JIMMY NELSON age 11 is 4'10" and weighs 110. Being raised on a farm in Tennessee, he gets lots of hard work and even if he never touches a weigh on hears about a protein pill, will probably grow up to have a magnificent build. Commercial prints not available, but please let Physique Pictorial know if you feel prints of such youthful subjects would have inspirational value to other young fellows.
CHARLES MACCHIONE 16, 5'7, 120 lbs stripped, waist 25, chest 33.75" Charles wants to be a railroad trainman when he grows up.
Likes swimming, horseback riding.
This is AMG photo X13-I (X thirteen-eye).
Additional photos of Charles on pages 8 and 9 of catalog XI-13 30 cents (available after June 15, 1958)
STEVE JANO 18 Ht 5'7" Wt 154 arms 14.5", chest 41.5", waist 28" Remember the earlier shots of Steve on pg 8 of Summer 56 PP? He is now a Senior in high school and is on the wrestling team. The coach thinks he has a fine build, and encourages the use of weights. But Steve credits most of his muscles to good old hard farm work.
Photo courtesy Ross Deaner Box 268 Somerset Penn.
Letters from Readers. (FELLOW ILLITERATES, TAKE NOTICE!) "I would like to say a few words about the general style and tone of your anti-censorship tirades. I do not know at which intelligence level you are directing these articles, but I would predict that they have the most effect on the lower strata of our social, educational, and financial orders. In 95% of these articles the judge is biased, the jorors are corrupt, the lawyers are incompetent, the testimony is perjured, the arresting officers are perverted, and the punishment is crippling. Yet in very few, if any, of these editorials is there any absolute proof that the charges made by your editorial staff are true. Either the persecuted is a personal friend of the PP editor or, due to the proximity of the trial to Los Angeles, it is inferred that PP had a supposedly unbiased observer at the trial. Never is there sufficient identification of the particular case under question to allow intersted parties to investigate the trial records and verify your editorial charges for themelves. ...? Then too, your grammar, wording, and general editorial style greatly detract from the quality of the article. In short, your editorials cannot paint a very convincing picture of authenticity for the eyes of your more highly educated and intelligent readers" J.E.S. Los Angeles 28, Calif.
Editor's note: Highly articulate J.E.S. has probably vvoiced here thoughts on many readers minds. PP's editor has no intention of being a martyr and hasnt the finances for an armoed car and boydguards, hence specific names are omitted in our "tirades", though such information is always available for responsible parties who can and will take effective action. Too, more than 90% of our magazines are distributed out of our local area where such names would be unknown anyway and no effective good could be done by their publication. And again, in exposing the wicked, we might bring embarrassment and unpleasantness to the innocent--and anyway, it is the sin and not the sinner that we despise.
REGARDING OUR GRAMMAR. We attempt to use a progressive form of grammar, spelling and style--we hold the perhaps naive belief that the purpose of language is to express ideas-- sometimes "rules" must be broken to do this effectively. Now we aren't trying to defend here the numerous typographical errors, occasional mideous misspellings that sometimes slip through, but the general tenor of our corrsepondence leads us to believe that we are getting across to many, many thinking people. We don't mind at all having the strict grammarians point out our departures from established rules, because we want to "break the rules" knowingly and not through ignorance, and unlike certain of our critics, we realize we are quite far from perfect. So when you think we've pulled a boner, please give us details of how you feel it should have been done.