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...fact refused to play a nude scene before the cameras, she cheerfully went along when United Artists paid her photographer husband, John Derek, half of his $15,000 fee to promote her next film, She. "Sex within bounds is part of show business," says Playboy's Hugh Hefner. "All that's happened is that nudity is now accepted as a legitimate expression of sex appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: It-Up to Date | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...date, 230 people own der Grosse (or its slightly smaller version, priced at only $20,000), and another 600 have placed orders. Among them are King Hussein, Marshal Tito, Archbishop Makarios, Indonesia's Sukarno, Playboy Hugh Hefner and Mao Tse-tung. If LTD customers will not be traveling in such fast company, at least they can ostentatiously watch their TV or chat on the phone as Mercedes 600 sails by. But then, Mercedes passengers may be too exhilarated to notice-their car has a built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: A Limousine in Your Future? | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...three years, Show, a $1-a-copy monthly addressed to the performing arts, has absorbed USA1 (an illustrated monthly newsmagazine) and Show Business Illustrated (a rival put out by Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner), expanded its formula to encompass culture in general, from travel to politics, and in the process grandly lost $8,000,000. Since Show's publisher is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, the red ink was not too significant. But with circulation at 200,000 and still shy of the break-even point, Hartford last week decided to hand over Show to Playbill, Inc. for a price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Show Sold | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...long before Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club opened, I received a telephone call from his secretary, asking me to translate a sentence into Latin for him. When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 28, 1963 | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Whether Chicago's South State Street Court agrees is a matter that will be settled when Hefner appears next week for his obscenity hearing. Meanwhile, he is losing no sleep over the matter. All a conviction can cost him is $400 in fines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Two Definitions of Obscenity | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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