text: 118A.1 WHEN shawes beene sheene, and shradds full fayre, And leeues both large and longe, Itt is merrry, walking in the fayre forrest, To heare the small birds songe. 118A.2 The woodweele sang, and wold not cease, Amongst the leaues a lyne: And it is by two wight yeomen, By deare God, that I meane. * * * * * 118A.3 Me thought they did mee beate and binde, And tooke my bow mee froe; If I bee Robin a-liue in this lande, Ile be wrocken on both them towe. 118A.4 Sweauens are swift, master, quoth Iohn, As the wind that blowes ore a hill; Ffor if itt be neuer soe lowde this night, To-morrow it may be still. 118A.5 Buske yee, bowne yee, my merry men all, Ffor Iohn shall goe with mee; For Ile goe seeke yond wight yeomen In greenwood where the bee. 118A.6 Th cast on their gowne of greene, A shooting gone are they, Vntill they came to the merry greenwood, Where they had gladdest bee; There were the ware of [a] wight yeoman, His body leaned to a tree. 118A.7 A sword and a dagger he wore by his side, Had beene many a mans bane, And he was cladd in his capull-hyde, Topp, and tayle, and mayne. 118A.8 Stand you still, master, quoth Litle Iohn, Vnder this trusty tree, And I will goe to yond wight yeoman, To know his meaning trulye. 118A.9 A Iohn, by me thou setts noe store, And thats a farley thinge; How offt send I my men beffore, And tarry my-selfe behinde? 118A.10 It is noe cunning a knaue to ken, And a man but heare him speake; And itt were not for bursting of my bowe, Iohn, I wolde thy head breake. 118A.11 But often words they breeden bale, That parted Robin and Iohn; Iohn is gone to Barn[e]sdale, The gates he knowes eche one. 118A.12 And when hee came to Barnesdale, Great heauinesse there hee hadd; He found two of his fellowes Were slaine both in a slade, 118A.13 And Scarlett a foote flyinge was, Ouer stockes and stone, For the sheriffe with seuen score men Fast after him is gone. 118A.14 Yett one shoote Ile shoote, sayes Litle Iohn, With Crist his might and mayne; Ile make yond fellow that flyes so fast To be both glad and faine. 118A.15 Iohn bent vp a good veiwe bow, And fetteled him to shoote; The bow was made of a tender boughe, And fell downe to his foote. 118A.16 Woe worth thee, wicked wood, sayd Litle Iohn, That ere thou grew on a tree! Ffor this day thou art my bale, My boote when thou shold bee! 118A.17 This shoote it was but loosely shott, The arrowe flew in vaine, And it mett one of tne sheriffes men; Good William a Trent was slaine. 118A.18 It had beene better for William a Trent To hange vpon a gallowe Then for to lye in the greenwoode, There slaine with an arrowe. 118A.19 And it is sayd, when men be mett, Six can doe more then three: And they haue tane Litle Iohn, And bound him fast to a tree. 118A.20 Thou shalt be drawen by dale and downe, quoth the sheriffe, And hanged hye on a hill: But thou may fayle, quoth Litle Iohn, If itt be Christs owne will. 118A.21 Let vs leaue talking of Litle Iohn, For hee is bound fast to a tree, And talke of Guy and Robin Hood, In the green woode where they bee. 118A.22 How these two yeomen together they mett, Vnder the leaues of lyne, To see what marchandise they made Euen at that same time. 118A.23 Good morrow, good fellow, quoth Sir Guy; Good morrow, good fellow, quoth hee; Methinkes by this bow thou beares in thy hand, A good archer thou seems to bee. 118A.24 I am wilfull of my way, quoth Sir Guye, And of my morning tyde: Ile lead thee through the wood, quoth Robin, Good fellow, Ile be thy guide. 118A.25 I seeke an outlaw, quoth Sir Guye, Men call him Robin Hood; I had rather meet with him vpon a day Then forty pound of golde. 118A.26 If you tow mett, itt wold be seene whether were better Afore yee did part awaye; Let vs some other pastime find, Good fellow, I thee pray. 118A.27 Let vs some other masteryes make, And wee will walke in the woods euen; Wee may chance mee[t] with Robin Hoode Att some vnsett steven. 118A.28 They cutt them downe the summer shroggs Which grew both vnder a bryar, And sett them three score rood on twinn, To shoote the prickes full neare. 118A.29 Leade on, good fellow, sayd Sir Guye, Lead on, I doe bidd thee: Nay, by my faith, quoth Robin Hood, The leader thou shalt bee. 118A.30 The first good shoot that Robin ledd Did not shoote an inch the pricke froe; Guy was an archer good enoughe, But he cold neere shoote soe. 118A.31 The second shoote Sir Guy shott, He shott within the garlande; But Robin Hoode shott it better then hee, For he cloue the good pricke-wande. 118A.32 Gods blessing on thy heart! sayes Guye, Goode fellow, thy shooting is goode; For an thy hart be as good as thy hands, Thou were better then Robin Hood. 118A.33 Tell me thy name, good fellow, quoth Guy, RRrrvnder the leaues of lyne: Nay, by my faith, quoth good Robin, Till thou haue told me thine. 118A.34 I dwell by dale and downe, quoth Guye, And I haue done many a curst turne; And he that calles me by my right name Calles me Guye of good Gysborne. 118A.35 My dwelling is in the wood, sayes Robin; By thee I set right nought; My name is Robin Hood of Barnesdale, A fellow thou has long sought. 118A.36 He that had neither beene a kithe nor kin Might haue seene a full fayre sight, To see how together these yeomen went, With blades both browne and bright. 118A.37 To haue seene how these yeomen together foug[ht], Two howers of a summers day; Itt was neither Guy nor Robin Hood That fettled them to flye away. 118A.38 Robin was reacheles on a roote, And stumbled at that tyde, And Guy was quicke and nimble with-all, And hitt him ore the left side. 118A.39 Ah, deere Lady! sayd Robin Hoode, Thou art both mother and may! I thinke it was neuer mans destinye To dye before his day. 118A.40 Robin thought on Our Lady deere, And soone leapt vp againe, And thus he came with an awkwarde stroke; Good Sir Guy hee has slayne. 118A.41 He tooke Sir Guys head by the hayre, And sticked itt on his bowes end; Thou hast beene traytor all thy liffe, Which thing must haue an ende. 118A.42 Robin pulled forth an Irish kniffe, And nicked Sir Guy in the face, That hee was neuer on a woman borne Cold tell who Sir Guy was. 118A.43 Saies, Lye there, lye there, good Sir Guye, And with me be not wrothe; If thou haue had the worse stroakes at my hand, Thou shalt haue the better cloathe. 118A.44 Robin did off his gowne of greene, Sir Guye hee did it throwe; And hee put on that capull-hyde, That cladd him topp to toe. 118A.45 The bowe, the arrowes, and litle horne, And with me now Ile beare; Ffor now I will goe to Barn[e]sdale, To see how my men doe fare. 118A.46 Robin sett Guyes horne to his mouth, A lowd blast in it he did blow; That beheard the sheriffe of Nottingham, As he leaned vnder a lowe. 118A.47 Hearken! hearken! sayd the sheriffe, I heard noe tydings but good; For yonder I heare Sir Guyes horne blowe, For he hath slaine Robin Hoode. 118A.48 For yonder I heare Sir Guyes horne blow, Itt blowes soe well in tyde, For yonder comes that wighty yeoman, Cladd in his capull-hyde. 118A.49 Come hither, thou good Sir Guy, Aske of mee what thou wilt haue: Ile none of thy gold, sayes Robin Hood, Nor Ile none of itt haue. 118A.50 But now I haue slaine the master, he sayd, Let me goe strike the knaue; This is all the reward I aske, Nor noe other will I haue. 118A.51 Thou art a madman, said the shiriffe, Thou sholdest haue had a knights fee; Seeing thy asking [hath] beene soe badd, Well granted it shall be. 118A.52 But Litle Iohn heard his master speake, Well he knew that was his steuen; Now shall I be loset, quoth Litle Iohn, With Christs might in heauen. 118A.53 Robin hee hyed him towards Litle Iohn, Hee thought hee wold loose him beliue; The sheriffe and all his companye Fast after him did driue. 118A.54 Stand abacke! stand abacke! sayd Robin; Why draw you mee soe neere? Itt was neuer the vse in our countrye Ones shrift another shold heere. 118A.55 But Robin pulled forth an Irysh kniffe, And losed Iohn hand and foote, And gaue him Sir Guyes bow in his hand, And bade it be his boote. 118A.56 But Iohn tooke Guyes bow in his hand-+--+- His arrowes were rawstye by the roote-+--+-; The sherriffe saw Litle Iohn draw a bow And fettle him to shoote. 118A.57 Towards his house in Nottingam He fled full fast away, And soe did all his companye, Not one behind did stay. 118A.58 But he cold neither soe fast goe, Nor away soe fast runn, But Litle Iohn, with an arrow broade, Did cleaue his heart in twinn.


