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REMEMBERING CAVALIER MAGAZINE LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE My friend Michael Simmons, who has been the editor of National Lampoon, recalls that Cava/rerhired fine scribes. A few examples: Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, William Saroyan, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon. Characters show up from Andy Warhol to Timothy Leary. And the photos of models weren’ t even soft porn, merely tits and ass. Cavalierwas |aunched by Fawcett Publications in 1952. Men’ s magazine Cava/ier(motto: “For the American Male” ) was published the year before Playboy, to whom it has often been compared. Back in the day, Cava/iertried to be seen as slightly hipper, more youthful, and considered a bit more clever than its big name rival. Almost an _ anti-establishment in Playboy. A slogan stated: “Your dad bought Playboy, you bought Cavalier." | BECAME A COLUMNIST | was invited to write a column, named “The Naked Emperor,” for Cava/ier, that was beginning to publish underground writers and artists. They paid me $1,000 a month. My first column, in 1964, was a report on an auction of two-inch HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024374