Word: hef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plate dinner in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Reasoned the president of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.: "Playboy is clearly a major factor in the sexual revolution. And clearly the social-sexual revolution is related to the women's movement." Nor were the feminists shy about accepting Hef's hospitality. Said Burke: "The people we have to get to support ERA are some of Hefner's constituents." Apparently his money doesn't hurt, either: his party netted...
...batteries of pins in both his Los Angeles and Chicago mansions and is negotiating with Bally, the GM of pin, to produce a Playmate machine with Bunnies on the back glass. (Ironically, D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally's chief rival, produced a model called Playboy back in 1932, when Hef was six years old.) The English, among the world's most passionate pin pushers, trace pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring for the new machines, doubtless to keep their...
...room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk of an eventual successor to Hef as chief. One candidate for the title: his daughter Christie, 24, who is now concentrating on new magazine development and presumably one day will wind up owning a big chunk of Hefner's 72% of Playboy stock, at present worth $48 million...
...must be hard for the IRS, or for Hef himself, to sort out what is pleasure, profit or business expense in Hef's lifestyle. The difficulty is evidenced in this month's nudie Playmate, the magazine's famous foldout. Along with 14 undressed pictures of a 20-year-old blonde, the text explains that she has landed a top role, "that of Hef's more-than-occasional companion." Tax man, how would you score that? Business promotion? In fact, one of Playboy's problems is its narcissistic photographic preoccupation with Hefner's Playboy mansion...
...Competitors nip at Playboy's heels, and profits from Playboy Enterprises, Inc. are way down from their peak of $11 million in 1973. Last week Hugh Hefner, plainly weary of the administrative wars, confirmed reports that he planned to relinquish the presidency of his company soon. But, insisted Hef, who will stay on as chairman and chief executive, "I'm satisfied with what I've accomplished; my place in history seems pretty well assured." He added: "I don't feel the need to prove myself, or the compulsion to succeed that I once did." Although troubled...