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by Paul Heckmann, Executive Director, Memories Inc.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… if Charles Dickens had been born a century later, he could have been describing the golden age of nightclubs.
And did that ever apply to Dallas nightlife scene. And Playboy of Dallas was at the forefront.
It was a different era, a time gone by. Cigarette smoke filled the rooms. The beautiful people came out in droves, dressed to the 9s. Seems like every penny of the paycheck went to wardrobe, hair styling, cool shoes, accessories, cologne or perfume. Dallas had recently changed the liquor laws and the club scene was going crazy.
The Playboy club itself was was in a building officially known as Expressway Tower, locally as Cowboy Towers as they were headquartered there, or as the folks that worked there, simply 6116. It was on the corner of Central and Yale, which is now called SMU Boulevard. The 15 story building had been built in 1967 for the purpose of housing several of the Murchison's businesses, specifically the Dallas Cowboys.
However that particular property was not the one first intended to house the Playboy club. More on that later from the first owner and the man responsible for bringing Playboy to Texas, Lenny Licht.
In its heyday, Playboy of Dallas had a reported 50,000 keyholders.
Lenny Licht
the original owner of Playboy.
Paul: Lenny, thanks so much for giving us this interview. Can you tell me about how Playboy of Dallas came to be?
Lenny: The Playboy deal was always interesting to me because it really started out as a bet. We were officing at 2001 Bryan Tower in the mid 1970s. There were about eight or nine of us who would meet up at the top at the 2001 Club. I remember Mike McCullough said, 'We're gonna make you a bet. We bet you $5,000 you can't bring Playboy to Texas'.
So what happened was I was accepted to Harvard Law School, but I had to take some undergrad courses first. During that time I spent a lot of time in Boston and that's where I met Christie Hefner and other people from Playboy.
After this challenge from Mike, I decided to talk to the Christie and told her 'you haven't opened a new Playboy Club in 12-14 years, right? How would you like to open one in Texas?'
She replied that they always wanted to open one in Texas but they did FBI investigations and the people that tried to open them didn't passed the FBI tests.
I told her I would pass that test of the FBI so she said to come on up to Chicago and meet everybody. After meeting all of them, they said 'We would like you to have that franchise if you pass all the other requirements…' which of course I did. They ended up selling me the franchise for $25,000, which included everything in the state of Texas."
Paul: Lenny, what was your connection to Joey Cimino?
Lenny: Playboy were the ones that recommended the architect Girard Cuchini, and Joey Cimino who owned several clubs and restaurants in Boston. We met up in Boston and then we all flew to NY and toured some clubs up there. That's how I got Joey as the Manager of the club in Dallas and how Girard came to design the Dallas Club.
Its kind of a funny deal. Do you know where the downtown McDonald's is on Commerce Street? That was where the Playboy club was supposed to be. It used to be the Aaron Brothers Fur and the Dorsey Building. It was a 6 story building that everyone tried to buy but nobody could get the deal done. I was friendly with them. The reason I wanted to buy it, is it is an entire city block. You could make an entire circle around the location which was highly unusual in downtown Dallas. So anyway, I knew the guys that owned it and went ahead and bought it with the idea we were going to put the Playboy Club there.
Then I became friends with Gene from the TEFCON construction company which was owned by the Murchison family. They also owned Expressway Towers. There was a 25,000 sq ft restaurant that had opened a few months earlier that had gone bust, Chateau Madrid. I met with Gene and the guys from Murchison and they said we'll cut you a deal on this restaurant space. So I went ahead and sold the Aaron Brothers building to McDonald's and pretty much doubled my money.
Paul: Now this was your baby from the start, and you invited Joel and Mark in, correct?
Lenny: Yes, that is correct. It was my deal and I needed about a million and a half dollars and I didn't want to put in all the money so I got Mark Robertson involved. Mark was close friends with Joel McQuade. He introduced me to Joel, Joel was in the computer leasing business.
We turned out to be great friends. Every day at 5pm I would be at the backgammon tables at Elan, we always had a table reserve and Joel would meet me there and we would play backgammon until 11 at night and that's pretty much how Playboy came about, Joel put up most of the money.
Paul: Speaking of money, I know you put up $25k for the franchise. What were some of the other costs?
Lenny: It cost about about a million and half dollars to build the club out. If I was gonna do it, I was gonna do it right. I felt like my only competition was the Venetian Room down at the Fairmont Hotel back then for the big name show acts. That was the only place that had the big names like the Platters, the Supremes and so forth. If I was going to have club that drew the big names, it was going to have to be first class from the furniture to the showroom.
I had a half a million dollar a year entertainment budget. People like Mel Torme, Lanie Kazan, Hughes Corporation, Jose Feliciano, Frankie Laine, Della Reese and so many others – I competed with the Venetian Room for the same acts.
Paul: The question everyone wants to know, tell me about Hugh Hefner.
Lenny: I only met him a couple of times. I met him once in Chicago before we opened up the club, then again when he was in the middle of moving from Chicago out to Los Angeles. The thing that really sticks out in my memory of Hef is that he drank up to twenty-six Diet Pepsi's a day! He had a Diet Pepsi thing, you rarely saw him with one not in his hand. He was really an interesting character.
I really liked him. And he really, really wanted to build a club in Dallas. Dallas had been his next choice of clubs if he had been able to take on another one.
