Re: rather long and a few typos
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Telegraph Avenues
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From: J [[email protected]]
Sent: 5/15/2019 10:21:20 AM
To: paul krassner [
Subject: Re: rather long and a few typos
On September 14, 1964, Dean Katherine Towle announced that existing University regulations prohibiting
advocacy of political causes or candidates, outside political speakers, recruitment of members, and fundraising
by student organizations at the intersection of Bancroft and Telegraph Avenues would be "strictly enforced."
shouldnt you write an artile 55 years later. on campus speech today. .
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:17 PM paul krassner wrote:
REMEMBERING CAVALIER MAGAZINE
LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE
My friend Michael Simmons, who has been the editor of National Lampoon and High
Times, observes that Cavalier hired fine scribes. A few examples: Thomas Pynchon, Philip
Roth, William Saroyman, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon. Cavalier was launched by Fawcett
Publications in 1952.
Men’s magazine Cavalier (motto: “For the American Male”) was published the year
before Playboy to whom it has often been compared, and back in the day tried to be seen as
slightly hipper, more youthful and considered a bit more clever than its big name rival. Almost
an anti-establishment Playboy. A slogan stated: “Your dad bought Playboy, you
bought Cavalier.”
I BECAME A COLUMNIST
I was invited to write a column, named “The Naked Emperor,” for Cavalier, that was beginning
to publish underground writers and artists. They paid me $1,000 a month. My first column was
areport on an auction of two-inch squares from the hotel bedsheets slept on by the Beatles during
their first trip to America.
There were 300 screaming young girls, off on a fetishist’s holiday. Obviously, there wouldn’t be
enough items to go around, but it was announced that the Beatles’ unwashed towels and bed
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