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I didnt even copy it onto a cassette.
What can I say?
This was the summer between high school and college and I was preoccupied with what lay ahead.
And it never occurred to me the radio station wouldnt keep a copy.
As someone immersed in the counterculture, Doug was happy to be interviewed for BAI.
Its hard to overstate how relatively obscure they were.
So I knew any magazine these people created was going to be good.
We didnt become bffs, but we did become friend-ly.
I was open-mouthed at this intuitive leap how did heknowshe had Snoopy posters?
I hadnt mentioned them.
Doug was unable to do this…this made his life uncomfortable at best and sometimes an agony.
People wore regular party clothes and did regular party things.)
Nor would anyone imagine these women might have creative ambitions of their own worth nurturing.
After Doug became less involved in the magazine and I moved to another country, we lost touch.
Little did I realize that the opposite was true.
Then in 1980 Doug died and and it was too late.
Ellin Stein has written forTheNew York Times, The Timesof London, and many other publications.
