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January, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Connie Cooper photographed by Morton Smith. Features "Sardonicus"
by Ray Russell. "Conversation Piece" by Ken Purdy. "Hemingway Speaks
His Mind" by Ernest Hemingway. "A Liberal Darling and Concerning the
Drama" by Anton Chekhov. "All the Week in the World" by Fritz Leiber.
Playboy's Playmate Review Teddi Smith, Joni Mattis, Stella Stevens
(Estelle Eggleston), Carol Eden, Ginger Young, Susie Scott, Delores
Wells, Kathy Douglas, Sally Sarell, Elaine Paul, Linda Gamble,Ellen
Stratton. |
Connie Cooper | ||
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February, 1961 |
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Playmate of the Month Barbara Ann Lawford photographed by Mario Casilli. Features "Come On Out, Daddy" by Bernard Wolfe. "Money and Conformity" by J. Paul Getty. "That Sweet Sinner and Traveling I" by Herbert Gold. "The Room" by Ray Russell. "The Voice of the Turkey" by Al Morgan. The Girls of New York Chris James, Barbara de Vorzan, Judith Shore, Eve Howell, Audrey della Russo, Leslie Preston, Toby Grayson, Bridget Rohland, Gail Moscowitz, Audrey Bingham, Deirdre Evans, Dodi Lynn, Tanya Colette, Dana Lee, Sigyn Lund, Elizabeth Chips, Darlene Jaman, Neuma Agins, Sandy Kane, Alicia Alonso, Pat Winters, Judy Hecht, Sydnie Mischel, Pam Perry, Joan Rozell, Joy Harmon, Peggy Spring, Sandra Francis, Ann Celles, Lois Holloran, Laya Raki, Fay Rosen. | Barbara Ann Lawford | ||
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March, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Tanya Crews photographed by Mario Casilli. Discussion "Playboy
Panel: Hip Comics and the New Humor" Steve Allen, Lenny Bruce, Bill
Dana, Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols, Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters.
Features "The Machine in Ward Eleven" by Charles Willeford. "A Jackpot
of Corpses" by Ben Hecht. "Marlon Brando: The Gilded Image" by Jerry
Tallmer. "The Illustrated Woman" by Ray Bradbury. "Comics" by Charles
Beaumont. "The Nude Wave in Hollywood" Jean Simmons and Kirk Douglas,
Janet Leigh, Debra Paget. On the Scene Willem De Kooning, Cesar Balsa. |
Tonya Crews | ||
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April, 1961 |
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Playmate of the Year Linda Gamble. Playmate of the Month Nancy Nielson. Features "The Emancipated Man" by John Wallace. "Pornologist on Olympus" by Maurice Girodias. "Blood Brother" by Charles Beaumont. "The Bottom of the Ocean" by Ken Purdy. "Talent Hunts" by Al Morgan. "Wilbur Fonts in Africa" by Jeremy Dole. "Business Blunders and Booby Traps" by J. Paul Getty. On the Scene David Merrick, Herbert Mayes, Gunther Schuller. Cover Femlin. | Nancy Nielsen | ||
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May, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Susan Kelly photographed by Frank Bez. Features "Speak to Me of
Immorality" by Ken Purdy. "The Legend of Lime Street" by Collie Small.
"The Hobbyist" by Fredric Brown. "Odds Man Out" by T.K. Brown III. "A
Star of the First Magnitude" by John Crosby. "The Laughingstock" by
Gerald Kersh. The Girls of Sweden Maj-lis and Gudrun Genberg (twins),
Tina Norlov, Marie-Louise Falk, Barbro Olsson, Gull-Britt Berglund,
Angela Wergard, Mona Arvidsson, Kicki Ekroth, Ann-Mari Adamsson, Eva
Hjorth, Monica Lindholm, Ann Marie Gummesson, Mio Molin, Anita
Andersson, Lena Vistrom, Annie Galle, Ulla-Britt Petterson, Astrid
Jansson, Vivi Anne Jonsson, Marie-Louise Nyman, Kersti Yams, Gunilla
Elm, Birgit Thoreson, Kristina Liebcher, Elisabeth Fritzner, Inger
Ahreson, Brit-Marie Agnefjord, Irene Vikersjo, Christina Leander, Chris
Brondbjerg. Cover Judy Newton. |
Susan Kelly | ||
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June, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Heidi Becker photographed by Mario Casilli. Features "Marcianna
& The Natural Carpaine in Papaya" by Bernard Wolfe. "You Can Make a
Million Today" by J. Paul Getty. "The Grand Prix De Monaco" by Charles
Beaumont. "Punch" by Frederik Pohl. "The Hell-Fire Club" by Gerald
Walker. "Harold's Affair" by Walter Goodman. "The Literati of the
Four-Letter Word" by Leslie A. Fiedler. "The Greate American Divide" by
Herbert Gold. On the Scene Dr. Gregory Pincus, Dick Gregory. Model Ann
Richards photographed by Mario Casilli. |
Heidi Becker | ||
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July, 1961 |
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Playmate of the Month Sheralee Conners. Discussion "The Playboy Panel: Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts" Judge Thurman Arnold, Dr. Albert Ellis, Ralph Ginzburg, Maurice Girodias, Norman Mailer, Otto Preminger, Barney Rosset. Features "The Fifteenth Station" by T.K Brown III. "The Jazz Singers, Part I" by Bruce Griffin. "For Whom the Booth Tolls" by Barry Spacks. "Machina Ex Deux" by Arthur C. Clarke. "The Inconsequential Pepsqueaks" by Leland Webb. "Don't Think" by Ray Russell. "Le Crazy Horse".Cover Susie Scott. | Sheralee Conners | ||
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August, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Karen Thompson photographed by Mario Casilli. Features "Reality
for This Lad" by Herbert Gold. "Classic Cars of the Thirties" by Ken
Purdy. "The Educated Barbarians" by J. Paul Getty. "The Killer in the
TV Set" by Bruce Jay Friedman. "The Jazz Singers" by Bruce Griffin.
"The Defeat of the Demon Tailor" by Gerald Kersh. The Girls of Hawaii
Lenore Trumbull, Reri Tava, Robin Sowers, Ruth Moore, Susan Hart, Gail
and Lynn Howell, Leilani Fonseca, Shirley Lexier, Samara Kardack,
Barbara Rassmussen, Poli Tonkin, Patricia Branda Randolff, Leone Leong,
Dianne Baker, Susan Molina, Caroline Baltan, Ann Tsunoto, Mate Ng,
Barbara Levy. Cartoon Women by
John Dempsey, Richard Taylor, Erich Sokol, Bea Paul, Alberto Vargas,
Claude Smith, E. Simms Campbell, Eldon Dedini. |
Karen Thompson |
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September, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Christa Speck photographed by Sam Wu. Features "The Lion's Share"
by Harvey Jacobs. "The Little World of Jim Moran" by Richard Gehman.
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Anson Mount. "The Firing Line" by Henry
Slesar. "Highway Robbery" (auto insurance) by John Keats. "The Pursuit
of Perfection" by Richard Carter. "The Solemn Sabbath" by Leland Webb.
"A Short History of Swearing" by William Iversen. "Status-Ticians in
Limbo" by Murray Kempton. On the Scene Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Ian
Carmichael. Cover Barbara Lawford. |
Christa Speck | ||
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October, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Jean Cannon photographed by Ron Vogel. Features "The Year the
Yankees Won the Pennant" by Jeremy Dole. "How I Made My First Billion"
by J. Paul Getty. "Conversation With a Bug" by Jack Sharkey. "Take Me
to Your Leader" by Gerald Walker. "(Igor) Stravinsky" by Roland Gelatt.
"A Short History of Bathing" by William Iversen. On the Scene A.M.
Sonnabend, Oscar Brown, Jr., Bertrand Goldberg. |
Jean Cannon | ||
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November, 1961 |
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Sharon Rogers Playmate of the Month is Diane Danford. Features include La Dolce Ekberg, a Playboy discussion panel: TV's Problems and Prospects with John Crosby, Mike Dann, John Frankenheimer, Stan Freberg, Mark Goodson, Gilbert Seldes, Rod Serling, and David Susskind, "Agoraphobia Is In the Public Domain" by Bernard Wolfe, and "The Lincoln Continental" by Ken Purdy. Cover Susie Scott. | Dianne Danford |
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December, 1961 |
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Playmate of the
Month Lynn Karroll photographed by Frank Eck. Biography "My Brother,
Ernest Hemingway, Part I" by Leicester Hemingway. Features "Square
Christmas" by Walt Grove. "Space Opera" by Ray Russell. "Professor
Hyde" by Thomas Berger. "Wall Street Is Not Monte Carlo" by J. Paul
Getty. "Modus Bibendi" by Alex Waugh. "Playmate Holiday House Party". |
Lynn Karrol |