only said I got laid off!” 


sherry. Pour into a greased shallow heat 
proof casserole. Chill in refrigerator 
overnight, if posible, keeping casserole. 
covered. Put pecans in blender and 
blend until finely chopped. Sprinkle 
evenly over custard. (Crushed pecans tend 
to lump; bi apart with finger 
tips.) Cover pecans thoroughly and evenly 
with about Vj in. brown sugar, smoothing 
top with tines of a fork. Place under pre- 
heated broiler flame until sugar turns 
im brown; avoid charting. Chill in 
И serv 


served as is or with sweetened whipped 
cream. 

One needn't be carried away to the 
Mack Sennett extremes pictured on p: 
111-113 to properly appreciate the 
variety of finalact fare at his beck. $ 
bring on the desserts and damned be 
that first cries, "Hold, enough!” 


169 


PLAYBOY 


10 H 


THE HAE ACE 


applause. Stuffs rabbit hurriedly back 
to hat. Snaps fingers. Reaches in, 
tracts another hat, precisely like the 
onc from which it came. 

Applause. 

Places second har alongside first one. 
Snaps fingers over new hat, withdraws a 
third hat, exactly like the first two. 
Light applause. 

Snaps fingers over third hat, withdraws а 
fourth hat, again identical. No applause. 
Does not snap fingers. Peers into fourth 
hat, extracts а fifth onc. In fifth, he finds 
th. Rabbit appears in third hat. 
ian extracts seventh hat from sixth. 


Third-ht rabbit withdraws a second. 
rabbit from first hat. Magician with- 
draws eighth hat from seventh, ninth 


from eighth, as rabbits extract other rab- 
bits from other hats. Rabbits and. hats 
е everywhere. Stage is one mad turmoil 
of hats and rabbits. 
Laughter and applause. 
Frantieally, magic 
and stuffs them into each other, bowing, 
smiling at audience. pitching rabbits 
three and four at а time into wings, smil- 
ing, bowing. It is a desperate struggle. 
Ar first. it is dificult to be sure he is 
stuffing hats and pitching rabbits faster 
than they are reappearing, Bows, stulls, 
pitches, smiles, perspires. 
Laughter mounis. 
Slowly the confusion di 
there is one small pile of 1 
hits. Now there are по rabbits. At last 
there are only two hats. Magician, per 
iring from overexertion, gasping for 


gathers up hats 


gars to table with two hats, 
Light applause, laughter. 
Magician, mopping brow with silk hand 


kerdücf, stares in perplexity Iwo 
remaining hats, Pockets handkerchief. 
Peers into one hat, then into other. At 
tempts tentatively to stuff first into sec- 
1. but in vain. Attempts to fit second 
wo first, but alo without success. 
Smiles weakly at audience. No applause. 
Drops first hat to floor, leaps on it until 
crushed. Wads crushed hat fist, at- 
tempts once more to stuff it into second 
hat. Still, it will not fit. 

Light booing, impatient applause. 
Trembling with anxiety, magicia 
out fist hat, places it brim up on 
able, crushes second hat on floor. Wads 
second hat, tries desperately lo jam it 
nto fost hat. No, it will not fit. Turns 
ibly to pitch second hat into wings. 
Loud booing. 

Freezes. Pales. Retums to table with 
both hats, first in fair condition, brim up: 
second sull in a crumpled wad. Faces 
hats in defeat. Bows head as though to 
weep silently. 

issing and booing. 


presses 


vi 


s 


(continued. [rom page 1. J 

Smile suddenly lights face. Smooths out 
second hat and places it firmly on his 
head, leaving first hat bottom-side up о 
table. Crawls up onto table and d 
appears feet first into hat. 

Surprised applause. 
Moments later, magic 
ош of ha 
Last p: 


n's feet. poke up 
on table, then legs, then torso. 
10 emerge is magician’s head, 
which. when lifted from table, brings 
first h д ian doffs first hat 
to audience, shows it is empty. Second 
hat has disappeared. Bows deeply. 
Enthusiastic and prolonged applause, 
cheers. 

Magician returns hat to head, th 
steps behind table. Without removing 
hat, reaches up, snaps fingers, extracts 
rabbit from top of hat. 

Applause. 

Pitches rabbit into wings. Snaps fingers, 
withdraws dove from top of hat. 
Sprinkling of applause. 
Pitches dove into wings. S 


t with 


mps it, 


aps fingers, 
extracts lovely assistant from top of hat. 


Astonished but enthusiastic applause 
and whistle 
Lovely assistant wears high feathery 


green hat, tight green halter, tight green 
shorts, black net stockings, green high 
heels Smiles coyly at whistles and ap- 
plause, scampers bouncily off stage. 
Whistling and shouting, applause. 
Magician attempts to remove hat, but it 
appears to be stuck. Twists and writhes 
in struggle with stuck hat. 

Mild laughter. 
continues. C 


Struggle miortions. С: 
maces, 

Laughter. 
ally, n 
teers from 
men ente 
awkwardly. 


Light applause and. laughter. 


requests two volun- 
udiencc. Two large, brawny 
stage from audience, smiling 


One large man grasps hat, other clutches 
gician's legs. They pull cautiously. 
The hat docs not come off. They pull 
der. Still it is stuck, They tug now 
with terrific strain, their heavy faces red- 
dening, their thick neck musdes taut 
and throbbing. Magician's neck stretches, 
snaps in two: Pop! Large men tumble 
apart, rolling to opposite sides of stage, 
one with body, other wi 
magician's severed head. 
Screams of terror. 


h hat contain 


wo lage men stand, stare aghast at 
handiwork, dutch mouths. 

Shrie 
Decapitated body stands. 
Shricks and screams, 


s and screams. 


Zipper in front of decapitated body 
opens, magician emerges. He is as be- 
fore, wearing same black cape and same 
black silk har. Pitches deflated decapi 
tated body into wings. Pitches hat and 
head into wings. Two large men sigh 
with immense relief, shake heads as 
though completely baffled, smile faintly, 
retum to audience. Magician doffs hat 
and bows. 

Wild applause, shouts, cheers. 

Lovely assistant, still in green costume, 
шег», carrying glass of water. 


Applause and whistling. 


She acknowledges whistling 
smile, sets glass of water on table, 
stands dutifully by. Magician hands her 
his hat, orders her by gesture to cat 
Whistling continues. 

Lovely assistant smiles, bites into hat, 
chews slowly. 

Laughley and much whistling. 


with coy 


She washes down each bite of hat with 
water from glass she has brought in. Hat 
at last is entirely consumed, except for 
silk band left on table. Sig 
pats slender exposed. tummy. 
Laughter and applause, excited 
tling. 

Magician invites young country boy in 
udience to соте to stage. Young coun- 


narrow 


phis- 


пу boy steps forward shyly, s 
clumsily over own big feet. Appears 
confused and utterly abashed. 


bling 


Loud laughter апа catcalls 
Young country boy stands with one foot 
on top of other, staring down red-faced 
at hi 


hands, twisting nervously in front 


of him. 

Laughter and. catcalls increase. 

Lovely assistant sidles up to boy, em- 
braces him in motherly fashion. Boy 
ducks head away. steps first оп one foot, 
then on other, wrings hands. 

Move laughter and catcalls, whistles. 


Lovely assistant winks broadly at audi 
ence, kisses young country boy on check. 
Boy jumps as though scalded, wips over 
own feet and falls 10 floor. 
Thundering laughter. 

Lovely assistant helps boy to his fect, 
lifting him under armpits. Boy. ticklish, 
struggles and laughs helplessly. 
Laughter (as before). 

Magician raps knuckles. 
Lovely assistant releases giggling coun- 
пу boy, returns, smiling, to table. Boy re- 
sumes амм 


nose with back of 


with 


table 


d stance, wipes his runny 


is hand, sniffles. 


Mild laughter and applause. 
ist 


Magician hands lovely ıt narrow 
silk band of hat she has She stuffs 
band into her mouth, chews thought 


меп 


fully, swallows with some difficulty. shud- 
ders She drinks from glass, Laughter 
and applause have fallen away to expect- 
nt hush. Ma grasps nape of lovely 
assistants neck, forces her head with its 
feathered hat down between her stock- 
aged knees. He releases grip and her 
ad springs back to upright positio 
n repeats action slowly. Then 
repeats action rapidly four or five times. 
Looks qucstioningly at lovely assistant 


shakes head negatively. Magici 
forces her head to her knee 
p. allowing head to snap back to 
upright position. Repeats two or three 
mes. Looks questioningly at lovely as 
sant, She nods. He drags abashed 
young country boy over behind lovely 
assistant and invites him to reach into 
lovely assistant's tight green shorts. Young 
country boy is flustered beyond belief. 
Loud laughter and whistling resumes. 
Young country boy, in agony, tries to 
escape. Magician captures him and drags 
him once more behind lovely assistant, 
Laughter, etc. (as before). 

Magician grasps country boy's arm а 
thrusts it forcibly into lovely assist 
boy wets pants, 


shorts, Yo 
Hysterical laughter and. catcalls. 


Lovely assistant grimaces once. Magi 
smiling, releases grip on  agoniz 
embarrassed country boy. Boy withdraw 
hand. In it, he finds he is holding 
15 original black silk „ entirely 
whole, narrow silk band and all. 
Wild applause foot. 
laughter and cheers. 
Magician winks broadly at audience, si- 
lending them momentarily, invites young 
country boy to don hat. Boy ducks head 
shyly. Magician insists. Timidly, 
ning pathetically, country boy Lifts hat to 
head. It is full of water. Water spills out, 
ins down over his head aud soaks him. 
Laughter, applause, wild catcalls. 
Young country boy, utterly humiliated, 
drops hat and turns to run off stage, but 
lovely assistant is standing on his foot. 
He trips and falls on his face. 
Laughter, ete. (as before). 
Country boy crawls abjectly olf stage 
on his stomach. Magi 
heartily with audience, pitches lovely 
assistant into wings, picks up hat from. 
Поог. Brushes hat on sleeve, thumps it 
two or three times, returns it with ева 
flourish to his head. 
Appreciative applause. 
Magician steps behind table. Carefully 
brushes off one space on table. Blows 
away dust. Reaches for hat. But again, it 
seems to be stuck. Struggles feverishly 
with hat. 
Mild laughter. 
Requests volunteers. Same two 
men as before enter. One quickly gi 


and slam ping, 


large 


hat, other grasps magician’s legs. They 
tug furiously, but in vain. 
Laughter and applause. 
bs magi 
n appears to 
man wraps та 
waist. Both pull 
, their faces red- 
r temples throb- 


п5 head 
be 


ge man g 
under jaw. Magici 
protesting. Second la 
ciaws legs around hi: 
apart with gr 
dening, the veins 


the 


bing. Magician's tongue protrudes, hands 
flutter hopelessly. 

Laughter and applause. 

Magician's neck stretches. But it docs 


not snap. It is now several feet long. 
Two large men strain mightily. 
Laughter and applause. 

апу eyes pop like bubbles from 


sockets, 

Laughter and applause. 

Neck si ам. Large men tumble 
head over heels with respective bloody 


burdens to opposite sides of stage. Ех 
peciant hush audience. 
First large man scrambles to feet, pitches 
head and hat into rushes to 
г they 
unzip decapitated body. Lovely assistant 
emerges. 


amused over 


assist second. 


Surprised laughter and enthusiastic ap- 
plause, whistling. 

Lovely assistant pitches deflated decapi- 
tated body into wings. Two large men 
ogle her and make mildly obscene 
gestures for audience. 

Mounting laughter and friendly сака. 


Lovely assistant invites 
men to reach into her 
Wild whistli 
Both large men jump lorwa 
nipping over cach other 
floor in angry heap. 
winks broadly at audi 


ne of two large 
ht green shorts, 


nd tumbling to 
Lovely assistant 
псе, 


Derisive catcalls 
Both men stand, face cach other, furious. 
First large man spits at second. Second 
pushes first. First returns push, toppling 
second to floor. Second leaps to feet, 
hes first in nose. First reels, wipes 
blood from nose, drives fist into seconds 
abdomen. 

Loud cheers. 


sm: 


Second weaves conlusedly, crumples 
miserably to floor clutching abdomen. 
First kicks second brutally in face, 


hter 


Sheers and mild lau 
Second staggers blindly to feet, face a 


“Evolution? Nonsense. What I believe is that the good 
Lord, in His wisdom, created us in His own image.” 


m 


PLAYBOY 


mutilated mess, First smashes groggy 
second back against wall, knees him in 
groin. Second doubles over, blinded with 
First clips second with heel of 
hand behind car. Second crumples to 
floor, dead. 

Prolonged cheering and applause. 

First large man acknowledges applause 
with self-conscious bow. Flexes knuckles. 
Lovely assistant approaches first large 
man, embraces him in motherly fashion, 
ks broadly at audience. 

Prolonged applause and whistling. 
Large grins awkwardly, though 
somewhat obscenely, and embraces lovely 
assistant in unmotherly fashion, 


man 


Shouting and laughter, wild whistling. 
Lovely nt frees self fr 
man, turns plump hindq 
id bends over, her hands on her Апе 
her shapely legs straight. Large man 
grins at audience, pats lovely assistant’s 
greenclad теа 
Wild shouting, etc. (as before). 

Large man reaches inside lovely assist- 
eyes and 


r. 


ht green shorts, rolls 
smiles obscenely. 
Wild shouting, etc. (as before). 


Large man hdraws hand fro: ide 
lovely assistant's shorts, extracting magi 
cian in black cape and black silk hat. 


Thunder of astonished applause. 
Magician bows deeply, доби hat to 
audience. 

Prolonged enthusiastic applause, cheer- 
ing. 
Magi 
first large man into wings. Inspects see 
ond large man, lying dead on stage. 
Unzips him and young country boy 
emerges, flushed and embarrassed. Young 
country boy creeps abjectly off stage оп 
js stomach. 

Laughter and. catcalls. 

Magician pitches deflated corpse of sec- 
ond large man into wings. Lovely assist- 
nt reenter ng, dressed as before 
in high feathery hat, tight green halter, 
green shorts, net stockings, high heels. 
Applause and whistling 
Magician displays inside of hat 10 audi- 
ие as lovely assistant points to magi- 
cian. He thumps hat two or three times. 
Ir is empty. P! at on table and in- 
vites lovely assistant to enter it. She does. 
Vigorous applause. 

Once she has entirely disappeared, magi- 
ian extends both hands over hat, tugs 
back exposing wrists, snaps 
fingers. Reaches in, extracts one green 
high-heeled shoe. 

Applause. 


nt and 


n pitches lovely as 


. smi 


jaces 


sleeves, 


172 Pitches shoe into wings. Snaps fingers 


over hat again. Reaches in, withdraws a 
second shoc. 


Applause. 
Pitches shoe into wings. Snaps fingers 
over hat. Reaches in, withdraws one long 


net stocking. 
Applause and scattered whistling. 
Pitches stocking into wing 
fingers over hat. Reaches 
second black net stocking. 
Applause and scattered whistling. 
Pitches stocking into wings. Snaps 
over hat. Reaches in, pulls out 
high feathery 
Increased applause and whistling. 
Pitches hat into wings. Snaps fingers 
over hat. Reaches in, fumbles briefly. 
Light laughter. 

Withdraws green halter, displays it with 
grand flowish. 


Snaps 
tracis a 


Enthusiastic applause, shouting, whis- 
tling. 

Pitches haler into wings. Snaps fingers 
over hat. Reaches in, fumbles. Distant 
absorbed gaze. 

Burst of laughter, 

Withdraws green shorts, displays them 
th elegant flourish. 


Tremendous crash of and 
cheering, whistling. 

Pitches green shoris into wings. Snaps 
fingers over hat. Reaches in. Prolonged 
fumbling. Sound ol a slap. Withdraws 
hand hastily, look of astonished pain on 
his face. Peers inside. 


applause 


Laughter, 

Head of lovely ass 
pouting indignantly. 
Laughter and applause. 
With difficulty, she extracts 
from hat, then other arm. Pre: 
down against hatbrim, she w 
twists until one naked breast pops out of 
hat. 


nt pops out of hat, 


onc arm 


Applause апа wild whistling. 
The other breast. 

More applause and whistling. 

She wriggles free to the waist. She 
grunts and struggles, but is unable to 
free her hips. She looks pathetically but 
uncertainly at magician. He tugs and 
pulls, but she seems firmly stuck. 
Laughter. 

He grasps lovely assis 
and plants feet against hatbrim. St 
In vain. 


Laughter. 


Thrusts lovely assistant forcibly back 
into hat. Fumbles again. Loud slap. 


Laughter increases. 

Magician returns slap soundly. 
Laughier ceases abruptly, some scattered 
booing. 

Magic 


n reaches into hat, withdraws 


one unstockinged Jeg. He reaches in 
again, pulls out one arm. He tugs on arm 
and leg, but for all his effort, cannot 
extract the remainder, 

Scallered booing, some whistling. 


Magician glances uneasily at audience, 


stuffs arm and leg back into hat. He is 
perspiring. Fumbles inside, Withdraws 
nude hindquarters of lovely assista 


Bust of cheers and wild whistling. 


‘Tugs desperately on plump hindquarters, 
but rest will not emerge. 

Whistling diminishes, increased booing. 
Jams hindquarters back into hat, mops 
brow with handkerchief. 

Loud unfriendly booing. 

Pockets handkerchief. Is becoming fran- 
tic. Grasps hat and thumps it vigorously, 
shakes it. Places it once more on table, 
brim up. Closes eyes as though in prayer. 
hands extended ош Snaps 
fingers several times. Reaches in tenu- 
ously, Fumbles. Loud slap. Withdraws 
hand hastily in angry astonishment. 
Grasps hat, Gritting teeth, infu 
hurls hat to floor, Карз on it 
both feet. Something crunches. Hideous 
piercing shriek. 

Screams and shouts. 

Magician, aghast, picks up hat, stares 
into it. Pales. 


over hat. 


Violent. screaming and. shouting. 
floor. 
сЕ. 


» gingerly ses hat on 
Kneels, utterly appalled and 
stricken, in front of it. Weeps. 


Weeping, moaning, shouting. 
Huddles miserably over crushed Пас, 
weeping convulsively. First large man 
and young country boy enter timidly. 
soberly, from wings. They are pale and 
frightened. They peer uneasily into hat. 
They start back in horror. They clutch 
their mouths, turn away and vom 
Weeping, shouling, vomiting, accusations 
of murder 


Large man and country boy tie up 
ician, drag him away. 


Weeping, retching. 
Large man and country boy return, lift 
crushed hat gingerly and, trembling un- 
controllably, carry it at arm's length into 
wings. 

Momentary increase of weeping, retch- 
ing, moaning, then dying away of sound 
to silence. 

Country boy creeps onto stage, alone, 
sets up placard against table and, facing 
audience, creeps abjectly away. 


THIS ACT 15 CONCLUDED 
THE MANAGEMENT REGRETS THERE 
WILL BE NO REFUND. 


173 


PLAYBOY 


174 


PLAYBOY FORUM 


id for the unmarried—an aspect of the 
Jaw that especially harms the young and 
the poor. If a Massachusetts doctor or 
macist had been willing to test the 
Jaw, I would not have felt it necessary 
to risk ten years of my life. 

Sentence has been withheld until the 
Massachusetts Supreme Court rules on 
е, which should be sometime this 

Although my lawyer has taken 
sc at по cost to me, he eventually. 
will need money 10 move Ше appeal for- 
ward. Since I'm not paid for my clinical 
services. I have virtually no income to 
ep them going or to support my wile 


and four children. 
William R. Baird 
Parents’ Aid Socicty 
Hempstead, New York 


The ballle to make birth-control aid 
available to all who need it has been те- 
markably successful in recent years, but 
Mr. Boivd's. experiences compellingly il- 
lustvate Ihat the struggle is far from 
over, Statutes restraining, in one degree 
or another, the dispensing of contracep- 
tives and contraceptive information still 
exist in mare than 20 states and їп the 
Federal (postal) obscenity statute. Even 
though the U.S. Supreme Court. effe: 
tively struck down the most restrictiv 
sections of these laws (“Griswold vs. Con- 
necticut,” 1965) and even though the 
existing laws ате largely unenforced in 
most paris of Ше U.S., the availability 


(continued from page 48) 


of contraceplion for Ше unmarried and 
for the poor is still subject to the whim 
of local politicians, law-enforcement of- 
ficials and other administrators, With 
the purpose of encouraging all. possible 
legal opposition to these archaic statutes, 
the Playboy Foundation has offered to 
assist Mr. Baird. We will bring you fur- 
ther news about Mr. Daird's continuing 
litigation in “The Playboy Forum." 


VOLUNTARY STERILIZATION 

In Minois there is mo law forbid- 
ding voluntary ste a of a human 
female. Yet there are no licensed. doctors 
comnected with reputable hospitals who 
will perform such an ор Ive 
heard of cases im which the need was 
pressing, because both the physical and 
the mental. health of the woman would 
have been impaired by pregnancy. None- 
theless, the operation was denied. 

Ive been told by my doctors that 
pregnancy could be fatal for me, b 
even this Circumstance is пос sufficient 
to persuade a doctor to perform the 
operation. 

How can 
profession that it is g 

$ women 
rmless and, 
perately needed? 
(Name withheld by request) 
Chicago, Ilinois 


nee the medical 
ty of gross neglect 
n operation that is 
in many cases, d 


we con. 


“Remember, по political discussions; И may 


not be a cigarette lighter. . . . 


A lawyer ройиз ош. in a discus 
sion о] the legal and. psychiatric prob- 
lems of voluntary sterilization in The 
Journal of Urology. that Ihe main reason 
doctors уеўизе to perform such opera- 
tions is fear that patients may later 
regret having requested the operation and 
sue the operating physician for “crimi- 
nal mayhem.” (This fear is increased by 
the psychiatric problems surrounding 
the subject. Sometimes unconscious self- 
destructive motives play a part in the 
patient's request to be sterilized; and in 
patients with histories of neurosis. the 
operation occasionally leads 10 depres 
sion. These faciors add to the likeli 
hood of subsequent regret.) The Urology 
article concedes that such a suit is theo- 
retically possible, but cites the opinion 
oj a number of medicolegal authorities 
thal such a prosecution would not be ир. 
held by the courts. Many doctors are not 
apparently, familiar with this opinion 

A medical consultant for the Associa- 
поп for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc., 
points out other factors in the medical 
profession's reluctance 10 operate. Doc- 
lors, he states, are an extremely con 
servative group and Чо not casily accept 
innovation. Consciously oy subconsciously, 
they are also prejudiced against any sur- 
gery for patients who are not ill. There 
is often also an automatic resistance to 
any proposal for surgery that is initiated 
by a layman. And, finally, many doctors 
are reluctant to have it known that they 
approve of and practice sterilization be- 
cause of the strong though unreasonable 
stigma attached to such practice. 

Your problem, however, can be 
solved. Write to the Association for Vol- 
untary Sterilization, Inc., 14 West 40th 
Street, New York, New York, which 
will recommend one of 1600 surgeons on 
its list. 

The irony of your fruitless search for 
such a physician is underscored by the 
plight of numerous people who have 
been involuntarily sterilized, by court 
order, under some rather strange statutes 
on the books in various states. See the fol- 
lowing letter and answer, 


COMPULSORY STERILIZATION 
I was surprised to learn th 
мате, compulsory sterilization is а pun- 
ishment for certain crimes. D should 
think this would be considered “cruel 
and unusual punishment," which is for- 
bidden by our Constitution. 

Can you tell me how many 
have this punishment? What justifi 
is there for such laws, and wha 
тглувоу think of them? 

Kenneth R, Frohlich 
Piusburgh, Pennsylvania 

AL present, 23 states have compulsory- 
sterilization laws, According to an article 
by Elyce Ferster in the Ohio State Law 
Journal, the grounds for compulsory 


in several 


states 
tion 
does. 


slerilizalion break down as follows: 
tally retarded persons ате subject to the 
laws in all of these states and in all but 
two states they are also applicable to the 
mentally ill. Epileptics are still included 
in 14 slates. In 12 states, criminals are 
subject to sterilization,” 

These laws have so far escaped judi- 
cial condemnation as “cruel and unusual 
punishment" because their ostensible 
purpose is not punitive but eugenic— 
thal is, they ате designed to make re- 
production impossible for persons who 
have supposedly inherilable defects. The 
eugenics movement advocated such laws 
in the late 19h Century, declaring that 
mental illness, mental retardation, epi- 
lepsy, criminality, pauperism and various 
other “undesirable” traits are hereditary. 
"This notion, of course, has been largely 
discredited by modern geneticists. Dr. 
es V, Neel of the University of Michi- 
Heredity Clinic points out: “The 
inclusion of habitual criminals, moral 
degenerates and sexual offenders in а 
eugenics law cannot by any stretch of the 
imagination be justified on genetic 
grounds and can only be regarded as an 
unfortunate canyouer fiom the early, 
uncritical days of eugenics.” Many penal 
and public-health officials interviewed by 
Miss Ferster doubted thai anyone knows 
enough about genetics to be qualified to 
impose sterilization. A number of these 
officials, pointing out that the damage 
done by а mistaken application of sterili- 
zation could never be undone, expressed 
their preference for conventional. birth- 
control methods as a means of preventing 
reproduction. 

The specious logic underlying these 
laws is highlighted by the fact that, of 
the 23 stales having sterilization statutes 
intended to prevent the birth of defec- 
tive children, 15 have laws restricting 10 
some degree the dissemination of birth- 
control information and 22 forbid thera- 
peic abortion when the child would 
probably be born with serious mental 
or physical defects. 

PLAYBOY believes that these laws are 
a denial of the individual's right to 
choose or reject parenthood and that 
they sanction a practice that easily lends 
itself to infringements of human and civil 
rights. These laws tend to be extremely 
vague in their definition of what con- 
stitutes grounds for sterilization, thus 
leaving room for arbitrary and punitive 
application. For instance, in Delaware, a 
person found guilty of three felonies can 
be classified as a “habitual criminal” and 
compulsorily sterilized. Idaho, Towa, 
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
son and Utah allow this punishment 
perversion” or “crimes against na- 
lire,” vague terms that can be applied 
lo a married couple who engage 
in the oratgenital activity found by 
Kinsey to be normal. Ironically, the 
same statutes could be invoked against 
homosexuals, thus punishing a man for 


“But, Mother, it doesn't do anything!” 


