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...kind of magazine in which a mother says, "Have a good time at the party and be a good girl," and her daughter replies: "Make up your mind." In Washington last week the Post Office Department began a hearing to determine: 1) whether Esquire's jokes and its "Varga Girl" drawings are obscene (TIME, Oct.11; 2) whether second-class mail privileges should be denied to the widely read (circ. 695,285), 50? smoking-room slick...
Tuesday-Wednesday. Boston (and Harvard) Psychiatrist Kenneth Tillotson gazed soberly at samples of Artist Alberto Varga's skimpily clad babes, then testified "as a doctor who has examined hundreds of women." Said he: Varga girls are "inspiring" and not abnormally hippy, though sometimes their feet are too big. He was shown an Esquire joke about a corporal who found two luscious blondes in his Pullman berth and said, "One of you girls will have to leave." Dr. Tillotson's reaction: "That I call funny...
Testified Yale Psychiatrist Clements Fry: "I have seen Varga girls pasted up in boys' rooms at Yale, and don't think the boys pay a great deal of attention to them...
Ever since it was cited by the U.S. Post Office last month for naughtiness (mostly because of its lithe, leggy, lightly clad "Varga Girl" drawings), the magazine Esquire has been crusading zealously in its own behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...
...washing machines, Albina bought up 800 old clocks, sent as far as St. Louis for a broken-down washing machine, fixed them up and sold them at cost. Other dodges: 800 lilies were sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three weeks downtown. Result: absenteeism at Albina has dropped from...