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...Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner has batteries of pins in both his Los Angeles and Chicago mansions and is negotiating with Bally, the GM of pin, to produce a Playmate machine with Bunnies on the back glass. (Ironically, D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally's chief rival, produced a model called Playboy back in 1932, when Hef was six years old.) The English, among the world's most passionate pin pushers, trace pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring...
...Retrieve paper airplanes, empty wastebasket, reread Playboy centerfold. Remember the writer who set fire to his apartment to avoid meeting a deadline...
Initially, container cargo was limited to such high-value goods as machine tools and consumer products. Now shippers have devised ways to move everything from coffee beans to bulk chemicals in the cavernous boxes. These days container cargoes often include frozen food, fruit, yachts, trucks and even copies of Playboy magazine, which are thereby protected from pilfering deckhands. The Port of New York, which has the most elaborate container ship facilities anywhere, is ringed by sprawling concrete flatlands spiked with 135-ft.-tall cranes that hoist the 20-to 40-ft.-long containers onto and off ships. As late...
...good; though profits for the fiscal year that ended in June have not been tallied, Hefner says they were at least double fiscal 1976's. For the first nine months of the year, P.E.I, earned $5.6 million on sales of $169 million. But troubles still abound. Playboy magazine cut its circulation guarantee to advertisers from 5.4 million to 4.5 million, beginning with the October issue. Advertising, however, is picking up; the just-closed December issue boasts 154 ad pages, the most ever (although rates have been lowered...
...Playboy Enterprises has long written off nearly all of Hefner's lavish living costs as promotional expenses. The Internal Revenue Service has filed a claim against the company for $7.7 million in additional taxes for the years 1970 through 1972; Hefner's expenses, among many other things, are involved. He has put the 54-room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk...