ARTICLES AND FEATURES 32 HY-FUEL: THE 59cent GALLON Investigative report by Lowell Ponte Imagine a fuel that costs half the price of gasoline, emits a vapor that's cleaner
than the air you breathe, and doesn't waste our natural resources. Sounds great,
right? So why is Dr. Gerald Schaflander, this fuel's developer, not being hailed
as a national hero?
36 CONVENTION-AL LOVE
Fiction by Wayne C. Ulsh
Sure, Paul's a nice guy. But of all the men at the convention, why did she pick
an average man like him?
38 LOST TREASURES
Humor by David Kerns
Each year, at your expense, the Government Printing Office publishes such important
booklets as A Study of Macrame in the Midwest. Here are a
few titles we feel you shouldn't live without.
48 INTERVIEW: DAVE PARKER
The best—and highest-paid—player in baseball talks about his quick
rise to superstardom and the 1979 World Series Champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
68 HOW TO DEAL WITH AN UNRELIABLE WOMAN
By Janie Filstrup
She's never where you want her when you want her, but you don't want to end the
relationship. Here's advice on how to stay together.
72 35 GOES INTO 80—BEAUTIFULLY
By Ben McGowan
See how simple taking great pictures is with today's 35mm SLR cameras.
74 PLAYING FOR KEEPS: PROFESSIONAL GAMBLING
By Lawrence Eisenberg
It's a rare person who can make a living betting on whether he will pull one card for an inside straight. You need the nerves, charisma—and luck—of those professional gamblers.
87 PRIVATE LIVES: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
After 15 years, Frank went to New York to complete a delightful chore. PICTORIALS
40 FOCUS ON ED ALEXANDER
Seventh in series . Photographers and their best nude works.
52 THE "GIRL NEXT DOOR"
Amateur Erotic Photo Contest
57 SPECIAL GIANT PULL-OUT CENTERFOLD OF THIS MONTH'S "GIRL NEXT DOOR"
WINNER
66 THE " GIRL NEXT DOOR" REVISITED
"Girl Next Door" winners tell how Gallery's contest changed their lives.
77 MAID IN BIRMINGHAM
Photographs by Geoff Howes NEW CONTEST SECTION
107 "HOW MANY DOES IT TAKE?"
A humorous new contest.
108 "THE OTHER WOMAN" CONTEST
Can you tell a man's girlfriend or wife from his sister or secretary? DEPARTMENTS
8 FEEDBACK
Letters from our readers.
19 PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS
By Jill Toffer
23 GALLERY'S YOU SECTION
Your Career Success by Mel Shestack
Your Personal Lifestyle by J. Nebraska Gifford
Your Body and Hers by Peter Frishauf and Katharine Rice
Your Leisure Hours:
Sports by Sheldon Bart
Screen by Tom Seligson
Music by Meridee Merzer
Books by Donald Newlove
94 ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT
By Jane Bayer
Environmental trouble-spot update.
114 FACE TO FACE: HIS HOLINESS PITIRIM
Willem Oltmans in a discussion with the Patriarch of Moscow.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Self-examination is no easier for the staff of a magazine than for an individual.
When you decide to look in a mirror, you'd better be willing to accept what you
find. But it's a healthy exercise that can result in a greater awareness of whether you are what you want to be.
This memo is prompted by our meetings recently to discuss how we can offer our
readers even more of what they want from Gallery.
When this management took over, three years ago, we decided not to imitate Playboy or Penthouse. Instead, we took a close look at today's generation of young men.
We found basic differences between them and their fathers—and grandfathers.
Things have changed since Playboy began 25 years ago and even since Penthouse
began publishing in 1969.
One critical difference between the generations is the Gallery man's increasingly sophisticated understanding about the world outside him—and the one inside him. Vietnam, Watergate, the dishonesty surrounding the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and other recent history have made our reader more skeptical of what he hears from politicians and big-business interests. Judging from our meetings, we agree that our monthly investigative reports are right on target for this reader need.
The second difference in our reader's generation concerns his internal world—the one of emotion, ambition, identity, and sexuality. And here I am concerned that Gallery has to try even harder to keep serving our reader and to continue to make available to him the best and newest thinking and research in the complex area we call the "self."
I know our readers will like the changes we discussed for our monthly relationship articles. As we said, these articles will be more specific, more to the point—they will concern more directly the personal problems and situations in which our reader finds himself in his day-to-day life. In other words, the nitty-gritty, whether in romantic or sexual situations, or relationships in other areas of his life—job, friends .
I look forward to this new direction—but I want to caution you about one
critical point: What most distinguishes Gallery from Playboy and Penthouse—and what has earned for us the largest concentration of young men in the whole magazine field—is our attitude toward relationships. Unlike our competitors' devotion to "macho," we see men and life as more subtle, more complicated, and less conducive to the "quick fix" We know that our reader doesn't necessarily view women's equality as a threat; he sees it as an opportunity to make his own life better. We should never lose sight of this.
As for our original ideas that continue to develop—from the fun of the "Girl Next Door" contest to the helpful, informative "You" section—I'm confident that we've reached the Gallery man the way he wants to be reached. That's why Gallery has become one of the most successful magazines in the country.
Let's keep it that way.
