Word: scanlan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rarely has a magazine had a harder time getting put to bed than Scanlan's November issue. The muckraking monthly has been struggling since Oct. 1 to find a printer who would handle the edition. Given over to "Guerrilla War in the U.S.A.," the November Scanlan's contains drawings and instructions on how to construct, place and detonate types of homemade bombs. At least eight printers said...
Sandwiched between a dilapidated Irish pub and a skin-flick cinema in midtown Manhattan, the black door with its heavy brass plate proclaims "Scanlan's Literary House." Upstairs, in a garish former banquet hall, the scene is even more bizarre: a dozen cluttered desks and typewriters, one freelance writer demanding payment, a payrolled private investigator deep in conversation with an ex-con contributing editor. At center stage, ex-Ramparts Editor and Raconteur Warren Hinckle III and former New York Times Reporter Sidney Zion celebrate their unlikely accomplishment: Seaman's Monthly is born...
...cover of the first Scanlan's, however, reads more like an ultimatum. Under a photograph of a certified check for $675,000, the editors herald their independence. "We don't even know the names of our stockholders," the boldface type proclaims. "Our deal with the underwriter was that the editors have absolute and dictatorial control of the magazine...
...House committee), raises more questions than it answers. More persuasively, a Viet Nam veteran recounts several killings that grimly resemble My Lai. Brutality of another kind is the subject of a strong article on the "Woodstock West" folk concert held last December at Altamont race track in California. Why, Scanlan's wonders, was there not more attention paid to the fact that four people died, 700 were treated for bad acid trips, and that the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, hired by the Rolling Stones rock group for "security," rampaged with pool cues, killing an 18-year...
Family of Flies. In a lighter mood, Scanlan's accompanies a health inspector on a kitchen tour of Manhattan restaurants. Next to stars awarded by New York Times Gourmet Craig Claiborne, Scanlan's gives its own uncleanliness symbols: garbage cans. The worst offender (three stars, four garbage cans): the outwardly elegant Colony, where "in the bakeroom a family of flies was eating out of open bowls of strawberries in heavy syrup...