Word: hef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine history. Since that is below the circulation guarantee of 6 million, Playboy has offered to give credits to advertisers; ad revenue in the past six months has run 7.5% below a year earlier. A basic problem, ironically, seems to be the success of the sexual revolution that Hef ner worked so hard to promote-and that now makes Playboy, once so bold, seem curiously oldfashioned. It is outdone in kinky eroticism these days by a swarm of competitors, notably Penthouse, which has done so well that it will raise its circulation guarantee to advertisers from 3.5 million...
...outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter and a weather forecaster. At Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises, six of Out magazine's 35 editorial employees received notice two weeks ago; the company has a freeze on hiring and raises, and Hef himself has taken a 25% pay cut, from...
...just in print. A part of Playboy's success is due to Publisher-Editor Hugh Hefner's carefully publicized regal lifestyle, which might be described as Middle-American-Sybaritic. Penthouse's Bob Guccione is the first imitator in a long line who has effectively challenged Hef on that front as well as on the newsstands...
...created the more serious half of Playboy's split personality; of a stroke; on St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's tastes run to fried chicken, cool jazz and Los Angeles weekends; Auguste Comte Spectorsky preferred Continental cuisine, Mozart and Caribbean sailing. When "Spec" joined "Hef's" three-year-old enterprise in 1956, it was a slick girlie magazine in search of some intellectual balance for the bare flesh. Spectorsky provided it by attracting contributions from top fiction writers and journalists. In the process he helped drive the magazine's monthly circulation from nearly...
...Hefner's eight-foot elliptical bed as curious Bunnies clustered round. Something of Big Bunny's ambience may have rubbed off on Big Jack. At first sight of her simian mate, Hazel reacted with immodest delight. Perhaps the Phoenix zookeepers will name the first offspring Little Hef...