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Argosy [v384 #5, November 1976] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.00, 70pp, quarto, cover by Frank Searle) 5 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 7 · Front Lines · Anon. · cl 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 13 · Knute Rockne: Another Side to the Legend [from Knute Rockne: A Legend Re-Visited] · Jerry Brondfield · ex Random House 1976 [Knute Rockne] 21 · The Last Trophy · Jim Spencer · ar 22 · The Campaign Train That Lost a Presidential Election · Robert Berryhill · ar; illustrated by Bruce Day 31 · The Real Reason Behind Jimmy Hoffa’s Murder · Ernie Volkman · ar [Jimmy Hoffa] 38 · The Man Who Tracked and Sighted Nessie for Seven Years! · Jack Carroll · ar [Frank Searle] 43 · A 20th Century Robinson Crusoe · Charles Gnaegy · ar [Bob Griffin]; illustrated by Charles Gnaegy 50 · To the Polls Ye Sons of Freedom · Clare Conley · ar 52 · Hemingway’s Africa: From Gun to Camera · Nick Karas · ar; illustrated by Nick Karas

Argosy [v384 #6, December 1976/January 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.00, 70pp, quarto, cover by Tony Schweikle) 5 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 7 · Front Lines · Anon. · cl 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 14 · “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” · James C. Mills · ar 15 · The ’76 Campaign [from Stand Up for America] · George C. Wallace · ex Doubleday 1976 18 · Are Flu Vaccines Safe? · Dick Pintarich & Ray Stout · ar 24 · The World Championship of Poker · Tony Korody · ar; illustrated by Tony Korody 30 · Richest Gold Find in U.S. or World! · Rodney Barker · ar 36 · Bigfoot: Man, Beast or Myth? · T. Jeff Williams · ar 42 · How to Beat Your Landlord · Mary McCloskey · ar; illustrated by Bruce Day 52 · Can a Pro Football Game Be Fixed? · Jack Clary · ar

Argosy [v384 #7, February 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 100pp, quarto) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. Mislabelled v384 #7 instead of v385 #1. 8 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 12 · A Week with the Green Berets · Richard Smith · ar 15 · Front Lines · Anon. · cl 16 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 20 · Valuable Ways to Increase the Value of Your House · Hubbard H. Cobb · ar 25 · A New Future for Airships · Bruce Most · ar 29 · The Hour of the Bell · Harry Mark Petrakis · ex Doubleday 1976 30 · The Nation’s Greatest Prison Escape Artist · William O. Ferrell · ar 36 · The Mightiest King Kong of Them All · Anon. · ar 44 · The California Time Bomb · Hal Lancaster · ar 48 · Arizona’s Relentless Bounty Hunter · Dave Molina & Rick Lanning · ar [Bernie Lawrence] 52 · An Untold Side of Hemingway · Ben Finney · ar [Ernest Hemingway] 54 · How the CIA’s Mafia Link Failed to Kill Fidel Castro · Ernie Volkman · ar 62 · How Eight Faced White Death · Larry Dunmire · ar 64 · Roundup Texas Style...5,000-10,000 Rattlesnakes · Neil Selkirk · ar 88 · Latest Dollar Boom: Comic Book Collecting · Mark Davidson & Nirmali Ponnampurama · ar

Argosy [v384 #8, March 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 98pp, quarto) Mislabelled v384 #8 instead of v385 #2. 6 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 15 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 20 · Child-Snatching Cases Number 100,000 Yearly · Bruce Most · ar 25 · World’s No. 1 Terrorist · Arturo F. Gonzalez, Jr. · ar [Carlos the Jackal] 27 · When Hell Was in Session · Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., Rear Admiral U.S. Navy & Ed Brandt · ex The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. 1976 30 · Hitler’s Henchmen Thrive in U.S. · Ernie Volkman · ar 36 · Inside a Volcano and Back...Alive! · Paul Savage · ar; illustrated by Olivier Massart-Janssen 41 · Bermuda Triangle: UFO Link? · Ronald Edwards · ar 44 · Oil Shale: America’s Biggest Enigma · Peter G. Miller · ar 48 · Howard Hughes: Final Years of Torment · Ernie Volkman · ar [Howard Hughes] 52 · The Bizarre Deaths Following JFK’s Murder! · David Martindale · ar [John F. Kennedy] 57 · Squirrel Hunting Has Its Rewards · Jim Spencer · ar 60 · Favorite Hobbies of U.S. Presidents · Frank Thistle · ar 63 · New Guinea Pigkill · Laurie Chamberlain · ar; illustrated by Danny Lehman 88 · Illegal Treasure Hunting: Billion Dollar Rip-Off · Ken Krippene · ar