"abnormality" by making it impossible 
for hun ever 10 be completely “normal” 
—ie., to enjoy Ше procreative aspect 
of se: 

Nol only are the purposes of and 
grounds for compulsory sterilization open 
to criticism but the processes by which 
sterilization тау be inflicted often fail 
to protect the individual from abuses. 
Sterilization is sometimes ordered by 
authorities acting on their own where 
no law exists or where the existing law 
does not apply lo the case im ques 
tion. Such a case involved Nancy Her- 
a 21-year-old mother of 
was given a choice between st 


lization 
and six months in jail (see "The Playboy 


Forum,” October 1966). Her alleged 
offense was being in a room where mari- 
juana was being smoked; bul, according 
to the appeals court that overruled her 
conviction, the punishment was seally 
based on the fact that she was living 
with the father of her illegitimate daugh- 
ter while collecting welfave funds (which 
is not a violation of California law). 

The advecation of compulsory sterili 
Поп as a means of dealing with criminal- 
ity and the “unfit” is more compatible 
with an authoritarian society than with 


а free опе. In Nazi Germany, a law 
provided for the sterilization of any- 
one with a “hereditary disease.” This 
term was broadly defined and included, 


under “feeble-mindedness,” such things 
as “how the individual lives up to his 


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LOWER THE VOTING AGE (continued from page 83) 


found a favorable response in Congress 
and in the counuy at large during times 
of military action abroad. Congressional 
resolutions to permit 18-year-olds to vote 
were first introduced. in 1942, when the 
draftinduction age was lowered to 18. 
Such resolutions have been introduced in 
every Congress since that time and onc— 
spurred by President Eisenhower's out 
spoken support—was actually debated in 
the Senate shortly after the Korean War. 
(It fell just five votes short of the two- 
thirds majority necessary to adopt a con- 
stitutional amendment.) The slogan has 
been a powerful prod to Congressional 
action—but has not yet been able го 
produce results. 
Despite the emotioi 
ing eligibility for m 
the right to vote, the ament cannot 
be taken as conclusive. Representative 
Emanuel Celler of New York, Ch 
of the House Judiciary Committee (which 
would normally have to approve any 
legislation on the subject), pointed out 
apo the 
ary service and the 


al appeal of equat- 
ary service with 


franchise is fallacious. 
"No such parallel exists" he 
"The abi to choose, to sepa 
ise from performance, to evalu 
оп the basis of fact are the prerequisites 
to good voting. ... The thing called for 
in a soldier is uncritical obedience. . . ." 
Why, then, reduce the voting age? 
Many reasons have ben advanced 
through the years. Some stress the fact 
that 18-21 


aid. 


olds arc considered adults 


for many purposes, military duty aside. 
They can marry and start families, pay 
taxes, drive cars and carry firearms, 
‘They are subject to the same penal code 
as are those over 21. Other supporters of 
the cause use the “experience is the best 
teacher" argument, claiming that if 
young people receive the right 10 vote 
сйЕи у after graduation from high 
school, they will form the habit of civic 
responsibility carly in Ше. Senator Mike 
Mansfield, when he recently introduced 
a heavily cosponsored resolution to re- 
duce the voting age. presented another 
pertinent argument to the Senate: “Low- 
ering the voting age to 18 will tend to 
bring about a better and more equitable 
balance in the electorate of the nation. As 
ife expectancy rises, the number of old- 
er voters increases. A corresponding. e: 
pansion in the number of younger voters 
will not only broaden the political base 
of the Government, it may well prov 
concurrently а more balanced approach 
in the nation's general political outlook.” 

Another argument takes its cue m 
those of us who fought for the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965 and from the dec 
sions of the Supreme Court in the 
famous “one man—one vote" ruling. The 
gument goes like this: Since Georgia, 
Kentucky, Alaska and Hawaii now allow 
persons under 21 to vote, those under 21 
in all other states are being deprived of 
their equal rights in not being granted 
the franchise. This is an interesting legal 
point—especially since the under-21 vot- 
сїз in those four states do vote for the 


“Watch the effect of the prop wash.” 


President and Vice President every four 
years—and one that may prove effective 
in the future. But 1 do not think it is like 
Ту to sway many of those key elements in 
atc legislatures or the Congress. 

nce of the four states 
with under-21 voting are both puzzling 
nd instructive. What is strange is the 
fact that reform was accomplished in 
cach of the four states with very lite 
debate. The 18-year-old vore in Georgi: 
was introduced by Governor Ellis Arnall 
n his inauguration address in 1943. 
pased by both houses and later that 
year ratified by Georgia voters by а more 
than twoteone majority. About the 
sume proportion of Kentucky voters ap- 
proved that states 1955 measure lower- 
ug the voting age to 18. In Alaska and 
Hawaii, 19- and 20-vearold voting, re 
spectively, was set at constitutional con 
ns prior to statehood. In none of 
four states, students of the matter 
agree, was there active, organized sup- 
ither for or ара 
the easy passage of the proposal 
п these instances does not justify think- 


ig that younger voting is simply an idea 
that has reached its time for casy accept- 
с and 


nce. Last year, the Oregon за 
the Towa house rejected: amendme: 
lower the voting age, and the Indiana 
legislature adjourned without 
tion on the matter, as advocates had 
hoped it would. Attempts to pass simi 
legislation have failed im recent years in 
Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and West 
Virginia. And the fate of the proposal in 
my own “progressive” New York last 
year was also discouraging. For the first 
time in 30 years, the state constitution 
was being revised and delegates to the 
constitutional convention were asked to 
include the I8-year-old vote. The pro- 
posil had the active support of Governor 
Rockefelk tor Robert F. Kennedy 
and шузсИ. There are about 900,000 New 
Yorkers now between the ages of 18 and 
21, compared with about 11,500,000 over 
21, Lowering the voting age to 18, there- 
fore, would haye increased the potential 
electorate by eight percent. Many state 
legislators and delegates to the con. 
stitutional convention were not at all 
sure how these young people would 
vote, ignoring a Gallup poll of last May 
that disclosed that as many collegcaged 
Americans considered themselves Re. 
publicins as Democrats. (The figures 
show that 29 percent considered. them. 
selves Republicans, the sume percentage 
considered themselves Democrats and 
42 percent considered themselves. inde 
pendent) But no matter what the na 
tional figures showed, political leaders 
in New York, as elsewhere, were worried 
about what the expanded electorate 
would do and about the fact that they 
would have difficulty in reaching these 
new, young voters. In the end, the con 
vention threw the decision оп lowering 
the voting age back to the legislature; in 


effect, burying it for the immediate fu- 
ture. The lobbying efforts of student 
groups lacked the solid, organized sup- 
port of young people all over the state. 
Only such support could have persuaded 
key political leaders of the need по lower 
the voting age now. 

These failures would constitute my 
reply to readers who are wondering why 
1 have talked of a constitutional amend- 
ment at all—since the franchise was е: 
tended to young people without fanfare 
in four states by the states themselves. 
Winning over wo thirds of the states to 
the constitutional amendment is going to 
be hard enough, but getting all 50 states 
to lower the voting age on their own 
would be all but imposible. 

To me, the most compelling reason 
for lowering the voting age is that Ameri 
can politics needs the transfusion that 
younger voting would give it. Almost 
without exception, today's 18-t0-21-year- 
olds—those of college age—are better 
educated and more highly motivated 


toward political action than were their 


fathers and grandfathers. Tt is essem 
t0 our country that their idcalism and 
activism find a genuine release within our 
established political framework. Un 
young people know that they are 
volved, idealism tends to turn to сут 
cism. But why 182 Why not 19 or 

Any choice would be arbitrary 
the present “age of responsibil 
arbitrary. As a matter of fact, the present 
standard is borrowed from ancient Eng- 
lish common law, which designated 21 
as the minimum age for knighthood. 
(This was supposed to be the age at 
which the young man would be strong 
enough to bear the weight of armor in 
battle.) Since we are dealing with arbi- 
wary designations, why not choose the 
age that marks a definite turning point in 
a person's life—the usual age for gradua- 
tion from high school? 

I am persuaded that it makes sense to 
grant the franchise as soon as possible 
after high school, so that the lesons of 
civics and history are not forgotten, 
whether а young person gocs into the 
labor force, into military service or on to 
higher education. Statistics indicate that 
9Iycarolds are today's most delinquent 
voters. This can be attributed to many 
factors, including dislocation due to mili 
tary service and the frequent changes of 
jobs and addresses that are characteristic 
of young adults today. But a major fac- 
tor, according to the experts, is that a 
large percentage of 2l-yearolds have 
been out of school for three years. After 
making sure they are highly motivated 
in high school, we make them wait three 
years before letting them use what they 
have been taught! 

Nobody really disputes the fact th 
y's 18-yearolds arc generally better 
educated in the workings of government 
than were previous generations. The U. S. 
Office of Education reports that today 


tod 


75 percent of our young people graduate 
from high school and 40 percent will 
attend college at some point—compared 
with 45 percent who completed high 
school in 1940 and 16 percent who then 
could expect to attend college. In addi- 
ion, virtually all high school students 
are now required to attain passing 
grades in civics and government. as well 
as in American history; while in the days 
past, only history was required. When 
21 was confirmed as the age of voting in 
the carly days of the Republic, the aver- 
age I8-yearold was lucky to have had 
more than two or three years of formal 
schooling: his knowledge of government 
came principally [rom regional news- 
paper accounts and itinerant speakers— 
neither group known for its accuracy or 
airness. 

Who can determine the br 
cflects of newspapers, radio and televi- 
sion reporting today on this age group? 
Millions of young people pay closer at- 
tention to the national political conven- 
tions and campaigns than many adults: 
young people sec and hear detailed re- 
ports on legislative, political and gov- 
ernmental matters. Many political and 
communication theorists 
vision now gives all of us a feeling of 
immediacy and involvement concerning 
international and domestic problems—an 
involvement never before possible. They 
claim further that TV and radio have 
been major catalysts in the student 
movements of the Sixties, For the most 
part, the 18., 19- and 20-yearolds today 
have actually witnessed the important 
events of our era—from the sometimes 
violent demonstrations on behalf of civil 
rights through Congressional hearings on 
Vietnam to the funeral of a young and 
vigorous President murdered in the full- 
ness of his youth. Such expe 
coupled with knowledge | 
school—create a desire in young people 
to be part of national movements, to 
have a real voice in the decisions affecting 
them. 

The combination of improved educa- 
tion, especially in government and poli 
tics, and the feeling of identification with 
the important social and political cur- 
rents of our time has made the college- 
ager a potent force in this country, but a 
force gencrally on the outside exerting 
pressure on the system itself, No one 
who was part of the struggle to enact 
laws guaranteeing equal rights to all 
Americans can forget the effectiveness of 
the students, Negro and white, who 
braved insulis, arrests and personal inju- 
ry to awaken the conscience of the n 
tion to the denial of civil rights. More 
than any other factor, it was the non- 
violent, student-led demonstrations of the 
carly 1960s that produced the climate in 
this country for enactment of the land- 
mark Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, 
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178 strate exactly the sense of purpose 


had been trying unsuccessfully to pass 
for decades. 

"Through the years, young people have 
been a great help to political parties and 
candidates—but as helpers, not as vot- 
crs, My own initial election to the House 
of Representatives in 1946 is one illus- 
tation of this. 1 had just returned from 
the War and was relatively unknown in 
politics High school and college-aged 
youngsters in my district in New York 
Citys Washington. Heights section. rode 
the elevators and uod the halls of the 
tall apartment buildings to make my face 
and program known. Later, the political 
professionals in New York told me that 
this extra. push—this show of confidence 
me by these bright young people with 
pamphlets in their hands—was a big fac- 
tor in decting me as the first Republican 
Congressman from that district in more 
ап two decades. Ever since, young 
people have played important roles in 
my campa 
Washing 
to say the least, that these students can 
be politicalscience "intei 4 volun- 
teers and сап persuade others to vote, 
but cannot vote themselves. 

Students form the backbone of the 
opposition to U. S. policies in Vietnam. 
They have successfully required the Ad- 
ministration to defend its policies at 
every turn and have helped provo! 
debate оп the direction and basic tenets 
of U.S. foreign policy that may well 
сї the outcome of this year’s Presiden- 
election, But parti use these 
demonstrations and marches and speech- 
cs have all been outside the politi 
tem, some demonstrators have felt the 
need to resort to unlawful acts to make 
their point. In doing so, they make my 
point, too; there should be no need for 
Gvil disobedience in a political system 
that meets the needs of the population. 
In my opinion, the energy, the ingenuity 
and ui сайып of these activists could 
instill new purpose and new drive in our 
present political parties, if the college- 
sed were given the right to vote—the 
ticket to true involvement in American 
political life. 

‘There are some casy—and accu 
ways to counter the arguments of the 
politicians and businesmen who point to 
the December 1964 demonstrations at 
Berkeley and ask me whether I want 
hippies to be able to vote me our in favor 
of somebody with sandals and a guitar. 
1 could point out that the demonstra 
Berkeley began with protest 
the very exclusion from decision making 
that Ше 2Lycarminimum voting laws 
epitomize. 1 could ако point out that 
those who acted irresponsibly were a small 
minority of the protesters—and in many 
cases were over 21, But the best argument 

still that almost all such protests demon 
nd 


gns and in my New York and 
on offices. But it is disturbing, 


1e 


high idealism that is so often missing from 
conventional politics. According to a 
detailed, scholarly article by Berkeley pro- 
fessors Sheldon Wolin and John Schaar, 
the freshman class at the school is sclected 
from the top 12 percent of California's 
high school seniors. “This means not only 
that the students are of high average 
intelligence, but also that they have 
worked hard and kept ‘clean’ throughout 
their high school years.” It would be 
mistake to suggest, the professors 
“that the entire crisis was fabricated 
dominated by subve тай. It 
has been well. estab! the bulk 
of the followers was composed of intelli- 
gent students who were novices 
cal action. The sacrifices of many who 
were willing to place their careers on the 
line, the spontaneity of their indig 
tion, the warm Icllowship of the move- 
ment and their unfailing good humor 
were too real to be explained by sub- 
terranean conspiracies.” 

