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TABLE OF CONTENTS
9 Backstage with Esquire
Introducing the new magazine for men
10 The Sound and the Fury
Letters from readers
15 The Law
by Steven Brill Boom time for lawyers’ salaries
21 Money
by Andrew Tobias Final accounting of a windfall
25 The Body
by Leslie Aldridge Westoff Reversing the vasectomy. What odds?
28 Personal Finance
by William Flanagan New executive fringe benefits
32 Taxes
by Everett Martin Your hidden gifts to charity
37 The Language
by John Simon English teachers who can’t write
41 The Last Angry Men
by Richard Reeves There are still a few men who act according to principles. Men like Curt Flood, Ernest Fitzgerald, Frank Johnson, John Hanrahan. What they have in common is a simplicity of purpose and a lot of grief for their pains.
49 The Way We Live Now
by Edward Sorel
A regular cartoon feature
50 Getting Away from It All with Billy Kidd
Photographs by Doc Rintoul
The ski-resort director cuts loose in a hot-air balloon to search for some great cross-country skiing. Learn what to do and the right things to wear in this latest of outdoor adventures.
58 Want To Start a War?
by Anthony Sampson Meet Sam Cummings, king of the small-arms trade. He can equip any side of any conflict. Business is good: 150 wars since World War II.
70 The Ball Really Carries in the Cactus League Because the Air Is Dry
by Gordon Warhurst Short fiction featuring love, marriage and baseball—all the basics.
76 King of the Kitchen
by Suzanne Slesin It’s the stove. Whether gas or electric or for plain or fancy cookery, these ten stoves exactly fit the needs of the men who own them.
82 How Frost Made Nixon Sweat
by David Frost In an excerpt from his book I Gave Them a Sword, Frost recounts what went on behind the scenes at his famous TV interviews with the former President. There was a battle of wits the cameras never saw.
96 Reggie Looks Back in Anger
by Philip Taubman Jackson has lost the joy of playing after the bitter ’77 season with the Yankees.
101 Outdoors
by Geoffrey Norman A few kind words about trappers
105 Getting Away
by Stephen Birnbaum Best U.S. hotels and restaurants
112 Behavior
by Harry Stein The problem of overnight at her place
116 Hollywood
by Peter Bogdanovich Who really murdered Sal Mineo?
120 Books
by Alfred Kazin A paean for Michael Herr’s Dispatches
124 The Right Stuff
by Suzanne Slesin and Anita Leclerc Esquire’s guide to gear and gadgets
126 Esquire Classified
127 Scenes from Real Life
by Stan Mack
A regular cartoon feature
130 Media
by Richard Reeves The role of the Washington party