Argosy [v385 #3, April 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 98pp, quarto) 6 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 8 · Inside Washington · Peter G. Miller · cl 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 15 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 20 · Are the Kissinger Death Plots Real? · Ernie Volkman · ar [Henry Kissinger] 26 · This Way to the Cemetery... · Owen Franken · pi 31 · Are We Really Close to a Cure for Cancer? · Michael Baybak & Trevor Meldal-Johnsen · ar; given as “Cancer: Cure Near?” in the Table of Contents. 34 · Do You Really Need a Lawyer? [from The Average Man Fights Back] · David Hapgood & Richard Hall · ex Doubleday 1976 36 · Soviet War Arsenal Ready to Destroy U.S. and Western World! · William Gunston · ar; given as “Russian War Arsenal Ready to Destroy the World!” in the Table of Contents. 42 · A Real Life Hollywood Sleuth · Jay J. Armes (as told to Frederick Nolan) · ex Macmillan 1976; given as “Jay Armes: Super Sleuth” in the Table of Contents. 48 · The “Bird” That Saved Baseball · Jerry Green · ar [Mark Fidrych] 54 · In Search of a Mermaid · Art Buchwald · ar Argosy Feb 1960, as “Man in Search of a Mermaid: Copenhagen” 59 · The Second Largest Marco Polo Ram Ever Taken · Dan M. Gish · ar 64 · Oil Spills: Biggest Danger to Our Shores · Ernie Volkman · ar 88 · “I Am Anastasia” · Alan Haas · ar [Anna Anderson]; given as “Woman Who Claims to Be Anastasia” in the Table of Contents.; illustrated by Gene Pugh

Argosy [v385 #4, May 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 90pp, quarto, cover by Bill Lovin) 6 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 10 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 12 · The Day I Blew Up the Livestock · Norman Singer · ar; illustrated by Bruce Day 15 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 16 · Brass Rails · Lou Sahadi · cl 21 · Inside Washington · Peter G. Miller · cl 22 · The Greatest Hustler of Them All · Bob St. John · ar [Alvin Clarence Thomas] 27 · The Rise and Fall of Glenn Turner [from Dare to Be Great] · Rudy Maxa · ex Morrow 1977 32 · Argosy Discovers a German U-Boat Off North Carolina · Bill Lovin · ar 38 · Army’s Secret Germ Warfare Tests Are Killing U.S. Citizens · Ernie Volkman · ar 44 · MIA’s: The Forgotten Americans · Bruce Most · ar 50 · Getting the Most from Your Doctor [from The Health Robbers] · Philip R. Alper, M.D. · ex George F. Stickley Company 1976 56 · Swashbuckling Lady · Don Wyckoff · ar [Mary Read] 58 · One Man’s Paradise · Captain Ned Avary · ar 80 · The Matador · Walter Dean Myers · ar; illustrated by Walter Dean Myers

Argosy [v385 #5, June 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 100pp, quarto, cover by J. Marlier) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 6 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 6 · Inside Washington · Peter G. Miller · cl 10 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 12 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 22 · Nixon vs. Nixon · David Abrahamsen, M.D. · ex Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1977 24 · What Patients Don’t Know About Surgery · Ken Rappoport · ar 28 · How to Sell Your Own House · Peter G. Miller · ar 32 · Timber Thieves of the Northwest · Vincent Hannity · ar 36 · The Killer Bees That Are Threatening the U.S. · Ernie Volkman · ar 42 · Charles Lindbergh: America’s Hero Who Conquered the Sky · Warren Sloat · ar [Charles A. Lindbergh] 48 · The Secret War Against Castro the CIA Can’t Stop · Ernie Volkman · ar 52 · The Last of the Riverboat Gamblers · Buddy Basch · ar 56 · Two Who Were There Recall...the Hindenburg Holocaust · Bob St. John · ar 62 · Indy Star Johnny Rutherford Talks About Fear · Hal Higdon · ar [Johnny Rutherford] 64 · Those Old Saturday Cowboys Ride Again · Frank Gay · ar

Argosy [v385 #6, July 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 88pp, quarto) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 5 · Inside Washington · Peter G. Miller · cl 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 15 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 19 · Interpreting Sleep · Samuel Dunkell, M.D. · ar 20 · Ex-Agent Reveals CIA’s Secret Operations [from The CIA’s Secret Operations] · Harry Rositzke · ex The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. 1977 26 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 28 · The Treasure Myth of Victorio Peak · Manfred W. Dobbeck · ar 33 · Who Really Discovered America? · Robert F. Marx · ar 38 · A City’s Madding Run with the Bulls · Richard Sawyer · ar 47 · Ain’t No Lady · Rick Lanning & David G. Molina · ar 48 · How Russia Pierced Our Air Defense! · Ernie Volkman · ar 54 · Illegal Aliens: A $12 Billion Cost · Clarence H. Russell · ar 60 · The Deep: Adventure Under the Ocean · Samuella R. Becker · ar [Peter Benchley] 76 · An Ideal $50 Family Weekend Vacation · J. Wilfrid Gagen · ar

Argosy [v386 #1, August 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 82pp, quarto, cover by Robert J. Groden) 8 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 10 · Inside Washington · Peter G. Miller · cl 12 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 18 · Brass Rails · Lou Sahadi · cl 21 · The Growing Number of American Mercenaries in Africa · Ernie Volkman · ar 22 · Over 100 Miles on a Gallon of Gas? · Gregory Jones · ar 26 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 28 · Argosy Discloses: “The JFK Evidence That Nobody Wanted to Reveal!” · Robert J. Groden · ar [John F. Kennedy] 35 · World Series of Poker · Anon. · ar 38 · Laser Submachine Gun: World’s Most Terrifying Weapon · Ron Laytner · ar 43 · Wall Street Swindler · Michael Hellerman & Thomas C. Renner · ex Doubleday 1977 46 · Charlie Stoll’s Assault · Rick Lanning · ar [Charlie Stoll]; illustrated by Paul Degruccio 52 · Cockfights: Spectacle or Sport? · Clarence H. Russell · ar 56 · The Incredible Neal Watson · Robert F. Marx · ar [Neal Watson] 78 · Hal Needham: Death-Defying Stuntman · Lou Sahadi · ar [Hal Needham]

Argosy [v386 #2, September 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 100pp, quarto) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 6 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 18 · Tornado! · John Edward Weems · ex Doubleday 1977 20 · How Stress Can Cause Cancer, Heart Attacks · Ken Rappoport · ar 24 · Dempsey-Tunney: The Long Count Remembered · Jerry Brondfield · ar 27 · Congressmen “Knuckle” Down · Anon. · ar 30 · Whiskey and Water · Michael A. Ganger · ar 34 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 36 · “I Escaped from the Jaws of a Shark!” · Teri Atkinson Apodaca · ar 44 · The Framing of Lee Harvey Oswald · Robert J. Groden · ar [Lee Harvey Oswald] 49 · Escape Through the Sewers of East Berlin · Karl Rainer Wieck (as told to Cyril W. Bell) · ar 54 · A Japanese Car That Runs on Hydrogen · Ron Laytner · ar 60 · MacArthur: Hollywood’s Look at a Legend · Anon. · ar [Douglas MacArthur] 64 · Without a Trace · Charles Berlitz · ex Doubleday 1977 88 · A “Pot of Gold” in the Mexican Caribbean · Robert F. Marx · ar