If the stereotype of the B 
dent—or even of the Ber 
tor—as a hippie is false, is, 
then the idea that most college students 
are irresponsible is patently absurd. Tens 
of thousands of college-age men and 
women have served remarkably well in 
ihe Peace Corps and its domestic equi 
alent, VISTA. These are jobs that almost. 
always demand the highest measure of 
1 responsibility. Personally, ТП 
а chance encounter in an iso- 
in Turkey with a 20-year- 
old Peace Corps girl from the University 
of Oregon. As chairman of a committee 
to develop economic cooperation between 
Greece and Turkey, I was inspecting 
a possible site for a dam on the border 
betwi the two nations when Г met 
this petite young Jady surrounded by ten 
of her students at the Ipsala village 
school. Пег job for the past year had 
been to teach English to the children, 
most of whom had never even met a for- 


eigner before. As far as she knew, she 
was the only Ameri within. 75 miles. 
She admitted to occasi loncliness, 


but said: "Were mak 
and the children are learning quickly. 
What more can you ask?” What more! 
Yet the principal theme of those opposed 
to Towering the voting age is lack of rc- 
sponsibility and the alleged radicalism of 
the young. 

‘The establishment of 21 as the a 
responsibility in voting has no real rele- 
vance in the 20th Cennny, since we 
have all shed our suits of armor. But 
those who want to n in the status 
quo demand guarantees of responsible 
action from those immediately on the 
other side of this arbitrary line, as if 
there were some magic to the age of 21. 
They ignore the fact that по the 
recent political history of the four states 


progress now 


of 


allowing under-21 voting indicates that 
the college-age vote is irresponsible. 
Georgia has consistently elected Senator 
Richard Russell, a conservative who has 
won universal respect among his col- 
аз onc of the foremost upholders 
uaditions of Ше Senate, Ken- 
including its 18-year-old voters. 
has supported Senators Thruston Morton 
and John Sherman Cooper, two of the 
mainstays of the moderate wing of as 
Republican Party and two men noted i 
the Senate for basing their decisions on 
face and logi 
The truth is that those opposed to 
lowering the age of voting want proof 
positive that collegeaged people will han. 
dle their franchise intelligently even be- 
fore they have ever had an opportunity 
to vote. The same impossible demand. 
was made by the opponents of female 
suffrage 50 years ago and by the oppo- 
nents of cqual voting rights for Negroes 
three years ago. In both cases, the claims 
were that “they” Jacked the experiences 
to vote intelligently, that “most of them 
really didn’t want the vote anyway, th 
“they” would tend to vote in blocs 
would be casy prey for demagogs, th 
such a “volatile” electorate would de- 
stroy our institutions and. finally, that 
“they” were “jus dy” for the fran- 


league 
of the 
tucky, 


No tragedy occurred on ratification of 
the 19th Amendment in 1920 and no са: 
tastrophe has befallen the nation since 


What did happen is that 1 
ments of our population were given a 
ive role within our political system. 
They were given the feeling and the 
substance of being involved in the de 
sions of our Government. Tha's the 
meaning of the word “democracy. 

While the struggle to guarantee the 
N ity at the polls is far 
from won and too near in time to serve 
as a gauge, examination of the 
suffrage movement provides some inter 
esting insights for those who would low- 
er the voting age, Not only were the 
ladies characterized as 100 inexperienced 
ble, just as our college: 
aged people are today, but, alo like 
our students, they were among the fore: 


ge se 


most political activists of their cra. 
Suffragettes were the catalysts in nation 
wide reform movements. They demon 


strated to improve the lot of the Negro 
during and after Reconstruction. They 
were leaders in efforts to establish the 
Civil Service, to provide for the direct 
election of U.S. Senators, to [urther Ше 


rights of labor and to improve public 
education. And like todays students, 
their energies and talents before 1920 


were spent outside the existing political 
structure. It is interesting to speculate on 
just how much scandal and 1055 of 
confidence in the Government would 
have been avoided in the last half of the 
last century if the energies and talents of 


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"Now, why the hell did you have to go 


and tell that joke for? 


a Susan B. Anthony and а Carrie Chap- 
man Catt and their followers had been 
channeled to the work of reform from 
within. 

Perhaps the most. important of the les 
sons to be learned from the women's 
suffrage movement is its methods. The 
movement. was supported and led by two 
national organizations—as well as by 
many local ones. The ladies and th 
supporters waged hard battles 
alter state. They had the right to vote 
15 states before Congress sent a pro- 
posed constitutional amendment to all 
the states for ratification, They were 
organized to maintain the pressure for 
women’s rights throughout the country 
Scores were arrested after haini 
themselves to cityhall doors in demon- 
strations; but thousands of others 
worked quietly in state legislatures and 
county courthouses, slowly and persist- 
ently eliciting support Гог their 
winning over those "key elem 
been talking about. 

This type of organi 


pation and motiva- 


tion, however, is not apparent now 
among 18-2L-yearolds, (Unlike their 
suffrage forbears, of cours, you 


people need only wait um 
21, when the 
matically.) The 


they reich 
хос auto- 
Asso- 


те given th 


the voting age. has conducted polls indi- 
that between 70 and 80 percent 
of students on American campuses be- 
lieve tl 18-21-year-olds should be рі 
со the right to vote. Yet. Congresional 
mail—usually а barometer of the cur- 


380 rents of public thought—fails to indicate 


this, So docs the lack of energetic move- 
ments in all but a handful of states. 
There have been, however. some recent 
successes sparked by state student 
ations. In 1967, the legislatures of 
and North Dakota voted to 
voting a subje 
approval by the voters in a referendum 
this year. But elsewhe 1 mentioned 
earlier, the picture is gloomy. 

It is fairly easy for Senators and gov 
ernors and. Presidents, all of whom can 
nd the attention needed to make 
their positions and records known to the 
voler, to support lowering the voting 
age. They know they will be heard һу 
the younger voters added to the rolls by 
any such legislation. But for members of 
the House of Representatives, who must 
stand for reelection every two yeus. 
and for members of state legislatures 
for other state and local officials, the sto- 
ту is quite different, They find it much 
harder to get public attention and to 
make an impact аз political personalities, 
They are therefore more dependent. on 
local political organizations to provide 
rains of victory. Theirs is the 
ıl argument 
difficult to the absence of 
aroused demands from youth itself. 

An old friend of mine in the House of 
Representatives told me: “It’s all right 
for you fellows with a statewide image 
to talk of lowering the voting age, but 
what about me? After years in Congress 
and all the benef 
bring to the district, my name is hı 
houschold word. My usual margin 
tween „000 and 30000 votes. 


comm 


type 


what with third panies and all, and 
15,000 or 18,000 new, young voters com- 
ing in who don't know me—they could 
throw me out in a minute for some pro- 
fessor without the slightest idea of what 
it’s all abou 

This is the nub of the “practical politi 
cal" obstacle to lowering the voting age 
now. Without assurances from organized 
college-aged groups that the 18-21-year- 
olds really want the franchise, and with- 
out the crucial assurances that the new 
voters will support the legislators who 
make it possible, chances of pasage are 
dim. State and Federal legislators. fron 
marginal districts want to be told by the 
young people themselves—and their 
parents—that there is a need for lowering 
the voting age. 

In 1967, more resolutions were intro- 
duced in Congress to lower the votin 
age than exer before in history. Many of 
these were the work of the same me 
who have been fighting [or this cause for 

Jennings Randolph of 
. for example, was the 
fist to introduce such 19 
1912, when he was а member of 
House. He has introduced similar m 
ures in almost every Congress since then 
nd has championed the cause с 
Senate floor on countless occasio 
year, he joined 38 of us in cosponsor 
the bipartisan Mansficld-Dirksen. Resolu- 


tion in 
the 


tion, while reintroducing his own meas 
ure. But the 40 of us—even with the 
tireless support of men like Senator R: 


dolph—do not, as I said at the outset, 
come close to being able to muster the 
two-thirds vote necessary to propose а 
constitutional amendment. In the House 
of Representatives, а situati 
Although 45 resolutions were in- 
troduced—all but two of them desig- 
ting 18 as the proposed new voting 
age—their sponsors do not yet have the 
support of enough of their collcagues to 
come closc And суса if, by 
some legislative miracle, Congress passed 
а constitutional amendment to lower the 
voting age the amendment 
would still have to be ratihed by three 
fourths of the state legislatures, 

It is possible to overcome these prac- 
tical, very real political hurdles. The 
180-21 -year-olds should update the state- 
by-state strategy used by the suffragettes 
50 years ago and should consider mak- 
ing use of the tactics of the civil rights 
movement to demonstrate Ше reasona- 
bleness and justice of their arguments. 
There is no way to expand the electorate 
in this country without the per 
hard work and enthusiastic support. of 
those who want the franchise. The soon- 
er this lesson is learned, the sooner the 
tattered, outmoded standard of “knight- 
hood at 21" will be relegated to the 
pages of history, where it belong: 


10 success 


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LASER S (continued from page 74) 


mowers, Who will laugh tomorrow? At millimeter. In between 
whom? About what? every other conceiv 
body cues to guess. “This crazy из, аз humans, the most impor 
it should still of this enormous specu 

icy" says band of radiations whose wave lengths 
weer who founded measure from roughly fou 
ту ago and is now seven thousandths of a millimeter. For 
sons about which biologists are still 
uing, the earth's major animal life 
ms ago developed a re 
Able organ that is sensitive to this 


industry has matured whei 
be in its bottle-suc 
Bill Bushor, an спа 
Laser Focus three уе 
the acknowledged chief histori- r 
an. ij х is 
the appe 


се of a self suppor 


Las 


tory has resembled that of the laser: Like This org: 
one of those ‘TV reruns that are hacked it senses are what we call light. (The hu- 
all man eye and some 
m to be missing cleverly made that they can even sense 
ute differences in wave le 


apart to make room for commerci 
the connecting scenes s 


and the chronology is bewilderingly mi 
compressed. Bushor stared ше publica- longer waves give us the peculiar vi 
tion in 1909 as a mousy little newsletter, sensation that we call red; 

-color job ones, violet.) 

It seemed to Charles Townes 
mble eral other phy 
idy. ex that, since light waves are the 
es except for being shorie 
possible—theorctically—to 
build a device that would do with light 
- waves what 
waves. 


but today it blooms as а fou 
glosy paper, fat with ads. Its offices 
in Newton, Massachusetts, also res 
the laser business: cluttered, ш 


dreams where you сара stop running, 
says Bushor. “This is better tham a twi 
hundred-million-dollara-vcar industry 


ready, and some 
billion by 1970. 


thi 
from recent memory their tales of lonely body had a 
intellectual adventure—and not only still m 


around but still young, still inventing. 


The lasers history begins quietly on a ideas, however. So were other 
and curious dr 


park bench in Washington, D.C 
wcaves a strange, obscure path through 
dy store in the Bronx and. other 
ely places. Columbia Universi- 
les Townes is credited 
ng the drama, In Washington 
conference in the spring 
ly one morn- 
ing into Fra wk and sat on a 
bench. There, he fitted together the pieces 
churning about 
he idea was the basis of an 
that Townes later dubbed 
топуш for microwave ampli- 
fication by stimulated emission of radia- 
Чоп)—а device which, by feeding on 
its own internal energies, generates a 
powerful beam of microwaves, The 
vention has since proved useful in radar, 
spacecraft guidance and other microwave 
applications. 

During the late 1950s, another 
thought began to take form in sev- 
eral "minds simultaneoudy, including 
Townes. Microwaves belong to a broad 
spectrum of electromagnetic radiation in 
which our world is bathed. At onc end of 
the spectrum an 
be anywhere from several miles in 
length down to about 10 centimeters—at 
which point microwaves begin, At the 
other end of the spectrum are exotic 
forms such as X rays, whose waves are 
measured im tenths of millionths of a 


dim, 
ту physicist С 


with star 
for a sc 
of 1951 


are radio waves, which 


re radiations of 
ble wave length. To 


to roughly 


ng tech- forms millen: 


1 publication covering the field, and таг 
Focus fits the description. Its his particular Ше group of wave lengths. 
The wave lengths 


nimal eyes are 50 


the shorter 


g too fast to pause and make or — micro 
being in one of those should 


By 1957, there was a 
uess it could hit one this yet-unbuilt device. h wa 

lase 
So new is the science of lasers, in fact, though Townes for 
the inventors are still around to tell on c 


long time insisted 


idea how such a device 


maris persona 


“... Now, then, what seems to be our problem . . 


semble. Опе carly arrival was а man 
who had married Townes’ sister: physi- 
cist Arthur Schawlow, then at rhe Bell 
Telephone Laboratories and now at 
Stanford University. Another was a re- 
search asociate and doctoral student. at 
Columbia University’s Radiation Labo- 
ratory, Gordon Gould. 

Gould, out of Yale in 1943, had gone 
to work for the Manhattan District in the 
Corps of Engineers, developer of the first 
atomic bomb. He had met a girl and one 
night wandered into a Marxist discussioi 
group with her. This cost him his job 
and his security clearance, subsequently 
made it difficult for him to get into scier 
tific laboratories. He spent the next dec- 
ade struggling to get jobs and continue 
his physics education. He was still strug 
gling in 1957, when some startling 
thoughts about lasers occurred to him. 

Independently and simultaneously, 
ar thoughts had occurred по the 
brother-in-law team of Townes and 
Schawlow. In essence. the thoughts were 
that it might be posible 10 take soi 
fluorescent. substance and “pump” its 
oms up to an excited мше by hiu 
them with a flash of light or a jolt of 
electric current. Normally, these excited 
atoms would calm down in random fash- 
ion. emitting photons one by one and 
making the substance glow dimly for 
lew minutes. But suppose you rigged up 
а пар of mirrors in such а way that so 
of the photons began to bounce back 
nd forth. On each bounce, the photons 
would hit atoms that hadn't yet calmed 
down. These atoms would be jolted into 


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photons sooner than nor- 
nd the new photons would join the 
ing surge and hit still more excited 
toms. In this way. perhaps, vou could 
make all the excited atoms release their 
photons in a billionth of a second instead 
of several minutes. You might produce a 
blast of incredibly brilliant light. It you 
provided a way for some of the light to 
escape the mirror trap—maybe by mak- 
ng one mirror only partially reflective 
—vou might get a beautiful strong 
beam. 

In uying ro explain these thoughts, 
‘Townes would sometimes ask puzzled 
listeners to think of a long swimming 
pool. At one end. rising from the water, 
you erect a thin wobbly pole, and atop 
the pole you build а platform. You hoist 
rocks onto the platform. TI is analo- 
gous to the pumping up of atoms to their 
excited state. the rocks release their 
stored energy (that is, full into the pool) 
n random fashion, the result will be only 
a pool of choppy water. But suppose you 
vig the system to feed on its own 
gies in an orderly way. You let just one 
тоск fall in. A nice tidy wave travels to 
the other end of the pool and bounces 
back. It jiggles the pole and this makes 
another rock fall in. This secoud rock 
hits (Ве water at just the right time to 


amplify the existing wave. In other 
words, its energies fall into мер much 
like photons in a laser. The bigger wave 


travels down Ше pool xk, 
wobbles, à third rock 


wave grows still biggi 


ave amplification by stimulated emis- 
sion of rocks"—that is, а waser. 
Gordon С contemplatively com- 
muting fom € ty to a 
Bronx apartment, believed he had this 
field of thought to himself. But one night 
just before Halloween 057. Townes 
phoned him. The two had met occasion- 
ally on Columbia's campus. Townes 
wanted some data about certain high- 
intensity lamps with which Gould was 
working at the Radiation Lab, Townes! 
questions made Gould suddenly ask 
question of his own: "Is Townes thinl 
what Em thinking? 
Gould plunged into an undedared 
race against Townes. He worked night 
and day on his laser calculations. One 
cold November night, Gould and his wife 
left their apartment and walked а few 
blocks to a candy store whose proprietor 
doubled as a notary public. Glutched in 
Gould's hund was a dirty gray laboratory 
notebook bearing the title “Some Rough 
п the Feasibility of aL 
The notary witnessed it and dated 
it: Friday, the 18th of November, 1957. 
Townes and Schawlow were making 
their own rough calculations about the 
same time. By mid-1958, they felt their 
figuring was specific enough to be patent- 
ble. and they and the Bell Labs ap- 
plied for the law's protection. Gould. 
working alone with little equipment and 
a small budget, hampered by security 
restrictions, was farther behind. Seeking 
help, hc left his university job and took 
his notes to a small scientific outfit named 
TRG, now an afluent 


“Tf you think I'm 


drunk, you should see my secretary 


division of Сошпо! Data Corporation. 
Intrigued, TRG took him in and put 
him in a lab where no security clearance 
ıs required. He and TRG applied for 
their patent in early 1059. 


A scries of court battles then began. 
Some experts later said Townes and 
Schawlow's papers most сапу de- 


scribed the laser as it eventually came to 
be; some said Gould's. Gould's notarized 
notebook bore the earliest date, and it 
mostly on this basis that Gould 
claimed 10 have conceived the invention 
first. But the court turned him down 
largely because he hadit proved “di 
gence” in going from gencral concept to 
specific calculations and thence toward 
hardware. The Bell Labs team was 
awarded a parent the fechingly 
rhythmic number 2, 
Meanwhile, another interesting char- 
acter had drifted on stage. This was Ted 
Maiman of Hughes Research Laborato 
ries, who daims that he. too, deserves 
credit for inventing the lasci 
In 1059 and сапу 1960. 
atent battle was already joined, nobody 
had actually made a laser. Dozens of 
large corporations were trying: the Bell 
Labs. Westinghouse, General Electric, 
Raytheon, Many were trying it with 
potassium vapor and related gases, which 
seemed theoretically to. promise the best 
resul d great expensive, science- 
fictionish rigs on their lab tables. Eve 
now and then, something would explode 
| overloaded circuit would. disinte- 
and the scientists would curse and 
build a new, even less probable-looking 
contraption. And what of Ted. Maiman? 
It was laughable. Compared with the 
giant corporations that were thundering 
up and down the laser trail, Maiman was 
a mouse rustling in the weeds. He had a 
small. cramped, cluttered lab room at 
Hughes’ Malibu Research Laborator: 
in California. Hughes supported him be 
cause he was considered a bright young 
fellow; but the hope was that he could 
eventually turn to something more prom- 
с. Maiman was pursuing а magnifi- 


cently ridiculous notion, He was trying, 
to make a Taser out of a ruby. 
А ruby? There were several impres- 


sive reasons you couldn't make a laser 
out of а ruby. Ruby had bee 
lack the required quantum efficiency in 
lay terms. the go. Moreover, it obviously 
wouldn't be able to take the heat with- 
out ing. Yet Maiman chose to ig- 
nore these 1 
about the size 
stub. Its 
were silvered, one more completely than 
the other. This was the heart of his 
proposed laser. The rest was like some- 
thing from a five-and-dime store. Curled 
y helical 


па 


is intended to provide the ^pump- 
light that would excite Ше ruby's 


atoms. Wrapped around die flash. helix, 
in tum, was а dented aluminum 
reflector. That was all. 

"Forget it, we've tied it, it won't 

work,” some visiting Bell Labs physicists 
had assured Maiman. He had to admi 
the gadget didn't work yet, but he re- 
fused to admit it wouldn't. He was be- 
coming the comic relief of the laser 
quest. Hed submitted à paper оп his 
proposed laser to а technical journal. but 
the editor had rejected it. А photog 
pher had come around to take a picture 
of the nonworking laser but had found 
it so unimpressive ("Like something a 
plumber might have screwed together," 
he said) that he asked Maiman to build a 
bigger, more scientificlooking mock-up. 
Another company had copied the picture 
to make its own ruby laser, and of course 
this laser did't and this only 
icreased. Maiman’s embarrassment, 
n sure it’s just on the threshold of 
working," he said one day in June 1960 
to a group of East Coast scientists. 
‘They'd come West for a convention and 
were indulging in the great new Calilor- 
nia sport of Dropping In On Maiman. 
They nodded politely as Maiman car 
nestly explained his reasoning. They left, 
nudging cach other in the ribs. Maiman 
chomped his cigar gloomily. 

Shortly afterward, his Lib assistant, a 
man named Irnee D'Haenens, came in 
It contained three new 
improved optical. cl 

and polished with 
ng care by the Linde Com. 
xpert «туга maker. Maiman and 
ens mounted one of the new 
crystals in Ше gadget, They looked at 
cach other. D'Haenens quietly closed the 
lab door. Майнап threw a switch and 
the helix flashed. 

And a tiny spot of brilliant red light 
appeared momentarily on the laboratory 
wa 


worl 


acter, fabricated 
special lov 


‚ a Hughes publicity man, 
ng summoned to the Malibu 
ng the next day. “The place 
with excitement. People 
around in the corridors 
babbling at each other. I couldn't under- 
stand what it was all about. I'd heard 
the word ‘laser.’ but I didn’t really know 


were standing 


what it was supposed to bi 

The lab director, Dr. Lester Van Aut 
шей to explain. “Great news!" he shout- 
ed at Meyer. “Maman has achieved 
laser action!” 

‘That was eight short years ago. Toda 
almost every newspaper-reading man in 
every industrial nation knows what a 
laser is, Literally thousands of lasers 
exist and literally hundreds of scientific 
groups throughout the world are work: 
ing on improvements. "I knew I had 
something important,” says Maiman, 
"but I never dreamed. of anything like 
this. 

The ruby laser today is the most pow- 
erful, though not in all respects the most 


devel 
but 


useful, in the business. “We've 
oped continuous-wave ruby lasers, 
most still operate in short pulses,” 
physicist Dr. Richard Daly of TRG, the 
outfit that took in the struggling С 

Gould in his hour of need. “Pulse 
ation isn't always what you 
every application. Bur it's right for m 
uses. Here-—let me show you.” 

Daly has the typical laser man's fond- 
ness for showing off his gadgetry. In a 
large, windowless lib room, Daly tinkers 
with a thick metallic tube. He turns 
some dials. You adjust your goggles. He 
flips a switch and there is a sharp crack 
like a rifle shot. At the other end of the 
Tab, а metal target seems to explode with 
blinding white flash and a huge sun- 
burst of sparks 

The metal is steel. In its center is а 
smoking hole about half an inch deep. 

This is a giunr-pulse ruby laser," ex- 
plains Daly. “You didn't actually sce the 
laser light, because it was such a short 
pulse. Tt was a slug of light not much 
longer than your outstretched arms. But 
there was a lot of oomph in it. About a 


Хаман is а billion waus, You can 
nearly go blind just thinking about that 
much light in that small a space. For 
comparison. consider the sun. On a clear 
summer day at high noon, the sun pours 
enemy onto your head at а density of 
bout one tenth of a watt per square 
centimeter. This much light can blind 
you if you look directly into it for long. 


But even an unfocused laser beam can 
deliver energy m literally millions of 
times that density. "Focused. carefully; 


says Dr. R. D. Haun of Westinghouse, 
^a laser beam can deliver ten billion 
ts {о a square centimeter.” 

It isn’t only the power of laser beams 


that fascinates scientists. Ts also the 
quality of utter neatness. A laser beam is 
“coherent”—meaning, in cffe, orderly, 


like a good TV broadcast beam. Ordi 
nary light is untidy, Tis waves are of di 
verse sizes and never quite lined up 


right, and cach photon behaves in a 
way as it passes 
ng lens. Even the best 
focus this untidy light to a 
point. only to a fuza-edged blob. But 
laser light has been focused to a spot as 
ll as 1/10,000 inch 

Jobs both of brute force and of micro- 
scopic tenderness can be done with light 
like this. TRG, for instance, sells a 


sm 


microscope mounted laser that can de 
liver a pinpridk of energy delicate enough 
gle chromosome inside a liv- 


to burn a si 
cella capability now being used 5 
studies of genetics. An equally delicate 
Westinghouse liser recently drilled three 
neat round holes in a том across the 
breadth of a human. hair. 

Slightly more powerlul beams ате 
used in surgery. The American. Opti 
Company, lor example, makes a special 
laser instrument for operations inside the 
eye. By passing the beam through the 
eyes transparent cornca 
tors сал burn away а blood clot or weld 
a detached retina inside the eye without 
touching the omer pans. At the Chil 
dren's Hospital of Cincinnati, doctors 
experimenting with lasers in destroying 
cancers. drilling teeth and removing 
warts, tattoos and birthmarks—and, at 
the same time, they are trying to find ех 
actly what laser Hight does to human skin 
and other tissues. Director of the laser 
laboratory Dr. Leon Goldman, who Наз 
deliberately pricked himself with laser 
beams some 450 times, remarks that 
physicians as a group are often а decade 


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late in taking advantage of scientific d 
velopments, But they began working 
h the laser almost as soon as jt wa 
invented. 

