On the Cover 35
With seven LPs on the charts, a thriving third marriage and Honeysuckle Rose, a movie that could be his biography, country music rebel Willie Nelson is in honky-tonk heaven
Up Front 20
The man behind the designer jeans revolution, Warren Hirsh, dumps Gloria Vanderbilt for Calvin Klein and Diane Von Furstenberg
Twelve-year-old Walter Polovchak battles his father for the right to live in the U.S.—not the U.S.S.R.
Margaret Trudeau is back—but this time she wants people to laugh at her
Michelle Smith's horrifying childhood as a prisoner of Satanists puzzles church and psychiatry alike
Bonus Book II 45
In the second excerpt from that hot new chiller The Fifth Horseman, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, the President concocts a desperate scheme to stave off nuclear disaster to New York
Arts 59
Concert bookers listen when pianist Janina Fialkowska's agent calls—Arthur Rubinstein sent her
Couples 64
H.G. Wells inadvertently wrote a love story—it is Malcolm McDowell's and Mary Steenburgen's
Lookout 69
Children's counselor Kim Long
Balloon-bouquet merchant Steve Blunck
On the Move 71
Laraine Newman blabs about Saturday Night Live jealousies, drugs on the set and Wholly Moses co-star Richard Pryor
In His Own Words 75
Why Huckleberry Finn and even Webster's dictionary are barred by some schools: Edward Jenkinson sounds the alarm against book banning in school libraries
Inventors 81
William Carlton and Margaret Parnis-England's electronic tennis-line judge flawlessly answers that eternal question, "In or out?"
Over the Tube 89
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does it more delightfully than wacky Today forecaster Willard Scott
Jocks 94
Pro soccer's wandering goalie, Jack Brand, finds a home and revived career in Seattle
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 8
W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers and Mae West brighten CBS' Funny Business, but Abbott and Costello are on first
Tired of being pressured into getting in shape? Walk, don't run, to buy Aerphobics: the Scientific Way to Stop Exercising
Jackson Browne's Hold Out isn't quite so full of appeal as his classic Running on Empty
Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Ted Knight are engaging duffers in an above-par golf club comedy, Caddyshack
Star Tracks 78
Sweden's King Carl Gustaf hits Newport
John Lennon and Yoko Ono wax hot
Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher find a cause
Chris Atkins and Matt Dillon trade secrets
Carroll O'Connor re-weighs women
Bjorn Borg and bride Mariana bask
People Puzzle 86
Chatter 96
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