Paul: Tell me about the Bunny Search
Lenny: That was down at the Fairmont Hotel. We had 2,500 applicants and we hired 125 people. That was pretty crazy. Ron Chapman was one of the judges and kept things lively.
Paul: Lenny, skipping forward a year, why did you sell your part of the club?
Lenny Licht: About a year after I was in it, I sold my piece to Joel. He bought me out and I was pretty happy. I came from the oil and gas business and as it turned out the club business just wasn't for me. I wasn't really a club person, I didn't drink. So going to the shows and having dinner was about it for me.
Paul: Wasn't that when the management changes came around?
Lenny: Yes, I think so. I wasn't really involved but I think the Boston crew pretty much left and Joel brought in some other folk.
In retrospect, the crazy thing is, if my my dad hadn't been a lawyer, my brother-in-law hadn't been Dean at the University of Dallas and wrote me the letter of recommendation for Harvard, if I hadn't met Christie Hefner there in Boston doing some undergrad work, hadn't gone to the Playboy Club, if Mike McCullough hadn't bet me $5,000 I couldn't get the Playboy to Dallas – any one of these dominoes would have stopped Playboy from ever coming to Texas.
Jill Bogan Day-Schuler
one of the Bunnies hired during the Bunny Search:
Jill: I was one of the original Bunnies. It was crazy. Even though they hired over a hundred of us, we had to weed out the ones that found out it was hard work.
Paul: So that tells me that you were probably a waitress before.
Jill: Yes, waitress and room service for a hotel, the Flagship Inn in Arlington. I grew up in Hurst when it was a much smaller place, so coming to Dallas was cool. And I also worked at The Old Church.
During the Bunny search, we had to meet with the Bunny mother, then we got a callback for more interviews, either one or two. Next was the catwalk.
I remember going home to bed sick as there were just so many beautiful women there, I was thinking 'oh my god, there is no chance at all'. Just absolutely gorgeous women. Anyway I think I got a call telling me that I had been hired. I went crazy.
Paul: Tell me about your first day
Jill: Well I was one of the last Bunnies on the floor. They had me float the first night. Of course I was petrified, it was kinda intimidating the first time you walked out there. I was nervous to go out in the costume, then I saw the other girls in them and realized it wasn't that big a deal for us. Nobody stared at you like you were all by yourself. You blended in with a bunch of other Bunnies.
I'm sure my experience came in handy working at the Old Church. I already knew how to work hard.
Paul: Tell me about working the front room.
Jill: I remember that disco floor! They had the grooves in them and our heels kept getting caught in the floor. And the main bar had those really neat stainless steel tops but the corners would snag our pantyhose. We had to wear two pair so when you had to replace them, it got really expensive, very, very quickly.
Paul: And the bunny hutch?
Jill: It was lots of fun, lots of girls, lots of mirrors, lots of glitter all over the floor, Ruby back there talking about all her men. wearing her most expensive Halston, and Kathy Goebel back there stretching, she was probably the first girl I knew that worked out a lot. This was back when women were afraid of working out as they were afraid they would get muscles. We'd go back there and get ready and do last minute touches, put glitter on our shoulders and chests…
Paul: And the Bunny gear.
Jill: Those Bunny uniforms, it was like wearing a corset all night. And those 4″ stiletto heels. I remember crying one night because my feet hurt so bad, my calves would be cramping – we would go back in this little room next to the showroom. One of the bus guys would get us a tub full of ice and we'd stick our feet right into them for about 5 minutes before we could go back on the floor.
Paul: Do you remember the Cowboys coming in?
Jill: Oh yea. Their headquarters was still upstairs so they were always around. Tony Dorsett was there all the time. Golden Richards – he was a cutie, Roger Staubach, Randy White, Too Tall Jones and Harvey Martin.
Paul: I don't remember seeing Coach Landry down there.
Jill: Me neither, but lots of the other coaches were, Tex Schramm was there for an event.
Paul: I know you have some great pictures with Journey and the Babys at Playboy. Tell me about that
Jill: Ha! I cant believe that I was close to John Waite in that picture – and I loved The Babys. I think that's what made Journey so mad at me, Neil Schon took a liking to me right away. He didn't like that I liked The Babys more. I remember one of the guys from Journey following me back inside the dressing room! I did end up going out with Neil for a while. It didn't last a long time, he was on to another gig.
But I did go out with Gary Puckett from the Union Gap for a long, long time. He was a really cool California dude and he can still sing really good today. He was really mellow and really taught me a lot about nutrition and health and stuff.
Paul: When did you leave Playboy?
Jill: Oh, I was there to the day they shuttered the doors. From the day they opened until the bitter end.
I made so many friends at Playboy. I really love those gals. Funny how you don't skip a beat when you see them again.
Tracy Locke Custer
Playboy Bunny
Paul: Welcome Tracy! So glad we have a few minutes to talk. Can you tell me a little bit about your time at Playboy?
Tracy: I was very young, only 19. I didn't realize the magnitude of being a Playboy Bunny until much later in life, even after being chosen for a Playboy centerfold and shooting with Arny Freytag. Back then all that stuff really didn't mean a lot to me.
Paul: How did you first find out about the Playboy Bunny search?
Tracy: My sister Terry was already hired. I wasn't part of the original search, I came around about a year afterwards I think. Terry kept trying to get me to come work there, finally I did. Also, as I was so young they didn't put me on the floor. I ran the gift shop and worked the front door checking Keys. I worked the floor a little bit but pretty much stayed up front.
No matter who you were, as soon as you got off the escalator and turned the corner, there I was.
Paul: Who were some of the celebrities you met there?
Tracy: I met Hugh Hefner one night when he came into the club. And of course the Cowboys. Tony Dorsett, Too Tall Jones, Hollywood Henderson and several others. Also Professor Irwin Corey, JP Morgan, Ben Vereen and Frankie Avalon. And Terry dated Ricky Nelson, he was just cute as heck.
Paul: And of course Thomas Henderson's wife Wyetta was a Bunny there.
Tracy: Oh yes, she was so pretty.
I had just met my future husband – and also was working with Playboy Magazine on pictorial to be a Playmate about this time so I didn't get out much with you guys. I spent most of my time with my boyfriend.
I remember that I had to have my mother sign the deal with Playboy for the centerfold shoot as I was only 19, too young to sign for myself. I shot the centerfold with Arny over in a house on the M streets. He had to come to Dallas as I wasn't old enough per Playboy to travel. But then I became pregnant so they released me from the contract, I think that was late 78 or early 79. I had a 4 year contract with them. I remember Vicki Burns was in charge for them back then.
My sister Terry and I went over to a hotel to check out the pictures. I remember talking to Vicki and asking her what my options were since I was pregnant. She said 'we can just let you out of your contract' and I told her that lets just go ahead and do that – which in retrospect was crazy. I wasn't thinking about the money or anything other than the fact I was gonna be a mother. I call her my "million dollar baby"
Paul: So it might have worked out for the best.
Tracy: Oh yes. I might have gone out to Hollywood and gotten into all the craziness out there
Paul: About how long did you stay at Playboy?
Tracy: It was probably about a year. I had a family, a jealous husband and to top it off one of the Managers asked me to come in when I was sick, which I did, then told me I had to stay for a double shift. That was it for me.
