Gallery August 1979

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.