4 Class and Courage DON GARLITS—KING OF THE DRAGSTERS
Photos & text by Bob Grant
8 A Reel Casanova MARCELLO MASTROIANNI LATIN LOVER BOY
Milt Gentry
11 Name the Dame WHO IS SYLVIA?
14 Rib-tickling Bone-crushers THE FUNNY SIDE OF WRESTLING
17 Uncovered Cover Girl MARILYN BLAKE
20 Notorious Nymphet MITSOUKO—FROM HEADLINES TO FOOTLIGHTS
E. V. Stevens
23 To Hell in a Hydroplane SALT WATER SWEEPSTAKES
John E. Boykin & Bud Hoffman
26 MM Goes to the Movies THUNDERBALL
Arch Ayres
29 Five Pages of Nudis PENNY STRATTON—DESIGNING LADY
34 Miscellaneous Misses CAMERA CAPERS
36 How to Get Rich on Relief THE BULLPEN—WHERE THE PENNANT IS WON!
Hub Daniel
39 Very Sociable Medicine WHAT'S UP, DOC?
J. J. Howard
42 Doll of the Month MIKKI GRIFFIN
45 Modern Men at Work CAGEY CYCLERS
Mary Kemp
48 A Hot "Spell" STRIPPING BY HYPNOSIS David D. Devon
EDITORIAL
LATEST FRENCH contribution to literature is —of all things—an adult
comic book. Presenting sexy science-fiction stories for the amusement of big
boys, it features a heroine named BarbaUmma-porn-star">Rella who looks like Brigitte Bardot
and wears a skin-tight space suit. Defending law and order like a distaff 007,
BarbaUmma-porn-star">Rella has a special way of rewarding all the handsome champions she meets
in outer space, and always manages to lose some or all of her space suit in
her battles with the bad guys. So it is no wonder the BarbaUmma-porn-star">Rella comic book
has been almost a sellout—even at a stiff $7.20 a copy.
SHARPEST REBUTTAL to the myths of "free-living French" came from novelist
Mary McCarthy, who is well known for her novel The Group, a vitriolic chronicle
about wayward Vassar girls. Now Mary is outraged bout the Parisians. "To
me," she said on a British TV broad- cast, "it is an odd accident
that Paris has come to represent the idea of pleasure to so many people, when
the native population is austere, rebuffing, and intensely puritanical."
Commenting on the celebrated "pros" of Paris, she continued: "There
do not seem to be enough mistresses to go around, for the basic female population
of Paris, after it has passed the student age, seems to be anti-sexual. The
virago is more prevalent than the siren." Oh yeah?
MOST REVEALING comments were made by several Italian actresses in an article
in Settimana Incom magazine on the question of appearing in the nude before
movie cameras. Countering objections from fellow citizens, Sophia Loren maintained
that the Italians are "always shouting about the little things while big
things stare them in the face." Whatever that means. Defending her several
celluloid strip-tease routines, Gina Lollobrigida passed it off by saying "the
female body is immortal." Virna Lisi, who recently appeared nearly nude
in the American film, How To Murder Your Wife (see MM next month) claimed no
one objected to her buff debut. "I suspect that American men are very relaxed
about sex," she said. "In fact, I think many of them wouldn't even
look at you if you walked down the street in your panties." To see that,
even the most relaxed men would make an exception.