It was quite an experience for sure. I was only 19, so I really wish I had been more observant and paid attention to the small things. It really didn't mean a lot to me back then, and I really regret that
Charley "Chuck" Robert
was one of the first two DJs at Playboy;
Paul: Tell me a bit about your time at Playboy
Charley: Going to work for "a Playboy Club" at 21 years old was mind blowing to say the least. As it turned out more so for friends, family and acquaintances than myself. Jeff Stone and I were the first DJs when the club opened. I had been a musician and DJ in nightclubs since I was 16 and I left a DJ job at a hot club that paid more than double what I was offered at Playboy to take the position. OK I'm not fooling anyone – there were the ladies. Past that though, even at 21 I knew that the organization was going to give me training and resume depth that I couldn't receive anywhere else – and it did.
The 1st year was all very glamorous. Michael Seldon and Mike Roberts (KLIF Radio) made a introduction tape for me that I played each night as the Dance Room opened. Of all the memories that I have from that incredible experience (including a girl that I dated coming in and, upon seeing all the lovely Bunnies, saying "well I guess you'll be happy here" and I never saw her again) was the Boston influences. This was the Salsoul Disco era (Magic Bird of Fire etc.) and these guys brought in many new musical influences that we had not been exposed to in Dallas. The Rice and Beans Orchestra comes to mind – Tommy LaBella's favorite. Tommy and Joe dressed to the Nines and had Swagger. For a 21 year old that was something to admire and attempt to mimic. Oh yeah …. and there was the ladies
Paul Heckmann – Maitre'D
I came from a small town outside of Waco, went to college in a small town down in deep South Texas and had moved to Dallas the day after our final football game in December of 1976. Moved in with my college roommate Bill Bronstad who was working in Accounting for Sanger Harris.
I had a job selling cars for Ken Grantham at KenRay Ford on Forest Lane. Had to take that job as I didn't have a car, only my Kawaski 750. It as there that I met Gene Cook, a fellow salesman who is still my best friend to today. More to that story later
The stars started to align for my change of direction. Ken Grantham sold the dealership to Rick Middlekauf who changed the system and commission structure.
I started looking around to see what was available. I had gone out with a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader about that time who introduced me to her agent, Sarah Norton. So I started doing some modeling and acting gigs but knew that wouldn't pay the bills. There wasn't enough work, I wasn't skinny enough – and my memory was… what was I saying?
My buddy Gene introduced me to Pat Applewhite who simply knew everybody in Dallas. She knew I had been a bouncer in a couple of clubs and took me up to Playboy to meet Joe Cimino.
Mr. Ciminio pretty much hired me on the spot. I went out and rented a tux as that was about all I could afford and started work that evening.
So here's this small town kid, small town college, all of a sudden surrounded by some of the most beautiful women in Texas. Describing it as a kid in a candy store would be an understatement.
There were four areas of the club that the Bunnies worked, the front door/gift shot, the disco/buffet front room,the game room and of course the showroom. I had plenty of energy and muscle so they put me in the front room where the most action was. We also backed up the Bunnies at the front door/gift shop which was more or less in our line of sight.
My first night there I met Joe, the Maitre'D. He had been there since Day One and showed me the ropes. This guy was smooth. I had no clue how to work a crowd to get tips, open a bottle of 1959 Dom Perignon, pour wine correctly or simply be suave and sophisticated. He taught me all of that and more.
Thank goodness I learned fast. Just weeks after I started, Joe quit and all of a sudden this small town kid is running the main room for the Playboy Club. The Playboy Club. I couldn't believe it myself.
Anyway, I ran the room by myself for a bit with other managers coming to help as they could get it to me, I finally talked Gene Cook to come work with me. There are just some folk who you know who are simply on the same wave length as you. That was us, sometimes I feel like we shared the same brain – and we worked the floor the same say. I will let Gene tell you his story in Part 2 of this article.
We had some of the best Management I've worked with. Joe Pergola, Joe Cimino, my boss – Tommy Labella and of course Tony Signori. If you've ever met someone that you quickly know could rip your arm off your body and use it to stir a drink, that was Tony. I still have my arms so I guess we were paisan.
I stayed at Playboy for just over a year. Changes were coming. We all knew it. I knew a few folk from other clubs, reached out to them and took a job at Papagayo's working with a friend, Rod Keishnick.
Daniel Truden – Service Attendant and Bartender
I was a bartender at Playboy Dallas for over two years. I was friends with Skeeter, the original bar manager. We were from the same town in Pennsylvania before he moved to Boston and went to work for Joe Cimino. He offered me and a couple friends an opportunity to work in Dallas at the club when he was home for Christmas and we were in Dallas within a month.
Mostly I remember the Bunnies, bartenders and service attendants that I worked with every day. So many Bunnies. I think there were 80 when I started. A new class had just trained. So many!
Paul: Who were some of the folks you worked with?
Daniel: I remember Danny McGauley, really likable guy who could disco. He worked Living room mainly. Eric Seeb was Showroom manager when I started as a Service attendant, Caesar Vindigni was his assistant. Tommy Labella and Joe Pergola were management also. Joe Cimino was in charge and was real cool with us because we were Skeeters friends.
I also remember Chef Green who was pretty cool once you got to know him and really professional. And then there was Mark in Accounting and also Candice who worked there for a time. Then of course you had Bernice and Lenore, Bunny mother and seamstress.
George was the name of the night watchman for the building who we saw every night. Jim Fritzel worked daytime, he was the food and beverage guy I think, and quite the character. Oh, and OD – Mr. O'Donnell had the showroom job for a while but what he primarily did was book entertainment.
Paul: How long were you Service Attendant before becoming a Bartender?
Daniel: We first worked as Service attendants while we learned drinks. The plan was to become bartenders and then open a new club with the Cimino management in Houston and eventually Hawaii. Of course that didn't work out as the Boston group changed to the Chicago group a few months later but Pete Couvel took Frank (my friend and cousin from Pa) and I into his company as bartenders for the next two years. And what a great two years it was.
End of Playboy of Dallas, Part 1
CLICK HERE for Part 2 – More Bunnies! Dallas Cowboy Pro Bowl LB Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Gene, Rick and Kathy from the"Boogie Machine", the way it ended, the Reunion – and more Bunnies! (you can never have enough Bunnies).
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Should masks be mandatory in public to stop the spread of COVID-19?
Evidence is still emerging, but experts say benefits of widespread mask usage far outweigh risks
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.
A growing chorus of experts is calling for the widespread use of masks to slow the spread of COVID-19 and suggesting it may be a key factor in why some countries seemingly have their outbreaks under control while others are completely overwhelmed.
The World Health Organization does not officially recommend the general public use masks as a way to reduce spreading the virus, only saying that if they do decide to use masks, they should do so "safely and properly."
"We encourage countries that are considering the use of masks for the general population to study their effectiveness, so we can all learn from their experience," a spokesperson for WHO said in a statement to CBC News.
"Currently, there is insufficient evidence for or against the use of any type of mask among healthy people in public settings. As new information and evidence about masks and non-medical masks emerges, WHO will update existing guidance."
WHO does recommend medical masks, respirators and other personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care settings, but says only people who are sick or caring for a sick person at home should use them in the community.
WATCH | An epidemiologist explains why masks are effective for asymptomatic carriers
"Masks alone cannot stop the pandemic. Countries must continue to find, test, isolate and treat every case and trace every contact," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier this month.
"Mask or no mask, there are proven things all of us can do to protect ourselves and others: keep your distance, clean your hands, cough or sneeze into your elbow, and avoid touching your face."
WHO's recommendations on masks not 'logical'
But the specific language WHO uses has come under fire from experts who suggest that even non-medical masks could be beneficial in curbing the spread of the virus — or, at the very least, couldn't hurt.
Babak Javid, a professor at the Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing and a consultant in infectious diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals in the U.K., thinks there's a double standard in WHO's messaging.
Yes, he says, "there's no direct evidence that masks can prevent transmission."
"But there's no direct evidence that hand-washing can prevent the transmission of COVID or lockdowns can prevent the transmission of COVID because none of those trials have ever been done in the context of COVID."
Javid said there is a "logical gap" in WHO's recommendation, because it doesn't take into account the significant number of asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic carriers of the virus in the general population, also known as "silent spreaders."
Asymptomatic carriers are those who show no symptoms, while pre-symptomatic carriers are people who have not yet displayed symptoms — usually in the first few days of infection.
"What I think is indisputable is that the face covering can reduce the amount of both droplets and virus that we can transmit," he said.
Research on virus's spread suggests masks could help
Emerging research has revealed more about how the virus spreads from person to person, suggesting it doesn't just transmit through coughing but also through simply talking.
A U.S. National Institutes of Health study published as a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine this week provided visual evidence that "speech-generated droplets" can become suspended in the air and inhaled by other people, potentially exposing them to viruses like the one responsible for COVID-19.
That provides some preliminary evidence that the potentially deadly coronavirus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, could be transmitted between people just by speaking normally.
"There's plenty of research showing that even just when we talk and breathe, we release these very small respiratory droplets, smaller than we can see," said Dr. Linsey Marr, an expert in the transmission of viruses by aerosol at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
"Masks really could help make a difference because they will — if you are sick without knowing it — block those droplets from flying into the air and then staying in the air or contaminating surfaces."
A paper by researchers in China set to be published in July in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, found an infected individual without symptoms was apparently able to spread the virus to nine others at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China.
The direction the air-conditioning system was blowing may have helped transport the virus particles to other diners, who otherwise had no contact with one another, while those elsewhere in the restaurant who weren't near the airflow didn't get sick.
The study has limitations because the findings were not corroborated with experiments to simulate the airborne transmission. Still, the research is raising concern.
"That was pretty strong evidence for the potential that transmission is happening through these microscopic respiratory droplets that can stay floating in the air for a long enough time to kind of go back and forth over the tables," Marr said.
But the lack of comprehensive research on the effectiveness of non-medical masks in limiting the spread of virus particles, either with this coronavirus or other viruses, makes assessing their usefulness in the current pandemic challenging.
The one randomized clinical trial of cloth masks in a health-care setting for protection against respiratory illness — done on influenza, not COVID-19 — found that they let through 97 per cent of virus particles and actually increased the rate of infection among health-care workers. That same study found surgical masks failed to block 44 per cent of virus particles.
The authors of that 2015 study recently wrote an addendum to their research because they have received so many questions about it since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Should masks be mandatory in public?
Last week, Transport Canada made it mandatory for all air passengers to wear non-medical masks or face coverings over their mouth and nose during travel.
Passengers on boats are "encouraged to wear non-medical masks or face coverings whenever possible," while train or bus riders are also "strongly encouraged" to do the same.
But the Public Health Agency of Canada only recently changed course on its recommendations to Canadians on the effectiveness of non-medical masks, previously saying masks should only be worn by health care workers.
"Wearing a non-medical mask is an additional measure that you can take to protect others around you," Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said on April 6 — while warning that a non-medical mask doesn't necessarily protect the person wearing it.
"A non-medical mask can reduce the chance of your respiratory droplets coming into contact with others or landing on surfaces," Tam said. "The science is not certain, but we need to do everything that we can and it seems a sensible thing to do."
PHAC also says non-medical masks are "not a substitute for physical distancing and hand-washing," but can protect those nearby "even if you have no symptoms."
But some experts say that given that significant role asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic carriers of the virus play in the spread of the virus, Canada should be mandating the use of non-medical masks in public, the way other countries have.
"Public health officials are saying there's no evidence that the mask is going to keep you from getting the disease, but I also think it's important to recognize that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," said Dr. Joe Vipond, a Calgary emergency department physician.
"Even a small decrease in the risk of me getting the disease is still really important from a population level."
Evidence from other countries
Asian regions that have successfully dropped their curve of new COVID-19 cases, like South Korea, Taiwan and China, all have widespread mask usage, while the Czech Republic recently implemented mandatory mask measures and saw case fatality rates drop, Vipond wrote in a recent op-ed for Maclean's magazine.
There are numerous factors as to why a given country can become overwhelmed by the virus, including the onset of outbreaks, the accuracy of reporting, backlogs in testing, the age of the population and the effectiveness of containment measures.
But Javid said that while this is still just correlative evidence, it could be one reason why countries like Taiwan, which doesn't have total lockdown measures in place but does have widespread mask usage, has a much lower incidence of COVID-19 than other countries like Sweden, for example, where masks are less commonly used.
Jeremy Howard, a University of San Francisco researcher and the co-founder of Masks 4 All, said Japan is another example of a densely populated region with widespread public mask wearing and low levels of COVID-19 despite not prioritizing physical distancing or testing compared with a place like New York.
"There's all this evidence, which strongly suggests, as part of the suite of tools we have available, wearing a mask appears to be astonishingly powerful, and the cost is nearly zero," he said.
"And when we compare the level of evidence we have to something like washing hands, it's vastly, vastly, vastly, vastly higher."
While masks are not a "magic bullet" in curbing the spread of the virus and more research still needs to be done on their effectiveness, Javid said they can be used in conjunction with other measures like physical distancing and widespread testing to slow the spread.
"To get over the COVID problem we're going to need a multi-pronged approach. To me, what's attractive about masks is that they're cheap, they're probably effective and they allow economic activity," he said.
"We can't stay in lockdown forever, so to me, the downsides are so minimal compared to the potential upsides."


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Chinese RMB Set to Appreciate in 2010
The Chinese Yuan (RMB) spent all of 2009 pegged to the Dollar at 6.83. Since the Dollar depreciated against almost every other currency during that time period, the Yuan has fallen against these currencies, undoing most of its appreciation in 2008. As a result of both international pressure and internal economic conditions, however, the Yuan's stasis should come to an end soon. The only questions are when, how and to what extent.
In hindsight, the Central Bank (i.e. state economic planners) of China were probably justified in holding the Yuan in 2008. At a time when forex markets (and other capital markets, for that matter) were behaving erratically, the Yuan was a baston of stability. China's premier, Wen Jiabao, recently boasted, "Keeping the yuan's value basically steady is our contribution to the international community at a time when the world's major currencies have been devalued." In fact, there is evidence that the Central Bank went against market forces in the opposite direction during the height of the credit crisis, and successfully prevented the Yuan from depreciating, thus proving that a currency peg can work both ways. The result was price stability, and a boost to exporters that had been damaged by the falloff in foreign demand for Chinese goods.
