TITLE: ESQUIRE
["The Magazine for Men" -- Including all the great writers, illustrators, pictorials, vintage advertisements, fashion and more! -- See FULL contents below!]
ISSUE DATE: October, 1968; Volume LXX No. 4
Whole No. 419
CONDITION: LARGE magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13oe". COMPLETE and in FAIR/GOOD condition -- There's wear to the cover which is taped. Pages are good. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: 35th Anniversary Issue; Salvaging the 20th Century. John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. [HUGE issue, 302 PAGES! SEE PHOTOS FROM INSIDE THIS ISSUE, BELOW!]

FOUR AMERICANS: (photos of and articles by each)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE BEEN BORN AND RAISED AN AMERICAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY?
MY GENERATION ... Staunch by inheritance, sophisticated by fact, rather deeply wise ... F. Scott Fitzgerald.
MY GENERATION ... They reversed the rules, grow more radical with the years ... William Styron.
MY GENERATION ... They stand at the exact center of American culture, ready for anything ... Frank Conroy.
MY GENERATION ... They arrived precociously at consciousness, with nothing to live up to ... Jacob Brackman.

ELEVEN OTHERS:
SO HERE WE ARE IN 1968: THE QUESTION NOW IS: IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
THE ANSWERERS: ... David Rockefeller, Billy Graham, Linus Pauling, Lewis B. Hershey, Stokely Carmichael, Mickey Rooney, Barry Goldwater; and Mae West.
THREE MISSPENT LIVES ... William Manchester's version; Huntington Hartford's, Moshe Dayan's.

SALVAGING THE REST OF THE CENTURY:
POPEYE, (Bud Sagendorf) POGO (Walt Kelly), MOON MULLINS, LI'L ABNER (Al Capp), STEVE CANYON (Milton Caniff): Each an inimitable salvager. (Each a one page and original color cartoon strip about the 20th Century! -- SEE PHOTOS BELOW!)
FIRST THINGS FIRST ... Fourteen steps, ten of them stops ... Fred Warshofsky.

SALVAGING THE COUNTRY:

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO BE FIXED . . . This way ... Dwight Macdonald.
... SO DOES THE BILL OF RIGHTS ... Proposed: a Bill of Civilized Rights.
IS IT REASONABLE TO EXPECT THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE LITERATE?
A MANIFESTO ... What this country needs is Authority -- public or private ... Gore Vidal.
THE NEW BARBARIANS ... A new notion of how your world should be grasped ... Daniel J. Boorstin.
THE POLITICS OF ASSASSINATION ... Will it end up changing American democracy? ... William F. Buckley Jr.

SOME THINGS WILL HAVE TO GO:

MONEY MUST GO ... it costs too much to spread around; E.F.T.S. will take its place ... David Bazelon.
DIRTY BOOKS CAN STAY ... A definition of pornography and an exculpation ... Kenneth Tynan.
A REPORT ON THE DESIRAIFTLITY OF EOSINOPHILIC DEFECTS IN MAN ... Little people stay ... John Leonard.
BURTON AND TAYLOR MUST GO ... Now that celebrities are no longer revered as celebrities ... Wilfrid Sheed.
PSYCHOANALYSIS MUST GO ... The revolution i~ just around the corner ... James V. McConnell. Interesting full page painting by Jean Lagarrigue.
DAVID MERRICK MUST GO ... And in going he prepares his own program notes ... David Merrick. Full page photo by Duane Michaels.

SOME THINGS WILL BE SAVED:

TWENTY-SEVEN PEOPLE WORTH SAVING ... if you don't recognize all of them, it's because the good are bad press.
THE MOVIES WILL SAVE THEMSELVES ... They're chance-taking ... Robert Benton & David Newman.
SOME THINGS WILL HAVE TO IMPROVE: WHAT WILL THE DOCTORS DO FOR JEAN PAUL GETTY THAT THEY WON'T DO FOR YOU ... Fred Powledge.

FEATURES:

DR-UNTHINKING THE UNTHINKABLE ... Who first suggested bombing North Vietnam? Why? ... Don A. Schanche.
PRELUDE TO A THEME ... A beating of the drums ... James A. Farley.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
TODAY, I WAS SCHEDULED TO DIE ... The beginning of seven pages of What Shall We Do About Capital Punishment?
DEATH ROW. U.S.A. ... - Eight of the condemned talk about it ... Truman Capote.
THE PROPONENTS ... Dr. Leo L. Stanley, Dr. Ernest Van Den Haag, Alvin Dewey.
THE OPPONENTS ... Edward Bennett Williams and Mrs. Horace York.
A LAST WORD ... From Truman Capote who proposes a solution.

FICTION:

THE LAST OF THE CADDOS ... it's every boy's inalienable right to belong to the past ... William Humphrey.
OUR SAMMIE ... You have to be a fine, upstanding man to win an election ... Jesse Stuart.

ADVERSARIA: FROM ALL OF US TO ONE OF YOU ... An enormous box has been prepared, 8x8x8, inches of course, for your answers.
WEARABLES: THE PEACOCK REVOLUTION ... Where, he asks, is the elegance of yesteryear George Frazier; A HARVEST OF AUTUMN HUES ... And what is called a broad spectrum of stylistic influences ; ESQUIRE PREDICTS: AMERICA'S ESTEEM FOR THE ARTISTRY OF THE ENGLISH . . . The Cossack shirt.
DEPARTMENTS: Publisher's Page: SEMINAR AT THE PLAZA ;EDITORS NOTES; TRAVEL NOTES ... Richard Joseph; RECORDINGS ... Martin Mayer; BOOKS ... Malcolm Muggeridge; POLITICS ... Dwight Macdonald; THE SOUND AND THE FURY;TALKING SHOP; SECULAR MUSIC Robert Christgau; FILMS ... Wilfrid Sheed; BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE.

FULL PAGE vintage ads include:
CHANEL Gentleman;s cologne; Aramis; VOLKSWAGON; JAGUAR (2 pages); CANOE; FALSTAFF; The CIGAR Institute; FORD Continental Mark III; SAMMY DAVIS JR for Groshire/Austin LEEDS; Beautiful 2 page colorful ad for TRIUMPH TR-250; 2 page ad for ROVER 2000 Sports Sedan; MORE

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