Industrial engineers have also been 
quick to use the laser. Take the enor 
mously varied, omnipresent industrial 


сап vaporize any 
says Ted Maiman. “That's why 
of engineers, drilling holes in all kinds of 
Is, have fallen in love with the 
laser.” The Wurlitzer Company, for ex 
ample, maker of pianos and other luge 
musical instruments for years has worn 
out bits by the hundreds drilling some 
80,000 holes a day in hard rock maple to 
а tolerance of 1/2000 inch. “Please say 
"a Wurlitzer 
incer begged 1 TRG, nor 
wg the heart to turn В 
now designing a lightbeam tool for the 
It shouldn't prove difficult, for 
beam can even punch a hole 
through a diamond. Many types of fine 
wire are made by drawing soft metal 
through minuscule holes drilled in dia- 
monds: and in the past. it used to take 
two to three days го drill such а hole. A 
laser tool made by Western Electric docs 
it in a few minutes. 


awa 


The U.S. Department of Commerce 
and MIT are now dreaming about much 
lager holes. Late in 


996, two МІГ 
sophomores, ignoring the amused chuck- 
ling of their professors, borrowed a power 
ful cubon«lioxide laser from Raytheos 
and trained its beam on a chunk of gran- 
ite for 30 seconds. When they picked the 
granite up. и crumbled like dry mud. 
Engineering professor Robert. Williams 
now believes this startling effect may be 
a key to fast. cheap tunneling. It 
possible to build a er-headed 


machine that can cat its way 
rock like а worm through cheese. 
Commerce Department, interested їп 


asit tunnels between cities, has 
ed MIT to probe further. 

me laser light is orderly, it can 
be used for communica 15 
be modulated exactly like va- 
dio waves or mictowaves—and thi 
another application that brings a gl 
10 the eves of scientists. The National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration 
has hired several companies to wonder 
about sending messages throug! 
planetary space on a laser beam. 
dio or radar beam fans out widel 
a Perkin-Elmer scientist who is 
on this idea, "and after traveling millions 
of miles io get here from Mars, for exam 
ple, its energy would be so far dissipated 
that we'd barely be able to pick it up. 
But a laser beam ст be made so tight, 
row, that $t can get here Пот Mars 
wd still be going strong." "The U.S. 
Aimy is also interested in the laser as an 
instrument of battlefield. communication 
Radio messages fan out and can easily be 
ked up by an enemy. But a message 


so na 


sent on a laser beam would go nowhere 
but to a single receiver—and even if the 
enemy saw the beam and tried to read 
it, hed give himself away the instant 
he poked his receiving device into it. 

The dines of laser light has 
made possible а photographic tech 

led holography. А holog 
Clea, а tue three-dimensional image 
of an object. Instead of showing only 
some of the objects surfac 
dinary aph does, a 
shows ithfully 
the в Ше 
hologram ог walking around it, you сап 
see the back of the object. This spooky 
effet depends оп complex phenomena 
of diffraction ned only 
by illuminating the object with the co- 
t light of a laser, Indusuial com- 
ve begun using holograms to 
nong other things, stresses in 

Engineers might make a holo- 
of an aircraftwing part, for ex 

e the part is at rest. then 
nother stop-action hologram 
tis vibrating as in flight. 
By comparing the two images. they see 
precisely how and in what di 
the part was strained out of shape. 

Bob Whitman, an artist with an ability 
to sell lar-out ideas to large organizations, 
has discovered yet another use for the 
wers eerie light. Worki Bell 
Labs en Whitm built 
what he called. "li the 
Pace Gallery in New York. These might 
be compared with line drawings on paper. 
except that the lines are thin, colored, 
low-powered laser beams and the viewer 
within three-timensional 
drawing and “experiences” it instead of 
merely contemplating it from without. 
Whitman calls the drawings “articula- 
tions of space.” Bell Labs peop 
med Гог reasons of. publicity, 
с sure what to call the drawings. 
company spokes- 


and can be obt: 


netals. 


make 
while the | 


ensions 


stands the 


T 


who 


coopei те 


L Well we enjoyed 
with Bob Whitman.” 

But of all the actual. possible and im- 
aginable uses of the laser, the one that 
generates the most excitement is that of 
v. The US. Army and Navy 
nown to be working strenuously on 
destructive light beams, but have kept 
the effort secret. The Air Force was less 
successful at first in keeping its lip 
zipped. General Curtis LeMay's speech- 
es used to contain ayptic comments 

bout. “bean-directed energy 
but in the past few years, the 
has declined to comment further on the 
subject. Similar secrecy shrouds laser re- 
search in Europe (and, of course, in Rus 
sia), though national pride occasionally 
forces security curtains to be lifted 
brielly, Late in 1900, Bri /s Services 
learonics Research Laboratory, а gov- 


weapons’ 
Force 


emment science center, showed off some 
of its laser developments, and one item 
on display was a portable, Баце 
powered laser rifle. The cool-voiced Brit 
ish scientists refe 
toy, of course,” and showed how it could 
be used to pop balloons. Yet it is hard to 
believe that the frugal British 
ment would spend its taxpayers’ 
to build balloon poppers for the lunch- 
hour entertainment of scientists. Such a 
rifle could be used in combat to blind 
enemy troops—and, at higher power, to 


попеу 


do Ше sime kinds of damage bullets do, 
ог worse, 

The new family of molecular lasers— 
particularly carbon-dioxide lasers—intcr- 


ests military men, because they offer high 
power as well as continuous-beam opera- 
tion. Such lasers work, in effect, by setting 
up a sort of vibration within molecules 
instead of dealing with excited atoms. 
Theoretically, they are capable of enor 
mously higher power than anything 
yet developed. Raytheon, Westinghouse, 
Perkin-Elmer and dozens of other com. 
panies have military contracts 10 study 
molecular Lasers—contracts surrounded 
with с secrecy. One of. Perkin 
Elmer's contracts has required. the com- 
pany го build an odd-shaped tall room: 
d although any visitor may peek into 
the room (after proving that he's a U.S. 
citizen), most of the company’s employees 
d executives are mystified about the 
room's uses 

“If you think the laser business has 
produced surprises over the past few 
years, wait until the next few,” says Gor 
don Gould. Like the laser. Gould 
1960 has risen rapidly from now! 
promi 1 he lost his 
the basic laser patent, he 
eral other important patents in the held 
and has applied for others. These and 
а Conuol Dam (including TRG) stock 
option have made him suddenly quite 
wealthy. Among his new possessions 
a boat in which he periodically sails in 
the West Indies, gazes across vast ocean 
reaches and tries to see the future, 

What he сап see looks good to hi 
He left TRG in 1966 to become a profes- 
sor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brook 
Туп. His basic job the пог to teach 
but to research and invent. He is imer- 
ested in а new coppervapor 
produces green 1 
losal brightness. imerested in 
picosecond pulses (a picosecond is a 
millionth of a millionth of a second). He 
is interested in more things than can 
conveniently be cataloged. 

lı seems strange to say this when 
sers are in such wide use,” says Professor 
Gould, “but the laser is still a very young 
nve phe 
possibilities За word 
scientists до 
а 1 say? 


ow holds sev 


ht of pote 


He is 


n. Th has only just begun 


head are—well. 
"t like to use, but what else 
antastic," 


с 


"I'm going to give it to you straight. You're knocked up.” 


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186 


A DAY IN THE LIFE 


African Coolidge. You should've married 


Mahalia Jackson and then you two 
could've stayed up all night blessing 
cach othe 

“If you like, my dear. you сап leave 


me. I won't hold you. 1 
1 for your freedom." 
As she walked їп to breakfast, 


ave fought 100 


the 


A D: the Life 
of President Percy 


At 7:48. President Percy stood before 


the bathroom mirror, once more upset to 
se mo reflect On this particular 
morning, the mirrors lack of response 


was especially depr 
forgouen his age. 
“Dear,” he called to the First Lady, 


пр. because he'd 


"how old am 12 
her Iwo years younger or two 
years older than Bobby she said. “If 


vou want, 1 can look it up. 
No, no: itll come to me: 
shrlipped. the ident 
back to Ше wall and said: 


turned 


“He found his 


(continued тот page 115) 


"Mirror, mirror beside my towel, 
Am 1 relatively as young as 1 was 
at Bell & Howell?” 


At 8:10, the President looked out at 
the Washington Monument. He had 
come a long way since he'd been a movie 
usher, but he knew that he still had a 
long way to go. He just couldn't figure 
out where. So he stopped brooding 
about statesmanship and went back to 
bed with the First Lady. 

"Charle she said, when he 
gave her a pped. no-nonsense kiss 
on the shoulder. "Doing (hat doesn’t 
prove you're young. Men of seventy are 
g that. 


d 


"Not that 1 recall." 

"Well le's go through with it. any- 
ay." he said. “I hate starting things T 
h; it's a bad example for the 
ws im Junior Achievement. Anyw 
I've got you down for 8:12 and 1 believe 
n keeping appointment 

you could always goof olf for three 
or four minutes.” 


wife by computer. Now 
he's trying to find out how to get rid of her. 


“Look, don't you feel romantic: Or 
do you always get taken to motels by 
President 
Эһ, I'm sorry, honey; 1 was just teas- 
: | forgot you don't joke. OF course 1 
feel топ : and coming here's a great 
idea. I could just never respond ас Camp 
David. But it was silly to register under 
another пате. 1 mean, you Апош that 
nobody knows you.” 


4 Day in the Life 
of President Humphrey 


When the Fir 
and didn't see Presid 
knew he had spent 
with The Book. Throv 
she ran to the library 
President asleep in a ch 
в оп The Wisdom of Г. B.J. 
Courtenay Valenti, She gently shook him 
and he awoke, smiling a 

“I'S only me,” she said, "and I vored 
for you.” 

“I's really a delightful pleasure," he 
id, ^s ld, a pleasant de- 
ight, to grcet my very own wife on this 

nd and signifi i 
"That's good,” 
it if you ever have to dedi 
me." 

“You know, Muriel, 1 the nicest 
dream. E dreamed it before the 
dent and Big Daddy was still President 

id Powas а h those won- 
derful old responsibilities of praising 
him. Gosh, I was even using new adjec- 
tives, words 1 wish I'd thought of when 
he was alive, words like Wondertul, 
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Ever- 
lasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” 

He would have liked tho 
would have wanted you to ke 
them. But now its your tur 
and you have to go on—in His name. 
Come upstairs; breakfast is ready. 

At 7:30, as he followed the First Lad 
to the dining room, the President stopped 


а wav 


she said. “You can use 
e or launch 


cci- 


smiling with a sharp crack of his cheeks. 
He was clearly worried. 
“You know, honey.” thought- 


fully spinning one of hi 
л cup out for the top job. 
yed in the drug- 
I might still have the liber: 


maybe I 


stor 
were just sel 
"Oh. 


screw 
sweetly, “You've still got me and the 
children.” 

"Good old Muriel! I. can always count 
о help me keep my perspective. 
he took out 
dedication of Ше oaumeal. 


his notes for the 


А Day in the Li 
of President Rockefeller 


Ac 7:10, President Nelson Rockefeller 
awoke, sat up and made some 
his autobiography, tentatively t 


notes for 


led The 


Importance of Being Earnest. When he 
ished writing, he leaned over and 
ave the First Lady a playful punch on 
the chii 
“C'mon, fell: 
the deck.” 
“OK, honey,” she said with a yaw 
love to watch you running the count 
"And I love to see you beside me, 


“Time to hit 


he s 


with all the men admiring your looks 
and all the women wondering if you're 
pregnant, You're nd." 


дү, that го 
how much it is." 
"Oh. Happy. you know I never count 


know 
history book last 
something very interesting. 
father м; 


She smiled at him, the sweet little smile 
ibat bugged so many Catholics, and at 
7:25, they fell into an embrace. 

Ас eight o'clock, they walked together 
toward the shower, stopping only when 
y met a reporter. 
Ні, guy," said the President. 
said the man, “the 
entire Free World is wondering why you 
always sound so nasal Is it ingrained 
wealth ог adenoids?’ 

“Lemme tell ya something 


about. this 


a day can a 


most. A Алий h 4 potato 
the e ravioli, and а few egg rolls 


around midnight. And how many places 
can he own? Half a doen at the most. А 
place in New York, à hunk of. Westches- 
ter and the middle of Venezuela. And 
how many TV spots can he buy? Twenty, 
maybe thirty a day; forty at the outside 
—unless, of course, he's behind.” 

And ihen, excusing himself, the Pr 
dent led ihe Fist Lady to the shower, 
where he sang the song that had won 
him both the nomination and election— 
Happy Talk. 


0, simultaneously, one 
g the other. George got up at 
once, went to the window and looked 
Out at the South Lawn. The rising sun 
t a long shadow from the iron jockey 
below 
"Splendid mor 


', sugar," he said. “I 
I'm gonna do today 
see. 
—how many we got left to dump? 


се, honey," said Lurleen, "I think 
we've gone and whittled this cr 


“Montan 
“So they tell me. 
"OK, then as soon as I get to the 

office, ПП” 

“Hey, just a minute, George; its my 
turn to гип the countr 

о it ain't, sugar; you had it jester- 


day. 
“But I couldn't do any 
was that time of the month. 
"Too bad; that ain't in the Con- 


g with it; it 


y when they had almost 
shed dressing, their Presidencies had 
с America nis ur 
nd then give it 10 the N. 
tional while they got some ch 

cn and went to a driv 
his hair. George wond 
really did have natural rhythm. For sev- 
eral minutes, he tried to think of all the 


Negroes he knew who couldn't dance: 
but he finally came up with just A. 
Philip Randolph and a hea 
"Hey. hoi said 
who I'm seei 
President of G 
“Why? We short а maid?" 
. FIL ber she is a classy cleaner. 
Maybe she'd like ıo come in ome or 
twice a week for a little diplomacy and 


light housewo! 
“Sur 


it could be al 


*. She could 


great li'l cul 
how you how th 


you could show her what 
knives and forks are for." 

With а sudden rush of affection, she 
embraced hi; па cried, “Oh, I just love 
you, Georgie!” 

“Likewise, 


“But darling, the female praying mantis always 
eats the male during copulation. 
Any other way would be unnatural!” 


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188 


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“тиен 
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There was, but he was killed in Cuba 
and nobody remembers him but me. I 
could make up a story for my employers 
to explain your turning up. Yes, that's a 
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ir in what had the appear 
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mean, Javier! Though where you came 


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mussed my h 


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benefit you as well as me, would you 
care to make that clearer?” 

