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1963-12 Playboy Magazine Contents

1963/12 — Vol. 10 No. 12. 278 pages.

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy Part 13 — editorial by Hugh M. Hefner
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • Playboy Interview: Albert Schweitzer
  • Getting the Girls by Robert L. Green

  • “The Vacation” — Fiction by Ray Bradbury
  • What a Night Before Christmas! – Humor
  • Holiday Spirits –Hot…and Cold — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • “Eyewitness” — Fiction by Alberto Moravia

  • How to Read a Book Superficially — Article by Mortimer Adler
  • Susan and Kim — Pictorial featuring Susan Strasberg and Kim Novak
  • Everybody Shinny on His Own Side — Opinion by Robert Paul Smith
  • The Morals of Money — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • To Paradise, By Ferry — Memoir by Arthur Kopit
  • Playboy’s Christmas Cards — Humor by Judith Wax and Larry Siegel
  • “Conversation Over Moo Goo Gai Pain” — Fiction by Anatole Broyard
  • The Holiday Roast — Food by Thomas Mario
  • Prima Donna — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Donna Michele
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • Saltpeter and Wolf — Article by William Zinsser
  • “A Corking Evening” — Fiction by Lawrence Durrell
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • “Beelzebub” — Ficiton by Robert Bloch
  • Editors’ Choice – Pictorial – A page each with three photos include Janet Pilgrim, Christa Speck, Connie Mason, and other favorites
  • The Lady and the Wench — Ribald Classic
  • Madison Square Garden – Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman

  • On the Scene – Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Edwin H. Land, Jim Clark, Woody Allen
  • The “Noble” Experiment — Nostalgia by Ben Hecht
  • Choice Cartoons of Christmas Past – Humor
  • How to Talk Dirty and Influence People — Autobiography by Lenny Bruce
  • Merry Chrsitmas! — Gifts
  • The Teevee Jeebies Story — Satire
  • The Loan — Humor by Jules Feiffer
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — The Mona Lisa — Humor by Jim Beaman
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder