ARTICLES AND FEATURES
31 INTERVIEW: John Ritter
The star of "Three's Company" talks about Suzanne Somers and his portrayal of a homosexual.
40 THE HUSHING OF AMERICA
By Joseph Treaster
Whistle blowers put their jobs, reputations, and lives in jeopardy to tell us
the truths that government and industry want to hide.
44 DEAD CALL
Fiction by William E. Nolan
Your next phone call might be your last.
50 COMING ON! THE RIGHT AND WRONG WAYS TO MEET WOMEN
By Joyce Brown
Women like meeting a new man. Here's how to be the man they want to meet.
66 HOW TO LOSE YOUR SPARE TIRE IN YOUR SPARE TIME
By Emily Greenspan
Flabby and out of shape? Here are ideas to get you into shape.
68 STOP COVERING UP THE REAL YOU
By Carole Altman
Nice guys finish last. Just be yourself and a woman will like you more.
70 THE $15,000 MOUSETRAP AND OTHER OFFBEAT INVENTIONS THE SALESMEN HAVEN'T SHOWN
YOU—YET!
By Sheldon Bart
Two million inventors tinker in the workshops of America. Here are some of their
more extraordinary inventions.
79 PRIVATE LIVES: THE COMEBACK
A long-weekend relationship rekindles a lady's sexual flame.
109 THE TETRA SKETCHBOOK
Created by Malcolm McNeill PICTORIALS
46 AN EARFUL BECOMES AN EYEFUL
Photographs by Alan Blumenthal
53 THE "GIRL NEXT DOOR"
Amateur Erotic Photo Contest
59 SPECIAL GIANT PULL-OUT CENTERFOLD OF THIS MONTH'S "GIRL NEXT DOOR"
72 WINNIPEG'S PEG (aka: Barbara Howe)
Photographs by Marv Gittel
87 THE FORTUNATE CANARY
Photographs by Peter Flodqvist DEPARTMENTS
8 FEEDBACK
Letters from our readers
19 PEOPLE, PLACES, & THINGS
By Susan Toepfer
23 GALLERY AT LEISURE
Power by Robert Angus
Music by Meridee Merzer
Screen by Tom Seligson
Books by Donald Newlove
36 SPEAKING OUT: THE WASHINGTON SYNDROME
By Lorna Salzman
The government is keeping you ignorant of the dangers of radioactivity.
38 ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT
By Jane Bayer
An update of environmental trouble spots.
84 INSIDE-OUT
Medical advice by Peter Frishauf and Katharine Rice
Tightening her vaginal muscles; crabs; and sexual angina.
114 FACE TO FACE: AURELIO PECCEI
Willem Oltmans talks with the founder of the Club of Rome, an international organization
concerned with solving the world's problems.
PUBLISHER'S PAGE
I have written a number of times in this space about Gallery's investigative articles.
Certainly they play an important part in our success.
But in concentrating so much attention in that area, I have overlooked another
key ingredient in our overall editorial mix: the fine fiction that has at varying times excited, frightened, and amused our readers.
I'm reminded of this by the recent announcement that Tim O'Brien s novel, Going
After Cacciato, was named winner of a distinguished National Book Award for 1979.
Regular Gallery readers will remember that we excerpted a portion of it prior
to the book's publication.
Another work that Gallery previewed, Inside Moves by Todd Walton, has now earned
wide critical acclaim and is being made into a major motion picture by Paramount.
Just last month we offered an original 11,000-word novelette, The Crate, by Stephen King, author of Carrie, The Shining, and The Stand.
Also in last month's issue was a selection from The Bronx Diet, a hilarious new
book by regular Gallery contributor Richard Smith. His earlier volume, The Dieter's Guide to Weight Loss During Sex, has been on The New York Times best-seller list for about a year!
In addition to these, we have published fiction by such celebrated authors as
Ray Bradbury, Robert "Psycho" Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Evan "Blackboard Jungle" Hunter, John "World According to Carp" Irving, and William E "Logan's Run" Nolan.
On page 44 of this issue, you'll find a new short story by Nolan that I believe
you'll particularly enjoy. If so, drop me a line about it ,.. and tell me what
you think of our fiction in general. Your comments are always very much appreciated.
