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...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
...interested in your review of MacBird [March 3]. I was especially interested in the photograph of the "L.BJ. cartoon" being used as a backdrop for the play...
...treasurer of Playboy, was and is a regular Methodist churchgoer; so is Grace. In his early years, Hefner was the kid across the aisle in school who was always scribbling sketches. He liked to write up the doings of local kids for a neighborhood newspaper, and drew 70 cartoon strips about ornery Western outlaws, an interplanetary space traveler and a diabolical villain named Skull...
...added more substantial content as he went along; today's Playboy is a well-stuffed product, bulging with intellectual ambitions and self-confidence. It even includes some tips from John Paul Getty on how to succeed in business. The humor, however, remains on a fairly primitive level. A typical cartoon shows a playboy in bed with a bunnyesque girl, asking: "Why talk about love at a time like this...
...British claim that the name is no one's private property and that the non-Spanish brands are clearly so identified. Not always, objected the Spaniards, who hauled out a cartoon ad for "British Sherry" in which a matador shouts "Magnifico!" "Why a matador rather than a Devonshire lassie?" one judge asked. "The character in this cartoon," explained a man from Whiteways Cyder, one of the plaintiffs, "was misguided...