Word: hefners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. David Hefner, 38, AIDS sufferer whose request to renew his marriage vows to his wife Maria at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, her "dream" church, was initially rebuffed last January because his condition was "life threatening," but then, after protests by civil rights and church activists, was granted in February; in New York City...
Publishers from Hearst to Hefner have used the maxim "Sex sells" to highly profitable advantage. Businessmen in southern China were following that capitalist road until last week, when Communist Party officials in Guangxi province shut down 39 popular magazines and journals. It was the biggest press crackdown since the campaign against "bourgeois liberalism" was launched four months...
...Hefner also criticized the ReaganAdministration for what she said was "bad socialpolicy," referring to a letter the Commission sentto merchants across the nation condemningpornography. The letter resulted in theSeven-Eleven chain pulling Playboy off itsshelves...
...government is involved in a way that Ithink is entirely inappropriate," said Hefner...
Questions to Hefner ranged from her personalinvolvement with Playboy to the ethics ofpublishing semi-nude pictures of Vanna White, theletter-flipper on the popular television game showWheel of Fortune. Hefner defended the decision toprint the pictures, even though White objected andhas filed a suit against Playboy