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1965-01 Playboy Magazine Contents

1965/01 — Vol. 12 No. 1. 238 pages.

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy — editorial by Hugh M. Hefner
  • Playboy Interview: Martin Luther King
  • “The Eye” – Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Hypothetical History of Harems — Pictorial
  • “Bingo Bans the Bomb” — Ficiton by P.G. Wodehouse
  • Seeing Is Believing — Article by Terry Southern
  • Political Conventions as Showbiz — Article by Budd Schulberg
  • Remembrances of Things Future — Credo by Ray Bradbury
  • Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions — Humor
  • The Age of Overbreed — Article by Sir Julian Huxley
  • I Don’t Get It — Humor by William Saroyan
  • Progressive Dinner Party — Food/Fashion by Thomas Mario & Robert L. Green
  • The Not-So-Classic Classics — Opinion by Mortimer Alder
  • Designing Female – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Sally Duberson
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • “Tea Party” — Fiction by Harold Pinter
  • Uncle Shelby’s Kiddie Corner — Humor by Shel Silverstein

  • The Psychology of Personnel Management – Article by J. Paul Getty
  • “Good Blonde” – Fiction by Jack Kerouac
  • Eleventh-Hour Santa – Gifts
  • Wag Dogs Tales – Humor by Bennet Cerf
  • Joe – Nostalgia by Jed Harris
  • “Dial ‘F’ For Frankenstein” – Fiction by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Symbolic Sex – Humor by Don Addis
  • Playboy’s Playmate Review – Pictorial
  • The Trial of a True Friend – Ribald Classic by Shaykh Al-Nefzawi
  • Beatle in the Bull Ring – Article by Kenneth Tynan
  • My War With the Machines – Humor by Woody Allen
  • My Fair Teevee Jeebies – Satire
  • Hostileman – Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • On the Scene – Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Soichiro Honda, Vittorio Gassman, and Edwin D. Etherington
  • The Playboy Art Gallery – Humor by Jim Beaman
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder