Issue Date: MARCH 28, 1978; VOLUME 89 NO. 5
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COVER: When a Woman is Boss. How men deal with them. Cover photograph by Carl Fischer.

WHEN THE BOSS IS A WOMAN by Marylin Bender. Now that more women are becoming executives in business, a lot of men are having trouble toeing the line. The problem seems to be that many men can't conceive of a woman as a leader. They keep seeing her instead as their mother, their wife or their buddy.

TOM SNYDER: TV'S CHILD FACES THE FUTURE by Mary Murphy. What will happen to the brash and unpredictable host of the Tomorrow show when new NBC chief Fred Silverman comes on board this June: Tom Snyder was never shy about having opinions, and on this matter he has a few.

LETTERS FROM A SPY by Leonard Mosley. Kim Philby, as you may recall, was an affable and charming British intelligence agent who everyone in London and Washington thought was on our side. But he was a Soviet agent, and he skipped to Moscow, where he now lives. Forthe first time, in a series of letters, he tells about his chums in the C.I.A.

CUBAN CIGARS FOR AMERICAN TASTES by Henri Gault and Christian Millau. The authors, expert French guides to gastronomy, tourism and good living, visit the famous cigar shop of Davidoff in Geneva and reconsider the delicate art of cigarmanship. They choose their favorite Havanas for all occasions.

WILL WE SURVIVE ELECTRONIC BANKING? by Andrew Tobias. For years you've been hearing about push-button banking and the new computerized cashless society. Now New York's Citibank begins to put all this into action and the result is not what you'd call trouble-free. Still, stainless-steel tellers seem inevitable.

SLEEP ON THE SOFA, SIT ON THE BED by Suzanne Slesin. Convertible sofa beds were never highly regarded by designers or arbiters of style. But they won't go away, because they solve the universal problem of extra sleeping space. Here are eight new ones worth having.

FAMILY BUSINESS by Ward Just. An excerpt from the forthcoming novel A Family Trust, this story illuminates a familiar theme: a family business based on quality, and the money-oriented newcomers who want to buy it and change it and ruin it. In this case, the business is a small-town newspaper in the Midwest. Will the heroine's father sell out or will he stand fast?.

HAMILTON JORDAN: A SLOB IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Aaron Latham. Jimmy Carter's right-hand man sits in the White House emanating chaos. His sloppiness is profound; his disorganization is monumental.

FASHION: The new shirts and ties: collars are skimpier, ties are narrower, but at least you don't have to throw out what you now own.

The Language by John Simon. Our language expert does not excuse random change.
The Right Stuff by Suzanne Slesin and Anita Leclerc. Esquire's guide to gear and gadgets.
EsquIre Classified.
Media by Richard Reeves. Scorecard for the last great newspaper war--in Chicago.
The Way We Live Now by Edward Sorel. A regular cartoon feature.
Scenes from Real Life by Stan Mack. A regular cartoon feature.
Backstage with Esquire: Introducing three new contributors: Marylin Bender, Ward Just, Leonard Mosley.
The Sound and the Fury: Letters from readers.
Full Disclosure by Dan Dorfman: Robert Wilson, the wizard of Wall Street, takes a vacation. Bad news.
The Law by Steven Brill. Neil Welch, Philadelphia F.B.I. agent, is the real hero of the David Marston affair.
Outdoors by Geoffrey Norman. Why the trout in the Letort are the world's smartest.
Books by Alfred Kazin. Should we still care about the Hiss case? Perjury, by Allen Weinstein, makes us care.
The Body by Paul Schultz. The hazards of skiing or diving without knowledge of blood gas exchange.
GettIng Away by Stephen Birnbaum. In South America, at least, the dollar isn't dying.
Sports by Roy Blount Jr. A tribute to baseball's unbroken connection to the earth. Meaning: dirt.
Recordings by Albert Goldman. Professor Longhair is the man who gave Elvis his Blue Suede Shoes voice.

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