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1957-09-16 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 16, 1957

1957/09/16 – Front cover features Carmen Basilio

  • Big News in Contract Bridge – Charles Goren, introduced by W. Somerset Maugham, joins Sports Illustrated’s staff and presents his 10 new commandments of bidding
  • The Velvet Hand – It is Carmen Basilio’s left, and it should beat Sugar Ray Robinson says Martin Kane
  • Spectacle: Mudlark in Blighty – Uphill and Down with England’s hardy trials drivers
  • A Champion Is On the Way – Whitney Tower scouts tomorrow’s racing heroes, today’s 2-year olds
  • National Singles Champions, 1957 – Althea Gibson accommodated history–Malcolm Anderson made it
  • End of an Area — The Dodgers may be dead now, but “wait till next year” by Dick Young
  • One Man’s Arsenal – On the Eve of Hunting Season Ed Zern picks 10 best guns
  • Part 2: God’s Little Underwater Acre – Clare Booth Luce concludes her odyssey of discovery in a colorful new world
  • Pour Le Sport – A fashion scoop from Paris; boutique clothes with a Sporting Look
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course – Part 7 presents Exercises for College Students
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

    • 1966-01 Playboy Magazine Contents for January 1966

    1966/01 — Vol. 13 No. 1. 262 pages.

    Holiday Anniversary Issue

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Princess Grace Kelly
  • The Wisdom of W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
  • “The Last Act” — Fiction by Roald Dahl
  • Those Gilded Galas — Nostalgia by Lucius Beebe
  • John Held, Jr.: Creator of an Era – Nostalgia
  • Cheers! — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • “The Man Child” — Fiction by James Baldwin
  • Sex in the Stone Age — Humor by Richard Armour
  • The Playboy Mansion — Pictorial Essay
  • The Royal Smut-Hound — Article by Kenneth Tynan
  • The Parisians and the Germans — Memoir by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Living With Automation — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Despair — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Redhead! — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Judy Tyler
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • The Great Books of 2066 — Opinion by Mortimer Adler and Clifton Fadiman
  • Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions — Humor
  • Senor Discretion Himself — Fiction by Budd Schulberg
  • When Will the Demonstrations End? — Article by James Farmer
  • Playboy’s Playmate Review — Pictorial
  • Manhattan – Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • Two-page fold-out Vargas Girl “He only needed one shot for the leopard, but it took most of a fifth to get me.”
  • Just Who Is J.D. Salinger? — Humor by H. Allen Smith
  • Flamenca’s Bath – Ribald Classic
  • The Eleventh-Hour Santa – Gifts
  • Going Naked on the Riviera — Article by Geoffrey Bocca
  • A Luncheon at the Ritz — Reminiscence by Bennett Cerf
  • Did I? — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder