TITLE: ESQUIRE
["The Magazine for Men" -- Including all the great writers, illustrators, pictorials, vintage advertisements, fashion and more!]
ISSUE DATE: March 13, 1979 ; Volume 91 No. 5
CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: "Did nature play a cosmic joke on men and women?" Illustration by Seymour Chwast -- An interpretation of the way the shared characteristics of men and women are nevertheless out of sync. View from top and bottom, then see page 42.

CAN RAFSHOONING SAVE JIMMY CARTER? by James Wooten -- The President has called in adman Gerald Rafshoon to spruce up his image. That means Rafshoon is in there at every turn, trying to make Jimmy Carter look good, whether he is or not. Will the new product sell? It's too soon to know; the market is still, as they say, being tested.

THE LAST TOWN HOUSE by Paul Goldberger -- Well, not literally the last one, of course, but a private New York City mansion, the opulence and eccentricity of which we will not see again. Its owner, Benjamin Sonnenberg, died last year, and the contents of the house will now be sold in a spectacular auction.

MALE AND FEMALE: NATURE'S COSMIC JOKE by James C. Neely -- In youth, tribal women are open and friendly, men are angry and hostile. In old age, the reverse is the case. Accordingly, both in tribal and other cultures, the needs and expectations of the sexes rarely mesh. All this can be remedied though, says the author, a physician, in this essay adapted from Columbia, The Magazine of Columbia University.

LOS ANGELES'S BEST RESTAURANTS: A TOP FOOD CRITIC'S CHOICES by Carole Lalli -- The city's top food critic describes her favorite dining rooms. L.A. has moved out in front of other western cities in the inventiveness of its cookery. Here are fourteen superlative choices, plus a look at three new stars in town.

URBANE ARISTOCRATS: Fashion by Cora Marcus -- Seen at lunch in L. A. restaurants, the business suits for spring.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS by Geoffrey Norman -- Riveting fiction. A man's wife is raped. Her attacker is pronounced not guilty. Next, she wants to learn to shoot a gun.

A DAY IN THE LIFE Elaine Kaufman -- Interview by Harry Stein -- The proprietor of New York's fashionable spot -- moment to moment.

FAKING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP by William Flanagan -- A nice degree from a top college might look good on your resume, you say sadly, knowing that you don't have such a degree.Well, that isn't stopping a lot of job seekers from inserting the degree anyway.

FULL DISCLOSURE: McDonald's Sizzling Out? by Dan Dorfman -- What does it mean that an increasing number of customers are trading down from Big Macs to quarter pounders? Possible trouble ahead.

POLITICS: Edward Kennedy Moves to the Left by Richard Reeves -- It's still uncertain whether or not Teddy will run. But one thing is certain: He's angry.

THE LAW: AFTER THE FALL by Steven Brill -- How Golenbock and Barell came to grips with a downturn in business: a purge of partners.

BOOKS: Kids, Catastrophes, and Cowboys -- Geoffrey Wolff reviews Herbert Kohl's Growing With Your Children. Walter Isaacson reviews Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide. Ben Yagoda reviews the latest westerns of Louis L'Amour.

The Right Stuff by Nancy Klein and Anita Leclerc -- Esquire's guide to gear and gadgets.
HIGH LIFE: Du Cote de Chez Claude by Taki -- The heyday of the most famous madam in France.
TRAVEL: The Condo Connection by Stephen Birnbaum Avoid high-priced hotels in resort areas -- rent a condominium when the owners aren't around.
REMAINDER BOUND by Edward Sorel -- Some books you might as well expect from the publishers' spring lists.
The Last Word by Max Wilk -- Esquire pays tribute to the one hundredth anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth with a few words about a rare photograph.
Backstage with Esquire: The Critic's Choices -- Introducing West Coast food critic Carole Lalli.

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