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...that is, until now. This week Esquire will publish a 9,000-word chunk from Talese's as yet untitled and still unfinished book. The excerpt is about a girlie photo, the man who has carried on a masturbatory affair with that picture since 1957, and the California model who posed for it. Talese found the man, Harold Rubin, now 35 and a Chicago porn merchant, by wandering into his sex shop; he eventually learned of his obsession and finally located the model, Diane Webber, now a Malibu, Calif., housewife and belly-dance instructor. (The two have never...
Talese plans to publish further installments in Esquire and perhaps other magazines coming months. "I make my own deadlines," he says. Indeed he does. Until his editors at Doubleday read this month's Esquire piece, they will not have seen a word from Talese. Doubleday has put up $ 1.2 million, half of which he has already collected, for the sex opus plus a future book...
...beef it up and the publication has changed to an Atlantic Monthly format. These changes, he gloats, have brought results. Circulation has risen this year from 15,000 to around 50,000, and if subscriptions rise to over 75,000, as Peterson expects, it will be possible to publish on an independent basis...
...transcripts last year, Greenspun became the only journalist to testify before the Senate Watergate committee. The object of the breakin, he theorizes, was probably a sheaf of handwritten memos from Howard Hughes to a subordinate. Yet Greenspun mysteriously will not say how he got the memos, and refuses to publish them...
This is the last regular issue of The Crimson for this year. We'll stop publishing for the rest of the week, publish three reunion issues next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and finish the year with a 40-page Commencement issue next Thursday. Have a good summer...