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Talitha Getty DON McCULLIN James Fox LOUIS ARMSTRONG Millie DUFFY Town magazine

Talitha Getty DON McCULLIN James Fox LOUIS ARMSTRONG Millie DUFFY Town magazine

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Rare issue of the British men's fashion magazine Town (think Esquire, but dial up the style)!  TOWN (incorporating Topic) was published monthly by Cornmarket Magazines Limited, and Printed in England by Keliher Hudson and Kearns Limited during the 1950s-1960s. This issue published by MICHAEL HESELTINE (ex-Tory MP) and art directed by ROY CARRUTHERS.

COVER:  

Model reading a book photographed by BRIAN DUFFY.

FEATURES:

TALITHA POL before she married into the Getty family and became Talitha Getty is photographed for Town magazine.  Rare and early feature! The photographer and model met at Samantha Eggar's party, where Pol revealed she is the granddaughter of AUGUSTUS JOHN.

Blue Bandwagon. Clay Perry on the origin and future of Jamaica’s new beat, the 'BLUE BEAT' -  BLUES music played by West Indians including Prince Buster and coming out of Ladbroke Grove.  Features rare unseen photographs of THE CREATORS, Satchmo (LOUIE ARMSTRONG), KENTRIS FAGAN, Rico Rodriguez and the teen female singer MILLIE... Incredible photos by the great JOHN BULMER. 

CONSERVATIVE and LABOUR party member portraits photographed by David Bailey! 5 pages. The edge of the canvas. Peter Laurie on the mechanics of a marginal constituency. 

DON McCULLIN travels to the Himalayan mountains and India for Town, and shot some very beautiful landscape and portrait images of Kashmir, unlike his more known style in 'High Life in the Himalayas'. Eric Newby revisits The Hill-stations and the Vale of Kashmir. 

Confessions of an unrepentant pornographer. By Marcus van Heller a legendary name in bedside literature.

Television - Great War on the small screen. Nat Rothschild chronicles the fresh outbreak of fighting among the Great War historians. 

Behind both Times. The television weeklies analysed by Peter Black. 

From Bumsk to Shepherds Bush. Philip Purser on the pros and cons of Eurovision. 

Fiction - Naked Nude. Short story by Bernard Malamud. [From ‘Idiots First’, a collection of short stories to be published by Eyre and Spottiswoode.

ANNE MORROW illustrates a feature written by NAT ROTHSCHILD.

The court of de Gaulle. An extract from Pierre Viansson-Ponte’s satirical analysis of Gaullist, translated by David Hughes. 

Full page Regency Cream Sherry advert modeled by what looks very much like LEN DEIGHTON..? 

FASHION:

Feature on men's SHOES of the season.

Focus on the SINGLE BREASTED suit, modeled by JAMES FOX the actor, Brett Young the man behind TOP SIX studios, JOHN WHITMORE, 5 pages.

Also - CLAY PERRY, BERNARD MALAMUD, DESMOND RUSSELL, ERIC NEWBY, PETER LAURIE.

Plus the usual articles on motoring, food, film, theatre and sport - as well as, fiction and humour.


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