With the global economy emerging from recession, the argument for maintaining the peg is becoming less tenable. China's economy, itself, grew at an impressive 8.5% in 2009, and is forecast to grow even faster in 2010, by 9.5%. Thanks to a surge in bank lending and the government's massive economic stimulus program, inflation is also ticking up. It has been approximated at 2.5%, but is contradicted by spikes of 50%+ in the prices of certain staple goods, and certainly doesn't take into account the rise in asset prices. China's benchmark stock market index surged 90% in 2009, and property prices increased by 30% in some areas.
The dual concerns, of course, are that the money supply is expanding too fast and that bubbles are forming in certain asset markets. The weak RMB is certainly not helping either. Thanks to relaxed capital market controls and expectations of further appreciation, speculative "hot money" is once again pouring into China. Holding down the Yuan in the face of such pressure is becoming prohibitivel expensive: "China's foreign-exchange reserves climbed 17 percent in the first nine months of 2009 to $2.27 trillion, the world's largest holdings." Some of the demand is naturally being tempered by bubble concerns, but the trend is still money coming into China.
There is also the argument, much mooted in economics circles, that an appreciation of the RMB would be good for the Chinese economy. Because of a perennially weak currency, its economy has become to addicted to exports to drive growth. "As a report from research firm Euromonitor International notes, in U.S. dollar terms, China's consumer market lags those of the U.S., Japan and much of Europe, with private consumption just over one third of GDP in 2008." This is probably a product of social and cultural forces, which still emphasize saving. Skeptics of the usefulnes of RMB appreciation point out that rebalancing the Chinese economy would start with changing the culture of saving, but a stronger currency would certainly provide a powerful incentive. Not to mention that a more valuable RMB would give Chinese companies more leverage in consummating outbound corporate M&A deals and natural resource acquisitions that they have been so keen on in recent years.
On the other side of the debate are skeptics of a different sort- those that think RMB appreciation is justified by forward-looking macroeconomic fundamentals. Some fear hyperinflation of the sort that China faced in 2007 and was only brought under control by the global economic recession and concomitant decline in resource prices. "Franklin Allen, a professor of finance at Wharton [University of Pennsylvania], estimates the likelihood of inflation reaching between 10% and 20% to be around one in five." Any inflation beyond what is experienced in other economies would have to be reflected in the RMB. In a hyperinflation scenario, the Central Bank might even have to deliberately depreciate the currency.
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While this view is gaining some traction, it is still relegated to the minority. Investors and economists are now operating under the firm assumption that China will allow the RMB to resume its appreciation soon. As for when, it could be any day, though probably not for a few months still. As for the questions of how and to what extent, some economists have argued for a one-off appreciation (10% has been suggested) in order to discourage future inflows of speculative capital. Most analysts, though, expect the rise to be gradual. Futures prices currently reflect a 3% rise over the next year, and the consensus among economists is similar. It also depends on how the Dollar performs over the near-term: "If better-than-expected growth in the U.S. helps the greenback recover this year…That would take some of the pressure off Chinese policy makers."
Personally, I think expectations of a 3-4% rise over the next twelve months are pretty reasonable. The Chinese government doesn't have much to gain (neither politically nor economically) from a rapid appreciation in the currency, so if/when the RMB rises, it will probably only be in "baby steps."


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The Monsanto Company produces RoundUp, which is a popular weed killer that is sprayed on numerous crops and gardens. RoundUp contains glyphosate, which a large body of research has shown can cause cancer. Many crops have been genetically modified to withstand being sprayed with glyphosate. A worker can be exposed to RoundUp through the air, skin contact, or even ingestion.
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An Exclusive Interview with Wayne Karlin, Homer Steedly Jr.
Connecting established and emerging authors with the community has been the goal of the College of Southern Maryland's Connections series since it began 20 years ago, with this spring's series no exception in bringing nationally recognized talent up-close and personal with a Southern Maryland audience.
Kicking off the spring literary events March 5 will be CSM Professor Wayne Karlin, an author who has been honored with the Paterson Prize for fiction and an Excellence in the Arts Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America. United States Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, a community college professor in northern California, will be featured April 2, as she brings recognition to The Community College Poetry Project, a three-tiered project she hopes will encourage and promote the importance of poetry and community college programs. Rounding out the series will be the Connections literary magazine publication reading, April 30.
CSM's Neal Dwyer, a literature and languages professor as well as a coordinator of the college's Connections programs and literary magazine, views the college's literary series as an opportunity to connect and inspire people who may not realize that they have an interest, or talent, in the arts. This is accomplished not only through the writers who are featured as guest speakers each semester but also through the college's twice-yearly literary magazine that features the poetry, stories, artwork and photography of Southern Maryland residents.
Since it began in 1990, Connections has featured National Book Award winners Tim O'Brien and Robert Stone, Pulitzer Prize winning poets Yusef Komunyakaa and Henry Taylor, and Maryland Poet Laureates Lucille Clifton and Michael Glaser.
Author of 10 books, Karlin will read from his latest, "Wandering Souls," beginning at 7:30 p.m., March 5, at CSM's Leonardtown Campus, Building A, Auditorium. In it, Karlin reflects on the struggle of veteran Homer Steedly Jr. to find peace for himself and the family of Hoang Ngoc Dam, a man he killed in Vietnam. Tickets are $3 and will be available at the door. The event is supported by Café des Artistes in Leonardtown.
Karlin's previous works include "Marble Mountain," "War Movies," "The Wished-For Country," "Prisoners" and "Rumors and Stones." He is the recipient of numerous awards, including five State of Maryland Awards for fiction, two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, the Paterson Prize for fiction and an Excellence in the Arts Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America. His work has appeared in various media forms including journals, newspapers and movies. Karlin, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps including a tour in Vietnam in 1966-67 as a helicopter gunner, has taught at CSM for more than 20 years.
Kicking off National Poetry Month at CSM, Ryan will read poems from several of her collections, including the forthcoming "The Best of It," beginning at 7:30 p.m., April 2, at CSM's La Plata Campus. Tickets are $5; for information call the box office, 301-934-7828.
Ryan has lived in Marin County, Calif. and taught foundation English skills at the College of Marin for more than 30 years. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ruth Lilly Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and four Pushcart Prizes. She has been included in "The Best American Poetry" collection four times and was included in its "The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997" anthology. In 2006, she was named the chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a post she will hold until 2012.
The Library of Congress' 16th Poet Laureate, Ryan unveiled The Community College Poetry Project in October. "It is at a community college that a student can progress all the way from learning to read to learning to read poetry," Ryan said in a Library of Congress press release announcing the launch of the project on Oct. 1, 2009. "That is, she can get the basic tools she must have to advance in the world and then go on and use them for the mind's joy. This is a progression that improves both the student and her community every step of the way."
The project includes "Poetry for the Mind's Joy," a web site to be launched by the Library of Congress that will feature poetry submitted by community colleges and a National Poetry Day on community college campuses April 1 that will include events, readings and a conference call/webcast.
