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Renaissance. While imprisoned, Smith transformed himself from an unknown condemned man into a national figure. The onetime dropout honed his extremely high intelligence (IQ: 154) on college correspondence courses, legal texts and a renaissance sampling of books and periodicals. He also struck up a correspondence with Columnist William F. Buckley, who championed his cause in magazine and newspaper articles. Said Buckley of Smith last week: "His harrowing experience has made him wiser, and also a lot of others wiser-certainly myself...
Scene One: First-class section of a New York-to-Boston airliner. Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. is discovered tapping diligently at a typewriter on his lap. Enter Liberal Writer Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on his way to the tourist section. He spots Buckley and stops to needle him about preparing so frantically for the public debate scheduled to take place between them in Boston that evening. Scene Two: Tourist compartment. Schlesinger receives small package from stewardess. He unwraps it, finds cigar with a note: "Arthur-this is my contribution to your last meal. Bill." Scene Three: Logan Airport, Boston...
...obscenity conviction brought only a comparative wrist slap to Screw's cofounders, Publisher Jim Buckley, 26, and Executive Editor Al Goldstein, 35. Each could have received a $6,000 fine and six years in prison, as demanded by the district attorney. But the judges levied only fines of $1,500 apiece. Both men promptly paid up, announced appeals and went back to publishing. But two more obscenity trials for Screw lie ahead, both based on specific seizures of relatively recent issues...
Stablemates. Buckley and Goldstein started Screw in 1968 with a stake of $350, half from Buckley, the other half from Goldstein's wife Mary, then a stewardess for Pan Am but since fired because of her association with the publication. Bribes induced some two dozen Manhattan news dealers to handle the first issue's 7,000 copies. Screw grossed $650,000 in its first year and more than...
...Buckley and Goldstein piously proclaim that their sheet is not just another specimen of sado-sex journalism, but the distinction seems elusive in Screw. The writing style is often prosaic and juvenile, and the four-letter argot is flung against a wide variety of institutions and individuals-among them the New York Times (which once unwittingly carried an ad for Screw), the TV networks, J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. On the tamer side, there have been interviews with Joe Namath and Timothy Leary and an in-bed session with John Lennon and Yoko...