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1965-12 Playboy Magazine Contents

1965/12 — Vol. 12 No. 12. 304 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: Al Capp
  • Getting the Girls by Robert L. Green

  • “Despair” — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lincoln and Kennedy — Article by Jim Bishop
  • The Lass Menagerie — Pictorial by Eugenio Hirsch
  • The Old Neighborhood — Memoir by Henry Miller
  • What Do They Mean, Coexistence? — Opinion by William Benton
  • Playboy’s Christmas Cards — Verse by Judith Wax and Larry Siegel
  • “Jeeves and the Greasy Bird” — Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Festive Fowl — Food by Thomas Mario

  • Jack Gelber KO’s a Chinese Commie, Maybe — Humor by Jack Gelber
  • The Circle of Sex — Article by Alan Watts
  • Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid — Nostalgia by Jean Shepherd
  • The Shel Silverstein Songbook — Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • Letter Perfect — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Dinah Willis
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes

  • Matzohball — Parody by Sol Weinstein
  • Three Yuletide Vacations — Travel
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • “The Birthday Party” — Fiction by Evan Hunter
  • Project Sleigh — Humor by Jacob Hay
  • Nothing Works and Nobody Cares — Article by Robert Ruark
  • The Playboy Portfolio of Sex Stars — Pictorial – 1 page each with 3 photos per page of: Ursula Andress, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Arlene Dahl, Sophia Loren, Tina Louise, Carol Lynley, Jayne Mansfield, Elsa Martinelli, Kim Novak, Stella Stevens, Susan Strasberg, Elziabeth Taylor, and Mamie Van Doren (while some of the photos are nudes, probably more than half are not, but all are revealing)
  • “Bread on the Waters” — Fiction by John LeCarre
  • Czar Nikita and His 40 Daughters — Ribald Classic by Alexander Pushkin
  • Playboy’s Christmas Gift Guide — Gifts
  • On the Scene – Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Johnny Janis, John Chancellor, Oskar Werner
  • The Advocate — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder