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TABLE OF CONTENTS
51 Big Ben....................................................James Fallows
All about French-speaking, finger-giving Ben Bradlee
55 The Great Celebrity Ball Breaker................Eric Lax
How TV greats go down the tube
60 Jimmy Connors’ Mom.................................Dotson Rader
The classic stage mother, revealed
63 Now You Can Take a Beautiful Picture of
Yourself in the Privacy of Your Own Home........Harry Stein
Self-help for the mature adult
68 Jimmy Carter Has Good Teeth and Is Always on Time...Helen Dudar
But, on the other hand . . .
72 Three Grown-up Fantasies
Open a restaurant! Open a bookstore! Open a movie house!
78 The Trouble with Being Food.....................Frederick Busch
A short story about a fat man, hardly jolly
80 West of Eden
The annual rattlesnake roundup at Sweetwater, Texas
ESQUIRE’S MOTOR SPECIAL
86 Look Down, Look Down This Lonesome Road
Introduction to the forgotten pleasure of motoring
87 Rust’s Handy Hints
First in a series of invaluable auto tips
88 The Romance That Was
Hollywood love machines, remembered
90 Critical Moments.................................Compiled by Jerry Flint
How cars became today’s cars
92 The Critical Future...............................Patrick Bedard
Why the piston engine is our last best hope
94 Drive, We Say!
Where to experience the thrill of the road
96 Options: Buyer Knows Best.........................Compiled by Wade A. Hoyt
From tires to trim
99 Pleasure Principle on Wheels......................Designed by Mike Salisbury
The cycle as gut-churning joy
102 New Pleasures
Mean machines of ’76
104 Staying Put in Ireland............................Richard Joseph
Advice on a great self-contained vacation
106 Love Letters from the Underground.................Anita and Abbie Hoffman
John and Abigail Adams wouldn’t understand
109 The Ordeal of Seymour Mednick
A shaggy-dog story of sorts
111 The American Cancer Society Means Well,
but the Janker Clinic Means Better...............Patrick M. McGrady Jr.
How the Germans get tough with cancer
114 Summer Clothes-up
Detailed info on your summer wardrobe. Where to buy it: page 36.
8 Arnold Gingrich — Why do some women keep picking on us?
12 Richard Joseph: Travel Notes — The Ireland trip continued
16 Timothy Crouse: Washington — Why political polls are a joke
20 Sound and Fury
22 Nora Ephron: Media — A short, happy visit with Russell Baker
24 Jean Stafford: Books — The art of the con man
34 Roger Kahn: Sports — The quickest hands in all of sports
40 Backstage with Esquire
46 Joan Didion: The Coast — A day in the life of a Malibu lifeguard
150 Auberon Waugh: Letter from Europe — Making babies the French way