The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 109

tnniqtattpamaaiifliPflB 0 0 8 0 tt 8Btoi(' Doctor Hip Pocrates nr mi i si'--1 1 Head Ache Uy Kuvn DEAR DR. SCIIOKNFKM): My old lady refuses to listen to my earphones as she read somewhere that this is bad for the ears. She muttered something ahout direct sound being bad for the drums. If this were true, wouldn't it be more widely known? I have used earphones for years with no bad results. What do you think? 'A it )' It 't Mmm i.

fa. 4 9 II II rt. flM.VJV I. 1 1 1 I a 1 If 1 CD rifi ANSWE Constant loud noise from any source can damage hearing. Earphones won't harm the ears unless the volume is extremely high and they're worn for long periods of time.

Damage to your head may occur, though, depending upon the type of music selected. '1 Kims Dr. Schocnfeld DEAR DR. SCHOEN-I'EED: When I was about 9 years old my friend and I had sexual intercourse ordinary colds and so on. Well, anyway, he invented this transparent helmet to wear out in the cold.

Says it traps your body heat and warms the air before you breathe it. You asked. Why is this man wearing that funny helmet? Good question. You see, he is Dr. Jean-Philippe Crouzet, a Paris physician, and he's convinced that breathing cold air causes all sorts of ailments bronchitis, asthma, Hll" it th he JlcacikSe ooon lioolcs fEacIc with a man about 40 years old.

We didn't know him. We went in his room and fooled around. Now I am 13 years old. My friend and I both haven't started our period. I think it is because we had sexual intercourse.

Will I ever start my period or do I have venereal disease and am I a virgin? How can I become normal again? Please help. II.B. ANSWER: The hances that any physical harm resulted from that experience are very small. But you're obviously bothered now by feelings of shame and guilt. It's not unusual that a 13-year-old girl has not yet started menstruation.

Nor is it unusual when menstruation is delayed or made irregular by emotional stress. hi Kid Your school apparently does not teach adequately about sex or venereal diseases so I would advise you to visit a Planned Parenthood Center. Perhaps you didn't really have sexual intercourse. To ease your mind about the possibility of a venereal disease you could be tested at a free VD clinic run by your local public health department. A' DEAR DR.

SCHOENFELD: Fifteen years ago my doctor told me that I did not have to use a condom if right after intercourse I urinate and wash well, especially the orifice, with soap and water. Since then I had contact with a great many prostitutes and never caught VD. I have a Wasserman test every year for syphilis and all have been negative. It could not have been a matter of sheer luck. 1 have been following my doctor's advice even when it was for love and not for money.

I would tell the lady washing has been a matter of habit for me so that she should not be embarrassed. S.T. ANSWER: Washing with soap and water and urinating after intercourse helps protect against venereal diseases. Wearing a condom gives even more protection. Prostitutes are not responsible for the present VD epidemic.

Good hygiene and good luck have apparently kept you VD-free. '1 1 XF, .11 4 ose rf COOGAN TODAY I was first" pain at being penniless and unimportant compared to his wife. In March 1911, with nothing much else to do and hopes of getting his year of service over, Coogan enlisted in the Army. Flying lessons had been part of the legacy of his boyhood, and three days after Pearl Harbor, he was in the cockpit. One checkout ride later and he was a glider instructor.

He spent the next two years flying the California desert at night He is sure the hundreds of hours of night flying saved his life when he volunteered for "hazardous fluty" and found himself gliding behind the Japanese lines into Burma. He had no intention of going back to acting after the war. But a friend ith a nightclub was desperate for an act. Already balding, his sevond marriage on the rocks, Coogan found himself putting tegether a nightclub act. COOGAN grinds out his 20th ciga-ivtte of the day and lights another.

"I was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital when I was fi. A car accident, my head was split in five piece's, a double fracture, I was out of the hospital 1 I days later. And then seven trips Itehind the lines and riot a scratch on me." 1 le has lived it all the golden childhwd. the narrow escaies and et having lived thioiiu'h it dKs not make it easier to lielieve. lie is silent lor a moment.

"What I'm proudest of," he said, "is that no matter what I do now I was Hie Inst. Neibodv ran ever take ihat (torn, me." PAGE 5 4 1 i 7 4 US'" Ity Aljran llarineti A. )'. Timet Spmim Palm Springs WERE people waiting on the dock at Southampton to meet me. And thousands more outside my hotel in London.

Every hour I would go out on he balcony and wave." His enormous belly only half hidden behind blue wash pants and a starched cotton shirt, Jackie Coogan sits in the living room of his Palm Springs home and drinks iced tea from a pewter tankard. The tea is his own concoction thick, sweet, laced with orange juice and he drinks half a gallon of it. a day. At the far end of the small room is a vase of artificial carnations and a portrait of Coogan as "The Kid." pOOGAN WAS in New York last v- week for a screening of "The Kid" at the Lincoln Center festival honoring Charles Chaplin's return to the United States. That London hotel si-ene was nearly 50 years ago.

Jackie Coogan was the most famous boy in America had the flu in New York audit pushed the Presielent of the United States off the and was on his way to Greece with worth of food and clothing" he had collecteel for children who had been left homeless by the Turkish-Greek war of 1922. He had ridden his private train across the United States the No. 1 box-office star of 1923, according to a poll which listed Valentino in second place and Douglas Fairbanks in third smiling and shaking hands with the people who brought canned goods and clothing to fill his boxcars. BREATHING HEAVILY, Coogan drags a huge scrapbook from some secret hiding plae-e. He has 50 of these black scrapbooks each over 100 pages thick, each longer and wider than the card table on which he plae-es this randomly-chosen one.

In one of the serapbeoks there is a picture of Coogan in a sailor suit two of the medals circling his neck, the third pinned to his blue blouse: bangs of soft brown hair falling across his forchead alxive solemn, innocent eyes. There is alnwst nothing but memory to tie the 5S-year-old man to the 10-year-old boy in the photograph. The chubby solemn face is guarded now by a toothbrush moustache beneath a clown's nose. All that is Hi of the soft brown hair is a graying fringe that e-ircles his bald head. Marrievl four times, divorced ihivc times, father of lour children (including an lS- ear-old daughter ind a 1-yoar-old son by his current wife), Jackie Coogan still makes "a resMv-able living" as an actor.

Once or twice each month he drius the hundred miles to lloll.wood lor a two-day job in one or another television series. In the summer lher is usually summer stock. Most of his tim is spent on the golf course. ing his effect on the national unconscious. Like Shirley Temple, Coogan created styles in hair, clothing, and temperament into which hundreds of thousands of America's children were expected to fit.

had to wear that goddamned haircut until I was 15 years old" as the greeting he usually got from other Army recruits during World War II.) When he was 8, he received a $500,000 bonus merely for signing a movie contract with Metro. "jSJORMAL BOY?" Coogan says. "How would I know what a normal boy would do? When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California. Being who 1 was, I had the best swimming instructor Duke Kahanamoku the year after he won the Olympics. "When I was 10, I was nlaying golf exhibitions with Gene Sara7.cn and Walter Ilagen.

I surfed from I'aja California to San Francisco hen there were only nine or ten surfers on the entire Pacific Coast, I spent three-month summer vacations in our High Sierra cabin 60 miles from the nearest road. I drank milk from my own ranch. Other boys went to see Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth came to see me." It ended gradually. Movie roles Bad Boy," "Daddy," "Old Clothes" etc.) gave way to a vaudeville tour of Europe.

THE FAIRYTALE turned abruptly to nightmare five months before his 21st birthday. Returning from a day of dove hunting in Mexico, the car his father was driving was forced off the road. Coogan was badly bruised. His father and the other three men in the car were killed. He feels even now with his mother an old lady in a wheelchair and "1937 a long, long time ago" and all the bitterness gone, melted by the years that what happened next would not have happened if his father had lived "I was very close to my father.

Very e-lose. My father wanted me to have the money." Coogan had made $2 million before he was 21 years old, but all ho had ever received of that money was an average weekly alknvance el S6.25, When he turned 21, his mother and Arthur Bernstein, the family lawyer who became his stepfather, refused to give him what was left (roughly of the money tie had earned. Under Calilornia law. the "a filings of a minor belonged to his parents. "The law is on our side and Jackie Coogan will get not a ivit from his past earnings." his stepfather announced to the newspaers Vogan filed suit "OOGAN'S FIRST marriage in 1937.

to rising voung starlet Beth- Grable disintegrated in his DEAR DR. SCHOENFELD: I've noticed that you occasionally recommend several books in response to letters from women asking for information on how to reach an orgasm. I wish you would consider adding to your list "The Power of Sexual Surrender" by Marie N. Robinson, M.D. It is ritten for women who consistently fail to reach orgasm, and it concentrates on the psychological barriers more than on physical tech-niejues.

The book is easy to read, and her suggestions on ways to change one's attitudes are simple and effective. I will always be grateful for the help she has given me in changing my feelings about sex and my ability to respond sexually. 11.15. mmm. JACKIE AT 10 "No matter what I do now Coogan's last touch or real fame and real money was in 1961-65, when he played Uncle Fester in the series, "The Addams Family." He lmpes "for fortune to strike again, to hit in another series." pOOGAN'S CHILDHOOD career spanned ten years essentially, perhaps a little more.

Jackie was -1 and a half years old when Chaplin started shooting "The Kid," 5 and a half years old when Chaplin finished the film in 1919. "I was with Mr. Chaplin "or one year and three days, an enormously long time to make a movie them, but he was writing the picture as we went along and sometimes we would close down for ten days or two weeks while he got an idea. The picture was Chaplin's supreme effort, the test of whether he was a baggy pants comic or a ival line actor. After the picture was made, his lame was greater than aivvhodv's in 1 lollv wood," Coogan rcmini.M-cil.

MAT IS difficult to comprehend now is the extent of Jackie Coogan's lame, lie was the first child movie star. Of ail the hundreds of child actors, all the doens of child stars, who have followed him, o.dv Shirley Temple came close to match i 11', I lr -J 1 i julq.ro a a.o a a a a a a. a g.gao ajLPJLe jlbjulbjlb sl pjlbjlpji.bj Laughs From Europe i 1 ITALY i. T. Sunday Eiminer Chronicle, Sunday Punch, April 9, 1972.