Playboy April 1976

COVER STORY
Credit this month's cover to the women. Marilyn Grabowski, our West Coast Photo Editor, conceived the idea; lens lady Suze Randall (who shot August 1975 Playmate Lillian Muller for us) did the photography; and actress Kristine De Bell is the model. The picture at right was taken by Suze during a playful lull in the shooting.

3 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
24 BOOKS
Louis Auchincloss' new novel, Irving Howe's chronicle of Jewish immigrants in America and Howard Teichmann's biography of Alexander Woollcott reviewed.
26 DINING & DRINKING
A visit to New York's Palace: outrageously expensive but terrific.
28 MOVIES
Segal gets the Bird; Peckinpah, Wertmuller and Mazursky return; and our critic reviews a quartet of sex films, including Emmanuelle's second coming.
30 MUSIC 30 New albums by Rufus, Dylan, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, plus an appraisal of the remarkable Bo Diddley and a guide to bargain Beethoven.
34 ADVENTURES
Rafting down the white-water rapids of the Chattooga, minus Burt Reynolds.
36 EROTICA
Introducing the sexual revolution's very own version of the Sears Catalog.
38 SPORTS
Checking in with the nation's premier statistics freak, Seymour Siwoff.
40 TRANSCENDENTAL PREMEDITATION .... LAURENCE GONZALES
TM is only the beginning, folks, as the world tries to relax.
41 REFORM IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD DONN PEARCE
Everybody knows there's something wrong with our penal system, but nobody really knows what to do about it.
43 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
49 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
69 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: JERRY BROWN—candid conversation
California's enigmatic young governor talks with interviewer Robert Scheer about his refusal to live in a mansion, the influence of Bob Dylan, law and order, and the Presidential races. Accompanying the interview is Scheer's insightful opinion piece on The Politics of Jerry Brown.
82 PUNCH OUT THE IRS!—article JIM DAVIDSON
Unfair taxation is nothing new to us Americans. The British tried to pull it off once and look what happened to them. Now, 200 years later, there's another tax revolt alive in the land. Our author tells how to beat the IRS and what to do when the men with the calculators come knocking at your door.
88 THE WEST END HORROR—fiction NICHOLAS MEYER
In this, the first of two parts, the "discoverer" of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution unearths a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes (starring George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Gilbert & Sullivan and friends).
91 INCOMPARABLY URSULA—pictorial
The beauteous Miss Andress, starring in the costume flick The Loves and Times of Scaramouche, returns to our pages for an uncostumed extravaganza.
97 THE SHORT SEASON—article JIM BROSNAN
The former major-league pitcher visits the spring-training camp of the go-go-going nowhere, but optimistic, Chicago White Sox.
98 UP THE TUBES—pictorial
A visual tribute to the lunatic new rock group you've got to see to believe.
104 THE DIRECT APPROACH—modern living
Amplifiers alone do not a stereo make. The latest on direct-drive turntables.
106 WRITTEN IN THE STARS—playboy's playmate of the month
Gemini women are noted for their charm, beauty and sensuousness and Hawaii's Denise Michele fits the bill to a T.
116 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
118 SPRING & SUMMER FASHION FORECAST—attire DAVID PLATT
A preview of what you'll want to be wearing when the temperatures climb.
125 PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION—article. .JAMES McKINLEY
First of two installments about the most controversial of all Presidential killings, that of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
131 MY FIRST TIME—parody JOHN BLUMENTHAL
Those other authors interviewed Dr. Spock, Erica Jong, Art Buchwald, et al. We bring you the maiden, as it were, sexual experiences of Adam, Oedipus, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Catherine the Great.
133 THE FACE IS FAMILIAR—pictorial
Last December's Playmate Nancie Li Brandi wigs out over hair styles.
140 THE VARGAS GIRL—pictorial ALBERTO VARGAS
141 LOVE AND A LION—ribald classic
143 PLAYBOY MUSIC '76—survey
A noteworthy wrap-up, with the results of PLAYBOY'S Music Poll, including The Playboy Music Hai*of Fame, a look at the past year's happenings and a bunch of off-the-wall accolades and fusillades: Lawsuit of the Year and the Lazarus and Dorian Gray Awards, for starters. Plus You Gotta Have a Hook, a far-out chronicle-of a rock recording session, by F. P. Tullius (see page 158).
188 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI