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Word: playboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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While fully affirming your responsibility to report on all significant social and commercial phenomena on the American scene, I find distressing your glorification of base sensuality as personified by Hugh Marston Hefner, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...year-old housewife with five kids and a wonderful husband, I'd like to comment on Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs and the beautiful bunnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...very much appreciate the story on Playboy's prospering enterprises in TIME, but I'm not really the superficial, sex-oriented guy your story suggests. I like girls as well as the next fellow, but I spend considerably more time editing and publishing Playboy than I do chasing chicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...created the archetype of the war correspondent, wrote four hit plays (The Dictator, Ransom's Folly) and six superselling novels (Soldiers of Fortune, Captain Macklin), all offering scarum adventure, pedestalized love and impeccable sophomorality. And on top of that, Davis was "Richard the Lion Harding," a playboy-adventurer who touched glasses with kings and brushed elbows with death, the best-dressed man on five continents and a dozen battlefields, an image of masculine beauty who sat as Charles Dana Gibson's model for the beau idéal of the day: the escort of the famed Gibson girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richard the Literary Lion | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...fundamental, and the sort of things that made this country prosper." Common Stock. Hefner, at any rate, has prospered. A Chicago accountant's son, he is a graduate of the University of Illinois, did free-lance cartooning and whetted his appetites on Esquire's staff before starting Playboy (now worth more than $10 million) with roughly 10,000 borrowed dollars. In seven years, he has shot past Esquire (Playboy's circulation is 1,100,000, Esquire's 859,000). Hefner's enterprises now push sterling silver Playboy cufflinks with bunnies on them, Playboy party kits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playgrounds: The Boss of Taste City | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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