Mayfair, Volume 3, Number 3, [March] 1968

Burroughs contributes “By Far the Most Efficient and Precise Language We Possess Is the Common Cold”, pp. 54-56. This is the Burroughs Academy Bulletin #6.

Published in London, England by Mayfair in March, 1968.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C190
• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C195
• Raven 19680300MAYF.3.3, b13

Selected Contents:

• news
• unstated: "Dear Sir, or Cypher..." (essay)
• Eric Critchley: illustration
• letters
• unstated: "A Loaf of Wine, a Jug of Bread and Pow! Mayfair's Answer to the Poet Laureate Problem" (comedy)
• Arthur Pottersman: "Books" (essay)
• David Quinlan: "Films" (essay)
• Dave Cash: "Cash on Cannes" (essay)
• John Naismith: "Television" (essay)
• Maddocks: comic
• Grimsdale: illustration
• Trevor Griffiths: "Drift" (prose)
• Raymonde: comic
• multiple photoseries
• Serge Jacques: photographs
• Don Roberts: comic
• Peter Treagus: photography
• Brian O'Hanlon: "Pugby" (essay)
• Roger Mahoney: comic
• Richard Stirling: photographs
• Robert Dowling: photographs
• Roger Baker: "The Kindness of Mandy" (prose)
• Ian Penn: "Only a Generation Before This, They Thought Lindbergh Was Crazy" (essay)
• Peter Clarke: illustration
• Philip Norman: "Darling, You Really Are a Dreadful, Squalid Sow" (prose)
• William Burroughs: "By Far the Most Efficient and Precise Language We Possess Is the Common Cold (The Burroughs Academy, Bulletin #6)" (prose)
• Roland Dourdin: photographs
• Erica Crome and John Adams: "Sex with Shirt Appeal" (fashion)
• Fieldvole: comic
• Kenneth Dowd: "Clubs" (essay)
• Charles Fforde: "Drinking" (essay)
• John Ascot-Lees: "Event of the Month" (essay)
• Leary: comic
• Derek Townsend: "Cannibals Ate Here" (essay)
• Scherzo: comic
• William Boddy: "Sure, It's Just a Box on Wheels..." (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Brian Fisk
• Editor: Kenneth Bound
• Assistant Editor: Graham Masterton
• Art Direction: CJS Associates
• Art Editor: Bernard Higton
• et al