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...Eros proved plenty expensive for Ginzburg: he lost not only Eros, when the Post Office declared it unfit, but his career, when he was sentenced to five years in a federal prison. (He served eight months.) After Eros he put out other magazines, such as Fact, Avant Garde and Moneysworth, but never regained his footing or his brio. In his last years he was a news photographer, mainly for the New York Post...
There aren't enough ashes in the trays yet to tell whether Reflections' home-made concept of a coffeehouse is working out, but if James persists with this attitude of giving everybody more than their moneysworth, then there is a good chance it will...
...SEND ME TO PRISON cried the full-page ad in the New York Times, but that last desperate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be in vain. Ralph Ginzburg, huckster-publisher of diverse periodicals (including the defunct Eros, Avant-Garde, Fact and the current Moneysworth) is due to enter federal prison this week...
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Forthcoming issues promise to be no better. "Moneysworth's investigators," the magazine claims, evaluated three new U.S. minicars. Fact is, the tests involved only one "investigator," Sam Julty, a freelance New York writerbroadcaster. He had the use of a Pinto, which gets top rating, for just two hours. And, though Julty is a former automobile mechanic and service manager, he merely looked under the hoods at the engines. "I would call my report," he says, "a poor man's version of what Consumer Reports does. I did not have the facilities to do a comprehensive job. I wish...