Completing the Connections series will be readings by contributors to the spring literary magazine, beginning at 7:30 p.m., April 30, at the La Plata Campus, Learning Resource Building, Room 102. The event is free. Deadline to submit poetry, short stories or black-and-white photography for consideration in the magazine is March 17.
For information on Connections, study guides and author links visit www.csmd.edu/connections. Books featured are available at any CSM College Store or online at www.csmd.edu/CollegeStore.
Author Helps "Wandering Souls" To Find Peace
CSM Hosts Professor Wayne Karlin for Connections Literary Series, March 5
In war, promotion and awards may accrue by conquering and destroying the enemy while avoiding the bullets, bombs and treacherous terrain. At home, though, there are no promotions or awards for navigating through the landmines of war's aftermath. It is a journey of memories, a battle of "Wandering Souls." College of Southern Maryland professor and author Wayne Karlin writes of this journey in his latest book "Wandering Souls," which reflects on the struggle of veteran Homer Steedly Jr. to find peace for himself and the family of Hoang Ngoc Dam, a man he killed in Vietnam.
Karlin is the author of 10 books including Marble Mountain, War Movies The Wished-For Country, Prisoners and Rumors and Stones. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including five State of Maryland Awards for fiction, two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, the Paterson Prize for fiction and an Excellence in the Arts Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America. His work has appeared in various media forms including journals, newspapers and movies. Karlin, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps including a tour in Vietnam in 1966-67 as a helicopter gunner, has taught at CSM for more than 20 years.
Steedly started his Vietnam combat service as a second lieutenant leading the 1st Platoon of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. In October 1969, after a series of promotions and re-enlistment, Steedly assumed command of Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.
On March 19, 1969, Steedly turned a bend in a trail in the Pleiku Province and came face-to-face with a North Vietnamese soldier. Armed, they stared at each other for a split-second before Steedly shot first, killing Dam, a 24-year-old medic.
Searching the body, Steedly found several small notebooks and papers which he took and sent home to his mother in North Carolina. For 35 years, Steedly's memories and Dam's papers stayed hidden until his mom returned them to him. With the help of his friend Karlin, Steedly then located Dam's family.
As part of CSM's Connections Literary Series, Karlin will read from Wandering Souls, which tells the story of Steedly and Dam's fateful meeting, the returning of Dam's documents and the return of Steedly to Vietnam to meet Dam's family. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m., March 5, at CSM's Leonardtown Campus, Building A, Auditorium.
In preparation for the Connections program, Karlin and Steedly discussed memory, confronting ones past and helping veterans work through the healing process. A study guide and the interview are online at www.csmd.edu/Connections/readings.html.
CSM: Karlin, you once asked fellow writer Tim O'Brien why he continues to write about Vietnam and its effects. His response was, "It validates my memory." Why do you keep returning to Vietnam as subject?
Karlin: For one thing, war and its consequences provide a writer with intense situations which dramatize basic human dilemmas. For another, the mind-sets and kind of decisions that got us into the Vietnam war, the particular situations of that war and the kind of damages it caused, are all are being repeated; and finally, when you are a writer, and when part of your own experience stemmed from an experience which was seminal and self-defining for your generation and your country, I believe there is a responsibility to write about it.
CSM: Karlin, as I was reading I was very touched by your concern and caring for Homer, especially when you brought him back to meet Dam's family. Were there times when you almost abandoned writing this book?
Karlin: Many times, particularly after I brought the documents back–without Homer–and then he decided we should go back and he should meet the family. It seemed he had come to peace with many things after he saw (through film and my description) how much the document return had meant to and helped the family come to their own peace, and I was constantly afraid that actually meeting them, and then going back to the former battlefields, would undo that healing. As it turned out, my fears were unrealized.
CSM: You have worked on this project for more than five years, after all this time what is the thing that surprised you the most and why?
Karlin: The grace and courage of Homer in his effort to face the past, to carry its weight and make something good come from it, and the grace and courage of the Hoang family and a Vietnamese village, so willing to take into their hearts a former enemy and bring the war to an end.
CSM: Karlin, you appear in the second half of the book and periodically in the beginning. As a fellow veteran, how hard was it for you in the first half of the book to not include your own experiences of Vietnam?
Karlin: I wanted the book to be primarily the story of Homer and Dam–the American G.I. and the North Vietnamese soldier he killed, and I wanted as much as possible to stay out of the story. I only intrude into the second part of the book because I had to become part of the story, when I returned the documents Homer had taken from Dam's body to the Hoang family and when I went to meet and travel with them and Homer. At that point, some of my own experiences were relevant.
Steedly: I think there is a lot of personal story there for Wayne as well. I think my return to Vietnam affected him almost as deeply as it did me. It was a healing experience. We all have demons to put to rest.
CSM: Karlin, in the book, you respond to Dr. Jonathan Shay's theory that what keeps some soldiers from committing atrocities is "moral luck" by arguing, "What you do depends on not where you are but on what you bring with you to that place." Could you discuss this idea further?
Karlin: Shay contended that under the "right" pressures, anyone would commit an atrocity. Yet, we see that even in the worst incidents, such as the My Lai massacre, there were soldiers in the exact same environment, under the same pressures, who resisted participation. If we accept that something in their background helped them to do so, we can ask what kind of training and pre-conditioning might be cultivated systematically. If we accept such behavior as inevitable for everyone, then there is nothing we can do about it.
CSM: Steedly, what did you bring with you when you returned to Vietnam that allowed you to confront your past and meet with Dam's family?
Steedly: The sense of doing the right thing more than anything else. There was a family that didn't know what had happened to one of their family members. It was only right that I go back and explain as much as I could about it.
CSM: Karlin, time and memory play a large role in this book and you even include a discussion with the Vietnamese writer Bao Ninh who describes early Vietnam War literature as being "the ghost of war." Do you feel that the passing of time allows for greater truths to be told or that time is a hindrance to memory and truth?
Karlin: Time, of course, is the great enemy of memory. But, on the other hand, it can allow for contemplation of meaning. Homer had forgotten many details of his service; it was a survival mechanism–he'd even put out of his mind the fact he had sent home to his mother the documents he'd taken off Dam's body. But the reality was that all of it had just stayed buried, and still affected him deeply. When he saw the documents again, after 35 years, as when he saw some of the battlefield where he fought, it all came back vividly, it was all just waiting beneath a thin membrane of memory.
CSM: Steedly, when you returned home, you didn't talk about the war because you were afraid people wouldn't believe you or would discount your experiences. What would you say to our current returning vets about your years of silence?
Steedly: They should find other vets, not necessarily even from the same war, but find other vets because those are the people they can talk to. You can't talk to civilians about combat. You just can't. It horrifies them to even think that you did those kinds of things and are now walking around loose. It doesn't work. You need to find someone you can talk to without having to couch your words, or hold back your thoughts or tame up your language. Another vet can read between the lines, knows what you are talking about and has had the same feelings you've had or are having. I recently went to the 4th Infantry Division Reunion in St. Louis and met with 150 or so vets from the Vietnam War. Within five minutes you are talking openly and in detail about things you haven't spoken of in 40 years. You feel comfortable because you don't have to explain yourself or justify yourself. They know where you have been and that is what these vets need, so I encourage them to go to the Veteran's Administration and vet centers and talk with people who have been in their shoes and talk their language. Don't do what I did and wait 40 years to do it.
