What Boys Should Know

Any grown-up boy who has ever talked with the other fellas in the locker room has heard tales about B-girls--those satin cheats whose barstool love costs a fortune in fake champagne and broken promises. But last week the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee began a sober study: "What do you mean by 'B-drinking'?" asked pious Chairman John McClellan. In four days of outraged testimony, he learned the whole old story.

"If someone buys a drink, the girl gets a colored stirrer." a witness lectured. "She puts it in her bra, her stocking or her shoe. At the end of the night, she turns the stirrers in for cash.'' Philadelphia Police Inspector Frank Rizzo told of boozy seminars with the girls of his city: "They start on regular liquor. Then they move up to champagne. Of course, the champagne is usually wine and soda.'' "Johns" who balk at the swizzle swindle are promptly returned to their senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife." The tricks are the same in the deadfalls of Miami, Cleveland and Chicago's sinful suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope of becoming "exotic"' dancers, many of the girls are forced to serve a dark apprenticeship in hustling drinks, picking pockets, and prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they are all members of the American Guild of Variety Artists. But A.G.V.A. clearly has done little or nothing to improve their working conditions. Said Stripper Corinne Stein: "The girls were forced to mix, to use sex to get customers to buy drinks. In Cleveland you either 'mix' or get hit over the head." Complaints to A.G.V.A. are invariably point less: "What have you done for the girls?" McClellan asked Chicago A.G.V.A. Manager Martin Cavenaugh. "Not anything, sir," said Cavenaugh. "Not so far."

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