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...newsstands this month is arrayed the biggest, bawdiest, bestselling collection of stag magazines in publishing history. Just as Confidential's peep-and-tell formula sent a horde of imitators yipping after pay dirt, the sex-fueled three-year flight of Playboy ("Entertainment for Men") has shaken out a pack of wolf-whistling periodicals. In all, there are more than 40 playkids on the market, and they are fast outstripping the scandal sheets. The most successful of the upstarts are monthlies, with such names as Caper, Nugget, Rogue, Escapade and Cabaret. Like Playboy ( TIME, Sept. 24), they trade...
Until he landed in prison on a two-to three-year rap for passing a bad check, John Corpier, 32, thought of himself as "a pretty worthless fellow." The son of a Texas dirt farmer, he left school after the eighth grade, worked at a prewar Civilian Conservation Corps camp until he joined the Air Force at 17. Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto...
STEEL PRICES will go up again at midyear, when steelworkers get their annual raise under three-year contract. Estimates are for boost of $5 to $6 a ton; increase will be less if production stays low (currently 92% of capacity), more if auto-buying picks up sharply later in spring...
Though this federal program, plus the drought, has helped to cut the state's wheat acreage in half (present crop: 6,700,000 acres), it has also speeded up a three-year rise in farmland values, and given smart operators a new way to make money. In Morris County (county seat: Council Grove), Lawyer Marlin Brown and a partner got 5½% insurance-company loans to buy eight farms, 1,500 acres, for an average $62.50 an acre. They plan to farm only the best 200 acres, but can put 771 of the poorer acres into the soil bank...
Captain Ike Canty, a three-year regular, averaged about 10 points per game and was a close second on the team in rebounding. His aggressive leadership and hustle helped considerably...