Also, I do think that of all the tragedies, the biggest tragedy of war is not the effect it has had on the vets, tragic as that is, but the effect it has had on their friends, families and spouses because when these vets came back they were different. It affects everyone around them. Any woman who stayed with a man who has lived through combat, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and all it brings deserves a medal.
CSM: Karlin, as we see the number of Iraq and Afghanistan veteran suicides increasing, how can a story such as this change the public and the military's response to those who are afflicted? How would you like to see this disease dealt with?
Karlin: Like Homer just said, when he came back from the war he tried to talk to people about it, but soon found that no one wanted to listen, either because they were indifferent–felt it had nothing to do with them–or because he disturbed the more comfortable images they wanted to have. Because of this, the experience always remains inside, creates in oneself the feeling of being a pariah, outside the community–one can't come home. In his case, as in many, it led to self-destructive, suicidal behavior. When Homer and I went to Vietnam last year, we helped the Hoang family find, disinter, bring to light, commemorate and then rebury in peace the remains of the man Homer killed. That process–not literally of course, but in essence and pattern–is what an individual, and a country, has to do to bring men and women home from war. The community has to be willing to listen, to share the experience and be changed by it–and even to make something positive come out of it–in order for the soldier to truly come home.
CSM: Steedly, how do you think families and the public can help returning soldiers?
Steedly: Good question, not sure I know the answer. Talk with another vet. Of course, when you come back that is the last thing you want to do. You want to return to a normal life. I think the military does a better job of encouraging vets to attend counseling which is a good idea because you arent going to do it voluntarily. It is too fresh and painful for you to want to go there. But at some point you really do need to talk about and touch your emotions. I was afraid of my emotions. I had so much anger and rage in me that I was afraid that if someone said something wrong to me I might go and kill someone. When I first came back, I never had a weapon far away and I had a real fortunate incident where I realized that my combat instincts might lead me to kill someone, but stopped in time and realized the danger.
Try to understand that it is scary coming back. You are coming back from a place with no rules and you are coming home to a place of rules. My solution for PTSD was that I became a workaholic. I worked six of seven days a week, 12, 14, 16 hours a day. I loved working with computers, was good at it and didnt mind working like a maniac, but that was how I dealt with it. I was so busy I didnt have time to think about Vietnam. I think that is how a lot of veterans handle it.
Sooner or later, it has to be dealt with because the little of things can bring it back. I thought I was perfectly normal, just a shy farm boy living 30 miles out of town in the country in a trailer by myself, who didnt make eye contact or talk to anyone. I thought I was coping well but now I know I had all the classic symptoms of PTSD. Of course, if someone had talked me into seeking counseling I might have gone once or twice to be polite but that would have been the end of it.
My healing has been quite dramatic and I am now in touch with hundreds of vets via email and phone. It has gotten to the point where I feel like I am back in a leadership role, back helping my troops.


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Banksy: A Visual Protest
On ViewChiostro Del Bramante
September 8, 2020 – April 11, 2021
When Joachim Pissarro and I started working 15 years ago on our two books about what we dubbed "wild art"—art from outside the gallery and museum world—we were surprised at how much we found. In this country, in Europe, and even in China, there is a great deal of graffiti. And some of these artists had massive websites. We discovered that street art is an extremely serious business. Banksy, who was probably born in 1973, is without any doubt the most famous of these wild artists. The recent self-destruction of one of his works immediately after Sotheby's auctioned it has cemented his reputation. An enviably clever artificer, his art has been written about at great length. A vast assortment of Banksy's works are for sale on eBay, there is at least one full-length film about him, and he has had both grand collectors and many museum shows. The large exhibition currently occupying the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome is but the latest such show.
Viewed superficially, Banksy's works may seem varied. His subjects include a bomb thrower preparing to throw flowers, two grannies knitting punk sweaters, and a combat helicopter with a pink bow. In fact, however, the satirical force of most of his images derives from a single familiar device. Just as René Magritte's Surrealist paintings often rely upon unexpected juxtapositions of banal objects or scenes, a daylight sky and a nighttime street for example, so Banksy shocks by creating irrational correspondences. Bomb throwers don't throw flowers, grannies don't knit punk sweaters, and combat helicopters don't have bows. Consequently, seeing these images is momentarily jarring. Sometimes Banksy flirts with blasphemy, as in Christ with Shopping Bags (2004), with a crucified Christ holding shopping bags in outstretched arms. But he gets into trouble when he tries to juggle more than two pictorial elements, as in Because I'm Worthless (2004). Here, a rat wears a peace sign necklace and carries a poster that says: "Because I'm Worthless." This image just feels confused.
Occasionally, I grant, Banksy falls into inspiration, as with an untitled image from 2008 showing a zebra with some of its stripes hung as if they were washed clothing on a line put out to dry. And I greatly admire another untitled work, this one from 2004, which shows two male English cops kissing. But mostly his work over two decades is very repetitive. Generally these are remarkably tame pictures. When the curator Gianni Mercurio links them to Soviet revolutionary art, the work of the Situationist International, and the French activists circa 1968, such comparisons feel forced and visually unconvincing.
What interests me most about Banksy, I confess, is that he fascinates so many people. He has an extraordinary mystique. As the gallery announcement rightly proclaims, he is "the world's most famous unknown artist." Our visual culture is enchanted with very detailed biographies, as if knowing all the personal details about famous artists would help us understand their works. And so, it's perhaps unsurprising that the success of Banksy in avoiding such scrutiny contributes to his reputation. In an era of omnipresent surveillance he's preserved his privacy. I suspect that this exceptional achievement is one reason why he is so admired. In that way, he is comparable to the novelist Elena Ferrante, who also inspires much detective work concerning her identity. Name another internationally famous street artist—name another internationally celebrated contemporary Italian novelist. Both Banksy and Ferrante are singular figures.
But perhaps my present critical judgment is unjust. For just as seeing Catholic altarpieces in a public art museum is to consider them outside of their original intended setting, so is looking at these works in a catalogue, like viewing them in an exhibition, is to take them out of context. I fondly remember a Banksy in Naples, which was strikingly effective street art. It depicts the Madonna with a handgun above her head, set alongside a typical little Neapolitan street memorial that shows the Virgin Mary in a more familiar context (you can find it online). Street art is a law unto itself, as it's often quickly painted and meant to be seen by passing bystanders. To display such works in a space like the Chiostro del Bramante, then, poses a severe challenge. And of course, since Rome is inaccessible to American travelers right now, I saw them just in an exhibition catalogue—but these images were never meant to all be seen in quick succession.
Just as a Raphael fresco would not be effective street art, I expect that Banksy's works are not at their best in this art world setting. But what am I saying, when it happens that the Chiostro del Bramante, site of Banksy's show, is immediately adjacent to Basilica of Santa Maria della Pace, where you can see Raphael's The Sibyls (c. 1515) in a display marking the 500th anniversary of his death. And so the online publicity promotes a dialogue between these two figures on the basis of "the evocative power of their images. An innovative language that made them protagonists and revolutionaries in their time." Would that I could get to Rome to test that claim!