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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jim Pfeffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 5, 1976 | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Jim Mitchell, then 24, first tried his hand at making black-and-white porn films, using a borrowed 8-mm. camera and young men and women willing to copulate on screen for a few dollars a day. In due course he and his younger brother Artie made it big with Behind the Green Door (cost: $45,000; their gross: about $1 million), starring the ex-Ivory Soapbox Girl Marilyn Chambers. Now incorporated as the Mitchell Brothers Film Group, they are potentates of porn, operators of ten theaters in California and producers of the most expensive porn film ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Insurance Salesman Al Goldstein, then 33, started Screw magazine with a friend, Jim Buckley (whom he has since bought out for $500,000). Just as Hugh Hefner merchandised himself as the dapper self-assured playboy, Goldstein sold himself as the anti-hero of raw sex?a fat, articulate, self-deprecating perennial juvenile ("I am the furthest thing from a mature person") who overstuffed his plain newsprint magazine with tales of his sexual obsessions, failures with women and humiliating need to buy sex from prostitutes because of his overwhelming unattractiveness. Screw (circulation: 125,000) features raunchy humor, gross sex, porn-movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...fact that his book had only been thumbed, but was surprised to see that the host's cue cards read: "That's interesting. Tell me about it." There are gaffs on even the largest, most thoroughly prepared programs. Interviewing Guy Lombardo about his book Auld Acquaintance, Jim Hartz of the Today show wanted to know how Brother Carmen was doing. "He passed away three years ago," answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flogging It | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...term as Chancellor was less distinguished. Casting himself as a sort of monetary St. George, he led the costly and ultimately unsuccessful struggle to stave off devaluation of the British pound during the first Wilson government in 1967. At the time, one of his Cabinet colleagues complained: "Jim was a pushover for the treasury mandarins. He simply did not have the intellectual equipment to overrule their traditionalist advice." But Callaghan has a shrewd sense of grass-roots opinion, and in the words of one junior minister, he "knows what the ordinary bloke will wear and not wear." He enjoys more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Top Four in the Labor Race | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

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