Argosy [v386 #3, October 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 100pp, quarto, cover by Bob Correa) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 7 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 12 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 20 · The Camera Never Blinks · Dan Rather & Mickey Herskowitz · ex Morrow 1977 26 · Aerial Smuggling: Billion Dollar Drug Operation · C. Cogburn Foster · ar 30 · Expert Tips for Fall Hunting · W. K. Merrill · ar 36 · The Rockefeller Commission: The Second JFK Whitewash · Robert & Christine Groden · ar [John F. Kennedy] 44 · Lost Atlantis Found? · Richard Sawyer · ar 50 · Return to Alcatraz! · Ron Laytner · ar 54 · The Noise Monster; How It Affects You and Your Family · Ken Rappoport · ar 56 · The Unflappable Thunderbirds · Buddy Basch · ar 62 · To Catch a Snook · J. Wilfred Gagen · ar 64 · Arson: The Burning of America · Ernie Volkman · ar 86 · Treasure or Trash? [Part 1 of 2] · Robert F. Marx · ar; given as “Trash or Treasure?” on the article itself.

Argosy [v386 #4, November 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 98pp, quarto, cover by Jean-Pierre Tartrat) 7 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 8 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 10 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 19 · The Sea Monster No One Can Explain · John Koster · ar 24 · The 35-Year-Old Mystery of the L-8 Blimp · Ron Edwards · ar 28 · How to Make a Million with a Simple Invention · B. L. Motley · ar 31 · Cancer and the Food You Eat [from Cancer and Chemicals] · Thomas H. Corbett, M.D. · ex Nelson-Hall 1977 36 · Unbelievable! The 3,000-Year-Old Man! · Samuella R. Becker · ar; illustrated by Jean-Pierre Tartrat 42 · A Trainer’s Secret: How to Handle Killer Whales · Jay Stuller · ar 48 · Grizzly Bears: New Danger to the Outdoors · Christopher Cauble · ar; illustrated by Jerry Manley 57 · Lobbyists: Influential Power Peddlers [from The Power Peddlers] · Russell Warren Howe & Sarah Hays Trott · ex Doubleday 1976 60 · Crime: New Wave of Violence from Mafia to Youth Gangs · Ernie Volkman · ar 64 · Treasure or Trash? [Part 2 of 2] · Robert F. Marx · ar

Argosy [v386 #5, December 1977] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, 82pp, quarto) 7 · Back Talk · [The Readers] · lc 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 24 · Focus · Anon. · pi 26 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 31 · Brass Rails · Anon. · cl 33 · Women Bomb Squad Members · Ron Laytner · ar 36 · The Second Coming of Adolph Hitler · Ernie Volkman · ar 42 · Lake Superior: A Graveyard for Ships · Jon Luoma · ar; illustrated by Roger Lelievre 46 · Old Stocks That May Still Be Worth Money · Samuella R. Becker · ar 50 · The Great Turquoise Rip-Off · Rick Lanning · ar; illustrated by Paul Degruccio 56 · Threatening Volcanoes of California, Oregon and Washington · Jay Stuller · ar 62 · Deathwork · James McLendon · ex J.B. Lippincott 1977 78 · How Near Is Space Colonization? · Richard Sawyer · ar

Argosy [v386 #6, February 1978] ed. Lou Sahadi (Popular Publications, Inc., $1.25, quarto) Details taken from Table of Contents. 8 · Lifestyles · [Various] · cl 16 · Front Lines · Samuella R. Becker · cl 19 · Onassis: How a Son’s Death Broke His Spirit [from Aristotle Onassis] · Nicholas Fraser, Philip Jacobson, Mark Ottaway & Lewis Chester · ex J.B. Lippincott 1977 20 · Defying Danger Across the Amazon · Robert T. Cook · ar 24 · How to Survive a Blizzard [from The Cold Weather Catalog] · Anon. · ex Doubleday 1977 27 · A Different UFO Film · Lou Sahadi · ar [Steven Spielberg] 36 · Newest Menace in the West: Coyotes · David Ivins · ar 40 · The Carter White House: Better or... · Ernie Volkman · ar [Jimmy Carter] 44 · How an American Survived Torture and Murder in a Mexican Prison · Mark Schorr · ar 48 · Oswald: Why the JFK Truth Will Never Be Known · Ernie Volkman · ar [Lee Harvey Oswald; John F. Kennedy] 54 · Search and Rescue of Old Movies · Jon Weisberg & Paula Mae Schwartz · ar 58 · England Was Never Like This... · William G. Armstrong, Jr. · ar 86 · Marooned...on Dead Man’s Chest · Quentin van Marle · ar