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1965-03 Playboy Magazine Contents

1965/03 — Vol. 12 No. 3. 182 pages.

Contents include:

  • Cover art by Vargas
  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Panel: Uses and Abuses of the New Leisure — discussion
  • A Clowny Night in the Red-Eyed World — Fiction by Calder Willingham
  • Grand Prix Garb — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The Scotsman’s Revenge — Opinion by Ken W. Purdy
  • The Unsinkable Fanny Hill — Pictorial Essay
  • The Eye — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov (Part 1)
  • Far-Out Safari — Sports by Robert Ruark
  • Portrait of Jenny — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Jennifer Jackson
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • What Is Normal? — Article by Wardell B. Pomeroy
  • 2-page Vargas girl spread — “Mother was so pleased when she learned Mr. Hefner would only be using my face on the cover of Playboy”
  • Oh Danny Boy — Fiction by Walt Grove
  • Simply Great — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The Legal Art of Tax Avoidance — Article by Alvin Toffler
  • The Waters of Stingray — Fiction by William Hoffman
  • Carol Lynley Grows Up — Pictorial
  • The New York Playboy Club — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • The Bounty of Belisa — Ribald Classic by Juan Timoneda
  • Somewhere Not Far From Here — Fiction by Gerald Kersh
  • Silverstein In Mexico — Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis

    • 1963-10 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1963/10 — Vol. 10 No. 10. 240 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy Interview: Jawaharlal Nehru – candid conversation
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy: Part 11 -editorial by Hugh Hefner
  • The Going Price for Adoration – fiction by Bernard Wolfe
  • Liqueurs – drink by Ken W. Purdy
  • No Time for the Billiard Ballet – fiction by Jack Finney
  • How to Talk Dirty and Influence People -autobiography Part 1 by Lenny Bruce
  • Fairy Tales for the Jet Set – satire by Larry Siegel
  • Playboy’s Fall & Winter Fashion Forecase -attire by Robert L. Green
  • Growing Wonder – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Christine Williams
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • Lament for the High Iron – nostalgia by Charles Beaumont is about trains
  • Cliche Safari – humor by Phil Hahn and Paul Coker, Jr.
  • It Didn’t Happen – fiction by Fredric Brown
  • The Little World of David Merrick – personality by Alvin Toffler
  • The 1964 Playboy Jazz Poll – jazz
  • Symbolic Sex – humor by Don Addis
  • Elsa Martinelli – pictorial
  • The Calfayan Collection – fiction by Peter Sourian
  • Full page Vargas Girl Color Illustration
  • Persuasion – ribald classic
  • Gone With the Teevee Jeebies – satire by Shel Silverstein
  • Disneyland for Adults – pictorial is about the 6 Playboy Clubs in the U.S.
  • On the Scene – personalities Jay Ward, Valeri Brumel, Franco Corelli
  • Playboy’s International Datebook -travel by Patrick Chase

    • 1965-04 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/04 — Vol. 12 No. 4. 190 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 Interview: Art Buchwald
  • The Man With the Golden Gun — Fiction by Ian Fleming (Part 1)
  • Those Frisky Friscotheques
  • The New Barbary Coast — Article by Herbert Gold
  • The Nude Discotheque — Pictorial
  • Stylish Stout — Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse
  • From Russia With Love — Food by Thomas Mario
  • The Force of Habit — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • OId Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail — Nostalgia by Jean Shepherd is about candy
  • Maelstrom II — Fiction by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Seduced–Sicilian Style — Satire by Ray Russell
  • The Playboy Bed — Modern Living
  • Sweet Sue — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Sue Williams
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — humor
  • Double-Take — Fiction by Jack Finney
  • Playmate Play-Off — Pictorial — Cast Your Vote with photos of Jo Collins, China Lee, and Astrid Schulz
  • Vargas Girl — “Can anyone beat my pair?”
  • Pomposity Repaid by a Knave — Ribald Classic
  • Topping Off the Well-Groomed Man — Article by Jay Sebring
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 1: The Original Sin looks at the nickelodeon days
  • Send Me No Teevee Jeebies — Satire by Shel Silverstein
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — Humor by Jim Beaman

    • 1963-11 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1963/11 — Vol. 10 No. 11. 220 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook -travel by Patrick Chase
  • Playboy Interview: Jimmy Hoffa – candid conversation
  • The Playboy Philosophy: Part 12 -editorial by Hugh Hefner
  • Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back – fable by Shel Silverstein

    • Hallucinogens – articles:

  • A Reporter’s Objective View by Dan Wakefield
  • A Novelist’s Personal Experience by Alan Harrington
  • A Philosopher’s Visionary Prediction by Aldous Huxley
  • Bernie the Faust – fiction by William Tenn
  • Skiing USA – modern living
  • Ambush – fiction by John Reese
  • Fair Deal – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Terre Tucker
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – humor
  • Thanksgiving Dinner A Deux – food by Thomas Mario
  • The Strange Gig – fiction by Borden Deal
  • The Girls of Canada – pictorial essay
  • Playboy’s Preview of Presents Perfect – gifts
  • Full-page Vargas Girl Color Illustration
  • The Eighth Wonder of the World – ribald classic by Petronius
  • How to Talk Dirty and Influence People – autobiography by Lenny Bruce
  • The Playboy Dinner Jacket – attire by Robert L. Green
  • Cleopatra–Italian Style – pictorial
  • Little Annie Fanny – satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1965-05 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/05 — Vol. 12 No. 5. 206 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: Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Visitor — Fiction by Roald Dahl
  • Motoring’s Classic Revival — Article by Ken W. Purdy
  • The Man With the Golden Gun — Fiction by Ian Fleming (Part 2)
  • The Kiss–Circa ’65 — Pictorial
  • The Liberal Dilemma — Opinion by Marquis Childs
  • Proofs Positive — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • Souvenir — Fiction by J.G. Ballard
  • Mademoiselle from Avignon — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Maria McBane
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Pour Le Sport — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Being Refined — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • Hows and Whys of the Perfect Murder — Article by Murray Teigh Bloom
  • Poetry for Moderns — Humor by Jack Sharkey
  • Stella by Starlight — Stella Stevens Pictorial
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Robert Jastow, Frank Gallo, and John Lindsay
  • Vargas Girl — “As long as you’re up, darling, get me my pants.”
  • The Invisible Lover — ribald classic
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 2: Compounding the Sin looks at the decade of the 1910’s
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — Humor by Jim Beaman
  • Little Annie Fanny — satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 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

    • 1965-06 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/06 — Vol. 12 No. 6. 228 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Melvin Belli
  • “Shiela” — Fiction by Robert Ruark
  • The Big Bunny Hop — Pictorial Essay

  • In Praise of Obesity — Humor by Robert Morley
  • “The Man With the Golden Gun” — Fiction by Ian Fleming (Part 3)
  • Stop the World, I Want to Get Salads — Food by Thomas Mario
  • “The Academy” — Fiction by David Ely
  • Word Play — Satire by Robert Carola
  • Brussels Sprite – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Hedy Scott
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • Portrait of the Machine as a Young Artist — Article by J.R Pierce
  • Summer Stripes for Urban Types — Fashion by Robert L. Green
  • The Overnight Guest — Memoir by Pietro Di Donato
  • She Is Ursula Andress — Pictorial
  • Keg O’ My Heart — Article by William Iversen
  • Cruising – Reportage by Paul Jacobs
  • The Tale of an Ass — Ribald Classic
  • Teevee Jeebies, Please Come Home — Satire by Shel Silverstein
  • Playboy’s Gifts for Dads and Grads — Gifts
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 3: The Twenties — Hollywood’s Flaming Youth
  • Hostileman — Satire by Jule Feiffer

    • 1964-01 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1964/01 — Vol. 11 No. 1. 248 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy — editorial by Hugh M. Hefner
  • How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
  • Silverstein’s History of Playboy — humor by Shel Silverstein
  • “An Actor’s Life for Me” — Fiction by Philip Roth

  • A Short History of Toasts and Toasting — Article by William Iversen
  • Here’s How — Toasts

  • …And Here’s How — Drinks by Thomas Mario
  • “The Property of a Lady” — Fiction by Ian Fleming
  • The Hosting Jacket — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The Wisdom of Pablo Picasso — Credo by Pablo Picasso
  • MM Remembered — Pictorial Essay of Marilyn Monroe – 10 pages
  • The Boy Allies — Satire by Larry Siefel
  • The Festive Fondue — Food by Thomas Mario
  • On Being a Managerial Misfit — Article by Vance Packard
  • The Conflicting Ideologies of the East & West — Opinion by Bertrand Russell
  • Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions — Humor
  • Triple Treat — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Sharon Rogers
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • The Uses of the Blues — Soliloquoy by James Baldwin
  • The Vargas Girl Circa 1920 – Nostalgia by Alberto Vargas – 9 pages including a 2-page spread for “Fleurs du Mal” from 1920
  • The Very Acme of Romantic Love — Allegory by Wolf Makowitz
  • Fun and Games — Entertainment
  • Fox Hunting, Who Needs It? – Humor by P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Death of Boxing — Article by Budd Schulberg
  • Advice to a Young Man – Aphorisms by Ernest Hemingway – Just 1 page
  • “The Homecoming” – Fiction by Frederic Morton
  • Word Play – Satire by Robert Carola
  • Playboy’s Playmate Review – Pictorial
  • The Most Remarkable Dream – Ribald Classic
  • Gidget Goes TeeVee Jeebies — Satire
  • The Eleventh-Hour Santa — Gifts
  • The Hanger-On — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • The Playboy Art Gallery – American Gothic – Humor by Jim Beaman
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1965-07 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/07 — Vol. 12 No. 7. 162 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 Interview: Marcello Mastroianni
  • Look Away — Fiction by Hoke Norris
  • The West Coast Way — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Sex and the Single Sherman — Humor by Allan Sherman
  • Summer Punch Bowl — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb — Memoir by Jean Shepherd
  • The Invasion — Fiction by Avram Davidson
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • The Great American Build-Up — Article by Murray Teigh Bloom
  • Clown Princess — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Gay Collier
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • The Man With the Golden Gun — Fiction by Ian Fleming (Conclusion)
  • Fun For the Road — Sports by Charles Beaumont
  • The Game of Hide and Seek — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • The Girls of the Riviera — Pictorial Essay
  • Vargas Girl — “Well, you’ve finally convinced me, Mr. Wyngate. I’m ready to throw in the towel.”
  • The Choice of Ilonka the Chaste — Ribald Classic
  • Little Annie Fanny — satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder