Word: playboyism
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...almost every issue, Playboy magazine has run a full-page house ad asking the slightly rhetorical question: "What Sort of Man Reads Playboy!" The answer assures advertisers that the Playboy reader, in his quest for the good life, spares no expense. In a way, the same has been true of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the haphazard corporate empire spawned by the magazine that Hugh M. Hefner founded with several hundred borrowed dollars in 1953. Over the years, PEI has spent millions to give substance to Hefner's sensate fantasies; today Playboy Enterprises include hotels, clubs, movie, record and book publishing...
Agee believes that the CIA exists as "the secret police force of American capitalism." In a recent interview in Playboy magazine he defends publishing the names of the 200 agents saying. "I am revealing the names of people engaged in criminal activities. These people live by breaking the law." Perhaps more important than the illegality of these CIA agents' activities is the fact that many Latin Americans have no idea who their officials really work for. It is time we all found...
...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...
...flyer and an infantry officer. He was a skillful amateur boxer, and later became a member of Britain's fencing team. Even as a Socialist and disillusioned survivor of the first World War's unchivalrous slaughter, Mosley never lost his dash. His political enemies called him the Playboy of the West End World. His first wife, Cynthia Curzon, daughter of a marquess and granddaughter of a Chicago multimillionaire, made racy copy. Wrote one gossip columnist: Lady Cynthia attended a theater opening "well on the gold standard in a glittering sequined coat." Her sister Alexandra was nicknamed...
...permitted Western reporters, including the eight Americans on hand for United Press International, the Associated Press, and the NBC and CBS television networks-to hold onto their rooms at the Continental Palace and other choice hotels. Along with the P.R.G. troops, the newsmen can buy dated copies of Playboy and Penthouse still on the newsstands, using old Thieu-regime currency...