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January 1975

Deadly Hobby for a Retiree

Free at last from people-pleasing, this veteran movie publicist was all set to please himself

UNTIL I TOOK Social Security and a pension at the age of sixty-eight, after forty years in motion-picture-studio public relations, I had successfully hidden even any hints of approaching alcoholism. Two years later, a month beyond age seventy, I was crying for help from AA.

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