k, buying several old residence hotels in the Borscht Belt. Baba was introduced to America by one of his first advance men, Be Here Now Baba Ram Das, Timothy Leary’s co-investigator in the Harvard Student LSD project when his name was Richard Alpert. ESTs Werner Erhard was another of Baba’s advance men. Baba disc

nt-cover article in The Realist, which he titled “Timothy Leary and His Psychological H- Bomb.” When that issue was p

d 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/

pear- ances was on Radio Unnameable. The Yippie movement leader Ab- bie Hoffman was a regular guest, as were Hunter S. Thompson, Al- len Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. The Danbury house fire oc- curred just before the Fasses were set to close on both the sale of the Staten Island house and the pur- chase of the Da