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...nation 's darker episodes. Perhaps the brightest and best of the topical genre appeared last week in the New Republic, written by Chicago's Judith Wax, 42, a humorist best known for her annual summaries in verse of the year's news in Playboy. Her model was Chaucer, who would surely have understood Watergate as well as any other bygone man, and her mode mock Middle English, including pseudoscholarly footnotes...
Between the times she dropped out of two colleges-the University of Southern Florida and then Sophie Newcombe in New Orleans-she came to New York in 1964 looking for a job. She landed one-as a Playboy Bunny. "I was always afraid of being fired for having my ears on wrong. It was all so dopey-like Girl Scout camp...
...somewhat less than convincing reputation as a swinger. Divorced from his wife in 1964, Kissinger has dated a covey of actresses, including Jill St. John, Liv Ullmann and Mario Thomas as well as TV Producer Margaret Osmer and Rockefeller Aide Nancy Maginnes. He obviously enjoys his reputation as the "playboy of the Western Wing," but he spends almost as much time with his children-Elizabeth, 15, and David, 12 -as he does on the social circuit. He also makes it clear that his work comes before anything. Of the actresses, he once remarked: "I am no fool. I realize...
Humor has not monopolized Freud's life. Now 49, he is or has been a gentleman jockey, a race-car driver, an apprentice chef at the Dorchester Hotel, a cabaret owner, a trustee of London's Playboy Club and the author of a singularly uncharming children's book about a boy named Grimble whose parents forget things like birthdays and breakfasts. As a journalist, he has written for the lofty Financial Times and the lusty News of the World, as well as others in between...
Hefner shrewdly assessed a massive change in public attitude about sex a generation ago (Playboy will turn 20 in January); Guccione proved that the enthusiasm for magazines celebrating that change is wider than had been previously believed. But there are signs -early ones, to be sure-that public attitudes may be moving in a different direction. In short, the skin kings seem secure for some time to come, but it just may be that they have reached the limits of the New Frontier...