Modern Man February 1965

4 Harlot or Heroine THE TRUTH ABOUT JEAN HARLOW
Bob Nystedt
10 Celluloid Cuties POLLY ADLER'S HOUSE WARMERS
Max Harris
14 Better than Fiction IVY LEAGUE'S FRANK MERRIWELL
Al Podell
17 Uncovered Cover Girl CINDY CARTER
Photos: Ron Vogel
20 MM Goes to a Party HOT TIME ON DESERT SANDS
Arnold Pastor
24 Wild Blue Wonders ACES HIGH IN RENO
Photos & Text: Bob Grant
28 Glamour Gal-lery MODERN ART FOR MEN
34 Picture Parade CAMERA CAPERS
36 Jokers Wild POKER IS NOT FOR PIKERS
Jerry D. Lewis
39 Best in the West FRISCO'S FRISKY FUNHOUSE
Photos & Text: Max Miller
42 Doll of the Month JANE DOLINGER
Photos: Ken Krippene
45 Turning Back the Speedometer THE ANTIQUES RIDE AGAIN
Jay J. Howard
48 Curvy Keglers STRIKING STRIPPERS
Arch Ayres
EDITORIAL
ROBUST EVIDENCE persists that women, like wine, improve with age. Case in point: the apparently ageless St. Tropez nymphet, Brigitte Bardot. However, BB may be showing at least one symptom of approaching middle age. She now says she would like to end scorching screen scenes featuring her own unedited lines and form. "What a shame!" exclaimed one French reporter. "She no longer wants to appear in the nude." But B.B. has also stated: "This fame that I love, that frightens me, I will do anything to keep and deserve." Well, that's certainly good nudes.
WEIRDEST CONTRADICTION in anatomy versus intelligence appears to have been brought to light by Houston gynecologist, Dr. Erwin O. Straussman. The better the brain, Straussman asserts, the smaller the bust at least among women of subnormal fertility. For over 40 years, Straussman, clinical professor of medicine at to Baylor University, has evaluated body contours vis-à-vis infertility. Small hips and busts are the rule, he notes.
So, too, is high intelligence. Of 717 women under Straussman's care, more than half were in the upper 10 per cent of their high school class. But since doctors' wives are the intelligent type, Straussman's theory has curried little favor with physicians. Argued Doctor Charles M. McLane of Cornell University Medical College: "The idea just doesn't stack up with my observations." Nor ours.
WRY EXAMPLE of the perfect squelch occurred during actress Carroll Baker's recent publicity tour of Paris. Scheduled to pose for portraiture in the Montmartre section, Carroll arrived dressed in a staid Balmain gown. "Take off your dress, Carroll!" a French press photog pleaded. "You should pose in the nude for artists." Carroll refused, claiming modesty, and the disappointed Toulouse-Lautrecs set about sketching — catching little more than her smile. "Hey, what's happening to Frenchmen, anyway?" Carroll exclaimed. "What did these guys paint? My face? Nothing but my face? What's the matter with the rest of me?" Not a darn thing from where Americans sit.