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...unprofessional-not to say unbalanced-nature of such remarks brought immediate condemnation from the A.M.A. and the American Psychiatric Association. It also brought a $2,000,000 libel suit from Goldwater against Fact, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and his managing editor. Last week the suit finally came to trial...
...Goldwater was uncowed, and last week he started to make his case in a federal district court in New York City. What had particularly galled him was an article by Publisher Ginzburg.* In it, Ginzburg wondered whether it was "possible that Goldwater's nervous breakdowns were provoked by his intense anxiety about his manhood." Goldwater testified that he had "never had any doubts about it." Calm and comfortable in the witness chair, he declared flatly that he had not had a nervous breakdown either. In fact, he said, "I have never talked to a psychiatrist in my life...
...came the even answer, "I wouldn't say that was so." Q: Didn't you know whether you were being called a nut? A: I think any man in public life would have to answer yes to that question. The defense is attempting to show, as Ginzburg's lawyer said in his opening statement, that the issue's various articles were certainly "racy, tough, and not for the old lady in Dubuque," but that they were "good journalism" or at least fair comment or, at the very least, not libel...
Despite 420,000 subscribers snagged by intensive promotion, Avant-Garde's future may be a bit precarious. Nothing Ginzburg puts his hand to seems to last very long. When Eros folded in 1963, it was followed a year later by Fact, which bogged down in exposes of everything from the danger of contact lenses to the uselessness of circumcision -not to mention a psychoanalysis of Barry Goldwater, sight unseen, by a group of overeager psychiatrists. Barry sued for $2,000,000, and the case is set for trial next month. Finding Fact too "grim" for his taste, Ginzburg folded...
Avant-Garde, he is convinced, is much more in tune with his sunny nature. Yet the onrushing sexual revolution may have passed him by. For frantic sex Avant-Garde is miles behind Evergreen (TIME, March 29) and not far ahead of Cosmopolitan. But Ginzburg protests that Evergreen's sex is "somewhat excremental," while Avant-Garde is pitched at the "genital level. Sexy, yes. Dirty, no." To prove his point, he says that forthcoming issues will carry an eight-page super-fold-out of a life-sized woman, as well as details on a private collection of pubic hairs garnered...