CBS New York: Al Goldstein, Publisher Of ‘Screw’ Magazine, Dead At 77
Before founding Screw, he served in the Army; sold insurance; drove a car for the gossip columnist Walter Winchell; got himself jailed in Cuba for taking unauthorized pictures of Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul; and, as a photographer for Pakistan International Airlines, was on hand in 1962 when Kennedy (then the first lady) visited Pakistan.
According to Gay Talese’s book “Thy Neighbor’s Wife,” Mr. Goldstein ran a dime-pitch concession at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; sold rugs, encyclopedias and his own blood; drove a cab; and landed a job as an industrial spy, infiltrating a labor union. That experience so appalled him that he wrote an exposé about it for The New York Free Press, a radical weekly.
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Before founding Screw, he served in the Army; sold insurance; drove a car for the gossip columnist Walter Winchell; got himself jailed in Cuba for taking unauthorized pictures of Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul; and, as a photographer for Pakistan International Airlines, was on hand in 1962 when Kennedy (then the first lady) visited Pakistan.
Leave it to the New York Times to assume St. Peter's judgement at the pearly gates (but with more biographical details of note)...
According to Gay Talese’s book “Thy Neighbor’s Wife,” Mr. Goldstein ran a dime-pitch concession at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; sold rugs, encyclopedias and his own blood; drove a cab; and landed a job as an industrial spy, infiltrating a labor union. That experience so appalled him that he wrote an exposé about it for The New York Free Press, a radical weekly.
The article did not make the splash Mr. Goldstein was hoping for, but he
became friends with one of The Press’s editors, Jim Buckley, and
persuaded him that there was money to be made covering the growing
commercial sex scene, which the establishment press mentioned only to
vilify.
Investing $175 apiece, the two men published the first issue of Screw in
November 1968: a 12-page Baedeker to the underworld featuring
blue-movie reviews, nude photos, a guide to dirty bookstores and a field
test by Mr. Goldstein of an artificial vagina.
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