Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pinch? The other publisher accused of crossing the line is Playboy's Hugh M. Hefner, 37, who was asleep in his humble 40-room pad on Chicago's North Side one afternoon earlier this month when four men from the vice squad came calling. A brass plaque on the front door carries the Latin legend "Si non oscillas noli tintinnare"-"If you don't swing, don't ring"-but the cops rang anyway and swung Hefner off to be booked on charges of publishing and selling an obscene magazine...
What got Chicago's vice squad into the act was an eight-page exposure in the June Playboy (circ. 1,250,000) of overripe Actress Jayne Mansfield. In bed and bubblebath, Jayne revealed everything except what an un-Sanforized G string might conceal. But there was nothing particularly unusual about that, for scores of equally nude "playmates" have appeared in the magazine in its 9½-year history. Why the pinch now? "Jayne has more than most," says Hefner by way of explanation. "She makes people nervous...
Hefner certainly does little to discourage it. In half a dozen rabbit hutches known as Playboy Clubs, he keeps on display 421 Bunnies, who are wired and cinched into tight, brief costumes with padded balconies and wiggly little cottontails. "We total over 24.5 tons of bunnies," says Hefner, nibbling reflectively on a chicken. "Their collective chest measurement is 15,156 in., which is about one-quarter of a mile. The waistlines total 9,4721 in. and their hip circumference...
Come Blow Your Horn is a comedy of props. Frank Sinatra's Manhattan apartment, which seems to have been decorated on a dare by a Playboy Club Bunny, has more doors than Mother Hubbard's cupboard, all with the wrong people on the other side. And for telephones Frank has a red one, a black one, a Princess, an antique French, a Swedish one-piece, and a mobile unit in the Buick, all with the wrong people on the other end of the line...
...this den of doubletalk and doubletake, Playboy Sinatra struggles against his mossback parents (Molly Picon and Lee J. Cobb) to put a long-overdue end to the shocking innocence of his kid brother, Tony Bill. At 21, and out of college, Tony is just a nice Jewish kid who has never tasted a martini or smoked a cigarette orit would seem -kissed a girl. He comes to live with Frank and get made over in the Sinatra image: a wardrobe of silk suits, spread-collar shirts, pointy shoes, and a set of attitudes that includes a taste for doxies...