Playboy September 1976

COVER STORY This month, rather than trying to identify the Rabbit Head among the women, you have to identify the women in the Rabbit Head. It's artist John Craig's collage constructed from some of the past five years' most memorable pictorials. Can you identify the ladies in the collage? There are no prizes, just self-satisfaction. 3 PLAYBILL 11 DEAR PLAYBOY 19 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 22 TRAVEL How to take an ocean cruise without floating a loan. 24 BOOKS A self-important sports book, Paul Theroux's latest novel and a hot new woman author—plus an illustrated history of stag films. 26 MOVIES Harry and Walter, David Bowie's film debut, Neil Simon's mishmash. 32 DINING & DRINKING For those who think small: a visit to The Midgets' Club. 34 MUSIC Bob Marley and the Wailers, Savoy reissues, rip-off Runaways, a memorial to the Duke and a revisionist view of discos. 39 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 43 "SCREW" SCREWED IN WICHITA—editorial 45 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 57 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: DAVID BOWIE—candid conversation The rock sensation, now a movie star, talks about his new film (The Man Who Fell to Earth), his changing image, drugs, the craziness of the music biz and the joys of sexual switch-hitting. 74 THE PUPPET AND THE PUPPETMASTERS—article LARRY DUBOIS and LAURENCE GONZALES In this explosive expose, our authors show how Howard Hughes's multibillion-dollar empire was gradually turned into the biggest covert intelligence front in history, how Hughes purchased a United States President and how the monster Hughes created got so enormous it swallowed him whole, resulting in Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon. 78 YOUR TURNED-ON PRESS-ON! A variation of this month's cover art to iron on your favorite T-Shirt. 83 NEWTON'S PHYSIQUES—pictorial HELMUT NEWTON Sir Isaac would be astonished at what photographer Helmut does with women. But then, Sir Isaac never had a camera. 90 SLAPSTICK OR LONESOME NO MORE!—fiction .. KURT VONNEGUT, JR. A mammoth chunk of the wild new novel by the author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions that is destined for best-sellerdom. 94 PRIZE WINNERS—drink EMANUEL GREENBERG A batch of bartenders share the recipes for their award-winning concoctions. 96 CARNY—article HARRY CREWS Step right up, folks! For three thin dollars, you can meet the lady who can fire eggs from her ... well, step right up and see. 100 OVERWHELMING UNDERGRAD—playboy's playmate of the month As a college art student, Whitney Kaine has spent a lot of time studying the body beautiful. Now it's our turn. 110 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 113 PATENTED SEX—humor ANTHONY ASTRACHAN Diagrams of some of the more ingenious sexual devices registered with the U. S. Patent Office, including a ball-breaking erector set and a pair of stirrups to keep you in the saddle. 116 BACK TO CAMPUS—attire DAVID PLATT The new mood among the college crowd is clearly reflected in its garb. 120 SUE THE BASTARDS!—article ROBERT S. WIEDER On campus, things have really changed—now, instead of demonstrating and chanting slogans, the students are going to court. 123 THE GIRLS OF WASHINGTON—pictorial You won't find them on your guided-tour itinerary, but they're capital attractions. Eleven pages of them, including the femmes fatales of politics, Fanne Foxe and Congressman Wayne Hays's headline-making supersecretary, Elizabeth Ray. 135 THE DEVIL AND THE PEASANT WIFE—ribald classic 137 PLAYBOY'S PIGSKIN PREVIEW—sports ANSON MOUNT Our grid handicapper has been called the nation's top football prophet five times. Now he's going for six. 141 WILL CARL DIVORCE MYRNA?—quiz JOHN BLUMENTHAL The first and only soap-opera quiz fashioned specifically for people who never watch soap operas and couldn't care less. 142 SEX AND THE POLITICIAN—humor PHIL INTERLANDI The public is only one of the things the politicos are out to screw. 173 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI 206 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE A brand-new eight-page section designed to fill you in on what's happening, where it's happening and who's making it happen.