STAND Magazine - The magazine for people who prefer to stand, 1966

"Standing," said Editor in Chief Dortha Abzug, "is something that almost every abled-bodied people enjoy doing."

STAND was the result of a merger between STRIDE Magazine and POSTURING Quarterly.   At it height, STAND was found in every podiatrist and orthopedic doctor's office in the United States and Canada. 

What killed off Stand was the running fad.  It wasn't just enough to stand, but now people expected to move about. Exhausting business that. 

The final issue of Stand came with its Woodstock issue.  Not a whole lot of standing at that one. 

 

Gideon's Strumpet

Detective Gideon Strong is a man who attracts the wrong kinds of women when he isn't looking for trouble.  In Gideon's Strumpet, he finds Mayo Montez, a hardscrabble woman with a soft boiled heart, trying to sleep her way out of the gutter up to a middle-class house in a better end of town.  And maybe into a Colonial or even a Dutch Colonial with a cabana and an in-ground pool.  "What's a girl like you driving an Oldsmobile sedan?" Gideon wonders. When he find a copy of the latest issue of Town and Country Magazine in the maid's room, he knows that every dog has its day, and every dame has a bone to pick with her master.  All this and more will be revealed when things come to a head at midnight, New Year's Eve.   

GIRL!, February 1966

What can you say about a magazine that encouraged its readership to dot their "i"s with happy faces?  The magazine that first explored the essence of "etc." as a decorating element when committed to art?  Or a magazine that encouraged its readership not just to love pink, but to become the color itself?  Or even a peridoical that taught females how to communicate with one and other by using the greeting "Hey, Lady!" in tones so high that only dogs could hear it?  That, my friends was the brilliance of GIRL! magazine.