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...DAVID B. ACKERMAN...
Once the bane of streetwalkers and their patrons, Phthirus pubis, or the crab louse, is exhibiting upward mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
Unlike their body-lice cousins, they are not known as carriers of any disease. But they cause such a maddening itch that anyone harboring them is invariably driven to a pharmacist or a doctor, no matter how embarrassing the visit may be. A simple cure, says Dermatologist Ackerman, is to apply a 1% solution of gamma-benzene hexachloride, either as a cream, lotion or shampoo, to the troubled area. Nevertheless, since the presence of Phthirus pubis is usually the result of sexual contact, he urges all physicians who come upon such scratching patients to examine them for gonorrhea and syphilis...
Subscribers to the Saturday Evening Post are in for a surprise. The magazine lost $3.5 million last year, and there has been genuine concern that it might soon be forced to close down. Last week the Curtis Publishing Co.'s new president, Martin S. Ackerman, 36, acted to cut operating expenses sharply-and keep the Post alive. He will, he announced, shrink circulation from its present 6,800,000 to 3,000,000 or less, mostly by the simple act of canceling subscriptions. Readers dropped from the mailing list will be offered their choice of switching to other Curtis...
...pruning will be selective. Post subscribers who already receive LIFE will not be affected. Generally, the Post and LIFE will share high-quality circulation-subscribers who live in urban areas. Editorial content of the Post, now a mixture of meat and corn, will gradually become more uniformly sophisticated, Ackerman expects. "The problem we've had at the Post," he says, "is not knowing whether we're serving a mass or a class audience. The Post cannot make it in its present condition...