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Died. A.C. Spectorsky, 61, author and editor who 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...
...Lite and Times by Henry Miller. 204 pages. Playboy Press. $15.50. Long before Hugh Hefner there was Henry Miller. Now at 79, the Dada of the sex revolution apparently keeps his own bunnies and when not chatting or nuzzling the cleavage of some visiting beauty, plays a steady defense game of Zen Ping Pong. This is a good example of coffee-table autobiography. It offers reproductions of Miller's corrected manuscript pages, and eight full-page color plates of the master's own sentimental paintings...
...described as bulging with glamour. Apparently it is not quite the right kind of allure for Wall Street. Since 1.1 million shares in the magazine and key-club empire were offered to the public earlier this month, the price has dropped from $23.50 to $15.63. Playboy Panjandrum Hugh Hefner's shares, worth $158 million at the offering price, have fallen about $53 million in value in a little more than two weeks...
With a nudie of Scandinavian Actress Julie Ege on the cover and one of Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner on a center foldout, the current issue of Britain's 129-year-old humor magazine Punch is startling the stuffing out of some Establishment shirts. The Playboy parody, put together with the aid of Publisher Hefner, also includes a pendulous feature on the Girls of Poland and leering homage to Perennial Illustrator Nicolas Varga, whose naked ladies have become an American institution...
...high costs of the New Jersey resort have not slowed Hefner down. His company started a music-publishing and phonograph-record division last month. Hefner has also plowed more than $3,000,000 into financing Director Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth, and is looking for other movies to bankroll. Next year Playboy will go international, starting European editions in French, Italian and German under the guidance of Playboy executive and long-TIME Staffer Michael Demarest. About two-thirds of the material and most of the nudes will be from the U.S. Playboy, although Hefner says that...