"Details later! Right now let's put you 
on Ше road to Chula Vista and good 
papers!” And she mussed my hair again 
in a definitely familial w: 

We talked for a time more, for we had 
to agree on my story, and my story had 
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thoughts, too, palpitated as I considered 

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“True, there'd been a Porfirio Vallejo in 

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The minute I got back to Vaverdy, I 
called the number Magda had given me. 
A woman's voice answered, not Мазда. 
"Hello. is it possible I could speak 
with Miss Vallejo, please?” I said in mw 
most precised English. 
"Miss who?" the 


voice. said. 
Javier Cam 


"Magda Vallejo, please 
pos calling.” 

‘Oh, you want Magda Campos. Hold 
on а minute, Mr. Campos, T'I get her.” I 
heard 


this voies calling, “Magda, Гог 
lost husband lucky 
sda's voice answering from 


Mrs. Basing. VIE cake it in 


you 


far, “Thanks, 
the pantry. 
Pretty soon Magda cime on the phone 
saying with energy. "I told vou spe 
cifically. when you call ask Гог Magda, 
that's all. just Magda, no further names.” 
It was so. She'd said to avoid last 
names, made а point of it. I'd forgouen 
What, no further names? E just heard 


further names. For you, Campos. For 
me. husband. Can names get further: 
Му God. 

“Well. listen, the plan was to inwo- 


duce you as relative. Г couldn't jus 
Javier Campos. а rc 

Listen, you could have made 
something minor! Therc're nephews 
ever hear of them? 
second cousins?” 

“Well. listen. after thinking it over. 1 
saw that if you're going to share quarters 
th me, the best kind of relative would 
be husband, you sce. 
sten, that woman referred to you as 
Magda Campos. meaning, wile to Javier 
Campos, whos me! How come you're 
suddenly а Campos and I'm the source 
of this Campos, m 
tet hold of yoursell. There a 
reasons. Г can't go into it on th 

"My God, 1 start as lost friend and go 
away 10 become second cousin or some- 
thing minor and come back one hundred 
percent husband! My God, what's going 
on! This you call saving me from jail! 
Listen, do me a favor, don't ever sive 
me from stampeding elephants! 
alm youself, man, uy, ГЇЇ explain 
everything. Let's meet at the abandoned 
quarry, that’s three miles, you rake the 
highway south —— 

“A horrible thing! 
go away fugitive 
prisoner — 
TI explain ше whole thing. 
faith, quarry, sundown” 

Shed said this arang 
benefit her as well as me 

Му God. my God. The world's whole 
elephant population coming my way. 

SANTEE LIMESTONE AND GRAVEL WORK- 
Ixos, the silvered, slivered sign said. 
ОП highway. down rippled tar of di- 
minishing side road, I went, imo zinc 
sands of semidescrt under 
One Mexican nailing another Mexicin to 
cross for the fun of carpentry. F 


me 
you 
You ever hear of 


God! 


с deep 
phone.” 


To 
back 


Calamity! 
1 come 


have 


would 


nent 


zinc moon, 


patches of agave and kalanchoe with 
arrowed leaves. Roued  wheelbarrows. 
Stepping slantways on erupted slabs of 
old tar, One Mexi ing noose for 
another Mexican out of fondness for rope 
tricks. Мше skulls vacated eye sockets 
quizing some worn tuck tires. One 
Mexican mort coffin for another 
Mexican and for what. Toaster wi 
from cook pit of Coachella desert trying 
to crisp the skin. Stands of piñons to 
crosshatch the ashy Mountain. face 
shaved dean by barbering ic 
drills. Mammoth mouth of pit 
dentured with ledges of limestone. Black 
waters filling pit with lapping black. One 
Mexican doubledealing another Mexi 
cm for the plain hell of it. Something 
sp hing in the waters. One Mexican 
Knifing another. Somebody's body 

ig ass up through black wat 


Mexican kı nother up the ba 
down again. Body in vise from w. 
ledge reddening from silver to bronze, 


Wiping long black moon-glassed hair 
h towel. Humming some Arg: 
ngo to audience of pines and [eather 
haned yuccas. One Mexican knifing an- 
other but no Койе visible in either hand. 
Breasts two dunes of arrogant coppa 
Haunches high, wide and handsome, 
made to replete hands, Black, black moss 
of pubis glassed with wet and widenin; 
legs spread to towel. No knives in 
these hands spreading jumbo thighs. Yet 
1 felt knifed in many places up and down 
the spine naked Magda toweled be 


tween legs. throating wordless tangos. 

“Hello. hello. You're late. Oh, a hot 
This was her story. Minute she laid 

eyes on me, wild about me. Minute 1 

laid hands on her. 

chunk, the first, vem: 

best. Yet D left La 

back nor wrote. Not her pli 


ters. Had to put me from 
t on with life. When 
parents died got her fist job. in Galves- 
ion. Here met Javier Campos, ex-sti 

from Tampico working as stevedore on 
the docks, looked to be steady type. Javi- 
er si 
shared life. Ма 
to мор work and start di 
him hard. To escape, ] 


ik. She pressed 
vier ran to join 


Castro in Ше Sierra Maestra, there was 
shot dead, leaving по family but her 
Shed never said much abour the no- 


good, so the Bassings did not know the 
cts about the worthless. The name was 
unoccupicd, thus available to me for a 
lifetime. Who'd be the wiser? So lon 


outside the house Г was husband. 
second cousi 


1 could be greatgr 
s suited my 
yet would have nice roof over 
. good some job on Ше 
ch, permission 10 drive a ranch jeep 
over to Brawley or El Centro t0 auend 
hight classes in television repairs. Where 


“My parents are getting suspicious, Robert. 
Could you shave mare often?” 


was the calamity? Was it calamity to bc 
handed back your future with velvet rib- 
bons on it? 

Get your clothes on and. we'll discuss 
different brands of calamity.” 


“Oh, it’s the first time I’ve been cool in 
days." 

If were going to talk sense. you 
cover up." 


7E can. talk with more sense if Fm not 
melting away with the hellish heat. Be 
sides, you've seen me naked before.” 

Magda, whether it’s nakedness num- 
her two or nakedness number one isn’t 
the question. I'm гу 
tions for serious talk. 

“Well, here, if the sight of me offends 
you so much, I-II wrap this towel around. 
АШ right? 

“One more thing. be so kind as to 
cross your legs. that's a very short towel 
Good. Now vou listen to me. You схрий 
who Javier Campos is or was. You omit 
any reasons why Fm wicked into taking 
his central place. Magda, that towel’s not 
doing much good when it’s down to your 


g to arrange condi- 


with 
been tricked. 
І simply ask 
could we hı 


No tricks whatsoever 
d myself what connection 
с that would give the most 
basis for being under one roof," 
"Magda, 1 ask you again, please don't 
uncross your legs, and stop lyin; 
Sorry, truly, when 1 try to take care 
of one end I forget the other end. All 
right, ГШ tell you the rest, I'm in a deli- 


situation at the Bassings. Mr. Ва 
young and energied and with a 
very roving eve. So far I've been able to 
hold him off, but lately he's alter me 
hard. When you showed up 1 thought, 
well. if you're just a cousin or something 
how much will that help? А 
n't deterred by a second cous- 
in or nephew. With a husband at my 
side, though, he'd have second thoughts 
and wouldn't be always trying 10 catch 
me in barns or on the back roads, you 
see? This is the benefit I hoped Гог from 
reconstituting a husband, one, anyhow, 
but does this in any way diminish the 
benefits to you? Which can. I give you 
this assurance, be as numerous as you 
wish?” 


cae 
sing 


1 tried not to look at the slipping tow 
el. I did my best not to take note of the 
No 


constantly shifting thighs doubt 
about it, this опе was well ma 
replete hands. There was one single rea 
son I couldn't reach for her, that she was 
abruptly, vagrantly, nonconsultingly, ir- 
reversibly, my wife. 

“All right," I said. “Finally you let me 
in on the true story. A little lite, but. I'm 
uot indifferent to your problems, 1 want 
that clear. but I've got to think of my 
own 


thoughts 
with your circumstances, 
terday. when cops were chasing you, 
you had problems. Today, having found 
а perfect hideout, you're in the clear 
Try to see currently, Javier.” 
"Curendy Fm an unplanned bride- 


189 


groom, | call that а problem,” I 


“How to put this? rrving І do, if 


parys. 1 didn't do 
two cents’ worth of choosing here. That 
fact rasps in my thoughts and will con- 


PLAYBOY 


You did the choosing once; 
"In La Paz. You don’t have to do new 
ate the old.” 

“If I did in fact shinny up that eu 
. the choices were 
for a night, not a lifetime. Also. bear in 
such happen 
I was drunk, 


„ if there were, 


y trees. Тоо n 
Listen, tell me true now, did I really do 


ulis? You've forgotten 
Yesterday you remember 
“1 was forcing Ше memor 

ion, for social politeness. 

without warning hus- 
in hard to remem- 


band and wife, it’s 


ber. Is this on the level, M 
ighis with you in La Paz? 

“Insults, insulis. This is what comes 
from being nice to a staggering drunk. 
Look, you want to make sure? There's a 
way. You're a family man, if it's to your 
таме vou can have your family rights. 
and see if it doesn't remind you of 
ights long ago. This is about the only 
suggestion I can make, if you've got such 
а leaky memory, due to your youthful 
drinking. For my part, 1 remember. per- 
fectly. If you wish to remember, ГП 
nly help.” 
encrous invitation, made more зо by 
the steady slippage of towel and restless 
ness of most solid thighs. It would have 
been no hardship to accept, whether it 
proved something about сайт fusions 
or not. Ir was hardship not to accept, to 
keep hands at sides. 

Bur E had abruptly ied without so 
much as proposing, only by taking bus to 
sta, a bus picked and urged by 
s not the way to the h 


gda, 1 spent 


у feet. She looked up, towel 


“You're pretty handy with your dukes, 
young fellow, and you move fast. How'd 
you like to become an upholsterer?" 


slipping, legs rubbing, 
livel 
"Want to go home?” she 
pot the jeep here, 1 could m 
some chiles rellenos with my 
ucc in no time at all.” 
Too much married 100 fast amd too 
unwarned, Magda. I need 10 go some- 
where and get as drunk as I have the 
talent fo 
“АП right." she said, "Maybe if you 
get drunk enough, you'll remember what 
you did in La Paz some nights when you 
got drunk and get interested in doing i 
ain. If so, you come right home, you 
hear? I know your talents when drunk.” 


spec 


On the highway 1 found a 
where Me ds were 
pool and drinking beer. Here I started to 
drink, too. tequila after tequila, uying to 
sort out in my spinning head the m 
ways in which Id been cnooached 
upon: Hard, they overlapped. 

Noise of demon sweeping in my he 
from Mrs. Campos’ fast brooms. 
of various Кешев of 
the chief banger. 

In my rotating, 


reverberati 


with an imaginary. pen dipped i 


tequila, 1 wrote a fete 


Mast Esteemed Mrs. Gam pos: 

П is very important that you stop this 
lying. 

1 have the sensation of being robbed 
and will tell you why. 

Allow the hypothesis that in the di» 
lant past Г had intimate dealings with 
you. All right. This scares me [rom пор to 
bottom. The absolutely first girl 1 had in 
body and lost [rom mind. 1 feel robbed. 

1 have not been loose with girls as 
some. Had girls, enough, but with no 
to championships. The pleas 
uring for me was to know а particular 
girl in depth, not many girls in genevical 
width, so to speak. 

It terrified те, the having of many 
samples from the ocean of girls, so 
all samples mix in the mind to become 
one sample. 

All right. Ij certain. events did in fact 
transpire in La Paz as you say, then for 
the first time I have had a total intimacy 
followed by a total oblivion. This makes 
me feel robbed. 1 am no longer in pas- 
session of my personal happenings, my 
only belongings. 

Listen, can a man say fairly he has 
had а girl if he doesn't hold her in mind? 
he 
seeing. 

Also, I Jeet guilty. Why? Because the 
way you show зезрес for human beings 
you've had major 
cluding girls, is to remember them. 

This, my dear Mis, Campos, is why 1 
say girls you forget can molest. Mrs. 
Cam pos, from you I feel a molestation. 

This is not an ordinary domestic ar- 
rangement you Mrs. 


is not a true having, it's a sight- 


dealings with, in- 


invite me into, 


Campos. I hear accusatory brooms in the 
molested spaces of ту brain. Loud pots 
and pans of peccabiliby. 

All this, of course, Mrs. Campos, on 
the hypothesis that you're telling some 
semblance of truth 

1] you're lying, Mrs. Campos, schemer, 
falsifier of my drunken hours, thimble- 
Janged bitch of the universe, rider of 
needling brooms through my head, mix- 
r of witch’s brews under the name of 
chiles rellenos with special sauce, oh, 
if you're lying... . 


This lener 1 had been mailing 10 the 
tequila bottle line by line, Now my 
special-delivering eyes went from this 


bottle to the newspaper on the next table. 


Some field hands had been drinking 
there. Left behind this Spanish weekly 


published for the Mex population in 
around Los Angeles. Headline 
PRODCER URGES MILITANT STREET 
STRATIONS IN EAST LOS AS 
L leaned over to sce, From the text my 
eye picked out phrases: “. .. Fresh from 
successes in organizing the dategrove 
workers of Indio. . . . Addressed massive 
outdoor rally. . . . Urging barrios rise up 
cracy 
istrations. .. . At 
in all arcas of 


EMON- 


of Poverty V 
tacked bossism as the rot 


Humanism the total and perma- 
r against bossism. . . . "All men 
have two tendencies,” Prodger said. Чо 


against. bosses, to become bosses.” 
Nature of the human animal 

No sense wasting tears over. . . . F: 

first, make trouble for the sec 

Vernace Joe's home wa 


rise uy 


geles, Vernace Joe was now, it appeared, 
in Los Angeles. Vernice Joe a 
fighter. 1 had a mammoth figi 
hands. Against the sirens with 
sauces. What Г needed was Vernace Joe 
to inject maximum fight in me. La huel- 


ga. The suike against the worst bosses 
with their accusatory brooms and frying 
La huelga. Emergency call to the 
gist of la huelga, mastermind 
ol antibossism, Vernace Joe 

I shook olf as many of the tequila 
fumes as would be shaken and hurried to 
the phone. 


“Vion la huelga, Manny!" 
“Viva la huelga, V. 
He said "Long 1 


e strike" in place of 
hello and goodbye, he promulgated strike 
as others talk of weather and stock- 
market reports and how are the kids. АП 
in his orbit fell into this propagandistic 
hitchi 


all over hell and gone for 
iy. Sent word through the 
Through the grape pick 
g them now. Never mind, just 
a joke——" 

L better come up and talk, V. J. Im 
in worse trouble than before.” 

I detailed this revolting plot to bury 
all my wheel. He listened, making 


ance and other 


sounds of surprise. sig 
comments in his nose. 

T could see him as he sat making foot- 
notes in the nose. Looking like deck 
hand, bobo, boxer, skid-row bum, all 
things he'd been in early days. Coming 
from gutters and alleys, he could minis- 
uate with convincing migrancy to gutter 
ley people. 
lent after 1 ended my story, 
except for sounds of hum and hah. 

I said, “Isn't it a disaster 

He said, “Why, is she ugly? 

I said, "No, quite pretty. What's that 
got to do with i 

He said, “She was lying about her 
chiles rellenos? You tasted her chiles, 
they were lousy?” 

1 said, “I never went n 
would I know? V. J. 
relate?" 

Manny. a pretty girl opens пег bed to 
you. and offers to cook for you. and you 
ask what's her looks and sauces got to do 
with it? There's disaster here, boy. inside 
your head.” E 
wements were made by her, all. 

takes d ve, Ше woman 

yes or no, that’s how 1 wis raised. 
1 

Lowered. that's Ше way we're all 
lowered. Listen, Manny, the women call 
the shots in these transactions, who 
opens the mouth first’s a formal 

You could depend on V. J. по 
forth his own angle. Interesung, if 
around the back and up the sides, piece 
of logic. 

“Also, V. J 
about La Paz 
don't hold her 
an advantage 

Lers sec. Suppose you restored the 
below arrangements, Wouldn't the above 
problems more or less go aw 
Around the back and up the sid 
vertheless a stimulating piece of logic 
"Yes but suppose she made the whole 
thing up, wouldn't that indicate a terri 
ble crookedness of mind?” 

“Singleness of mind, ld say. Listen, if 
she tricked you, what's she alter? Your 
Your social standing? And 


ear them, how 
this 


how does 


ty 


she's telling Ше truth 
if I had her below and 
above, she right away has 


k! Take the bed, board 
That'll teach. her! Serve 


and adva 
her right! 

V. J- I always prided myself on neat- 
ness. | thought neat. One project at a 


time. When I drank, I drank, when 
craved, craved. 
“Гус known 


sloppy. Maybe the dr 
you sloppy enough 10 go up eucalyp- 
tuses,” 

"Bur suppose 1 didn't, and she knows 
I was so drunk I don't remember what I 
did, so she says— 
Manny! Quit that, boy! Did L didn't 
vasn't it, that's а faster's 
to keep you dangling! You want to dan- 


gle aud fast. when th 
chiles down below? 
He did have his own sledge w 


е maybe great 


ay to 


put things. this harping, hammering 
man. Yet and still, I was asking him to 
fan up my fighting: spi he was 


pounding ас me for total bending, total 
collapse. This is mot the service we ex 
pect from foremost troublemakers, I can 
arrange my own drubbings. In vanquish- 
ments of myself T. don’t need. collabora- 
tors 

“Where's the famous militancy?" I 

said. “This woman's manipulating me in 
every part. You're supposed to be against 
bossism.” 
n class struggles, 
who kisses and fondles the boss is a pig- 
gish sellout. In sex struggles the way to 
soften the boses and get all your de 
mands js to рис your arms around them 
and smooch them up a lot 

“AIL right, I sce it." 1 said. 
font of big fists and strong fi 
defeatist. Your advice is 
throw in the sponge, vou can't w 
aule of all." 

Dh, sure, you can win И you want to. 
he suid, making more ic 
his nose. "You can beat down 
this woman all you want t0. Just remem 
В time you win with a woman, the 
What respect сап you have 
e who's a loser? Take that a 
step further. How much respect сап you 
have for yourself if you're tied to а wom 
an who's а loser? 1 call it the worst van 
quishment, to be married to а loser. АП 
the more so because her cooking’s got to 
sulle 

He could tw ings. a 
and make little known knots. My head 
was totally trampled from the runaway 
gallop ol his logic. 

“I bener hang up now,” I said. “Viva 
la huelga. V. J. in Case you've got any 
left." 

“Viva la huelga, Manny, provided you 
don't take it home with you," he said 
"Oh, by the way, the reason 1 was look 
ing for you. theres some news. One ol 
those Texas scibs spilled the ber 
bout Blegss. This guy found Bleges 
lifting a fivedollar bill from his locker 
and got so sore, he told the cops the 
truth) about that «томат. The cops 
inert after you, Manny. Any time you 
want, you can go back to being Manny 
Кий, you're a free agent with the 


he said, “the guy 


nder the 
ht, you're 
fold up. 
in in the 


n loses, 


matter af your interest in a 
of her sauces purc and simple. Listen, 
мау Javier, change back по Man 
that’s up to you. Under any name, you're 
needed back in Indio. We won me 
rike, you know. We're going to the bar- 


uation 


gaining table in two, three weeks, and 
you've to be on the negotiating 
committee. . . 


Up and down Vaverdy's inkling of 
a downtown. Back and forth this 


191. 


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192 me on the glass dooi 


innuendo of a downtown, Consulted with 


feed and grain stores. Quized super- 
markets and delicatessens. Took counsel 
of saddle makers shop. sought expert 


id-dime. 


opinion Пот five held open 
forum with miniature golf couse. This 
insinuation of a downtown and I were in 
рейса: accord. Vernace Joe Prodger, all 
reed, was a sellout, No doubt 
ecater in the streets and public 
buildings was henpecked by his litle 
woman at home and was whitewashing 
his lack of spine at home, his reduction 


to jelly at home. with theories about 
throwing colliborationist kisses to the 
boss at home. This big militant in the 


streets and bowl. of mush at home was 
overloo basic truths about my im- 
pase with this Magda Campos. I trick- 
ing me, forever after she would know me 
as wickpone. И telling wuth, she would 
thereafter know me as vulnerable to oth- 
er ruses, other pressurings. In neither 
case could I hope for anything from this 
woman but tricks and pressurings. Va- 
aplication of a downtown and 
myself were eye wded the 
impossibi this 
gda C: 

Iwo dozen storefronts confirmed this 
analysis and prognosis, at the same time, 
for vividness, presenting to me close-ups 
» full color of Magda Campos d 
in nothing but towel and the towel dis 
lodging. Driving home, of the 
wide range of her wicks. 

Finding a city-wide 

opinion for my findings. plus a city-wide 
population of detowcling Magdas. I 
меш to the phone booth outside a gas 
tion and dialed. 
Hello,” E said. "Many apologies for 
the lateness of the hour, but would it be 
convenient to call Mrs, Campos to the 
phone? This is Mr. € А 

1 waited Гог ii 


verdy's 


to eye as reg; 
a viable Ше with 


ssed 


course, 


unanimity of 


body on the glass door as the towel 
slipped from its outstanding upper por- 


tions. Still more out 
hunt Гог hands. 

1 heard her voice at about the time 
the towel reached her (ое. Му free 
hand was reaching for repletion, to find 
solely cold glass. 
id, "Из me 
aid, "Ah." 
id, "Emergency. Just talked оп the 
phone with V. J. He says the search for 
me is wider and more energetic than ГА 
dragnet.” 


they stood, in the 


Былыр I bener put 
and here, it’s off beaten track, 
you know, also, the papers make a good 
cover. 

She said 


says 


the 


“That certainly sounds logi 


cal There's no sense пишищ all over 
California calling attention to yourself. 
1 said. “Thats the way V. J. put it, 


practically word for word.” It was inter- 
esting. how fast she was moving toward 
that she was 


now 


without covering. Her thighs were very 
full and very active against each other: T 
watched this closely, both hands itching 


and twitching. After a moment 1 said, 
“Can Task you something? Is the relleno 
sauce on your chiles everything you say 
it 


She said. “Гус got a big pot of it on 
the stove right now. Let mc put it this 
way. IE it falls short of my claims й 
way. you cin мау in this house 
greatgrandfather for fifty years.” 


said. “И I'm going to be cons 
on Ше alert, always watching out for 
cops. that a lot out of a man, ГИ 


have to си well по keep my strength and 
nerves up. It just so happens, chiles relle- 
пох а с. 

She said to get you fed 
right. we ought to start as soon ав possi- 
ble. As I say, Гус got a big batch on the 
stove. Can Г ask you one quest 
you had much to drink tonight? 

1 observed this about myself. 
had been dr now I was стамі 
definitely. insofa пу bei 

on my general tidiness in projec 
1 said. "Enough." 
She said, "You better buriy up hon 


that 1 


So I left the name of Manolo Ruiz 
back in Indio, a buried wheel. With this 
wheel was all my tolling equipment. 

One night 1 got back from television- 
repair school 
down as usual for 


about. Mi. Bassing.” 
You're nor happy with the clerk job 
in the shedsz" Magda said, ^I thought 
was generous of him lo give you а nice, 
dean, white-collar job, also, го let you 
use the jeep nights” 
thinking of his sheds ei 
jeeps.” but more of his age. You 
called him young. He looks to me close 
to sixty.” 

“Truc.” she said, "he's been showing 
ge lately, Pin worried about him. 
Also. you described him as ener 


ied. 


He seems t 
Фай more and more. 

1 would a He's very mechanical- 
ly minded. nk he enjoys the motor 
and us in this new 
chain.” 

“Regarding any chasing he might do. 
its my feeling he'd have to do it slow 
motion, with such a bad leg and using a 


Гуе noticed th 


like tli 


declining set in, Magda, at any particu- 
lar point? 

"Oh. sure, a general weakening could 
be noticed from about the time you 
showed up, Javier, from just about the 
time 1 told him my husband had come 

ack. You sei I said, my acqu 


ing a husband was very effective, it 
calmed him down as I predicted." 


“Also. I've noticed he's very devoted 
10 his wife, he's always patting her and 
kissing her hand.” 


This curate, your has 
had a very good effect on their relations. 
too. he's really turned. back to her. Fm 
happy to see this, Mis. Bassing is a fine 
woman." 

About the La Paz matter. ГА been 
working on a different approach то it. I 
had it formulated after some weeks of 
work, This night E decided to pass it 
along, to new plane. 

I said. "You know. Mayda, my mind's 
Ту at rest about what happened and 
didn't happen down in La Paz in 56. Ги 


coming 


happy to tell you the whole thing came 

buck to me. 1 remember in detail." 
Naturally, 1 was watching her reac 

tions closely. She scemed. essentially, 


not to have any, outside of а slow, not 
100 full-bodied smile. 


"You remember?” she said. 
you're an amazing fellow." 
“Why amazing? Is there any 


shouldn't. remember? 

“Well. stop and think, it was so long 
go. and as you've often pointed ош. 
you were so drunk the whole summer. 
Bat, listen, if it seems clear in your head 


now, fine.” 

"Magda. you talk as if you don't 
remember." 

“Tl confess something, Javier. T think 
that beween us youd Ше Ше phin 
truth. The plain truth is, that whole 


nes is getting very, very dim in my 
| ГИ cell vou why, if it interests you 
nuy, it makes life simple 
When you have enough current events, 
they block ош history and ancient 
things." 

fagda, аге vou telling me that now 
you don't really remember the details of 
summer 19562 


“TH tell you this, ИЗ so vague in my 
head today. T couldn't give you a true 
yes or no about any detail anymore. To 


ay way of thinking, Javier, when today’s 
menu is rich, you don't have to write a 
history of all the meals you had in your 
lile." 
“Tm asking, Magd 
1956 or dou't you? 
“TU рис it to you this way, J 
remember as well as you do, that I'm 
sure of. Come, sit, have another serving. 
did you notice I used more cilantro in 
the sauce today?” 

Т had noticed. h was the best relleno 
it made the memory of past 
al 


one, 


Iber 


do you rem 


er. T 


aces. very 
А tricky this Magda. Were she 
пог so satisfactory to share quarters with, 
Fd leave immediately. As it is, there's no 
rush. The table for bargaining back 
there in Indio won't be ready for two 
or three wecks, and the table here is a 


bargain. 


“I do hope I get the 
рай. Mr. Thompson. 

I'd hate losing two 
things in one day." 


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