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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

    • 1966-02 Playboy Magazine Contents for February 1966

    1966/02 — Vol. 13 No. 2. 192 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: Federico Fellini
  • “How Simon Got His Bureau” — Part 3 of a Novel by Bernard Wolfe
  • European Fashion Dateline — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “A Valentine” — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • Jazz ’66 by Nat Hentoff
  • “Despair” — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Student Princess — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Melinda Windsor
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • A Little Lexicon of Love — Article by Ray Russell
  • Instant Gourmet Cookery — Food by Thomas Mario
  • Mood Ebony — Article by James Farmer
  • Patridge Shoot From Elephantback — Sports by Jack Denton Scott
  • The Girls of Rio – Pictorial Essay
  • Madam Filippa’s Defense — Ribald Classic by Boccaccio
  • Sights and Sounds of ’66 — Modern Living
  • The History of Sex in the Cinema – Part 7: The Thirties — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Single page Vargas Girl – “I never go out with married men, so won’t you please come in?”
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Bart Lytton – William Dozier – Charles Weltner

    • 1966-03 Playboy Magazine Contents for March 1966

    1966/03 — Vol. 13 No. 3. 176 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: Bob Dylan
  • The Playboy Panel – Crisis in Law Enforcement — Discussion
  • “Octopussy” – Part 1 of 2 of a Novelette by Ian Fleming
  • The Contemporary Planesman — Modern Living
  • “O’Hara’s Love” — Fiction by Pietro Di Donato
  • Revelations — Pictorial
  • A New Set of Sex Movies – Satire by Auro Roselli
  • We’re Happening All Over, Baby! — Article by Nat Hentoff
  • Fine Form – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Priscilla Wright
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • Step Right Up! — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “The Good Doctor” — Fiction by Allan Seager
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • Depair – Part 4 of a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trio Con Brio – Pictorial featuring Christiane Schmidtmer – Shirley Anne Field – Rossana Podesta
  • Goldilocks and the three Bears — Humor by James Ransom
  • The Purple Grapes of Queen Julishka — Ribald Classic by Csonka
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Nicol Williamson – John Williams – William Lear
  • Single page Vargas Girl “My agent says I can become a star if I let the right people handle me.”
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1966-04 Playboy Magazine Contents for April 1966

    1966/04 — Vol. 13 No. 4. 224 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: George Lincoln Rockwell
  • “Chronicle of an Event” — Fiction by Ken W. Purdy
  • Playboy’s Spring and Summer Fashion Forecast — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “Octopussy” – Part 2 of 2 of a Novelette by Ian Fleming
  • Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright — Sports by Jack Denton Scott
  • Malibu Beachnik – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Sue Williams
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • A Playboy Pad: Palm Springs Oasis — Modern Living
  • The Goblet of Dreams — Article by Ira Cohen
  • “Marriage, Food, Money, Children, Ice Skating” — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • The Playboy Cover Story — Pictorial Essay is an article covering the history, background and models of Playboy’s own covers, loaded with photos
  • The Double Deception of Janos the Jack – Ribald Classic
  • The History of Sex in Cinema – Part 8: Sex Stars of the Thirties — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Depair – Part 5 of 5 of a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Tom Wolfe – Michael Caine – Ramsey Lewis
  • Single page Vargas Girl “Sending a dozen roses was my boyfriend’s idea, but delivering them one at a time was the florist’s.”
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — Humor by Jim Beaman

    • 1964-05-16 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1964/05/16 —

  • Cover by Saul Steinberg
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Great Oafs From Little Monsters Grow by S.J. Perelman
  • Beisbol in Central Park a poem by Wallace White
  • The Luzhin Defense — Part 2 of 2 by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Salmon Remembers a poem by Hilary Corke
  • The Theatre: Off Broadway by Edith Oliver
  • Musical Events: Out of the Mists by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Letter from Paris by Genet
  • A Yellow Circle a poem by May Swenson
  • The Sporting Scene: Four Days in April (Masters Golf) by Herbert Warren Wind
  • The Current Cinema – Gravedigging by Brendan Gill
  • Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere
  • The Race Track: Now for the Preakness by Audax Minor
  • Books: Conversation by Renata Adler

    • 1964-05-09 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

    1964/05/09 —

  • Cover by Anatol Kovarsky
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Was Lifted by Ears as Boy, No Harm Done by E.B. White
  • The Luzhin Defense — Part 1 of 2 by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Them, Crying a poem by James Dickey
  • May 10th a poem by Maxine W. Kumin
  • The Theatre: Grim Stuff by John McCarten
  • Musical Events: Housewarming by Winthrop Sargeant
  • Annals of Law — The Gideon Case — Part 3 of 3 by Anthony Lewis
  • The Current Cinema: Time Past by Brendan Gill
  • The Race Track: Star from the North by Audax Minor