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From now on, customers at 7-Eleven stores across the U.S. will have to buy Tabasco sauce if they want their eyes to pop. Last week Southland Corp., owner of the convenience chain, announced that it would no longer carry Playboy, Penthouse and Forum magazines, the three adult publications that now appear in its 4,500 7-Eleven stores. Southland additionally urged its 3,600 franchisees to follow suit. Southland President Jere Thompson said the action was in response to recent hearings conducted by the federal Commission on Pornography. Said Thompson: "The testimony indicates a growing public awareness...
Thanks, too, for telling us about Playboy's response to The Crimson's high-minded snubbing: "[The Crimson] are our best PR people. In 1979 they put us on the map. They got us into Time magazine. That's why we started with Harvard first. They'll pave the way for us." (--David Chan, Playboy photographer, quoted in The Crimson on March 5). Yeah, you showed 'em, all right...
...thanks as well for giving us the opportunity to watch Crimson officials on TV, explaining how their newspaper wouldn't be an accomplice to Playboy's objectification of women...
...great the way you guys have used, oh, 263-and-a-half inches to tell us about every detail of this affair--how much women would be paid, when Mr. Chan arrived, how many women showed up, and when he left, what it's like to pose for a Playboy photographer. But advertise it? Never...
Thanks, Crimson, for refusing to give in--for refusing to sell Playboy a single inch of advertising space. Instead, you gave them 263-and-one-half...